Munehisa Honma was the greatest trader in history. The OG. A bad motherfucker and a good person. He went deep and invented the game as we know it. This is going to tax your Instagram attention spans but I couldn’t think of another way to tell the story and I’m lazy and didn’t feel like editing. Way back in the day, rice was money in Japan. They needed it and survived on it and lacking a better unit of currency to tax and oppress your people, the Japanese Shogun (the main man) authorized a rice futures market. Munehisa Honma was born in 1717 in Sakata. They grow rice there. He was adopted into a farming family with a small plot of land and as is their tradition, when he became a man he was given responsibility for the family’s money. When you are born into the the lowest class in a feudal country where there ain’t really shit else to do and all you know is rice, if you don’t want grow rice, another option was to trade it. This is what Honma decided he wanted to do and he thought that if...
On June 28th, 1997, just seven months after shocking the boxing world by defeating Mike Tyson by TKO in the 11th round, Evander Holyfield was back in Las Vegas to defend his title in one of most anticipated rematches in boxing history. Holyfield was a hugely experienced fighter and a meticulous trainer and in preparation for the fight, his team analyzed virtually every element of Tyson’s style and developed a grueling training program and a brilliant fight plan. He was never more prepared, but the smart-money oddsmakers in Vegas saw things different, predicting a Tyson win at 4:1 odds. But sometimes, shit just gets crazy, and when it does, you can throw away the fucking odds, because some shit is just too un-real to predict. Until it happens. With 40 seconds remaining in the third round, while brawling through through an ugly clinch against the ropes, Tyson shoves his head across Holyfield’s face and bites an inch-long chunk of cartilage from the top of Holyfield’s right ear. T...