monday Patch

Morio Smith (loosely named after Morrisey Smith) is a young man with something eating at his mind, some missing goal to his life. To silence that voice in his heart, he enters Ittetsu Wakamoto's dojo to become a wrestler, and partners up with a senior wrestler from overseas (Dick Road, The Underground, or The Spike). As it turns out, he's quite good at wrestling, and as such he begins touring Japan, essentially as an all-conquering wrestler, defeating the stars of VJP, OJP, or UWH along the way. Wakamoto encourages him to go freelance and challenge Japanese martial artists to different-style fights, which is how he enters a tournament and meets Akira Saeba (who beats him). Saeba takes Smith under his wing since Ittetsu had gone missing - he had apparently come out of retirement and entered the world of "underground wrestling."

He and Saeba's sister, a fashion model named Reiko, connect with one another, and he confides in her the effects that wrestling is having on his mind. The two begin developing feelings for one another. He ends up being mentored by Karlos Krauser, the man who taught Victory Musashi in the ways of pro wrestling; a master who considers all his trainees to be his family. Through his training, he learns new techniques, and goes overseas to challenge fighters in the Gruesome Fighting cage, even defeating the all-conquering Nixon Stacie, the undefeated master of Vale Tudo.

He wrestles in America and, together with his sparring partner, enters a tag team tournament in which they prevail... However, they are challenged by Mighty Boy Smith, who encourages his long-time parter Dynamic Kid - another English wrestler who had retired due to his body quickly breaking down from the stress of wrestling - to team up with him to win the belts. Smith defeats their team and, inexplicably, Dynamic Kid dies in the ring. After going overseas, he and Reiko stop keeping in touch with one another and Reiko and Akira's parents encourage her to try and arrange a marriage to him.

While in America, Smith falls into the underworld of wrestling, the same place where his teacher Ittetsu wandered to after his passion for fighting was reignited by his match with Smith in his dojo. There, his tag partner dies in the ring and he comes face to face with Dick Slender, the king of pro wrestling's underworld, who laughs maniacally at Smith's misfortune and tells him that this is just the harsh reality of a real fight. A monstrous fighter who takes the lives of anyone who challenges him - even going so far as to slaughter dojo trainees - he comments that he personally killed his "Jap" teacher and, blinded by anger, Smith challenges him to a fight for Slender's world championship - one that, for Smith, will literally be a life or death battle. Defeating Slender and avenging his fallen comrades does little to fill Smith's heart, who has been exposed to death in the ring; even knowing of Reiko's true feelings for him. And sometime later, he commits suicide in a hotel room - a story decision that Suda51 said was influenced by the children of Fritz Von Erich (but especially Kerry Von Erich, who had shot himself a year earlier) and Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain. It's a strangely dark ending that reflects Suda's own mindset - he explained that he hated how overly bright and optimistic wrestling had become in the 90s.

Though not described in the game, Suda mentioned that Reiko had Smith's child sometime after his suicide.