Henry Zebrowski

What we do know is that in 1970, the Green Dragons were the biggest rivals to Count Dante's Black Dragons.

And that rivalry was, for multiple reasons, finally coming to a head.

Some say that the Green Dragons were running their mouths about Count Dante, saying that he's full of shit and he doesn't know how to hold his own in a real fight.

I can fight.

Well, other people in the community said that Dante was pissed off because the Green Dragon Society's logo was too close to the logo Dante used for his own Black Dragon Fighting Society's logo.

But an anonymous source who spoke to Black Belt Magazine about the Dojo War, he suggested a third option.

That source said that Dante did not like having perceived imitators when it came to the Dante system.

And apparently the Green Dragons were copying Dante's incredibly reckless teaching style.

Well, like Dante's black dragons, the green dragons also used weapons in their training.

Remember, Dante would use knives and guns.

They also did balls out full contact training at all times, just like the black dragons.

And the green dragons also used a technique that put them into an animal-like state during combat, like Dante's tiger mirror method.

But in the end, it could have also been that Dante was trying to extort the Green Dragon Society for a good old-fashioned turf tax.

And when the Greens refused to pay up, Dante decided to attack.

And that actually might be the most likely thing.

It's very possible.

Because, like, calling up someone and saying, like, I'm going to bring a bunch of guys over there to bust up your joint, that sounds like turf tax.

Yeah.

Man, that's the whole point of having the dojo.

But no matter the motivation, after Count Dante made the call to the Green Dragons Dojo, he called two of his most loyal students and invited them to travel to Black Cobra Hall in order to confront the Green Dragons on their own turf.