terry was offering him 25% of all profits made from his new string of gyms lets say 10 gyms he opened iv ran lots of gyms before mma and brazilian jiu jitsu average price is around 100 a month and with about 50 students including men women and kids is 5 grand a month so with 50% barnes gets 2500 monthly from just 1 gym thats crazy how he felt 25% wasnt enough
shareWell, tbf he got Silver to agree.
If those pen pushers up at city hall don't like it,well, they swivel on this middle digit!
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It was a bold move and a little greedy. But he had the upper hand and pulled it off. It reminded me of when Kreese and miyagi were negotiating Daniel entering the tourney, and Kreese called him pushy.. But he liked that! Maybe Barnes was pushy like Miyagi, but they liked that.
share"You're a pushy little, basted, ain'tcha?...but I like that!"
LOVE IT!
Not at all. Just a good negotiator.
shareHaha, I guess Silver and Kreese had a mutual admiration for such bargaining.
On a side note, the way Kove delivers that line always reminds me of Harrison Ford for some reason. He must do something similar in one his movies.
Barn's biggest mistake was pushing his luck, losing points on purpose just so he could torture Daniel as long as possible.
What he SHOULD have done is just finish Daniel off quickly without getting any penalties (he almost got disqualified which would have kept him from getting his fifty percent)
Doing that would have been disobeying his "mentors" but the thing is the contract was just him winning, he did not owe them the torture scene.
He only obeyed them because he was sadistic and ENJOYED hurting his opponents as much as possible anyway and was so over confident that he could not even conceive of losing.
Barnes should have gotten an insurance point right away and then kept the score 1-0 by gaining and losing his second point.
The match wouldn't have gone into overtime but he still could have tortured Whinielle thought the match.
Not a bad idea, if I remember correctly its the first to 3, so get to 2 and then go back and forth between 2 and 1. The thing is the Kobra Kai teachers were greedy for revenge and wanted Daniel to suffer as much as possible and that was why they insisted in sudden death overtime.
However, had he done this most likely there would have been a time out called near the end of the time limit and the same talk between Daniel and Mayagi would have happened then Daniel would have gone into the "zone" and won anyway, but it still would have been better strategy.
You have to wonder what the rest of Mike Barn's life would be like. He basically threw away a winning lottery ticket and to boot he probably has to worry about getting trashed by Kreese and Silver considering a year earlier Kreese strangled his best student in the parking lot.
Maybe he got so depressed he let himself go and became a fatso slob like Ben Stiller in Dodgeball.
I also imagine Chozen from KK2 ending up a bum. Disowned and disinherited by his uncle, disgraced in front of the entire village, beaten up by Daniel, possibly criminal prosecution. It was game over for him.
However, I imagine Johnny Laurence making a good life for himself. He was the only KK villain who learned a lesson in sportsmanship and became a better person. I think him becoming Daniel's friend in a sequel would have been cool as hell.
Somehow, his tact seems less crazy if you take into account that he's negotiating with a guy taking a bubble bath about compensation for terrorizing the local teenage karate champion. The whole situation is pretty out there.
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