Bacchus was an American boxing trainer, promoter, and vagrant who lived in Kabukicho, Tokyo, Japan during the 1980s.
Biography[]
Little is known about "Bacchus" apart from the fact that he was originally a gym owner in America, and his gym was burned down after one of his students defeated a boxer favored by the Mafia. After his last star student was stabbed to death by a mugger, he was left with a phobia of being knifed in the ribs. Now without a gym or any students, he settled in the seedy Kabukicho neighborhood of Tokyo, Japan, where he was nicknamed "Bacchus" after the Roman god of wine, as he became an alcoholic and vagrant who constantly fell into debt. He befriended the homeless "punch out artist" Yoichi Kamoji and the collections agent Miss Tatsu, and, in December 1988, he ran into the yakuza Kazuma Kiryu several times, repeatedly failing to convince Kazuma to leave Kabukicho and become a professional boxer. However, he and his friends helped train Kazuma in martial arts, making him a better fighter. After Kiryu saved Bacchus from a group of mafiosi who had attempted to track him down to Japan, Bacchus accepted that Kiryu would not go professional, and he decided to return to the United States to continue training young fighters.