Month: November 2016

After recently covering Bred, Dug, Jake and Simons, the CFN Portal site continues the Shadaloo Activity Report’s coverage of the members of Mad Gear seen in Final Fight, with Private Nakagawa now taking a look at the Gang’s pair of “knife nuts,” who would later go on to serve Rolento in the Street Fighter Alpha series following the organization’s fall, El Gado and Hollywood!

Private Nakagawa: Mad Gear’s knife nut. He’s fast and agile, and his Sliding Kick is sudden and unexpected. Before coming to Metro City he participated in guerrilla warfare.

Basic Info:

Name: El Gado
Height: 201 cm
Weight: 83 kg
Blood type: B
Birthday: May 2nd
Home Country: South America
Likes: Knife Throwing, Ajiaco
Dislikes: A certain Man [Rolento. They’re taking Final Fight Revenge’s story into account.]

Private Nakagawa: He competes with his friend Hollywood in the art of knife throwing. He’s feared even by his friends, because he always sleeps with an eye open. He doesn’t speak about his past, but it seems he has his reasons to be a member of Mad Gear … . [Namely, Rolento was responsible for the death of El Gado’s family, so El Gado infiltrated Mad Gear only to confront him.]

In addition to his appearance as an enemy in FF1, El Gado also appeared in Final Fight Revenge, a 1999 3D fighting game that was released to Arcades in July of that year, before being ported to the Sega Saturn in Japan on March 30th, 2000. The title saw ten characters from the original Final Fight (Cody, Guy, Haggar, Sodom, Poison, Hugo Andore, Damnd, Edi E., Rolento and El Gado) returning to Metro City as the result of the threat of a resurrected and zombified version of the gang’s leader, Horace Belger. In El Gado’s ending, he holds a knife to Rolento’s throat as he seeks to make him pay for the murder of his family and comrades. However, the general uses his silver tongue to talk his way out of the situation, offering to make El Gado “a very powerful man.” He seems to successfully name the guerrilla’s price, as he can be later seen assisting him with his Take No Prisoners when he makes his debut in Street Fighter Alpha 2 and even later during Ultra Street Fighter IV. We’ve included an arcade playthough of Final Fight Revenge with El Gado, so you can see how the Cuban knife-wielder fully translated to a fighting game, as well as his confrontation with Rolento in his ending.

This brings us to his partner, who also joined up with Rolento’s army and can also be seen during Take No Prisoners, Hollywood!

Private Nakagawa: Holly Wood is another knife nut. He is a cruel guy with a brutal personality who was charged with murder and sent to prison, but he escaped from jail and joined Mad Gear.

Basic Info:

Name: Holly Wood
Height: 202 cm
Weight: 85 kg
Blood type: AB
Birthday: January 3rd
Home Country: America

Likes: Knives, Dancing
Dislikes: Cops

Private Nakagawa: He’s surprisingly good at singing and dancing. He’s earned the name Holly Wood because of this. He’s skilled at handling knives against various opponents, raising a bloodbath. Apparently, murder is his art.

That brings us to the end of another pair of CFN Portal profiles, as two more members of the Mad Gear Gang are on the books! Stay tuned to Shoryuken for more CFN Portal profiles in the future! You can check out other members of the Mad Gear Gang here, as well as the lead-up to 200 Profiles, which included J and TWO.P.

Sources: CFN Portal; TheInnoncentSinful