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EVO Moment 37 Immortalized On Paper

by GH Staff

10 years ago, Justin Wong and Daigo Umehara had a famous match involving Street Fighter III: Third Strike at EVO (Evolution Championship Series).  The famous resulting comeback, named EVO Moment 37, has become somewhat of a legend amongst fighting game enthusiasts.  Now, sportswriter Glenn Cravens is recording the moment on paper.  Glenn Cravens, a former competitive game-player, located everyone leading up to the Wong/Umehara moment and self-published a book.  That book is appropriately named EVO Moment 37.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS7hkwbKmBM

EVO Moment 37 consists of a Street Fighter III: Third Strike match involving the characters Ken and Chun-Li.  The entire affair lasts a mere 57 seconds, but is widely known throughout the entire fighting game community.  Umehara, who is controlling Ken, gets taken down to an amount of health in which a single strike would be his undoing.  Wong, who is controlling Chun-Li, retains a somewhat comfortable amount of health and goes in for what would have been a knock out combination.  Umehara miraculously parries every single strike of the combo (no easy feat by any means) and finishes Wong with a combination of his own.  There are numerous videos online capturing the affair.  Cravens book EVO Moment 37 is available for purchase on Amazon.com