As A Kid, Legendary Street Fighter Player Daigo Umehara Got Beat Up For Being Too Good kotaku.com

The encounter left the now-legendary player bloody, swollen, and seriously contemplating his future with fighting games.
Since Umehara is now 38 years old, this incident would have taken place in the early 1990s.
This was before the days of professional esports, naturally, and it’s an all too familiar experience for those that spent whatever quarters they could scrounge together on fighting games at the local arcade.
When he realized he wasn’t having fun playing fighting games elsewhere, he finally rolled up his sleeves and returned, only to stop at the door.
In Umehara’s mind, he had two choices: enter the arcade and possibly run into the man who smacked him around or go back home and give up on fighting games entirely.