Keep in mind, up until this point, not only is NBC not associated with Ninja Warrior, but the Japanese competition is still airing on G4. You now hear about these competitors often on TV. It was in this age that many of the current American Ninja Warrior all-stars like James McGrath, Paul Kasemir, Chris Wilcewski, Brent Steffenson, Drew Dreschel, Flip Rodriguez, and David Cambell (though he competed in years past as part of American Ninja Challenge) were born. These 10 would go to Mount Midoriyama and take on the course. Competitors would run a qualifying and finals course in Venice Beach California, and the top 15 would move on to a reality TV style bootcamp, where they would compete on replicas in the wilderness, and each day, a competitor would be send home, until 10 remained. The show featured current host Matt Iseman. So successful was the show in America, that G4 decided to create an entire series as a spin-off of Sasuke and called it American Ninja Warrior.

You will now hear him referred to as the 'Godfather' of Ninja Warrior. Most notably, one competitor named David Campbell began constructing and entire Ninja Warrior course. His name was Levi, and after his run, Ninja Warrior exploded in America with more and more competitors training for the show and submitting videos. Levi Meeuwenberg Age - One competitor actually did so well, that he went the furthest of all competitors, American and Japanese in the Japanese course.

In this way, more and more American competitors were able to get introduced to Sasuke. Of those finalists, one or two winners would get to travel to Japan. G4 decided to host it's own mini competition where competitors would submit videos of themselves online and the top finalists would run a small Ninja Warrior course.

This event soon gained worldwide attention, and the american TV network G4 (now out of business) decided to cover Sasuke and feature it in America under the name Ninja Warrior.Īmerican Ninja Challenge - As the competition continued to grow, Americans wanted more and more to compete and get involved. Here, we explain the difference between the shows and how American Ninja Warrior came to be.īack in 1997, a company named Monster 9 created the first ever ninja warrior competition, called Sasuke. However, this amounts to some confusion as the original Japanese version of the show is no longer aired on television, but still goes on. Recently, Ninja Warrior has become famous in the United States because of the spin-off American Ninja Warrior featured on NBC. Sasuke Comparing the American and Japanese shows

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