You couldnt be more wrong on this and thats because you didnt check other people story mode playthrough, let alone this weird fixation to exclude anything that is not Tekken 1 to Tekken 8 strictly
First of all, Leroy line doesnt suggest nor implies he met Jin for the 1st time there, his next line after one you try to use as evidence is to thank Jin for standing up to Kazuya in chapter 1 in new york
I meant meeting EACH OTHER IN PERSON when I stated that. Clearly Leroy was just observing from afar or around the vicinity during the New York sequence.
Second of all, Jin is the reason Leroy uses a staff in Tekken 7-8, because in the anime he doesnt have one till Jin broke his leg in their fight
In the anime, yes. As far as I'm aware, his leg injury and his blindness are canonically both caused by the gang war he and his family got caught in the middle of.
Bloodline is only half canon. It does a good job staying true to the source material, but there are a lot of things in it that deviate from the main canon.
Due to this, how can you even trust whether or not it's how Leroy really got his leg injury in canon?
So unless the games (non canon games that do not contradict canon are certainly included) confirm the origin of his leg injury, I'm not buying it.
Third of all, Leroy vs Jin in Tekken 8 has more then just a single fight going between unlike the other characters fight in chapter 5 which is done after you win once, Leroy says this line "You're not using the Mishima Style techniques", Jin in Tekken 3 used Mishima Style, till Tekken 8 he used karate learned in Tekken 4, until Kazuya in chapter 15 where he started using it again like in the past, so Leroy would have no idea if he met Jin for the first time as you claim in Tekken 8 only about his fighting styles like that
Fourth of all, Leroy points out in intros with Xiaoyu how she looks familiar when she asks him if he remembers her, with outros and endings in Tekken 8 saying her name and clearly knowing who she is, only in the anime he met her, in fact Xiaoyu tells Jin in there his opponent is Leroy, before they even meet in the arena or Jin knows who fights against
Then what of Leroy's character ending, then? How do you explain this contradiction?
Because in his character episode's ending, Leroy CLEARLY mentions that the last time he met Xiaoyu, it was when she was much younger and when she was still back in Hong Kong, which was, IIRC, before or around the time she entered Heihachi's yacht, who then decided to take her in. And the third King of Iron Fist Tournament takes place in South America, not Hong Kong.
I stand by the fact that he either did not join the third tournament canonically, or that somehow both himself and Xiaoyu forgot that he actually did.
Or maybe she and Leroy took a trip to Hong Kong again after the events of the third tournament, but this would be a pure assumption with no basis.
Regarding Leroy pointing out that Jin doesn't use his Mishima Ryu techniques anymore: You yourself mentioned that Leroy saw Jin and Kaz's battle in New York. Jin was using Mishima ryu in like 75-80% of that battle, since he was fighting as Devil Jin with the exception of the first round.
But anyway, regardless, I am not against including Bloodline as a source material to add to this website. At least not anymore. We're just differing in beliefs at this point.