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When I didn’t know much about wrestling, I’d see guys take a big suplex, or a stiff lariat and think right away ‘he’s finished’. But when they kicked out, it would blow me away. It was those guys and that resiliency that appealed, I think.

The IWGP Intercontinental Championship is well within his reach, even if it is currently held by LIJ leader Tetsuya Naito.