Browsing: Hiroshi Tanahashi

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.

Hiroshi Tanahashi’s legacy will be that of the only modern wrestler to lead a company out of a financial hole into an international player in professional wrestling during the modern era.