Browsing: Hiroshi Tanahashi

The New Japan Cup all built up to this. Dominion is generally the second biggest show in the NJPW Calender,…

Truth is, most of the senpai wouldn’t use your name, or even remember your name when you first started.

Yeah. I filled out the applications, got through screening, got myself to Tokyo and then I was in the Dojo for the very first time.

When the updated brackets were announced for the 2020 New Japan Cup, this was the day everyone was looking forward…

Yeah. She wound up getting a winter job at a ski lodge and then started dating some snowboarder. It was my fault really, I guess.

It might have been cancelled earlier in the year, but now that New Japan Pro Wrestling is back to running…

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.

While he has not entered a ring in months, Kazuchika Okada remains a star for NJPW. In order to keep…

Yeah, I was terrible. I went drinking with some of my old friends from junior high recently, and they reminded me that I was giving the class unofficial sex ed classes.

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.