Posted March 11, 20214 yr comment_5942188 This remains a fantastic thread and here's my contribution to it:
March 12, 20214 yr comment_5942240 As a big puro fan for the last 29 years, this is my favorite thread ever! I can't express how grateful I am to you for your labors. Thank you very much for all this. Dan Ginnetty
March 15, 20214 yr comment_5942589 This thread is endlessly fascinating and the best thread on PWO. Looking forward to the follow-ups whenever you do them.
March 15, 20214 yr Author comment_5942607 Co-signed with El-P and I would absolutely love both a 4 Pillars project or a Tenryu bio!
March 15, 20214 yr comment_5942636 Same. And thanks for introducing me to deepl--it kicks Google Translate's ass as far as translating Japanese into readable English. I've been using it to read random bios on Dr. Mick's showapuroresu.com site. This has some pretty good info on the origins of SWS--I think it was originally posted on the Other Arena but it made its way to Classics sometime later. Some of the info from this thread contradicts it, but for 2000 this was as good first-hand info as we were gonna get.
March 30, 20214 yr comment_5944052 I should have the last chapter done by the end of the week, brothers.
March 31, 20214 yr comment_5944133 Just to say thank you so much for this. One of the greatest threads I've ever read. Many mindblowing details. I'm still recovering from learning that Sato from Orient Express was the booker for early 80s AJPW.
April 1, 20214 yr comment_5944383 He was more than just a booker. He was a trainer and the examiner for the dojo's entrance test. While he was the booker, he was instrumental in creating a freer environment for the younger wrestlers where they were allowed to do big moves in their matches. He made a lot of reforms to the undercard of All Japan and improved the training methods for rookies. He broke Misawa and Koshinaka into the business and was highly respected by both. I believe he was also an interpreter for the foreigners. According to The Great Kabuki he now drives a truck in the States.
April 1, 20214 yr comment_5944385 I thought Joe Higuchi was the interpreter/babysitter for the foreign wrestlers.
April 1, 20214 yr comment_5944394 I don't remember, was he still working with AJ when he got back to WWE with Shinzaki or was he settled in the US by then and just served as the WWF interpreter/contact for Shinzaki ?
April 1, 20214 yr comment_5944504 Sato left the business entirely in 1997; one of the last things he did was train Emi Sakura.
April 13, 20214 yr comment_5947429 This is an amazing thread. Too much to single out but 1. Sumo and puro really put the carny bullshit of American wrestling to shame 2. It's pretty fucking weird that Jumbo had a blog in 1996
April 13, 20214 yr comment_5947430 18 minutes ago, strobogo said: 2. It's pretty fucking weird that Jumbo had a blog in 1996 The website was made posthumously, tying in with the nonprofit his widow ran and named after him.
April 13, 20214 yr comment_5947432 Oh that makes more sense. I was reading it like he was keeping up a proto-blog in his post wrestling career on the nascent internet.
March 8, 20223 yr comment_5976837 I couldn't figure out how to match these to an original post or if we needed them. If we need to move any of them, please let me know. I'll lock this thread a week from today.
March 8, 20223 yr comment_5976849 3 hours ago, Loss said: I couldn't figure out how to match these to an original post or if we needed them. If we need to move any of them, please let me know. I'll lock this thread a week from today. I think we're fine. These are all inessential overall.
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