So yesterday 8/7 after speaking with my Sensei after coming back from the Danzan Ryu camp I attended, I decided that I will test for my Yodan next year at that very Camp
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Let me add to say Will Ospreay being open about his disability should be talked a lot more in wrestling.
Does take a lot of confidence to share it to the world while looking it as a positive.
Aaron Wolf wants his Olympic Slam referred to as the Angle Slam, in reverence to fellow Olympic gold medalist and former IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle. That’s badass! 🔥
Finn Balor on how he came up with the “Bullet Club” name
“I was a young boy in New Japan. Before the shows, we would all warm up in the ring and the young boys would be made to do squats and push-ups and stuff. And then we’d get in the ring with the senior wrestlers and we’d be stretched, which would be like shot on basically and beat up.”
“Minoru Suzuki was in the ring with me, he was a legitimate grappler. And I caught him with an armbar. He goes, ‘Ah, Devitt, you’re a real shooter.’ And then Tiger Hattori kind of heard that and every day he’d say, ‘Hey, Devitt, you’re the real shooter. You’re the real shooter.’ So this was going on in the locker room for about a year. He’d say, ‘Hey, Devitt, you’re a shooter.’ And he’d just do it like that ‘shooter.’ When the time came about a year later, the office came to me and said, ‘Hey, we want to turn you heel. We want to put you with Fale. We need to get you guys a group.’ So then they decided to put in Karl Anderson and Tama. I was trying to think what ties us all together.”
“And at the time, Fale was using the hand grenade finish...similar to Solo Sikoa. And then there’s the Machine Gun. And I was the ‘real shooter.’ So I was like, ‘What links us all together?’ And it was Bullet Club.”
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Finn Balor explains his issues with how The Demon is presented and utilized in WWE:
“Once I came to WWE, it kind of got muddled up a little bit, and there had to be a reason for why The Demon appeared. It all had to be storyline-based and advertised. And in my mind, it was always just a cool entrance. It was something that changed me into like, you know, Braveheart puts on the battle paint and he goes to war. And that's the way it was for me.
But in WWE, it had to be, ‘Well, what made him turn into The Demon? He had to get beat up and beat down and pushed to the limit to then turn into this monster.’ So then it became the point where Finn wasn't good enough. Only The Demon could win. So then Finn was lesser than The Demon, where they're supposed to be the same.
So that was one issue I had with it. The other issue I had with it was it was always advertised, which I like it to be a surprise. Like, ‘Oh, sh*t, The Demon’s here.’ And it just comes out and kicks ass.”
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