All In crowd was on their feet for an ankle lock and NJPW fans were growing crazy over wristlocks and headlocks meanwhile the Raw crowd gets gifted insane shit like this and they barely move an inch.
Genuinely have no idea how you even breed fans like this.
it’s already the coolest fucking thing ever, but god i wish there was a way to get across on camera that the literal Second his music hit, the skies opened up and it started raining. one of the most surreal things ive ever experienced
Kenny clearly wanted the monitor to be live for this bit but it breaks when he smashes it on Will's head and he goes through with it anyway knowing he'll just seem crazier. that's professionalism
I think the main reason Kawada resonates so much with people is that all these years later he still manages to sneak up on you with how fucking good he is, no matter how highly you rate him. there's an unpredictability to him that so few wrestlers have
My favorite shoot interview trope is when someone is telling a story about some depraved act that a half dozen wrestlers committed in a hotel room.
And then they’ll go “And Sandman was over in the corner, lecturing Jimmy Jacobs about the socioeconomics of the Korean War.”