Main >> Commentary >> September 24th, 2001

Hello everybody that used to visit my old site. If you are reading this then you found my new site. Thanks to Jarod we were able to put something together very quickly. I liked my old site but I think you will be very pleased with this one. As you see I got a new site and I also got a new webmaster. Say hello to Jarod, he also does Kanyon's Site.

Now its time to talk about what I have been doing for the last 10 weeks. I have been in wrestling heaven actually. I was given the opportunity to go wrestle for Osaka Pro in Osaka, Japan, an opportunity that I thought I would never get, thanks to my friend out in California for hooking this up. I have so many people to thank and so many memories of my visit and all kinds of stories to share.

First of all I have to say I have never been in the ring with more talented guys. Everybody in that company works so hard do be the best. The young boys which include Tigers Mask, Syusaku Wada, Super Demekin, Kengo Takai, Takashi Tachibana love the business and respect it. If we trained guys in United States like they do in Japan there would be no such thing as EGOS or people not wanting to the JOB or no complaining about anything; you see the young boys have to do pretty much anything they are asked to do no questions asked for instance Tigers Mask is the youngest of the young boys. His schedule is so hard that many times I felt bad for him. He wakes up before anybody and if there is any cleaning up to do in the house he does it. Then we go to the dojo and once we are done training he makes lunch for everybody which is called CHUNKO after most of us are finish then he is allowed to eat. Not only does he cook he has to clean up after everybody. After that is done while everybody takes rest he has to do all kinds of company business he might have to drive around and advertise the shows for the weekend anything that the company wants done he does it. He does the same thing for dinner time sometimes dinner didn't come till 1 or 2 am. I don't see when he had anytime to hang out with his friends from school or girlfriend If he did have free time he was always with young boys. I can't imagine the lack of sleep he gets. Over here in the US if you lose every single match you get put in this category of a "JOB" "GUY" which is total crap in my book. It takes two people and a ref to make a match so everybody has a job to do. Anyway I know Tigers hasn't won a match yet but let me say HE IS OVER LIKE ROVER the people love him because he is a great TALENT the fans don't care if he loses or not they still chant his name and cheer for him. I have to say I had two really good matches with him and I cant wait to have more.

Syusaku Wada - He is my favorite person to wrestle out of the young boys group. He has one of the best sells I have seen and is a tremendous talent in the ring. He can fly if he wants or he can ground wrestle with the best of them. I had 3 single matches with him if I can remember right. And each match I thought was great. He makes me laugh when runs and hits the ropes I don't know why but I always end up laughing. He has really good facial expressions. I believe in the next 5- 10yrs he will be big star in Japan. He is also a great cook. He could cook a delicious Curry Rice my favorite. When we would go bowling we always would be teammates we were named the Dirty Hearts we would go against the Pure Hearts more about that at a later time. The funny thing is I came up with his new gimmick which he will debut very soon I wish I was there to see it.

Kengo Takai - Takia or as I like to call him Very Hungry Boy. I have never seen anybody that could eat so much rice he could easily eat 4 big bowls of rice with no problem. I can go through 1 maybe 2 but he could just keep eating. That is why I called him Hungry Boy. He has tons of fire in his matches I wrestled him 3 times in a singles match a couple tags but my last match with him I will never forget. There is a really funny story about this match but I will save it for a time I don't have anything to write about. Lets just say its almost as perfect as a match as you can get. SHAWWWWWWW.

Super Demekin - The King of Goldfish, I think that's his gimmick he is really good I didn't have the chance to wrestle him in a singles match just in tags only but he did win young boys tournament which they had while I was there so when I say he can go I mean he can go. He is really strong also. Sometime we would have shoot fighting practice and there was no stopping him. Also he is the man at bowling I only beat him once which I was shocked since I bowled 153 which I have never done. And he likes to watch movies also so every once in a while we would have Showtime which meant I would rent video and it was time to watch it. His new Favorite movie is GLADIATOR. I hope I can go back soon so I can get a chance to have a singles match with him.

Takashi Tachibana - He probably could speak the best English. I didn't really have a problem with communication over there. I had 1 singles and a couple tags with him he has a lot of charisma in his matches and good facials. Also he likes to ground wrestle. He will be good in a few years, but he has a lot learn. He was my tour guide while I was there. If I wanted to go site seeing he would take me.

This is my first commentary about Japan I will have many more the next commentary I will talk about the rest of the company. So till next ICHIBAHN!!!!!!!!

Jeremy Lopez