>Leave Japan and go to an American company>Get a wacky Engrish catchphrase >Ceiling is now a mid card beltWhy can't American bookers get Japanese wrestlers over?
>>15085990Nips are just lame.
it's amazing how hard mina dunks on these guys
because in order to connect with a foreign market, you have to be able to speak that language fluently.Japan is a bit different, since every japanese expects foreigners to be stupid. But with America, if you cant speak english, only God can help you.American market values characters and personality more than wrestling ability.
Nakamura definitely got over and had a successful career. The only people who say otherwise are obese concern trolls.
>>15085990>>15085998The only two Japanese to ever get over in America were Great Muta and Tajiri. Maybe those two were just the biggest dimes Japan of all. Inoki too, actually, thanks due to the Muhammad Ali fight though.
>>15085990Nakamura got a royal rumble win and a wwe title match at wrestlemania.
>>15085990because jap wrestlers have never been over in America
>>15085990It's just tony kahn dude. I don't know what he thought by just bringing him in and leaving it at that. He has nothing to work with. I know it's not the same, but my younger sister loves Asuka and Kairi sane and she doesn't know any jap wrestling.
The arch traitor Okada thing could be cool if they played it up more but they don't. Not to mention it goes against Okada's shtick to go for a lower title instead of the main one only.
>>15085990Because they are all natural mid-carders. Being the top dog in a jap Indy fed doesn't matter
>>15085990Because Japanese guys refuse to learn the language. You need to be able to promo in wrestling to get over with few exceptions.
>>15088404It's true, and it's complicated. Japanese has 3 different writing scripts, but also sources words from Old Chinese and modern Chinese. So the orthography is a COMPLETE MESS, which means it requires a tremendous amount of time and focus just to write/read/speak their own Japanese at a very high level - their high level vocabulary isnt in Latin/Greek like it is for Spanish, German, etc, theyre borrowing from Chinese. That leaves little overlap with English or other indo-European languages. Add in word order (Verb last), particles, geographic isolation, limited naturalization of immigrants - lots of peculiarities that make it very difficult to master English as a native Japanese speaker.Just as Americans are proud to speak English and nothing else, so are Japanese. It's the strangest thing. Difference being English is a global language of finance and education, and Japanese is the anime language.
