Comments on: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! Wrestling in Japan http://www.tofugu.com/2011/06/15/lets-get-ready-to-rumble-wrestling-in-japan/ A Japanese Language & Culture Blog Sun, 13 Apr 2014 12:20:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: grotesk_faery http://www.tofugu.com/2011/06/15/lets-get-ready-to-rumble-wrestling-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-42560 Sat, 26 May 2012 07:18:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=5483#comment-42560 As ridiculous as some of their characters are, Japanese pro wrestlers are REALLY technically sound, and a lot of the best American wrestlers go there to train.

]]> By: Japanese wreseling | Sellners http://www.tofugu.com/2011/06/15/lets-get-ready-to-rumble-wrestling-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-33069 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:58:36 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=5483#comment-33069 [...] Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! Wrestling in JapanSumo wrestling Japanese wrestling between massive giants kwown as sumo-tori . It is one of Japan’s most popular spectator sports. Sumo wrestlers train from a … [...]

]]> By: Hanako http://www.tofugu.com/2011/06/15/lets-get-ready-to-rumble-wrestling-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-28238 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:43:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=5483#comment-28238 I sat through the whole Hard Gay Video, mouth open, traumatized. I want my innocence back, thank you.

haha just kidding, but I really was shocked. Bikkuri shita!

]]> By: Kansaijesse http://www.tofugu.com/2011/06/15/lets-get-ready-to-rumble-wrestling-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-25532 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:22:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=5483#comment-25532 You actually managed to misinform people quite well (no offense).  Japanese pro-wrestling is actually taken very serious just like all other fighting sports in Japan.  There are multiple companies and while some do cater to gimmick characters and story lines companies like NOAH, and New Japan Pro Wrestling, and All Japan Pro Wrestling put the wrestlers center and focus on the actual wrestling and not the gimmicks like in WWE.  Instead, they use the history of the wrestlers to build matches instead of cheap unrealistic story lines.  Thus, WWE and the previously mentioned companies couldn’t be more different.  Japan tends to focus and present its wrestling as a legitimate sport which mainly focuses on “strong style” meaning real strikes aka “stiff” (to safe areas) mixed in with the moves of pro wrestling.  Naturally, this is different from the stupid story lines that you get in WWE.  Not that Japan doesn’t have companies like WWE, they do.

]]> By: Dawn http://www.tofugu.com/2011/06/15/lets-get-ready-to-rumble-wrestling-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-25464 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:39:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=5483#comment-25464 One post after another! Lol.. Hard Gay.  It’s no surprise thought that someone like Bob Sapp would be big in  puroresu. Especially since you don’t see many people like him in Japan. Typo by the way: “…very seriously A friend”

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.tofugu.com/2011/06/15/lets-get-ready-to-rumble-wrestling-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-25419 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:05:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=5483#comment-25419 I would have loved to make it longer, but I still don’t know that much about プロ. :( Fortunately, lots of commenters like you are there to educate me! :D Thanks so much for the info.

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