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Sometimes I dance for concentration. I dance to release my nervousness.
I don’t get nervous before the match. I try to act the same and stay normal right before entrance. I don’t want to do anything special, so I want to act normal before a match.
WWE, time-wise, is so strict.
A lot of people misunderstand what is Strong Style. Hard hits? Stiff? I don’t think so. Strong Style is a kind of philosophy.
NXT fans are hardcore wrestling fans.
I want to be on ‘SmackDown’ because it has AJ Styles, Randy Orton, and John Cena – a lot of dream matches I can do.
Wrestling is a universal language. The moves, the facial expressions, most people understand.
I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.
I want to be bigger than everybody.
Strong style is a philosophy for Japanese wrestling fans that was created by New Japan Pro Wrestling founder Antonio Inoki. He wanted you to show every motion and show real technique in the ring. It’s important to use real techniques from real life and real martial arts. The detail is important.
Wrestling has its own culture. Every culture – Japan, Samoan, Indian, Korean – has wrestling, and wrestling is a worldwide mix.
I really want to face Roman Reigns again.
Language is important, I know, for the TV show, so a lot of people watches ‘WWE’ everywhere. Asia, Africa… some people don’t understand English like me. That’s why I use facial expressions and body motions.
Antonio Inoki majored in strong style. He showed real emotion with real technique in the ring. Hard shots that look like hard shots. But the important steps is the real technique from the real martial arts. It means detail is important.
For me, I like to be different. I didn’t want to imitate another wrestler. I always try to find something from other genres, like movies, books, art, and musicals. That’s how I made my style.
Florida’s waves are better than Japan. It’s just an hour drive to the beach, but just once a week, I’m able to go to the surfing.
My inspirations were ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.
Moving to the United States is a huge decision.
I never think about pride. I don’t think about stuff like that. I just enjoy the moment of my life. I think about just trying harder and continuing to find challenges to move toward.
I’m not, like, an English speaker, so I have confidence in my wrestling skills, also, like, body language, hand gestures, facial expressions. I put all of my emotion in my wrestling.
I felt good in the ring with John Cena.
I feel as if I accomplished everything in Japan, so I wanted to challenge myself. I wanted something new, so I decided to come to WWE.
WWE style is a much different platform than other wrestling companies. Each wrestler wrestles under strict rules that fans never know.
Most fighters are nervous before they go out there. Nervousness makes the body tight. I don’t like that. I want to fight with a normal feeling. That’s why I move the fingers, shoulders, everything. I try to move like spaghetti.
Being here in the United States, English is not my first language. It’s kind of a challenge for me, a big challenge for my family.
After match, in WWE, I do not drink alcohol. I just drink a lot of water.
You have a good side and bad side, real side. Then I put that on in the ring. My character, my personality in the ring, came from heel stuff.
For a long time, almost 14 years, I wrestled in Japan, so I didn’t think I would leave New Japan Pro Wrestling, but I started changing my mind. I wanted to see the other world. I wanted to change something. I wanted to be bigger.
Around 2005, UFC offered me a chance to fight for them. But, at that moment, I was under contract with NJPW, and I decided to stay in pro-wrestling. It was a good opportunity, but I don’t regret my choice.
There are wrestlers in Japan. I think they think they can move to WWE, but it’s not so easy.
One of the purposes of coming to WWE was to wrestle with Daniel Bryan.
I need to study English more. I’ll start by watching ‘Sesame Street’ every day.
Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.
