En tiedä mistä tuo väärä nimi on saatu, mutta kyse siis on nimenomaan Starbuckista.Wrestling Observer Newsletter kirjoitti:Weekly Pro Wrestling, the last of the Japanese weeklies, had its annual fan voting awards released this week.
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Most popular foreign wrestler was Devitt by more than a six-to-one margin over Omega, followed by Ricochet, Pac and Jonathan Starbucks, a European wrestler who works for the Smash promotion.
Giant Baban, Rikidozanin ja Antonio Inokin edelle ylsi vain kaksi baseball-pelaajaa ja yksi sumopainija.Wrestling Observer Newsletter kirjoitti:Probably the best indication of how big pro wrestling used to be culturally in Japan came out in a national poll this past week, asking people, divided equally among men and women in a scientific poll as opposed to an Internet poll, all over the age of 40, and asked what was their favorite athlete of the Showa era (1925-1988).
Pro wrestlers finished fourth through sixth place, with Giant Baba fourth, Rikidozan fifth and Antonio Inoki sixth. Rikidozan is really the country’s biggest legend. But since he died in 1963, while the name is known, he would not be a childhood favorite of anyone under the age of 55 or so. At one point, and it may still be the case, his significance in Japanese culture, from being the model athlete of a country rebuilding its culture after being decimated in World War II, and for his role in popularizing television, Rikidozan, and his 1955 matches with the Sharpe Brothers, was taught about in grade school history. Rikidozan was the only person of that era ranked even near the top.
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If you took a similar national poll in the U.S. of people over the age of 40, it is doubtful on a national basis that any pro wrestler would be anywhere close to the top. Some would be in selected markets (The Crusher once won a poll as the most popular deceased athlete in Milwaukee, but it was an Internet based poll where he had wrestling fans heavily campaigning for him). In similar lists in the U.S., no pro wrestlers even crack the top 100, let alone top ten.
In Mexico, the truth is, El Santo would probably win such a poll as some years back when there was a poll of the most popular Mexican of all-time, not limited to athletes, he was top five, ranking ahead of all actors and athletes and alongside the most famous political leaders.
Badass UT olisi ehkä sopinut tuota kaveria vastaan mutta ottelu olisi silti ollut paskaa. Deadman UT:n kanssa matsi olisi vielä enemmän paskaa.
En nyt sitte tiedä miten se UT:n kulmaukseen sopii mutta kyllähän sen esiintyminen mukavata olis, koska oon äijästä pitäny.
