Best Oriental/asian Wrestler

[Guest gwf0704]

My list goes like this:

 

10-Jumbo Tsuruta

09-The Great Kabuki

08-Ultimo Dragon

07-The Great Muta

06-Shohei "Giant" Baba

05-Toru Tanaka

04-Mr Saito

03-Antonio Inoki

02-Jushin "Thunder" Liger

01-Tiger Mask

 

I know I've left quite a few but I'm rating the ones I've seen wrestle.

[Guest dreamer420]

the great muta

masato tanaka

ultimo dragon

great sasuke

 

are the ones who have impressed me the most.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

keiji muto

masato tanaka

hayabusa

toshiaki kawada

the great sasuke

TAKA

mitsuharu misawa

shinya hashimoto had some great matches with steve corino and thats all ive seen of him.

[Guest dreamer420]

also add tajiri to my list, but pre wwe days only.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

i dont see how you can have Kabuki in a BEST list. He was awful in the matches that ive seen of him from nwa.

[Guest dreamer420]

wasn't he in the wwf for a short period as well?

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

He was in the rumble for a one time appearance with another asian guy i think that i cant remember his name. I think carlos colon was in that rumble as well.

[Guest dreamer420]

might have been 93. i think carlos was in that one.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

yeah 93 or 94.

[Guest Dace59]

Jyushin Lyger

Masato Tanaka

Tayabusa

Toshiaki Kawada

Ultimo Dragon

The Great Sasuke

TAKA

mitsuharu Misawa

[Guest saturnmark4life]

It was Genichiro Tenryu in the 93 rumble. OLD BASTARD~!

also

Kawada

Sasuke

Kobashi

Lyger

GRAN NANIWA~!

kaientai

Ohtahni

Nagata

and a bunch of others

[Guest gwf0704]

Thats why I rated him a 9 as I rated his body of work. He was always a top performer in World Class Championship Wrestling where he feuded with the Von Erichs, Bugsy McGraw and Kamala. He even received some title shots at both Ric Flair and Harley Race which were entertaining. In the Mid South he was a top heel as well wrestling Junkyard Dog and Magnum TA as well as in Florida where he fought Dusty Rhodes, Barry Windham and Mike Rotondo. I always thought he was extremely underrated as a heel and performer and I always marked out when he would shoot that green mist from his mouth! Sorry but I expect this to be my last Kabuki rant ever!!!!!

[Guest Ash Ketchum]

TAKA

Sasuke

Lyger

Hayabusa

Ultimo Dragon

Tiger Mask

And MAGNUM Tokyo

[Guest PlatypusFool]

LYGER~!

Kawada

Taue

Kobashi

Misawa

Ohtani

Naniwa

Masaaki Mochizuki

Gedo (shut up, i cant help it)

Tenzan

Kojima

Chono (on charisma alone)

Nagata

Naoki Sano

Akiyama

aaand about a million others because I am obsessed with puro!

[Guest DrainYou42]

Only guy's that i like that haven''t been mentioned yet are the Orient Express.

[Guest CED Ordonez]

I'll say Genichiro Tenryu just because he hasn't been mentioned yet and he's a 50-something year old that puts Hogan's workrate to shame.

[Guest ArkhamGlobe]

Jushin Liger and Kenta Kobashi..

[Guest Austin3164life]

The Great Sasuke

Jushin Liger

[Guest Dangerous A]

Juniors

Jushin Lyger

Minoru Tanaka

Great Sasuke

Gedo (2001)

Tiger Mask (the original)

Koji Kanemoto

Ultimo Dragon

Shinjiro Otani

 

Heavyweights

Jumbo Tsuruta

Antonio Inoki

Genichiro Tenryu

and my personal favorites

 

The 3 musketeers (Shinya Hashimoto, Keiji Muto, Masahiro Chono)

 

and the 4 Lords of Heaven (Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Toshiaki Kawada, and Akira Taue)

[Guest Jubuki]

Oriental? Rugs are oriental - people are not.

[Guest gwf0704]

No offense meant!

[Guest Tod deKindes]

I'll say Genichiro Tenryu just because he hasn't been mentioned yet and he's a 50-something year old that puts Hogan's workrate to shame.

Right. He and his devastating array of chops...chops...couple of kicks...more chops...some chops and did I mention chops?

 

You gotta be kidding me.

[Guest PlatypusFool]

"Oriental? Rugs are oriental - people are not."

 

That's actually technically untrue Jubuki. I was looking in the dictionary the other day and the word 'oriental' means 'of eastern origin'. This can be eastern of the world or eastern of an individual country. It goes on to say that all people living east of the mediterranean (sp?) ocean are considered oriental.

[Guest Sandman9000]

Tomoaki Honma (my avatar) and Ryuji Yamakawa.

 

I'm a blood mark and deathmatch fan, sue me.

[Guest thebear]

Kensuke Sasaki, Tokyo Magnum, Masahiro Chono and Ryuma Go

[Guest TigerDriver91]

10.Ryo Saito

9.CIMA

8.Milano Collection AT

7.Kenta Kobashi

6.Takehiro Murahama

5.Masaaki Mochizuki

4.Mitsuharu Misawa

3.Great Sasuke

2.Minoru Tanaka

1.Lyger... I can sometimes hate the bookerman, but you can't argue with his matches

[Guest BigTim2002]

Right now, your best Asian wrestler is Kawada.

 

Of all time, it HAS to be Jumbo, because he just ruled SO much...it's not even funny.

 

Honorable mention goes to Mutoh, Lyger, Misawa, Sasuke, Inoki, and CHONO~!

 

I also have a special place in my heart for Gran Hamada, who is like 55 or 56 and is STILL kicking ass. He gets my "Old dude who could beat the shit out of half the main eventers in the US" award.

[Guest Nezbyte]

Tomoaki Honma (my avatar) and Ryuji Yamakawa.

 

I'm a blood mark and deathmatch fan, sue me.

What about Jun Kasai, W*NG Kenemoura, and Shadow WX?

[Guest Cataclysm911]

See my sig.

 

Add Liger & Misawa.

[Guest Dmann2000]

So I'm assuming just cause the guy was born and wrestled exclusively in North America you guys have eliminated Ricky Steamboat from contention. The title just said best Asian/Oriental wrestler, not Asian/Oriental PURO wrestler.