02.01.2017, 10:37
Interviews vor "Wrestle Kingdom 11" Teil 3:
Kazuchika Okada über Kenny Omega, seine eigene Stellung an der Spitze:
Kenny Omega über das Match gegen Okada, zukünftige Pläne als Champion:
Hiromu Takahashi über sein Comeback und Kushida:
Kazuchika Okada über Kenny Omega, seine eigene Stellung an der Spitze:
Zitat:"There's a lot you can read into and a lot to expect with an oppenent you've wrestled before, but when it's someone completely new .. there's some nerves there but it's inspiring. I think Kenny and I can start something truly new. [...] Yeah he is BC leader, was IC champ, but even so, we didn't cross paths so I really wasn'T that aware of him. Only, I watched some of his stuff as a junior, before NJPW - he's crazy, just scarifices his body. He didn't seem like someone just moving up from junior to heavy. He beat Tanahashi, beat Naito, both have held the IWGP title. He can pretty much do anything. He has a lot of power, he can fly. He's very much like AJ, just an 'all mighty' type of wretler. But unlike Aj, he has all that ability and he's crazy. Devit, Styles were both great leaders for Bullet Club, but he's in a whole new category. Getting himself in main event proves that. He's at his most dangerous at his pace. I want him to wrestle at my pace, but Omega is a guy that probably won'T let me do that. [...] I'm at the top and I've been at the top for a while, so it might not seem that I'm hungry to him I guess. In a way that's a compliment, but I've been through a lot to get to this point. Still, I'm not going to talk like him and make a big deal of my struggles. What I want him to know, is more important than a hungry attitude is having struggled and failed and come out the other end. That gives you a level of strength you can't hope to have otherwise. [...] Everyone who wrestles me complains I'm manufactured, office chosen. To me, that's obvious y'know? The office wants a star, finds the best they have and pushes them, that's me. It's for working at this level, doing tv appearances, doing commercials, being known worldwide. The Tanahashi feud, finally beating him, coming through 2016 has made me the strongest I've ever been."
Kenny Omega über das Match gegen Okada, zukünftige Pläne als Champion:
Zitat:"I'm completely ready .. I will be in absolute peak condition at the Dome. [...] I am the most legendary gaijin in New Japan history and I want to do more for Japanese wrestling. Me beating Okada, it's not just best for me, but for New Japan. [...] This might disappoint Japanese fans a bit but as the IWGP champion, even if it means wrestling in Japan less, I want to wrestle internationally more. I want to defend the belt in America, UK, New Zealand, all of Asia. Bullet Club defend their belts worldwide. You know why, don't you? We are both doing a similar thing on a worldwide stage, but we are better (WWE). To prove that the fans have to be able to compare in person. If they want to have a UK champion, I want to defend the belt in the U.K. - I have that sense of pride and want to protect New Japan. I want to defend against Ishii. I'd have liked it if he'd have challenged me for the contract, honestly. He beat Okada in the G1 after all, so he has a claim. If he wants to challenge me after I win he's more than welcome. Oh and .. is it always the same person in that Tiger Mask W mask? I saw him in that Ryogoku dark match. He was still very green, but he had some pretty cool moves. If he's still the same guy and he really does his best and puts the work in, he might be a contender one day."
Hiromu Takahashi über sein Comeback und Kushida:
Zitat:"I definitely spent three years wanting to be at the top internationally, but I also wanted to get back. It felt great to be back in Japan. 'Road to Tokyo Dome' .. they found out about it at the same time - I looked at the NJPW site and there was my match listed. I had everything planned around the Dome .. no gear obviously. It was though to wrestle in street clothes .. it looked bad. I like being in proper gear and I will be at the Dome. It wasn't that I didn't want to do those matches, it was just sudden. But being on that card in the main right away and being a focal part of that match made me happy. It's a different felling to 'Fantasticamania' - it was more about wrestling Dragon Lee .. not about Hiromu is back! Now I am back and in a match in the Dome for a title. [...] Kushida carried the division for the last three and a half years, so his ability isn't in question. I just took issue with him in September, when he lost the belt and was talking about the weight of the title. Look, if you suck, you don't get to be champion. "The championship is no pushover"?"Of course it is not, that's obvious, but that's why I got results right? That's why I pinnend Kushida in the tag, being the leading guy in that match, being a bigger deal than anybody else after the match. [...] I always knew I was the one that had to take down Kushida and while there was a real feeling that someone who said what he did shouldn't be a top guy. I look at him and I get pissed off. "I want to elevate the juniors" - it's a lip service. [...] I don't think he's uniquely difficult. I've wrestled all sorts of opponents over the last 3.5 years .. jiujitsu type guys, kick boxer type guys - I can beat all of them. [...] I recognise his ability, know how good he is, but there's nothing about Kushida that has me worried. Having wrestled him now, he's as I thought - not a worry. The brawl with him after the match, it highlighted an immaturity, making me more angry all the the time. Why is ths guy at the top? .. who doesn't give a damn about the company or the division? He infuriates me. He said that not being a product of the dojo system was a strong point for him - I have no problem with that per se. But if your opinion is: " I love NJ and I want to see it do better" then it doesn't matter where you got your start. There are a lot of people from outside nowadays, but honeslty it is a different issue with him. The weight of the belt .. why? These 3 years he's been at the top, winning the most, been around the title, right? For him to say that, maybe he didn't believe it himself, but to say that and be so flippant about it, I can'T forgive that. I've not been fast tracked, not been hot shotted. I've put in results all over the world and I've earned this right. I'll be the champion everyone wants and everyone needs. For Kushida .. no pushover .. no cakewalk? Listen, I know the title is no pushover, but mister 'I don't give a crap about New Japan'? Taking it from you will be!