It’s going to have an indelible impression on your style and your approach to what you do in the ring, so Japan was definitely good to me in that respect.” One of the biggest things for me when you start out on your wrestling journey is where you first go and start doing this for a living, and for me that was Japan.
“I was getting early UWF-I tapes, or Kingdom tapes from when Takada used to run.
“Back then, I was watching anything I could get my hands on, and especially the wrestling coming out of Japan at the time particularly the ’90s wrestling with New Japan and their junior division, and All Japan’s heavyweight style,” said Joe. Joe’s familiarity with puroresu helped him adapt quickly to his newfound surroundings, while his involvement in the upstart organization helped forge Joe into the striking, suplexing monster he would ultimately unveil in ROH. Joe debuted in Japan at the premier Shingeki pay-per-view event alongside Keiji Sakoda, and the pair became the inaugural NWA Intercontinental Tag Team champions. The “history” Joe alludes to includes the instant history he made. “After that, the rest is history.” Samoa Joe vs. “I attended, rolled around with Hoshikawa for a bit, and they liked what they saw and booked me for their upcoming Shingeki pay-per-views, which were kind of a half-shoot, half-pro-wrestling type of pay-per-view,” said Joe.
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That’s when he decided to attend open tryouts for outgoing New Japan Pro-Wrestling star Shinya Hashimoto’s new Pro Wrestling Zero1 organization, which were conveniently being held in Southern California. By the summer of 2001, he had barely been performing on the independent wrestling circuit for an entire year-almost exclusively at shows in the Greater Los Angeles region. Ironically, Joe’s ROH tenure began when he had scarcely proved to be an asset in his own right. If you’re serious about being in the wrestling space, you need to acquire the assets that mean something, and ROH is one of those assets.”Īnyone with even a passing familiarity with Ring of Honor acknowledges that Joe is almost inarguably foremost amongst the wrestling talents that certified ROH as a ranking asset in the industry. I think its fingerprints are all over AEW and WWE. “If you’re going to be in the wrestling space, I think Ring of Honor is a big part of the industry’s lineage and history. “I wasn’t incredibly surprised,” Joe stated during a recent phone call. 3 wrestling brand would be equipped to further its legacy on solid financial footing, Joe was unfazed by the transaction. Khan completed the acquisition of Ring of Honor the following March, rendering it as the de jure sister brand operating within the AEW ecosystem.ĭespite the seismic shock radiating from Tony Khan’s announcement that America’s perpetual no.
That was when All Elite Wrestling’s Tony Khan swooped in and ensured that 2021’s Final Battle would not live up to its name in a literal sense. Not only is Joe Seanoa still adding to his Ring of Honor belt collection, having dethroned Minoru Suzuki to commence his first reign with the ROH World Television Championship–a title that didn’t exist during Joe’s earliest days in ROH-but he’s also racking up these accomplishments following a chain of events that would have seemed unimaginable at the beginning of 2022.Īs 2021 drew to a close, Joe was still contractually beholden to World Wrestling Entertainment, while Ring of Honor appeared to be treading steadily along a path toward nonexistence, having held its annual Final Battle event in December, following the announcement of a hiatus that many fans of the brand feared would be indefinite.
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A full 20 years after he first stepped onto a crimson-colored canvas inside of Philadelphia’s Murphy Recreation Center for a brutal “Fight Without Honor” against Low Ki, Samoa Joe finds himself once again competing for the wrestling company that personified the in-ring action that informed wrestling fans of the 2000s were consistently devouring, one DVD at a time.
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