10 Insane Wrestling Stories Nobody Ever Talks About
9. A Heckin' Good Rib
Mr. Fuji threw salt into the eyes of babyfaces onscreen. Offscreen, he shovelled dog meat into their mouths.
A rib merchant by default, he simply loved to create profound anxiety within his fellow brothers. He liked to spike them with laxatives. He glued their clothes to the ceiling. He liked to cancel their flights, and if they made them, he'd simply get them later by removing the f*cking engine from their rental car at his considerable expense. His was a life dedicated to mischief. It seems very exhausting, but the episode of Ride Along would have been quite good. Fuji most certainly would have cut the brakes, and jumped out the back doors yelling 'Wildcard, bitches!"
But sometimes, Fuji got real weird with it.
Wrestling apocrypha has it that Fuji once punished a fellow wrestler for stealing work from him by killing and cooking a dog, and feeding it to him under cloak and dagger. Fuji fed a heckin' chonk, or perhaps even a pupper, to another human being.
This rib inspired the infamous 'Pepper' angle in the WWF years and years later. Yes, Vince McMahon deemed this canicide "such good sh*t"
13/10 good nutritious meal.