10 Awesome Modern Wrestlers Who Made Their Name In Japan
5. Ricochet
Though Ricochet is perhaps more synonymous with Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, the deeply influential company in which he so impressed the über-hardcore name-dropper audience, it can be argued that the promotion's reach doesn't extend far enough in more casual circles to inform a performer's reputation alone.
Ricochet reinforced and heightened - pun very much intended - that reputation in both Dragon Gate and New Japan Pro Wrestling.
He was a perfect fit for the former promotion. A futuristic athlete with an unprecedented ability to soar, and to give his slack-jawed fandom motion sickness through his astonishingly convoluted and athletically astounding reversal sequences, this was a performer as fast as Masato Yoshino and as spectacular as PAC. Consequently, he made the leap from the second biggest to biggest puro promotion by starring in New Japan concurrently. There, he developed a new level of visual nuance to his work. The most GIF-able pro wrestler of all time soon became a canvas for fan art through his ability to pose in an array of striking, iconic images, most infamously in that match.
On the subject of which...