Did WWE watch a single Kenzo Suzuki match before hiring him? Because the man was so clearly uncoordinated that you'd think one match would be enough for the company to look for elsewhere. In one of the rare cases of a wrestler appearing in TNA before WWE, Kenzo competed briefly for the much smaller company in its early days. He didn't show much promise, but he was pretty big, so hey, why not give him hundreds of thousands of dollars, and devote valuable TV time to him in the largest wrestling organization in the world? In typical WWE fashion they gave an Asian man an offensive gimmick. Suzuki was cast as Hirohito, and was set to be shot to the top of the card to battle then-champion Chris Benoit. Luckily someone in the company realized that naming a wrestler after the Japanese Emperor in World War 2 was in bad taste. Suzuki did receive a fairly big push on the SmackDown brand out of the gate, but eventually his in-ring terribleness was realized by everyone. What took so long? He quickly transitioned into a horny comedy figure before being let go.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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