10 Most Explosive Wrestlers Of All Time
7. Masato Yoshino
Masato Yoshino's explosiveness was powered through a searing pace the likes of which even this generation hasn't yet caught up to.
Yoshino is a talent that makes a mockery of old, worm-brained arguments of size automatically driving drawing power: Dragon Gate in the mid-2000s became the cult sensation among hardcore U.S. fans. Through the company's partnership with Ring Of Honor, the warp-speed puro-lucha in-house style, vastly influential in its accelerated hybrid fusion, saw Dragon Gate rise to prominence as the import of choice, and much of that appeal was powered through Yoshino's scintillating cameos in - again - influential six-man tags, the likes of which the Elite drew inspiration from to seduce the pro wrestling fandom.
Yoshino was a speedball so jaw-dropping that he was thoroughly, gloriously distraction-proof, and his work never felt like a one-dimensional, get-the-sh*t-in flex. He used that pace to both mystify his opponents and as a launchpad to inflict painful looking damage.
Yoshino was a GIF wrestler before social media willed such a thing into existence; his lung-bursting sprints created the template for so much of the modern landscape.