10 Things You Didn’t Know About Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger
9. Trained In The Hart Dungeon
Having made his in-ring debut in 1984 at the age of 20, Keiichi Yamada spent the next couple of years looking to constantly improve his craft. And at that point in time, where better to train than in the legendary Hart Dungeon?
Like so many other all-time greats, Yamada not only wrestled for Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling, but he also learnt under the tutelage of the Hart family patriarch. The future Jushin Liger would spend time training with Stu during 1987, and he'd later return to work once more for Stampede in 1989.
It was here that Yamada struck up a friendship with Owen Hart - and the two would go on to deliver some truly stunning matches in Japan only a couple of years later.
Just a few of those to have passed through the doors of the Dungeon over the years include huge stars such as Billy Graham, Jake Roberts, Dynamite Kid, Roddy Piper, Brian Pillman, Davey Boy Smith, Chris Benoit, Greg Valentine and Fritz Von Erich - which gives an indication of the quality of grapplers to come out of the Hart Dungeon along with Jushin Liger.