Well, you were warned. Jun Kasai is one of the most well-known deathmatch workers in Japan, and in a career that's also frequently brought him to American independent league CZW, he's made use of light tubes, razor blades, barbed wire, and a cactus. Since his debut in 1998, he's been raising the stakes for violence in wrestling, working a style that's not for everybody, to put it mildly. Unsurprisingly, Kasai's career choice has taken quite the toll on his body. In 2001, a botched light tube bump gave him such a deep elbow wound that his bone was protruding, and subsequent matches have seen him turn his back into a Jackson Pollack painting. Love it or hate it, Kasai's made a career his own way, even if he has to keep his shirt on at the beach.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
