15 Biggest Differences Between WWE And Japanese Wrestling

6. Fewer Boundaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8JGvHOXegY Japan as a country sometimes undeservedly suffers from this perception in North America of being a €˜weird€™ country. Many things about their culture often surprise North American viewers, unaccustomed to seeing such differences. A big part of this is because Japan has lower sensitivities, in the sense that people don€™t feel as uncomfortable about the same things as people in North America. This is how, for example, some Japanese anime could get away with less-than subtle racism or homosexuality, two things that would certainly garner a major reaction in the United States. Pro wrestling in Japan is no exception. Despite most wrestling companies being almost entirely about straight-to-the-point wrestling, there are some companies that do live up to this perception of €˜craziness€™ and gimmicky. Dramatic Dream Team (DDT or D2T), for example, is a promotion with ridiculously bizarre characters like Danshoku Dino, Yoshihiko (a blow-up sex doll), the Super S**t Machine, and Mitsuteru the invisible wrestler. They also have taken WWE€™s €˜Hardcore€™ concept and have turned it into something insane: The Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, which is also defended under 24/7 rules. As of April 29th, 2014, it has changed hands around 1,000 times, with title holders including a Dachshund, a ladder, a poster and the belt itself. Oh, they also take the term €˜Death Match€™, an old-school wrestling concept, and turn the crazy meter up to 11, with such concepts as the €˜Scorpion and Cactus Desert Death Match€™, and tanks full of piranhas. Also, if you want to combine all of these factors into one big, bizarre mess of a storyline, look no further than promotion HUSTLE, which ran an outlandish €˜magical baby€™ storyline involving The Great Muta, a women named Yingling the Erotic Terrorist (seriously), Green Mist, and egg, and a 500-pound baby named Bono. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgZZb9i9MY8