WWE: Top 8 Japanese Wrestlers From The Past 30 Years
8. Kenzo Suzuki
Blink and you missed Kenzo Suzuki. Lasting a little more than a year on the main roster, Suzuki managed to win tag team gold albeit with Rene Dupree, so you have to wonder what WWE writers were smoking in 2004. But once he engaged John Cena in a battle rap, then you knew they werent just smoking something funny, they were huffing glue too. WWE had big plans for Suzuki and his wife, Hiroko, but the anti-American gimmick was dropped, which may or may not have been a good thing. On the one hand, its such a cop-out to bring in a Japanese wrestler and play up their ethnicity first rather than their abilities, but then again, a feud with Billy Gunn and pairing with Rene Dupree wasnt exactly a major step up the card. Suzuki was lost in the shuffle during the 2005 WWE draft lottery and released. Hes remained active, wrestling in Mexico first and now for All Japan.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
