Jushin Liger

I'm going to go with a very historical figure, a man who spends decades across New Japan wrestling and wrestling all over the world.

I'm going with Jushin Thunder Liger.

Nice.

Very iconic mask, too.

Like he's always on point as matches always hit, uh, so smooth in the ring inventor of the outside moonsault, right? Just like a legend.

Uh, and he had, it was pretty sick, right? It was brain cancer for him.

Was that when mixing him up? I know Liger had brain cancer.

Did, Oh, dragon have like a fucked up arm nerve.

Now, I also noticed a fan in the crowd in Cactus Jack cosplay, but with Darby face paint on.

And, also of note, there was a Jushin Liger impersonator in the crowd.

or possibly the actual Jushin Thunder Liger.

And there were also chants of, Proto Star, Proto Star.

You can like produce this.

Like think about like Jushin Thunder Liger's mask.

Yeah.

Where it's like, that's a great one, but that's not something you can like mass produce and sell easily.

That was one of those absolutely crazy moments that it's like, if I brought this up to like...

some like my cousin who never watched wrestling a day in his life and if I said like oh do you remember Gangrel and he was like yeah the vampire lad I said like yeah I wrestled him at the weekend that's something that would make a random person absolutely lose their mind so I think like random bullshit like that where it's like oh I was on I was on the same show as like Jushin Thunder Liger and it's like oh that's that's actually a crazy thing you know shit like that brings me back

You know, I love wrestling.

It's just the most, as you say, the most batshit kind of stuff and stories come out of it.

This is the WWE Hall of Fame.

Yeah, but they put people in there that haven't even wrestled in WWE like Jushin Thunder Liger or now are giving legends deals to Necro Butcher.

So now we can break the rules here.

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So I wanted to use my hair outside of my mask.

So the only guy I was doing that was Liger.

And Liger, I loved the style of his mask.

And one time I saw a draw in Japan, very similar, like... to him, but he was like, uh, and then I was, Oh, I want to, I want to be like, like, like that.

I want to use something like that.

So I inspired myself from Liger and, uh, it looks a little bit actually, to be honest, but a little bit different too.

And in the United States, nobody kind of like I use that.

And now, uh, I used to have my eyes closed with a classic lucha, but now, later on, I start being a little different.

Yep.

Because who in their right mind would just do a cannonball to a standing opponent? Have you ever seen Jushin Thunder lighter? Have you ever watched low key? Come on.

Yeah.

Hmm.

It looked like Loki would save Samoa Joe before a beatdown by the Rottweilers, but instead he spent an ROH championship, which was then held by Joe, and then joined the Rottweilers.

At Weekend of Thunder Night, On November 6, 2000, he started a feud with Bryan Danielson, who was Loki's partner in a match against Samoa Joe and Jushin Thunder Liger.

Then he moved on to NWA Total Non-Stop Action.

Loki's first NWA Total Non-Stop Action debut tag team match alongside AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn against the Flying Elvises.