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[Discussion] What is that one wrestler you just don't like/get? (kbin.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We all watch a fairly wide range of wrestling, so across all your favourite/usual promotions:

Who is that one wrestler above all others that you just can't get into?

Do you hate their wrestling style? Is their character boring? Do they just not do anything for you? Hate the performer (keep it civil)? Was there some angle that soured you on them? Let us know! (and obviously do feel free to mention multiple people if needed lol).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kaya Toribami of TJPW: She's just so... meh. Make Serpentico extremely boring and switch his gender, and you have Kaya. Masked wrestlers have to work harder to show emotion than unmasked wrestlers do. But Kaya doesn't even try to do that. She needs a character rework something fierce. Especially in a promotion that already has Hyper Misao.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Prefacing that I like Kaya, I think her problem is that she's using the mask as a way to hide, instead of a character tool.

Every time she's on camera she seems extremely shy, and while I do like where her moveset is going (2 years of experience is not a lot for a high flyer and on top of that TJPW emphasizes strong fundamentals as a prerequisite for being allowed to do high spots) it's clear that already setting up the highflying masked wrestler gimmick when she can't actually use the accompanying moveset was putting the cart before the horse.

She should have had a normal start as a rookie and only switched to this gimmick when she had the skillset to match, IMO.