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Balistik Blabber! Taka Michinoku |
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Welcome to the real 6th edition of “Balistik Blabber” and the 3rd episode of our “Ex-WWE Talent Talk”! Again, my apologies go out to fellow articolist Dominic Korgath for not noticing that he had done a report on Gail Kim earlier.
I know a lot of you want Jacqueline but she’s being a tease and won’t show up until the next article~ We started this series with 2 of the most popular names in the business… on American soil. Let’s now talk about one of Japan’s best and one of the WWE’s lightweight innovators:
TAKA Michinoku
Born Takao Yoshida, this man took on his stage name as a sign of respect for his mentor, The Great Sasuke, who owns the Michinoku Pro Wrestling company. His technicality combined with high-flying lucha libre maneuvers and martial arts striking set the foundation of what were to become the standard in junior/cruiserweight/light heavyweight divisions for the years to come!
Taka’s stint in the WWE began in the early half 1997 and later that same year, he defeated Brian Christopher (GRAND MASTAH SEXAY!) to become the first ever WWF Light Heavyweight Champion. He would keep the title and successfully defend it on his first Wrestlemania against Essa Rios, who was then known as “Aguila”.
Now the sad part: that was probably the limelight of his time in the WWE. Afterwards, he fought against, and eventually rejoined the “Kai En Tai” Faction (he was already part of it back in Japan) until only he and “Smackdown’s No. 1 Announcer” Sho Funaki were the only members left.
Sure there was one time he almost became the heavyweight champion when he challenged Triple H but… *sigh* he was reduced to a mere jobber for the remainder of his time in the company and even turned into a stereotype comic relief. Anyone remember that silly on-the-spot English dubbing translation episode? AARGH!! The memory!! IT BURNNSSS!!
Thus, Taka’s journey with the WWE ended on 2002.
It was a good thing though, as he needed the time to recover from a major shoulder injury and as the saying goes, “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”. The saying is true for this lithe ( <-- NO, that’s NOT a typo, look it up) Japanese warrior and he went on to run his own wrestling promotion called “Kaientai Dojo” or “K-DOJO” for short. This company combines the traditional puroresu style with modern high-flying moves and martial arts attacks just as its founder did and is still doing to this day. Not only that, the roster also includes an impressive number of female talents including the amazing Apple Miyuki and Yuu Yamagata. Doubters can do a YouTube search on these ladies and see how much butt they can kick! K-DOJO also has the distinction of actually allowing female roster members to fight members from the male roster! Not only that, they can even challenge for the major championships they have! The only time WWE had that was when Chyna won the Intercontinental belt but it happens here on a daily basis!! Unbelievable! Now, although K-DOJO is a fairly large company, it’s still smaller than the average “big time” promotion, so they sometimes do shows with All Japan, Dragon Gate and of course Michinoku Pro.
From being a talented fledgling to a talented promoter who still actively wrestles, TAKA has showed us that anything can be done if you put your mind and heart to it! He’s been around the world, tangoed with the best in the business (including Hayabusa!) and still rocks... even if he does that funny jumping up and down taunt that's forever immortalized in the SVR videogames!!
Thanks for reading, this is Akira Kagami and I will see you all back here for the 4th talent in our ex-WWE superstars list featuring the one and only (and perpetually there?) JACQUELINE!!! You guys wanted her, so I’ve arranged for her to appear in the next episode!!
Unless…
Other people vote for the next featured star to be another male!! Remember: don’t throw anymore names, just vote MAN or WOMAN! Views: 695 
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Comment # 1
1st
Posted by fakeangel on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Comment # 2
i lol myself for this
Posted by fakeangel on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Comment # 3
Why not do one on Trish?
Posted by me on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Comment # 4
WOW wat a pointless and boring article..... No cares about w/e his name is nobody liked him then and we still don't care about him.... plz stick to american talent....
Posted by DeathDealer on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Comment # 5
MAN, albeit I hope it's TAJIRI you choose, but that's my opinion.
Posted by Gravedigger on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Comment # 6
yes i'm 6th
Posted by Hellscraper on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Comment # 7
MAN..........If you do one on Jacqueline, I'll puke all over it. You can find a better woman than that trash to write on.
Posted by Daddy on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Comment # 8
i know u said not to do any names, but i got some recomendations... do gangerel, or gold-dust, or (pete gass, roney, n joey abs)... deff do one on a dude...
Posted by scott cannon.. on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Comment # 9
a man on next article, jackeline wasnt that great
Posted by manuel taker on Sunday, July 20, 2008
Comment # 10
10th
Posted by cj on Sunday, July 20, 2008
Comment # 11
DeathDealer is racist*Cough* I vote man for next article and i wish they would have let taka shine some more-.-
Posted by Shogun on Sunday, July 20, 2008
Comment # 12
13th Yes
Posted by Marioi on Sunday, July 20, 2008
Comment # 13
Comment 12# its quite possible say that abouy WWE but I doubt we go as far as to say TNA and definetly not ROH.
Posted by The Dominator on Sunday, July 20, 2008
Comment # 14
Ah, haters. Big lumps with beer bellies lazing on their couches eating chips and pizza, then going to their computers to type in how much some actual athlete who actually made something of themselves sucks and how much better anyone else would be (like they'd know). You have to reach one of the top pro wrestling companies before you have the right to puke all over anyone, kid (I don't mean 'kid' by age, I mean it by attitude). Taka is great, so is Jacqueline. They've both worked really hard to get where they are and still do, and are talented also. If you're not going to even bother suggesting exactly WHO else you think is 'better', then your comments are pretty damned meaningless, idiots. I don't care what gender the next person you do is, it's bound to be interesting, just like this article was fairly interesting. I liked Scott Cannon's suggestions. :)
Posted by Jane Ross on Sunday, July 20, 2008
Comment # 15
How about one of the greatest Female managers of all time.
Sherry Martel
Posted by mg on Sunday, July 20, 2008
Comment # 16
you should do one on the ultimate warrior
Posted by josh wood snyder texas on Sunday, July 20, 2008
Comment # 17
Wow... did Glide reduce the minimum word limit for articles? This is one quarter of what we used to churn out.
I love TAKA, I appreciate the apology, but if this is all we need to write, then I'm going to request that I be reinstated as an article-writer.
Posted by Dominic Korgath on Monday, July 21, 2008
Comment # 18
Very interesting article, always wondered what happened to Taka, thank you. Keep up the good work.
Posted by Yuri on Monday, July 21, 2008
Comment # 19
Sorry about the word count but I did it intentionally to show that an average-but-presentable article can be created under the 1,500-word requirement. I couldn't help it after reading a fellow articolists earlier submission that confused me a lot...
Posted by Akira Kagami on Monday, July 21, 2008
Comment # 20
idk ...
Posted by rabmaliv on Friday, July 25, 2008
Comment # 21
male
Posted by hellscraper on Friday, July 25, 2008
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Posted by cristianlaralugo on Saturday, July 26, 2008
