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Postby Mulboyne » Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:23 pm

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Postby dimwit » Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:25 pm

Mulboyne wrote: Incidentally, if you are wondering about his ring name, it's an allusion to Houston Harris, who went under the name of Bobo Brazil, and was well-known to Japanese fans for his bouts with Rikidozan.



Bobo Brazil. Now that is nostalgia. I remember him wrestling with Whipper Billy Watson back in the late 60's. Never realized he was big in Japan.
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Postby Greji » Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:05 am

dimwit wrote:Bobo Brazil. Now that is nostalgia. I remember him wrestling with Whipper Billy Watson back in the late 60's. Never realized he was big in Japan.


He was huge, Dimmer. They didn't have a lot to offer the Japanese fans in terms of foreign wrestlers that would stay in Japan to compete in those days 'cause all the money was in the US and Canada. So Bobo and a few others really became legends over here as fodder for the one, or two J-stars that had any class.

BTW, for entry in McToto's culture volume, the biggest star of that time was the former Sumo star turned Pro wrestler, the aforementioned Rikidozan. His problem in sumo was no future, because he was not a Japanese national. He was a Korean national although born in Japan and half Japanese, he was involved in the big citizenship shift following the war.

Since Tojam knows all this stuff involving rightests, I'm sure I don't have to explain it futher.
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