How did Hansen get so over in Japan?

Streotype of what the Japanese thought of an all american cowboy fed fatty was.

>Whipping the shit out of fans with a rope as they mark out
Will always get my dimes.

>be white
that's it. it's not hard to get over in japan if youre a foreigner

didn’t work for Kenny Omega

by having a really awesome entrance theme

He is literally every Japanese stereotype of Americans rolled up into one guy.

give me a run down on Stan's power level in AJPW

He worked super stiff, had a great look, great entrance theme, great attitude. He was THE archetypical American gajin. Also, Texas is over as fuck with the Japs.

Big White American Cock

Stan Hansen would be over in today's WWE.

In his prime, he was booked as the absolute #1 foreigner, and either #2 or #3 alongside Tenryu, with both behind Jumbo Tsuruta, definitely #2 when Tenryu left.

Apparently he used to get drunk and lariat people on bicycles

A big beefy dude who just lariated the fuck out of everyone would make all the indy manlets look like clowns, it'd be ridiculous.

You're goddamn right. youtu.be/7QiQij2F_jo
According to his wiki page, he's the only guy to have singles title victories over both Inoki and Baba in AJPW. Sounds S tier to me.

yeah, that was what I was getting at. Audiences are sick of twinks.

Bradshaw was WWFs Stan Hansen, and he floundered for nearly 10 years before breaking through that glass ceiling. Hansen was a simple seek and destroy heel, no nuance at all, just fight LARIATOOOOOO

Hansen was a way better worker and had charisma. He would have been over. Hansen also isn't a closet fag.

WWE already has a giant texan that lariats the fuck of indie shitters

but I bet you won't guess who it is because they have done a great job of making you not give a shit about this person

>Bradshaw was WWFs Stan Hansen
kill yourself

couldnt get over or draw in America so he spent all his time in Japan. other gaijns would just do a quick tour and leave. this guy stayed

I am legitimately drawing a blank due to Braun being from North Carolina.

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>NXT Florida circuit
I thought you meant someone on the main roster.

still WWE

Leaving because Baba was more honest than Verne Gagne does not mean he was neither over nor a failure to draw in America.

WRONG

They share only surface similarities. Bradshaw never had the same intensity, and his body type was too generically body-builder shaped. Part of Hansen's appeal is he looks like a guy who works on a construction site.

>couldnt get over or draw in America
He was a heel. And he was successful as a heel outside of Japan (his feuds with Sammartino and Colon drew HUGE heat), but Japan eventually became his bread and butter.

Japan loves fake toughguy shitters like him and Inoki.

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this was in Houston
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looks like a big boi JBL

who do you think his entire gimmick was ripped off of

Let's see

stay in Japan
>be treated like a god
>slay endless prime Jap pussy
>live in clean, crime free country that has incredible food and high tech culture
>light travel schedule, Japanese hotels are amazing

go back to Texas
>get treated respectfully, but also be kind of a mid-card shitter
>American ring rats kind of nasty tbqhwyf
>travel across the whole USA, but many of the arenas and cities are shitholes
>punishing western road schedule sitting countless hours in a cramped rent-a-car staying at Super 8 hotels. Food can be good sometimes, really bad others

choice seems obvious to me

JBL's whole initial gimmick in the WWF was basically him cosplaying Stan

Hi JAHHHHHNNNN

So I read something a while back that said Stan worked so stiff because he has really bad eyesight and was trying to make everything look good, but because he couldn't see for shit he just ended up beating the fuck out of people. Any oldfags know anything about this?

A lot of it is probably kayfabe/heavily exaggerated. You have to be able to see decently to be able to wrestle at all. And you can't actually just assault people because that's retarded.

But the thing with Vader really happened.

You ever seethe at how JBL was wasted during the attitude era years when he could have tore down AJPW with Hansen on his retirement tour and passing him the torch? REEEEEEEEEEE

Pretty much his entire hardcore title reign was too.
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worked

Justin Hawk was nothing like him

Stan's nearsighted. So were Arn Anderson and 1MG.

Thing is, that in close quarters, such as wrestling, the impaired vision isn't as big of a deal as it is elsewhere. Hanson and Anderson worked a close-quarter style and it was only certain situations, like the lariat, where it became a factor.

Didn’t work for the bucks.

Rent free

Maybe my favorite thread in the history of asp.

He beat Inoki who was viewed as the greatest martial artist in the world by japanese marks at the time, he also had a ferocious style which was more exciting than the hold for hold stuff people were used to

t. doesn't know the latest trend on the indies over the past few years is BIG BOIS

He was over in the AWA dumb American't

Because he fits that American stereotype Japan has. Japanese people think that Americans are

>Loud
>Obnoxious
>Aggressive
>Selfish

Hansen's character was all of those things, the fact that his character was a cowboy made it even better.

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>Japanese people think that Americans are
>Loud
>Obnoxious
>Aggressive
>Selfish

Where's the lie?

True talent is getting simple shit over.
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He has that Arn Anderson thing where he looks like someone's really pissed off dad took his shirt off and started beating the fuck out of people

This has nothing to do with him being in Japan, but he was far and away the best part of No Holds Barred. He could’ve made a decent career as in B movies.

Besides all of it?

>Loud
We're no louder than bongistanis or asstralians.
>Obnoxious
The French are the eternal kings of this category.
>Aggressive
Chinese.
>Selfish
We're literally the most charitable people on the planet.

Came to WCW in 89, immediately won the US Title from Luger.

Name some that aren’t fatasses.

>We're literally the most charitable people on the planet.
Citation needed

independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/america-new-zealand-and-canada-top-list-of-world-s-most-generous-nations-a6849221.html

>LARPing as a japanese in 2019

Hi Shodate

By being the GOAT, you spacker

>3:00 when he throws Nowinski into the camera man

Camera man did not look happy

>ywn beat the shit out of young boy kobashi then after go fuck ring rats

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Money run with Bruno, Over as fuck in Georgia both as a heel and a babyface, Run with Backlund, World Champ in AWA, US Champ in WCW.

Based

unironically one of my favourite guys

legit holds his own against the best (misawa, jumbo, tenryu, baba, inoki, kobashi)

He's the GOAT Gaijin for sure.

He's an american stereotype. They loved cowboys, especially back then.

Also he hit like a fucking truck and they love the physical style there.

Easily (unless you consider Rikidozan a gaijin)
There was an all time list put out by Tokyo sports right before wrestle kingdom 13 and Hansen was the only one that cracked the top 10 (only gaijin in the top 20 if I remember correctly)

BASED dad shoe wearing Hansen isn't cheesing for the Hulkster.

He injured people foreal because he was blind lel

Did HH ever have a full head of hair?

He was seen as a Texan, not a gaijin

He was over as fuck with the Japanese. I sat next to a young Japanese male at the WWE Hall of Fame event in Dallas (WM weekend).
The thing is I bought the package deal just under the diamond…I didn't want to meet any wrestlers or go horseback riding with Hacksaw Jim Duggan, fuck that, but because it was a solo packaged buy I was sitting next to all of the other people who also had bought the same.
Long story short, the young guy marked his ass off for Stan, all of those super Japanese sounding yells and shit, but once Hansen left off the stage so did he. I didn't see him at RAW or WrestleMania either even though I saw the rest of the ticket guys like me. Kinda crazy.

There is no explanation.

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Based Hansen is still popular in Japan these days.

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>t. doesn't know the latest trend on the indies over the past few years is BIG BOIS
The trend is "Walter" and "people trying to cosplay as Walter and failing"

Post at least 5 more references before you make that claim

Whonsen?

Justin, you're a faggot and you need to shave that scraggly beard.

Brody was so based. Fuck José González

At his HOF speech he had a jap wife and like three kids, confirmed slayer.

What?! He got repackaged early in his E career as the Lanza to Barry Windham's Mulligan in the New Blackjacks. So if anything JBL was an extension of that crossed with JR Ewing.

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Best lariat in the business

but he had a fat wife and nine kids to take care of

Brody is almost literally a god there and Hogan, Andre and bonce ronce were massive stars. Hansen’s on the short list but he’s not the slam dunk goat gaijin

Baba was rolling in dough while the Territories were collapsing.

>TEENY WANGERS
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this is as closest as it ever got.

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>come from the west
>be big
>be just as if not more stiff than the natives

There's your formula. Has worked for many others. Plus the japs love foreigners.

This bothers me way more than it should.

He was over in America but he was loyal to AJPW because that's where he made the most money.

Don't forget Terry Funk, he was probably the most popular gaijin ever in the early 80's.

>Mouth guard just says "fuck"
Based

I don't know how to feel about this.

Aren't Gordy and Bigelow held pretty high as well?

Funk and Hansen are without a dout the most over gaijins ever in Japan.

Yeah fuck wrestling in Puerto Rico. I'm glad their state does not get a vote in the Congress.

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You mean Jay White?

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