{"id":45987,"date":"2018-07-08T22:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T02:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45987"},"modified":"2020-08-07T22:19:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T02:19:42","slug":"i-couldnt-have-asked-for-a-more-appropriate-savior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45987","title":{"rendered":"I couldn\u2019t have asked for a more appropriate savior"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just a few weeks after I\u2019d declared my utter disgust over the mainstream uncoolness of Bullet Club, it\u2019s almost as if bookers from New Japan Pro Wrestling read my words, and did something about it.\u00a0 Surely, I\u2019m not the only wrestling fan out that there that thinks the Bullet Club is worse than DJ Tanner Wrestling these days, and I was ecstatic to see the next rival stable emerge and basically declare war on them.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that stable being composed<\/a> of none other than the legendary god-beast and toughest motherfucker on the planet, Haku<\/strong>, and his two sons Tama and Tanga?\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t possibly have dreamed of a better or more appropriate person and his offspring to systematically decimate all the rest of Bullet Club by themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously, I think Haku became a bigger star than he ever was during his career, after it ended, due to the evolution of the internet as well as all the former wrestlers out there who released autobiographies.\u00a0 Be it through shoot interviews on YouTube or in personal memoirs, suddenly anyone who was in the business between the 80s into the early 2000s had a Haku story to share<\/a>, because back in those times, the boys always ended up at bars or dives, and it wasn\u2019t nearly as well known that wrestling was scripted, and local tough guys always wanted to start shit with wrestlers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the fact that general sentiment shared by most about Haku is that he\u2019s a gentle and respectful person who just wants to mind his own business and provide for his family, he seems to be a magnet for trouble, and almost always ends up on the receiving end of harassment, to which the monster comes out when he\u2019s forced to defend himself.\u00a0 Guys getting eyeballs ripped out, noses bitten off, fish hooks and broken teeth, most idiots don\u2019t seem to realize the idiocy in provoking a 300 lb. Tongan in a bar.\u00a0 Even the cops weren\u2019t safe from the wrath of Haku, when they had to try and either incapacitate or outright arrest him; tales of him snapping off handcuffs, inhaling the mace they tried to spray him with to simply beating the shit out of cops, nobody was safe once the monster got woken.<\/span><\/p>\n

After hearing all these tales of how he was the baddest motherfucker on the planet, it was a shame that the vast majority of his wrestling career was over, save for the sporadic cameo appearance in the indies.\u00a0 It was well documented how smoothly his everyday life was going in retirement, managing the detailing department<\/a> of a Toyota dealership down in Florida.\u00a0 After all this knowledge was made available of how dangerous of a man Haku really was, who wouldn\u2019t want to see him get in the ring and decimate an endless number of wrestlers who may look more polished and chiseled, but have a fraction of the legitimate toughness of Haku.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But now, it appears that King Haku has decided to take some vacation time from the car detailing business, and go into the business of decimating some lame modern day nWo b-squad in Japan for a minute.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to pretend like this is truly the end of Bullet Club, although I really wish it were.\u00a0 It\u2019s gone on long way longer than it needed to, and it\u2019s legitimately at the point where it\u2019s operating just like the actual nWo b-squad that was like Stevie Ray, Virgil, Horace and Brian Adams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The only ones people really care about are Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks, and they\u2019ve literally distanced themselves from the rest of the group by calling themselves The Elite<\/em> (and now the Golden Elite<\/em> with Kota Ibushi).\u00a0 Nobody gives two shits about Fale or Chase Owens, and Yujiro Takahashi and Taiji Ishimori don\u2019t really belong in the club considering it was intended for gaijin only.\u00a0 At this point, Adam Page and Marty Scurll are behind held back by the stable and would be better suited on their own frankly.\u00a0 And as much as I admire Cody Rhodes\u2019s talent, it\u2019s never not been weird to me that he\u2019s in Bullet Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like I\u2019m not even sure if there\u2019s any foreigners in NJPW that aren\u2019t in Bullet Club at this point, which makes me wonder if it\u2019s even possible for any to exist without it, which makes me wonder if that\u2019s its ultimate necessity.<\/span><\/p>\n

My only objection to Haku\u2019s family stable is that they\u2019re still calling themselves the Firing Squad under the Bullet Club banner. \u00a0As a result, their shirts look similar to the same crappy mainstream oversaturated Bullet Club t-shirts that are fucking everywhere, and is the primary reason why I most definitely do not want one.<\/span><\/p>\n

The chances are higher that this is kind of a feud of the month, and within a short amount of time, the Tongan uprising known as the Firing Squad will be neutralized and it\u2019s back to Bullet Club dominating everything again.\u00a0 But for the time being, I\u2019m completely stoked to see King Haku back in the ring again, and with the aid of his two sons, is putting the hurt down onto the lame-ass Bullet Club standard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope we get a healthy dose of more Haku destroying Bullet Club members like jobbers, and I want to enjoy every single beat down like it was 2000 and Mike Tenay screaming \u201clook at all the bodies!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a few weeks after I\u2019d declared my utter disgust over the mainstream uncoolness of Bullet Club, it\u2019s almost as if bookers from New Japan Pro Wrestling read my words, and did something about it.\u00a0 Surely, I\u2019m not the only wrestling fan out that there that thinks the Bullet Club is worse than DJ Tanner … Continue reading I couldn\u2019t have asked for a more appropriate savior<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,54],"class_list":["post-45987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-owned","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45989,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45987\/revisions\/45989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}