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>I haven't watched a lot of wrestling after I retired but sometimes when I'm at a convention I'll watch what the kids are watching in the back. And one day, I'm doing just that and watching these old Japanese matches, from the 90s, and in the finishing stretch these guys are just hurting each other for real after a great 30 minute match with proper psychology, selling, they're taking care to do all the little things in putting together a match. And its like, I don't know, if you already had a great match and have the fans in the palm of your hands, why do you have to spend five minutes dropping a guy on his head? It doesn't make the match any better, when I worked in Japan it was real snug, but I never got hurt and never hurt any of the Japanese guys. They told me that I worked with one of the guys in these tapes and he's so over with the fans and they react to every move he does, and no disrespect for anyone in this business but I have no idea who he is until they tell me he was the second Tiger Mask. We only had one match, but I never saw anything special there that blew me away like when I wrestled Sayama, but he's so good in these matches up until the end that its such a shame what I was told happened happened to him. My career was ended because Goldberg didn't take care of me, but almost every other guy I worked with did, the workers who worked with Misawa didn't take care of him or each other and that cost him his life when he took a back bump after spending ten years falling on his head a dozen times a year. In my opinion, they didn't need to do any of that, hurting a guy didn't make the matches any better and it never will in this business, or at least that's how it was when I was wrestling.
