>>13384715He won the Rumble in 2018 but had a horrid match against AJ at Mania later that year. He was buried the previous year by Jinder in 2017, and he never quite recovered. I feel bad for him but he seems comfy in making money & having a much easier schedule than his old New Japan run where he was breaking his back for peanuts. So overall, he's more of a veteran mid-carder these days who happen to use a catchy theme song (that fans like to sing along) but in terms of his main event status, he'll probably never win the main title. The problem with NJPW is that they train & produce workrate wrestlers who hit hard, not entertainers who can cut promos & have interesting characters. That's why hiring Japanese wrestlers is almost kind of pointless for WWE. And while some men will jack off to Asian women like Asuka or Riho or whatever, Asian men fare significantly worse in scripted entertainment (movies, tv shows, wrestling, etc) because while white men will fetishize asian women (yellow fever), women generally do not fetishize asian men and the gatekeepers/bookers do not hire asian men in the first place. There was a famous article where asian men were NOT allowed in Hollywood movies to begin with.
https://goodmenproject.com/arts/hollywoods-real-problem-asian-male-hesaid/https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/2y6qk6/tv_producer_asian_guys_in_my_show_not_gonna_happen/ 