>>1382392190s puro. They didn't do promos as much, so all the character development is performance art based and grows from show to show and is in the ring. You have to watch over time and see the small but big bits
Example: misawas elbow
There was a 6 man tag, tsuruta knocked misawas team off the apron, cuz he was older and established and was bullying the younger guys. Misawa comes back and hit him in the face with an elbow so hard that it drops him to the floor and nearly knocks him out. Misawas elbow has remained a proverbial shot gun ever since. It's not some pudgy gamer who just uses elbows a lot, it's a bomb that took down the top star when misawa was young