Why are there hardly any notable Korean wrestlers?

>>18320987 (OP)
korea and china don't "get" wrestling

>>18321016
Korea has the largest gate for a wrestling event ever.

>>18320987 (OP)

They just never had a big enough star to develop the scene. Ironically Rikidozan, the most important figure in shaping Japanese wrestling, was ethnically Korean. Korea, like all east-Asian countries, is incredibly proud and xenophobic. Unless "their" guy is doing well, they don't care.

>>18320987 (OP)
SLK and Pom are the only two i can think of.

>>18320987 (OP)
manlet nation

>>18320987 (OP)
90% of "Japanese" wrestlers are actually Koreans.

>>18320987 (OP)
The scene in Japan was built around a zainichi named Rikidozan.

One of his protégés, Kintaro Oki, brought wrestling over to Korea. There was success until an angle featuring Japanese wrestlers brawling with the Korean heroes occurred. One fan panicked and called the police.

The police interrogated the wrestlers about what happened, and one of them broke kayfabe. It became a scandal in the country, and the President at the time (who hated wrestling) used it as an excuse to take it off television and push baseball instead.

The scene in Korea now is a corpse, a crowd of 1,000 is seen as a massive success now. If you are Korean and want to be a wrestler, you better be an American immigrant or zainichi.

Korean American wrestlers: Mia Yim, Jimmy Wang Yang and his daughter.

Examples of zainichi wrestlers: Riki Choshu, Kantaro Hoshino, Koji Kanemoto, Kintaro Kanemura, Kim Duk, Jake Lee, Ryouji Sai, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, and Zeus

>>18321050
North Korean money has no value

>>18320987 (OP)
>picrel
Kek

something like 50%+ of the Japanese population are crypto-koreans called Zainichi

>>18320987 (OP)
Forget about the worst koreans. Where's all the mongolian wrestlers?

>>18321050
It was free admission and most of the people in attendance were forced to go.

>>18322628
This guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWoX5FHXCw8

>>18320987 (OP)
That’s what Sheamus did before getting knocked out by Yoshi Tatsu

>>18320987 (OP)
What did Sheamus meant by this

>literally North Korean

>>18322457
Great post ty

The father of Japanese wrestling is literally a Korean man

>>18322457
I believe this implicitly

>>18320987 (OP)
This pic was taken 0.5 seconds before Kwabmus got heemed by Yoshi Tatsu

>tfw no Kpop gimmick

Wrestling isn't a thing in most countries. Its not an actual sport

Random Task - Korean ex-wrestler extraordinaire and henchman of Doctor Evil had a pretty great heel run.

>In 2011, Joe Son, the actor who played Random Task, was convicted of torture, which he committed during the gang rape of a woman in 1990 and sentenced to seven years to life in prison. In 2017, he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter after having beaten his cellmate to death one month into his original sentence in 2011 and was sentenced to a further 27 years.

>>18324000
>0-4 MMA record
>fought at UFC 4 alongside Dan Severn
What the fuck

>>18322457
>1000 is seen as a massive success
AEW tier.

>>18324000
Joe Son now never sees daylight and will never touch a woman, just like a wwe fan.

>>18320987 (OP)
All I know about Korean wrestling is that I once saw a movie called the Foul King about a loser becoming a wrestler there, and it was pretty fun.
I wonder if the guy did his stunts too, Song Kang-ho landing a somersault on his feet is crazy

>>18324023
The Korean scene wishes it could be AEW tier. Even the lowest attended AEW show draws more than a good Korean crowd. It's that bad over there.

>>18324313
kek gottem

>>18324313
Well played kek

>>18324313
and his victim is a raped bitch just like the average aew fan

>>18324000
>>18324012
In one of his matches his opponent, big dimes Keith Hackney, wanted to show the UFC why they needed to ban crotch shots, so he spent the entire bout punching Joe Son in the nuts.

>>18322269
They have the tallest gooks I ever seen

>>18320987 (OP)
I had a lady at an massage parlor ask me if I was Korean, what did she mean by this?

>>18326051
Needs a gif. That was in the based era.