The current WWE United States Champion, Shinsuke Nakamura, has a book coming out this September, and if the latest excerpts are anything to go by, it’s set to be an explosive read.
User ‘nivvd‘ received an advanced copy of the book and has been posting snippets on the Reddit SquaredCircle page. In a Q&A style section, Nakamura’s 2006 IWGP Heavyweight Championship match with Brock Lesnar at New Japan’s Toukon Shidou Chapter 1 event was brought up.
The ‘King of Strong Style’ was fronted with the following statement:
“You had no choice but to do what the company wanted. But then Kazuyuki Fujita refused to accept a match with Brock Lesnar for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship which was scheduled to be the main event. Given your previous track record, you were selected to take his place and be the challenger.”
Shinsuke responded as follows:
“Part of that was luck. But that match was seriously rough. First, Lesnar was saying all this stuff about how he respected New Japan, but it felt to me like that was just for show, that he didn’t really respect the promotion. Like, somewhere, he was looking down on Japanese people. I lost the match, and that was the first time I cried at pro wrestling after a match.”
After being asked why that was what first drove him to tears in professional wrestling, Nakamura responded:
“It was the main event at Tokyo Dome. This was a pretty hallowed stage, and I knew I hadn’t fought the way I imagined I would. And there was, like, this temperature difference between me and Lesnar. I didn’t get the sense he had any love for pro wrestling. It felt like he was just doing his job.”
Following that, the issue of Lesnar leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship belt was brought up to Nakamura, with the ‘Artist’ replying:
“I felt like this was too much; he was seriously scoffing at us. Lesnar won the championship and took the belt home, I told Simon if the company didn’t get its s*** in order, that belt was definitely going to get nicked. I didn’t honestly believe that when we fought. But it ended up just like I feared. He has the physical stuff, plus a straightforward strength and a certain amount of flexibility, so there was a bit of the monster to him. But I didn’t like his personality, you know? He might have made a real mark in UFC, but he didn’t even seem to notice the audience booing. I was like, ‘Oh, this guy’s a heel to the core.'”
If these quotes are anything to go by, this could be the most news-worthy book release of 2018. King of Strong Style: 1980-2014 releases on hardback this September.
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