Jimmy Suzuki Lays Down The Year's Best

[Tradewynd]

I don't believe it's possible to refute a single conclusion the man came to. Especially in the area of Japan's best technical wrestlers.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/jimmysuzuki/archives/10908101.html

MVP

Japan
Winner - Toshiaki Kawada
Second place - Kensuke Sasaki
Third place - Kenta Kobashi

America
Winner - Randy Orton
Second place - Triple H
Third place - JBL

BEST TAG TEAM

Japan
Winner - Kensuke Sasaki & Minoru Suzuki
Second place - Masato Tanaka & Wataru Sakata
Third place - Yoshihiro Takayama & Minoru Suzuki

America
Winner - Ric Flair & Batista
Second place - RVD & Rey Misterio Jr.
Third place - Eugene & William Regal

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AWARD

Japan
Winner - Kensuke Sasaki
Second place - CIMA
Third place - Hiroyoshi Tenzan

America
Winner - Eddy Guerrero
Second place - Chris Benoit
Third place - JBL

FIGHTING SPIRIT AWARD

Japan
Winner - Naoya Ogawa
Second place - Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Third place - Shinjiro Ohtani

America
Winner - JBL
Second place - Eddy Guerrero
Third place - Ric Flair

BEST TECHNICAL WRESTLER

Japan
Winner - Masa Chono
Second place - Keiji Mutoh
Third place - Hiro Saito

America
Winner - Chris Benoit
Second place - AJ Styles
Third place - Petey Williams

[Luds]

Wow. What a load of Bull

[Tradewynd]

What's wrong? Bitter that even the experts in Japan know that Orton is the man?

[naterob2003]

heck i am an orton fan and i think the whole thing is bs not just the orton thing. If i get a little time later i will post mine.

[Luds]

Everything in that list is BS, Tradewynd.

Orton, Triple H, JBL in the States
Sasaki in Japan

Most of the "best match" candidates...

ALL BS.

[MARTYEWR]

JBL....fighting spirit....HAHAHAHAHAHA!

I think the biggest injustice is Kobashi getting third in the MVP list for Japan. The man's had an absolutely amazing year, and I think he's the best wrestler in the world right now.

[edgehead1984]

Orton the MVP, what happened to Benoit's excellent year...And I agree with Marty, Kobashi's had a awesome year...

[Tradewynd]

I wonder who is buying the dude off. I mean, it's really hard to come close to justifying a lot of those choices. I don't think you could pick one day out of the year that Chono was Technical Wrestler of the Day. I was kind of expecting Joe Son to be in top 3 for fighting spirit though, given the way the rest of the list was going.

The only way I could see putting Kawada and Sasaki over over Kobashi is that you could make the argument that Kawada and Sasaki helped more than one promotion. Kawada carried All Japan, had a huge title reign there, is a top guy in HUSTLE and worked some big shows (like the Osaka Dome...bwahahahahahahahaha) for New Japan. Sasaki has held the IWGP Title(who hasn't this year though) as well as doing some decent business for All Japan. In that sense, I could sort of justify it, but really, it's still a stretch.

[mrpayperview]

Didn't Kensuke and MiSuzuki only have one or two matches together?

[emonster]

Does anyone know how I can contact Jimmy Suzuki?
Email address?
Thanks for any help.

[Tradewynd]

Are you sure you want to talk to him? He seems to know who to suck up to in a big way. If those awards don't convince you, this picture might.

http://members.aol.com/jimmysuzukiusa/img356.jpg

Honestly. There is no way he could really be that happy. Especially since I'm giving him credit for understanding how the business works. If you have some legitimate business to conduct with him you'll probably have better luck getting contact info from whoever told you to get in touch with him in the first place than you will asking here. Jimmy does seem to have a somewhat high opinion of Hisa though, so I'd try hitting Hisa up for the info if push comes to shove. That also makes the potentially large assumption that Hisa knows how to get in touch with him, and would pass the info around to anyone who asks, but it's probably your best bet. You could try poking around Livedoor, which probably won't do you a lot of good unless you can read some Japanese.

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Jimmy does seem to have a somewhat high opinion of Hisa

How did you get that idea?

[Tradewynd]

Both this site and wrestling-titles.com are at the top of his link lists. If he would go out of his way to put your work at the top of his link lists that would logically seem to be an endorsement and/or sign of friendship. Unless Livedoor just decided to link to both of your sites from his blog without telling Jimmy about it.

[emonster]

I have been writing a book on the late Bruiser Brody for the last four years and Mr. Suzuki was the "agent" for a couple photographers that I have talked with and acted as a go between, between these folks and the Japanese wrestling magazines.
I am in great need of more information about Brody's many tours of Japan if anyone here can help out, or have connections with anyone I should talk to please let me know.
Thanks for any help.
Emerson
monster_95018@yahoo.com

[Tradewynd]

Maybe you should get in contact with a everyone who conspired to let his murderer get off without punishment. A play by play of how "Brody screwed Brody" would certainly sell some books.