Asian Wrestlers

[Cloud]

Does anyone remember when Taka and Funaki as Kaientai just used to move there mouths at random then a big booming voice would say 'INDEED'?

 

[TKK]

The Asian silent killer type gimmick is very hard to get over (Sweet Tensai, multiple others). Asian wrestlers or some Mexican mostly have to get over in ring on a program which is must more character based than wrestling base. I don't expect this to change any time soon either.

 

[Lockard 23]

Does anyone remember when Taka and Funaki as Kaientai just used to move there mouths at random then a big booming voice would say 'INDEED'?

That was their "Evil" gimmick in 2000 and it was hilarious. They would start to speak into the mic and even though their mouths were moving, you couldn't hear anything until a booming voice started speaking a couple of seconds later that obviously wasn't theirs. It was a nice parody on the sometimes bad English dubbing of foreign films where the dialogue being heard on-screen and the way the characters' mouths were moving weren't perfectly in sync with one another.

 

[Leo C]

If he's a good wrestler (in ring, charismatic, mic, speaks english etc) there's no reason on why he wouldn't get over.

 

[Saylor]

I'm Asian myself, but most defiantly wrestlers such as Japanese and Chinese that don't know how to speak English will hold them back. I agree wrestling is based upon the in-ring work an individual, tag-team or a unit does, but you can't forget other factors such as mic work and how well one engages with the audience.

It's defiantly hard for Asian's to become top-talent within the WWE due to the language barrier, it's sad, but it's reality.