“THUG
LIFE” Tanaka Kenichi
From:
“The Mean Streets” of Niigata.
Record:
3-5
Finisher:
Niigata Street Cutter
Affiliation:
Wild Pack Returns/The Best (Former)
Style:
None
Championships:
None.
You’re kidding me! Do I really have to write a profile for this
yutz? OK, fine. Tanaka Kenichi was born and raised in the
northern Japan prefecture of Niigata. Contrary
to whatever he chooses to tell you, he comes from a rural village populated mainly by rice farmers.
A delinquent in school, he and his
friends adopted a “gangsta” persona copied from American movies, TV, and
music. They all came from middle class
families and were about as “gangsta” as Wesley Crusher.
After failing to get into high school (Japanese
compulsory education ends after middle school), Tanaka Kenichi moved to Tokyo
to try and live out his gangsta (or Thug Life) fantasy. Apparently, said fantasy mostly boiled down
to handing out packets of tissues outside a train station for minimum wage.
Outside that train station was exactly where he was
discovered by Bruce Hoyt and then AWL Wrestler Rick Flare. Flare and Hoyt (collectively known as “The
Best”) were in the midst of a feud with The Technicos and they needed a third
man for a trios match against Masters, Nix, and Matt Classic. They walked out of the train station and
grabbed the first guy they saw that looked kind of in shape and said “You wanna
be a wrestler?”
Seriously. That
was it.
As you might expect, The Technicos
won that particular feud and that should have been the end of “THUG LIFE”
Tanaka Kenichi’s wrestling career. But
the AWL claimed he saw some potential in this less than loveable loser and
decided to keep him around. To this day,
no one is quite sure why.
Recently, Tanaka has been tag
teaming with Wolf as “Wild Pack Returns” (a reimagining of the original Wild
Pack combination of Wolf and Bubba Reese).
However, Wolf’s lack of teamwork and Tanaka’s lack of skill have led to precious
few victories.
Will Season 4 be the season of
THUG LIFE?
.
.
.
No.
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