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Jushin Thunder Liger (Wrestling)

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Keiichi Yamada (born November 30, 1964 in Hiroshima, Japan) is a former Professional Wrestler best known as Jushin "Thunder" Liger. He debuted in 1984 and, along with his work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, also competed for Stampede Wrestling and for All-Star Wrestling in England. He first wrestled under his own name before changing to Flying Fuji Yamada. He started the Liger gimmick in 1989. Over his career, he has also competed for All Japan Pro Wrestling, Fighting Opera HUSTLE, CHIKARA, Pro Wrestling NOAH, Dragon Gate, WCW, Dramatic Dream Team, TNA, CMLL, Ring of Honor and many other promotions. Among his many in-ring achievements, he is an 11x New Japan Pro Wrestling IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, a 6x New Japan Pro Wrestling IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, a 1x Octuple J-Crown Champion, and was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 1999.Liger worked his retirement match on January 5, 2020 on the second night of NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom 14 in the Tokyo Dome, and had his official retirement ceremony the following night at NJPW's New Year Dash!!note Not a writing error, the actual title of the event includes the two exclamation points. He was also inducted as part of the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2020, in spite of working only one match for the company.
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Super-Powered Evil Side
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Superpowered Evil Side: His dark, unmasked (but facepainted) alter ego Kishin Liger is his, used only in the rarest of circumstances to the point he's only ever called on him 4 times in his career, and always against the most ruthless heels in the most heated feuds. The feuds... tend not to last long after that.
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Always Someone Better
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Always Someone Better: In The '90s, he could not just get a win over his Arch-Enemy The Great Sasuke.
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The Rival
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The Rival: Claims his closest rivals were Naoki Sano and Chris Benoit.
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For Science!
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For Science!: He and a New Japan referee did an experiment to see if pro wrestlers would kick out while sleeping. The answer is yes, except for Tomoaki Honma, who couldn't so much as get a shoulder up while awake. Presumably he was the control group.
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Captain Ersatz
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Captain Ersatz: Fire Pro Wrestling tends to go with his "thunder" gimmick, just slightly tweaked.
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Rogues' Gallery Transplant
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Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Black Tiger was a gimmick created to challenge Tiger Mask, but while the Tiger Masks have feuded with three different Black Tigers at most, Jushin Liger has feuded with six official Black Tigers in succession... though he has also teamed up with some of them.
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Costume Porn
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Costume Porn: He sometimes wore a Badass Cape to the ring.
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Power Stable
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Power Stable: Control Terrorism Unit (CTU) Legend, led by Masahiro Chono Dragon Bombers (in CMLL): La Ola Amarilla
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Worthy Opponent
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Worthy Opponent: Bryan Danielson, Samoa Joe and Low Ki in Ring of Honor. He was going to consider Adam Cole as well, but Cole was too much of an ass. Averted with Austin Aries, who he was quick to pronounce "an asshole" upon their face to face meeting.
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Facial Markings
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Facial Markings: As Kishin Liger, after the Great Muta ripped his mask.
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Cool Versus Awesome
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Cool Versus Awesome: Sabu attended the Pro Wrestling Syndicate Super Card because of John Morrison and Jushin Liger. The sight of him lead to chants of "Triple Threat!"
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Bookends
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Book Ends: Liger began his career at the first ever Tokyo Dome wrestling show, which was also the first Tokyo Dome wrestling show of the Heisei era. He would end his career almost 31 years later...in the first Tokyo Dome wrestling show of the Reiwa era.
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Sacrificial Lion
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Sacrificial Lion: Or maybe just lamb. Regardless, Jushin Liger knew he wouldn't be able to beat Minoru Suzuki in a mixed martial arts bout, especially not post brain surgery, but willingly entered into one anyway so New Japan could save face with Pancrase. This was presumably also the reason why he opted to throw a wild Awesome, but Impractical kick and pay the price instead of fighting conservatively and possibly humiliating himself even more by failing at that.
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Signature Move
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Signature Move: Rolling Koppu Kick, Surfboard (Romero/ceiling hold), Shotei.
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Has worked as a booker.
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Ring Oldies
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Ring Oldies: He was 55 when he worked his final match.
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Foreign Wrestling Heel
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Foreign Wrestling Heel: Demoted to this in WCW in late 1995. The theme for Starrcade 1995 was the "World Cup of Wrestling," a series of matches pitting regular WCW guys vs. New Japan guys. Of course, they had Sonny Onoo as the representative for New Japan. WCW even told their stupid audiences at the Disney tapings to boo Liger no matter what he did. He was also an evil foreigner with Okumura, Naito and Yujiro as La Ola Amarilla in CMLL.
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Superhero
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Superhero: His whole gimmick, as it is based on an anime character. "Thunder" is actually the powered up form.
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Spell My Name with an S
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Spell My Name with an S: Lyger works too The official romanization that New Japan uses for his name is Jyushin Thunder Liger.
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Beat Them at Their Own Game
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Beat Them at Their Own Game: Kishin Liger adopted The Great Muta's tactics in an effort to beat him and get his revenge for Muta's cheating ways. Didn't work though.
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Forgot Flanders Could Do That
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Forgot Flanders Could Do That: Liger is so known for his cruiserweight and lucha libre ventures that everybody in the U.S. was surprised when he volunteered to replace Kensuke Sasaki in his Mixed Martial Arts match against Minoru Suzuki; they had forgotten that Yamada was a high level freestyle wrestler and one of the last New Japan wrestlers who trained under Yoshiaki Fujiwara. Granted, it didn't matter very much given how the match turned out.
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Tournament Arc
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Tournament Arc: Beat La Sombra in the 2010 CMLL Universal Championship after Shigeo Okumura interfered, establishing La Ola Amrilla's dominance.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: He got his start in the NJPW Young Lion cup and was its eventual winner.
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Made of Iron
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Made of Iron: Though he Jushin Liger lost the match, he popped back up after taking starship pain on a camera angle that made it look like John Morrison landed on his head! This was at the April 5th 2013 PWS Super Card 2, which meant he had already been in a match with Stevie Richards and well over a year later he was still going in Ring Of Honor and New Japan style pay per view matches.
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Canon Discontinuity
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Canon Discontinuity: As far as New Japan Pro Wrestling is concerned, Jushin Liger was the Junior Heavyweight champion during his entire WCW run. New Japan also likes to pretend that the four years he wrestled unmasked and (usually) under his real name never happened.
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Finishing Move
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Finishing Move: Liger Bomb, Shooting Star Press, Brainbuster.
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I Know Karate
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I Know Karate: Is apparently trained in koppo (a martial art that allows kicks, grappling and more notably features hand strikes that doesn't use the fist). The art's own founder Masashi Horibe was in his corner when Liger wrestled Don Nakaya Nielsen in a different style fight in 1988.
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Handicapped Badass
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Handicapped Badass: He can't hear in one ear because of a surgery to get rid of a brain tumor.
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Red Baron
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Red Baron: "Thunder"
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Ur-Example
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Ur-Example: First to do the shooting star press, though his version had his legs wider spread and less tucked in than Billy Kidman's, who most wrestlers imitate when they do the move. Liger himself said he got the idea from Fist of the North Star.
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Cool Mask
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Cool Mask: Though it looks like it would hamper his sight, it doesn't seem to stop him from doing anything.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: His whole persona is this to the anime Jushin Liger
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Informed Ability
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Informed Ability: Many sources state that Yamada learned multiple martial arts, but it's untrue: his only fighting background was amateur wrestling while on high school (and he was pretty good in that, as he placed second in a national championship). He later learned koppo, though.
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Mundane Made Awesome
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Mundane Made Awesome: Lyger bowling!
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Vitriolic Best Buds
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Vitriolic Best Buds: With The Great Sasuke.
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Lightning Bruiser
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Lightning Bruiser: Specially during his prime. Has shades of Pintsized Powerhouse as well.
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Face
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Face: In early WCW, Liger actually started out as the heel when feuding with Brian Pillman, but he was such a natural face that the fans started cheering for him. He was a heel as the leader of CTU though. Foreign Wrestling Heel: Demoted to this in WCW in late 1995. The theme for Starrcade 1995 was the "World Cup of Wrestling," a series of matches pitting regular WCW guys vs. New Japan guys. Of course, they had Sonny Onoo as the representative for New Japan. WCW even told their stupid audiences at the Disney tapings to boo Liger no matter what he did. He was also an evil foreigner with Okumura, Naito and Yujiro as La Ola Amarilla in CMLL.
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Old Master: To Cheeseburger in Ring Of Honor, whom the other wrestlers so nicknamed because of his less than impressive size (Charlie Haas saying he needed one), something Liger can relate to.
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Dark Is Evil: As a heel, he wears an all black version of his outfit.
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Big Damn Heroes: He and Hiroshi Tanahashi at War Of The Worlds after Adam Cole used the ROH title belt to attack IWGP Heavyweight Champion AJ Styles, Kazuchika Okada and Michael Elgin, who had, naturally, already beaten the hell out of each other.
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Tag Team: The Unbeatables, with Koji Kanemoto
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Cross Through: Made a one-night appearance at the first NXT Takeover: Brooklyn event, defeating Tyler Breeze. This marked the first time Liger has wrestled in a WWE ring.
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