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Antonio Anoki has passed away at the age of 79 and we are going to talk about his legacy and what he

means to the wrestling business. Welcome to the rest of podcast. We will also be reviewing

SmackDown and Rampage as usual today, but we thought we'd start this episode talking about the

news of Antonio Anoki. Because Tempest in wrestling, the term like legend kind of gets thrown

around a lot, terms like trailblazer, you know, people who are so important to the industry,

stuff like that gets thrown around a lot to the point where I can sometimes kind of become

white noise. So when you hear the news, if you're not familiar with Antonio Anoki and someone

says, well, he's a legend of the industry, it might not actually tell the full story of what he

means to wrestling. And for someone who I know, obviously, know you know a lot about Inoki and his

history, what does he mean to you and to wrestling? Well, I mean, it's difficult to put it into a very

concise manner because obviously we've only got so much time here on this podcast and it would

take a full podcast length to be able to talk about what the contributions Antonio Anoki has made to

to wrestling really mean. But I mean, this guy is one of the most important influential figures

in wrestling history. And he is somebody who you look at. And as a promoter, he's on that same

kind of level as like a Vince McMahon type in Japan. As a wrestler, he's on the same scale as like

a Hulk Hogan, the rock level of stardom. And it's difficult to really imagine it in a North

American sense because we don't have very many of those type of people. And the ones that we do

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