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L&WRR #8: Toshiaki Kawada Biography w/ Dylan Fox

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🗓️ 6 February 2021

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

The Long & Winding Royal Road veers off the beaten track once more to spotlight one of the key members of the 90s All Japan roster, “Dangerous K” Toshiaki Kawada!

WH Park is joined by co-host of the Eastern Lariat, Dylan Fox, a massive Kawada fan who also chronicles wrestling from the 90s on his 90s Project series which you can find at the Eastern Lariat’s Patreon.

WH and Dylan look at how Kawada and Mitsuharu Misawa were intertwined from their high school days until the tail end of their respective careers. They also discuss his formative years on excursion in Texas, Calgary and Montreal before returning to Japan to apprentice under the tutelage of Genichiro Tenryu, his team and rivalry with Misawa, the dominance of The Holy Demon Army, his ascension to the ACE position of All Japan after Misawa leaves to form NOAH. It’s all covered in this comprehensive discussion.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, and welcome to episode 8 of The Long and Winding Royal Road.

0:13.5

My name is W.H. Park, and of course I am the co-host of the Post Pur as a podcast over

0:20.4

at PostRestling.com, and this is my monthly show looking back at the greatness that is

0:26.9

the 1990s era of All Japan Pur asling, and this is episode 8, and I don't know if people

0:32.4

remember that I said every fourth episode we will be doing a profile piece on a member

0:38.5

of the All Japan roster from that era, and of course episode 4, I did a profile piece

0:45.2

on Mitzahar Masawa with Hisami, and it was very, very well received, so I thought, okay,

0:51.4

well I have to do, number 8, the second profile piece has to be on the man who was Mitzahar

0:58.0

was greatest rival during that time period.

1:00.6

The man known as Dangerous K, Toshaki Kwata, and so today we are going to talk about Toshaki

1:06.0

Kwata, and joining me today to talk about Kwata is an avowed Toshaki Kwata fan like myself,

1:13.3

and I think he is probably one of the biggest pundits in supporters of Kwata in the podcasting

1:19.3

world, and that's from the Eastern Lariat, Dylan Fox, Dylan, how are you, sir?

1:24.4

It's so good to be here with UWH, it's a beautiful Sunday as we record, I feel like there

1:30.2

are blessings abound for this day, and we've got some great things to talk about.

1:34.8

I was so big of a fan of you, and Hisami's show on Mitzahar, there were so many cool things

1:40.5

in there that she had, obviously, she's like the number one Noah expert, and she was

1:45.1

so into Mitzahar's whole life story, even that out of ring stuff was very interesting,

1:50.1

so hopefully I can follow that up really well with Dangerous K, of everyone, I think it's

1:55.5

important to note, and I'm kind of not to jump ahead on everyone, but with all four

2:00.6

of the four heavenly kings, the four pillars in all Japan, one of my favorite things about

2:06.3

them watching is each one of them had their own identity, you know, right away, never mind

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