Hilariously Sad Pat Tanaka Article

[Kash Flagg]

Can you spot all the lies?

1 million a day for Wrestlemania?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Poor copyediting as well as you can see when he talks about how his father passed at way. I'd love for Laura Bell to do an article about WrestleMania III after interviewing just Hulk Hogan though.

[Kevin Hamilton]

Who are you to doubt a twelve year old kid was beating competitors in their twenties in Judo?

[lildude8218]

[Brandon Walsh is Insane.]

1.2 million dollar contract for 6 years at the age of 18?

[________ has left the building]

The crazy thing is his career already is enough to make for an interesting story but damn that carny mentality coming to surface in the presence of a clueless rube. He could told her he's a former WWF World Champion and she wouldn't even bother checking to see if it's true.

[Aceorton]

I cringe thinking about how much time this woman must have spent transcribing and writing. Probably had a cigarette after writing that last line, dreaming of her Pulitzer.

[Super Nintenjoe KBD]

What a bad-ass, "persevering" with a broken leg!

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Reffing on tv for the WWF at age 11. She had no reason to doubt this. LOL.

[The Trashman]

The WWE filmed Wednesday mornings and Tanaka would miss school to referee. One day when a wrestler did not show, 12-year-old Pat was given a mask to hide his age and sent into the ring. His opponent was in his twenties.

When he was 13, his wrestling buddies would pick him up from his Tampa high school and drive him to their competitions throughout Florida. He would not make it home until 2 a.m. and then have to train in the morning and attend school the next day. It was a seven-day a week schedule.

“I was the envy of the kids at high school because I had my own apartment and was on television, but the girls weren’t allowed to hang out with me because I was the bad guy,” he laments.

[N E O G E O B O Y S]

Somewhere, Hulk Hogan is shouting "what a load of crap brother"

[Joe Neglia]

Weird, they seem to have left out the part where he's spent a good chunk of the last 20 years scamming money marks by renting them rings and equipment that never arrived and he had bolted from town with the money.

[SAJ Forth]

How tall was he at 12? Because I can't think he'd be even close to Rey's height.