So, Kenny Omega wrestling the doll.

[mrbananagrabber]

I’d never actually seen this but noticed it’s been doing the rounds recently on wrestling Facebook pages.

What was the point of this? Why did he do it? Why did people sit and watch that?

I don’t know anything about this, so what was the goal here? Was there a story or did he just come out and start bumping for a doll?

Explain.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

May 3, 2022 16:25:27 GMT -5 mrbananagrabber said:

Why did people sit and watch that?

Because it's amazing.

[Rumble McSkirmish]

Because Kenny really really wanted to literally see the brain of a certain wrestling personality from Louisville KY leap out of their skull in rage.

[Fundertaker]

May 3, 2022 16:25:27 GMT -5 mrbananagrabber said:

I’d never actually seen this but noticed it’s been doing the rounds recently on wrestling Facebook pages.

What was the point of this? Why did he do it? Why did people sit and watch that?

I don’t know anything about this, so what was the goal here? Was there a story or did he just come out and start bumping for a doll?

Explain.

It's not a doll. It's YOSHIHIKO, a serious competitor that died and ressurrected several times (including during that match with Omega) just to give us the pleasure to witness them wrestle! How dare you

[thatloser]

While it does have serious wrestling and the uppercard is normally all serious matches, this match is from DDT, and DDT is known for it's comedy wrestling. The doll in question is called Yoshihiko, and Yoshihiko is treated like a real person. And match with Kenny is hardly the only Yoshihiko match.

He's faced Kota Ibushi
youtu.be/_LApVz53Sp

Teamed with Jun Akiyama
youtu.be/R_ubHk83Yhw

and just going throw in a tag match where he teamed with Kazuki Hirata (Just because Kazuki Hirata is one of my favourites)
youtu.be/OfUF6JgC8NQ

While he's hardly on every card and it can be months without Yoshiko appearing the guy is popular enough to gain his own twitter this year
twitter.com/YoshihikoDDT

What's the point of doing it? 1, It's DDT 2, It's entertaining. Why did he do it? How is anyone to know why anyone wants to do any match but them? Why did people sit and watch that? It's DDT, their audience expects and are used to and are entertained by wackiness, What's the goal? Yet again to entertain.

[eJm]

May 3, 2022 16:38:49 GMT -5 Fundertaker said:

May 3, 2022 16:25:27 GMT -5 mrbananagrabber said:

I’d never actually seen this but noticed it’s been doing the rounds recently on wrestling Facebook pages.

What was the point of this? Why did he do it? Why did people sit and watch that?

I don’t know anything about this, so what was the goal here? Was there a story or did he just come out and start bumping for a doll?

Explain.

It's not a doll. It's YOSHIHIKO, a serious competitor that died and ressurrected several times (including during that match with Omega) just to give us the pleasure to witness them wrestle! How dare you

Seriously, the disrespect to the great YOSHIHIKO in this thread…shameful.

In all seriousness, the Kenny match was fun but the Ibushi match had no right to be as good as it was.

[Lizuka #BLM]

I've not seen that one but I have seen the little girl match and it really demonstrates just how good Kenny is because he manages to completely make it work.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

YOSHIHIKO has been a stalwart fixture of the DDT wrestling company for years and has "wrestled" far more than Kenny Omega.

DDT's the epitome of crazy comedy wrestling, a Ladder won one of their titles once. Just how they roll. They're also the company with Andreza Giant Panda (And his wife), they go above and beyond lol.

[MrElijah]

May 3, 2022 17:06:02 GMT -5 eJm said:

May 3, 2022 16:38:49 GMT -5 Fundertaker said:

It's not a doll. It's YOSHIHIKO, a serious competitor that died and ressurrected several times (including during that match with Omega) just to give us the pleasure to witness them wrestle! How dare you

Seriously, the disrespect to the great YOSHIHIKO in this thread…shameful.

In all seriousness, the Kenny match was fun but the Ibushi match had no right to be as good as it was.

Some of the funniest shit I've ever seen is the 1000th Heavymetalweight Champion be the Belt itself by being on top of the current champion who was layed out by his Rival and the 1001th Heavymetalweight Champion, Jun Akiyama win by pinning the Belt. By accident due to resting his arm on it.

[Larryhausen]

May 3, 2022 17:45:36 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

May 3, 2022 17:06:02 GMT -5 eJm said:

Seriously, the disrespect to the great YOSHIHIKO in this thread…shameful.

In all seriousness, the Kenny match was fun but the Ibushi match had no right to be as good as it was.

Some of the funniest shit I've ever seen is the 1000th Heavymetalweight Champion be the Belt itself by being on top of the current champion who was layed out by his Rival and the 1001th Heavymetalweight Champion, Jun Akiyama win by pinning the Belt. By accident due to resting his arm on it.

Didn't a bowl of rice win the title once? And then lost it by being eaten by the next champion?

[MrElijah]

May 3, 2022 18:01:12 GMT -5 Larryhausen said:

May 3, 2022 17:45:36 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

Some of the funniest shit I've ever seen is the 1000th Heavymetalweight Champion be the Belt itself by being on top of the current champion who was layed out by his Rival and the 1001th Heavymetalweight Champion, Jun Akiyama win by pinning the Belt. By accident due to resting his arm on it.

Didn't a bowl of rice win the title once? And then lost it by being eaten by the next champion?

I honestly don't know but damn that's funny.

[rnrk supports BLM]

f***ing nerds and their fetish for Kenny overrated Omega. Yoshihiko carried him in that match.

[Larryhausen]

May 3, 2022 18:09:09 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

May 3, 2022 18:01:12 GMT -5 Larryhausen said:

Didn't a bowl of rice win the title once? And then lost it by being eaten by the next champion?

I honestly don't know but damn that's funny.

Maybe not a bowl of rice, but the title history is amazing.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironman_Heavymetalweight_Championship

Apparently even the belt itself was champion.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Just watched that Ibushi match and that kind of stupid shit is why I love wrestling.

[FinalGwen]

With the number of big name wrestlers who brag about their skills by saying they could have a good match with an inanimate object (like say, a broomstick), I don't get the outrage when someone actually does it and makes it entertaining. Especially in a setting where things aren't taken ultra seriously.

This is obviously about the other inanimate objects listed in the thread, not a talented competitor like YOSHIHIKO.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

As of April 27, 2022, there have been 1,548 officially recognized reigns between 392 different human individuals, 7 teams and 44 inanimate objects and animals. The record for most reigns is held by Shinobu, who won it 216 times, including by trading the title back-and-forth with 215-time champion Yuko Miyamoto a total of 303 times on the same night. Danshoku Dino holds the record for longest combined reign with at least 448 days and counting (the exact date of when he won his tenth title is uncertain). Masa Takanashi's sixth reign is the longest singular reign at 333 days. Only 147 individuals have held the title for longer than a day. The title has occasionally been won by unusual means, such as an auction for the belt, rock–paper–scissors, and even a title change that occurred in a dream.

Non-wrestlers to have held the title include AV idol Nao Saejima, TV personality LiLiCo, J-pop idols Akari Suda, Kaori Matsumura, Yuki Arai, Rise Shiokawa, Aika Sawaguchi, Misaki Natsumi, Momomi Wagatsuma and Lingling, a cat, a monkey, a three-time champion ladder, Vince McMahon's Hollywood Walk of Fame star, a copy of The Young Bucks' autobiography Killing the Business, and the title belt itself.

Seriously, that’s just incredible

[honsou]

He actually did an interview on this with Meltzer I think where he saw it as a challenge after seeing the Ibushi match. I do think its interesting to watch the whole thing to get an idea of what we really look at when it comes to wrestling. Its funny to think that such an exercise like this in any other types of performance art, would simply be seen as another way to show how impressive the art is.

[Deleted]

Because it was awesome. Definitely no banana grabbing for you today.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

May 3, 2022 19:55:25 GMT -5 The Summer of Muskrat XVII said:

As of April 27, 2022, there have been 1,548 officially recognized reigns between 392 different human individuals, 7 teams and 44 inanimate objects and animals. The record for most reigns is held by Shinobu, who won it 216 times, including by trading the title back-and-forth with 215-time champion Yuko Miyamoto a total of 303 times on the same night. Danshoku Dino holds the record for longest combined reign with at least 448 days and counting (the exact date of when he won his tenth title is uncertain). Masa Takanashi's sixth reign is the longest singular reign at 333 days. Only 147 individuals have held the title for longer than a day. The title has occasionally been won by unusual means, such as an auction for the belt, rock–paper–scissors, and even a title change that occurred in a dream.

Non-wrestlers to have held the title include AV idol Nao Saejima, TV personality LiLiCo, J-pop idols Akari Suda, Kaori Matsumura, Yuki Arai, Rise Shiokawa, Aika Sawaguchi, Misaki Natsumi, Momomi Wagatsuma and Lingling, a cat, a monkey, a three-time champion ladder, Vince McMahon's Hollywood Walk of Fame star, a copy of The Young Bucks' autobiography Killing the Business, and the title belt itself.

Seriously, that’s just incredible

I really want this belt to come to AEW for a bit, even if it's just for like AEW DARK, I wanna see someone like Serpentico win it and a bunch of like the more undercard peeps fight over it. It's a goofy title done right.

[Lizuka #BLM]

The Heavymetalweight title really helps you appreciate just how much the 24/7 title f***ing sucks.