Oh look, Tensai is beating up Sakamoto again!

[Miss_Carol]

Seriously, are they TRYING to make us switch channels? Is this some cheap attempt to give him heat while still being a jobber?

Just wondering...

[Urethra Franklin]

Here's a question: What do we know about Sakamoto? We know nothing about him, so why would we possibly care about him being constantly attacked?

You can't put heat on Tensai when the target of his abuse is a below than one-dimensional character.

[Vince's Torn Quads]

If they have any sense, they'll squeeze out whatever they can from the whole beating Sakamoto thing, then bring him back in a couple of months as plain old Albert. The crowd chant Albert every week, wherever the show is. It's making him a laughing stock.

[Dean-o]

It didn't get heat the first time...or the second...or the third...so on and so forth.

I personally loved the Tensai gimmick, but sadly, it is a flop. He needs to be repackaged somehow.

[dc09]

I would agree, but that baldo bomb he did on him was awesome

[4real]

It just doesn't seem to be leading anywhere that's the problem. He just beats him up and next week it's barely mentioned and rinse and repeat basically.

It needs to be taken to the next level but I just don't think WWE know what they are doing with Tensai atm.

[mystikz]

Is this ever going to go anywhere? Can it go anywhere? Probably not.

[mysterydriver]

I think it got heat the third time. Now it's an awkward running joke, much like most of Tensai's WWE run.

That said, no I don't believe constantly beating up Sakamoto will ruin the Lord Tensai gimmick.

[Hit Girl]

This comes across as some sort of homoerotic sado-masochistic relationship.

[frogsplash45]

Aug 15, 2012 12:21:56 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

This comes across as some sort of homoerotic sado-masochistic relationship.

[Metalheadbanger Man]

I'm getting bored of it now. Plus, nobody would care if Sakamoto turned face anyway, because he really hasn't done anything outside of being beaten up by Tensai all the time.

[PTBartman]

Is sakamoto Japanese for Pinata?

[cabbageboy]

I still don't really understand why WWE bothered to bring back Albert. The guy was always a total heat killer during his previous run. Has the guy ever been over in American wrestling?

[nate5054]

Sakamoto is a homeless man's Virgil.

[Thunderbolt]

I seriously want them to keep having Tensai beat up Sakamoto for the rest of Tensai's run and NEVER have Sakamoto get any revenge or anything. Just have him get his ass beat forever, no comeuppance, no other wrestlers sticking up for Sakamoto, nothing. Don't even have the announcers acknowledge it as a bad thing at all. Have Tensai beat up Sakamoto in silence and then run a Be A Star clip, every f***ing week until they release both guys.

[tms]

Tensai looks like a taller, fatter Karnov. Just have him breathe fire. Instant heat.

[Nic Nemeth]

Seriously it's getting annoying cause who the hell is Sakamoto?

They have like two options:

1) Have Tensai legitimately hurt him, break his arm then when he cries and begs for mercy, break his other arm, and when Sakamoto promises his life or whatever, have Tensai break each and every single finger so that we never see him again and then have Tensai give him a Derailer onto concrete from the top of the ramp
2) Sakamoto fights back

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

I guess we are supposed to hate Tensai for treating his worshiper so badly, but nobody cares about either person, so it's meaningless.

Whereas if Del Rio were to put the Cross Armbreaker on Ricardo, we might actually react because we care about that duo far more.

[Deleted]

I'm hoping it starts picking up a strange positive reaction from fans. I want it to a point where fans just aren't satisfied until Sakamoto gets his ass kicked every show. Have Sakamoto plead with AJ and whoever that will listen to help him, but everyone callously refuses, AJ goes so far as to say he's fired if he doesn't stick with him.

The story being that we all eat shit in life, but no matter how bad things get we can look forward to Sakamoto getting killed on Monday Night Raw.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

I say just make Sakamoto a wrestler and make them a tag team already. Sakamoto works as the "heel-in-peril" until Tensai decides to blind tag his way in and mow through the face team.