King of Strong Style

Shinsuke Nakamura is a professional wrestler and MMA fighter.

He joined New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2002, earning the nickname "Super Rookie" thanks to his combination of strength, speed, and technical skills.
On December 9 2003, Nakamura defeated Hiroyoshi Tenzan becoming the youngest IWGP Heavyweight Champion in history.

On December 11, 2004, Nakamura and his tag team partner Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Kensuke Sasaki and Minoru Suzuki in a decision match to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship.

On February 17 2008, While he was IWGP Champion for the second time, Nakamura defeated Kurt Angle to win the IGF (Inoki Genome Federation) Championship and unify it with the NJPW version of the title.

Since 2009, Nakamura is the leader of the stable CHAOS. On September 27 of the same year he defeated Togi Makabe to become IWGP Champion for the third time.

He also is a record two-time IWGP Intercontinental Champion, and his first reign (313 days) is the longest in the title's history. Combining the two reigns, he also has a record of combined defenses (11) and combined days as champion (481).


If you want to see this guy in action, here's his Top 35 moves.

See You next Time.


Alla prossima.

Super Strong Machine

(first of all: sorry for my English :) )

Super Strong Machine is a successful gimmick created by the Puroresu (japanese term for "professional wrestling") veteran Junji Hirata in the mid '80. With this character, Hirata competed in both of the major Japanese wrestling federations (New Japan Pro Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling) winning respectively the IWGP Tag Team Championship (three times) and the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship (one time).
Nowadays Super Strong Machine is part of the Blue Justice Army (known as "Seigigun" in Japan), a New Japan Pro Wrestling stable led by Yuji Nagata.

"Why a wrestler in this blog?"

Good question.
The main reason for this choice is because I am a big fan of Pro Wrestling in general, but the thing that I like to point out in this post is the fact that, in my humble opinion, comics (especially superheroes comics) and Pro Wrestling (or Sport Entertainment) occasionally connect to each other, and I think that Super Strong Machine is a perfect example.


See you next time.








Se siete arrivati fino a qui, avrete certamente capito che la piccola novità Nuova del Blog sono i post in Inglese.

"Tutto qui?"

Ehi, ve l'avevo detto che era una piccola novità no?

Comunque sia, da oggi in poi, l'inglese sarà la lingua predominante nei post (i quali non saranno tutti lunghi come questo), ma non temete, almeno una cosa in italiano la continuerò a scrivere.

Come cosa?

Non è ovvio?



Alla prossima.