10 Best Gimmicks Currently In NJPW, Ranked 

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Arguably the pinnacle advertising in Japan and a fan preferred withinside the West, New Japan Pro-Wrestling gives a completely unique opportunity to the ones fatigued with the extra of clothes like WWE, with difficult hitting in-ring motion and a presentation greater akin to conventional sports. But that isn`t to mention that NJPW lacks gimmicks, or something in fact, pretty the opposite.RELATED: The 10 Best Current NJPW Men's Wrestlers, Ranked 
  
 Much like in WWE, quite a whole lot anyone in New Japan has a wonderful gimmick, from martial arts masters to lucha libre troubadours. Let's test 10 of the pleasant gimmicks presently taking place in NJPW, beginning with the least tremendous (however nevertheless tremendous). 
  
 Great-O-Khan 
  
 The Great-O-Khan has handiest been at the NJPW roster considering that his Young Lion tour for more than one years, however his truely defined, outrageous gimmick places him above a number of the advertising's pinnacle stars. The muscle of Will Ospreay's United Empire, Great-O-Khan essentially involves the hoop dressed because the conventional Chinese vampire, or jiangshi. Sometimes known as a "hopping vampire," jianshi are reanimated corpses that suck the lif of the living, and O-Khan clothes the prin his front gear, entire with a burial shroud over his face. Despite the stupid gimmick, the Great-O-Khan stays an impressive bodily pressure withinside the ring. 
  
 KUSHIDA 
  
 Much like O-Khan, KUSHIDA additionally has a gimmick that sounds ridiculous on paper however works in context due to the fact the performer himself is in any other case a extreme and proficient competitor. For what feels just like the beyond decade, KUSHIDA - nicknamed "The Timesplitter" - has been rocking a Back to the Future gimmick, entire with a puffy Marty McFly vest and signature maneuvers just like the Hoverboard Lock. The gimmick has accompanied KUSHIDA to NXT and again to NJPW and has led to numerous iconic unique entrances at massive suggests like Wrestle Kingdom. 
  
 Tetsuya Naito 
  
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 Tetsuva Naito's preliminary bid at being a Tetsuya Naito's preliminary bid at being a babyface singles famous person had him solid because the highflying "Stardust Genius," which backfired as soon as he ventured into the principle occasion scene. But one reinvention later, and he have become one in all NJPW's maximum famous stars, and all it took turned into turning into ingobernable.RELATED: 10 Things Fans Should Know About NJPW's Tetsuya Naito 
  
 As the chief of Los Ingobernables de Japon, the vaguely heelish Naito has a dynamite gimmick as a barely gothic, baseball-obsessed troll. Heavy at the thoughts games, Naito does such things as coming to the hoop in a whole fit and taking it off very slowly, or ordering a whole fam fashion meal withinside the center of a press conference. 
  
 El Desperado 
  
 NJPW has a number of masked wrestlers on its roster, a number of whom had been Young Lions who ventured to Mexico for his or her tour. With an outlaw mariachi gimmick, El Desperado is a super execution of the concept, specifically thinking about his debut had him hard then-IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Kota Ibushi with the aid of using getting into the hoop and providing the champ a bouquet. On pinnacle of being a tremendous gimmick, in latest years Despy has proved himself to be a tremendous wrestler to boot, stepping up in a few most important junior heavyweight bouts, such as his Best of the Super Junior very last with Hiromu Takahashi. 
  
 Hiromu Takahashi 
  
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 Another member of Los Ingobernables de Japon, the aforementioned Hiromu Takahashi is nicknamed "Ticking Time Bomb" and is regularly touted because the pinnacle 
  
 wrestler withinside the junior heavyweight division. His gimmick is a touch difficult to pin down, however this is additionally a part of the gimmick - Hiromu is largely an erratic, chaotic detail in NJPW, regularly undertaking destabilizing conduct and carrying a number of the maximum colorful, garish clothes at the roster. As a part of his gimmick, he is carried round an opulent cat named Darryl and prepare a scrapbook approximately his Best of the Super Juniors event fighters. 
  
 Kazuchika Okada 
  
 Not each tremendous gimmick in NJPW is a caricature person or a weirdo, however. 
  
 Take, for example, Kazuchika Okada. Arguably the ace of the enterprise at t factor, Okada's gimmick is "The Rainn a good-looking and cocky prince whose iman encompass fola manau 
  
 08:01 entrances from time to time encompass faux cash falling from the ceiling. Imagine if Randy Orton were given the "Tribal Chief" remedy and in fact controlled to surpass John Cena, and that is a indistinct approximation of The Rainmaker's complete deal. On pinnacle of that, he is taken into consideration one of the pleasant wrestlers withinside the world, which in reality makes the complete gimmick sing. 
  
 Toru Yano 
  
 Okada is the chief of the CHAOS faction, and one of the group's co-founders (along preceding chief Shinsuke Nakamura) is Toru Yano. Mostly a comedy wrestler - albeit one with valid novice skills - Yano is nicknamed "The Sublime Master Thief," however this is handiest a flavor of what he is all approximately. 
  
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 cheats at each feasible possibility in his matches, with low blows, elimination of turnbuckle pads, and tying up fighters with wrist tape to attain clean countout victories. But he is additionally a YouTuber and prefectural ambassador who is continuously seeking to promote DVDs of his faction striking out. 
  
 Taichi 
  
 One of El Desperado's teammates in Suzuki-Gun, Taichi low-key has one of the more strange gimmicks in New Japan. Nicknamed "The Holy Emperor," he involves the hoop in an extravagant masks lip synching his (amazing) front subject right into a microphone he contains round on a stand. He's followed with the aid of using a female named Miho Abe who serves as his muse/manager. His usual vibe is that of a Castlevania villain, however then withinside the center of the match, he's going to randomly rip off his breakaway pants to show a couple of this is a touch too small for him.Shingo Takagi 
  
 It's a piece flinch while a Japanese wrestler withinside the West gets the stereotypical "He's a Japanese dragon from the Land of the Rising Sun" gimmick, however it appears absolutely truthful recreation in Japan if Shingo Takagi is any indication. A former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion and a pinnacle famous person in Dragon Gate, Shingo is actually nicknamed "The Dragon," with a signature flow called "Made in Japan" and an front masks that looks as if a dragon. It's this kind of maximalist, flawlessly completed model of the gimmick that no booker or innovative withinside the West need to ever strive it again. 
  
 Minoru Suzuki 
  
 A pioneer withinside the advent of MMA and a adorned champion in seasoned wrestling, Minoru Suzuki does lots with little in phrases of gimmick. The closest factor of contrast is a Brock Lesnar or Ken Shamrock type, in which he is a no-nonsense 
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 valid fighter who appears cause on killing his fighters for real, however he is were given one element above each of them - a killer front subject. "Kaze Ni Nare" with the aid of using Ayumi Nakamura is all of the gimmick Suzuki needs, a pseudo "Eye of the Tiger" jam that enthusiasts internationally like to bellow while Nakamura sings the identify line.