The Three Musketeers (Muto, Chono & Hashimoto)

WRITE THAT DOWN! A Professional Wrestling Podcast w/ Fumi Saito & Justin Knipper

(This episode was originally released in September of 2021.)

On this week’s episode of Write That Down!, Fumi Saito & Justin Knipper talked about the Three Musketeers of NJPW: Keiji Muto, Masahiro Chono, and Shinya Hashimoto. Each musketeer had their own distinct style and personality in the ring, and outside of the ring, each would end up leading very different career paths. They also talked at length about all three NJPW superstars, though their discussion was centered on Chono and Hashimoto especially, as they covered Muto’s career in great detail during our four-part series earlier this in the year. Fumi explained how Chono picked up his storytelling wrestling from none other than “Bulldog” Bob Brown and recommends some of Chono’s best bouts. Saito & Knipper also spoke at length about Hashimoto’s program with Judo silver medalist Naoya Ogawa and how, with hindsight, we can now view Hashimoto as the inadvertent “first sacrifice” of Japan’s pro wrestling Dark Ages, plus lots more.

(このエピソードは2021年9月に配信されたものです)

今週の『Write That Down！』では、フミ斎藤＆ジャスティン・ニッパーがNJPWの三銃士、武藤敬司、蝶野正洋、橋本真也について語りました。それぞれの三銃士はリング上では独自のスタイルと個性を持ち、リングの外ではそれぞれが全く異なるキャリアを歩むことになります。彼らはまた、NJPWのスーパースター3人全員についてじっくりと話をしましたが、特に蝶野と橋本の話が中心でした。フミは、蝶野がいかにして "ブルドッグ "ボブ・ブラウンからストーリー性のあるプロレスを学んだかを説明し、蝶野のベストバウトをいくつか推薦。斎藤＆ニッパーは、橋本が柔道銀メダリストの小川直也と組んだプログラムについても詳しく語り、今にして思えば、橋本は日本プロレス暗黒時代の "最初の生贄 "であったと言える、などなど。