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TJ Perkins On Shinsuke Nakamura, Criticism Of His Wrestling Style, Wishing He Hadn’t Left NJPW, More
- Updated: October 30, 2016
Source: Talk Is Jericho
Recently on Talk Is Jericho, WWE Cruiserweight Champion TJ Perkins sat down with the six-time world champion, Chris Jericho, to talk about being a young boy in New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s dojo with NXT Champion Shinsuke Nakamura, Finn Bálor stepping into his NJPW spot when he left the promotion, and the impetus behind his video game inspired WWE entrance.
Perkins began training with NJPW in 2001 and was a young boy along with former WWE Superstar Yoshi Tatsu and current NXT Champion Shinsuke Nakamura. According to ‘The Fil-Am Flash’, Nakamura was always destined for professional wrestling superstardom.
“I actually had a really interesting class because Yoshi Tatsu was in my class and so was Shinsuke Nakamura. And Nakamura, literally, from Day One, was Nakamura, like, he wasn’t even a young boy with us. He was in our class, but we never saw him. He was going to be a superstar from Day One. He was just too good to be with us, for sure.”
Perkins admitted that he wishes he never left NJPW and stated that the first ever WWE Universal …
