10 best Japanese wrestlers who were wasted in the US

#8 Koji Kanemoto

Kanemoto had some great matches, especially with Jushin Liger

Koji Kanemoto was a longtime member of NJPW’s junior heavyweight division back when that division was experiencing its first major golden age. Kanemoto was a technical wizard that had memorable matches against such legends as Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger, El Samurai, and TAKA Michinoku.

Kanemoto was one of many NJPW stars to wrestle in the United States and was also the first to defend the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship on American soil. Alas, WCW didn’t use Kanemoto properly, and he became an afterthought in a match against Alex Wright in 1995. This was a criminal misuse of one of the finest technical wrestlers of the 1990s.