On Feb. 7, Minoru Suzuki will face Jon Moxley for the IWGP United States Championship in a highly anticipated match-up. Before the huge encounter between the two NJPW stars, the challenger spoke to the New Japan website about his feelings towards Moxley going into the title match.
Suzuki doesn’t hold back on his opinions of the former WWE Superstar, who he feels is a guy that stepped into his house and didn’t take his shoes off at the front door:
“He’s a guy who stepped in my house and didn’t take his shoes off at the front door. The “former WWE Superstar Dean Ambrose”. Changed his look up a bit and here he is. Look, I’ve been watching him for a while, yeah. Can he grapple? No. Is he strong? No. Tough? No. He can’t do s**t.”
Throughout the interview, the former NEVER Openweight Champion makes it clear that he doesn’t view Moxley as much of a threat this Sunday and trashes the style of matches the IWGP United States Champion is used to having:
“What are you talking about? Maybe he’s an idiot and can only wrestle with rules that let him use those things. So NJPW have bent over backward and allowed that to happen. That’s your problem. Me, the stricter the rules are, the more I can show how dangerous I am. I’ve wrestled a lot of matches, in a lot of different places, with a lot of different rules. Lumberjack matches, bullrope matches, cage matches, MMA matches. But the stricter the rules are, the more it works to my advantage. You know why? Because I can see everything. I understand everything. I understand everything in wrestling, and that everything is wrestling. Put to the extremes, fighting in the street is pro wrestling. Arguments, words are pro wrestling. Even no rules is a rule unto itself.”
Suzuki feels that he’s the right guy to pick a fight with the former WWE star:
“Confident? Maybe. Or maybe I’m the right guy for this job. The right fight for him. I had my eyes on him, knew he would come, and there he was in front of me. There’s no way it can’t be fun.”
The NJPW star also discusses Moxley being a fan of his work, how the match between him and the IWGP United States Champion will draw eyes to many wrestling fans, and so much more! Check out the full interview
here.