Hello, this is Pranavan 
and I am less than 24 hours away
from attending Wrestle Kingdom 13 
at the Tokyo Dome.
I am super excited for the event.
I've been a huge supporter 
of professional wrestling for 15 to 20 years,
but I have never attended 
a wrestling pay-per-view.
What a way for me to make my debut 
than to attend Wrestle Kingdom 13
at the Tokyo Dome tomorrow.
I got a few things that I needed 
to prepare myself for the event.
As you can see, 
I've got the Wrestle Kingdom 13 tickets
and there are a few items that I bought 
in the Suidobashi Shop.
This very sweet looking
Wrestle Kingdom 13 pamphlet, 
which shows all of
the matches that are going 
to take place at Wrestle Kingdom.
As well as looking into the history
of Wrestle Kingdom
under New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
It’s a very well presented book.
And I would recommend you to buy it 
and keep it as a souvenir.
Furthermore, I’ve bought myself 
a Hiroshi Tanahashi towel,
as well as a Wrestle Kingdom 13 T-shirt.
All three of those items were bought
 in the Suidobashi shop near the Tokyo Dome.
If you cannot get those items 
at the Suidobashi Shop,
you could also get it 
on the day of the event.
Furthermore, I also went to Harajuku
 to get myself a Suzuki-gun T-shirt,
as well as
a Minoru Suzuki 30th anniversary fan, 
which came for free,
at the Piledriver Store.
It was a very good experience
 not only was I able to get
Suzuki-gun exclusive items,
I was able to see Minoru Suzuki at the store.
And we had a really good conversation.
As-- that is going to be 
one of the many highlights
in my trip to Japan, thus far.
Yeah, those have been 
the items that I bought.
It's been a busy few days. 
I cannot wait for the event.
Like I mentioned, 
the words are not in my mind
to describe how stoked,
how excited I am for the event.
It is going to be a surreal experience for me.
Kenny Omega versus Tanahashi is the event
that I am looking forward to.
I could not decide who to support
and I just decided to go 
and support Hiroshi Tanahashi.
I would love to see him win 
the IWGP championship one more time.
"Go Ace!" is going to be 
what I will be saying at the Tokyo Dome.
And I'm looking forward
 to showing more footage
of the Tokyo Dome with you 
very shortly on the next day.
So, I will see you all soon.
I just arrived at Keikyū Kamata Station. 
I had a good night's sleep.
And I'm just now waiting 
for the train to arrive
to get to the Tokyo Dome
 for Wrestle Kingdom 13.
It will take about 30 to 40 minutes
 of traveling time.
God, I’m really super excited, 
just like what I said last night.
Good, God.
 
Okay, I’ve just arrived in the queue,
as you can see all the people 
waiting in the ticket area.
That’s how big the queue is.
But that is nothing compared 
to the merchandise queue over there.
That is insane,
 how many people there were.
Thank god I bought the merchandise,
 a few days ago.
I've got a quick question for all of you,
 what does professional wrestling, NJPW
and Wrestle Kingdom means
 to a professional wrestling fan?
Here are the responses that I have collected
 from the international fans
that I have met while I was exploring 
around the Tokyo Dome.
Wrestle Kingdom 
is the biggest event in Japan.
The biggest pro-wrestling event 
in Japan and
maybe 40,000 people 
would come to this show.
I'm honestly not even sure where to start, 
it’s like I've been following New Japan
for about a year and a half, at this point. 
Like the first show I ever saw
was two years ago 
at the Wrestle Kingdom show,
I was like, “Oh, my god, 
I have to go at some point.”
and I finally managed 
to get around to it,
The matches that I'm most excited about, 
I'm honestly I’m not even really sure.
Um, just probably Okada and Jay White
who like I was sort of ehh on either of them 
before this all kicked off.
So I'm really like, really excited 
to see where that's going.
Well, you know the biggest thing is 
I've been a big fan of Japanese Pro-Wrestling
since like maybe the late ‘80s.
They used to call that 
the Shōwa pro-wrestling era.
And now like Japan-- Japanese wrestling
 is blowing up, it's really awesome.
You know you got all these 
good stars in the WWE
you got, Shinsuke Nakamura, 
you got Hideo Itami, you got Asuka,
you got Kairi Sane. Now, you got Io Shirai.
But, you know they all 
kind of started off in Japan
and now that the real
 true Japanese pro wrestling is blowing up,
you know it's-it's got me 
really pumped in today.
This is going to be probably 
like the best card of the year
and it's only January, so I'm excited.
Hi, so my name is Tim. 
I'm from Australia.
This is my second year 
coming to Wrestle Kingdom.
I came last year for the 2018 show
 and just loved it so much
that I couldn’t see myself staying at home 
to watch it again on TV.
So, I'm back again 
and just couldn't be more excited.
Looks like the most stacked card 
maybe of all time,
you know when Ospreay/Ibushi
 is your opening match,
its hard to top that with anything. 
And I just can’t wait.
I’m Aimee.
 I'm also from Australia
as my second Wrestle Kingdom as well I'm just
I'm really excited just to see all the matches
 and most looking forward to,
Ibushi and Ospreay.
I think it's really cool to watch 
the evolution of professional wrestling,
particularly, 
you know watching it in Japan
and how it's become even more international, 
more accessible,
um, with western audiences.
 And I think that evolution is something
to be really excited for.
So, I started watching wrestling 
when I was, when I was a little kid.
And stopped watching
 after a little while
and I've kind of always gone back and forth 
watched it for a few years
and then stopped watching it.
Lately, what's been happening 
on the independent scene around the world
has got me interested in it again.
And specifically people 
like the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega,
and the phenomenal performances
 that they've been putting on.
And not only telling a story 
with the action in the ring
but going beyond and
and making their own storylines,
and taking the storytelling 
on their own hands
via a YouTube show 
or something like that
has just kinda ignited something new.
Uh, and exciting about wrestling 
in the world that can seem
way too sterile sometimes
 in the storytelling
you see the same things over and over again.
The same storylines repeated on-on,
 you know some of the bigger products
in the world like WWE.
So it's kind of that fresh perspective 
of storytelling.
The finding the humour in everything,
not necessarily always taking
 the story seriously
that's kind of got me back into it.
KAZE NI NARE!
So professional wrestling 
in general for me,
it's a fantastic storytelling medium
 and performance art, that combines 
the best of athleticism
with on the fly storytelling 
and improvisation,
um, and even sleight of hand magician-ship 
in large parts.
What really brought me
 to Wrestle Kingdom 13?
It's probably common 
for most western fans.
I really started with Wrestle Kingdom 11
when all over every podcast 
was the Omega/Okada I
and six-star match and everything.
So since then I've-
I've followed very, very closely.
And about a year ago I decided,
 “You know what?
I can afford it. Let's go.”
Yeah. So, we came from Canada,
 very excited to be here.
I've been a pro-wrestling fan 
since I was five-years-old.
My cousins were into it, 
so I started always watching it with them,
with Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior 
all the old WWE guys.
When I was in university, I actually started
 discovering the Japanese wrestling.
Actually, I was a huge fan of a Kenta 
in Pro Wrestling Noah.
So, eventually it kind of evolved
 into like learning more
about the other promotions and such.
And then, I slowly started 
to follow New Japan
and it's been a blast. 
My Boy Kenny Omega,
I've been following him since he was in DDT
 coming over here and-and into here,
Kota Ibushi as well, 
all those guys.
I'm huge Young Bucks.
 I mean, just at this point,
I'm just a big fan of The Elite, in general.
So, we finally got out here. 
This is our first Wrestle Kingdom
and I'm very excited to be here.
I'm Travis. 
I'm 26-years-old.
I’ve been a fan-- 
I've been a fan of professional wrestling
since late '98 I got into it
 because my big brother liked it.
So I got-- but I wasn't so much 
Hogan and Ultimate Warrior
is more attitude era. 
So Steve Austin, the Rock,
the D-Generation-X, Mick Foley, 
Undertaker all those guys.
And I've been watching wrestling-- 
I watched religiously
from like '99 to 2005
I'd say kind of fell out of it for a while. 
And then got back into it
around 2011, 2012 and I just, 
with the advent of Internet,
I was able to explore 
so many other avenues like Ring of Honor,
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and, of course, 
New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
I got into Japanese wrestling 
through Kenta as well.
And kinda I went through there,
watch the old All Japan 
with Misawa and stuff.
And now, I love new Japan. 
And it's awesome that a Canadian
is the IWGP heavyweight champion. 
So I'll be rooting for Kenny Omega tonight.
WOO-OOOO-OOO!
RAINMAKER......OH NO!
1..2..3..OOHHHHHH!
So, Pro Wrestling is at this point, 
now where it's just so good.
Like the wrestlers 
are just so talented
and they all have their own 
unique sets of styles. I think because of the Internet 
it's become easier
for people like me to find wrestlers 
that I relate to and I admire,
and I want to like watch more and more
 and support more and more.
And there's better ways for me
 to support wrestlers now
as opposed to when I started 
when I was 10-years-old.
It was only what was on TV. 
I had sort of taken what I was given
and now I can throw, not throw stuff
 I can dismiss stuff I don't like.
And only what's the stuff I like 
and Wrestle Kingdom is good
because there's just so much that I like, 
there's nothing I want to ignore
or go to the toilet during.
I want to see every match 
from beginning to end
and the commentary is so good now.
It's just everything
 is just at this point where
they're all fans of wrestling as well
 the wrestlers you can tell that,
they're not doing it because they have to
 they're doing it because they love it.
And that comes through
 in their performances.
[CHEERS]
1..2..3!
YEEEEAAAAH!
WOOOOOOO!
So, my name is Steven. 
I'm from Boston, Massachusetts in the USA.
and I am at Wrestle Kingdom 13.
 It's my first time at Wrestle Kingdom,
and my first time in Japan. 
I first started watching wrestling,
when I was four years old.
My grandfather actually,
turned me on to wrestling
 when I was very young.
And since then, 
I was raised on WCW wrestling
and then kind of worked my way into WWF.
Kind of went back started watching some ECW 
and some other promotions.
In the past five years or so,
 I've gotten more into Ring of Honor
and New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
I was also really big TNA wrestling fan
when they were popular.
 It’s a shame what happened to that company
because they really could have been 
an actual, you know, competitor to WWE.
but, you know since- 
in the past five years New Japan
has really become top promotion for me.
There's an emphasis 
on wrestling versus entertainment,
which is something 
I don't really like about WWE.
There's not as much storytelling.
 It's not quite as athletic
as some of the other wrestlers
 in New Japan
and that's why 
we traveled 6,800 miles,
from Boston Massachusetts.
I've been watching Wrestle Kingdom live
 at 3:00 in the morning
for the past five years, 
waking my parents
and my whole family up 
screaming at the TV.
Uh, so it's nice to be in the Tokyo Dome 
with 60,000 other people
and, you know be able to express how I feel. 
And be able to see probably
some of the best wrestlers of my lifetime, 
 compete in a historic Tokyo Dome,
so many huge shows
that happened here over the years.
A lot of people forget that New Japan
 was around before WWF.
So I wanted to make sure it was something
 it's a bucket list thing for me.
Something I definitely wanted to do.
I have just arrived back at the hotel 
having finished watching
Wrestle Kingdom 13 live
 at the Tokyo Dome.
It has been an absolutely
 phenomenal experience.
A surreal experience. 
Not only to-to just be at the dome,
but to be able to see all the action 
that New Japan Pro-Wrestling was providing.
And I still do not have the words 
to describe how fantastic
this experience has been. 
You could see the Hiroshi Tanahashi
"Go Ace!" towel that is laid across the table,
so grateful that he won 
the IWGP Heavyweight Championship
for the eighth time. 
Shouted out, "Go Ace!"
with the music.
 just was a wonderful
one of a kind, unique experience
 to be a part of.
For those who have never attended 
a professional wrestling event before
but has been a supporter 
of professional wrestling
for many, many years
 I would highly suggest to you
to go to a professional wrestling event 
as soon as you can.
Because this is something 
that I promise you,
you will not regret and I will definitely say 
that you will have the time
of your lives if you were 
to be a part of that event.
That is all I could really say right now
 at this very moment.
I am super exhausted.
I am about to go 
and get some sleep right now.
Thank you all for watching this video.
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and I will see you in the future. 
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