(BIG JAPAN) The Strongest Declaration - interview with Takuya Nomura
Weekly Pro
Q: This is your fifth challenge, and you have been crowned with the Strong Heavy for the first time. What did you feel when you put it on?
NOMURA: The biggest thing was that isn't it that I can say what I want to say? It's an opinion, but now that I can say what I want, I feel I can finally say it by becoming the top* of strong.
Q: Is that a strong declaration of Big Japan's Strong BJ to the pro wrestling world?
NOMURA: All the time I have always wanted to say that what the young person says now, the top* do not say. When I got the belt, I decided to say that.
Q: Words that you had gathered bit by bit?
NOMURA: With that in mind, I am wrestling at Big Japan, so I just said what I was thinking.
Q: What are your thoughts on the promotion?
NOMURA: I have quite a few, but what do I think of pro wrestling, and how do I perceive it? Today's pro wrestling world doesn't say "the strongest", but I wanted to say that again. Like in the old days, "the strongest wrestler". If what I was seeing was different, I would have changed my mindset, but that is what I was seeing.
Q: Among them, Big Japan's Strong BJ is the strongest.
NOMURA: I'm here (once and for all). Just I think so, I don't know if everyone (including the other wrestlers) think so. What is the strongest?
Q: Going through the stages, a few people say "the strongest pro wrestling"
NOMURA: I think we are the strongest in a straight forward match, and I think the term "best" is shirked ultimately with mixed martial arts. Isn't that a waste? How to escape that? Is it like it's inferior to wrestling? I don't like that.
Q: Pro wrestling and its composites are different things from the perspective of the viewer in this era
NOMURA: It is different, completely.
Q: Pro wrestling is good for pro wrestling, and it's composite is composite. It is recognized that both have their own rules and their own strengths...but what is the strongest?
NOMURA: The composite also starts with pro wrestling. Generally when the third party sees it differently, but I think its the same when you see the big picture. I think Big Japan is the strongest. That way of thinking differs from person to person, but I think we are the strongest.
Q: The ring is different, and it's a difficult age to compare the outcome of the "strongest" there, but in a pro wrestling match, just like a composite mixed match, it may be possible to embody "strength". In that sense the strongest is Big Japan...at this point, should that be the case?
NOMURA: Yes
Q: By the way, if this was the early 2000s, would you have appeared in PRIDE?
NOMURA: Wasn't that the reason why I started? I was originally watching it and then I got into pro wrestling through that, so maybe I am even more aware of it. Had I been a pro wrestler then, I think I would have wanted to appear.
Q: Nowadays, with the age and the way of understanding advancing, it's a problematic age to be the strongest in pro wrestling
NOMURA: Not many people say that. I don't know how many customers are seeking that expression, but I think there are still some people who want it. I hope this remark resonates with those people. Rethink with Hideki Suzuki and Fuminori Abe.
Q: What have you realized by fighting each day in Big Japan?
NOMURA: That I think that the strongest in the pro wrestling world is definitely the STRONG BJ of Big Japan
Q: With Sekimoto and Okabayashi in mind, Nomura was beaten up by Kohei Sato, Shuji Ishikawa and Hideki Suzuki when he was a young wrestler
NOMURA: Actually, I was only about 70kg, but it was the struggle that made me think the way I do. I can say that now because it's such a strong Big Japan, including unaffiliated regular wrestlers, because I got to the top of the promotion.
Q: In that respect, Sekimoto has announced a challenge...
NOMURA: I'm happy. As I said at the press conference, the fans are still absolutely STRONG BJ = Daisuke Sekimoto. I want to overturn that. STRONG BJ = TAKUYA NOMURA. It doesn't have to be now, but I want to make you think that Nomura's fight is amazing.
Q: It's the most important thing in the first defense
NOMURA: Since I came to this point with my own style, I will wrestle a fierce match that the customers will be satisfied with. As with the first defense, I want to increase the number of customers. After all, I think that the champion has the biggest responsibility for attracting customers, so throughout the match I want to make people think "I want to see this"
Q: I think there are many fans of yours, who felt your strength shortly after your debut, but no results were obtained
NOMURA: Isn't that right now from intensity? If the results had come out so quickly, I would have been a good young man, but I didn't get any results at all. I thought about various things but when I met Suzuki (Hideki) and Abe (Fuminori), my way of thinking changed.
Q: Until then you said, "I just need to be strong"
Q: You said you didn't become a good young man, because you didn't get any results
NOMURA: Yes, I'm not a yes-man. The roundabout way is different, but from that I went the shortest distance. A detour maybe, but from here I went the shortest distance.
Q: Are you thinking of ways to lift the promotion?
NOMURA: First of all, isn't in the content of the match? Its best to wrestle a match with the content that only I can show. I want the people of Strong BJ to prove how good the strong of Big Japan is. At the moment we are a small island, and so the number of people watching is overwhelmingly smaller than that of a big one. If there is a big sea nearby, why don't you go there are make a name for yourself? If you make your name, then you can make the name of your promotion, and if you have the strong will of "We are strong BJ", then I think it will definitely affect customers which I think will lead to attracting customers. I think the deathmatch people think that too.
Q: Got it. Finally, a statement of belief as the new champion
NOMURA: No matter what anyone says, as long as I am a champion, I will excite Big Japan in my own way, so please come and see me.
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