Trivia / Low Ki

• Career Resurrection: His re-acquisition of the X-Division title after being convinced to not retire and return to TNA. The same goes for his run in MLW.
• Friendship on the Set: In a 2011 interview, he admitted to have enjoyed working with LayCool, citing that they had a positive effect on him by relaxing him from taking himself and wrestling too seriously.
• Hostility on the Set: Despite his immense talent, Low Ki never became as successful as the other indy stars of his generation (CM Punk, Bryan Danielson, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, etc.) because of how extremely hard he is to work with^note Yes, even CM Punk is easier to work with than Low Ki. He always has to "get all his shit in" and often refuses to do the job, even when it makes sense to everyone but him, unless he likes the person he is jobbing to (which are basically only his friends). Several people have called him out on it over the years, most notably Jim Cornette, but Low Ki refused to change, and it eventually led to him being effectively blackballed from nearly every major wrestling promotion in the world. Meanwhile, everyone else listed became major stars, with Punk and Danielson being megastars on par with the likes of John Cena and Styles getting the honor of being the final opponent of The Undertaker^note whose wife Low Ki was paired with in his short stint in the WWE.
• Money, Dear Boy: According to a podcast, he confirms his WWE run as this.
• Real Song Theme Tune: Tupac Shakur's "Realist Killaz". He also uses an instrumental version of Beanie Sigel’s "The Truth" in MLW.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: In 2012, he told the New Japan office that he did not want to wrestle at an upcoming event in Fukushima because of health and safety reasons stemming from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. He wrestled at Wrestle Kingdom 7 dressed as Agent 47 in protest without clearing it with them first. They were so furious with him^note Their main objection seems to have been the prop gun he was carrying, guns are a lot more taboo in Japan than they are in the States, and even the police rarely carry them. Doing that in front of a lot of high profile sponsors without clearing it with your bosses first is a big no-no. over that to the point that even years later, the company was said to be open to bringing anyone back "with the exception of Low Ki".
• Screwed by the Network: Like Daniel Puder before him, only without the obvious incident to explain what the stick did not like about him. Long story short, he was not Vince McMahon's choice to win NXT but fan votes carried him to the end, even despite being booked as a comedic punching bag with the worst win loss record of the rookies. After this, his loser joke status was taken further and WWE went so far as to mock the fans that voted for him, even after he had left the company since "they had nothing for him."
• What Could Have Been:
  • His WWE run as Kaval was a whole mess of what could have been from the minute he won NXT Season 2. First and foremost, the Genesis of McGillicutty was probably going to be the angle that got Kaval (even more) over with the crowd, as he could have dominated them or played a large hand in taking them down. Or at least in theory, but the debut was so botched that the angle was scrapped before it even began. With no story for him, Kaval was functioning as a jobber for three months straight, until he just got fed up with it and asked for his release.
    • Though if you look at how Daniel Bryan was handled, Kaval might have gotten himself a huge break had he been a bit more patient with WWE management and not expect his big chance to be handed to him on a platter right off the bat.
    • He was actually fired and was forced to say he asked for his release. Guys who were with him at that time such as MVP (who was released around the same time) came to his defense in interviews and said WWE creative refused to do anything with him or had anything for him and told him to say he asked for it and that he was also at his best behavior at that time. WWE has done similar to Jim Ross, both before and after the Kaval incident.
    • To be fair, he has in the past screwed himself out of championship opportunities and main event matches due to a noted lack of patience. Even though he was forced out of WWE that was not immediately known to the public.
  • He was originally in the poster of Royal Rumble 2011, indicating he was supposed to partake in the 40-man Rumble match. However, he got released in December 2010, thus getting removed from the poster.
  • Before he was paired with LayCool as their NXT rookie, there were two discussions to debut him on the WWE main roster:
    • Rey Mysterio and MVP brought Low Ki into WWE as the former wanted to face him, even going as far as to pitch to WWE about entering a program with him in that Low Ki would either be an imposter or a separate masked wrestler. However, the program didn't come to be as either Kaval suffered an injury that put a halt to the plans or WWE just weren't interested in the proposed feud. Low Ki and Mysterio would eventually have a match at a Jersey All Pro Wrestling event in 2015.
    • Former lead WWE writer Brian Gewirtz revealed that there was a discussion to have him be the secret long lost son of The Undertaker. Ultimately, the idea wasn't discussed for long nor was it pitched to Vince McMahon nor Low Ki.
  • Paul Heyman wanted to bring him to ECW (the original version). However, he chose not to as the promotion was about to go defunct.