History YMMV / JumboTsuruta

** To clarify, Tsuruta was '''not''' OnlyInItForTheMoney, and had a genuine passion for professional wrestling. However, he was famously frugal, and was always frank about the fact that wrestling was his job, and on top of that was a career that he believed he wouldn't get much more than twenty-five years out of. Tsuruta wasn't the Japanese equivalent of Wrestling/KevinNash or anything; it was more that his way of life made him difficult for the core demographic, often salarymen themselves, to get into as an EscapistCharacter.
* CreatorsPet: Averted for the most part, but the fact that Jumbo was instantly made a main-eventer upon his return to Japan from Amarillo did irk some people backstage, particularly when the JWA folded into AJPW and its biggest remaining stars had expected to take top positions in company booking. Kintaro Oki, who had been the JWA's third biggest star under Baba and [[Wrestling/AntonioInoki Inoki]], and had been the world champion when the promotion went under, left AJPW over this treatment in 1974. Umanosuke Ueda did the same.

** The first was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JxneTIbo5M "Chinese Kung Fu"]], a 1975 French "Kung Fu Fighting" cash-in record. It was actually the first individual entrance theme in puroresu, having first been used for Jumbo that same year, but it wouldn't catch on until early 1977, shortly after Mil Mascaras had a resurgence in popularity due to the use of "Sky High".

** To clarify, Tsuruta was 'not' OnlyInItForTheMoney, and had a genuine passion for professional wrestling. However, he was famously frugal, and was always frank about the fact that wrestling was his job, and on top of that was a career that he believed he wouldn't get much more than twenty-five years out of. Tsuruta wasn't the Japanese equivalent of Wrestling/KevinNash or anything; it was more that his way of life made him difficult for the core demographic, often salarymen themselves, to get into as an EscapistCharacter.

** To clarify, Tsuruta was [b]not[/b] OnlyInItForTheMoney, and had a genuine passion for professional wrestling. However, he was famously frugal, and was always frank about the fact that wrestling was his job, and on top of that was a career that he believed he wouldn't get much more than twenty-five years out of. Tsuruta wasn't the Japanese equivalent of Wrestling/KevinNash or anything; it was more that his way of life made him difficult for the core demographic, often salarymen themselves, to get into as an EscapistCharacter.

** To clarify, Tsuruta was not OnlyInItForTheMoney, and had a genuine passion for professional wrestling. However, he was famously frugal, and was always frank about the fact that wrestling was his job, and on top of that was a career that he believed he wouldn't get much more than twenty-five years out of. Tsuruta wasn't the Japanese equivalent of Wrestling/KevinNash or anything; it was more that his way of life made him difficult for the core demographic, often salarymen themselves, to get into as an EscapistCharacter.