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1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Jumbo had four entrance themes throughout his career, each one a banger.
2	** 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 one of the first entrance themes 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".
3	** The second was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TESXKk7Tivk "Rolling Dreamer"]], used from 1980 through mid-1983. Jumbo recorded a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-APO9JsAHQ vocal version]] in 1979, for which he himself had written the lyrics.
4	** The third, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbzRDoULODE "T.T. Backdrop"]], is by far the most obscure, as he only used it once.
5	** Finally, there is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gBNVBjFutk "J"]]. The most famous of these, but not undeservedly so.
6	* BaseBreakingCharacter: While this had long since ceased even before his death, Tsuruta actually was this for a while. Tsuruta's public image averted a lot of the tropes associated with professional wrestlers in his day, even saying in the 1970s that he "didn't want to become a professional wrestling idiot". A commonly cited reason that he alienated the core demographic was that, when he announced his signing, he was the first professional wrestler to say that he had found employment, as opposed to having passed initiation or taken an apprenticeship. In subsequent years, as his public image continued to avert the trends of the common Japanese wrestler, this built to the point where Tsuruta was considered the first "salaryman wrestler".
7	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Jumbo's performances in AJPW's 1980s television skits. His turn as [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] is relatively well known: less so are the times he played ''Literature/SnowWhite and [[Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles Lady Oscar]]''.
8	* GrowingTheBeard: While he had been a very good wrestler for over a decade at this point, a fairly strong consensus has emerged in subsequent years that Jumbo's best work was in the back end of his (pre-hepatitis) career: approximately from around 1987 until mid-1992.

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