I'm almost at a loss of words to describe this
one. Ken here is the product of what can only be considered abstract-art-by-way-of-professional-wrestling.
A little backstory: In Japan, there's a fed called Saitama Puroesu (SPWC), which is basically an indy fed. So indy, in fact, that they don't even have a ring, but rather, perform their shows on mats. The main eventer for these shows is this guy, Survival Tobita...
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Anyway, this guy's a modern day monster-slayer or something. With each show, he faces some new "monster" wrestler, and not of the Kane variety. These creatures are poorly dressed in bad costumes and given horribly weird backstories. There's a recent one called Education Mamagon, whose offensive fighting includes forcing Tobita to read a book during the match! Totally bizarre, but that's a story for another day. However, there's one of these monsters that Tobita has yet to defeat, and that's Ken here. After, I believe, 3 matches, Survival has yet to beat the man of wood... And if you're wondering: no, there isn't much mobility in that suit. Basically, he just swings his arms around. |
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Something I need to point out since originally posting this entry. I've had countless emails letting me know that Mokugin was originally a character from the video game TEKKEN 3, as seen in the pics here, donated to us by Michael Cushing. However, I've also found out that even the Tekken game isn't the characters true source, as he is actually an older Japanese legend that the video game people just incorporated into the game. |
And somehow, it's still a better gimmick than The Red Rooster.