Yeah, WWE and their gimmicks. Shoichi Funaki is one of pro-wrestling's all-time great submission-wrestlers, especially with his crazy flying knee-bars, but I guess they never thought it would be interesting to use him for that angle. I always wondered if people backstage were familiar with what he was capable of. I just feel like, if you're going to have guys with submission-based gimmicks, why not use arguably the best guy around at that for the gimmick?

Of course, he looks silly and is not ripped. Which is I think, part of why, even in shoot-style orgs in Japan, he was usually not a main-event guy.