10 Wrestlers You Didn't Know Worked For ROH
You certainly won't remember these wrestlers in Ring of Honor
9. The Great Muta
One of Ring of Honor’s main strengths in the 2000s was their ability to import some of the world’s best talent and book them in dream matches.
This is especially true of their knack for flying over some of Japan’s finest performers. The group managed to get everyone from Kenta Kobashi and Mitusharu Misawa to Jushin Liger and the Dragon Gate crew.
One puroresu legend who made the trip but whose efforts often get overlooked is Keiji Mutoh, AKA the Great Muta.
The mist master showed up for ROH’s Final Battle 2003, bringing members of the All Japan Pro-Wrestling roster along with him.
On the undercard, his colleagues Kazushi Miyamoto and Tomoaki Honma took on the Second City Saints, Kaz Hayashi fought AJ Styles and Satoshi Kojima put away Homicide. In the main event, Muta teamed with Arashi to beat The Prophecy.
The circumstances around Mutoh and All Japan’s involvement are interesting, since they saw the booking as a chance to take a vacation between tours in their own country, assuming they’d be working in front of 250 fans in some high school gym.
When they were greeted by 1,500 enthusiastic diehard fans who gave them a hero’s welcome, they changed their tunes and put their working boots on.
This was Muta’s only Ring of Honor appearance, until he popped up in the dark match rumble on a combined ROH/New Japan Madison Square Garden supercard in 2016.
