4 Reasons WWE Should Have Hired The Great Muta

3. Muta Knows How To Book WWE-Style Wrestling

Keiji Mutoh’s style of wrestling and booking aligns with Vince McMahon’s in many ways. Unlike most Japanese wrestlers, who are stiff, no-nonsense athletes without much of a discernible gimmick, Mutoh/Muta’s style is a hybrid of Japanese wrestling with heavy theatrics involved. Whether it was his work in New Japan, All Japan, WCW or HUSTLE, the Muta character has been an ideal example of wrestling mixed with theatrics.

Go watch some of Muta’s matches and storylines throughout the years. Sure, he has been in plenty of critically-acclaimed matches, but he has also cultivated an aura of entertainment and theatricality over the years. A prime example of this was a storyline in HUSTLE involving Muta, Tajiri, a woman named Yinling the Erotic Terrorist, and Akebono.

The storyline started off with what very well might be the greatest wrestling entrance ever:

Muta defeated Tajiri and Yinling, and ended the match by spitting his Asian Mist into her crotch. Apparently, somehow this got Yinling pregnant, and she then revealed an enormous egg from which hatched their lovechild, the Great Bono (played by sumo wrestler Akebono). I am not making any of this up.

The storyline then evolved into a loving father-son relationship that, oddly enough, endeared many fans to the HUSTLE product. This storyline was unbelievably wacky, even by wrestling standards, but Muta managed to make it work.

With WWE’s penchant for outlandish storylines, there’s a good chance Muta would’ve fit right in on the WWE roster. They could’ve incorporated many of his signature gimmick elements into a storyline and it could’ve worked wonders.

For example, in later years, Muta became this sort of demon that could be summoned to do evil in this world. He could only be summoned by anyone who possessed his magic genie lamp. But the Muta demon was unpredictable, and could turn on even those who held his lamp. Does this remind you of someone with a supernatural past and an unyielding fanbase?

This was a ready-made gimmick that would’ve worked in any story. WWE could’ve made him into another devious monster that terrorized the roster. They could’ve made him into a devious evil demon that serves a weaker wrestler, only to turn on them later for putting too much trust in the Muta monster, in a sort of twisted morality play.

Sometimes, wrestling stories just write themselves, and any WWE storylines with the Great Muta involved could fit easily into that category.