{"id":30424,"date":"2018-11-08T22:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T03:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=30424"},"modified":"2018-11-08T22:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T03:02:55","slug":"taka-michinoku-ejected-from-kaientai-dojo-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/11\/08\/taka-michinoku-ejected-from-kaientai-dojo-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Taka Michinoku Ejected From Kaientai Dojo Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Monday, news broke in Japanese media of a scandal involving former WWE Superstar and WWE Light Heavyweight Champion <strong>Taka Michinoku<\/strong> (whose currently starring in <strong>New Japan Pro Wrestling<\/strong>). A <a href=\"https:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/hl?a=20181106-00000085-spnannex-fight\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 5 story in Yahoo Japan<\/a> reported that Taka Michinoku had been having an affair on his wife. While that may not seem like a huge scandal in North America &#8211; after all, WWE Superstar <strong>Bray Wyatt<\/strong> was the center of a similar incident with WWE ring announcer <strong>JoJo Offerman<\/strong>. But in Japan, family honor (and by default, family shame) is still a very big deal. In 2014, current NJPW star <strong>Taichi<\/strong> &#8211; coincidentally, a Suzuki-gun stablemate of Taka&#8217;s &#8211; was caught having an affair and in the midst of a growing push was suspended for two months and had his wages cut substantially during the time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taka Michinoku vs Pantera 2\/15\/98\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Is5OWiu09w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well today, <strong>Kaientai Dojo (K-DOJO)<\/strong> &#8211; the wrestling promotion actually started by Taka Michinoku in 2002 after he departed the WWE &#8211; through its board of directors <a href=\"https:\/\/proresu-today.com\/archives\/67474\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced the penalties for his actions<\/a>. While Michinoku will remain the company&#8217;s owner, the Board of Directors has voted to remove him from the Board completely, and suspend his earnings for one whole year.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ow4NH2mJxyw<\/p>\n<p>Taka Michinoku is an active member of the NJPW roster and Suzuki-gun, recently pairing up with UK sensation and stablemate <strong>Zack Sabre Jr.<\/strong> as the Englishman&#8217;s Japanese hype man &#8211; sort of like his own <strong>Paul Heyman<\/strong>. NJPW has yet to respond to the incident.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taka Michinoku: Pre match highlight from &#039;NEW JAPAN CUP 2018\u2019 Mar 11 2018 [English \/ Japanese subs]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5UcJ1lMhKTU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Monday, news broke in Japanese media of a scandal involving former WWE Superstar and WWE Light Heavyweight Champion Taka Michinoku (whose currently starring in New Japan Pro Wrestling). A November 5 story in Yahoo Japan reported that Taka Michinoku had been having an affair on his wife. While that may not seem like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":30428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[3842,1916],"class_list":["post-30424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","tag-kaientai-dojo","tag-taka-michinoku"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}