{"id":14302,"date":"2014-10-20T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/?p=14302"},"modified":"2014-10-20T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T13:49:52","slug":"the-great-muta-confronts-the-rock-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/news\/the-great-muta-confronts-the-rock-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Muta Confronts The Rock In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, legendary Japanese wrestler Keiji Mutoh (a\/k\/a The Great Muta) vowed to attack Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson during his visit this weekend in Tokyo to promote the release of Hercules. At a promotional event on Sunday, Mutoh, dressed as Hercules, confronted Johnson.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"photo-link  box-0\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Paramount_Japan\/status\/523771834966089728\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" data-scribe=\"element:photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"autosized-media\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B0TPs2UCcAE2ZBI.jpg\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"396\" height=\"528\" data-srcset=\"https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FB0TPs2UCcAE2ZBI.jpg%3Alarge 768w,https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FB0TPs2UCcAE2ZBI.jpg 600w,https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FB0TPs2UCcAE2ZBI.jpg%3Asmall 340w\" data-crop-x=\"0\" data-crop-y=\"26\" data-image-index=\"0\" data-height=\"800\" data-width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After engaging in some banter, the two shook hands.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"photo-link  box-0\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Paramount_Japan\/status\/523772019058302976\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" data-scribe=\"element:photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"autosized-media\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B0TP3d0CcAA0-yI.jpg\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"402\" height=\"536\" data-srcset=\"https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FB0TP3d0CcAA0-yI.jpg%3Alarge 768w,https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FB0TP3d0CcAA0-yI.jpg 600w,https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FB0TP3d0CcAA0-yI.jpg%3Asmall 340w\" data-crop-x=\"0\" data-crop-y=\"26\" data-image-index=\"0\" data-height=\"800\" data-width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johnson then called it an honor to meet the legendary Mutoh, and called him inspiring.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"photo-link  box-0\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cinematoday_stf\/status\/523772129070698497\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" data-scribe=\"element:photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"autosized-media\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B0TP92ACYAAwrAk.jpg\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"482\" height=\"361\" data-srcset=\"https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FB0TP92ACYAAwrAk.jpg%3Alarge 1024w,https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FB0TP92ACYAAwrAk.jpg 600w,https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FB0TP92ACYAAwrAk.jpg%3Asmall 340w\" data-crop-x=\"0\" data-crop-y=\"14\" data-image-index=\"0\" data-height=\"450\" data-width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mutoh has been angling for a match with Johnson in Japan since 2002. In May of that year, he met with Johnson to discuss wrestling each other while Johnson was in the country to promote <em>The Scorpion King<\/em>. It was reported that Mutoh was attempting to open the lines of communication between All Japan Pro Wrestling and WWE.Nothing ever came of the meeting. The two had a staredown at a WWE\u00a0event in Yokohama a few months prior when Mutoh was doing commentary for one of the television stations that featured highlights of the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised by Keiji Mutoh himself, the Great Muta did indeed confront the Rock when Rocky recently visited the country of Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[366,283],"class_list":["post-14302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-muta","tag-rock"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14303,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14302\/revisions\/14303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}