(NOAH) Katsuhiko Nakajima steps up the evil style before the GHC Heavyweight Challenge.

11th September 2018
Tokyo Sports

Katsuhiko Nakajima "the dark assassin" (30), who is challenging for Noah's GHC Heavyweight title on October 4th at Korakuen Hall, foretells a darkening.

Katsuhiko Nakajima, who will challenge the GHC Heavyweight Champion, Takashi Sugiura (48), said "The fans are wrong. I didn't mean to challenge. The veterans need to take it easy, and I will free them from their heavy responsibility" he said brazenly.
The champion is of the opinion about Nakajima's expression is that, "His bad character is in his face".

Immediately after Masa Kitamiya lost to Sugiura at Korakuen Hall on the 2nd, he made the title challenge as a way to respond to the fans. However, the fans had been expecting it.
The veteran, Takashi Sugiura, had been fighting like a demon after taking the belt in March. Noah is in the middle of a generation struggle, and he has dismissed the challenges of Atsushi Kotoge, Kenoh, Go Shiozaki and Masa Kitamiya, all of the younger generation.
Regarding his evil persona, which he revealed in the spring, he says "this is fun, because it is not my original self, and I have not done it all. There will be more before the title fight."
His lifestyle too has changed.
In the era of the Kensuke Office, the training plan and the balanced meal plan had been continued since then. "I have now quit them all. I eat what I want when I want, I sleep when I want, and practice when I want. I have liberated my life."
He sounds like a delinquent on a summer vacation.
"On the day of the title challenge, even I don't know what I will do"

If he fulfills the title challenge since losing it last August, it will be noteworthy whether he can make "the dark era".

Link to original article from Tokyo Sports (in Japanese)