(NOAH) "I guess I am trying to take the last medal of the 25th anniversary, and I will not let it go." ~ Daisuke Harada interview
February 2019
Weekly Pro
Q: Last year you gained a lot of attention with the battle with Kotaro Suzuki?
HARADA: It was a fight that I could really see my bad side in
Q: What kind of facet is that?
HARADA: I came to professional wrestling honestly, but I couldn't always keep up with the variety of styles. I noticed that I couldn't see what was around me. There is pride in the current Noah juniors, and it was good that I found my growth in the fight against Kotaro Suzuki by losing against him previously, it was good.
Q: So, it has been good having the repetition of losing and then rebuilding, and this time vs the past was your theme?
HARADA: This is the first time we had fought directly. Kotaro was aware of it, but people saw it as a fight against the past. I knew how he was seen as a Noah junior, and I thought that I should make more things new.
Q: On the contrary, when you took the belt, Kotaro joined with Ogawa and took YO-HEY and HAYATA from RATELS. Rather than new things, the circumstances have destroyed them...
HARADA: That's true, but I think that how is it supposed to be done by the older people. If those two make a difference, it will become a topic, bask in it, and ask why that someone else isn't doing? It's regrettable that there are wrestler who I feel are not concerned.
Q: On the 10th March, Minoru Tanaka will challenge?
Harada says something like that Tanaka had had a career, but so as he, and he isn't demanding anything (doesn't translate well). He ends by saying that Tanaka is so perfect, he can't really see a chink in his armor.
Q: You defeated him in December 2017?
HARADA: I won the last time. The match is evaluated every so often and said to be a "great match", but I cannot comprehend that my opponent was not a NOAH junior wrestler. Had I lost then, then things would have changed. At the beginning of the year, the Noah Junior's changed, and by the end of it, outsiders came into Noah, but only for their own glory. So, I could not afford to lose so easily. At the time I was fighting not only for myself, but with the emotions of those who had been fighting that year.
Q: Currently, Minoru is well established in Noah.
HARADA: I'm used to it. Although at first I said that I sensed he was a bit out of place, but before I knew it he was like someone who is a Noah Junior, and now I am complacent about it I think.
Q: He didn't challenge last year, what about the timing this year?
HARADA: It's because of his 25th anniversary this year isn't it? I'm celebrating. Well, there is self love among pro-wrestlers, but he is an especially tough person. It's about saying "Mino-Sama" to yourself. I guess I am trying to take the last medal of the 25th anniversary, and I will not let it go.
Q: How have the pre-match fights been?
HARADA: I won once, but there is still a long way to go, and I cannot afford to be careless. He has changed since he announced the challenge, and he wasn't there during the match. On the 1st February, just for a moment after the elbow, his face changed and it was like I was seeing it for the first time.
Q: It wasn't Minoru...
HARADA: There was no meaning and nothing rewarding about him having the belt. I believe the value of the belt will rise because I am doing it with all seriousness with Tanaka, I believe the value of the belt will rise. He might have a vision, but so do I.
Q: What kind of vision?
HARADA: The company has coined the phrase, "leaving Misawa", so in a sense I think it will be a branching point here. I want to make the best juniors in the world, I cannot lose for that.
Q: Rivals are essential for that
HARADA: But I cannot find one.
Q: Taiji Ishimori, Atsushi Kotoge, you've been fighting a few names, but...
HARADA: Last January I thought it was starting with Ohara, but after that such an attractive wrestler became invisible to me. I want a rival. After all in RATELS, HAYATA, YO-HEY, out of everyone there was a sense of fulfillment with Tadasuke.
Q: What about the other Noah juniors?
HARADA: That's just it. I don't want to say too much, and I didn't want to say it last year either, but I want it to ring out.
Q: You also have a dream of re-entering the Edion Arena in Osaka?
HARADA: I said so in the ring last year, and so I have to hold on to that this year. Another ten months, and I will definitely do it. The path is to the main event, and because it is local to me, I don't want to give it to the others.
Weekly Pro
HARADA: It was a fight that I could really see my bad side in
Q: What kind of facet is that?
HARADA: I came to professional wrestling honestly, but I couldn't always keep up with the variety of styles. I noticed that I couldn't see what was around me. There is pride in the current Noah juniors, and it was good that I found my growth in the fight against Kotaro Suzuki by losing against him previously, it was good.
Q: So, it has been good having the repetition of losing and then rebuilding, and this time vs the past was your theme?
HARADA: This is the first time we had fought directly. Kotaro was aware of it, but people saw it as a fight against the past. I knew how he was seen as a Noah junior, and I thought that I should make more things new.
Q: On the contrary, when you took the belt, Kotaro joined with Ogawa and took YO-HEY and HAYATA from RATELS. Rather than new things, the circumstances have destroyed them...
HARADA: That's true, but I think that how is it supposed to be done by the older people. If those two make a difference, it will become a topic, bask in it, and ask why that someone else isn't doing? It's regrettable that there are wrestler who I feel are not concerned.
Q: On the 10th March, Minoru Tanaka will challenge?
Harada says something like that Tanaka had had a career, but so as he, and he isn't demanding anything (doesn't translate well). He ends by saying that Tanaka is so perfect, he can't really see a chink in his armor.
Q: You defeated him in December 2017?
HARADA: I won the last time. The match is evaluated every so often and said to be a "great match", but I cannot comprehend that my opponent was not a NOAH junior wrestler. Had I lost then, then things would have changed. At the beginning of the year, the Noah Junior's changed, and by the end of it, outsiders came into Noah, but only for their own glory. So, I could not afford to lose so easily. At the time I was fighting not only for myself, but with the emotions of those who had been fighting that year.
Q: Currently, Minoru is well established in Noah.
HARADA: I'm used to it. Although at first I said that I sensed he was a bit out of place, but before I knew it he was like someone who is a Noah Junior, and now I am complacent about it I think.
Q: He didn't challenge last year, what about the timing this year?
HARADA: It's because of his 25th anniversary this year isn't it? I'm celebrating. Well, there is self love among pro-wrestlers, but he is an especially tough person. It's about saying "Mino-Sama" to yourself. I guess I am trying to take the last medal of the 25th anniversary, and I will not let it go.
Q: How have the pre-match fights been?
HARADA: I won once, but there is still a long way to go, and I cannot afford to be careless. He has changed since he announced the challenge, and he wasn't there during the match. On the 1st February, just for a moment after the elbow, his face changed and it was like I was seeing it for the first time.
Q: It wasn't Minoru...
HARADA: There was no meaning and nothing rewarding about him having the belt. I believe the value of the belt will rise because I am doing it with all seriousness with Tanaka, I believe the value of the belt will rise. He might have a vision, but so do I.
Q: What kind of vision?
HARADA: The company has coined the phrase, "leaving Misawa", so in a sense I think it will be a branching point here. I want to make the best juniors in the world, I cannot lose for that.
Q: Rivals are essential for that
HARADA: But I cannot find one.
Q: Taiji Ishimori, Atsushi Kotoge, you've been fighting a few names, but...
HARADA: Last January I thought it was starting with Ohara, but after that such an attractive wrestler became invisible to me. I want a rival. After all in RATELS, HAYATA, YO-HEY, out of everyone there was a sense of fulfillment with Tadasuke.
Q: What about the other Noah juniors?
HARADA: That's just it. I don't want to say too much, and I didn't want to say it last year either, but I want it to ring out.
Q: You also have a dream of re-entering the Edion Arena in Osaka?
HARADA: I said so in the ring last year, and so I have to hold on to that this year. Another ten months, and I will definitely do it. The path is to the main event, and because it is local to me, I don't want to give it to the others.
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