In a recent interview with New Japan Pro Wrestling’s official website, IWGP Heavyweight Champion and IWGP Intercontinental Champion Tetsuya Naito discussed his upcoming match against Kota Ibushi as part of tomorrow’s Wrestle Kingdom 15 Night 1 event.

“Look, when we get right down to it, what we’re here to do as pro wrestlers is simple, we want everyone buying a ticket, watching on TV, watching online in Japan and around the world to enjoy themselves, so if the wrestlers aren’t enjoying themselves, it doesn’t seem reasonable that the fans would.

Ibushi is the ideal opponent for me in that case and we’re doing it in the biggest match of the year, with more people watching than any other time, we’re going to blow all of them away.

For all I’ve said before though, fun and dangerous are not one and the same, there’s a lot of different angles to look at wrestling, a lot of different ways of enjoying it and Ibushi is the best for bringing that fun out.”

The interview is available in full at this link.