Those feelings carried over until the day of the event for Tyler Breeze. When it came time to meet the legendary Japanese wrestler, the superkicking supermodel didn’t even know that it was happening. But when he did realize what was going on, he couldn’t have asked for a better scenario with the iconic NJPW star.

“I end up getting to Brooklyn and I never met him,” he said. “I have no clue what he looks like. So I sit down in catering and there’s a guy who sits across from me. He’s an older Asian dude. You wouldn’t recognize anything about him and he’s sitting across from me. I just kind of stared at him and … so I just went, ‘Hey man! I think we’re working tonight.’ And he goes, ‘Please put the whole match together. I don’t really understand the style. Whatever you want to do.’ I’m telling him the match and he’s just being so ridiculously respectful on stuff. I went, ‘Hey, maybe this and then you go and grab my phone and then you lay up in the corner?’ 

“He goes, ‘Oh, thank you, thank you!’ No, no, no, thank you, man! It was literally just like that the whole time. Nothing but respect. Nothing but class. Everything in the ring was fantastic. Everybody was happy with it. He was happy with it.”