Tag: Funaki

November 21, 2014 /

There was a strange night a few weeks ago when I had a small flurry of new followers on Twitter for some odd reason. One of them was Funaki. I know I didn’t dream this because I still have the notification in my email: FUNAKI (@shofufu824) is now following you on Twitter! A few days later I looked through the list for some reason and noticed Funaki had disappeared from my followers list. And I…

June 15, 2014 /

I think many wrestling fans who were watching that night more than a decade ago remember when Brock Lesnar said “Where’s Funaki?”  It became something of a cult meme, and that was back when only the most effete intellectuals I knew were calling things memes.  Why was this tiny moment so memorable to us? Brock Lesnar was so scary when he debuted!  He was a snarling, teeth-gnashing, bicep-flexing meat-headed monster, a goon who would beat…