In a recent interview with New Japan Pro Wrestling’s official website, Hiromu Takahashi discussed several topics, including winning the 2022 NJPW Best of the Super Juniors Tournament.

“This is my third consecutive Best of the Super Juniors win, but it’s only in the last one-and-a-half years, moreover, last year and the year before were held at the same time as the World Tag League, which was irregular. Of course, three consecutive Championships is the result, but the impact of this year’s competition was tremendous.

I don’t think this streak will be surpassed for the time being, however I think that from here on out, there will continue to be a series of undesired, annoying consecutive Championship wins. Even with the three consecutive tournament wins, I have received such comments as far as I can see, I feel that from now on, it will be a battle against such things.

Nowadays, we live in the age of social network, so such opinions are visible to the public, aren’t they. There are people who have the guts to go out of their way to post on official accounts so that the wrestlers can see them. I understand the stress of not being able to boo at the venue, however I have noticed that there are many of them recently. I feel that there are a lot of slanderous comments in the name of ‘opinions’, I am surprised that they are still doing it.”

The full interview is available at this link.