Maki Itoh was not impressed with Chris Brookes' dancing abilities.
Speaking with Andrew Thompson of POST Wrestling, the DDT Pro Wrestling star opened up about his experience working on Maki Itoh's entrance dance and how his inability to learn it quickly caused her to be quite mean to him.
"I remember the first time we [Brookes & Maki Itoh] ever teamed was — well not the first time but the first big match we had together was DDT’s Ultimate Party in 2019. It was almost like a very unfortunately, frequently used GIF of me doing Maki Itoh’s entrance dance that still three years later refuses to go away. But I remember I was trying to learn that dance before the show and it’s like my first time at Ryōgoku Sumo Hall so I’m like so nervous about that but then, before, I find myself not nervous about the match whatsoever. I’m just nervous about nailing this dance routine and trying to get it right and she keeps going through it and through it and through it and I’m like, I’m not a dancer so I’m struggling to pick it up and I remember at one point, she gets really angry with me. She’s like, ‘You’re not trying hard.’ I’m like, ‘I am trying hard. I’m not a dancer’ and she gets like — she was hot and it took Yuki Iino, DDT wrestler to come in and calm the situation down. I was like, ‘Enough of this. I’m doing my best. [Chris laughed]. I don’t need this stress today.’ She was like, ‘You need to try harder.’ I was like, ‘Why are you so mean?', he said
Itoh, who is one of the stars of TJPW, has also appeared for All Elite Wrestling on a multitude of occasions. Most recently, she was defeated by Dr. Britt Baker DMD in the first round of the Owen Hart Women's Tournament back on the 5/18 edition of Dynamite.
GCW recently revealed that Itoh would be making her debut for the promotion in August during Homecoming weekend.
Elsewhere during the interview, Brookes explained why he turned down an offer to join NXT UK when the brand was just starting.
