Tear Jerker / Fighting Opera HUSTLE

• Zebraman being defeated by Tiger Jeet Singh despite all the effort he put to motivate himself, listening to Hashimoto's lecture about fighting spirit and even going to the zoo to gain the heart of a tiger.
• The revelation of Shinya Hashimoto's death, especially his best friend Ogawa's speech. At its end, with everybody in the arena doing the HUSTLE Pose, people was crying on the rows.
  "Excuse me. It has been sudden, too sudden for me, and I’m afraid I have no suitable words, but someone has to say it.
  Just as I was the father of the brainchild that is HUSTLE, Hashimoto was its mother. I remember that we both wanted to spread the HUSTLE Pose across the world. Hashimoto wanted to rebuild professional wrestling more than anyone in this project, and he was training with the desire to return before he passed away.
  However, we have no right to cry now. As someone as hearty as him would have liked, I want us to send him our salute in a HUSTLE way. There's another HUSTLE Pose he created back when he lived, the HUSTLE Tornado, and I would like to do it to express our condolences. He always said, 'even if everybody is, don’t you be shy!'. Everybody, please, don’t be shy.
  [All the fans get up.]
  HUSTLE King, Shinya Hashimoto, keep hustling in heaven!"
  [Everybody does the HUSTLE Tornado Pose while Hashimoto’s theme goes on.]
• The Shinya Hashimoto Memorial at HUSTLE-11. An armistice is played and everybody comes to the ring, HUSTLE and Monster alike. Ogawa's speech was as crushing as the previous.
  "Four days have passed since Hashimoto died. To be honest, I still cannot believe it. When I debuted as a professional wrestler nine years ago, we were rivals, but we later became companions. After that, Hashimoto quit New Japan and launched ZERO-ONE, and then we launched HUSTLE together.
  Hashimoto broke his shoulder and was forced to withdraw for a long time, but nobody was training harder than him to be able to return to the ring. And he was about to return, just before he died."
• Just how much Taichi Ishikari was beaten and humiliated through his entire career in the promotion. Especially his mock birthday party by the Monster Army in HUSTLE House Vol.6, where he was crushed by Giant Silva and being splashed with hot candle wax by Shimada.
• RG's final match against Monster HG, who the HUSTLE Army has tried unsuccessfuly to revert back to his former self. Before the match, RG tries to give him a letter he has written down for him, but Monster HG attacks him, and it takes some wrestling before RG capitalizes on a failed spot and sits down in the ring ladder to read him his letter.
  "HG.
  "Four years ago, when you broke out in TV as Hard Gay, I was left behind. On the surface, I was unconcerned, but deep inside, my heart was filled up with jealously and insecurity. You became a popular person, and I did not. I want to confess, at that moment, I thought about breaking up the duo. But, at the end, I could not do it. Do you remember? Two years ago, we teamed up for the first time in Osaka."
  *The titantron shows a clip of HG and RG teaming up for the first time in HUSTLE-22. Watching it, HG starts screaming and trashing in the ring, his evil personality overwhelmed with memories. RG continues reading.*
  "I have to say it, we lost the match. But afterwards, we embraced in the locker room, sobbing. For us, it had been better than winning the M-1 Grand Prix. You were the best to be with, even better than a wife! That was really you. You were the one who understood me the best. I loved you, and you loved me back as well. HG, wake up and open your eyes!"
• Even after HG is returned to the good side, HG having ill feelings about it.
  "Although my memory is fragmented, I can say that I knew it was you all the time, RG, and you cannot imagine how terrible it was to me. Fans, HUSTLE Army guys, I'm sorry about all the trouble I have caused!"