Trivia / Último Dragón

• Creator Killer: The dragondoor promotion and the convoluted angle revolving around the Ultimo Dragon mask. ^elaboration After the end of his WWE stint, there was talk of bringing Dragon back, sans mask, under his real name Yoshihiro Asai. Asai unmasked in Japan in preparation. Then nothing came of it. He ended up taking up the lineage of the Tiger Mask gimmick, becoming The Tiger II. He then opened a promotion called dragondoor. dragondoor's central angle was focused on Asai's gimmick ordeals. It had various imposter Ultimo Dragons and Tiger Masks, and even a character called Tiger Dragon whose mask was split vertically down the middle, one half Tiger Mask one half Ultimo Dragon. The angle did muddy the issue with the masks enough that Asai was able to return to the Ultimo Dragon gimmick afterwards, but it was so haphazardly booked and inscrutable that it's credited with dragondoor's six show lifespan.
• Fake Nationality: Being a Masked Luchador, he was often billed as being from Mexico.
• Promoted Fanboy: Say whatever you will about his WWE run or what transpired after it, Último Dragón can always say he lived his dream of competing at WrestleMania. He also lived the dream of wrestling under the Tiger Mask (as The Tiger II, Satoru Sayama’s first gimmick in the UWF), his childhood hero.
• Recycled Soundtrack: His WWE theme was recycled for Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat's comeback.
• Referenced by...: The song "Orange Faygo" by the rap group Clear Soul Forces:
  "Ultimate spazzin' if there's a title for lyricism I'm Ultimo Dragon
  Double my body weight in championship belts and carry them no problem"
• What Could Have Been: He once proposed to become the third Tiger Mask while he was working for CMLL but the promoters associated dragons with the Japanese, which is how he got the Ultimo Dragon gimmick. He later thought about being Ultimo Dragon exclusively in Mexico while becoming Tiger Mask in Japan, but The Great Kabuki talked him out of it.