Is WWE Prejudice Against Asians?

The last time WWE had a champion of Asian descent was 1987 and it was Ricky Steamboat as Intercontinetal Champion. With the amount of talent from Japan and of asian decent you'd think WWE would have had more asian champions.

In today's day and age when we might be about to elect the first black president, and finally after centuries and decades of predjudice towards people from different countries and ethnicities, we as a country are finally making strides to treat everyone equal with the same equal opportunities.

That is however an exception if your in WWE.

While African Americans have had moderate success in the world of wrestling.

With the likes of Ron Simmons being the first black world champion during his WCW days.

To Rocky Johnson and Tony Altas being Tag Champions.

To The Rock being the first WWE world champion of Black/Samoan decent.

To current stars and champions like Shelton Benjamin, MVP, Mark Henry, and TNA's Booker T, who was the second  person of African American descent to be World Champion in WCW.

Then there's the Latinos of the world of wrestling.

They have been long associated with pro wrestling.

Those of Mexican and Latino descent have had long and elustrious careers in wrestling winning many championships.

The likes of Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Pedro Morales, Hector Guerrero, Chavo Guerrero, and Chavo Jr have not only been major stars, but many of them have revolutionlized the style of wrestling and have permanently put a flair or lucha libre style into mainstream American wrestling.

The list of different countries, and it's people's and there impact on wrestling can go on and on.

We all know what Canadians have contributed to wrestling.

But then there's the one group for some reason who have never gotten the deserved push and respect that other nationalities have.

And those are the Asian stars of American wrestling.

Which in itself is an oxymoron.

While people from the isles of Samoa have long been associated with wrestling and have also made many many champions.

The people of Asia, have never gotten a foothold on a WWE/WWF world championship or major star status here in The United States.

Which in my opinion is not only a shame but a crime.

To further show my point, why is it, the last champion of Asian decent, who really is from Hawaii was Ricky The Dragon Steamboat.

I for one loved Steamboat as kid.

Steamboat had great athletic ability, and a great personality.

Yet after a short stint as I-C champion and an inablity to come to an understanding with WWF that he needed time to be with his wife who was about to give birth to his son, and soon after having one of the most exciting matches in Wrestlemania history he was gone from WWE/WWF.

It seems NWA was always more open to promoting Japanese and Asian stars.

Not only did NWA snatch up Steamboat and had him in one of Ric Flair's most memorable fueds of the late '80s, they made Steamboat a World Champion. NWA often had cross promotional matches brining stars of Japan to work events as well.

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