TAKA Michinoku in the WWF

Question
My memory of wrestling goes back to 2000 with the WWF when I was just seven. With all these memories, one thing that bugs me about that era is TAKA Michinoku. When I was getting back into wrestling last year, I decided to check out stuff from my childhood and remembered the team of jobbers Kaientai.

I learned that it was once a larger group that actually weren't jobbers. I also learned of TAKA's major push as a LHW early in his WWF career. What really amazed me was the skill he showed when he was allowed to get on the offensive in a match.

What I'm trying to figure out is what happened to make the WWF creative team, or whatever power decided it, to make him a jobber. He clearly had a vast amount of skill, but they made him and his other talented partner, Sho Funaki, a comedic jobber tag team.

Was it due to him not possessing a large enough grasp of English, a manager might of helped in this case though, or was it that the WWF didn't find him marketable? Perhaps it was a incident(s) backstage that caused him to be knocked down to jobber status.

I was hoping you could help clear things up or steer me in the right direction. I was also wondering if you know anything of a WWF diary TAKA published after he left. I've heard of it but cant find anything on it.

Answer
How are you doing Hugh?

Kaientai was a very successful team in it's day, but due to lack of size, they fell down the level to jobber status.  Taka and Funaki and Men's Teoh (the third member of Kaientai) also had other interests outside the WWE/F.  Taka was also booking for Michonoku Pro (his father's league in Japan), Teoh still had multiple obligations in Japan, Korea, and Mexico, and Funaki was the workhorse of the team, but not very charismatic.  Funaki's size is why he was never given a manager.  The manager can't be bigger then the wrestler.

WWE likes their roster members to be devoted to WWE first.  Taka and Teoh were not interested in WWE as much.  Teoh was making more on the indy circuit then in WWE.  Taka was more devoted to his fed in Japan.  This is why they fell down to Jobber status.  However, Taka and Funaki went to WWE creative and recommended the "EVIL" lipsync gimmick that did get over.  He brought it to Japan as a group of Americans that lipsynced Japanese very poorly.  He was testing it out in WWE.  

Taka did put out a diary of his experiences in WWE and from what I understand it made its way to print, however, it was done in Japanese.  He put it together for other Japanese wrestlers trying to make it in America.  I know little more then that.

I hope that answers your question about Kaientai.  For the record, I was a fan of theirs as well and wish they could have done more.