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| Name | Maunakea Mossman |
|---|---|
| Names | Maunakea MossmanTaiyō Kea Agnes Kamen |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) |
| Weight | 234 lb (106 kg) |
| Birth date | November 18, 1975 |
| Birth place | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Resides | Japan |
| Trainer | AJPW DojoGiant BabaYoshinari OgawaKeiji Mutoh |
| Debut | November 26, 1994 |
Maunakea Mossman is an American professional wrestler, better known under his stage name Taiyō Kea (太陽ケア). Although he was born in Hawaii, he has spent nearly his entire career as a member of the Japan-based All Japan Pro Wrestling promotion. He is the only wrestler to have held the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship and the AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Championship.
In 2001, Kea also bean appearing in New Japan Pro Wrestling where he became a member of Keiji Mutoh's stable: BATT and by October 2001 would form a successful tag team with Mutoh as they made history twice in one week by winning both AJPW's Double Cup and New Japan Pro Wrestling's IWGP Tag Team Titles, which made them the first team to not only win both titles, but also the first to hold them simultaneously. The team also would win the 2001 World's Strongest Tag League. On June 16, 2002, Kea competed in the tournament to crown the first MLW World Heavyweight Champion, where he defeated The Wall in the Quarter-Finals, wrestled Vampiro to a draw in the Semi-Finals and lost in the Final to Shane Douglas in a 3-Way Dance (which also featured Vampiro). Kea would compete for Major League Wrestling again on September 26, 2002, where he defeated Sabu in a #1 Contender's Match for the MLW title, but Kea never returned to the promotion to claim his title shot.
In 2003, Kea joined Taka Michinoku's RO&D; stable as second-in-command, and proceeded to win the AJPW World Tag Team Titles for a fourth time with Jamal. On April 20, 2006, Kea won AJPW's Champion Carnival, defeating Minoru Suzuki in the semifinals and Suwama in the finals. On July 3, 2006, he won the Triple Crown Championship by defeating Satoshi Kojima. He would only hold the championship for 2 months, as he lost to mixed martial artist/freelancer Minoru Suzuki on September 3. He participated in the Real World Tag League 2006 with Taka Michinoku as his partner, finishing fourth in the bracket with 5 points (two wins, two losses, one draw).
Taiyō Kea challenged Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship at NJPW's January 4, 2007 Tokyo Dome show, albeit in a losing effort, falling to Tanahashi's High Fly Flow. On February 17, Kea and Kawada defeated Suwama and RO'Z to claim the vacant Double Cup. On March 26 - March 30, Kea competed in Block A of the 2007 Champion's Carnival, finishing with 4 points (one win, one loss, two draws).
In 2008, Kea and Suzuki formed a stable named GURENTAI with Tokyo Gurentai's MAZADA, NOSAWA Rongai, and TAKEMURA. He and Suzuki won the Double Cup during the Crossover tour on June 28.
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| Name | Ryota Hama |
|---|---|
| Height | |
| Weight | |
| Birth date | November 21, 1979 |
| Birth place | Ibaraki, Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
| Name | Hama, Ryota |
| Date of birth | November 21, 1979 |
| Place of birth | Ibaraki, Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
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| Name | Minoru Suzuki |
|---|---|
| Caption | Suzuki in April 2008. |
| Birth date | June 17, 1968 |
| Birth place | Yokohama, Kanagawa |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Height | |
| Weight | |
| Style | Catch wrestling |
| Team | Pancrase Mission |
| Rank | Olympian Alternate Freestyle Wrestler |
| Mma win | 28 |
| Mma kowin | 2 |
| Mma subwin | 19 |
| Mma loss | 19 |
| Mma draw | 0 |
Suzuki is well noted for his excellence in freestyle wrestling and catch wrestling. He was an Olympic alternate freestyle wrestler for Japan and former Japanese freestyle wrestling national champion. As good as his wrestling credentials are, Suzuki is even more respected for his excellence in the art of catch wrestling and submissions. Suzuki has been praised many times by elite fighters such as Josh Barnett, Bas Rutten and Ken Shamrock for his outstanding grappling and submission skills.
Despite his significant size disadvantage against most competitors, Suzuki became one of the most successful fighters in Pancrase with his amazing submission skills and top wrestling ability. Suzuki began his MMA career going 7-0, including a huge upset win over Pancrase's #1 fighter Ken Shamrock in early 1994. He did not lose a match until he lost to Bas Rutten via Liver shot KO due to a knee to the body. In 1995, he won the King of Pancrase (now KOP Open-Weight) title to become the second ever King of Pancrase. Suzuki twice defeated Ken Shamrock and is the only man to hold two wins over Shamrock in the Pancrase era.
Over time, Suzuki's body became damaged and worn down from various injuries and resulted in his skills diminishing. He then decided to focus on the business and training side of Pancrase. He collaborated with the Tekken series of fighting video games as a motion actor. His last non-worked fight for Pancrase was against a professional wrestler, Jushin Liger, whom Suzuki had known as Keiichi Yamada in his first NJPW stint. At the time he competed in grappling matches almost exclusively. Suzuki witnessed the transition Pancrase made from the so-called "hybrid wrestling" style to that of regular MMA and was instrumental in paving the way for mixed martial arts in Japan.
Suzuki is also erroneously credited on his mixed martial arts record by various MMA websites with a loss to Maurice Smith on the event Pancrase- Yes, We are Hybrid Wrestlers 3. Suzuki did lose the bout with Smith, but the bout was a kickboxing match with kickboxing rules and kickboxing gloves and was not a mixed martial arts match.
At the All Japan FAN APPRECIATION DAY event on December 16, 2007, the Mexico Amigos teamed with "Ray Suzuki" and defeated Ryuji Hijikata, Kikutaro, T28 & Ryuji Yamaguchi. After the match, Ray Suzuki reveled himself as Minoru Suzuki and vowed that El NOSAWA Mendoza would throw his Amigos tights away and return as NOSAWA Rongai, and then kidnapped him to start early training.
On March 1, 2008, Minoru Suzuki made an appearance at the Dory Funk, Jr. retirement show, providing commentary for the Triple Crown Championship main event (between Kensuke Sasaki and Satoshi Kojima), as well as pledging to participate in the upcoming Champion's Carnival. From April 5 to 9, Suzuki competed in Block B of All Japan's annual Champion's Carnival, finishing the league with 2 wins (over Kensuke Sasaki and Suwama) and 2 losses (to Osamu Nishimura and Joe Doering), as well as teaming with TAKEMURA to defeat Toshiaki Kawada and Nobutaka Araya on Day 2 (April 6) of the Carnival. During the Hold Out tour, Suzuki confronted a losing-streak Taiyō Kea about joining the stable GURENTAI (alongside NOSAWA, MAZADA and TAKEMURA), which resulted in Kea joining and focusing on winning the tag titles with Suzuki. On June 28, 2008, Suzuki and Kea won the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship from Joe Doering and Keiji Mutoh. On September 28, 2008 he attacked The Great Muta after Muta had successfully defeated Suwama for the Triple Crown Championship, setting up a match between the two in which he lost on November 3, 2008.
On January 3, 2009, Suzuki and stable mate NOSAWA Rongai won the restored AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship, over the course of a 2-day tournament. Later in the year, Suzuki won the 2009 Champion's Carnival beating Kaz Hayashi in the Finals. He would end up challenging the then Triple Crown Champion, Yoshihiro Takayama, on May 30, 2009, albeit in a losing effort. On September 23, 2009, Suzuki and NOSAWA lost the All Asia Tag Team Championship at the hands of Akebono and Ryota Hama. On January 3, 2010, Suzuki and Kea lost the Unified World Tag Team Championship at the hands of Masakatsu Funaki and Keiji Mutoh.
On March 21, 2010, Suzuki lost to long-time rival Masakatsu Funaki in All Japan's First Cage Match. Suzuki then entered the Champion Carnival and won it for the second straight year, being the third man to do so by beating Funaki in the Final - weeks removed from their Cage Match. After the final, Suzuki buried the hatchet with Funaki by shaking his hand, thus ending the decade-long rivalry. Suzuki then declared his GURENTAI stable on hiatus. As a result of his Champion Carnival victory, Suzuki earned a Triple Crown championship match versus Ryota Hama on May 2. In the match, Suzuki defeated Hama to claim his second Triple Crown championship. He would go on to lose the title to Suwama on August 29, 2010.
On December 12, 2010, Suzuki returned to New Japan Pro Wrestling, attacking old rival Yuji Nagata. On January 4, 2011, at Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome, Suzuki faced Nagata in a losing effort.
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| Name | Masakatsu Funaki |
|---|---|
| Caption | Funaki in 2010 |
| Birth date | March 13, 1969 |
| Birth place | Aomori Prefecture, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Height | |
| Weight | |
| Weight class | Middleweight |
| Style | Catch wrestling |
| Mma win | 38 |
| Mma kowin | 4 |
| Mma subwin | 33 |
| Mma loss | 12 |
| Mma draw | 1 |
| Mma nc | 1 |
, is a Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler who wrestled in New Japan Pro Wrestling, PWFG, as well as the UWF. He is currently performing at All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is one half of the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Champions, along with Keiji Mutoh. He is also the co-founder of Pancrase, one of the first mixed martial arts organizations and non-rehearsed shoot wrestling promotions (following five years after the inception of Shooto but predating America's Ultimate Fighting Championship). Funaki was also Pancrase's biggest star; Josh Barnett described him as the "symbol of Japan", Frank Shamrock labeled Funaki "the golden boy" of Pancrase, and Guy Mezger called Funaki "hands down the smartest and most skilled fighter in Pancrase next to Ken Shamrock".
Not only the organization's co-founder, Funaki was also one of Pancrase's most successful fighters to date, scoring submission victories over numerous MMA champions such as Ken Shamrock, Frank Shamrock, Guy Mezger, Yuki Kondo, Minoru Suzuki and Bas Rutten through the course of his 50-fight career. He is the only fighter in mixed martial arts to hold wins over both Shamrock brothers and Bas Rutten, and was the first man to win the King of Pancrase title twice.
Funaki is widely considered to be one of the greatest Japanese fighters in mixed martial arts history according to Sherdog.com Sherdog.com ranked him as the #1 mixed martial artist in the world for the years 1996 and 1997, and also had him ranked as a top 4 pound for pound fighter from 1993 to 1998.
The New Japan Dojo had a reputation for being particularly harsh on its trainees, both mentally and physically, with the intent of only graduating the very best of each class. However, Funaki stunned the New Japan trainers with his athleticism, timing and natural talent for submission grappling. Along with the former Olympic alternate Minoru Suzuki, Funaki formed a strong bond with the dojo's head grappling instructor, Yoshiaki Fujiwara. Funaki debuted as a Jr. Heavyweight at the tender age of 15; it was a record for the youngest debut in NJPW.
After debuting for New Japan with a time-limit draw against fellow New Japan Dojo graduate Chris Benoit, Funaki was not given much of a chance to shine, as the Jr. Heavyweight division was in a transition period. And as such, the owner, Antonio Inoki, decided to shift the focus towards his heavyweight division which dominated the cards. He did, however have many stellar matches with Naoki Sano & Keiichi Yamada (who would later become Jushin Liger) & was the first person to take the Shooting Star Press from Yamada.
When New Japan top draw Akira Maeda became so frustrated with backstage politics that he shoot kicked Riki Choshu and broke his eye socket, he was fired and left to form Newborn UWF. Funaki, seeing a opportunity to shine and showcase what he could do, wanted to follow. And Maeda negotiated the acquisition of his, along with friend Suzuki and mentor Yoshiaki Fujiwara's contracts for an undisclosed amount of money.
Funaki is known as a master of catch wrestling. Funaki was so skilled that he often took other Pancrase fighters, including Bas Rutten, Frank Shamrock and Ken Shamrock, under his wing in order to increase his competition. Frank Shamrock said, "Funaki was like a mad scientist. He took the idea of submissions to an even higher level than the rest of the Japanese contingent. He had this insatiable desire to learn more and push his body harder. And as an entertainer he understood the need to entertain."
This realization for the need to entertain often resulted in Funaki (along Minoru Suzuki) "carrying" some of their opponents during fights. In essence, in order to entertain the crowd, Funaki and Suzuki would occasionally give their opponents opportunities to create drama before finally finishing them off. Josh Barnett said, "when you're that good, you can have a guy thinking he's doing so much better than he expected and have no idea that they're just letting you last like a cat playing with a mouse." Frank Shamrock added, "I know for a fact those guys (Funaki and Suzuki) were light years ahead of everyone else, and they were so good that they would go towards entertainment before they finished a match."
However, this did backfire on Funaki on at least one occasion. In a match against Jason DeLucia, Funaki allowed Delucia to catch him in a kneebar in order to create drama and planned on using a rope escape once Delucia had the submission locked in. Unfortunately, Funaki mistakenly allowed himself to get too far from the ropes and was forced to tap out. This concern for entertainment helped the young sport of mixed martial arts to thrive and grow in Japan. Kazushi Sakuraba would similarly play around with inferior opponents years later.
Funaki retired from Pancrase after a win over Tony Petarra in September 1999 due to accumulated injuries and, according to fellow Pancrase fighter and friend Bas Rutten, being burnt out from the hectic Pancrase schedule.
Funaki walked to the ring in samurai attire with a samurai sword which garnered a roaring excitement from the Japanese announcers and crowd. Funaki scored the first takedown of the bout and subsequently broke Rickson's orbital bone, which temporarily blinded Rickson, but he blew out his knee in a scramble and was ultimately taken down and defeated by a rear-naked choke. Funaki refused to submit to the hold, passing out before the referee intervened. After the fight, Funaki stated that he thought he was going to die from the choke.
Funaki then retired from mixed martial arts competition. He had a retirement ceremony in Pancrase in late 2000 in which many of his past mentors and training partners emotionally and tearfully embraced the legendary Funaki.
After exchanging professional wrestling-inspired entrances, the submission specialists traded strikes. Funaki's arsenal of punches and kicks appeared to be quicker and more powerful, but Sakuraba was able to sneak in a double-leg take down after Funaki committed heavily to a missed right cross. On the ground, Funaki closed guard around Sakuraba before opening it up to spin for a knee-bar. For a moment, Funaki appeared to secure Sakuraba's leg only to be thwarted by a combination of Sakuraba's submission acumen and their position against the ring ropes, which blocked Funaki from rolling with the hold. Sakuraba then maneuvered to Funaki's back, only for the Pancrase founder to roll back into the guard position. Breaking away from the grappling contest, Sakuraba stood up and began to assault the still-prone Funaki's legs with a series of kicks. Funaki answered with a kick of his own, blackening Sakuraba's eye and cutting his face. Sakuraba returned himself to the ground, where Funaki immediately attempted to sweep him. However, Sakuraba blocked the attempt and secured a double wristlock, eventually forcing Funaki to submit.
Funaki signed a contract with FEG's MMA promotion, DREAM. On April 28, 2008, Funaki participated in DREAM's first ever Middle-weight Grand Prix. Funaki was matched against another legendary Japanese fighter Kiyoshi Tamura at the opening round of the DREAM.2 Middleweight Grandprix 2008 in Saitama, Japan. After a hard opening exchange between the two, Funaki was staggered by a punch and pulled guard on Tamura, from where he was pounded to an eventual TKO at 0:57 of Round 1. This was his first (T)KO stoppage loss since September 14, 1998, when he was knocked out with a body blow by Semmy Schilt. Funaki was eliminated from the Middle-weight Grand Prix.
After losing twice in a row since Funaki's comeback to the MMA ring, Funaki was determined to prove that he was still a worthy competitor of the sport and participated again in the DREAM.6 Middleweight Grandprix 2008 Final round event that took place on September 23, 2008 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Funaki was matched with one of his former Pancrase students, fan favorite "Minowaman" Ikuhisa Minowa. Prior to the bout, Funaki suggested that if this fight was going be equivalent to a ritual suicide, there was none he found more worthy than Minowa to assist him in carrying it out.
At the opening seconds of the first round of the match, Funaki came at his former charge with a series of kicks, practically forcing Minowa to catch one of the kicks. The former two-time King of Pancrase capitalized immediately, leaping directly into a heel-hook. Minowa escaped the hold, but Funaki maintained control of his leg and immediately attacked with a heel-hook from the cross-body position, forcing his protege to tap at 52 seconds of the first round.
On January 3, 2010, Funaki and Mutoh won the All Japan Double Cup tag team title from Suzuki and Taiyo Kea. On March 21, Funaki defeated Suzuki in a cage match at All Japan's Sumo Hall show.
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| Name | Taka Michinoku |
|---|---|
| Names | Blue-KThe Great TakaPepe MichinokuPiza MichinokuTakaTaka Michinoku |
| Height | |
| Weight | Michinoku is known in North America for his work for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) where he had the first ever WWF Light Heavyweight Championship reign recognized by the North-American promotion. |
| Wins | 0 |
| Losses | 1 |
| Ko-wins | 0 |
| Ko-losses | 0 |
| Sub-wins | 0 |
| Sub-losses | 1 |
| Dec-wins | 0 |
| Dq-wins | 0 |
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| Name | Kaz Hayashi |
|---|---|
| Names | El Gringo He is also the head booker for the company's junior division. |
| Name | Hayashi, Kaz |
| Date of birth | May 18, 1973 |
| Place of birth | Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Name | Johnny Smith |
| Born | June 25, 1922 Birmingham, Alabama |
| Genre | Cool jazzMainstream jazz |
| Associated acts | Bing Crosby Count Basie Stan Getz Benny Goodman Stan Kenton |
| Label | Columbia Concord Roost Roulette Verve |
| Notable instruments | Benedetto Cremona D'Angelico Gibson Johnny Smith Guild Johnny Smith Award Heritage Johnny Smith |
| Years active | 1935–1960 |
His most critically acclaimed album was Moonlight in Vermont (one of Down Beat magazine's top two jazz records for 1952, featuring saxophonists Stan Getz and Zoot Sims).
His most famous musical composition is the tune "Walk Don't Run", written for a 1955 recording session as counter-melody to the chord changes of "Softly, As in the Morning Sunrise". Another guitarist, Chet Atkins, covered the song. Some musicians who became The Ventures heard the Atkins version, simplified it and sped it up, and recorded it in 1960. The Ventures' version went to #2 on the Billboard Top 100 for a week in September 1960.
Johnny Smith stepped out of the public eye/ear in the 1960s, having moved to Colorado in 1958 to teach and run a music store and to raise his daughter after the death of his second wife.
Smith claims to have learned about guitar design by observing master luthier John D'Angelico, who was his friend and guitar supplier when he lived in New York.
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| Name | Yasushi Tsujimoto |
|---|---|
| Names | brother YASSHIStevie "brother" TsujimotoYASSINI"brother" YASSINI"strong" YASSHI"brother" Tom Yankun |
| Height | |
| Weight | |
| Birth date | January 26, 1982 |
| Resides | Uji, Kyoto |
| Trainer | Último DragónJorge Rivera |
| Debut | 2000 |
, better known by his ringname "brother" YASSHI, is a Japanese professional wrestler, known for his appearances in El Dorado Wrestling, Dragon Gate, and All Japan Pro Wrestling. He was an amateur wrestler before becoming a pro wrestler.
The Italian Connection began showing a divide, as Milano and YOSSINO were face oriented, whereas YASSINI and fellow ItaCon stablemates Condotti Shuji, Bakery Yagi and Berlinetta Boxer were all heels.
In El Dorado, YASSHI split from Kondo for the first time since their early days in the Italian Connection. YASSHI returned to the wrestling and Llave style he used in the early days of his career, and formed a stable of his own called the Nanking Fucking Wrestling Team alongside high school wrestling teammates Masaki Okimoto and Yuji Hino. It did not last long as he made few attempts to expand it, and after losing a match to Kondo in which the loser disbanded his faction, YASSHI reformed his alliance with Kondo.
Category:1982 births Category:Japanese professional wrestlers Category:Living people Category:People from Kyoto Prefecture
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| Name | Yoji Anjo |
|---|---|
| Other names | Mr. 200% |
| Birth date | December 31, 1969 |
| Birth place | Suginami, Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Height | |
| Weight | |
| Weight class | Light Heavyweight |
| Style | Sumo |
| Team | Team Kingdom |
| Mma win | 0 |
| Mma kowin | 0 |
| Mma loss | 5 |
| Mma draw | 1 |
, is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. He was born in Suginami, Japan on December 31, 1969.
In UWFI, he had success as the top native heel. He feuded with Takada and Kazuo Yamazaki, and had also a match with the Iron Sheik. It was Anjo who had the idea of co-promoting events with NJPW in 1995, and earned a victory over Masahiro Chono in an interpromotional match. He and young wrestlers Yoshihiro Takayama and Kenichi Yamamoto formed a stable called the "Golden Cups" to feud in tag team and six-man matches against Super Strong Machine as the masked 200% Machines. They also forayed into WAR to feud with Genichiro Tenryu and others.
Following UWFI's collapse he joined Kingdom but then wandered into independent promotions and also began competing in MMA matches (see below). In 2000 he resurfaced to help out All Japan Pro Wrestling's rebuilding, and won the Double Cup tag team titles with old foe Genichiro Tenryu. He then wandered again, joining HUSTLE run by old comrade Takada for a few gimmick matches.
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| Name | Super Crazy |
|---|---|
| Caption | Super Crazy holding the Mexican flag |
| Names | Histeria |
| Weight | |
| Birth place | Tulancingo, Hidalgo, Mexico |
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| ----- align | "center" |
| Name | Super Crazy |
| Alternative names | Pantoja, Francisco; Histeria; El Locco; Super Crazzy; Super Lobo; Super Loco; Super Virus |
| Short description | Professional wrestler |
| Date of birth | December 3, 1973 |
| Place of birth | Tulancingo, Hidalgo, Mexico |
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| Names | Shuji KondoCondotti ShujiDotti Shuji |
|---|---|
| Height | |
| Weight | |
| Birth date | January 28, 1981 |
| Birth place | Fuji, Shizuoka |
| Debut | May 18, 2001 |
He would turn heel and join the Italian Connection, changing his name to Condotti Shuji, after the shopping district. One of his stablemates in the ItaCon was "brother" YASSHI, who has remained a firm ally of his ever since.
In 2003, the ItaCon was divided over the face/heel issue, with Shuji leading the heel side. He would lead the turn, briefly rename to Dotti Shuji, and soon after revert to his real name. He and YASSHI formed a group called Hagure Gundam (Stray Army in English) with fellow ItaCon member Shogo Takagi, and Torou Owashi. When Hagure Gundam was joined by Masaaki Mochizuki, it renamed to Aagan Iisou. Mochi would later be kicked out of the stable after he and Kondo feuded over who was leader, and Takuya Sugawara was added to the group.
On December 31, 2004, all five members of Aagan Iisou - Kondo, YASSHI, Sugawara, Owashi, and Shogo - were fired from Dragon Gate for alleged behavioral problems.
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| Names | NOSAWA RongaiNOSAWANOSAWA MendozaNOJANozawaSpace Lone WolfKazushige NosawaSuper CacaoParka Guerrera |
|---|---|
| Height | |
| Weight | |
| Birth date | December 17, 1976 |
| Billed | Ichikawa City, Chiba, Japan |
| Trainer | Negro Casas |
| Debut | December 27, 1995 |
Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:People from Ichikawa, Chiba Category:Japanese professional wrestlers
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| Name | Keiji Mutoh |
|---|---|
| Names | Keiji Mutoh |
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| Name | Joe Doering |
|---|---|
| Names | Joe Doering (born April 16, 1982) |
| ----- align | "center" |
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| Name | Doering, Joe |
| Alternative names | Doering, Joseph; Doering, Vaughn; Von Doering, Hans; Brewer, Drake |
| Short description | professional wrestler |
| Date of birth | April 16, 1982 |
| Place of birth | Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
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| Name | Genichiro Tenryu |
|---|---|
| Names | Genichiro TenryuTenryuHayabusaHustle General |
| Height | He also appeared in both the 1993 Royal Rumble and 1994 Royal Rumble; |
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| Alias | Goldberg |
|---|---|
| Birth name | William Scott Goldberg |
| Birth date | December 27, 1966 Goldberg is also famed for his catch phrase, "Who's Next?" |
| Weight | Atlanta, Georgia (WWE)Parts Unknown Two days later, on the April 22 edition of WCW Thunder, he made his first successful title defense against Mike Enos. Goldberg then started a feud with Raven and The Flock. At Slamboree, he ended his feud with the Flock after a successful title defense against Saturn. As a result, Goldberg vacated the United States title. Goldberg then began a feud with Curt Hennig and retained the title against him at Bash at the Beach. Goldberg then restarted his feud with Diamond Dallas Page also involving Page's allies, The Jersey Triad, which culminated in a match at Fall Brawl that Goldberg won. Later that night, he answered an open challenge from World Heavyweight Champion Sting and defeated him to win the championship. One week later, they lost the title to The Outsiders (Scott Hall and Kevin Nash). At Starrcade, Goldberg challenged Hart for the World Heavyweight Championship. In the course of the match, Goldberg delivered a stiff kick to Hart's head, legitimately giving him a concussion and tearing a muscle in his neck. After being diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome, Hart wrestled only three more matches and retired several months later. Despite that, Goldberg lost the match to Hart, After the match, Hall, Nash, Hart, and Jeff Jarrett announced the reformation of the nWo, Goldberg went undefeated over the subsequent half-year, defeating 3-Minute Warning in his first match on Raw. Goldberg continued his feud with Triple H and finally defeated him for the World Heavyweight Championship at Unforgiven, after agreeing to put his career on the line. The next night on Raw, Goldberg successfully retained the championship against Chris Jericho. A week later, Triple H issued a $100,000 bounty to anybody who could take Goldberg out of the game. Steven Richards, Mark Henry, La Résistance and Tommy Dreamer all attempted to collect the bounty but were unsuccessful. On October 20, Batista collected the bounty after he interfered in Goldberg's title defense against Shawn Michaels on Raw and attacked Goldberg, placing a folding chair around Goldberg's ankle and jumping off the middle rope onto the chair, shattering his ankle. Furious, Goldberg demanded a match against Batista. Triple H, however, got involved in the match between Goldberg and Batista trying to cripple Goldberg, but Goldberg fought back and speared Triple H before attacking Batista with a sledgehammer. At Survivor Series, Goldberg retained his championship against Triple H despite interference from Evolution. |
| Name | Goldberg, Bill |
| Date of birth | 1966-12-27 |
| Place of birth | Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
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