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Japanese professional wrestler

Akira Tozawa
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Tozawa in April 2018

Born (1985-07-22) July 22, 1985 (age 36) [ane]
Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan[1]
Professional person wrestling career
Band name(s) Akira Tozawa
Tozawa[2]
Tozawa Kengai[3]
Billed superlative 5 ft seven in (170 cm)[iv]
Billed weight 156 lb (71 kg)[4]
Billed from Kobe, Nihon[4] [five]
Trained past Kenichiro Arai[two]
Masaaki Mochizuki[two]
Debut Apr 3, 2005[2]

Akira Tozawa (戸澤 陽, Tozawa Akira, built-in July 22, 1985) is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw make. He is a former WWE 24/vii Champion, with 13 reigns, and a former NXT Cruiserweight Champion.

Prior to working for the WWE, he had a twelve-year run in Dragon Gate where he is a quondam Open the Dauntless Gate, Open the Twin Gate, Open the Triangle Gate and Open the Owarai Gate champion and the winner of the 2011 and 2012 Summer Hazard Tag League. He is likewise known for his year-long excursion to the U.s.a., during which he performed for promotions such every bit Chikara, Dragon Gate The states, and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.

Professional wrestling career [edit]

Dragon Gate (2005–2010) [edit]

Tozawa was the third graduate of the Dragon Gate dojo to debut.[half-dozen] After debuting, he underwent a 10 match trial series, merely lost all 10 matches and was banished back to the dojo.[vi]

Tozawa returned in October 2005, teaming with beau rookie Yuki Ono. He then teamed with Vangelis, a wrestler with a Nazi stripper gimmick. Kenichiro Arai intervened, much to Tozawa's resentment. When Tozawa defeated Naruki Doi during the Dauntless Gate League, Arai offered him a spot in the M2K stable. Tozawa, however, refused and stated his intention to run a stable of his ain, creating a stable called Tozawa-juku.[vi] Even though Tozawa-juku bore his proper noun, he was not necessarily the leader. Considering of his backstage reputation as a troublemaker at the time, he was regularly held off of shows, progressed little, and was far below his stablemates Taku Iwasa, Kenichiro Arai, and fifty-fifty boyfriend troublemaker Ono in rank.[6]

When Ono experienced newfound popularity and rank courtesy of a massive amount of weight gain, Tozawa began to majority upward as well, and he and Ono formed the Metabolic Brothers tag team within Tozawa-juku. They discarded the gakuran pants worn past the unit and wore silver tights and boots. Even so, injuries to Ono held the team dorsum from any major success.[6]

On July 11, 2008, after having teamed with Ono for a footling over half a year, he appeared on a show with his gakuran pants on and appear that, in light of the success that new stablemates Shinobu and El Generico had brought to the unit of measurement (also as constant pestering from Iwasa and Arai), he was going on a diet. After a nutrition trial series, where he actually had success, he brashly challenged Open the Triangle Gate Champions Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii, and Magnitude Kishiwada to a title match against him, Iwasa & Arai on November 16. The trio agreed, but on the condition that Tozawa-juku would accept to disband if his team lost. His team lost the lucifer, bringing about the finish of the unit, and he and his stablemates were given a graduation anniversary.[vi]

He and Iwasa began to team with Shingo Takagi in the weeks that followed, and so on December 19, he appealed to Shingo to course a new unit with him and Iwasa. Shingo agreed to it. On January xi, 2009, Dragon Kid joined up with him and the others, and Shingo gave the unit the name of Kamikaze.[6] Tozawa participated in the Boxing of Tokyo Tournament 2 weeks later, and fabricated information technology to the finals before losing to Kagetora. Highlights of this fourth dimension period were an Open the Brave Gate Championship claiming in 2009 against Cima and a "Loser is Banished to Dark Matches" match on May 5, 2010, against Kamikaze stablemate Cyber Kong, which he lost.[7] After losing to Kong, Tozawa left Japan for an extended tour of the United States beginning in May 2010.

American exploits (2010–2016) [edit]

On May vii, 2010, Tozawa made his debut for Dragon Gate's international expansion Dragon Gate United states, as a member of the group Kamikaze U.s.a., teaming with Gran Akuma in a match, where they were defeated by Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw.[8]

Besides in May 2010, Tozawa began working regularly for SoCal promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). He fabricated his PWG debut on May 9, during the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament, teaming with young man Kamikaze partner Yamato in a first-round losing endeavor confronting The Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Marking Briscoe).[9] At the following show on June 11, he defeated Scott Lost and on July 30 defeated Chris Sabin.[10] [11]

Tozawa likewise competed in Chikara's Young Lions Cup 8 in Baronial 2010. He defeated Greenish Emmet on August 27 in the offset round, but was the last man eliminated from the six-way elimination semifinal match later that same night.[12] On August 29, the final day of the tournament, Tozawa was defeated by Hallowicked in a singles friction match.[13]

On September 5 Tozawa entered PWG'due south 2010 Battle of Los Angeles, defeating El Generico in his outset round match.[xiv] The post-obit night, Tozawa was eliminated from the tournament past Chris Hero.[fifteen] The match was considered Tozawa'south breakout operation, which got him noticed by the Dragon Gate role.[16] Tozawa returned to PWG on December 11, 2010, losing to Kevin Steen.[17] Afterwards, Steen recruited Tozawa as his partner for the March 4 DDT4 tournament.[eighteen]

Tozawa defeated Sami Callihan, Austin Aries, and BxB Hulk for Dragon Gate USA in January 2011, but run-ins with stablemates Jon Moxley and Yamato led to him being kicked out of Kamikaze USA.[19] [20] [21] [22] At the following Dragon Gate USA tapings on April 3, Tozawa defeated Moxley to earn an immediate shot at Yamato's Open the Freedom Gate Championship. He was, notwithstanding, unsuccessful in his attempt to become the new champion.[23] Tozawa was also unsuccessful in beating Pac for his Open up the Dauntless Gate Championship on Apr 2, at Mercury Rising 2011.[24]

On March 4, 2011, Tozawa and Kevin Steen, dubbing themselves the Nightmare Violence Connection, entered PWG's DDT4 tournament, upsetting the Briscoe Brothers in their outset circular match. Afterwards some other upset victory over the ROH World Tag Squad Champions, The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli), he and Steen made it to the finals of the tournament, where they were defeated by The Immature Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson).[25] On April 9, Tozawa was defeated by Low Ki in a singles match in PWG.[26]

On April 15, Tozawa returned to Chikara, captaining Team Dragon Gate, consisting of himself, Kagetora and Super Shisa, in the 2011 King of Trios tournament. In the first round of the tournament, Team Dragon Gate defeated the Spectral Envoy (UltraMantis Blackness, Hallowicked and Frightmare).[13] [27] The following day, Team Dragon Gate was eliminated from the tournament in the quarterfinal phase past The Osirian Portal (Amasis, Hieracon and Ophidian).[28] On April 17, the final day of the tournament, Tozawa faced Eddie Kingston in a losing endeavour.[29]

On Apr 19, Tozawa made his debut for Evolve at the promotion'south first live internet pay-per-view, facing Chuck Taylor in a losing effort.[30] On May 15, 2011, in Austin, Texas, Tozawa captured the Anarchy Championship Wrestling (ACW) U–30 Young Gun Title, the first title of his career, past defeating previous champion ACH, Arik Cannon and Gary Jay in a four-manner lucifer.[31] He would lose the championship to Gerald James six days later on.[31]

On May 27, Tozawa returned to PWG for his final weekend with the promotion before his return to Nihon. During the first night of All Star Weekend 8, Tozawa and Kevin Steen defeated El Generico and Ricochet in a tag team match.[32] The following night, Tozawa wrestled two matches, first teaming with Steen to defeat the RockNES Monsters (Johnny Goodtime and Johnny Yuma) in a tag team match, earlier defeating Chris Hero in his PWG farewell match.[33]

On June 3, Tozawa and Yamato failed to capture the Open the United Gate Championship when they lost to reigning champions Masato Yoshino and Pac at Fearless 2011.[34] On June 28, 2012, Tozawa unsuccessfully challenged Johnny Gargano for the Open the Freedom Gate Championship.[35] Tozawa received some other shot at the championship on July 28, 2013, at Dragon Gate USA'due south fourth anniversary effect, but was again defeated by Gargano.[36]

On July 24, 2015, Tozawa returned to PWG, losing to Ricochet,[37] and on the beginning show of 2016, returned over again, losing to Zack Sabre Jr.[38]

Render to Dragon Gate (2011–2016) [edit]

On June 8, 2011, Tozawa made his render to Dragon Gate, joining the stable Blood Warriors.[39] Upon his return, Tozawa defeated Shingo Takagi on July 17 at Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2011.[forty] In Baronial, Tozawa and swain Blood Warriors member BxB Hulk took part in the 2011 Summer Adventure Tag League, where they ultimately defeated Masaaki Mochizuki and Yamato of rival group Junction Three to win the tournament.[41] On September xvi, Tozawa defeated rival Yamato in a no ropes, no disqualification friction match.[42] This led to Tozawa challenging Masaaki Mochizuki for the Open the Dream Gate Championship on October 13, only Tozawa was defeated.[43] On Dec ane, Tozawa and BxB Hulk defeated Kagetora and Susumu Yokosuka to win the vacant Open up the Twin Gate Championship, Tozawa's first title in Dragon Gate.[44] On January 19, 2012, Tozawa and Hulk turned on Blood Warriors leader Cima, causing him to lose a x-human being "Loser Leaves Unit" tag team friction match; every bit a result, Cima was kicked out of Blood Warriors.[45] After this lucifer, Tozawa assumed the leadership role in Blood Warriors. On Jan 29, Tozawa made a one night render to PWG, when he teamed with Kevin Steen and Super Dragon in a six-man tag team main event, where they were defeated by El Generico, Masato Yoshino and Pac.[46] On February 9, the Tozawa-led Blood Warriors won their feud with Junction Three by defeating them in a fourteen-man emptying tag squad friction match, forcing their rival group to disband.[47] On March i, Tozawa renamed the Claret Warriors to Mad Blankey.[48] Three days later, he and BxB Hulk lost the Open up the Twin Gate Championship to Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu.[49]

On July 22, Tozawa received another shot at the Open up the Dream Gate Title, but was this time defeated by Cima.[50] On Baronial 19, Tozawa, BxB Blob and Naoki Tanisaki defeated Cima, Gamma and Magnitude Kishiwada to win the 2012 Summertime Take chances Tag League and the vacant Open the Triangle Gate Championship.[51] They lost the title to Kaettekita Veteran-gun (Gamma, Hub and Magnitude Kishiwada) on Oct 21.[52] On May 5, 2013, Tozawa received another shot at the Open the Dream Gate Championship in the principal event of Expressionless or Alive 2013, merely was over again defeated by Cima.[53] On June 15, Tozawa and BxB Blob regained the Open the Twin Gate Championship from Shingo Takagi and Yamato, when Yamato turned on Takagi and joined Mad Blankey.[54] Tozawa and Hulk lost the championship to Naruki Doi and Ricochet on July 21.[55] On Baronial 1, after Tozawa had led Mad Blankey to victory against -akatsuki- in a friction match, where the losing stable would have to disband, the rest of Mad Blankey turned on him, kicking him out of the group and assuming Yamato as their new leader.[56]

On August 30, Tozawa formed a new stable with one-time Mad Blankey stablemate Uhaa Nation and Shingo Takagi.[57] On September 12, the three were joined by Masato Yoshino, Ricochet and Shachihoko Boy,[58] forming a stable named Monster Express.[59] On Dec 22, Tozawa and Takagi defeated Naruki Doi and Yamato to win the Open the Twin Gate Championship.[60] They lost the championship to Eita and T-Hawk on July 20, 2014.[61] On February 28, 2015, Tozawa won his beginning singles title in Dragon Gate, when he defeated Kzy for the Open the Brave Gate Title.[62] On March 29, Tozawa also won the Open the Owarai Gate Championship by defeating Yosuke♥Santa Maria.[63] On November 1, Tozawa lost the Open the Brave Gate Championship to Kotoka in a three-way lucifer, which also involved Naoki Tanizaki. On November 14, 2015, Tozawa lost the Open up the Owarai Gate Championship to referee Mr. Nakagawa via fan support. On September 22, 2016, Tozawa unsuccessfully challenged Yamato for the Dream Gate Championship. On September 25, he announced that he would be wrestling his terminal Dragon Gate match on November 3, earlier moving to the United States to work for WWE.[64] In his send-off match, he teamed with Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi in a losing effort against the team of Shingo Takagi, Yamato, and BxB Hulk.

WWE [edit]

Cruiserweight Champion (2016–2018) [edit]

On March 31, 2016, Tozawa was announced as a participant in WWE's Global Cruiserweight Series tournament,[65] which was later renamed the "Cruiserweight Classic".[66] The tournament began on June 23 with Tozawa defeating Kenneth Johnson in his first circular friction match.[67] On July 14, Tozawa defeated Jack Gallagher in his 2d round match.[68] On Baronial 26, Tozawa was eliminated from the tournament in the quarterfinals by Gran Metalik.[69]

On the September v episode of Raw, Tozawa was announced every bit role of WWE's upcoming cruiserweight sectionalization.[seventy] On November 2, Tozawa was announced as a roster member for the upcoming cruiserweight-centric 205 Live show.[71] On February 6, 2017, Tozawa made his debut on Raw, defeating Drew Gulak. In June, Tozawa was recruited by Titus O'Neil to the "Titus Worldwide" stable and entered in a feud with the Cruiserweight Champion Neville. At Smashing Balls of Fire event, Tozawa was unsuccessful in his starting time championship opportunity against Neville; however, he pinned Neville in a tag team match the next night. On the August xiv episode of Raw, Tozawa defeated Neville to win the Cruiserweight Championship. However, at SummerSlam, he dropped the title to Neville, ending the reign at 6 days. In belatedly 2017, Tozawa quietly left Titus Worldwide.

On the October ten episode of 205 Live, Tozawa was attacked on the ramp past Drew Gulak, which began a rivalry.[72] Tozawa was out of activeness for a few weeks until he returned on the October 31 episode of 205 Live, where he defeated Gulak. On the November 21 episode of 205 Live, Tozawa defeated Gulak in a Street Fight, ending their feud. In February 2018, Tozawa formed a tag team with Hideo Itami, and they defeated Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado on the March 13 episode of 205 Live, but got into a confrontation with them and their ally Kalisto mail-match. After trading victories between each other, they finally lost a tornado tag team friction match to Metalik and Dorado on the Apr 17 episode of 205 Alive after Tozawa accidentally kicked Itami. On the May one episode of 205 Live, Tozawa and Itami were defeated by The Brian Kendrick and Gentleman Jack Gallagher after another miscommunication between the two, after which Itami shoved Tozawa, thus ending their partnership. The post-obit week, Tozawa was defeated by Itami.

24/7 Champion (2019–nowadays) [edit]

On the Jan 2, 2019, episode of 205 Live, Tozawa defeated Drew Gulak to qualify for the fatal four-style match at Majestic Rumble for the Cruiserweight Title, which was won by champion Buddy White potato. On the January 29 episode of 205 Live, Tozawa defeated Hideo Itami in Itami'southward last friction match with the company. On the February fourteen, episode of 205 Live, Tozawa defeated Cedric Alexander, Humberto Carrillo and Lio Blitz to get the number one contender for the Cruiserweight Championship at the Elimination Chamber, where he was defeated past Murphy. Equally part of the 2019 typhoon, Tozawa was drafted to the Raw brand.[73] On the November xviii episode of Raw, Tozawa made his debut on the make, where he was defeated by Buddy Murphy.[74] At Survivor Series, Tozawa represented Raw in an Interbrand triple threat lucifer for the NXT Cruiserweight Championship, which was won by NXT's Lio Rush.[75] [76] On the December 23 episode of Raw, Tozawa captured the 24/7 Championship afterwards pinning champion R-Truth, merely lost the title to Santa Claus.[77] On Apr 12, 2020, Tozawa was announced as a participant in the Interim NXT Cruiserweight Title Tournament, representing Group B in the tournament.[78] He defeated Isaiah "Swerve" Scott in his first match and Gentleman Jack Gallagher in his 2d friction match, but lost to El Hijo del Fantasma, thus leaving him with ii wins in the tournament, failing to accelerate to the finals.[79]

At Backfire, during a segment between The Street Profits and The Viking Raiders, Tozawa appeared with a gang of ninjas on motorcycles, turning heel.[80] On the June 22 episode of Raw, Tozawa defeated R-Truth to become the 24/7 Champion for the second fourth dimension, only to lose the championship back to Truth i week later on.[81] On the August 3 episode of Mon Night Raw, Tozawa won the 24/7 Championship for a tertiary fourth dimension in a triple threat match against champion Shelton Benjamin and R-Truth. A week subsequently R-Truth, bearded as a Tozawa's ninjas, pinned him ending his third reign. He would win the championship 5 other times. On the February 15 episode of RAW, he pinned R-Truth backstage to win the 24/seven Championship but lost it to Bad Bunny after existence attacked past Damian Priest, ending his reign at 28 seconds. Afterwards, he and R-Truth continued feuding over the title, alongside Drew Gulak and others. When Reggie won the title later on he was abandoned by Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler, he and R-Truth began feuding with him, fifty-fifty edifice a temporary alliance with Drake Bohemian. On the September 27 episode of Raw, Tozawa would be rapidly defeated by Keith "Bearcat" Lee.[82] In early on 2022, later on spending months with both him and Tamina Snuka trying to win the 24/7 Title, Tozawa and Tamina concluded up condign lovers and on March 28 they got (kayfabe) engaged. On April 18, Tozawa won the championship for the 5th fourth dimension past pinning his partner, Tamina, during their wedding ceremony. Tozawa so lost the championship back to Dana Brooke.[83]

Other media [edit]

Tozawa fabricated his WWE video game debut as a playable grapheme in WWE 2K18 [84] and subsequently appeared in WWE 2K19 and WWE 2K20.[85]

Championships and accomplishments [edit]

  • Anarchy Championship Wrestling
    • ACW U–30 Young Gun Championship (ane time)[86]
  • Cultaholic
    • Most Underrated Wrestler (2019)[87]
  • Dragon Gate
    • Open the Dauntless Gate Championship (1 time)[62] [88]
    • Open the Owarai Gate Championship (one time)[63] [89]
    • Open up the Triangle Gate Championship (2 times)[90] – with BxB Hulk and Naoki Tanisaki (ane),[51] Masato Yoshino and T-Militarist (1)
    • Open the Twin Gate Championship (3 times)[91] – with BxB Hulk (ii),[44] and Shingo Takagi (1)[threescore]
    • Open The Triangle Gate Championship Tournament (2015)[92]
    • Summertime Adventure Tag League (2011) – with BxB Hulk[41] [93]
    • Summer Adventure Tag League (2012) – with BxB Hulk and Naoki Tanisaki[51] [94]
  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
    • PWI ranked him No. 92 of the acme 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2018[95]
  • WWE
    • WWE 24/7 Championship (13 times)[96] [97]
    • WWE Cruiserweight Championship (1 fourth dimension)[98] [99]
    • NXT North American Championship Invitational (2018)[100] [101]

Luchas de Apuestas tape [edit]

Winner (wager) Loser (wager) Location Event Date Notes
Akira Tozawa (hair) Super Shenlong Iii (mask) Tokyo, Nippon Dragon Gate event Baronial 1, 2013 [Notation 1] [56]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ This was an 8-man tag team Mask vs. Hair friction match, where Tozawa, BxB Hulk, Kzy, Mondai Ryu and Yamato faced Shenlong, Chihiro Tominaga, Cyber Kong and Shingo Takagi.

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