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El Samurai
Birth name
Osamu Matsuda
Born
(1966-04-19) April 19, 1966 (age 58)[1] Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
El Samurai[1] Osamu Matsuda Edo Samurai
Billed height
1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Billed weight
92 kg (203 lb)[1]
Trained by
NJPW Dojo
Debut
July 24, 1986[1]
Retired
2013
Osamu Matsuda (松田 納, Matsuda Osamu) (born April 19, 1966) is a Japanese professional wrestler who is best known for his work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and is better known by his stage name El Samurai.
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New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and is better known by his stage name ElSamurai. Osamu Matsuda graduated from high school in 1985, and joined the NJPW...
Kid (better known as Chris Benoit) in the final; this ended up being ElSamurai, who would nonetheless fall against Pegasus Kid. Pegasus became the first...
against ElSamurai at Over Heat Night before losing the title to Samurai on June 26. Liger failed to win the title in a rematch against Samurai on October...
came only a few days later, when he teamed with Super Crazy to defeat ElSamurai and Jushin Thunder Liger, and he finished his tour in late December. He...
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Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, defeating Wataru Inoue and ElSamurai in the semifinals and Masahito Kakihara and Masayuki Naruse in the finals...
where he teamed up with Davey Richards, losing in the first round to ElSamurai and Koji Kanemoto. Tonga was one of sixteen wrestlers who competed in...
Shinjiro Otani, Gran Hamada, Black Tiger, Wild Pegasus, Alex Wright and ElSamurai in singles matches and in tag team matches together with Wright, Norio...
Jushin Thunder Liger's only reign, Minoru and Prince Devitt's first reign, ElSamurai and Koji Kanemoto's only reign, Apollo 55's fourth reign, Jushin Thunder...
becoming only the second man to do so. On May 8, 2010, Kanemoto and ElSamurai defeated Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) in the finals of...
to 2008 he was a member of the stable Samurai Gym with ElSamurai and Ryusuke Taguchi, which ended when Samurai left the company. In 2010, he joined Chaos...
preceded by the G1 Climax Junior Heavyweight Tag League in 2001 (won by ElSamurai and Jushin Thunder Liger), it is the junior heavyweight equivalent of...
The weight-limit for the title is 100 kg (220 lb). The current champion is El Desperado, who is in his fourth reign. He won the title by defeating Sho in...
(AAA), teaming with El Hijo del Santo as the new version of La Pareja Atómica (The Atomic Pair), the tag team of Gory Guerrero and El Santo. After Guerrero...
Thunder Liger and ElSamurai on July 20, 2001. In the G1 Junior Tag League 2001, they reached the final before losing to Liger and Samurai. In the Teisen...
un día como hoy… 1987: Perro Aguayo casi pierde la vida en el ring… Última función de El Toreo antes de la muerte de Francisco Flores". Súper Luchas...
reached the finals after beating NJPW favourites Jushin Thunder Liger and ElSamurai, but fell to Wild Pegasus at the end. Despite his loss, Sasuke represented...
luminaries like Jushin Thunder Liger, Shinjiro Otani, Black Tiger, and ElSamurai in their junior heavyweight division.[citation needed] In August 1990...
match was a six-man tag team match pitting the team of Akira Nogami, ElSamurai and Takayuki Iizuka against Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, Osamu Nishimura and Satoshi...
Tetsuya finished last in Block B, earning four points by defeating Gedo and ElSamurai, losing the other four matches in his block. In February 2008, Naito formed...
Nagata and many others. His last match on New Japan saw Rheingans defeat ElSamurai on December 11, 1993. Rheingans retired in 1995 after undergoing major...
dub was aired in Brazil as O Samurai Fugitivo (The Fugitive Samurai) on TVS, actually SBT, and in Spanish, as ElSamurai Fugitivo on the American Spanish...