(1979-04-15) April 15, 1979 (age 45)[1] Iwanuma, Miyagi, Japan[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Masked Horse[2]
Ryusuke Taguchi
Super Strong Machine No. 69
Taguchi
Pro-Wrestler Sengoku Enbu
Ginbae Mask[3]
Billed height
1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1][4]
Billed weight
91 kg (201 lb)[1][4]
Trained by
NJPW Dojo Kotetsu Yamamoto
Debut
November 22, 2002[1][4]
Ryusuke Taguchi (田口 隆祐, Taguchi Ryūsuke, born April 15, 1979)[1] is a Japanese professional wrestler, trained by and currently performing for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a former two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, seven-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion. He was also the winner of the 2012 Best of the Super Juniors.
Pursuing several sports in high school, Taguchi competed in 76 kg (168 lb) class amateur wrestling in college before entering the NJPW Dojo in March 2002 and debuting in November of that year at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo,[5] wrestling in New Japan's famous junior heavyweight division.
Taguchi's best known gimmick is akin to a disco dancer, often sporting a short afro and colorful, flamboyant attire and celebrating victories with a post-match dance, encouraging his partners to join in during tag team matches. This earned Taguchi the nickname "Funky Weapon".
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RyusukeTaguchi (田口 隆祐, TaguchiRyūsuke, born April 15, 1979) is a Japanese professional wrestler, trained by and currently performing for New Japan Pro-Wrestling...
2013 when Irish wrestler Prince Devitt betrayed his Japanese partner RyusukeTaguchi and came together with American wrestler Karl Anderson and Tongan wrestlers...
Kingdom 11 on January 5, 2017. Starting out as a trio, the stable named RyusukeTaguchi as their leader, and have gone on to primarily feud with Los Ingobernables...
row, the previous year's runner-up, this time RyusukeTaguchi, came back to win the tournament. Taguchi went on to unsuccessfully challenge Low Ki for...
cardinal Ryoichi Taguchi (田口 良一, born 1986), Japanese boxer RyusukeTaguchi (田口 隆祐, born 1979), Japanese professional wrestler Sherrie Gong Taguchi, American...
July 5, 2009, when they were defeated by Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and RyusukeTaguchi) at a live event. During that time, they had three successful defenses;...
his block with six victories out of seven matches, Ibushi defeated RyusukeTaguchi to advance to the semifinals of the tournament, where he was once again...
changes; RyusukeTaguchi defeated Máscara Dorada to win the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and RyusukeTaguchi) defeated...
Gō Gō) was the professional wrestling tag team of Prince Devitt and RyusukeTaguchi. One of the most accomplished junior heavyweight tag teams in New Japan...
team match with Naoki Sano, Shinjiro Otani, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, and RyusukeTaguchi (accompanied by Kuniaki Kobayashi) facing Jushin Thunder Liger, Tatsumi...
Juniors tournament. He defeated Nobuo Yoshihashi, and Akira, but lost to RyusukeTaguchi, Fujita Hayato, Kenny Omega, Koji Kanemoto, and Taiji Ishimori, ending...
defeated Blue Wolf and Katsuhiko Nakajima and in the finals they defeated RyusukeTaguchi and Shinsuke Nakamura to win the tournament. At one point he teamed...
July 4 started with the preshow bout in which Oskar Leube, Yoh and RyusukeTaguchi defeated Takahiro Katori, Dragon Libre and Kengo in six-man tag team...
El Samurai and Koji Kanemoto defeated Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and RyusukeTaguchi) to win the tournament and become IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team...
organizations. They also hold the most total defenses as champions, with 15. RyusukeTaguchi holds the records for most combined days and most total defenses by...
In the opener, Joe Hendry, Heath and Yuya Uemura faced Six or Nine (RyusukeTaguchi and Master Wato) and Rocky Romero. In the closing stages, Wato delivered...
Michael Elgin and Yoshitatsu (1), Manabu Nakanishi and RyusukeTaguchi (1), Ricochet and RyusukeTaguchi (1), Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii (1) and Toru...
Destruction '10, the Golden☆Lovers defeated Apollo 55 (Devitt and RyusukeTaguchi) to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. On January...
were defeated by Captain New Japan, Hirooki Goto, Katsuyori Shibata, RyusukeTaguchi and Hiroshi Tanahashi, who pinned him for the win. As is usually the...
2008 he was a member of the stable Samurai Gym with El Samurai and RyusukeTaguchi, which ended when Samurai left the company. In 2010, he joined Chaos...
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