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Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Takaiwa in February 2020
Born
(1972-07-05) July 5, 1972 (age 51) Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Black Tiger (V) Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Billed height
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Billed weight
97 kg (214 lb)
Trained by
NJPW Dojo
Debut
July 21, 1992
Tatsuhito Takaiwa (高岩竜一, Takaiwa Tatsuhito, born Go Yong-Il; Korean: 고용일; July 5, 1972) is a Zainichi-Korean professional wrestler. Takaiwa is one of the more well-traveled junior heavyweights in Japan, having wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and Pro Wrestling Zero1, as well as making special appearances in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) and Pro Wrestling Noah.
He is known for his work as a tag team specialist, most notably in a successful tag team with Shinjiro Otani during the 1990s. The two won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship a number of times in 1998 and 1999.
born 1976), Japanese baseball player Tatsuhito Senga (千賀 達人), Japanese professional wrestler TatsuhitoTakaiwa (高岩 竜一, born 1972), Zainichi-Korean professional...
wrestled all the Black Tigers to date (from Mark Rocco in 1989 to TatsuhitoTakaiwa in 2009). The Liger character underwent changes in conjunction with...
two-block, 12-man tournament held from May 19 to June 9. The winner, TatsuhitoTakaiwa, would go on to defeat Jushin Thunder Liger for the title on July...
J-Crown, as well as forming a successful tag team with dojo classmate TatsuhitoTakaiwa, twice holding the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship....
defeated Dick Togo and Ikuto Hidaka. They lost the championship to TatsuhitoTakaiwa and Tomohiro Ishii a few months later. Kendrick gained a new tag team...
Ishii also made appearances for Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max, where he and TatsuhitoTakaiwa won the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship. Due to...
NJPW-promoted events. The inaugural champions were Shinjiro Otani and TatsuhitoTakaiwa, who defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. and Koji Kanemoto on August 8, 1998,...
Hidaka and Dick Togo Low Ki and Leonardo Spanky Tomohiro Ishii and TatsuhitoTakaiwa Kaz Hayashi and Leonardo Spanky Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita Motor...
Hidaka and Dick Togo Low Ki and Leonardo Spanky Tomohiro Ishii and TatsuhitoTakaiwa Kaz Hayashi and Leonardo Spanky Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita Motor...
with an eight-man tag team match with Naoki Sano, Shinjiro Otani, TatsuhitoTakaiwa, and Ryusuke Taguchi (accompanied by Kuniaki Kobayashi) facing Jushin...
Hidaka and Dick Togo Low Ki and Leonardo Spanky Tomohiro Ishii and TatsuhitoTakaiwa Kaz Hayashi and Leonardo Spanky Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita Motor...
Hidaka and Dick Togo Low Ki and Leonardo Spanky Tomohiro Ishii and TatsuhitoTakaiwa Kaz Hayashi and Leonardo Spanky Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita Motor...
Hidaka and Dick Togo Low Ki and Leonardo Spanky Tomohiro Ishii and TatsuhitoTakaiwa Kaz Hayashi and Leonardo Spanky Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita Motor...
the Super Juniors. When in Japan he wrestled against Dean Malenko, TatsuhitoTakaiwa, Black Cat, Koji Kanemoto, Shinjiro Otani, Gran Hamada, Black Tiger...
matches in one night, winning four out of five matches, defeating TatsuhitoTakaiwa, Yutaka Yoshie, Jushin Thunder Liger and Kazuyuki Fujita, only to...
defeated ZERO1's Masato Tanaka and TatsuhitoTakaiwa. On the following New Japan Brave tour, Taguchi defeated Takaiwa in a singles match. He then teamed...
Championship, winning the tournament and the titles after beating TatsuhitoTakaiwa, Asuka and Hayata. Now as a champion, he resumed his team Kohei Sato...
Japan 1 117 2 Defeated Juventud Guerrera in a tournament final. 2 TatsuhitoTakaiwa October 19, 2001 Tug of War Yokohama, Japan 1 51 1 3 Naomichi Marufuji...
defeating Tajiri in the first round, Takuya Sugi in the second round, TatsuhitoTakaiwa in the semi-finals and El Lindaman in the finals on June 3, 2021....
following year Yoshie picked up major victories over wrestlers such as TatsuhitoTakaiwa and El Samurai, before leaving for a learning excursion to Germany...
defeated in a six-man tag team match by Togo, Masaaki Mochizuki and TatsuhitoTakaiwa. On September 3, Sawa wrestled his up to that point highest profile...
1996 Mitsuharu Misawa and Jun Akiyama 1997 1998 Shinjiro Otani and TatsuhitoTakaiwa New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1999 Kenta Kobashi and Jun Akiyama All Japan...
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