Birthdate - 9/21/48
5'8" 220 lbs. - Tokyo, Japan
Aliases - Rikidozan Jr., El Hijo del Rikidozan
Athletic background - Judo
Professional background - JWA(`67-`71), All Japan(`73-`00), Mexico(`74), NOAH(`00-)

Place in History - The son of puroresu god Rikidozan, Mitsuo Momota has had the difficult task of trying to follow his father's path. Though his career hasn't exactly been very successful, he has been a stable hand for the five decades. He lacked his father's size and was not the caliber of smaller workers in the heavyweight dominant JWA. He began his training in the late 60s in the dark days after his father's death, the discovery of yakuza ties to puroresu and financial backers unease of backing the business. He hung tough with JWA as it went down and eventually went with Giant Baba and All Japan. He and his elder brother Yoshihiro became an undercard tag team before the brother's eventual retirement, while Mitsuo went abroad to Mexico. He returned and became famous for bringing the "tope suicida" to Japan. Momota continued to be a mere undercarder as the years went on and he would become known as the "Man of 6:30" (typical belltime). Despite All Japan's unheralded junior heavyweight division, it wasn't until 1987 when a 39 year old Momota captured the title from Shinichi Nakano for held it for several months. After that Momota mainly worked opening and undercard tag and singles matches with Rusher Kimura, Giant Baba, Masa Fuchi and his eternal rival Haruka Eigen. In 2000, Momota was one of the many AJPW powerbrokers that left for NOAH, where he became the vice-president and continues to be an active wrestler still doing the same comedy matches.