Report Last Updated - 5/03 (Winter)
Real Name - Takayuki Iizuka
Birthdate - 8/2/66
5'9" 232 lbs. - Hokkaido, Japan

Aliases - Takayuki Iizuka

Athletic background - Sambo

Teachers - (New Japan Dojo)

Professional background - New Japan(`85-), CWA(`91)

Groups - G-Eggs

Career Highlights -
- Forms a team with Riki Choshu and wins the IWGP Tag titles from George Takano & Super Strong Machine
- Joins up with Kazuo Yamazaki to beat Shinya Hashimoto & Junji Hirata for the Tag titles
- Teams with Hashimoto to defeat the UFO team of Naoya Ogawa & Kazunari Murakami, who he choked out
- Pairs up with Yuji Nagata to beat Tenkoji to win the G-1 Climax Tag League
- Along with Nagata goes to an awesome 30 minute draw with Toshiaki Kawada & Masa Fuchi

Finisher(s) -
- Scissored Chokehold

Favorites -
- Blizzard Suplex (Exploder)
- Uranage
- Sleeper
- Cross Knee Scissors
- Slap flurry

Ringwork Rating -
move set - 6
science - 7
aerial - 0
power - 6
strikes - 5

Intangible Rating -
entertainment - 5
selling - 7
bumping - 5
heat - 6
carrying - 7
push - 7
potential - 3

Serious Injuries - Serious Concussion

Outlook - Definitely one of New Japan's best wrestlers, Takeshi Iizuka was sadly missed following a bad concussion in 2001. That cost him a lot of elevation time and now he's struggling to regain his footing. However, Iizuka is the realistic-type grappler, who could really find a niche in Inoki's new NJPW. He will probably be used to promote some of the up-and-coming shooters that Inoki looks to bring in, which he can do better than most of his peers. At his age and experience level he remains very good, but whether or not he can get much of anywhere now is anyone's guess. I would suspect not, but he still has value to the company.