Report Last Updated - 3/06 (Winter)
Real Name - Osamu Matsuda
Birthdate - 9/19/66
5'9" 205 lbs. - Hanamaki City, Iwate, Japan

Aliases - Osamu Matsuda

Athletic background - n/a

Teachers - Yuji Funaki (Ofunato Gym)

Professional background - New Japan(`85-), UWA(`91-`92)

Career Highlights -
- Defeats rival Jushin Liger to capture his first IWGP Junior Heavyweight title
- Beats Sabu to win the UWA Junior Heavyweight title
- Wins the WWF Junior Heavyweight belt from the Great Sasuke
- Defeats Koji Kanemoto to win the 1997 Best of the Super Junior tournament
- Scores a big win over Liger to capture the J-Crown

Finisher(s) -
- Samurai Bomb (Thunder Fire Powerbomb)
- Reverse Brainbuster
- Inverted Swinging DDT
- Samurai Clutch (Reverse Side Roll Cradle)

Favorites -
- Swinging DDT
- Top Rope Rana
- Flying Headbutt
- Seated Reverse DDT
- Kimura

Ringwork Rating -
move set - 9
science - 6
aerial - 3
power - 7
strikes - 7

Intangible Rating -
entertainment - 6
selling - 9
bumping - 6
heat - 6
carrying - 8
push - 5
potential - 4

Outlook - One of New Japan's very best juniors, whose often overlooked. While he's not as underrated or underappreciated as some, El Samurai seems just like an another junior sometimes. He and Liger have showed that they're not over-the-hill yet in recent years and Samurai just seems to never lag at all. Too bad his final years seem destined to elevating youngsters, carrying people and not getting his due most of the time. He always looks strong in tag matches and if in there with the right opponent can have an exceptional singles match with no prior story to it. When contracts come up in January, El Samurai always seems frustrated with his position, but perhaps lacks the confidence in himself to become a freelancer.