Report Last Updated - 12/07 (Winter)
Real Name - Tamon Honda
Birthdate - 8/15/63
6'2" 253 lbs. - Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

Aliases - none

Athletic background - Wrestling (Olympics)

Professional background - All Japan(`93-`00), NOAH(`00-)

Groups - TEAM TAUE

Career Highlights -
- Wins the 1996 Asunaro Cup
- Teams with Masao Inoue to win the All-Asian Tag Team title tournament
- Defeats Daisuke Ikeda in a tournament to challenge the GHC Champion
- Challenges Jun Akiyama for the GHC Title on the Departure 2001 tour

Finisher(s) -
- Dead End (Delayed Release German Suplex)
- Rolling Olympic Hell Special (Head & Arm Choke Uranage)
- Olympic Hell (Head & Arm Choke)
- Tamon's Shooter (Stepover Toehold Head & Arm Submission)
x Tamon's Power (Rydeen Bomb)

Favorites -
- Flying Headbutt
- Rolling Olympic Hell 0-9 (various submissions)
- Back Suplex
- Headbutts
- Lariat 3

Ringwork Rating -
move set - 5
science - 4
aerial - 1
power - 7
strikes - 6

Intangible Rating -
entertainment - 6
selling - 7
bumping - 5
heat - 6
carrying - 6
push - 6
potential - 2

Serious Injuries - Knees, Right Elbow (Required Surgery)

Outlook - Exceptional amateur wrestlers going pro having two routes: total successes or total washouts. Former Olympian Tamon Honda is one of the very few intermediates between those two. While he was never anything special in All Japan, where he wore down his knees, he's been pushed fairly strong in NOAH. Tamon Honda has GHC title shots here and there, but mainly works as a tag wrestler. He sells well and can get the crowd going when the action heats up late in tag matches. Age and physical condition continue to limit him. Honda developed into a good enough worker that he can probably hang in there for a while longer through working smart. He will remain a key supporting character for NOAH for the next few years for sure.