Report Last Updated - 12/07 (Winter)
Real Name - Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
Birthdate - 11/21/64
5'10 220 lbs. - Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Aliases - none

Athletic background - Wrestling (Daito Bunka University)

Professional background - All Japan(`87-`00), NOAH(`00-)

Groups - BURNING

Career Highlights - n/a

Finisher(s) -
- Fireball Bomb (Blue Thunder Bomb)
- Flying Headbutt
- Hammerlock Suplex

Favorites -
- Rolling German Suplex
- Spider Butterfly Suplex
- Brainbuster
- Zero-sen Kick (Leg Lariat)
- Elbows

Ringwork Rating -
move set - 7
science - 3
aerial - 2
power - 7
strikes - 8

Intangible Rating -
entertainment - 7
selling - 8
bumping - 7
heat - 6
carrying - 6
push - 5
potential - 3

Outlook - Tsuyoshi Kikuchi was one of those long-time All Japaners, who jumped to NOAH, despite the fact it would not really help him at all. In the early 1990s, he was one of the best undercarders in Japan. He took big bumps and thoroughly beat up his body. In NOAH, he was relegated to six-man tags at first along with the old veterans. Amazingly, he caught a break in a feud between NOAH's juniors and New Japan's juniors that brought him back. Kikuchi was the tough old man who the New Japan invaders beat up and it got over big. That run helped him receive more time in the midcard and he usually looks solid if anything. Now as a lesser version of Genichiro Tenryu, Kikuchi is this rough veteran with sand in his guts and gravel in his throat. While it seems he'll burn out eventually, Kikuchi might be kicking around kids for years to come.