      NJPW 1/4/02 Tokyo Dome COMPLETE Edition
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Title History: None won.
Tournament History: None won.
Signature Moves: - Cross armbreaker
Notes: Interested in combat sports since childhood, he studied judo and kickboxing in high school ... Began shoot fighting in 1995, appearing in Extreme Fighting Championship tournaments in America ... Fought and defeated Yuki Ishikawa in a shoot boxing match in 1995, the origins of their feud going back to this time ... TKO'd Bart Vale on 10/18/96 at EFC 3 ... Main evented EFC 4, going down to EFC Heavyweight Champion, Maurice Smith, in the biggest match of his career at that point ... Got a first big break when competing in PRIDE 1, defeating John Dixon in the opening match of the show ... Caught the eye of Antonio Inoki, who made him a part of the UFO (Universal Fighting Arts Organization) organization in 1998 ... Scored a win on 10/24/98 on UFO's debut show, making short work of Lee Young-Gun ... Appeared in BattlARTS on occasion in 1999, defeating Mohammed Yone on a big show in October of that year ... Appeared on New Japan's 1/4/00 Tokyo Dome, show teaming with UFO's top star and his tag team partner, Naoya Ogawa, and losing to Shinya Hashimoto & Takashi Iizuka, when Iizuka used a sleeper hold on him ... Made one of his infamous "terrorist attacks" at the Rikidozan Memorial on 3/11/00, when he jumped Shinya Hashimoto in the parking lot, scraped his head against the ground and left him in a pool of blood ... Almost half a decade after the shoot boxing match, on 3/25/00, began his wild feud with BattlARTS owner, Yuki Ishikawa, when he teamed with Alexander Otsuka, the two going to a 30:00 draw with Ishikawa and Naoki Sano ... Returned to New Japan on 4/7/00, again at the Tokyo Dome, losing to Iizuka in a singles match this time ... He and Ogawa unsuccessfully challenged Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata for the IWGP Tag Team Titles at the Fukuoka Dome on 5/5/00, Nagata pinning him ... Continued his wild feud with Ishikawa throughout 2000, showing up in BattlARTS frequently ... Returned to PRIDE for PRIDE 10 on 8/27/00, losing to Masaaki Satake ... Headlined BattlARTS' big 11/26/00 show, finally taking on Ishikawa, but losing to him ... Almost incited a riot on BattlARTS' 3/1/01 show when he made one of his savage assaults on Mohammed Yone, causing a no contest at 0:59 ... Appeared on the debut show of Shinya Hashimoto's new ZERO-ONE promotion on 3/2/01, defeating new rival, Shinjiro Otani, by referee stop ... Appeared on New Japan's 4/9/01, spitting on the legacy of Jushin Thunder Liger by tearing his mask off and getting DQ'd in just 1:47 ... Returned to ZERO-ONE on 4/18/01, teaming with Ogawa against NOAH's Mitsuharu Misawa & Takeshi Rikio, but losing after he was pinned by Misawa ... Teamed with Ogawa once in the main event of New Japan's 5/5/01 Fukuoka Dome show, losing to Riki Choshu & Manabu Nakanishi after Nakanishi forced him to submit ... Gained a rematch against Yuki Ishikawa on BattlARTS' 5/10/01 show, defeating and KO'ing him ... Fought Otani again on ZERO-ONE's 6/14/01 show, losing by DQ ... Worked the entire G1 CLIMAX 2001 tour, competing in the tournament ... Had a bizarre run in the tournament, taking eventual winner, Yuji Nagata, to a double countout on the opening day ... The next day though, he lost to junior heavyweight, Minoru Tanaka, then the following day to Tatsumi Fujinami in just 36 seconds ... Ended the tournament with a resurrgence, defeating Manabu Nakanishi by DQ and semi finalist, Tadao Yasuda, by pinfall ... Headlined New Japan's 9/23/01 show, losing to Manabu Nakanishi after a wild fight ... Defeated New Japan young lion, Hiroshi Tanahashi, on NJPW's 10/28/01 PPV, KO'ing him in 5 minutes ... Was destroyed by the man Naoya Ogawa defeated in October, Josh Dempsey, on ZERO-ONE's 12/9/01 PPV, being KO'd in just 1:35 ... One of the wildest, most intense and hateful fighters in the world, famous for making savage attack flurries on opponents (and often getting himself DQ'd in the process).
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