WRESTLER PROFILES

	Wrestler: Mitsu Arakawa Real Name: Mitsulazu M. Arakawa Birthday: May 23, 1927 Hometown: Marital Status: Height & Weight: Trained by: Debut: Previous Gimmicks: Finishing Move: Claw Hold Favorite Moves: Judo Chops Salt in the Eyes Notable Feuds: Doug Gilbert Sr. Verne Gagne Moose Evans Moose Cholak Ed Sharkey Pepper Gomez Alex Medina Reggie Parks Prince Pullins Dan Manoukan Luis Martinez Igor
NWA (Minneapolis) World Tag Team titles w/Kenji Shibuya defeating Karol & Ivan Kalmikoff (August 13, 1957); NWA (Vancouver) Pacific Coast Tag Team titles w/Mr. Moto defeating Joe & Guy Brunetti (March 20, 1961); AWA (San Francisco) World Tag Team titles w/Kenji Shibuya defeating Joe & Guy Brunetti (November 11, 1961); Stampede International Tag Team titles w/Kenji Shibuya defeating ???????? (????, 1963); NWA (Vancouver) Canadian Tag Team titles w/Kenji Shibuya defeating Mr. X & Gene Kiniski (March 11, 1963); IWA (Australia) World Heavyweight title defeating Dominic DeNucci (January ??, 1965); WWA (Indianapolis) World Heavyweight title defeating Dick the Bruiser (October 8, 1966); WWA (Indianapolis) World Tag Team titles w/Dr. Moto defeating Crusher & Dick the Bruiser (October 13, 1967); AWA World Tag Team titles w/Dr. Moto defeating Wilbur Snyder & Pat O` Connor (December 2, 1967); NWA (Buffalo) World Tag Team titles w/Mr. Moto defeating Crusher & Dick the Bruiser (October ??, 1968); WWA (Indianapolis) World Tag Team titles w/Dr. Moto defeating Wilbur Snyder & Pat O` Connor (October 26, 1968); WWWF International Tag Team titles w/Toru Tanaka defeating ???????? (June ??, 1969); NWF (Cleveland/Buffalo) World Tag Team titles w/Yoshino Sato defeating Dominic DeNucci & Tony Parisi [Tournament] (January 19, 1972);
August 14, 1970 - AWA Comiskey Park: Wilbur Snyder defeated Mitsu Arakawa.. Mitsu Arakawa had a lot of success as a tag team with Kenji Shibuya.. Mitsu Arakawa is considered by many as the most hated foreign heel to ever work in AWA territory.. Mitsu Arakawa had a big hand in helping Yoshino Sato, Masa Saito, Toru Tanaka and Mr. Fuji get started in the business.. April 17, 1997: Mitsulazu M. Arakawa passed away..