WRESTLER PROFILES

	Wrestler: Toshiaki Kawada Real Name: Toshiaki Kawada Birthday: December 8, 1963 Hometown: Ashikaga, Japan Marital Status: Height & Weight: 6' - 244 lbs Trained by: Tenryu Debut: October 4, 1982 Previous Gimmicks: Kio Kawata (Stampede) Black Mephisto (Stampede) Mr. Toshiaki (Montreal) Dangerous K (AJPW) Finishing Move: High-Angle Powerbomb Favorite Moves: Powerbomb Slide Hold Brainbuster Stretch Plum Backdrop Driver Enzuigiri Gamengiri Abisegiri Folding Powerbomb Submissions Kicks Notable Feuds: Mitsuharu Misawa
AJPW All Asia Tag Team titles w/Samson Fuyuki defeating Mighty Inoue & Takashi Ishikawa (March 9, 1988); AJPW All Asia Tag Team titles w/Samson Fuyuki defeating Shinichi Nakano & Shunji Takano (September 15, 1988); AJPW All Asia Tag Team titles w/Samson Fuyuki defeating Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas (October 20, 1989); AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Mitsuharu Misawa defeating Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (July 24, 1991); AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Mitsuharu Misawa won Real World Tag Tournament (December 4, 1992); AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Akira Taue defeating Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (May 20, 1993); AJPW (All Japan) Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight title defeating Steve Williams (October 22, 1994); AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Akira Taue defeating Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (June 9, 1995); AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Akira Taue defeating Gary Albright & Stan Hanson (February 20, 1996); AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Akira Taue defeating Johnny Ace & Steve Williams (January 25, 1998); AJPW (All Japan) Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight title defeating Mitsuharu Misawa (May 1, 1998); AJPW (All Japan) Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight title defeating Mitsuharu Misawa (January 22, 1999); AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Akira Taue defeating Yoshihiro Takayama & Takao Ohmori [Tournament] (June 9, 2000); AJPW (All Japan) Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight title defeating Keiji Mutoh (February 24, 2002); AJPW (All Japan) Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight title defeating Shinjiro Ohtani [Tournament] (September 6, 2003); AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Taiyo Kea defeating Roz & Suwama for vacant titles (February 17, 2007);
Toshiaki Kawada is considered one of the toughest wrestlers in the history of Japanese wrestling.. November 1985: Toshiaki Kawada was sent to North America by All Japan to gain experience before making it big in Japan.. ~~~Fred Behrend's Texas All-Star Wrestling, Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling and Frank Valois' International Wrestling.. ~~~Japanese Force (Toshiaki Kawada & Hiromichi Fuyuki) had a feud with American Force (Paul Diamond & Shawn Michaels).. September 6, 2003: Toshiaki Kawada won the Triple Crown at Budokan Hall, beating Shinjiro Otani in the four-man tournament finals.. ~~~Shinjiro Otani beat Satoshi Kojima and Toshiaki Kawada beat The Gladiator (Mike Awesome) in first round matches.. January 4, 2004 - Z1 Hustle-1: Toshiaki Kawada defeated Mark Coleman.. March 7, 2004 - Z1 Hustle-2: Mark Coleman & Kevin Randleman defeated Shinya Hashimoto & Toshiaki Kawada.. May 8, 2004 - Z1 Hustle-3: Toshiaki Kawada defeated Mick Foley to retain the Triple Crown.. July 25, 2004 - Z1 Hustle-4: Giant Silva & Psycho the Death (Psycho Simpson) defeated Toshiaki Kawada & Hiro Yokoi.. November 13, 2004--New Japan: Toshiaki Kawada & Naoya Ogawa beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Hiroshi Tanahashi.. March 2005: Toshiaki Kawada, 40, announced that he was leaving All Japan Pro Wrestling after 25 years.. May 29, 2005--AJPW: Toshiaki Kawada defeated Shuji Kondo.. September 20, 2004--HUSTLE 5: The Monster C (Steve Corino) & Mark Coleman defeated Hiro Yokoi & Toshiaki Kawada October 8, 2005--New Japan PPV: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Yoji Anjo & Toshiaki Kawada.. October 23, 2004--HUSTLE 6: Toshiaki Kawada & Riki Choshu defeated The Monster C & Monsieur De Barbarossa February 11, 2005--HUSTLE 7: Toshiaki Kawada defeated Wataru Sakata March 18, 2005--HUSTLE 8: Naoya Ogawa beat Toshiaki Kawada (However, Kawada was awarded the win by the Judges.) May 10, 2005--HUSTLE 9: Naoya Ogawa & Shinjiro Ohtani & Toshiaki Kawada beat Mark Coleman & Giant Silva & Yoji Anjoh July 13, 2005--HUSTLE 10: Yoji Anjoh/King Giraffa/Bruno Hercules/Yinling beat Toshiaki Kawada/Taichi Ishikari/Masato Tanaka July 15, 2005--HUSTLE 11: Shinjiro Ohtani & Toshiaki Kawada beat Yinling & Fujin and Raijin (later declared a no contest) September 10, 2005--HUSTLE 12: Yinling and Fujin and Raijin defeated Toshiaki Kawada and Naoya Ogawa October 30, 2005--HUSTLE 13: Naoya Ogawa & Shinjiro Ohtani & Taichi Ishikari beat Raijin & Fujin & Toshiaki Kawada HustleMania--November 3, 2005: Shinjiro Ohtani/Naoya Ogawa/Razor Ramon Hard Gay beat Yoji Anjoh/Yinling/Toshiaki Kawada November 23, 2005--U-STYLE Axis: Toshiaki Kawada defeated Mikhail Illoukhine..... December 25, 2005--HUSTLE: Toshiaki Kawada defeated Taichi Ishikari .. March 5, 2006--HUSTLE 14: Toshiaki Kawada defeated Kenzo Suzuki.. March 12, 2006--HUSTLE 15: Yoshihiro Tajiri & Razor Ramon HG defeated Toshiaki Kawada & Kenzo Suzuki in Nagoya, Japan.. April 20, 2006--HUSTLE 16: New-Ling Sama/Kawada/Yoji Anjoh/Giant Vabo/Sodom beat Naoya Ogawa/Ohtani/Tajiri/Razor/Erica .. May 13, 2006--HUSTLE 17: Ryoji Sai and Wataru Sakata beat Kohei Sato and Toshiaki Kawada June 17, 2006--HustleAid: Tajiri and Shinjiro Ohtani beat Toshiaki Kawada and New-Ling Sama July 9, 2006--HUSTLE 18: Tajiri and Naoya Ogawa beat The M-Peranza and Toshiaki Kawada October 6, 2006--HUSTLE 19: Razor Ramon Hard Gay/Naoya Ogawa/New-Ling Sama defeated Toshiaki Kawada/Sodom/Gomorah.. October 9, 2006--HUSTLE 20: Ogawa/RR-HG/New-Ling Sama/Ohtani/Tajiri beat Kawada/Tenryu/Kohei Sato/Giant Vabo/Monster C.. November 23, 2006--HustleMania 2: Naoya Ogawa & Tajiri & New-Ling Sama beat Yoji Anjoh & Caiya & Toshiaki Kawada March 30, 2007: Keiji Muto defeated Toshiaki Kawada to win the 2007 Champion Carnival Tournament.. ~~~Kawada beat Satoshi Kojima while Muto beat Taiyo Kea to reach the finals held at Korkuen Hall.. April 22, 2007--All Japan Pro Wrestling: Vampiro defeated Toshiaki Kawada at Korakuen Hall .. April 30, 2007--All Japan Pro Wrestling: Toshiaki Kawada & Taiyo Kea defeated The Great MUTA & Vampiro Masanori Horie wrote: Toshiaki Kawada was sent to North America for a year from November 1985. He had gained experience as a pro wrestler in Fred Behrend's Texas All-Star Wrestling (San Antonio, TX), Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling (Calgary), and Frank Valois' International Wrestling (Montreal). Kawada and Hiromichi Fuyuki, as "Japanese Force" had a feud with "American Force" (Paul Diamond & Shawn Michaels) for the USA Tag Team title in San Antonio,TX, where Ted DiBiase, Chavo Guerrero, Big Bubba (Tugboat/Typhoon/Shockmaster), Austin Idol, Al Madril, and Billy Travis were headliners. Kawada was billed as "Kio Kawata from Seoul,South Korea" in Stampede Wrestling for a very short time around June 1986. He was under adverse circumstances, and rarely has he talked about his days in American/Canadian wrestling. Perhaps that was his hardest time in his career. However, these experiences certainly brought him up stronger and tougher.