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Tiger Mask (2)

Title History:

New Japan Pro Wrestling:

  • The “Tiger Mask” gimmick was created after Ikki Kajiwara’s famous pro-wrestling cartoon..
  • April 23, 1981 Debut: Tiger Mask beat Dynamite Kid in the first of many legendary matches..
  • April 20, 1986 – AWA WrestleRock: Tiger Mask (Mitsuharu Misawa) beat Buck Zumhofe..
  • A 9-Hour, 2 VHS “Best of Tiger Mask” is available in our Tape Trading Section..
  • November 16, 2008 – NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Keith Walker.
  • November 24, 2008 – NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Buchanan & Eddie Edwards.
  • November 25, 2008 – SEM: KENTA & Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Bison Smith & Eddie Edwards.
  • November 27, 2008 – NOAH: Jun Akiyama, Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru defeated Mitsuharu Misawa, Ricky Marvin & Yoshinari Ogawa.
  • November 28, 2008 – NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa, Mohammed Yone & Naomichi Marufuji defeated Jun Akiyama, Kentaro Shiga & Takeshi Rikio.
  • November 29, 2008 – NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Doug Williams & Eddie Edwards.
  • November 30, 2008 – NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi defeated Atsushi Aoki & Takeshi Morishima.
  • December 4, 2008 – RJPW: Kotaro Suzuki & Mitsuharu Misawa defeated First Tiger Mask & Ultimo Dragon.
  • December 7, 2008 – NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Katsuhiko Nakajima.
  • December 23, 2008 – NOAH: Takashi Sugiura defeated Mitsuharu Misawa in the 1st round.
  • January 4, 2009 – NJPW: RISE (Hirooki Goto & Shinsuke Nakamura) defeated Mitsuharu Misawa & Takashi Sugiura.
  • January 11, 2009 – NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Makoto Hashi.
  • January 12, 2009 – NOAH: Mohammed Yone, Naomichi Marufuji & Takeshi Rikio defeated Mitsuharu Misawa, Shuhei Taniguchi & Yoshinari Ogawa.
  • January 14, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki & Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Buchanan & Keith Walker.
  • January 18, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki, Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Mohammed Yone, Shuhei Taniguchi & Takeshi Morishima.
  • January 20, 2009 – NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Kensuke Office (Kensuke Sasaki & Takashi Okita).
  • January 21, 2009 – NOAH: Kensuke Office (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kensuke Sasaki & Takashi Okita) defeated Ippei Ota, Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa.
  • January 23, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki, Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Jun Akiyama, Shuhei Taniguchi & Takeshi Rikio.
  • January 25, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki, Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Bobby Fish, Buchanan & Keith Walker.
  • February 15, 2009 – NOAH: Davey Richards, Doug Williams & Roderick Strong defeated Mitsuharu Misawa, Ricky Marvin & Yoshinari Ogawa.
  • February 18, 2009 – NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Davey Richards & Doug Williams.
  • February 19, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki, Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Buchanan, Doug Williams & Ricky Marvin.
  • February 21, 2009 – NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa, Ricky Marvin & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Kensuke Office (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kensuke Sasaki & Takashi Okita).
  • February 22, 2009 – NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa, Ricky Marvin & Yoshinari Ogawa defeat Disobey (Genba Hirayanagi, Mohammed Yone & Takeshi Rikio).
  • February 26, 2009 – NOAH: Disobey (Kotaro Suzuki, Mohammed Yone & Takeshi Rikio) defeated Mitsuharu Misawa, Ricky Marvin & Yoshinari Ogawa.
  • March 1, 2009 – NOAH: Akitoshi Saito, Bison Smith & Doug Williams defeated Mitsuharu Misawa, Shuhei Taniguchi & Yoshinari Ogawa.
  • March 15, 2009 – NOAH: Akitoshi Saito, Kishin Kawabata, Mitsuharu Misawa & Takeshi Morishima defeated Akihiko Ito, Atsushi Aoki, Genba Hirayanagi & Ippei Ota.
  • April 11, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki & Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Jun Akiyama & Shuhei Taniguchi.
  • April 13, 2009 – NOAH: Buchanan, D-Lo Brown & Keith Walker defeated Go Shiozaki, Mitsuharu Misawa & Tamon Honda.
  • April 16, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki & Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Buchanan & D-Lo Brown.
  • April 19, 2009 – NOAH: Akira Taue, Kenta Kobashi & Shuhei Taniguchi defeated Akihiko Ito, Mitsuharu Misawa & Takashi Sugiura.
  • April 21, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki, Mitsuharu Misawa & Ricky Marvin defeated Jun Akiyama, Junji Izumida & Shuhei Taniguchi.
  • April 22, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki & Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Mohammed Yone & Takeshi Rikio ended in a time limit draw.
  • April 25, 2009 – NOAH: Jun Akiyama, Kenta Kobashi & Shuhei Taniguchi defeated Go Shiozaki, Mitsuharu Misawa & Ricky Marvin.
  • April 27, 2009 – NOAH: D-Lo Brown & Keith Walker defeated Mitsuharu Misawa & Taiji Ishimori.
  • April 29, 2009 – NOAH: Akitoshi Saito & Bison Smith defeated Go Shiozaki & Mitsuharu Misawa.
  • April 30, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki & Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Akira Taue & Masao Inoue.
  • May 2, 2009 – NOAH: Atsushi Aoki, Go Shiozaki & Mitsuharu Misawa defeated KENTA, Kenta Kobashi & Taiji Ishimori.
  • May 3, 2009 – NOAH: Takashi Sugiura & Yoshihiro Takayama defeated Go Shiozaki & Mitsuharu Misawa.
  • May 6, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki & Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Kensuke Sasaki & Takeshi Morishima.
  • May 17, 2009 – NOAH: Akitoshi Saito, Makoto Hashi & Masao Inoue defeated Kentaro Shiga, Kishin Kawabata & Mitsuharu Misawa.
  • May 18, 2009 – SeMex: Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Atsushi Aoki.
  • June 4, 2009 – NOAH:  Masao Inoue, Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Akitoshi Saito, Bison Smith & Bobby Fish.
  • June 6, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki, Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Ricky Marvin, Takashi Sugiura & Takeshi Morishima.
  • June 8, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki, Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Bison Smith, Bobby Fish & Chris Hero.
  • June 9, 2009 – NOAH: Go Shiozaki, Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Kensuke Office (Kensuke Sasaki & Takashi Okita) & Takeshi Morishima.
  • June 11, 2009 – NOAH: Disobey (Mohammed Yone & Takeshi Rikio) defeated Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa.
  • June 13, 2009 – NOAH: Akitoshi Saito & Bison Smith defeated Go Shiozaki & Mitsuharu Misawa to retain the tag team titles.
  • This would be Mitsuharu Misawa last wrestling match as he died later that day.
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Trained By

Dick Beyer, Giant Baba, La Fiera, Jumbo Tsuruta & Dory Funk Jr.

Debut

August 21, 1991-June 13, 2009

Birthday

Hometown

Koshiyaga, Saitama, Japan

Gender

Height

6' 1" (185 cm)

Weight

242 lbs (110 kg)

Finishing Move(s)

Emerald Flowsion, Elbow Strike, Tiger Driver, Tiger Driver '91, Tiger Suplex '85, Elbow Suicida, Frog Splash, Diving Body Press

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Status