Genki Horiguchi is currently a full-time wrestler for Dragon Gate.
24 Facts About Genki Horiguchi
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Genki Horiguchi has competed in Wrestling Society X and Ring of Honor.
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Genki Horiguchi debuted in Toryumon as a face wrestler with a surfer gimmick.
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Genki Horiguchi was the last wrestler to be added to the group.
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Genki Horiguchi was responsible for bringing in Magnum TOKYO to lead the remnants of M2K after the name was sealed.
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Genki Horiguchi teamed with Saito to defeat The Florida Brothers at the 2004 Revolucion ppv event on January 31,2004.
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Genki Horiguchi underwent a radical transformation in appearance, and added blue mist to his arsenal.
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Genki Horiguchi feuded with gaijin Matt Sydal over the title before dropping it to Yasushi Kanda.
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Genki Horiguchi began wrestling mainly early on the cards, taking the falls in multi-person matches, and was winless during all of March 2008.
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Genki Horiguchi began to develop kleptomania, stealing Tozawa-juku's pants and Anthony W Mori's ring costume.
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Genki Horiguchi acted as secretary to the Brave Gate belt commissioner Yoshito Sugamoto, which was actually the Brave Gate champion Gamma himself, enforcing the outrageous rules randomly put in place by him that allowed Gamma to win title matches or retain his title if he lost the match.
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Genki Horiguchi defended it twice before losing it to Masato Yoshino on October 12, and then went right back to taking the falls in most multi-person matches for the remainder of 2008 and into 2009.
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When Ryo Saito turned heel in February 2009 and joined Real Hazard, he and Genki Horiguchi began teaming again.
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Genki Horiguchi unsuccessfully challenged Naoki Tanizaki in the fall of 2009 for the Open the Brave Gate Championship.
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On January 10,2010, Genki Horiguchi put out a blog where he stated that Real Hazard would win more matches via teamwork instead of illegal tactics and weapons play in 2010.
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Genki Horiguchi would prove to be a man of his word that day when he stopped Yasushi Kanda from using a blue box in a tag team match they had.
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Five days later, Genki Horiguchi would be backed up by Susumu Yokosuka and K-ness in his quest for clean matches, after they all refused help from Kanda in a six-man tag match they were involved in.
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However, the new clean fight trio suddenly found themselves winless in every match they were in, with Genki Horiguchi taking the fall every time.
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However, K-neSuka and Genki Horiguchi decided to not team together anymore, since they all did not like how he was losing constantly, and they all agreed that this was preventing K-neSuka from getting to the top of the tag team division.
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Genki Horiguchi remained a lone wolf up until the 27th, when Dragon Kid suggested him to CIMA and Gamma as a new member of the WARRIORS stable, and he was welcomed into the fold.
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Genki Horiguchi turned heel on January 14,2011, along with the rest of WARRIORS, when they attacked Masato Yoshino and WORLD-1, and joined forces with Naruki Doi's unnamed group.
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On May 19, Genki Horiguchi defeated Akira Tozawa in the finals to win the 2012 King of Gate tournament.
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On September 29,2013, Genki Horiguchi defeated Kzy in the finals of a tournament to win the Open the Brave Gate Championship for the third time.
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Genki Horiguchi lost the title to Flamita on March 16,2014.