12 Facts About Kozo Urita

Kozo Urita is a Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler.

Kozo Urita was associated with Real Japan Pro Wrestling's Seikendo team.

Thanks to a work agreement between Seikendo and Pancrase, Kozo Urita went to compete in the latter, fighting Keiichiro Yamamiya and Izuru Takeuchi to decision and knocking out Riki Fukuda.

Kozo Urita competed in a seikendo-rules MMA tournament in Sayama's Real Japan Pro Wrestling, winning the contest after three matches.

In 2005, Kozo Urita started doing professional wrestling for Real Japan Pro Wrestling.

Kozo Urita received the gimmick of Tiger Shark, a masked character with heel mannerisms conceived as Super Tiger II's dark counterpart, in a similar way to the historical Black Tiger and Tiger Mask.

Tiger Shark and Super Tiger wrestled each other in tag team matches during the next events, with Kozo Urita often teaming up with Orihara.

Kozo Urita had a high-level match against New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Tiger Mask IV, being beaten.

Kozo Urita participated in the B1 Climax 2009 Block A, facing star Yuki Ishikawa and Yuta Yoshikawa in losing efforts, though getting victories over Keita Yano and Ryuji Walter.

Kozo Urita continued appearing in Battlarts, teaming up with his long time rival Super Tiger II in a special tag team to feud with Ishikawa, as well as Bison Tagai.

Kozo Urita retained it successfully against Hiroki, Dokuroman and Hikaru Sato, until he dropped it to Hiroki in a rematch.

Shark faced personally Onita's henchman Ichiro Yaguchi, with Kozo Urita coming victorious in a single match, his last apparition in the promotion.