1. Ryo Saito was born on August 15,1979 and is a Japanese professional wrestling personality and semi-retired professional wrestler primarily working in Dragongate, where he is their general manager.
21 Facts About Ryo Saito
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Ryo Saito is a former member of numerous stables within Dragongate as both a heel and a face, including Jimmyz, Real Hazard and Blood WARRIORS; he served as the second leader of Do FIXER from 2004 until its dissolution in February 2007.
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Ryo Saito's name is sometimes abbreviated as SaiRyo, so as not to confuse him with Yoshiyuki Saito, who primarily wrestles as Super Shisa.
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Ryo Saito debuted in 1999 as a fourth term student.
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Ryo Saito fought in that year's Young Dragons Cup, but lost in the finals to the newly-heel Yasushi Kanda.
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Ryo Saito became something of a jobber, losing nearly 20 opening matches in a row to Kenichiro Arai.
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K-ness had been sent into the home army as a spy to cause problems within it, and it worked in that Ryo Saito was not welcomed back into the home army.
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Ryo Saito abandoned his bicyclist character, smashing up his bike with a chair, but he could not pass leader Magnum Tokyo's dance test and was denied entrance.
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Ryo Saito proved his allegiance to Do Fixer by betraying Mori, smacking him with a black box and winning the match.
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Ryo Saito acted as the main H-A-G-E call cheerleader for stablemate Genki Horiguchi, and he was derailed by injuries.
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Ryo Saito helped him overcome the shock of Sugawara's betrayal, and when Mori lost a hair vs hair match, Saito took the haircut for him.
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Ryo Saito spent the remainder of the year garnering high-profile victories, as well as two Open the Triangle Gate Championship reigns with Genki Horiguchi and Dragon Kid, and when Magnum began to move down a different path with his Renaissance project, he named Saito the new leader of Do Fixer.
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Ryo Saito's momentum continued right into February 2006, when he beat Magnitude Kishiwada to win the Open the Dream Gate Championship and became the ace of the promotion.
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Ryo Saito dropped the championship to Susumu Yokosuka in his first defense, and though he had a third Open the Triangle Gate title reign with Genki and Dragon Kid, things were quiet for him for the rest of the year.
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Ryo Saito made it to the finals of that year's King of Gate Tournament again, but lost to Masaaki Mochizuki.
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In February 2007, Genki Horiguchi betrayed Do Fixer to join the Muscle Outlaw'z, so Ryo Saito decided to end Do Fixer activity and follow the only other remaining member Dragon Kid into CIMA's Typhoon stable.
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In 2008, Ryo Saito began to regain rank in the promotion.
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Ryo Saito took offense to CIMA putting down the Open the Brave Gate title after he challenged for it, causing some strife within Typhoon.
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Ryo Saito continued to team with Susumu, and made attempts to form his own unit.
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On February 27,2010, Genki Horiguchi joined up with the Warriors stable after leaving Real Hazard two weeks earlier, and as a condition of him joining, Ryo Saito was brought out of Real Hazard and into Warriors.
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Ryo Saito 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 group.