Kanji Ichikawa, better known by his stage name "Hollywood" Stalker Ichikawa, is a Japanese retired professional wrestler he is best known tenure for Dragon Gate.
14 Facts About Stalker Ichikawa
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Stalker Ichikawa's matches do not last very long, often within five to ten minutes tops.
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In some cases, just as Stalker Ichikawa is about to be hit by his opponent's finisher someone, usually his wife Namiko, would throw in the towel to stop the match.
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Stalker Ichikawa is very good friends with CIMA and Don Fuji, though the two have no problem beating him up many times to the delight of the fans.
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When Stalker Ichikawa started out in Japan in 1999, he had a legendary rivalry with Crazy MAX member TARU, the two having many comedy-themed matches.
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Stalker Ichikawa was promoted to full member after gaining his first victory, scoring the pin in a Hair vs Mask tag team match where he and TARU beat M2K's Susumu Mochizuki and Yasushi Kanda.
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Stalker Ichikawa would rejoin CIMA and Don Fujii after Crazy MAX ended in November 2004 in their new stable, Waku Waku Fuji Land, but when CIMA and Don Fujii renamed the stable to Blood Generation in January, Stalker Ichikawa was booted out for not meeting the strength principle set by the group.
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In late 2006, Stalker Ichikawa announced he would be retiring to spend more time with Namiko.
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On November 12,2006, Dragon Gate held the Stalker Ichikawa Bom-Ba-Ye show at Shinjuk FACE in Tokyo.
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Stalker Ichikawa's retirement lasted a week and was talked into returning to the ring by his wife Namiko.
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In 2007, Stalker Ichikawa was invited to wrestle in the United States for the first time in his career.
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Stalker Ichikawa introduced the Open the Owarai Gate Championship, nicknamed O2G and Open the Comedy Gate, with him as its first champion.
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Kikutaro won the match in under four minutes and it seemed that he had won the championship, until Stalker Ichikawa's mother appeared after the match appealing to Kikutaro and the fans that Stalker Ichikawa should retain given that the belt is one of the few things he had left.
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Stalker Ichikawa asked for a restart and their match went longer before Necro pinned him with the Necro Bomb on a pile of chairs.