1. Takuya Sugi is a Japanese professional wrestler from Shizuoka.
35 Facts About Takuya Sugi
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Immediately after graduating in the 11th Toryumon school class term, Sugi debuted in 2003 in Toryumon Mexico, moving to the Toryumon X brand shortly after.
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Takuya Sugi went under the gimmick of Mini Cima, a lighter version of the popular Toryumon wrestler Cima, who was a part of the Mini Crazy Max stable along with Suwacito and Small Dandy Fuji.
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Takuya Sugi himself played Hustle Kamen Red, and teamed up with Hustle Kamen Blue and Hustle Kamen Yellow as a power trio.
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Takuya Sugi started wrestling for Michinoku Pro Wrestling in October 2004.
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Takuya Sugi debuted during the Futaritabi Tag Team Tournament 2004 under the gimmick of Michinoku Ranger Gold, a super sentai character similar to the one he played in Hustle.
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Takuya Sugi had a brief tenure in the Tetsujin Tournament, but he was forced to forfeit most of his matches due to an injury.
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Takuya Sugi performed a new title pursuit by taking part in a tournament for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship with Rei as his partner, losing to Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi; Yoshitsune took part in the 2006 edition of the Tetsujin Tournament, but he had to relinquish it again due to an injury.
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Takuya Sugi retained his titles for most of 2008, beating challengers like Rasse, Takeshi Minamino, Shinji Nohashi and Tigers Mask, as well as the team of Mens Teioh and Shinobu.
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Takuya Sugi was introduced in a vignette by top babyface Taiji Ishimori, who described him as a close ally carrying the genes of Ultimo Dragon.
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Takuya Sugi was introduced by Keiji Mutoh, and revealed himself as a strange character wearing an orange and black full body suit that represented the Mexican Habanero chili pepper.
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Takuya Sugi made his first in-ring work the same night, entering after the main event to save Mutoh, Masanobu Fuchi and Kaz Hayashi from an attack by the Voodoo Murders, and his official debut one day later, defeating VM member Voodoo Mask.
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Takuya Sugi returned to AJPW on February 15,2008 for a special event copromoted with Playboy.
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Takuya Sugi played the one night gimmick of Rabbit Boy, a character wearing a rabbit mask and a black playboy jacket.
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Takuya Sugi portrayed Super Milo, a monkey superhero wearing in green and yellow, and teamed up with Teriyaki Boy to defeat Ebessan III and Kuishinbo Kamen in a comedy match.
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Takuya Sugi appeared as Yoshitsune in some shows of Big Mouth LOUD and several others Japanese independent promotions, including the New Japan Pro-Wrestling LOCK UP sub-brand.
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Takuya Sugi continued using the El Blazer gimmick as his main freelancing character.
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On December 29,2008, Takuya Sugi appeared in an Akiba Pro Wrestling event as El Fuerte, a character inspired from the Street Fighter video game saga.
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Takuya Sugi started wrestling for Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max in May 2007 under his El Blazer character.
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Takuya Sugi got a shot at the ZERO1-MAX International Junior Heavyweight Championship held by Dragon Gate wrestler Masaaki Mochizuki, but he was unsuccessful.
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Now as Noiz, Takuya Sugi defeated Kamikaze as Zest and won again the championship.
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Takuya Sugi made his American debut for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla on May 17,2008.
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Takuya Sugi was introduced by Kenzo Suzuki as a part of his rudo stable La Yakuza, thus clearly turning heel for the first time in Sugi's his career.
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Takuya Sugi returned to Mexico along with Ronin, having some touring matches against him, and finally coming back to TV as an unofficial member of Aero Star's stable Real Fuerza Aerea.
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On July 9,2012, Takuya Sugi held a press conference to announce his involvement in a conspiracy that had gotten Kazushige Nosawa and Io Shirai arrested for marijuana possession and smuggling.
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Takuya Sugi defeated Leprechaun and Eisa8, but was eliminated by Caristico at the semi-finals.
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Takuya Sugi challenged unsuccessfully Kotaro Suzuki for the International Junior Heavyweight and NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championships, after which he declared he would challenge Ikuto Hidaka and Takuya Sugawara for the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship with an unknown partner, who would be revealed to be Psycho.
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Takuya Sugi replaced Psycho by Sean Guinness for the Furinkazan Tag Tournament 2017, only to be eliminated in the first round by Hidaka and Sugawara again.
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Takuya Sugi spent the next weeks teaming with several wrestlers against his old enemy faction Voodoo Murders, until he announced Masamune as his next tag team partner in his quest for the tag titles.
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On January 1,2018, Takuya Sugi officially joined Zero1, and the same day, he and Masamune won the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship from Sugawara and Hidaka.
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Takuya Sugi followed with a significantly successful tenure in the Fire Festival 2018, scoring wins over Hino, Shinjiro Otani and Hiroshi Yamato, though victory escaped his grasp again.
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In November, Takuya Sugi would prove better in the short Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament 2018 for the vacated International Junior Heavyweight Championship and NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship, winning the tournament and the titles after beating Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Asuka and Hayata.
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Takuya Sugi retained his singles titles against Ikuto Hidaka, Shoki Kitamura and Tatsuhito Takaiwa.
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Takuya Sugi looked to improve his odds in the Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament 2019, reaching the finals over Raicho and Sean Guiness, but being shockingly eliminated by Hub.
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In January 2020, Takuya Sugi lost his championships to Hub and was eliminated from the Tenka-Ichi 2020 by Raicho, but he bounced back by allying with the latter and defeating the former and Billy Ken Kid for the promotion's tag team titles.