Yoshi Tatsu immediately was assigned to WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling, to undergo assessment and training in the "WWE style" of wrestling.
19 Facts About Yoshi Tatsu
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Yoshi Tatsu briefly teamed with Sheamus O'Shaunessy under the team name The Movers and the Shakers.
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At the Royal Rumble, Yoshi Tatsu competed in his first Royal Rumble match, but was eliminated by John Cena.
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Yoshi Tatsu then formed a tag team with Goldust and the duo became the number one contenders for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship but failed in capturing the titles on the final episode of ECW.
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Yoshi Tatsu won a 26-man battle royal in the dark match to open WrestleMania XXVI by last eliminating Zack Ryder.
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In July 2010, Yoshi Tatsu had a few backstage brawls with The Nexus, trying to help John Cena get rid of them, which he did not.
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Yoshi Tatsu failed at a chance to earn a World Heavyweight Championship shot in a 20-man number one contenders battle royal.
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Yoshi Tatsu only had two matches on SmackDown in 2011; a number one contenders battle royal for the World Heavyweight Championship and an "All I Want for Christmas" battle royal, the winner of which would receive one wish.
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Yoshi Tatsu was a WWE Pro for the fifth season of NXT, known as NXT Redemption, and his Rookie was Byron Saxton.
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Yoshi Tatsu then began a feud with fellow NXT Pro Tyson Kidd, whose rookie was eliminated, when Kidd broke Yoshi Tatsu's toy figurine of himself and stole one of its legs.
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Yoshi Tatsu defeated Kidd on that episode to end the feud.
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Yoshi Tatsu later explained that his new look and wrestling style were because he wanted to better portray Japanese culture, Japanese pride and the aggressive style of Japanese wrestling.
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Yoshi Tatsu said his face paint was a tribute to The Great Muta.
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Yoshi Tatsu stopped wearing his face paint to the ring by October 2011.
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From December 2011, Yoshi Tatsu formed an alliance with Trent Barreta to feud with Curt Hawkins and Tyler Reks.
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Yoshi Tatsu continued sporadically wrestling on NXT throughout the rest of 2013 and 2014, but lost all his matches.
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Yoshi Tatsu entered the 2017 Real World Tag League with Miyahara and had a good showing, winning five matches, but was one short of a finals berth.
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Yoshi Tatsu signed full time with All Japan on January 1,2020, with the contract being announced at their first show of the year on January 2.
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Yoshi Tatsu was previously featured in King of Colosseum II and Wrestle Kingdom 2 under his real name.