Go Shiozaki

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Go Shiozaki
File:Go Shiozaki October 2008.jpg
Shiozaki as the WLW Heavyweight Champion in late 2008
Born (1982-01-21) January 21, 1982 (age 42)[1]
Kumamoto, Kumamoto[2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Go Shiozaki[1][2]
Billed height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[2]
Billed weight110 kg (240 lb)[2]
Trained byPro Wrestling Noah[3]
Kenta Kobashi[2][3]
Tamon Honda[2]
Yoshinari Ogawa[2]
DebutJuly 24, 2004[2][3]

Go Shiozaki (潮崎 豪, Shiozaki Go) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for Pro Wrestling Noah, where he is a two time GHC Heavyweight Champion. In addition to Noah, he has previously worked in the American-based promotion Ring of Honor and its former sister promotion Full Impact Pro, where he won the latter's World Heavyweight Championship.

Professional wrestling career

Pro Wrestling Noah (2004–2007)

Shiozaki entered the Noah dojo in 2003[4] and according to the commentators from the event Universal Uproar, was the only man to graduate in his class as well as being the youngest wrestler on the roster. Following his debut, Shiozaki became a protégé of the legendary Kenta Kobashi. Shiozaki and Kobashi formed a very successful tag team and the biggest match the two had as a team was a losing effort against Kensuke Sasaki and his own protégé, Katsuhiko Nakajima. The match reached critical acclaim, being given a near-perfect rating from The Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

In the beginning of 2006, Shiozaki fractured his jaw against KENTA.[4] Following his recovery, he began wrestling matches against the biggest names of the company and despite losing to them, he would put forth a valiant effort against them, similar to how Kobashi competed in All Japan Pro Wrestling. After Kobashi was forced out of action due to cancer, Shiozaki teamed briefly with Tamon Honda but was again defeated by Noah's top wrestlers until he finally broke his losing streak by pinning Ricky Marvin.

In late April 2007, Shiozaki represented Noah in the prestigious King of Europe Cup. He defeated Real Quality Wrestling representative Martin Stone in the first round before falling to Pro Wrestling Guerrilla representative Davey Richards in the quarterfinals.

Foreign excursion (2006–2009)

Ring of Honor and Full Impact Pro

Shiozaki made his Ring of Honor debut during ROH's August 2006 tour of England.[3] In July 2007, he wrestled Bryan Danielson in ROH's debut show in Tokyo, Japan. He unsuccessfully wrestled World Champion Nigel McGuinness in a title match on a Noah show in January 2008 before joining the ROH roster as a regular during February's event Eye of the Storm.[3]

On June 6, 2008, Shiozaki participated in a one night tournament to crown new World Tag Team Champions. He and partner World Champion Nigel McGuiness were eliminated in the first round by Kevin Steen and El Generico when Steen forced McGuiness to submit to the sharpshooter. The following day, Shiozaki received a title shot against McGuiness but lost when McGuiness forced him to submit to the London Dungeon. On June 28, Shiozaki revealed himself to be the newest member of Sweet 'n' Sour Inc., Larry Sweeney's heel stable.

In the summer of 2008, Shiozaki began performing for ROH's sister promotion, Full Impact Pro, based in Florida. He defeated Erick Stevens for the World Heavyweight Championship at FIP's event Heatstroke on August 23.[5] He would hold the belt for four months, defending it on both FIP and ROH, before losing it to Tyler Black on December 20.

Along with Mitsuharu Misawa (left) in May 2009.

World League Wrestling

Soon after having a tryout match with World Wrestling Entertainment[6] on September 5, Shiozaki began wrestling in Harley Race's World League Wrestling. On October 4, he won the WLW World Heavyweight Championship for the first time in a nine-man Battle Royal for the vacant title. He later lost title to four-time WLW World Heavyweight Champion Luminous Warrior on May 19, 2009.

Return to Noah (2009–present)

Teaming with Mitsuharu Misawa

Shiozaki returned to Noah in mid-2009 and gained a significant push as Mitsuharu Misawa's new tag team partner. They soon won the Global Tag League in May and thus became the top contenders to the GHC Tag Team Championship. During their title match on June 13 against champions Akitoshi Saito and Bison Smith, Misawa suffered a cervical spinal cord trauma[7] during the match after receiving a belly to back suplex from Saito. After Misawa remained motionless following the suplex, officials quickly tended to him before he was taken to a hospital, where he died later on.

Singles competition

On June 14, reigning GHC World Heavyweight Champion Jun Akiyama was forced to vacate the title due to herniated discs in his back. As a result, Shiozaki was nominated by Akiyama to wrestle for the title against the number one contender Takeshi Rikio. After a hard-fought twenty minute match, Shiozaki managed to defeat Rikio to become the new GHC Heavyweight Champion. He then went on to successfully defend his title for the first time on September 27 against Akitoshi Saito. However his second title defense was unsuccessful as on December 6, Shiozaki lost the World Heavyweight title to Takashi Sugiura on the last date of the 2009 Winter Navigation tour. On May 23, 2010 Shiozaki teamed up with Atsushi Aoki to defeat Takeshi Morishima and Taiji Ishimori to win the AAA World Tag Team Championship during Pro Wrestling Noah's NOAH Navigation With Breeze - Day 1 show in Niigata, Niigata, Japan. As a result of the victory, Shiozaki and Aoki were scheduled to defend the title during Asistencia Asesoría y Administración's Triplemania XVIII show.[8] At TripleMania, Shiozaki and Aoki were the first team eliminated when Joe Lider pinned Shiozaki. The match and the title were ultimately won by Los Maniacos (Silver Cain and Último Gladiador).[9] In August 2010 Shiozaki took part in New Japan Pro Wrestling's 2010 G1 Climax tournament, where he won four out of his seven round robin stage matches, only to narrowly miss the finals of the tournament after wrestling Shinsuke Nakamura to a 30-minute time limit draw on the final day of the tournament.[10] The draw with Nakamura led to a No Time Limit match at a Pro Wrestling Noah show on August 22, where Shiozaki was victorious.[11] Shiozaki and Nakamura had their third match on January 4, 2011, at New Japan's Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome, where Nakamura was victorious.[12][13] Shiozaki regained the GHC Heavyweight Title by defeating Takashi Sugiura on July 10, 2011. On January 4, 2012, Shiozaki returned to New Japan at Wrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome, where he and Naomichi Marufuji defeated CHAOS Top Team (Shinsuke Nakamura and Toru Yano) in a tag team match.[14] On January 22, Shiozaki lost the GHC Heavyweight Championship to Takeshi Morishima.[15]

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ^ a b "Go Shiozaki Profile". Online World Of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Cagematch profile".
  3. ^ a b c d e f Oliver, Greg. "The Americanization of Go Shiozaki". SLAM! Sports. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  4. ^ a b The profile at Noah NaviTemplate:Jp icon
  5. ^ a b "FIP World Heavyweight Championship history".
  6. ^ "WWE SmackDown! 2008 09 05". Online World Of Wrestling. 2008-09-05. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  7. ^ "http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/9663/". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. 2009-06-022. Retrieved 2009-06-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |title= (help)
  8. ^ "De última hora: En Japón los cinturones AAA cambian de manos, los nuevos campeones vienen a Triplemania 18". SuperLuchas Magazine (in Spanish). May 23, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
  9. ^ "Triplemania XVIII: Fiesta de Fiestas" (in Spanish). Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. June 7, 2010. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
  10. ^ "(Results) New Japan, 8/15/10". Strong Style Spirit. 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
  11. ^ "NJ in NOAH results; Kanemoto & Tiger win belts, Nakamura loses". Strong Style Spirit. 2010-08-22. Retrieved 2010-08-22.
  12. ^ "レッスルキングダムⅤ ｉｎ 東京ドーム". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved 2011-01-04.
  13. ^ Gerweck, Steve (2011-01-04). "1/4 TNA-NJPW Results: Tokyo, Japan". WrestleView. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
  14. ^ "NJPW 40th anniversary Tour. レッスルキングダムⅥ in 東京ドーム". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved 2012-01-04.
  15. ^ "Great Voyage 2012 in Osaka". Pro Wrestling Noah (in Japanese). Retrieved 2012-01-22.
  16. ^ "1/4 NJPW Tokyo Dome results: MVP & Benjamin, Tanahashi remains IWGP Hvt. champion, Mutoh, NJPW vs. NOAH matches".
  17. ^ "2011 NOAH results".
  18. ^ a b c d e f g Vetter, Chris (2007-10-30). "DVD Review: ROH "Live in Tokyo" (7-16-07), with Nigel-Morishima, Danielson-Shiozaki". PWTorch. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g h "Ring Crew Reviews: Puro Comp including AJPW, NJPW, DDT, NOAH and BattlArts".
  20. ^ a b c d e f g "Puroresu Central profile".
  21. ^ a b "Themes".
  22. ^ "AAA World Tag Team Championship history".
  23. ^ "WLW Heavyweight Championship history".
  24. ^ ""PWI 500": 1–100". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. 2011-08-09. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
  25. ^ "GHC Heavyweight Championship history".
  26. ^ "2009 Global Tag League results".
  27. ^ "Purolove profile".

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