Toryumon

Toryumon is the name of Último Dragón's professional wrestling school and the associated professional wrestling promotion. The school had dojos both in Mexico and Japan. The school also ran professional wrestling events under the banners of its graduating groups.

The groups were:
*Toryumon Japan - Its members use a style almost identical to their teacher.
*Toryumon 2000 Project (T2P) - This group used a six sided ring compared to the first group which used four sided rings. Its members used a primarily submission based style called Llave.
*Toryumon X - More lucha libre based compared to the others. This is the only group that is still active under its original name.

When Último Dragón returned from retirement Takashi Okamura took over as the company head. A day after the fifth anniversary of Toryumon's first event, Último Dragón left the company, taking the name and trademarks with him. Toryumon Japan changed its name to Dragon Gate because of this. Dragon Gate returned all the titles it had promoted as Toryumon Japan to the people that held the belts last before they started promoting them.

Since the Dragon Gate split, Toryumon has run in a variety of forms in both Japan and Mexico. Mexico has seen the rise of the latest class of students, trained by Último Dragón and Jorge 'Skayde' Rivera, as well as a variety of international stars, including ex-WWE workers such as Linda Miles and Nidia, and Japanese legends including the Great Muta.

In Japan, the story has been quite different fro the Toryumon brand. The company ran a handful of shows as Toryumon X, highlighting the end of the Último Dragón gimmick, and then returned to relative silence. A group of the remaining Toryumon students (including ousted members of Dragon Gate) joined with the internet-firm Livedoor to create the promotion dragondoor. The response wasn't as positive as hoped, closing after only 6 shows.

In early 2006, the future looked brighter for the Toryumon brand, as Último Dragón announced he'd be running shows featuring the Toryumon Mexico class as well as stars including Tajiri, under the name UDP (Último Dragón Productions). Not to be outdone, the minds behind dragondoor decided to start a new promotion, which debuted in April 2006, .

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Toryumon Japan

CIMA (Dragon Gate)

Don Fujii (Dragon Gate)

Dragon Kid (Dragon Gate)

Magnum TOKYO (Retired)

SUWA (Retired in May 07)

Genki Horiguchi (Dragon Gate)

Keni'chiro Arai (Dragon Gate)

Stalker Ichikawa (Dragon Gate)

Yasushi Kanda (Dragon Gate)

Susumu Yokosuka (Dragon Gate)

Ryo Saito (Dragon Gate)

T2P

Anthony W. Mori (Dragon Gate)

Raimu Mishima (Retired June 07 hernia injury)

Mototsugu Shimizu (Michinoku Pro/El Dorado)

Naruki Doi (Dragon Gate)

Taku Iwasa (Dragon Gate)

Takuya Murakami (Retired)

Kinya Oyanagei (El Dorado)

Milano Collection AT (New Japan)

Phillip J. Fukumasa (Retired)

Bakery Yagi/Pescatore Yagi (Dragon Gate Ref)

brother YASSHI (All Japan/El Dorado)

Masato Yoshino (Dragon Gate)

Shodai TARUcito (Retired)

Touru Owashi (El Dorado/DDT)

JUN Ogawauchi (Retired/El Dorado Ring Announcer)

Shogo Takagi (El Dorado/Semi Retired)

Shuji Kondo (El Dorado/All Japan)

Takuya Sugawara (El Dorado/Zero One MAX)

Toryumon X and beyond

Murcielago/Flashmoon/Inoue 119 Taiien/Shadow Phoenix (Osaka Pro)

Hisamaru Tajima (UD shows in Japan/IWA/DRADITION)

Kei Sato/Brahman Kei (Michinoku Pro/El Dorado)
KONDO & CO (Retired)

Lambo Miura/Dynamite Tohoku/119 Kogure Taiin (Retired)

Manabu Murakami/Maguro Ooma/Manjimaru (Michinoku Pro/El Dorado/out with a shoulder injury)

Ken45°/Pineapple Hanai (Michinoku Pro/El Dorado)

Shinjitsu Nohashi/Koichiro Arai (Michinoku Pro)

Shu Sato/Brahman Shu (Michinoku Pro/El Dorado)

Small Dandy Fuji/Rasse/Jumping Kid Okimoto (Michinoku Pro/El Dorado)

SUWAcito/Kagetora (Michinoku Pro/El Dorado)

Taiji Ishimori (NOAH)

Takeshi Minaminno/HappyMan/Esthetic Jaguar (Michinoku Pro)

TARUcito 2 (Retired)

Yousuke Aoki/Spark Aoki (El Dorado)

Mango Fukuda/Bear Fukuda (El Dorado/DDT)

Naoki Tanisaki (Dragon Gate)

Chuuichiro Arai/Amigo Suzuki (Toryumon Mexico)

Takuya Sugi (various gimmicks) (Michinoku Pro/Freelance)

Passion Hasegawa (Toryumon Mexico)
GALLARDO/119 Katayama Taiin (Retired)
Banana Senga/Hercules Oosenga (El Dorado/Michinoku Pro)
Brian Lee (Toryumon Mexico)
Daisuke Hanaoka/Oscar Hanoka (Toryumon Mexico)
Guillermo "Chango" Akiba/CHANGO (El Dorado)
Hajime Ohara (Toryumon Mexico/Osaka Pro/CMLL)
Hiromi Horiguchi (Toryumon Mexico)
Kanjyuuro Matsuyama (Michinoku Pro/Osaka Pro)
Kazuchika Okada (New Japan)

Milanito Collection a.t./Rei (El Dorado/Michinoku Pro)
Toshiya Matsuzaki/Rascal Matsuzaki/Pequeno Ninja (Toryumon Mexico/DRADITION)
Satoshi Kajiwara (Toyrumon Mexico)

Titles promoted

*Último Dragón Gym Championship
*NWA World Welterweight Championship
*NWA International Light Heavyweight Championship
*British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Championship
*UWA World Welterweight Championship
*UWA World Trios Championship

External links

* [http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/dg/ Toryumon/Dragon Gate Title Histories]
* [http://dragongate.puroresufan.com/ DGUSA, A Toryumon and Dragon Gate fansite]
* [http://thecoolkidstable.net/archives/789 The Complete History of the Último Dragón Gym Championship]
* [http://sports.livedoor.com/battle/eldorado/ Official website of El Dorado (formerly dragondoor)]