- Akira Tozawa
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website=nihongo|Akira Tozawa|戸澤 アキラ|"Tozawa Akira", (born
July 22 1985 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan) is aJapan eseprofessional wrestler forDragon Gate . He currently is the leader of Tozawa-juku.Career
Akira Tozawa was the third graduate of the
Dragon Gate dojo to debut. He was being groomed to enter the stable M2K, but he did not progress very well, in a pattern that would continue for his entire career. After debuting he underwent a 10 match trial series, losing all 10 matches and being banished back to the DG dojo.Tozawa returned in October 2005, teaming with fellow rookie
Yuki Ono /Katsuo. However, he ended up teaming with Vangelis, a wrestler with aNazi stripper gimmick.Keni'chiro Arai intervened, much to Tozawa's resentment, and when Arai deemed him ready to join M2K, Tozawa refused. He stated his intention to run a stable of his own, and created a cram school based stable, Tozawa-juku.Even though Tozawa-juku bears his name, he is not necessarily the leader. Because of his backstage reputation as a troublemaker, he is regularly held off the Dragon Gate cards, has progressed little, and is far beneath his stablemates
Taku Iwasa and Keni'chiro Arai in rank. Recently he has given up rank to fellow troublemaker Yuki Ono as well. As Ono's increased popularity and rank was in part brought on by a massive amount of weight gain (40+KG), Tozawa began to bulk up as well, and he and Ono formed the Metabolic Brothers tag team within Tozawa-juku. They discarded the gakuran pants worn by the unit and wore silver tights and boots.On July 11, 2008, after having done this for a little over half a year, he appeared on a show with his gakuran pants on and announced that, in light of the recent success that new stablemates Shinobu and
El Generico have brought to the unit (as well as constant pestering from Iwasa and Arai), he was going on a diet.Finishing and signature moves
*"Tozawa-juku Hiden: Aburaburo shiki Taigatame" (Tozawa sits on the victims' chest for a pinfall attempt)
*"Tozawa-juku Hiden: Hurray! Hurray! Tozawa!" (Diving headbutt followed by Tozawa shouting "HURRAY! HURRAY! TO-ZA-WA!")
*"Tozawa-juku Hiden: Tozawa Backdrop Hold" (Bridging belly to back suplex)
*"Tozawa-juku Hiden: Sankaigan Zanjyu" (Tozawa drops down onto the upper chest of the victim)
*"Tozawa-juku Hiden: Iwaki" (Running leaping double knee smash followed into a pin)
*"Apron kara Tozawa" (Tozawa runs along the ring apron, leaps to the top rope and then performs a diving headbutt)
*"Tozawa Driver" (Falcon Arrow)References
External links
* [http://dgusa.puroresufan.com/tozawa.html Tozawa Profile at DGUSA]
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