Mr. Pogo

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mr. Pogo
Occupation	Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Feb 5, 1951(1951-02-05)
Age	73
Date Of Death	2017-06-23
Birthplace	Isesaki
Country	Japan
Birth City	Gunma Prefecture
Horoscope	Aquarius

Mr. Pogo Biography

Mr. Pogo is one of the most popular and richest Wrestler who was born on February 5, 1951 in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Tetsuo Sekigawa (Guan Chuan Zhe F, Sekigawa Tetsuo, February 5, 1951 – June 23, 2017) is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is best known for his work as Mr. Pogo (misutapogo, Misuta Pogo). In the 1990s, he helped popularize hardcore wrestling with “death matches”, in promotions like Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (W*ING), and Big Japan Pro Wrestling.

He returned to Stampede Calgary in 1979 under the name Mr. Sekigawa. On December 8, 1979, he defeated Don Gagne to win the Stampede North American Heavyweight Championship. He won the vacant Stampede Wrestling International Tag Team Championship together with the Dynamite Kid almost two weeks later. This made him a double champion. He lost the North American Heavyweight Championship and the International Tag Team Championship to Leo Burke a month later.

In 1985, Mr. Pogo returned to Japan and to NJPW with a new tag team partner in Kendo Nagasaki. Together, they were known as The Ninja Express. They took part in a league to determine the inaugural IWGP Tag Team Champions; they placed seventh with seven points. In 1987, they took part in a Japan Cup Tag League, where they placed seventh with nine points. The Ninja Express left NJPW in June 1988.

During the tail end of the Ninja Express’ NJPW run, Mr. Pogo began wrestling for World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico in 1987, wrestling the likes of Ricky Santana and TNT. By the time the Ninja Express left NJPW in June 1988, he and Nagasaki were wrestling for WWC full-time. In July 1988, the Bruiser Brody murder scandal greatly damaged the wrestling scene in Puerto Rico, causing Pogo to work at a local plastic molding plant, while wrestling, due to the massive decrease in attendance and sales. At the same time, he held five WWC World Tag Team Championships, once with TNT and four times with Nagasaki. After Nagasaki left to return to NJPW, before heading to WCW, Pogo carried on the Ninja Express legacy, teaming with Kensuke Sasaki, winning two WWC Caribbean Tag Team Championships in 1989. He also held the WWC World Junior Heavyweight Championship once, despite being over the weight limit, before leaving WWC in 1991.

He moved to the United States in 1975. He made his first American stop in the NWA’s Central States Territory under the name “The Great Seki”. There he spent almost three years in Kansas City wrestling the likes Bob Geigel and Jake Roberts. Tojo Yamamoto managed him as The Ninja Warrior when he moved to Tennessee in 1978. He moved to Texas within a few months to wrestle for Southwest Championship Wrestling. Then he went to NWA Western States where he won two Tag Team Championships alongside Mr. Sato. He began to go by the name Mr. Pogo in Texas, after magazines and promoters misunderstood his ring name, Mr. Togo.

Mr. Pogo Net Worth

Mr. Pogo is one of the richest Wrestler from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mr. Pogo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started out as a decent amateur and had a dispute with Jumbo Tsuruta about team representation at the Japanese collegiate championships. He was a member of Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance, but he did not make his debut there. Instead, he joined the NJPW Dojo promotion’s New Japan Pro Wrestling and made his debut in 1972.

He quickly became frustrated by NJPW’s strict norms and quit in 1973 to wander the North American wrestling circuits. He began his career in Canada. He first fought for Stampede Wrestling in Calgary. He moved to Vancouver, where he wrestled for one year under his real name.

In 1980, he returned to the United States and back under the name Mr. Pogo. His first stop on his second American excursion is for the NWA’s Tri-State territory, where he spent a year wrestling the likes of Wahoo McDaniel, Butch Reed (He was over in Florida), and The Spoiler. In 1981, he moved east to the Mid-Atlantic territory, where he spent nearly three years there as Ninja, wrestling the likes of Johnny Weaver, Jimmy Valiant, Blackjack Mulligan, Ivan Koloff, Jay Youngblood, Barry Windham, Don Kernodle, Buddy Landell, Leroy Brown, Mike Davis, Lord Alfred Hayes, Iceman “King” Parsons, and Porkchop Cash. In 1984, he moved back to the Central States territory in Kansas City, where he spent a year over there, winning its Heavyweight Championship and the Tag Team Championship with Gypsy Joe. In his return to Kansas City, he wrestled the likes of Dick the Bruiser, Rufus R. Jones, D.J. Peterson, Mark Youngblood, and Marty Jannetty.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Mr. Pogo height 6 ft 1 in Mr. weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Mr. Pogo Dating?

According to our records, Mr. Pogo is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Mr. Pogo’s is not dating anyone.

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From 1999–2016, Pogo was freelancer, wrestling for promotions including IWA Japan, SPWF, Onita FMW, Shin-W*ING, Shin-FMW, Onita Pro, and his own promotion, WWS.

Facts & Trivia

Mr. Ranked on the list of most popular Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Mr. Pogo celebrates birthday on February 5 of every year.

Sekigawa was rushed to a hospital in February 2007 with a bleeding gastric ulcer and spent three weeks there.