Ryo Saito
- January 10, 2024
- Professional Wrestler
Quick Facts
Full Name | Ryo Saito |
Occupation | Professional Wrestler |
Date Of Birth | Aug 15, 1979(1979-08-15) |
Age | 45 |
Birthplace | Yamagata |
Country | Japan |
Birth City | Yamagata |
Horoscope | Leo |
Ryo Saito Biography
Name | Ryo Saito |
Birthday | Aug 15 |
Birth Year | 1979 |
Place Of Birth | Yamagata |
Home Town | Yamagata |
Birth Country | Japan |
Birth Sign | Leo |
Ryo Saito is one of the most popular and richest Professional Wrestler who was born on August 15, 1979 in Yamagata, Yamagata, Japan. Ryo Saito (斎藤 了 , Saitō Ryō) (born August 15, 1979), is a Japanese professional wrestler, also known by the ring name Ryo “Jimmy” Saito. He wrestles for Dragon Gate, where he was a member of the Jimmyz stable. His name is sometimes abbreviated as SaiRyo, so as not to confuse him with SAITO.
In 2002, Saito began to make a heel turn. He, along with Dragon Kid, aligned with Darkness Dragon after he lost a mask vs. mask match to Dragon Kid on September 8 and was booted out of M2K, joining the Do Fixer unit that Darkness created. On October 28, Magnum Tokyo sealed M2K after Yasushi Kanda retired, and later that night he revealed that he and the other members were the real Do Fixer, along with the newly renamed K-ness. K-ness had been sent into the home army as a spy to cause problems within it, and it worked in that Saito was not welcomed back into the home army. Because of this, he decided to actively pursue gaining membership into Do Fixer. He abandoned his bicyclist character, smashing up his bike with a chair, but he could not pass leader Magnum Tokyo’s dance test and was denied entrance. That all changed in December when he debuted his own personal and bizarre dance called the “SaiRyo Dance”, and Magnum Tokyo, pleased with it, allowed him to join should he pass one more test, which was a match on December 20 where he and the other Do Fixer members faced Masaaki Mochizuki, Kenichiro Arai, Raimu Mishima, Takamichi Iwasa, and Anthony W. Mori in an elimination match. Towards the end, Magnum eliminated himself, leaving just Ryo and his friend Mori as the final two. Saito proved his allegiance to Do Fixer by betraying Mori, smacking him with a black box and winning the match. 2003 went by quite uneventfully for Saito. He acted as the main H-A-G-E call cheerleader for stablemate Genki Horiguchi, and he was derailed by injuries.
2005 brought about a major resurgence in his career. He opened the first show of the year on January 9 by pinning CIMA in a six-man tag match. Then, when he appealed for a shot at the Open the Dream Gate title, held by Masaaki Mochizuki, he was given a January 14 singles match with Milano Collection A.T. as a hurdle, and he defeated Milano after four years of losses to him. He failed to win the Open the Dream Gate title in the February 6 match. He spent the remainder of the year garnering high-profile victories, as well as two Open the Triangle Gate Championship reigns with Genki Horiguchi and Dragon Kid, and when Magnum began to move down a different path with his Renaissance project, he named Saito the new leader of Do Fixer. Saito then won a feud with CIMA, and in December he won the inaugural King of Gate Tournament. His momentum continued right into February 2006, when he beat Magnitude Kishiwada to win the Open the Dream Gate Championship and became the ace of the promotion.
In February 2007, Genki Horiguchi betrayed Do Fixer to join the Muscle Outlaw’z, so Ryo decided to end Do Fixer activity and follow the only other remaining member Dragon Kid into CIMA’s Typhoon stable. In Typhoon, he reunited with Susumu Yokosuka to form the RyoSuka team. Despite achieving some success in the tag ranks, most notably winning the WAR I-J Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in July from Jado and Gedo and two more reigns as Open the Triangle Gate champion with CIMA and Susumu, Ryo continued to slide further in rank.
2001 was also the year when Saito finally broke out of his small role and achieved some championship success. On August 14, he teamed with Magnum TOKYO and Dragon Kid to win the UWA World Trios Championship from CIMA, SUWA, and Big Fuji of Crazy MAX, and on September 30, he beat Susumu Mochizuki for the NWA World Welterweight Title. His momentum came to a halt in late 2001 when the T2P class arrived in Japan, and he spent the next few months losing to Milano Collection A.T. and feuding with the newly-heel Genki Horiguchi. It was during this time that he formed a close friendship with T2P student Anthony W. Mori.
Ryo Saito Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Professional Wrestler |
House | Living in own house. |
Ryo Saito is one of the richest Professional Wrestler from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ryo Saito 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Ryo Saito debuted in 1999 as a fourth term student. He fought in that year’s Young Dragons Cup, but lost in the finals to the newly-heel Yasushi Kanda.
In 2000, he divided his time between Japan and Mexico, and in Japan he adopted the gimmick of a bicycling enthusiast, wearing a professional bicycler’s outfit, helmet, and glasses and coming to the ring on a bicycle. He became something of a jobber, losing nearly 20 opening matches in a row to Kenichiro Arai. He also participated in that year’s Young Dragons Cup, and made it to the finals again, but lost to the man who became his greatest foil, Milano Collection A.T. When he returned to Japan, his bicycle was stolen by Sumo “Dandy” Fuji 2000, starting up a feud between them that led into 2001. Saito eventually managed to win his bicycle back, and he and the now-renamed Big Fuji started teaming on and off as the Bicycle Brothers for the next couple of years.
2004 was also another injury-plagued year, but he began to turn face again, aiding his old friend Mori in his feud with Takuya Sugawara. He helped him overcome the shock of Sugawara’s betrayal, and when Mori lost a hair vs. hair match, Saito took the haircut for him.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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Who is Ryo Saito Dating?
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Facts & Trivia
Ryo Ranked on the list of most popular Professional Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Ryo Saito celebrates birthday on August 15 of every year.