Takashi Sugiura

Quick Facts

Full Name	Takashi Sugiura
Occupation	Mixed Martial Artist
Date Of Birth	May 31, 1970(1970-05-31)
Age	54
Birthplace	Nagoya
Country	Japan
Birth City	Aichi Prefecture
Horoscope	Taurus

Takashi Sugiura Biography

Takashi Sugiura is one of the most popular and richest Mixed Martial Artist who was born on May 31, 1970 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Takashi Sugiura (Shan Pu Gui , Sugiura Takashi, born May 31 1970) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently employed by Pro Wrestling Noah. Sugiura is a skilled amateur wrestler was a member of Noah’s dojo in 2000. He made the professional wrestling debut the 23, 2000, being the first professional wrestler to make his professional wrestling debut at Noah. Sugiura has also participated in mixed martial art, winning the notable win against Giant Silva. Sugiura wrestled as a junior heavyweight during his early professional career. He was a past GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion. Sugiura made the move to heavyweight, and was the second longest-running GHC Heavyweight Champion. He been the champion for 581 days from December 2009 and July 2011. In September of 2011, Sugiura is the chairman of Noah’s Wrestler’s Association and holds an additional position on the promotion’s board directors.

In the beginning of 2014 Sugiura began in early 2014 the Dangan Yankies tag team along with the Pro Wrestling Zero1’s Masato Tanaka. They competed in both Noah and Zero1 winning both the GHC Tag Team and NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championships in May 2014 as well as in the Furinkazan competition in December of 2014 as well as the Global Tag League in both 2014 and 2015. Additionally, Tokyo Sports named Dangan Yankies as the Tag Team of the Year in 2014. On the 23rd of December in 2015, Sugiura changed his mind on Noah as he joined the infamous Suzuki-gun stable. On January 31, 2016, Sugira defeated Naomichi Marufuji to be the winner of the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the second time. He was defeated by Go Shiozaki on May 28. Sugiura won the title back of Shiozaki in July. Sugiura lost his title to Katsuhiko Nakajima during his third defense on the 23rd of October. The following day, on December 2, Sugiura turned on Suzuki-gun following the fact that Minoru Suzuki was unsuccessfully battling Nakajima to his GHC Heavyweight Championship. In January of 2017, Sugiura formed an alliance with Kaito Kiyomiya. They were able to almost serve as an instructor. They started to work together and were later joined by Kenoh who turned against his tag teammate Masa Kitamiya during a contest in which he was playing Sugiura and Kiyomiya and allied himself with Sugiura during the process. In March of 2017 Sugiura as well as Kenoh beat Muhammad Yone and Kitamiya to take home their vacant GHC Tag Team Championship. They lost the title to Naomichi Marufuji as well as Maybach Taniguchi in April 14.In June Sugiura was to a hiatus in order to undergo open heart surgery since his heart was irregular for a long period of time and was successful. He returned on the 28th of October when he joined forces with Kenoh to beat Leona along with Katsuhiko Nagajima. On March 11, 2018 He defeated his tag teammate Kenoh to take home the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the fourth time and become the sole person to hold the title for four consecutive times. In April, he beat Atsushi Kotoge in his first victory in his defense. He later offered Naomichi Marufuji his next chance to win winning the championship, which she agreed to. The result was a match just one month later on May 29 when Marufuji was defeated for his second victory. In June, he beat Kenoh at a reprise match, to complete his third successful defense. Following his win, he made an ultimatum for Go Shiozaki, who had defeated his opponent in a tag contest two weeks earlier, and was accepted by him. They would meet again on the 18th of August in Kawasaki in which he beat Shiozaki to win the fourth time he was successful in his defense. He was then challenged to a title fight by Masa Kitamiya. He defeated on September 2 to complete five successful title defenses. Then , on Oct. 4, Sugiura beat Kitamiya’s tag teammate Katsuhiko Nakajima to make his sixth title defense that was successful. Sugiura was then a participant at the 2018 Global League, where he ended up with 4 wins, 3 losses with one to the eventual winner of the tournament Kaito Kiyomiya. This resulted in a match on the 16th of December in which Sugiura fell short of the championship to Kiyomiya on his seventh match. Sugiura took part at the 2019 Global Tag League, teaming with Kazma Sakamoto, and they won the competition. In the course of the tournament, he established the stable “Sugiura-gun”, with Nosawa Rongai Hideki Suzuki Sakamoto as well as Kinya Okada as well as Sugiura was identified as the stable’s leader. In the Mitsuharu Misawa Memorial Shows, Sugiura first challenged Kaito Kiyomiya in his GHC Heavyweight Championship on June 9th, but lost. After that, Sugiura challenged the team consisting of Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima to an opportunity to win the GHC Tag Team Championships on June 13th. He won the title five times, along with Kazma Sakamoto.

Sugiura took part during the 2009 G1 Climax. Alongside his opponent Nakamura on his block the long-awaited singles match took place. While he was defeated, however, he managed to place third in his group and made it to the semi- finals, but lost to eventual tournament winner Togi Makabe. On the 6th of December 2009 Sugiura defeated Go Shiozaki to take home the GHC Heavyweight Championship. In January of 2010 in Wrestle Kingdom IV at the Tokyo Dome Sugiura successfully defended the title against Hirooki Goto.On 28 February, he won his title by beating Togi Makabe, and on July 10, he faced Yoshihiro Takayama. On the 1st of October 2010 Sugiura went towards Tamaulipas, Mexico to defend the GHC Heavyweight Championship, defeating Chessman in the Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) event Heroes Inmortales IV. Sugiura came back to New Japan on January 4 2011 during Wrestle Kingdom V at Tokyo Dome, where he along with Yoshihiro Takayama beat Hirooki Goto as well as Kazuchika Okada, in a tag team battle. On May 15, 2011, Sugiura defeated Claudio Castagnoli in Oberhausen, Germany to make his 14th success in the GHC Heavyweight Championship defense, beating the record for most defenses which was set by Kenta Kobashi. On the 10th of July, Sugiura lost the GHC Heavyweight Championship to Go Shiozaki, ending his rule in 581 consecutive days. The 4th of January, 2012 Sugiura came back to New Japan at Wrestle Kingdom VI at Tokyo Dome, where he was defeated by Hirooki Goto.

Takashi Sugiura Net Worth

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

Sugiura was a skilled judoka during his high school years and narrowly missed out on representing Japan in Japan’s 1997 Summer Olympics. Sugiura then became a self-defense coach and was then a part of his dojo All Japan Pro Wrestling Dojo by Tamon Honda Tamon Honda, the instructor who (along together with Yoshihiro Takayama) was in charge of Sugiura’s instruction.

Sugiura first made his appearance on the 23rd of December, 2000 when he joined forces with Masao Inoue along with Takeshi Rikio to take part in a tag-team match with Takeshi Morishima, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Kentaro Shiga. He was initially a low-card wrestler. Sugiura’s American-influenced style gained traction with the fans, and eventually he formed a tag group with Kanemaru , who was nicknamed “SugiKane”. Within a short time, they beat Naomichi Marufuji, and Kenta to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship which ended the team’s lengthy and historical run. Sugiura has the distinction of having the distinction of being only a wrestler from Pro Wrestling Noah to have been twice champion on distinct occasions. In recent times Sugiura has earned an impact as a heavyweight. He was awarded an opportunity to wrestle against the then GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima in a highly respected match, and also winning his first GHC Tag Team Championship along with Naomichi Marufuji of the larger and stronger the D’lo Brown team and Bull Buchanan. In NJPW Wrestle Kingdom III he was able to push New Japan Pro Wrestling representative Shinsuke Nakamura to the limit in a cross-promotional tag team contest with Mitsuharu Misawa as well as Hirooki Goto as their partners, but fell short and was tapped out by Nakamura’s Cross Armbar finish. Nakamura said that there was going to be a singles contest between them in the near future, since the latter felt embarrassed by a wrestler that was not up to his standard. They re-met later on in the year for an event that was promoted by cross-promotion and this time Sugiura was paired with Blue-chip prospects Go Shiozaki & Nakamura teamed with his former stablemate from RISE Milano Collection AT, who was also recovering from an injury. Shiozaki and Sugiura took the victory and Nakamura requested a second match against the duo , with Hirooki Goto in his tag teammate.

On November 2, 2019, Sugiura defeated Michael Elgin to become the inaugural GHC National Champion.

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Takashi Ranked on the list of most popular Mixed Martial Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Takashi Sugiura celebrates birthday on May 31 of every year.