Tatsuhito Takaiwa

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Occupation	Amateur Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Jul 5, 1972(1972-07-05)
Age	52
Birthplace	Kyoto
Country	Japan
Horoscope	Cancer

Tatsuhito Takaiwa Biography

Tatsuhito Takaiwa is one of the most popular and richest Amateur Wrestler who was born on July 5, 1972 in Kyoto, Japan. Tatsuhito Takaiwa (Gao Yan Long Yi , Takaiwa Tatsuhito) (born Go Yong-Il (Hangul: go yongil), July 5, 1972) is a Zainichi-Korean professional wrestler. Takaiwa is among the most traveled junior heavyweights from Japan and has been a wrestler for New Japan, and Zero1 and also made an appearance in All Japan and NOAH.

Following the establishment Zero1 Zero1, Takaiwa also began appearing on Pro Wrestling Noah, and in October 2001, he defeated Yoshinobu Kanemaru to take home the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Takaiwa retained the title until the end of December after which he lost the title in favor of Naomichi Marufuji. Takaiwa did return with Noah at the end of 2003, to participate at the Differ Cup, a tag team tournament that featured junior heavyweights. Alongside Zero1 apprentice Yoshihito Sasaki and Yoshihito Sasaki, they reached the finals but lost to Toryumon representative Ultimo Dragon as well as Yossino. On the 23rd of December, the year 2006 ended, Takaiwa was crowned champion twice, defeating Takashi Sugiura in a SEM event. He kept his title till April and then lost the title in favor of Mushiking Terry. Takaiwa was back to Noah once more in 2011, participating in the NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League along with his trainer Osamu Namiguchi. They did poorly only scoring two points but not advancing. Takaiwa had a second appearance at Noah during December of 2013 in vain, attempting to challenge Taiji Ishimori to win title GHC Junior title.

Originally aiming to step away from pro wrestling after leaving Zero1 and doing one last run in New Japan Pro Wrestling, Takaiwa got a job at a building maintenance company in late 2009 and began competing more sparingly on the independent scene in early 2010, primarily working for Jun Kasai’s Freedoms. He was also named head coach of Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW)’s dojo, and made occasional appearances in Kensuke Office as Black Tiger. Takaiwa left his second job in 2012 and returned to Zero1 for the first time in four years to take part in the Tenkaichi Junior Tournament, though he was unsuccessful, losing to Jonathan Gresham in the semi final. In May 2013, he took part in Freedoms’ tournament to crown the first ever King of Freedom World Champion, beating Keizo Matsuda, Brahman Shu, Minoru Fujita to reach the final where he lost to Takashi Sasaki. In March 2014 he partnered up with Sasaki in the King of Freedom Tag Title tournament. The two were successful and reached the final where they were unable to defeat Great Kojika and The Winger. In September, he took part in Zero1 and Noah’s joint show, briefly reviving his old team with Shinjiro Otani to beat Akitoshi Saito and Masa Kitamiya. In September 2015, they reformed for good, and captured the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship from Takuya Sugawara and Brother Yasshi. Otani and Takaiwa held the belts until April 2016, when they were defeated by Fujita Jr Hayato and Ikuto Hidaka. On March 26, 2017, Takaiwa officially re-signed with Zero1 after almost 8 years as a freelancer. In his return match, he was defeated by Shinjiro Otani. Takaiwa continues to make regular appearances in Zero1 to this day.

When Shinya Hashimoto was dismissed by New Japan Pro Wrestling in November 2000, he along with Shinjiro Otani proceeded to announce the establishment of their own organization, Pro Wrestling Zero1, and Takaiwa was among the first wrestlers who signed to the organization following its creation. The first time the promotion held a show on March 2nd 2001 Takaiwa joined forces alongside Alexander Otsuka in defeat in the match to No Fear (Yoshihiro Takayama and Takao Omori). Instead of following the footsteps of Otani and move up into the heavyweight division, Takaiwa decided to stay in the junior ranks and spend his formative years in Zero1 establishing the division. In 2004 Takaiwa participated at the Tenkaichi Junior Tournament, making it to the finals, where Tomohiro Ishii defeated him to win the tournament. In the aftermath of winning, Takaiwa revealed to the crowd inside the Korakuen Hall that he was actually Zainichi Korean and that although it was a great honor to be Korean but he was happy to be able to claim that he was born in Japan and was raised in Japan which was greeted with enthusiastic cheers from the crowd. On the 16th of May, Takaiwa defeated Tony Stradlin to take home the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. Then, Takaiwa joined an alliance with Ishii and Ishii, and they were able to defeat Leonardo Spanky and Low-Ki to take home the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship. Ishii and Takaiwa fought to defend the title until September, when they lost to Spanky as well as Kaz Hayashi. Even though they lost their tag-team championships Takaiwa continued to defend his title of Junior Heavyweight Championship throughout 2004 and defeated the likes Minoru Fujita Jun Kasai, Super Crazy and Spanky. In October 17 the match between Takaiwa and Naohiro Hoshikawa was called off early following Hoshikawa was actually knocked unconscious and went into a coma following the use of an explosive powerbomb off at the very top of the cage from Takaiwa. Takaiwa was able to retain the title until December, at which point the champion was defeated by Super Crazy. The 24th of June, 2006 Takaiwa beat Katsuhiko Nakajima in the WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship and, on July 27, he defeated Takuya Sugawara in order to unify his WWA as well as the International Junior Heavyweight titles. On February 7, 2007, being simultaneously being the holder of all three titles, the WWA, International and GHC Junior titles, Takaiwa beat Ikuto Hidaka to take home his first AWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. After seven years in the organization, Takaiwa announced he was departing Pro Wrestling Zero1 Max to be a freelancer on the 17th, 2008.

Tatsuhito Takaiwa Net Worth

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

He is well-known for his role in the tag-team expert and was most famously in a tag team that was successful with Shinjiro Otani in the 90s. They both were the winners of The IWGP Jr Heavyweight Titles several of times between 1998 and 1999.

In the course of an institution of vocational education, the young man was able to pass his New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) entrance exam and began his training for the promotion in the year 1992. Takaiwa was in the same trainee group as Shinjiro Otani, and the two became frequent rivals as tag team members when they finally debuted. Takaiwa made his debut on the 21st of July 1992 and lost against Satoshi Kojima. He was in 1993 when Takaiwa was a to the Young Lions Cup, finishing last with just one win and no points. In the beginning of his career Takaiwa mostly wrestled in opening matches, often at the losing end, like most younger wrestlers from Japan. In the year 1997 Takaiwa was able to earn his own name for himself, participating in the Best of the Super Juniors tournament , and securing four points. in 1998, Takaiwa was paired with Otani to compete in the league in order to determine the first IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and the two of them beating Koji Kanemoto as well as Dr Wagner Jr in the finals to become the first winners of belts. On December 10, 1998 Takaiwa got his very first chance to compete in his first IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, not able to defeat Jushin the Thunder Tiger. A few days later, on December 11, Takaiwa and Otani travelled to Wrestle Association R, where they beat Masaaki Mochizuki, and Masao Orihara to take home an uncontested International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship which made them double champions. Their time as double champions did not last too long, however, as they lost their IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship to Kendo Kashin and Dr Wagner Jr at Wrestling World 1999. Later on in the year, they would win back the title beating Jushin Thunder Liger and the Great Sasuke during July. In 2000 the duo of Otani and Takaiwa participated of the Best of the Super Juniors competition, both winning their blocks, and reaching the finals, where on the 9th of June, Takaiwa defeated Otani to be the winner of his 1999 Best of the Super Juniors. In the following month, after just a little over an entire year as champions Otani and Takaiwa were unable to win to the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships to the Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka). Following the loss of the titles, Takaiwa began focusing more on his singles work, and he won his first IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship for the first time in his professional career in July, beating Jushin the Thunder Tiger. Takaiwa ultimately lost the title in the hands of Minoru Tanaka in the month of October.

Takaiwa competed in his first Best of the Super Juniors tournament since 2000 in June 2008, finishing with four points and failing to advance. After going freelance in December 2008, Takaiwa debuted as the fifth Black Tiger on February 15, 2009, breaking the Black Tiger tradition of foreigners under the mask, by attacking Tiger Mask. On June 20, 2009, at Dominion 6.20 Tiger Mask defeated him in a mask vs. mask match and afterwards Takaiwa revealed his identity by removing his mask. Takaiwa lost his mask as Black Tiger V for the second time on May 14, 2011, when he was defeated at a Toryumon Mexico event by Último Dragón. Despite losing his mask twice, Takaiwa continues to make appearances as Black Tiger V.

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Facts & Trivia

Tatsuhito Ranked on the list of most popular Amateur Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Tatsuhito Takaiwa celebrates birthday on July 5 of every year.