Akira Tozawa

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Akira Tozawa at Wrestlemania Axxess 34.

Akira Tozawa at Wrestlemania Axxess 34.
Data
Surname Akira Tozawa
Ring name Akira Tozawa
Tozawa
Tozawa Kengai
Additions to names Sun Of The Ring,
Big Over
height 170 cm
Fighting weight 70 kg
birth July 22, 1985 (age 35)
Nishinomiya , Japan
Trained by Kenichiro Arai
Masaaki Mochizuki
debut April 3, 2005

Akira Tozawa ( Japanese 戸 澤 陽 , Tozawa Akira ; born July 22, 1985 in Nishinomiya , Japan ) is a Japanese wrestler who is currently under contract with World Wrestling Entertainment and appears on their weekly show Raw . His greatest success to date is receiving the WWE Cruiserweight Championship and receiving the WWE 24/7 Championship four times .

Wrestling career

Akira Tozawa began his career with the Japanese wrestling league Dragon Gate . There he played his first wrestling match in 2005. In May 2010 Tozawa went to the USA , where he was sent to Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA) for the purpose of Dragon Gates US expansion .

In addition to DGUSA, Tozawa made regular appearances for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). There he also took part in the Battle of Los Angeles in 2010 , where he prevailed against El Generico in the first round.

Tozawa won his first wrestling title in the United States. He won namely at the wrestling league Anarchy Championship Wrestling (ACW) on May 15, 2011 the ACW U-30 Young Gun Championship . However, he only held the title for 6 days.

In addition to DGUSA, PWG and ACW, Tozawa also performed for Chikara and Evolve. Tozawa returned to Japan on June 8, 2011 and competed for Dragon Gate again, where he remained until 2016. In the USA he only played for occasional appearances for DGUSA matches. After his return to Japan Tozawa celebrated great success. He won the Open the Brave Gate Championship and Open the Owarai Gate Championship once , the Open the Triangle Gate Championship twice and the Open the Twin Gate Championship three times .

On March 31, 2016, Tozawa was confirmed by World Wrestling Entertainment as a participant in the Cruiserweight Classic . At the Cruiserweight Classic he made it to the quarterfinals, where he failed at Gran Metalik . After the tournament, Tozawa was signed by the WWE. Since then he has been part of the WWE Cruiserweight Division.

As a wrestler in the Cruiserweight Division, he is part of the 205 Live Rosters . On August 14, 2017, he won the WWE Cruiserweight Championship on Neville's Raw . 6 days later he lost the title at SummerSlam to Neville. On June 23, 2019 Tozawa played a Triple Threat Match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship against Tony Nese and Drew Gulak, but he lost this match.

As part of the WWE Draft, Tozawa switched from 205 Live to Raw on October 14, 2019 . On December 22, 2019, he won the WWE 24/7 Championship from R-Truth while recording for Mondaynightraw in New York , but lost it to Santa Claus that same night. He won the R-Truth title on June 22, 2020. The reign lasted 7 days and lost the title to R-Truth on June 29, 2020 . On August 3, 2020, he won the title back, defeating Shelton Benjamin . The reign lasted 7 days and lost the title to R-Truth on August 10, 2020 . On August 24, 2020, he won the title from Shelton Benjamin. After a reign of 7 days, he lost the title to R-Truth on August 31, 2020.

Wrestling successes

Anarchy Championship Wrestling

  • 1 × ACW U-30 Young Gun Championship

Dragon Gate

  • 1 × Open the Brave Gate Championship
  • 1 × Open the Owarai Gate Championship
  • 2 × Open the Triangle Gate Championship (1 × with BxB Hulk & Shingo Takagi and 1 × with Masato Yoshino & T-Hawk)
  • 3 × Open the Twin Gate Championship (2 × with BxB Hulk & 1 × with Shingo Takagi)

World Wrestling Entertainment

Web links

Commons : Akira Tozawa  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PWG Battle Of Los Angeles 2010 - Day 1. cagematch.de, September 4, 2010, accessed on July 20, 2018 .
  2. ^ ACW Nothing Is As Real As A Dream. cagematch.de, May 15, 2011, accessed on July 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ WWE: First participants in the Global Cruiserweight Series announced. cagematch.de, March 31, 2016, accessed July 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Cruncher: WWE Cruiserweight Classic # 8 results & report from Winter Park, Florida from August 31, 2016 (incl. Videos). wrestling-infos.de, September 1, 2017, accessed on July 20, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Cruncher: WWE Monday Night RAW # 1264 results + report from Boston, Massachusetts from August 14, 2017 (including videos). wrestling-infos.de, August 15, 2017, accessed on July 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Cruncher: WWE “SummerSlam 2017” report + results from Brooklyn, New York, USA from 08/20/2017 (incl. Videos and complete pre-show). wrestling-infos.de, August 20, 2017, accessed on July 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tozawa, Akira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 戸 澤 陽 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Nishinomiya , Japan