Men's Teioh

Japanese professional wrestler best known for his work for Michinoku Pro Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Combat Zone Wrestling, ECW and WWE. He spent years teaming with TAKA Michinoku (Takao Yoshida), Dick Togo and Sho Funaki as Kaientai Deluxe, both in Japan and elsewhere, including their WWE run in 1998. He made his PPV debut teaming with Michinoku and Togo as the Blue World Order in a loss to The Great Sasuke (Masanori Murakawa), Gran Hamada (Gran Hamada) and Masato Yakushiji in the Michinoku Pro 6-Man-Tag match at ECW Barely Legal (1997). Kaientai (Togo/Teioh/Funaki) arrived in WWE in 1998 and feuded with TAKA until TAKA turned heel and joined them. They won their PPV debut, a three-on-two handicap tag team victory over TAKA and Bradshaw (John Layfield) at WWF Over the Edge (1998). Other than that, they were essentially reduced to jobbers, most notably at Summerslam (1998), when they lost a handicap tag match to the much larger Oddities (Kurrgan (Robert Maillet), Golga (John Tenta) and the Giant Silva (Paulo Silva)), where the finish was Kurrgan and Silva hitting stereo double chokeslams and Golga hitting a big splash and pinning all four members of Kaientai at once. Teioh and Togo returned to Japan after December 1998, and Teioh has not wrestled in the U.S. since. Among his in-ring achievements, he is a former UWF Super Welterweight Champion, a former BJW Junior Heavyweight Champion, a former 3x BJW Heavyweight Champion, a former BJW Tag Team Champion with Daisuke Sekimoto, a former FMW WEW Hardcore Tag Team Champion with Daisuke Sekimoto, a former CZW World Junior Heavyweight Champion (won at a Big Japan Pro Wrestling event) and a former CZW World Tag Team Champion with Jun Kasai.