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Tsuyoshi Kikuchi

Personal Data

Birthday:

21.11.1964

Birthplace:

Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Gender:

male

Height:

5' 9" (175 cm)

Weight:

198 lbs (90 kg)

Background in sports:

Ringen

WWW:

Career Data

Alter egos:

Tsuyoshi Kikuchi

Roles:

Singles Wrestler (1988 - 2021)
Tag Team Wrestler (1989 - 2021)

Beginning of in-ring career:

26.02.1988

End of in-ring career:

03.05.2021

In-ring experience:

33 years

Wrestling style:

Allrounder

Trainer:

Jumbo Tsuruta, Mitsuo Momota & Masanobu Fuchi

Nicknames:

"Fireball Boy"

Signature moves:

Fireball Bomb
Zero-Sen Kick (Running Leg Lariat)
Fisherman Suplex
Spider German Suplex
Diving Headbutt

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6.74

Current Total Rating (?)

Valid votes: 52

Number of comments: 14

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Average rating: 6.75 [52]

Average rating in 2026: 7.00 [1]

Average rating in 2025: 7.67 [6]

Average rating in 2024: 7.40 [5]

Average rating in 2023: 7.33 [3]

Average rating in 2022: 7.00 [2]

Average rating in 2021: 7.50 [4]

Average rating in 2020: 7.20 [5]

Average rating in 2019: 7.00 [2]

Average rating in 2018: 6.00 [3]

Average rating in 2017: 7.00 [2]

Average rating in 2016: 5.00 [1]

Average rating in 2015: 7.50 [2]

Average rating in 2013: 5.00 [1]

Average rating in 2012: 6.50 [2]

Average rating in 2010: 6.00 [1]

Average rating in 2009: 5.67 [3]

Average rating in 2008: 5.43 [7]

Average rating in 2007: 7.00 [2]

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Latest comments of the CAGEMATCH inmates

CDProsPro wrote on 26.09.2025:

[9.0] "A massive victim of circumstance in his era. As Fuchi evolves to a openweight, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi will join the many untapped potential due to the greatest roster holding the mantel. He was 5'9 and best 202 pounds thinned frame. His peak was getting up in the tag team ranks as a rookie alongside Kenta Kobashi and eventually in the holy demon army. He started along with the 4 heavenly pillars of AJPW. Graded by his contemporaries. If Jun Akiyama was the 5th heavenly pillar, Kikuchi was the boulder that should had rose."

texasyosh wrote on 16.07.2022:

[7.0] "A great fiery babyface who was a part of some of the best tag and trios matches AJPW ever put on. Didn't carry over as a singles guy."

Ma Stump Puller wrote on 29.10.2021:

[7.0] "A fantastic underdog in his prime: perhaps too good considering he was basically stuck there unless he was facing low card talent: but Kikuchi was a very good tag worker who could run as the big seller and whatnot, building to big hot tags, etc etc. Sadly brain damage and other issues meant that Kikuchi couldn't really keep up with such a demanding role and had to pace himself down a lot. I've watched a fair chunk of his later work and while he's still good in places, there's a noticeable gap in quality between his Tsuruta-Gun battling days and later on. Not saying he was bad or anything but I mostly didn't really get his ring work unless he was in the ring with guys like Marufuji or Kanemaru. A good tag hand but kinda underwhelming in singles."

RatingsMachine wrote on 18.10.2018:

[7.0] "Kikuchi earned his stripes the hard way, taking some incredible beatings in six-man tags were some of the best matches in the business. All Japan being what it was, there was always a limit to how far Kikuchi was going to rise, which is a shame because he deserved so much more for what he put his body through."

Leone wrote on 16.07.2012:

[7.0] "In his prime, he was a very good tag team wrestler, and he put on some really good matches in the early and mid 90s (particularly his match with Kenta Kobashi against the Can-Am Express. One of the loudest Japanese crowds in history). Later on he came a good comic wrestler."