Men's Teioh
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Men's Teioh in May 2010.
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Birth name | Takeo Ōtsuka |
Born | Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
December 16, 1966
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Ring name(s) | Men's Teioh Terry Boy |
Billed height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Billed weight | 82 kg (181 lb) |
Trained by | Gran Hamada Super Delfín |
Debut | September 7, 1992 |
Takeo Ōtsuka (大塚武生 Ōtsuka Takeo?)[1] (born December 16, 1966) is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Men's Teioh (also written MEN's Teioh). The English translation of his ring name, Terry's Boy, is a homage to American professional wrestler Terry Funk.
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Professional wrestling career
Men's Teioh is a longtime mainstay of Big Japan Pro Wrestling as well as a former competitor of Michinoku Pro Wrestling. He is known as an original member of the group, Kai En Tai, which competed in Extreme Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation during the late 1990s. He was also briefly a member of the BWO while in Extreme Championship Wrestling, and appeared on the promotion's first PPV event Barely Legal in 1997.
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Miracle Ecstasy / Nodowa Bomb (One-handed falling chokebomb)[1]
- Running elbow smash
- Signature moves
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- Full nelson slam
- Inverted atomic drop, sometimes from the top rope
- Northern lights suplex
- Ringpost figure-four leglock
- Roaring elbow
- Spinning toe hold — adopted from Terry Funk
- Standing tornado DDT
- Teioh Lock (Double underhook)[1]
- Teioh Lock II (Spinning fireman's carry dropped into a modified cradle)
Championships and accomplishments
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- BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- BJW Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
- BJW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Daisuke Sekimoto
- BJW Tag Team League 2001 – with Daisuke Sekimoto
- BJW Six Man Tag Team League 2001 – with Daisuke Sekimoto and Ryuji Ito
- BJW Maximum Tag League 2002 - with Daisuke Sekimoto
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- WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Daisuke Sekimoto
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- Strongest-K Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Taka Michinoku
- UWA World Middleweight Championship (2 times, current)
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- Futaritabi Tag Team League (1996) – with Dick Togo
- Futaritabi Tag Team League (2008) – with Shinobu
- UWF Super Welterweight Championship (1 time)
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- PWI ranked him # 440 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the PWI Years in 2003
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- UWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Hiroshi Fukuda