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Kendo Kashin
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 203lbs
Date of Birth: 8/5/68
Place of Birth: Aomori
Debut: September 21st, 1992 (vs. Koji Kanemoto)

Title History:

AJPW World Tag Team Title (1):
- (w/ Yuji Nagata) Satoshi Kojima & Kaz Hayashi (6/12/04) / Vacated (12/17/04)

AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Title (1):
- Masanobu Fuchi (4/13/02) / Vacated (2/11/04)

CWA Jr. Heavyweight Title (1):
- Michael Kovac (9/21/96) / Michael Kovac (12/21/96)

EWP Tag Team Title (1):
- (w/ Toru Yano) Ecki Eckstein & Leon van Gasteren (10/28/05) /

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title (2):
- Koji Kanemoto (8/28/99) / Jushin Thunder Liger (10/11/99)
- Masayuki Naruse (10/8/01) / Vacated (2/1/02)

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title (1):
- (w/ Dr. Wagner Jr.) Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa (1/4/99) / Jushin Thunder Liger & Great Sasuke (4/10/99)

Tournament History:

- Young Lion Cup 1996: Tokimitsu Ishizawa beat Yuji Nagata (12:27) with a cross armbreaker.
- Best of the Super Jr. 1999: Kendo Kashin beat Koji Kanemoto (13:15) with an avalanche-style cross armbreaker.
- American Best of the Super Jr. 2005: Dragon Soldier B (Kendo Kashin) beat Black Tiger with an avalanche-style cross armbreaker.
- EWP Tag Team Title Tournament (2005): Kendo Kashin & Toru Yano beat Ecki Eckstein & Leon van Gasteren (15:44) when Kashin used a cross armbreaker on Gasteren.

Signature Moves:

- Cross armbreaker

Profile:

A former amaresu star, Tokimitsu Ishikawa was scouted and initiated into New Japan in April, 1992. After upsetting Yuji Nagata to win the 1996 Young Lion Cup, he left on a learning excursion to Germany's CWA promotion, where he disguised himself under a mask and called himself Kendo Kashin. He returned to New Japan as Kashin in May, 1997, at the Osaka Dome, facing Kazuo Yamazaki. He quickly rose up the ranks of the junior division, utilizing a deadly cross armbreaker and other armbarring techniques to surprise and quickly submit opponents. After defeating Koji Kanemoto to win the 1999 Best of the Super Jr., he downed the same man in August of that year to capture the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title for the first time. He ventured into the vale tudo world under his real name and without the mask oin August, 2000, fighting in PRIDE 10 and losing to Ryan Gracie by TKO in little more than two minutes. His career slumped after this, with many losses, so after taking several months off from New Japan and training, he challenged Gracie for a rematch at PRIDE 15 in July, 2001. There, he TKO'd Gracie in under 5 minutes, which would boost his wrestling career more than ever. He returned to New Japan and mowed through everyone thrown at him, defeating Masayuki Naruse in just 26 seconds at the Tokyo Dome in July, 2001, to win the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title again. However, in January, 2002, while still champion, he made a shocking move by following Keiji Muto and Satoshi Kojima to quit New Japan and join All Japan. In All Japan, Kashin quickly established himself as the junior ace, submitting Masanobu Fuchi to win the vacant AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Title. In 2004, Kashin's erratic ways saw him split from All Japan and become a freelancer, then in 2005 he joined other amaresu graduates, Nagata, old rival Manabu Nakanishi, and Kazuyuki Fujita in Team JAPAN, marking his return to New Japan. Mixing technique and trickery, Kashin is an eccentric figure, who is also one of the most popular and recently decorated junior heavyweights in Japan.