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stable, currently made up of
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, Kikuzawa, Mazada, and
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. The group was formed in 2000 by Kikuzawa, Mazada and Nosawa and has since appeared for Japan's four biggest promotions;
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, Dragon Gate,
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and
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, as well as several larger
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promotions such
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, Diamond Ring,
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,
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and
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(WNC), while also regularly producing their own independent events. The stable has also made appearances for promotions in
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. Currently the stable is working most notably for
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. "Gurentai", denoting "hoodlums", is one of the three principal member categories of the
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History

In July 2000, while working for the American
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(XPW) promotion in
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, Japanese wrestlers Kikuzawa and
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began teaming together as "Tokyo Gurentai". Later that same month, Nosawa used the same team name while teaming with compatriot Mazada on the Mexican independent circuit, culminating in the two defeating ''
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'' (Rayo Tapatío I and Rayo Tapatío II) for the
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. Upon their return to Japan, Kikuzawa, Mazada and Nosawa teamed together for local independent promotions until January 2001, when Kikuzawa left the group as he began concentrating on his work with
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as the masked comedy character Ebessan. The following March, Mazada and Nosawa returned to Mexico to work for the
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(IWRG), where
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joined them as the third member of Tokyo Gurentai. The three also teamed together for promotions in the United States the following month. Mazada and Nosawa returned to IWRG during the summer of 2001, first losing their hairs to
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and Último Vampiro in a
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on May 31, and then defeating ''
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'' (
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and Super Mega) on June 10 for the
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. They held the title for a month, before being stripped when Nosawa no-showed a scheduled title defense. As the relationship between Mazada and Nosawa went sour, the Tokyo Gurentai was effectively dissolved. Mazada and Nosawa finally made amends in April 2002 and the following month began working together for Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), forming a new version of the Tokyo Gurentai with Takemura. The group also returned to IWRG and in June 2003 won the promotion's Intercontinental Trios Championship from ''Los Megas'' (Mega,
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and Ultra Mega). They, however, held the title for only a week before losing it back to ''Los Megas''. That same month, the Tokyo Gurentai produced their own independent event in
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. Takemura left the Tokyo Gurentai in October 2003, after signing with
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(NJPW), while Mazada and Nosawa began working regularly with
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(AJPW) in February 2004. In May 2004, Mazada and Nosawa also made guest appearances for NJPW, feuding with former stablemate Takemura. The following month, Takemura quit NJPW and jumped to AJPW, re-joining the Tokyo Gurentai. Mazada and Nosawa, the latter now known as (which made him the first Tokyo Gurentai member to use Japanese script as part of his ring name), received their first title opportunity in AJPW in October 2004, when they unsuccessfully challenged Genichiro Tenryu and
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for the
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. In February 2005, Mazada and Nosawa had another storyline falling out, after which Nozawa formed the new tag team RonKaz with
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, throwing the future of the Tokyo Gurentai into question. While the Tokyo Gurentai was inactive in Japan, the stable's three original members, Kikuzawa, Mazada and Nosawa, made a one-night reunion in April 2005, working for the Los Angeles-based Alternative Wrestling Show (AWS) promotion. Mazada and Nosawa tried a reunion also in Japan in June 2005 by entering a tournament for the
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All Asia Tag Team Championship, however, after being eliminated in their first round match, the two began feuding with each other, leading to a Loser Leaves Town match in July, where Mazada defeated Nosawa, forcing him to leave AJPW. Before the end of the year, Mazada and Nosawa made several more attempts to once again get along with each other, which eventually led to them re-forming the Tokyo Gurentai with Takemura in December. The following month, Mazada and Nosawa returned to AJPW, where, two months later, they won the first annual Junior Tag League. In June 2006, Mazada and Nosawa also returned to Mexico, working for
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. In January 2008, the Tokyo Gurentai was turned into an official corporation, which began producing its own events on a more regular basis, with Mazada, Nosawa and Takemura becoming its official representatives. In March 2008, Mazada and Nosawa revived the UWA World Tag Team Championship, which had not been seen in eight years, losing it to the team of Kagetora and
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at an event held by El Dorado Wrestling. In December, Mazada, Nosawa and Takemura won the Mobius promotion's Apex of Triangle Six-Man Tag Team Championship. In January 2009, Takemura suffered a shoulder injury, which would eventually force him to retire from professional wrestling. In February 2009, Fujita reunited with Mazada and Nosawa, effectively replacing Takemura as the third member of Tokyo Gurentai. He would become officially affiliated with the group in January 2010. From 2008 to 2010, Tokyo Gurentai was a sub-group of an AJPW stable named simply Gurentai, which also included
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,
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and
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. During the first six months of 2010, Fujita, Mazada and Nosawa worked for
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and Osaka Pro Wrestling and between the two promotions won the
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on two occasions. Shortly afterwards, Tokyo Gurentai was split up, when Fujita and Nosawa joined
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, where they chased the
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, while Mazada remained a regular with AJPW. During 2011, Tokyo Gurentai was hit hard, when first in February, Nosawa was arrested for stealing a taxi, which led to him taking a break from professional wrestling, and then in May, Mazada also went inactive, after being suspended by AJPW for his role in a backstage fight between
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and
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, which left Hirai in a coma. Tokyo Gurentai reunited on September 28, 2011, when the stable produced its own event titled ''Tokyo Love II: Second Chance''. Following the main event, where Nosawa lost his Tokyo World Heavyweight Championship to
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, he was confronted by Mazada, who suggested the two reformed their old tag team. The event concluded with Mazada, Nosawa, Fujita and Kikuzawa posing together and showing that the Tokyo Gurentai was back in full force. Most of 2012, Mazada and Nosawa, however, spent away from each other, with Mazada continuing to work regularly for AJPW and Nosawa for Diamond Ring. Nosawa's career was also halted for three months by a drug smuggling arrest, though all charges against him were later dropped. In September 2012, Nosawa returned to AJPW, where he and Mazada once again attempted to win the All Asia Tag Team Championship, but were defeated by
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and Minoru Tanaka in the semifinals of a tournament for the vacant title. On January 16, 2013, Tokyo Gurentai produced ''Tokyo Love III'', which saw Mazada and Nosawa defeat Cima and Gamma to become the inaugural Tokyo World Tag Team Champions. Meanwhile, in the main event, Fujita defeated Takagi to become the third Tokyo World Heavyweight Champion. During the summer of 2013, Tokyo Gurentai made appearances for
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(WNC), where most notably Mazada got involved in a feud with Mexican wrestler El Hijo del Pantera, which led to a Mask vs. Hair match on October 31, where Pantera was victorious, forcing Mazada to have his head shaved. Members of Tokyo Gurentai remained regulars for AJPW until mid-2013, when
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left the promotion to form
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. From September onwards, Mazada and Nosawa wrestled regularly for Wrestle-1, where they formed alliances with Hub and Yoshihiro Takayama and feuded with the promotion's rookies as well as
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. In October, Tokyo Gurentai entered a storyline, where Yamato, despite being turned down by Nosawa, attempted to force himself into Tokyo Gurentai. Mazada and Nosawa were forced into teaming with Yamato, but refused to accept him as an official member of their stable. On December 4, Tokyo Gurentai produced ''Tokyo Dream 2013'' in Korakuen Hall. In the main event, Mazada and Nosawa lost the Tokyo World Tag Team Championship to Mexican veteran wrestlers
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and
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. After Caras and Máscaras left Japan with the Tokyo World Tag Team Championship, the Tokyo Gurentai created a new title, the Tokyo Intercontinental Tag Team Championship, to take the old title's place. Mazada and Hub became the first champions, after defeating
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and
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at ''Tokyo Love IV: Classic Events'' on April 7, 2014. They lost the title to Sato and Mochizuki on July 7 at ''Tokyo Starrcade'' in a three-way elimination match, which also included Nosawa and
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On December 11, Tokyo Gurentai presented ''Tokyo Dream 2014'', during which Mazada defeated Fujita to become the fourth Tokyo World Heavyweight Champion, ending Fujita's near two-year reign at his sixth title defense. In November 2014, Mazada and Nosawa represented Tokyo Gurentai in Wrestle-1's First Tag League Greatest, a tournament which was used to determine the inaugural
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. Losing all four of their matches in the tournament, they finished last in their round-robin block. They finally earned their first shot at the title by defeating Ikemen Samurai (
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and
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) and new Wild order ( Akira and
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) in a three-way match on May 5, 2015. The title match took place on May 23 and saw Tokyo Gurentai being defeated by the defending champions, Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and
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). On July 15, Tokyo Gurentai held ''Tokyo Love 5'', which featured Mazada successfully defending the Tokyo World Heavyweight Championship against Nosawa in the main event. On December 1 at ''Tokyo Dream 2015'', Mazada lost the title to Masaaki Mochizuki. On September 27, 2017, Fujita and Mazada defeated
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and Shiryu to win the Tokyo Intercontinental Tag Team Championship.


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Tokyo World Heavyweight Championship


Combined reigns

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Tokyo Intercontinental Tag Team Championship


Combined reigns

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and Rocky Kawamura , , 1 , , 364 , - !3 , style="background-color: #ffe6bd",
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and Mazada † , , 1 , , + , - !4 ,
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and Shiryu , , 1 , , 303 , - !5 , Tokyo Gurentai
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and Rocky Kawamura , , 1 , , 238 , - !7 , Chikara and
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By wrestler

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Hikaru Sato is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, better known by the ring name . Sato started his MMA career in February 2000, fighting for Pancrase Hybrid Wrestling. During the next eight years, Sato fought, on average, five time ...
, , 2 , , 611 , - !5 , Rocky Kawamura , , 2 , , 608 , - !6 , Shiryu , , 1 , , 303 , - !7 ,
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Mitsuo Momota (born September 21, 1948) is a retired Japanese professional wrestler and executive, known for his work in the Japanese promotions All Japan Pro Wrestling and later in Pro Wrestling NOAH. He is the son of wrestler Rikidōzan. Career Japan Wres ...
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Isami Kodaka is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to Pro-Wrestling Basara (Basara). He originally started his career in the Kaientai Dojo (K-Dojo) promotion in July 2002, but later left the promotion to become a freelancer, before signing wi ...
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Yuko Miyamoto is a Japanese professional wrestler. He originally started his career in Wrestling Marvelous Future in August 2003, but later left the promotion and in 2004, signed with Dark Pro-Wrestling 666 (666). Miyamoto has since appeared in Big Japan Pro W ...
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All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW/AJP) or simply All Japan is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established on October 21, 1972 when Giant Baba split away from the Japanese Wrestling Association and created his own promotion. Many wrestlers had left with Baba ...
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AJPW Junior Tag League The Junior Tag League is an annual professional wrestling tag team tournament held by the All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) promotion. The tournament is meant for wrestlers under the weight limit of , who are referred to in Japan as junior heavyweigh ...
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Apache Pro-Wrestling Army was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion operating from 2004 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2016. History Following the closure of Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in 2002, Hiromichi Fuyuki formed his own promotion, which ran under the names F ...
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WEW World Tag Team Championship The WEW (World Entertainment Wrestling) World Tag Team Championship is a tag team professional wrestling championship formerly contested in the Japanese promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and World Entertainment Wrestling and currently con ...
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DDT Pro-Wrestling is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Its name stands for Dramatic Dream Team, which was the promotion's official name from 1997 to 2004. Founded in March 1997 by Shintaro Muto, the promotion was eventually bo ...
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UWA World Trios Championship The UWA World Trios Championship is a tag team professional wrestling championship created by the Mexican Universal Wrestling Association and defended there until the UWA closed in 1995. Since then, the championship has been defended in various pr ...
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International Wrestling Revolution Group International Wrestling Revolution Group (Grupo Internacional Revolución in Spanish; the Spanish name is used for the promotion while the English initials are used for the title governing body) is a Lucha Libre promotion based in Naucalpan, S ...
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IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship The IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (''Campeonato Intercontinental de Parejas IWRG'' in Spanish) is a professional wrestling tag team championship promoted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolut ...
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IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship The IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship (''Campeon Intercontinental Trios de IWRG'' in Spanish) is a ''Trios'' (six-man) tag team Championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha libre professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revol ...
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Wrestle-1 was a Japanese ''puroresu'' or professional wrestling promotion, founded in July 2013 by Keiji Mutoh following his resignation from All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). The core of the promotion's roster was formed by wrestlers loyal to Mutoh, who lef ...
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Wrestle-1 Cruiser Division Championship The is a professional wrestling Championship (professional wrestling), championship owned by the Wrestle-1 (W-1) Professional wrestling promotion, promotion. The title is meant for Cruiserweight (professional wrestling), cruiserweight wrestlers ...
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Puroresu is the predominant style of professional wrestling that has developed in Japan. The term comes from the Japanese pronunciation of , which is shortened to puroresu. The term became popular among English-speaking fans due to Hisaharu Tanabe's ac ...


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