From club:

I’m not much for Toryumon or 00s NOAH juniors, but I could watch this dickhead stomp and punch all day long, and it’s a crying shame he didn’t have a longer career. I’d really like to take a look into his Toryumon stuff - hoping people here better versed in it can signpost me to the good stuff.

 

Dragon Kid vs SUWA - 24/08/00

KENTA vs SUWA - 09/18/05

SUWA vs Mitsuo Momota - 07/16/06

Mil Mascaras, Ultimo Dragon, Kazuchika Okada & Marco Corleone vs Ultimo Guererro, SUWA, Yoshihiro Takayama & Minoru Suzuki - 05/13/07

I love the guy but he really seems like someone who peaked massively with a couple of real great showings and never really got to that level again. The Dragon Kid/KENTA showings are his greatest stuff and both follow the same fake finish/restart/real match formula pretty reliably, with a lot of his Toryumon stuff being kinda underwhelming for someone with so much natural scummy energy. It honestly feels like he struck gold due to his opponents being great bases more than him doing his thing.

What really hurts him ultimately is his injuries coming right as he's starting to peak with his freelancer stuff and then again in 2013 when he tried to make a comeback. Just real unfortunate luck that took a lot of air out of his sails. Good wrestler, not near a top 100 for me personally.