Men's Teioh

Men's Teioh
Men's Teioh in May 2010.
Birth name	Takeo Ōtsuka
Born	(1966-12-16) December 16, 1966 Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Professional wrestling career
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.

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

• 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

• Big Japan Pro Wrestling

• 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

• Combat Zone Wrestling

• CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• CZW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jun Kasai

• Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling

• WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Daisuke Sekimoto

• Kaientai Dojo

• Strongest-K Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Taka Michinoku
• UWA World Middleweight Championship (2 times)

• Michinoku Pro Wrestling

• Futaritabi Tag Team League (1996) – with Dick Togo
• Futaritabi Tag Team League (2008) – with Shinobu
• UWF Super Welterweight Championship (1 time)

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated

• PWI ranked him # 440 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the PWI Years in 2003

• Union Pro Wrestling

• UWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Hiroshi Fukuda

References

External links

• Ōtsuka Takeo at the Internet Movie Database