Kazushige Nosawa | |
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Born | December 17, 1976 |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Black Death Black Tiger VII Kazushige Nosawa Nosawa Rongai Nosawa Nosawa Mendoza Noja Nozawa Parka Guerrera Space Lone Wolf Super Cacao |
Billed height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Billed weight | 86 kg (190 lb) |
Billed from | Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan |
Trained by | Negro Casas |
Debut | December 27, 1995 |
Kazushige Nosawa (野沢一茂 Nosawa Kazushige?), better known by his ring names Nosawa and Nosawa Rongai, is a Japanese freelance professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in All Japan Pro Wrestling and various independent promotions.
NOSAWA spent most of his early career training and wrestling in Mexico. Most notably with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. In the U.S indy scene, Nosawa has competed for such promotions as Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, and Xtreme Pro Wrestling. Along with Kikuzawa, Mazada, Fujita and Takemura, they created the group "Tokyo Gurentai".
He adopted in 2004 the ring name of Nosawa Rongai (lit. "Nosawa Out of the Question") as a play off to a comment by Kaz Hayashi, who had replied "Nosawa is out of the question" when he was asked about whether he was going to allow Kazushige to challenge for the Junior Heavyweight Championship. By doing this, Nosawa forced a title match against him, and although he lost, he decided to keep the name for the rest of his career.
On March 16, 2003, Nosawa defeated "Ritchie Boy" Breyer Wellington to win the JCW Heavyweight Championship. Later that year, he was featured on JCW Vol. 3 in a match where he again defeated Wellington. In July 2004, Nosawa lost the championship to Kid Kash at the Gathering of the Juggalos. In 2007, he took part in the Pro Wrestling Unplugged/Juggalo Championship Wrestling cross promotional event "Cuffed & Caged: Last Man Standing". Nosawa was featured in the main event War Games match as member of Team JCW.