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Gedo in May 2014
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Birth name | Keiji Takayama (高山 圭司 Takayama Keiji?) |
Born |
Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan |
February 20, 1969
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Bulldog K.T. C.T.U Ranger Green Crush Gedo |
Billed height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Billed weight | 86 kg (190 lb) |
Debut | March 19, 1989 |
Keiji Takayama (高山 圭司 Takayama Keiji?, born February 20, 1969) is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known as Gedo (外道 Gedō?). He formed a long-lasting tag team with Jado.
Gedo debuted on March 19, 1989 for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) during the Takeshi Puroresu Gundan (TPG), NJPW's parody of World Wrestling Federation's Rock 'n Wrestling era. His debut match was against Magic Monkey Wakita, who would later be known as Super Delfin, on March 19, 1989. After TPG died out, Gedo, Wakita, and TPG comrade Jado left NJPW. Jado and Gedo went on to become one of the premiere tag teams in Japan.
Jado and Gedo headed to the Universal Wrestling Association in Mexico as Punish (Jado) and Crush (Gedo), and defeated Silver King and El Texano for the UWA/UWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship on November 8, 1991. They would win these belts on two more occasions in 1992. This led to their many tours with W*NG and were a part of the incident where Kanemura was burnt. Jado and Gedo headed to Wrestle Association "R" in 1994 and became one of the top tag teams there, winning the WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship with "Kodo" Fuyuki, defeating Genichiro Tenryu, Animal Hamaguchi and Koki Kitahara on June 6, 1994. Gedo would win this belt four more times between 1994 and 1996.