Mitsuhide Hirasawa
| Captain New Japan | |
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Hirasawa as Captain New Japan in March 2016
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| Birth name | Mitsuhide Hirasawa |
| Born |
27 March 1982 Sapporo, Hokkaido |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) |
Bone Soldier Captain New Japan Captain Taiwan Hideo Saito Mitsuhide Hirasawa |
| Billed height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) |
| Billed weight | 104 kg (229 lb) |
| Trained by | NJPW Dojo |
| Debut | January 28, 2006 |
Mitsuhide Hirasawa (平澤 光秀 Hirasawa Mitsuhide?, born 27 March 1982) is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he works under a mask as Bone Soldier. He is best known by his previous masked persona, Captain New Japan (キャプテン・ニュージャパン Kyaputen Nyū Japan?), and has also worked unmasked under his real name as well as the ring name Hideo Saito (ヒデオ・サイトー Hideo Saitō?).
Hirasawa originally debuted for New Japan Pro Wrestling on 28 January 2006, losing to Takashi Iizuka. Hirasawa would wrestle on the New Japan undercard, mostly losing which is custom for new wrestlers in New Japan. His first win would come on 26 April, defeating the two year pro Yujiro Takahashi. Hirasawa teamed up with Ryusuke Taguchi to participate in his first tournament, the National Area Tag League 2006 where they were placed in block C and lost both of their matches. Hirasawa would make several appearances for Pro Wrestling Zero1, the most notable of which was when he and Manabu Nakanishi participated in the Passion Cup Tag Tournament 2008. In late 2008, Hirasawa would form a tag team with Yuji Nagata, which would be a precursor to Seigigun ("Blue Justice Army"). The pair participated in G1 Tag League 2008 block B, they would only gain a single point when they drew with Manabu Nakanishi and Yutaka Yoshie. In the fall of 2009, Hirasawa joined Yuji Nagata's new Seigigun along with Wataru Inoue and Super Strong Machine. At Wrestle Kingdom IV In Tokyo Dome, Hirasawa along with Wataru Inoue and Super Strong Machine defeated Jushin Thunder Liger, Koji Kanemoto, and Kazuchika Okada in the opening match. Even with joining this stable, Hirasawa largely continued in the midcard largely serving as the fall guy in tag match. On 28 June, Seigigun entered a six man tag tournament with Nagata, Inoue, and Hirasawa forming one team while Machine teamed with Tonga Strong Machine and Pink Strong Machine (Yutaka Yoshie) however both teams lost. On 12 September, there was a special Mitsuhide Hirasawa farewell match, which he would lose.
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