Tiger Mask IV
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Tiger Mask in August 2015
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| Birth name | Yoshihiro Yamazaki |
| Born |
October 20, 1970 Urayasu, Chiba |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Tiger Mask |
| Billed height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Billed weight | 87 kg (192 lb) |
| Trained by |
Satoru Sayama The Great Sasuke |
| Debut | July 15, 1995 |
Yoshihiro Yamazaki (山崎 佳宏 Yamazaki Yoshihiro?, born October 20, 1970) is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known by his ring name Tiger Mask (タイガーマスク Taigā Masuku?). He works for New Japan Pro Wrestling. Yamazaki is the fourth wrestler to portray the Tiger Mask persona; having used it since 1995. This makes him the person to have used the "Tiger Mask" gimmick the longest time.
The young Yamazaki was originally trained by the original Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama) and The Great Sasuke and unlike the second and third Tiger Masks, Yamazaki has been endorsed by Sayama himself. He also traveled to Mexico where he trained in lucha libre.
He made his professional wrestling debut in 1995 for Michinoku Pro Wrestling (Michinoku Pro/MPW) and became the fourth Tiger Mask, succeeding Koji Kanemoto. While working for Michinoku Pro Tiger Mask won the "APEX OF TRIANGLE" Six Man Tag Team Championship with his trainer the Great Sasuke and Gran Hamada. Just over a year into his wrestling career Tiger Mask won the UWA World Middleweight Championship and held it for 3 months before being forced to vacate the title due to an injury. After returning from his injury Tiger Mask spent a couple of years working mid card and lower main event matches until he was finally given another run with a singles title when he won a tournament to crown a new British Commonwealth Jr. Heavyweight Champion in London, England. Despite it being called "British Commonwealth", the title was mainly promoted in Japan. Tiger Mask would later vacate the title due to an injury but was given a second reign with the title in 2000 that would last exactly one year shortly before Tiger Mask left Michinoku Pro.
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