Henry Yamazaki

STAGE NAME - In Pollo Road: Henry Yamazaki - In MAX-J: Eiichiro Yamazaki or Mushigihara

NICKNAME(S) - The Daikaiju, The God-Beast, The Original King of the Iron Road

HEIGHT & WEIGHT - 6'4", 294 lbs.

DATE OF BIRTH - August 12, 1988

PLACE OF BIRTH - Pearl City, HI

YEAR OF DEBUT - 2013

TRAINER(S) - Ryan Andersen (aka Eddie Dante), Mark Andersen, Alex "The Sentinel" Markham

ALIGNMENT - Babyface

WALKOUT MUSIC - "Forces" by Susumu Hirasawa (Pollo Road only), "The Order of Death" by Public Image Ltd. (MAX-J only)

RING ATTIRE - Royal purple singlet with gold trim, black-and-royal-purple boots with gold laces, kneepads and elbowpads combining all three colors.

CASUAL ATTIRE - As before, Henry wears suits whenever he isn't set for ring action.

WALKOUT ATTIRE - Royal purple towel across the shoulders.

PERSONALITY - Warm and friendly, almost shy. His friend and former tag partner David Troy describes him as "a golden retriever who sometimes turns into a pitbull."

BRIEF HISTORY - Eiichiro "Henry" Yamazaki grew up in the Honolulu suburbs around the football field and his internment survivor grandfather's auto shop. After graduating from the University of Hawaii where he played defensive end, he travelled to Japan to try out for the X-League, only to end up in sumo, taking the shikona of Mushigihara. After washing out due to injuries, he ended up in professional wrestling, taking the role of a mysterious foreign monster who only ever shouted "OSU!" The death of his grandfather and subsequent illness of his mother, however, motivated him to drop the silent, brooding monster act, and wrestle as, well, himself.
PREVIOUS INJURIES - Several knee injuries and a broken rib or two in his career as a football player and sumo wrestler, not so many since taking up the squared circle.

SPORTSMANSHIP - Consummate professional, through and through. If his opponent gets rough with him, though, he'll get rough right back.

RING WORK - 80’s King’s Road style, before all of the headdrops and super finishers. A physical, up-close style of wrestling influenced by Southern-style wrasslin’. As a former sumotori, Henry will utilize things like palm strikes, throws that showcase his size such as the Biel throw and basic suplexes such as the backdrop, gutwrench, and underhook, and will crowd his opponent as much as possible.

FINISHING MOVES - Uranage (sambo/Soviet suplex), Pearl City Plunge (underhook powerbomb/Tiger Driver - release-style, Roderick Strong's Gibson Driver)

SIGNATURE MOVES - Gorilla press for reps into a slam (with the top of each lift Henry will shout "OSU!"), Bishamonten (sliding elbow a la Masato Tanaka), Snap scoop powerslam, the OG (running neckbreaker drop a la Giant Baba), big splash

FAVOURITE MOVES -

Cobra twist w/ chinlock
Corner avalanche splash
Second rope knee drop
Big boot (standing or running)
Biel throw
Sumo slaps and palm strikes
Multiple suplex variations: Double underhook, Gutwrench, Backdrop, Belly-to-belly, inverted vertical
Lariat
Slingshot catapult
Running shoulderblock

COUNTER MOVES - overhead belly-to-belly suplex to a charging opponent, catching someone and countering into the cobra twist, snap scoop powerslam

TAUNTS - Raising his arms and shouting "OSU!"