Naoyuki Taira

[Grimmas]

Control21 said:

“The Real Baki the Grappler,” Naoyuki Taira was a talented shootboxer that eventually tried his hand at pro-wrestling, and was quite good at it. Taira spent most of his time in BattlArts, but also appeared in RINGS for a handful of shoot matches. Taira distinguished himself with flair and style and often appeared quite competent in terms of building match structure. Perhaps he falls in a Kohsaka-esque category of wrestlers who were just really good with a small body of work.

vs Alexander Otsuka (5/11/2000)

vs Carl Malenko (7/20/2000)

w/Kazunari Murakami vs Yuki Ishikawa & Carl Malenko (9/7/2000)

[Ma Stump Puller]

Looked fun in the few matches I seen out of him but he didn't make a splash to the degree where he'd be on a top 100 personally. If he'd worked a few more years more in U-Style or Fu-Ten then I'd consider the guy, just not enough out there though.