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Nobuyoshi Nakamura
Ring name(s)	Dragon Kid Little Dragon
Billed height	5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Billed weight	154 lb (70 kg; 11.0 st)
Born	February 2, 1976 (1976-02-02) (age 33) Tokai, Aichi, Japan
Trained by	Último Dragón
Debut	November 14, 1997

Dragon Kid (born on February 2, 1976 in Tokai, Aichi, Japan) is a Japanese professional wrestler who wrestles for Dragon Gate. He is currently a member of the KAMIKAZE stable.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Pre-wrestling career 1.2 Toryumon / Dragon Gate 1.3 World Championship Wrestling 1.4 Music career 2 In wrestling 3 Championships and accomplishments 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Pre-wrestling career

Nakamura wanted to be a wrestler for a long time, but he was told that he was too small to become one. He started out as a referee for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in 1996, but he never gave up his dream of being a wrestler. He was eventually introduced to Último Dragón by Jinsei Shinzaki, who told him that his wrestling school had no size restriction, so he entered the Último Dragón Gym.

[edit] Toryumon / Dragon Gate

Nakamura debuted in 1997 as a 1st term student, and was given the gimmick of Dragon Kid, Último Dragón's pupil. He was perceived as the heir of Último Dragón, but he has never reached the level of ace. He spent 1998 wrestling in Mexico, but he did some spot participation with Michinoku Pro and also had a short run with World Championship Wrestling (see below).

In 1999, he debuted in Japan along with the rest of Toryumon. In February, he captured his first title, defeating Dr. Cerebro to win the vacant NWA World Welterweight Title. He would lose the title two months later to SUWA, and in that match, he suffered a bad knee injury that put him out of action for the remainder of the year. He would return to action on the first show of 2000 and proceeded to feud with SUWA. Though he failed to win the NWA World Welterweight Title back from SUWA, he did defeat him in a Mask vs. Hair match on August 24. Shortly after winning, he was attacked by a debuting Darkness Dragon, and they started a feud that would last for a little over two years. It ended on September 8, 2002, when he defeated Darkness Dragon in a Best of Three Falls Mask vs. Mask Match, forcing Darkness to unmask.

Darkness Dragon was booted out of M2K following the loss. He announced the formation of a new stable dubbed Do FIXER, and he invited Kid and Ryo Saito to join him, and they both accepted. On October 28, after Magnum TOKYO dissolved M2K, he announced that he and the remnants of M2K were the real Do FIXER, and that Darkness Dragon - now re-named K-Ness - was still a member of the group and was sent into the home army (Seikigun) to cause problems within it. It worked in that Ryo Saito was not welcomed back into Seikigun, but Dragon Kid, however, was.

When Seikigun disbanded at the end of 2002, he joined Masaaki Mochizuki's Shin M2K stable at the start of 2003. He stayed with the group until it dissolved in December, after Mochizuki lost a match to stablemate Keni'chiro Arai. After that, Kid would go unaligned until mid-2004, and in May he won that year's El Numero Uno Tournament to the surprise of everyone. In mid-2004, he became a member of Do FIXER, and would stay in it until the very end. During his tenure with them, he won the Open the Brave Gate Title from inaugural champion Naruki Doi in November 2005, and would hold the Open the Triangle Gate Titles with Ryo Saito & Genki Horiguchi on three separate occasions in 2005 and 2006. During the last few months of 2006, he contracted appendicitis, forcing him out of action for several months.

When Dragon Kid returned in early 2007, Saito decided to end Do FIXER activity following the betrayal of Genki Horiguchi, and brought him along into CIMA's new Typhoon stable. He joined them with a new look, marking the first ever change of his ring attire. When Saito and Susumu Yokosuka started teaming together, he and CIMA started teaming up exclusively with each other, calling themselves CK-1. When CIMA was out injured in mid-2008, Dragon Kid formed a team with Shingo Takagi for that year's Summer Adventure Tag League Tournament. The team proved very successful, even making it to the finals, but they lost out to the previous year's winners Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino.

On December 28, he, Ryo Saito & Susumu Yokosuka fought a Unit Split Survival Three-Way Six-Man Tag Match against teams from WORLD-1 and Real Hazard, and they lost, bringing about the end of Typhoon. However, he did not remain unaligned for very long, for on January 11, 2009, he joined Shingo Takagi's new unit, KAMIKAZE. On February 15, he, Shingo, and Taku Iwasa won the Open the Triangle Gate titles, but they lost them two months later.

[edit] World Championship Wrestling

Nakamura made a few appearances for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) working as "Little Dragon." His only appearance on Monday Nitro would be a victory over Eddie Guerrero via rollup after interference^[1].

[edit] Music career

On November 11th, 2007, Dragon Gate Records (a subsidiary of Dragon Gate Wrestling) released a CD featuring music from Nakamura and Eiji Ezaki (Japanese singer and retired wrestler, also known as Hayabusa).

[edit] In wrestling

• Finishing moves

• Dragonrana (Diving front flip hurricanrana pin) – innovated
• Ultra Hurricanrana (Springboard hurricanrana)

• Signature moves

• 619 (Tiger feint kick to the head of an opponent draped over the middle rope)
• Bermuda Triangle (Springboard moonsault from the inside middle turnbuckle to the floor)
• Bible (Tiger feint crucifix armbar)
• Christo (Tilt–a–whirl headscissors armbar)
• Déjà Vu (Multiple revolution headscissors takedown)
• Hallelujah (Headscissors twisted into a figure four necklock)
• Jesus Walks (Double jump moonsault)
• Messiah (Headscissors takedown twisted into a DDT)
• Stunner, as a vertical suplex counter

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

• Dragon Gate

• Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship (1 time)
• Dragon Gate Open the Triangle Gate Championship (4 times) - with Ryo Saito and Genki Horiguchi (3), and Shingo Takagi and Taku Iwasa (1)
• El Numero Uno (2004)

• Toryumon Japan

• NWA World Welterweight Championship (1 time)

• Universal Wrestling Association

• UWA World Trios Championship (3 times) - with Magnum Tokyo and Ryo Saito (1), with Masaaki Mochizuki and Keni'chiro Arai (1) and with Keni'chiro Arai and Second Doi (1)

• westside Xtreme wrestling

• wXw Lightweight Championship (1 time)^[2]

• Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards

• 5 Star Match (2006) with Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito vs. CIMA, Nakuri Doi, and Masato Yoshino (ROH Supercard of Honor, March 31)
• Best Flying Wrestler (2001)
• Best Wrestling Maneuver (1999, 2000) Dragonrana
• Match of the Year (2006) with Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito vs. CIMA, Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino (ROH Supercard of Honor, March 31)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Profile at kaz.theshoppe.com
• Dragon Gate USA profile