sonny

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Few wrestlers are able to conjure up as much fear as Toshiaki Kawada. He’s a wrestler of mythic proportions.

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kiss

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KISS

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HEATED

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TheIR BEGinINg

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BREAKING BARRIERS

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sonny

the concrete rose

kiss

Few wrestlers are able to conjure up as much fear as Toshiaki Kawada. He’s a wrestler of mythic proportions.

kiss

sonny

He exudes an aura of badassery that few wrestlers have been able to match. This stems from his reputation as being arguably the hardest hitting wrestler to ever step foot in a wrestling ring.

KISS

The Baddest Rose On The Block

HEATED

Kiss of doom

TheIR BEGinINg

The Perfect ROSE

BREAKING BARRIERS

It was Misawa that convinced Kawada to join AJPW’s dojo instead of NJPW’s upon graduation.

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