Muscle Outlaw'z

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Stable
Muscle Outlaw'z
Members	Genki Horiguchi Gamma Yasushi Kanda YAMATO Dr. Muscle
Former member(s)	Cyber Kong Kinta Tomoaka Jack Evans Naruki Doi Masato Yoshino Naoki Tanisaki Magnitude Kishiwada
Debut	April 23, 2006
Disbanded	May 14, 2008
Promotions	Dragon Gate

Muscle Outlaw'z or MO'z were a professional wrestling stable in the Japanese promotion Dragon Gate, formed in April 23, 2006. It was founded by former Blood Generation members Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, Naoki Tanisaki, and Gamma, intending to compete with CIMA's faction. Other members included Genki Horiguchi, Magnitude Kishiwada, Yasushi Kanda, Kinta Tomoaka, Cyber Kong, and YAMATO.

1 History
2 Signature Weapons
3 Tag Team Moves
4 References
5 Championships and accomplishments

[edit] History

At one time the main heel and largest faction in Dragon Gate, the Muscle Outlaw'z are one of the most successful factions in Dragon Gate history, with several championships to their credit. Being heels, they mainly utilized dirty and underhanded tactics to win their matches, and though they specialized in group tactics, they could hold their own in singles competition.

MO'z started when Magnitude Kishiwada got injured in February 2006 and had to take some time off, but he promised his stablemates in Blood Generation that "a friend" would come and take his place while he recuperated. On March 19th, that "friend" turned out to be his old Osaka Pro Wrestling running buddy Gamma. Gamma and the stable's leader CIMA took a dislike to each other almost immediately, and their constant butting of heads prompted CIMA to kick him out of the faction on April 12th. However, Gamma would be joined in his departure by Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, and the newly-recruited Naoki Tanisaki. Doi & Gamma then defeated CIMA & Don Fujii on April 23rd in a tag match, winning full rights to the Blood Generation name, but they immediately renounced the name, instead establishing the Muscle Outlaw'z. Their roster was bolstered when Kishiwada joined them when he returned from his injury, and when Genki Horiguchi defected from Do FIXER on February 4, 2007. Referee Kinta Tomoaka also joined their ranks in May 2006, acting as their own personal referee. He allowed the MO'z members to break the rules and he used fast counts when they pinned their opponents, and he also refused to count pinfalls done to MO'z members and would sometimes even attack opponents.

The group became the refuge for any heel wrestler visiting Dragon Gate, their membership list including Pentagon Black, Kevin Steen, Muscle Gang, and Arik Cannon. This has caused their membership to become the highest in Dragon Gate history.

Kishiwada would become more of a part-time member, spending increasing amounts of time away from Dragon Gate, and Naoki Tanisaki would eventually leave the group and the promotion altogether in late 2006 to become a freelancer, with the El Dorado promotion as his main haunt.

Masato Yoshino and Genki Horiguchi competed in MTV2's Wrestling Society X as Team Dragon Gate. They began on a losing streak, until they were "reprogrammed" by Sakoda. They returned with a new dark edge and won their last two matches before WSX was canceled by MTV. Team Dragon Gate was active while Horiguchi was still aligned with Do FIXER in Dragon Gate.

As September 2007 approached, Kinta's relationship with the other members of MO'z began to deteriorate after he cost the group several matches due to misaimed protein powder attacks. Because of this, Gamma challenged him to a match on September 22, where the loser would be banished from MO'z. Gamma lost the match after all of the MO'z members surprisingly aided Kinta, and so he was banished from the group, and then he had his contract with Dragon Gate annulled the next day. A month later, when the MO'z stormed the ring after a tag match between Typhoon and New Hazard and assaulted both stables, Gamma rushed to the ring to save the day and joined with Typhoon. This, however, was short-lived, as he quickly gave CIMA, Typhoon's leader, a Tombstone Piledriver and rejoined MO'z, and then the group mobbed Kinta and booted him out. This culminated in a six-man tag match later that night between Genki Horiguchi, Masato Yoshino, and Gamma against all three referees of Dragon Gate with Yasushi Kanda as the special referee. MO'z would go on to win the match after Kanda interfered on the Outlawz' behalf, hitting Tomoaka with a blue box right before he could hit his finisher. He was then revealed as the latest MO'z member.

Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino unsuccessfully challenged for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Pro Wrestling NOAH's Kotaro Suzuki and Ricky Marvin on May 12, 2007. Doi was also unsuccessful in a second attempt with Genki Horiguchi as his partner on September 29, 2007. When wrestling in Pro Wrestling NOAH, Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino used the name Speed Muscle instead of Muscle Outlaw'z as their team name. This is a combination of their nicknames, Speed Star (Yoshino) & Bosou Muscle (Doi).

Speed Muscle challenged for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships again on November 24, 2007, and this time they won the titles, making them the first ever wrestlers to respectively hold the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships and the Dragon Gate Open the Twin Gate Championship at the same time. Speed Muscle would unfortunately lose the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles to Shingo Takagi & BxB Hulk on January 15, 2008.

On April 17, New Hazard's YAMATO joined MO'z after attacking his tag partner Naoki Tanisaki (who had recently returned but didn't align with MO'z) in a match against Gamma and Genki Horiguchi. On May 5, after weeks of dissention, Doi and Yoshino split from the Outlaw'z, turning face after costing Yasushi Kanda his hair in a Mascara contra Cabellera (Mask vs. Hair) Cage Survival Six-Way Match. Nine days later, Shingo Takagi and Cyber Kong turned on BxB Hulk, ending New Hazard, and they proceeded to join with the remaining heel members of Muscle Outlaw'z to form Real Hazard, effectively ending Muscle Outlaw'z after two years of activity. Dr. Muscle, however, has vowed to carry on the MO'z name until the end of time.