Naruki Doi

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Naruki Doi (土井 成樹 Doi Naruki?, born October 4, 1980 in Ikoma, Nara, Japan) is a Japanese wrestler for Dragon Gate. He currently is the de facto leader of Muscle Outlaw'z. He also wrestles for Ring of Honor, where he was a former ROH World Tag Team Champion with Shingo Takagi.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Toryumon

Naruki Doi debuted in Toryumon Japan as part of the T2P. As one of his family members was a player for the Japanese baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants, and so he was given a baseball gimmick and the name of Second Doi.

Doi was originally groomed as the top face for T2P, but injuries forced him to debut in Japan late and his growth was slightly stunted. He joined the Toryumon Japan roster, and Shin M2K as T2P ended it's run, later joining Final M2K.

[edit] Dragon Gate

Doi continued on in Final M2K. At the end of 2004, he abruptly dropped the baseball gimmick and started competing under his real name.

In January 2005, Doi turned heel and joined CIMA's new faction Blood Generation. He gained more rank then, and rose to be something of a second-in-command for the stable. He also became the first Open the Brave Gate Champion on March 13, and would hold it until November 13, when he lost it to Dragon Kid.

On April 12, 2006, when Gamma was kicked out of Blood Generation due to constant clashes with CIMA, Doi left with Gamma, along with Masato Yoshino and Naoki Tanisaki. It was unclear whether Doi or Gamma was the leader of the splinter faction. After Doi & Gamma won the rights to the Blood Generation name in a tag match against CIMA and Don Fujii eleven days later, Doi's faction renounced it, renaming themselves the Muscle Outlaw'z. MO'z ranks would grow when Magnitude Kishiwada joined them after returning from a stint of injury, as well as referee Kinta Tomoaka. The group would lose Tanisaki later that year, but shortly after recruited Genki Horiguchi. MO'z would also host any heel wrestlers visiting Dragon Gate.

Doi continued to gain rank in 2007, and formed a regular tag team with Masato Yoshino, known as Speed Muscle, an amalgation of their respective nicknames "Speed Star" and "Bosou Muscle". Doi and Yoshino declared themselves the first Open the Twin Gate Champions after winning the Summer Adventure Tag League tournament in June, and later defeated Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai for the WAR I-J Heavyweight Tag Team Championship to unify the two belts. In November, Doi and Yoshino added the Pro Wrestling NOAH GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship to their collection. Doi and Yoshino would drop the GHC titles to Shingo Takagi and BxB Hulk of New Hazard in January 2008, and then the Open the Twin Gate titles to Iwasa and Arai the month after, and opted to stop teaming with each other. Doi briefly teamed with Horiguchi while Yoshino pursued CIMA and the Open the Dream Gate championship. Yoshino put forward an impressive performance, and despite losing, was congratulated by both CIMA and Doi. Their team reconciled.

Doi and Yoshino's increasing popularity began to cause a split in the Muscle Outlaw'z, as Yoshino began to feud with stablemate Yasushi Kanda. The MO'z eventually split, with the heel faction of Kanda, Horiguchi, GAMMA and Yamato joining Shingo Takagi and Cyber Kong in Real Hazard. Doi and Yoshino formed their own new stable, WORLD-1, that also includes BxB Hulk, Naoki Tanisaki, and m.c. KZ.

[edit] Outside the Dragon System

Doi became one half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions on March 3, 2007, with Shingo Takagi, beating the Briscoe Brothers in Liverpool, England. The two would lose the title back to the Briscoes at All–Star Extravaganza III on March 30. Most recently he challenged Pro Wrestling NOAH's KENTA but would unfortuanately lose.

[edit] Wrestling facts

  • Finishing and signature moves

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

  • 5 Star Match: with Masato Yoshino & CIMA vs. Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi & Ryo Saito (ROH – Supercard of Honor – March 31, 2006)
  • 2006 Match of the Year: with Masato Yoshino & CIMA vs. Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi & Ryo Saito (ROH – Supercard of Honor – March 31, 2006)

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