Ryo Saito

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Ryo Saito
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Ryo Saito
Billed height	174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Billed weight	80 kg (180 lb)
Born	August 15, 1978(1978-08-15) Yamagata-shi, Yamagata, Japan
Trained by	Ultimo Dragon
Debut	May 11, 1999

Ryo Saito (斎藤了, Saitō Ryō^?), is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently wrestles for Dragon Gate. His name is sometimes abbreviated as SaiRyo, so as not to confuse him with Toryumon/DG alumni SAITO.

1 Career
- 1.1 Toryumon
- 1.2 Dragon Gate
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Career

[edit] Toryumon

Ryo Saito debuted with a bicyclist gimmick. His early career was mainly notable for Ryo losing a number of squash matches to Milano Collection A.T.. He would join the stable DoFixer, where he broke out of the jobber role, winning the World Trios championship twice, and the NWA Welterweight title once.

[edit] Dragon Gate

Saito had a major breakout year in 2005. Magnum Tokyo was injured, and Saito had assumed the leadership position of DoFixer. He became an ace of the promotion, and feuded with CIMA and his heel faction of Blood Generation. Saito defeated Blood Gen's monster, Magnitude Kishiwada, to win the Open the Dream Gate Championship, but he lost the title to Susumu Yokosuka on his first defense.

Saito slid back down the card. He continued to lead DoFixer, and he focused on teaming with long time friend and stablemate Genki Horiguchi. In 2007, however, Genki backstabbed Saito and joined the Muscle Outlaw'z. With DoFixer's membership down to two, Saito agreed to merge DoFixer into CIMA's new face stable Typhoon.

In 2008 he has begun regaining the rank he has been losing ever since 2005. He unsuccesfully challenged CIMA for the Open the Dream Gate Championship, and won the Open the Twin Gate Championship with Susumu Yokosuka.