Yasushi Tsujimoto

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Yasushi Tsujimoto
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Ring name(s)	Stevie "brother" Tsujimoto YASSINI "brother" YASSINI "strong" YASSHI "brother" Tom Yankun
Billed height	5'8"
Billed weight	176 lbs
Born	January 26, 1982
Resides	Uji, Kyoto
Trained by	Último Dragón
Debut	2000

Yasushi Tsujimoto (辻本恭史, Tsujimoto Yasushi^?), better known by his ringname "brother" YASSHI, is a Japanese professional wrestler, known for his appearances in El Dorado Wrestling, Dragon Gate, and All Japan Pro Wrestling. He was an amateur wrestler before becoming a pro wrestler.

1 Career
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Career

[edit] Toryumon - the early years

Tsujimoto debuted in Dragon Gate as part of the T2P class as Stevie "brother" Tsujimoto. He was ranked second, roughly tied with Masato Yoshino, but far behind Milano Collection AT. Both he and Yoshino would join Milano's faction The Italian Connection, renaming to YASSINI and YOSSINO respectively. Tsujimoto did not like his new name, and after arguing with Milano, settled on "brother YASSINI".

The Italian Connection began showing a divide, as Milano and YOSSINO were face oriented, whereas YASSINI and fellow ItaCon stablemates Condotti Shuji, Bakery Yagi and Berlinetta Boxer were all heels. YASSINI suffered an arm injury, and spent much of his recovery time on the internet, posting in the official ItaCon blog. This lead to an argument with Milano.

YASSINI and Shuji would split from the ItaCon when they attacked Milano and YOSSINO with blue boxes. They renamed to brother YASSHI and Shuji Kondo respectively, and as of 2008 have remained together. Kondo and YASSHI brought Torou Owashi and Shogo Takagi (the unmasked Berlinetta Boxer) into their group, and renamed to Hagure Gundam.

[edit] Dragon Gate - Aagan Iisou

Veteran Dragon Gate wrestler Masaaki Mochizuki joined Hagure Gundam as the leader. The stable renamed to Aagan Iisou, which means roughly Villains all wear the same colors. They added Takuya Sugawara into the mix shortly after. Kondo, YASSHI and Sugawara formed a regular three man tag team. Kondo and Mochizuki began to argue over who was the ace of the stable, and Aagan sided with Kondo, kicking Mochi out of the group.

All five members of Aagan Iisou - Kondo, YASSHI, Sugawara, Owashi and Tagaki - were fired from Dragon Gate on December 31st, 2004, for controversial and mostly unexplained reasons.

[edit] AJPW

After Kondo and YASSHI were fired from Dragon Gate, they surfaced in AJPW as part of DG alumni TARU's stable Voodoo Murders.

[edit] Dragondoor/El Dorado

YASSHI and Kondo reprised their alliance in the short lived Dragondoor promotion, as well as their three man tag team with Takuya Sugawara. Although Torou Owashi and Shogo Takagi were both in the promotion, a full reunion of Aagan Iisou never happened.

In El Dorado, YASSHI split from Kondo for the first time since their early days in the Italian Connection. YASSHI returned to the wrestling and Llave style he used in the early days of his career, and formed a stable of his own called the Nanking Fucking Wrestling Team. It did not last long as he made few attempts to expand it, and after losing a match to Kondo in which the loser disbanded his faction, YASSHI reformed his alliance with Kondo.