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Tetsuo Sekigawa (born May 2, 1951 in Japan) is a former Japanese professional wrestler, very well known for his hardcore matches, competing in his most popular gimmick, Mr Pogo.

Career

After being taught to wrestle by his father, Tetsuo Sekigawa travelled all over Japan to seek a wrestling career. He joined Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance but won no titles.

He moved to BJPW and won the BJPW Death Match Heavyweight Title once, and the Barbed Wire Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Title. He wanted more interesting matches to compete in, and moved to W*ING. He faced such legends as Terry Funk and Mick Foley in some most brutal matches. His last promotions were WWC, FMW and NWA. Sekigawa retired in 1997.

Several of Sekigawa's hardcore matches include:

• Barbed Wire Platform Match: In a barbed wire bumps match, huge boards laden with truckloads of barbed wire are placed at ringside. In FMW, Mr Pogo & Atsushi Onita contested barbed wire platform matches where, at ringside, mixed in with the wire, were landmines. Landmine matches usually only occur outside. He also fought in a Barbed Wire Platform Match in December 1994, at an arena in Tokyo (not Korakuen Hall), FMW held a series of matches with Atsushi Onita (under the Great Nita gimmick) and Tarzan Goto (under his Ho Chi Ming) gimmick against Mr Pogo and Hisakatsu Ohya, which had landmines at ringside.
• Barbed Wire Spider Net Match: Barbed Wire Spider Net Matches feature barbed wire vertically wrapped around the ring ropes. This type of match is rare, but one prominent match was held May 4, 1992 in W*ING. The match featured Mr. Pogo & Super Invader vs. Mitsuteru Tokuda & Yukihiro Kanemura, and ended after Super Invader delivered a top rope splash onto Yukihiro Kanemura with his chest covered in barbed wire.
• Barbed Wire With Glass Platform Match: This match features a platform at ringside, constructed from barbed wire and wood, with plates of glass lying on top. Mr Pogo fought Terry Funk in one such match August 1 at the Shiodome.

Championships and accomplishments

• Big Japan Pro Wrestling

• 1-time BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Champion
• 1-time BJPW Barbed Wire Street Fight Six-Man Tag Team Champion

• Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling

• 2-time FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion
• 3-time FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champion – with Hisakatsu Ooya, The Gladiator and Yukihiro Kanemura

• National Wrestling Alliance

• 1-time NWA Central States Heavyweight Champion
• 1-time NWA Central States Tag Team Champion – with Gypsy Joe
• 2-time NWA Tri-State Heavyweight Champion
• 2-time NWA Western States Tag Team Champion – with Mr. Sato
• 1-time NWA World Brass Knuckles Champion (Amarillo version)

• Stampede Wrestling

• 1-time Stampede North American Heavyweight Champion

• World Wrestling Council

• 2-time WWC Caribbean Tag Team Champion – with Kensuke Sasaki
• 1-time WWC World Junior Heavyweight Champion
• 4-time WWC World Tag Team Champion – 1-time with TNT, 3-time with Kendo Nagasaki

• Wrestling International New Generations

• 1-time W*ING Tag Team Champion – with Crash the Terminator

External links

• 1951 births
• Japanese professional wrestlers
• Living people