Takayuki Mori

Takayuki Mori
Born	(1976-09-10) September 10, 1976 (age 47) Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan[1]
Alma mater	Ehime University
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Anthony W. Mori[1] Kentaro Mori Takayuki Mori
Billed height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Billed weight	70 kg (154 lb)[1]
Debut	May 13, 2000[1]
Retired	December 2, 2010[1]

Takayuki Mori (森 隆行, Mori Takayuki, born October 9, 1976) is a retired

.

Biography

Before entering the Toryumon dojo, Mori was an accomplished scholar, graduating with a law degree from Ehime University.^[2]

Mori debuted with the Toryumon T2P class in 2000 under his real name. The following year, he became KENtaro Mori, "Barbie's boyfriend", and the year after that, he switched over to his current gimmick of Anthony W. Mori, a royal prince. The "W" stands for White.

Aside from a stint under his real name in 2006, when he became a member of Tozawa-juku for six months, Mori's character has not changed greatly since his debut. In 2002, upon taking on the royal prince character, he formed the Royal Prince Brothers unit with Junya Fukumasa and

also betrayed him that year to join Do FIXER.

When Sugawara returned to Japan in 2004, Mori quickly revived the Royal Brothers unit with him, but the unit would not last long, because Sugawara would soon violently turn on him and join heel stable Aagan Iisou. The betrayal greatly hurt Mori, rendering him catatonic for several months. His refusal to fight Sugawara caused him to be subjected to further attacks from him. However, when Mori saw his old friend Ryo Saito getting beaten up by Aagan Iisou, he snapped out of his catatonic state and saved him. He and Ryo reconciled, and he also officially joined the Italian Connection. Mori ended his feud with Sugawara on November 28 by winning a hair vs. hair match against him, but Sugawara managed to avoid getting his hair cut off (Dragon Gate President Takashi Okamura ended up taking the haircut for him), and on December 16, he and the rest of the Italian Connection became the first Open the Triangle Gate Champions.

The Italian Connection would dissolve in 2005 when Milano left the promotion, and some time after, Mori approached

.

Mori graduated from Tozawa-juku in January 2007, and he continued to focus on Pos.HEARTS. However, the trio lost the titles that month back to Doi, Yoshino & Gamma, and the month after that, they were forced to dissolve Pos.HEARTS after losing another match to them, where he took the fall. He (along with BxB Hulk) would soon join CIMA in his Typhoon stable.

In April 2008, he won the Open the Brave Gate Title from Masato Yoshino, but because he won it due to unwanted outside interference from Yasushi Kanda, he immediately vacated it. He was entered into the subsequent tournament for the vacant title, and he made it to the finals, but he lost to Gamma.

When the Typhoon unit was brought to an end at the end of the year, he began to ally with Super Shisa and Shisa BOY again in 2009, as well as with

. He held onto the title for over a month before losing it to Kikutaro.

At the start of November, Takuya Sugawara started to get involved with Dragon Gate again. Mori immediately began to try to convince him to reform the Royal Brothers with him once more. On November 28, Sugawara and Masaaki Mochizuki tried to recruit him into the Veteran-gun to take on the New Generation (which was odd, because he debuted in the same class as Naruki Doi, a member of the New Generation), and he agreed to join them, but only if Sugawara would agree to reform the Royal Brothers with him once the generation war was over. Sugawara accepted the offer, but mentioned that they were short one member, since Phillip J. Fukumasa was retired. Mori asked for Mochizuki to be the heir to Phillip's throne, and he accepted, becoming Phillip J. Mochizuki. They agreed to team as the new Royal Brothers on the first Buyuden show after the generation war was finished. Mori wrestled his retirement match on December 2, 2010. He remains with Dragon Gate in a backstage role.

Championships and accomplishments

• Dragon Gate

• Open the Brave Gate Championship
  (1 time)
• Open the Owarai Gate Championship
  (1 time)
• Milano Collection AT & YOSSINO
  (1)

Luchas de Apuestas record

Winner (wager)	Loser (wager)	Location	Event	Date	Notes
Takuya Sugawara (hair)	Anthony W. Mori (hair)	Tokyo, Japan	Live event	September 17, 2004	[Note 1]
Anthony W. Mori (hair)	Takuya Sugawara (hair)	Tokyo, Japan	Live event	November 28, 2004
Anthony W. Mori (hair)	Gamma (hair)	Nagoya, Japan	Live event	August 11, 2007	[Note 2]
Cyber Kong (mask)	Anthony W. Mori (hair)	Tokyo, Japan	Live event	March 22, 2009

Notes

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "CageMatch Profile". CageMatch. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
2. ^ "CageMatch Profile". Puroresu Representin'. 18 March 2010. Retrieved 21 January 2015.