I'm pretty new to Puroresu (I've been following Ultimo Dragon and Jushin Liger's careers in Japan for a little while), and I recently got a few matches of Hayabusa's, from FMW to ECW. He's quickly become my favorite wrestler of all time (I still get teary everytime I watch his injury match and the aftermath). I have a couple questions about him that I hope you guys can help me with:
1. What is his real name?
2. He's 30, right?
3. What's his condition now? Is he healing or doing worse?
4. Has he ever wrestled Asai or Liger?
5. What kind of past training experience (wrestling/martial arts/whatever) has he had?
1) Eiji Ezaki
2) he was born in 1968, so he'd be... 37-ish
3) last I heard he was still walking with a cane
4) I know he faced Liger in the opening round of the '94 Super J-Cup... other than that, I haven't seen anything but that doesn't mean it happened
5) He and Mr. Gannosuke trained at the FMW dojo under Tarzan Goto and Atsushi Onita. Ezaki also went to school in Mexico, and wrestled in Mexico and in Florida.
Proud enough for you to call me arrogant
Greedy enough to be labeled a thief
Angry enough for me to go and hurt a man
Cruel enough for me to feel no grief...