The Great Sasuke wrestled as a heel under the SASUKE moniker (with a slightly altered costume.)....Sasuke the Great is a different person. Both of them wrestled in J-Cup 2000....
and Sasuke the Great sucks...he got disqualified in the first round...(allowing *ugh* Ricky Fuji to advance)
I saw results from a MPW card a few years back which featured other Sasukes - one I remember was Great Sasuke Multitype (?). Anyone have any idea what that was about?
I believe that Masao Orihara, along with Takeshi Ono, formed the Nishimondo Gundam (someone correct me there, PLEASE!), which were a bunch of rudo imposters of wrestlers like The Great Sasuke (Sasuke the Great - Orihara), Tiger Mask (Masked Tiger - Ono) and Gran Naniwa (NANIWA). From my recollection, they roamed indy feds as these characters (with masked girls also) looking for fights and running down the name of The Great Sasuke.
This was after the heel turn of Great Sasuke, who became known as SASUKE (all in capitals) and had these punk help him for a short time.
Sasuke Dyna = Daisuke Ikeda
Sasuke Tiga = Yuki Ishikawa
(These are obvious takes on the Ultraman series. I'm not a fan of Ultraman, but I couldn't help noticing it.)
NANIWA = Hiroyoshi Kotsubo