三沢光晴: Green Destiny - Emerald Flowsion 1962-2009

Mitsuharu Misawa was the Japanese high school national wrestling champion at 187 pounds in 1980, and was recruited by Giant Baba into All Japan Pro Wrestling. He gained his first taste of stardom in 1984 when he was chosen to be the second Tiger Mask. After unmasking in 1990, he became an even bigger star after a series of singles matches with Jumbo Tsuruta.

He was Japan's biggest pro wrestling star of the 90s, and one could make a strong case for him as the top wrestler of the decade. He was the Wrestler of the Year in 1995, 1997 and 1999. Misawa would form Pro-Wrestling NOAH in 2000. He had engage in epic battles against Toshiaki Kawada, Kenta Kobashi, Jun Akiyama, and many more. He was a 3-time GHC Heavyweight Champion, 2-time GHC Tag-team Champion, 5-time All Japan Triple Crown Champion, 2-Time All Japan All Asia Tag Team Champion, and 6-time All Japan Unified World Tag Team Champion. As NOAH's president and active competitor, he would take the time to venture off to other promotions like New Japan Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honor. Emerald Flowsion, Tiger Driver, Tiger Suplex 85 and Tiger Driver 91 are a few of the moves he used, not to mention he invented them.

On June 13, 2009, after receiving a backdrop from Akitoshi Saito during a tag team match with Go Shiozaki against Saito and Bison Smith at Hiroshima Green Arena, Misawa lost consciousness and was taken to a hospital. He was pronounced dead in the hospital at 10:10 p.m.
We lost a legend, someone that made us scream out of no where with his intense matches, someone who mad us scream 5 Stars match in our rooms, someone who was a "true" wrestler.

RIP Mitsuharu Misawa 1962-2009

music: Spartan X (new version)

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Toshiaki Kawada, Kenta Kobashi, Jun Akiyama, Stan Hansen, Akira Taue, Yoshihiro Takayama, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Naomichi Marufuji, Takeshi Morishima, Genichiro Tenryu, Satoshi Kojima, Yuji Nagata, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Samoa Joe, Masahiro Chono, Jushin Thunder Liger, Hirooki Goto, Shinsuke Nakamura

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[0log]

When he was NJPW?

[kyotanahashi]

May 2, 2002...May 14, 2005...January 4, 2009

[JuliusC1973]

Incredible, I haven't seen that many of his matches, this gives me a hint of what I've missed. Misawa could do it all: Mat wrestling, chain wrestling, aerial attack, brawling, striking. A match between him and Kurt Angle or Bret the Hitman Hart would have been a Dream Match. Is it possible that All Japan Pro Wrestling., Pro wrestling NOHA and GHC will bring out a DVD Set and make it available for purchase in the United States?

[kyotanahashi]

o.O GHC is the name of NOAH's championships

[RedKnightTheGreat]

@JuliusC1973 Is there going to be a Misawa DVD set? If there is, that would be totally awesome

[kyotanahashi]

@RedKnightTheGreat there's gonna be a new 5-disc set being released on the first anniversary of his death.

[KornmanUNstoppable]

wait Youtube Removed a Misawa Tribute Video and suspended the user that posted it! FUCK YOU YOUTUBE THAT SO DISRESPECTFUL!

[roughy762004]

OMG! I'm deeply hurt by this. Man, its a shame all the TRUE wrestling stars are over shadowed by some of the nonsense in story lined wrestling. Forgive me for stating this but, AT LEAST THE MAN PASSED ON DOING THE THING HE LOVED TO DO. This was another loss in pro wrestling and people I idolize. GOD BLESS THE RING!!!!

[iPodVideo99]

Tiger drivin is awesome.

[winfir0]

Hey mr.misses you where the greatest ever god rest your soul

[MarioMetroidFan]

God, I miss his talent. RIP Misawa-San, youre up there with Rikidozan, Jumbo, Baba, Hashimoto and all the others.

[zack0521shun]

三沢の声を聞くとホッとする。

ホントにこの世にいないんだよね．．．それを考えると寂しい．．­．

I was shocked to hear that Misawa passed away on June 13 2009.

the best and strongest wrestler in JPN.

[a806867]

@0log

that day Misawa VS Chono!

[KornmanUNstoppable]

@JuliusC1973 order it online and either a region 2 dvd player, region unlocked dvd player or an external DVD drive for your computer and Download VLC

[canocorn88]

MI-SA-WA, MI-SA-WA, MI-SA-WA!

[TheForgottenFlesh]

@JuliusC1973 He wrestled Bret already....it wasn't good at all, Bret just kept doing rest holds and the match was a dud.

[grate4life]

what a legend misawa was.

[KornmanUNstoppable]

@kyotanahashi I now need to buy this dvd region 2 or not its worth the purchase if im getting a crap lod of his best matches and hopefully they do show all his christmas specials and Santa Misawa stuff also stuff like that showed how great of a man he really was outside the ring and how much of a comedian he was also