With a background injudo andfootball, Suzuki was trained inprofessional wrestling at the U.W.F. Snake Pit Japan dojo.[2][3] After four years of training under British wrestlerBilly Robinson,[4] he made his debut for theInoki Genome Federation (IGF) promotion on November 24, 2008, losing toHiromitsu Kanehara.[2][3] For the next three years, Suzuki workedundercards of IGF events.[2] His status finally began to rise in 2012 following a match withPeter Aerts.[2] On May 26, 2013, Suzuki won the second Inoki Genome tournament, defeating Akira Joh in the finals.[5] As a result, he received his first shot at theIGF Championship on October 26, but was defeated by the defending champion,Kazuyuki Fujita.[6] The following March, Suzuki left IGF to become afreelancer.[1][4]
Through the continued relationship between Zero1 and Wrestle-1, Suzuki began also making appearances for the latter promotion, where he found himself a rival inKai. On March 8, 2015, after Kai had captured theWrestle-1 Championship, Suzuki immediately confronted the new champion and challenged him to a title match.[15] The match took place on April 1 and saw Suzuki defeat Kai in just seven minutes to become the new Wrestle-1 Champion.[16][17] On May 5, Suzuki put both of his championships on the line at separate Zero1 and Wrestle-1 shows, losing the NWA United National Heavyweight Championship to Kamikaze and retaining the Wrestle-1 Championship againstRyota Hama.[18][19] On June 27, Suzuki returned to IGF for the first time since his departure from the promotion, first defeating Wang Bin in the opening round and thenDaichi Hashimoto in the finals to win the Genome-1 2015 Nagoya tournament.[20] Following the win, Suzuki formed an "anti-IGF"stable with foreigners Erik Hammer, Kevin Kross andKnux.[21] On July 12, Suzuki lost the Wrestle-1 Championship back to Kai in his third defense.[22][23][24] On November 1, Suzuki defeated Kohei Sato to win Pro Wrestling Zero1's World Heavyweight Championship.[25] On February 26, 2016, Suzuki returned to IGF, when he was appointed the leader of a new stable named Hagure IGF Gundan ("Rogue IGF Corps"), which also included Kazuyuki Fujita,Kendo Kashin andShogun Okamoto.[26] On March 27, Suzuki lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Kohei Sato.[27]
On March 5, 2017, Suzuki challengedDaisuke Sekimoto for theBig Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW)World Strong Heavyweight Championship. After wrestling to a thirty-minute time limit draw, Suzuki and Sekimoto agreed to a rematch on March 30.[28][29] Suzuki went on to win the rematch to become the new World Strong Heavyweight Champion.[30][31] On September 14, Suzuki and Kohei Sato defeated Shogun Okamoto andYutaka Yoshie to win thevacantNWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship.[32] After five successful title defenses, Suzuki lost the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship to Daichi Hashimoto on December 17.[33][34] Suzuki claimed that losing the title cost him most of his bookings and that he was facing unemployment heading into 2018.[35] On January 1, 2018, Suzuki and Sato lost the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship toMasayuki Okamoto and Yutaka Yoshie.[36]
In April 2021, Suzuki signed with WWE as a coach in thePerformance Center.[37] Despite his work as coach, Suzuki would begin to work on NXT's weekly show as a pro wrestler under the name of Hachiman, as a part of thevillainous stableDiamond Mine, alongsideRoderick Strong,Tyler Rust (who was released several weeks later) andMalcolm Bivens.[38][39] Within the coming months,The Creed Brothers (Brutus and Julius Creed) and Ivy Nile would also join the stable. On January 5, 2022, Suzuki was released from his WWE contract.[40]
On February 24, 2022 it was announced that Suzuki would be returning to Japan to wrestle for Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah).[41] On March 13, 2022 Suzuki would team with Takashi Sugiura to win the GHC Tag Team Championship by defeating the team ofDaiki Inaba &Kaito Kiyomiya at Noah Great Voyage In Yokohama 2022.[42]
Suzuki started making regular appearances forAll Japan Pro Wrestling from July 16 2023.[43] Forming the Baka no Jidai (era of idiots) tag team withSuwama. The two would go on to compete in back to backReal World Tag leagues in 2023 and 2024. As well as win the World Tag Team Championships on February 25 2024.[44] Suzuki would also take part in the 2024 edition of theChampion Carnival. Finishing in joint second place in his block with eight points.
On January 2, 2025. Suzuki formally joined All Japan on a full time basis.[45] Signing a contract with the promotion.
He entered in the 2025 edition of Champions Carnival, where in Semi Finals, he was knocked out by Rei Saito.
Suzuki's first book, entitledBiru Robinson Den Kyatchi Azu Kyatchi Kyan Nyūmon (ビル・ロビンソン伝 キャッチ アズ キャッチ キャン入門; "Billy Robinson: Catch as Catch Can Primer"), was released on January 19, 2017. The book is about wrestling techniques taught to Suzuki by Billy Robinson.[46]
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