El Samurai

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	Name: Osamu Matsuda	Preferred Name: El Samurai
	Date Of Birth: Apr 19th 1966	Place of Birth: Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan
	Nationality: JPN	Gender: Male
	Matches: 1,803 (27 Pay Per View)
	Ring Name(s): Edo Samurai, El Purpose, El Samurai, Osamu Matsuda

NJPW matches wrestled by El Samurai

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card/ date	match			match type	title(s)
NJPW Best of the Super Juniors IV - Day 2 May 17th 1997	El Samurai	def.	Yoshihiro Tajiri
NJPW Best of the Super Juniors IV - Day 1 May 16th 1997	Doc Dean & El Samurai & Gran Naniwa & Robbie Brookside	def.	Dr. Wagner Jr. & Hanzo Nakajima & Koji Kanemoto & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	8-person tag
NJPW Fan, Fun, Fight May 5th 1997	El Samurai	draw (time)	Shinjiro Otani
NJPW Strong Style Evolution May 3rd 1997	Dick Togo & Hanzo Nakajima & Koji Kanemoto & Men's Teioh & Shinjiro Otani	def. (pin)	El Samurai & Gran Hamada & Norio Honaga & Super Delfin & The Great Sasuke	10-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
NJPW Battle Line Kyushu '97 - Day 11 Apr 30th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	def.	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	6-person tag
NJPW Battle Line Kyushu '97 - Day 10 Apr 29th 1997	El Samurai & Norio Honaga	def.	Black Cat & Koji Kanemoto
NJPW Battle Line Kyushu '97 - Day 9 Apr 28th 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	6-person tag
NJPW Battle Line Kyushu '97 - Day 8 Apr 26th 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Battle Line Kyushu '97 - Day 7 Apr 24th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	def.	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	6-person tag
NJPW Battle Line Kyushu '97 - Day 6 Apr 23rd 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	def.	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	6-person tag
NJPW Battle Line Kyushu '97 - Day 5 Apr 22nd 1997	El Samurai	def.	Tatsuhito Takaiwa
NJPW Battle Line Kyushu '97 - Day 4 Apr 20th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	def.	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	6-person tag
NJPW Battle Line Kyushu '97 - Day 3 Apr 19th 1997	Akira Nogami & Kuniaki Kobayashi	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Battle Line Kyushu '97 - Day 2 Apr 18th 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Battle Line Kyushu '97 - Day 1 Apr 17th 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	6-person tag
NJPW Battle Formation 1997 Apr 12th 1997	El Samurai	def. (pin)	Shinjiro Otani
NJPW Exciting Battle in Naeba - Day 2 Mar 29th 1997	El Samurai	def.	Black Cat
NJPW Exciting Battle in Naeba - Day 1 Mar 28th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Akira Nogami & Kuniaki Kobayashi
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 15 Mar 25th 1997	El Samurai	def.	Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 14 Mar 23rd 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	def.	El Samurai & Norio Honaga
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 13 Mar 22nd 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	def.	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	6-person tag
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 12 Mar 20th 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani	def.	El Samurai & Norio Honaga
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 11 Mar 19th 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	6-person tag
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 10 Mar 17th 1997	Akira Nogami & Akitoshi Saito & Kuniaki Kobayashi	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	6-person tag
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 9 Mar 16th 1997	El Samurai	def.	Shinjiro Otani
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 8 Mar 15th 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	6-person tag
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 7 Mar 12th 1997	El Samurai	def.	Black Cat
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 6 Mar 11th 1997	El Samurai	def.	Norio Honaga
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 5 Mar 10th 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	6-person tag
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 4 Mar 8th 1997	El Samurai	def.	Norio Honaga
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 3 Mar 7th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Wild Pegasus	def.	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	6-person tag
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 2 Mar 6th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani
NJPW Hyper Battle '97 - Day 1 Mar 5th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Wild Pegasus	def.	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	6-person tag
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 16 Feb 16th 1997	Chris Jericho & Scotty Riggs	def. (pin)	El Samurai & Norio Honaga
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 15 Feb 15th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Koji Kanemoto & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 14 Feb 14th 1997	Chris Jericho & Scotty Riggs	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 13 Feb 13th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Chris Jericho & Koji Kanemoto
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 12 Feb 11th 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	6-person tag
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 11 Feb 9th 1997	Buff Bagwell & Hiro Saito	def.	El Samurai & Scotty Riggs
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 10 Feb 8th 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 9 Feb 7th 1997	Scotty Riggs	def.	El Samurai
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 8 Feb 6th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	def.	Chris Jericho & Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani	6-person tag
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 7 Feb 2nd 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	6-person tag
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 6 Jan 31st 1997	Chris Jericho & Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	6-person tag
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 5 Jan 30th 1997	Chris Jericho & Scotty Riggs	def.	Black Cat & El Samurai
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 4 Jan 29th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Chris Jericho & Koji Kanemoto
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 3 Jan 28th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	def.	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	6-person tag
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 2 Jan 27th 1997	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Koji Kanemoto & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
NJPW Fighting Spirit '97 - Day 1 Jan 26th 1997	El Samurai	def.	Tatsuhito Takaiwa
NJPW Naha Show (Jan '97) Jan 20th 1997	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Naha Show (Jan '97) Jan 20th 1997	El Samurai & Takashi Iizuka	def.	Norio Honaga & Tadao Yasuda
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 13 Dec 4th 1996	Brad Armstrong & Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani	def.	Black Cat & El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	6-person tag
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 12 Dec 3rd 1996	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Akira Nogami & Kuniaki Kobayashi
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 11 Dec 1st 1996	Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 10 Nov 30th 1996	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Chavo Guerrero Jr. & Norio Honaga
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 9 Nov 29th 1996	Brad Armstrong & Chavo Guerrero Jr.	def.	Black Cat & El Samurai
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 8 Nov 28th 1996	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	def.	Brad Armstrong & Chavo Guerrero Jr. & Shinjiro Otani	6-person tag
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 7 Nov 27th 1996	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Brad Armstrong & Norio Honaga
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 6 Nov 26th 1996	Akira Nogami & Kuniaki Kobayashi	def.	El Samurai & Norio Honaga
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 5 Nov 24th 1996	Brad Armstrong & Shinjiro Otani	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 4 Nov 23rd 1996	Akira Nogami & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Michiyoshi Ohara	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	6-person tag
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 3 Nov 22nd 1996	Norio Honaga & Shinjiro Otani	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 2 Nov 21st 1996	El Samurai	def.	Black Cat
NJPW Battle Final '96 - Day 1 Nov 20th 1996	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Brad Armstrong & Chavo Guerrero Jr.
NJPW Real Ability Counts - Day 2 Nov 4th 1996	Takayuki Iizuka	def.	El Samurai
NJPW Real Ability Counts - Day 1 Nov 3rd 1996	Jushin Thunder Liger & Keiji Muto	def.	El Samurai & Tatsumi Fujinami
NJPW Kobe Show (Oct '96) Oct 20th 1996	El Samurai	def.	Tatsuhito Takaiwa
NJPW G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 9 Sep 23rd 1996	Dean Malenko & Shinjiro Otani	def.	Black Tiger II & El Samurai
NJPW G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 8 Sep 21st 1996	Shinjiro Otani & Yuji Nagata	def.	Black Tiger II & El Samurai
NJPW G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 6 Sep 19th 1996	Black Tiger II & Dean Malenko & Shinjiro Otani	def.	El Samurai & Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Wild Pegasus	6-person tag
NJPW G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 5 Sep 17th 1996	Akira Nogami & Kengo Kimura & Michiyoshi Ohara	def.	El Samurai & Takashi Iizuka & Tatsuhito Takaiwa	6-person tag
NJPW G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 4 Sep 16th 1996	El Samurai & Norio Honaga	def.	Dean Malenko & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
NJPW G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 3 Sep 14th 1996	El Samurai & Osamu Kido	def.	Black Tiger II & Dean Malenko
NJPW G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 2 Sep 13th 1996	Black Tiger II & Dean Malenko	def.	El Samurai & Norio Honaga
NJPW G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 1 Sep 12th 1996	Dean Malenko & Shinjiro Otani	def.	Black Tiger II & El Samurai
NJPW G1 Climax '96 - Day 5 Aug 5th 1996	Negro Casas & Shinjiro Otani	def. (pin)	El Samurai & Jushin Liger
NJPW G1 Climax '96 - Day 4 Aug 4th 1996	Akira Nogami & Kuniaki Kobayashi	def. (pin)	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW G1 Climax '96 - Day 3 Aug 3rd 1996	The Great Sasuke (c)	def. (pin)	El Samurai (c)		WWA Junior Lightheavyweight Title NWA Junior Heavyweight Title IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title (title change)
NJPW G1 Climax '96 - Day 2 Aug 2nd 1996	El Samurai (c)	def. (pin)	Gran Hamada (c)		WWF Light Heavyweight Title WWA Junior Lightheavyweight Title (title change)
NJPW Sapporo Show (Jul '96 #1) Jul 16th 1996	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Norio Honaga	def.	Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Tokimitsu Ishizawa	6-person tag
NJPW Niigata Show (Jun '96) Jun 29th 1996	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Norio Honaga & Shinjiro Otani
NJPW Takamachi Show (Jun '96) Jun 28th 1996	El Samurai	def.	Tatsuhito Takaiwa
NJPW Hiratsuka Show (Jun '96) Jun 26th 1996	Keiji Muto & Takashi Iizuka	def.	Brad Armstrong & El Samurai
NJPW Kasumigaora Show (Jun '96) Jun 25th 1996	Black Cat & Norio Honaga	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Toki Show (Jun '96) Jun 24th 1996	El Samurai & Norio Honaga	def.	Shinjiro Otani & Tokimitsu Ishizawa
NJPW Tokyo Show (Jun '96) Jun 22nd 1996	Brad Armstrong & Norio Honaga	def.	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger
NJPW Skydiving J Jun 17th 1996	Lance Storm (c) & Yuji Yasuraoka (c)	def. (pin)	El Samurai & Norio Honaga		WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles
NJPW Osaka Show (Jun '96) Jun 12th 1996	El Samurai & Wild Pegasus	def.	Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
NJPW Hiroshima Show (Jun '96) Jun 11th 1996	Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	El Samurai
NJPW Tottori Show (Jun '96) Jun 9th 1996	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Shinjiro Otani & Tokimitsu Ishizawa
NJPW Kokura Show (Jun '96) Jun 8th 1996	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Dean Malenko & Villano IV
NJPW Kokubun Show (Jun '96) Jun 7th 1996	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Black Tiger II & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
NJPW Nagasaki Show (Jun '96) Jun 6th 1996	El Samurai & Wild Pegasus	def.	Black Tiger II & Norio Honaga
NJPW Beppu Show (Jun '96) Jun 5th 1996	Tatsuhito Takaiwa	def.	El Samurai
NJPW Kumamoto Show (Jun '96) Jun 4th 1996	Norio Honaga & Wild Pegasus	def.	Black Tiger II & El Samurai
NJPW Takamatsu Show (Jun '96) Jun 1st 1996	El Samurai & Norio Honaga & Villano IV	def.	Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Tokimitsu Ishizawa	6-person tag
NJPW Toyota Show (May '96) May 31st 1996	El Samurai	def.	Mr. JL
NJPW Takaoka Show (May '96) May 30th 1996	El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger	def.	Emilio Charles Jr. & Villano IV
NJPW Nagano Show (May '96) May 28th 1996	El Samurai	def.	Wild Pegasus
NJPW Omiya Show (May '96) May 26th 1996	Black Cat & Black Tiger II & El Samurai & Villano IV	def.	Dean Malenko & Franz Schumann & Norio Honaga & Wild Pegasus	8-person tag

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