Kozo Urita
Kozo Urita, born October 30, 1974 in Yokohama, Japan, is a Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler who performs under the ring names Tiger Shark and Blue Shark. He is 1.74 m tall and fights around 85 kg. Urita began his MMA career in 2003 and has fought in multiple promotions, including Pancrase via the Seikendo connection. He has a career MMA record of 40 wins, 20 losses, and 2 draws, with several wins by knockout.
In pro wrestling, Urita is best known as Tiger Shark, a masked heel with a blue shark motif. He started in Real Japan Pro Wrestling (RJPW) in 2005, often teaming with Masao Orihara before forming a tag team with Black Shadow; the duo won the RJPW Tag Team Championship. He also competed in Battlarts beginning in 2009, and later joined Tenryu Project, where he won the International Junior Heavyweight Championship by defeating Masaaki Mochizuki and defended it against Hiroki, Dokuroman, and Hikaru Sato before losing to Hiroki. He worked in Legend The Pro Wrestling with various Tiger-related characters and even battled New Japan’s Tiger Mask IV.
In 2013, Tiger Shark teamed with Tatsumi Fujinami to defeat Super Tiger II and Riki Choshu in RJPW, marking one of his final appearances there.
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