History Wrestling / MasaakiMochizuki

* IKnowKarate: An unspecified style, though he also did Shidokan under Koji Kitao.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Wore karate footguards during his gi times, though later adopted boots.

* {{Troll}}: This was the original M2K's hat - they weren't just content to collect titles and steal wins, they were out to ruin the promotion. They did things like try to ruin tournaments by forcing the final match to end on a double ring-out.

* StartMyOwn: He used to have a personal brand of events, Mochizuki Buyuden ("Mochizuki's Martial Story"), where he hosted matches with other shoot-stylists and wrestlers from other promotions.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Although the heel Mochizuki was more of a disenchanted hero than a cackling villain, he was still unable to notice that the Crazy MAX guys were TrueCompanions who would follow each other to any direction of their moral compass, while in contrast his own [=M2K=] wrestlers were essentially power-hungry mercenaries without any real loyalty to him. This came back to bite him on his ass when he underwent an epyphany and tried to turn his group into a new face unit like his own actions had made Crazy MAX.

* MagneticHero: Painfully subverted in his original [=M2K=] tenure, but straight outside of Dragon Gate. Being a veteran who has wrestled in varied promotions over the years, Mochizuki has made a lot of non-DG frenemies whom he sometimes reunites with, and he even created the Mochizuki Buyuden events only to book them in. The list is pretty long and includes Minoru Tanaka, Wrestling/IkutoHidaka, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Wrestling/TAKAMichinoku, Wrestling/YujiNagata, [[Wrestling/TakuyaSugi El Blazer]] and Hayato Fujita.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: He was the first shoot-style wrestler in Toryumon, and technically the only today, not counting the MMA-influenced but otherwise lucharesu-trained YAMATO.

* BaldOfAwesome: After losing in a Cabellera vs. Cabellera match against CIMA in 2001.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaaki_Mochizuki The Other Wiki]].

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Has been this consistently to Wrestling/IkutoHidaka since their Battlarts days, to the point it was an upset that Hidaka could regain his ZERO-ONE title from Mochizuki in 2008. It sometimes extends to tag team field with their respective usual partners Minoru Tanaka and Minoru Fujita.

* BashBrothers: With Minoru Tanaka in Battlarts and later with Don Fujii in Dragon Gate.

* TheAce: Downplayed. In the classic sense, he is possibly the less flashy of all the Toryumon "aces", as he is a grumpy talker with a pragmatic wrestling style and a fairly grounded fashion sense. However, he has always been the promotion's top wrestler, second only to CIMA, by his own merits in wrestling and popularity.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Masaaki started as a heroic martial artist who wanted to stop the Crazy MAX gangbangers from tormenting babyfaces like him. How did he get it? By forming and leading an even worse marauding unit than C-MAX. He eventually realized it in his final match against CIMA.

** Became a more successful example towards Katsuhiko Nakajima, who started visited Dragon Gate in 2004. They turned into rivals when Nakajima developed as a wrestler, but they still team up in special occasions.
* BigGood: He is the most frequent and long-lasting of all who have occupied this place in Toryumon/Dragon Gate. It started right after being kicked out of [=M2K=], as the original BigGood of Toryumon, Magnum TOKYO, had joined Mochizuki's former henchmen, so Mochizuki was now the top face wrestler by default. Some mistrust and his failure with Shin [=M2K=] drove him to become heel again with Aagan Iisou, but he repented and returned again, and he has been on/off on the job through the years until today.
* BoringButPractical: Mochizuki is a shoot-style wrestler, which means most of his moveset is composed of kicks and submissions, along with a couple basic brainbusters - nothing flashy, but surely very effective, especially against lucharesu wrestlers as everybody in Toryumon/Dragon Gate is. However, some of kicks ''can'' be flashy (like his Sankakugeri, which is basically an enzuigiri from the top rope), and he has also adopted a more lucharesu-inspired approach to fit with the rest of the promotion over the years, though he is still a shoot-stylist at the core.

* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Initially it looked like Mochizuki was being NecessarilyEvil with [=M2K=] to stop Crazy MAX's thug antics, but it soon became obvious that he had got lost in his own thirst for revenge and would not listen to his good side anymore. His defeat CIMA's hands made him finally snap, but by then it was too late to stop his own henchmen from reject his authority and create another nasty gang with Magnum TOKYO.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Although the heel Mochizuki was more of a disenchanted hero than a cackling villain, he was still unable to notice that the Crazy MAX guys were TrueCompanions who would follow each other to any direction of their moral compass, while in contrast his own [=M2K=] wrestlers were essentially power-hungry mercenaries without any real loyalty to him. This came back to bite him on his ass when he underwent an epyphany and tried to turn his group into a new face unit like his own actions had pushed Crazy MAX into being.

* HewhofightsMonsters: With his campaign of terror against Crazy MAX, Mochizuki effectively turned them into heroes trying to defend against a band of thugs, just like Mochizuki and the Seikigun were before he founded [=M2K=]. It took time for him to realize.

** Mochizuki was aware that he was allied to two anarchists, an evil dragon and a rogue surfer vandal when he returned to [=M2K=] from his 2001 hiatus; what he got wrong was the belief that he held enough influence over them to make them turn their moral codes upside down at his whim, as they actually only obeyed him because his experience and fighting skill made him a good leader. As it is natural, the [=M2K=] guys became appaled that he tried to make them a heroic unit, so they kicked him out and replaced him with the much eviler Wrestling/MagnumTOKYO. (However, he ''would'' be proven right at long term, as his former friends would eventually discover some nostalgia for his leadership and helped him to form Shin [=M2K=] and Final [=M2K=].)
** Speaking of which, the Shin [=M2K=] project was born of Mochizuki's desire to reform [=M2K=], which led him to recruit people almost at random because the only original members who acceded to return to him were Horiguchi and a non-wrestling Kanda. The new stable was impopular and disjointed, as their members would not do their best as a team as Mochizuki had expected, and one of his "unoriginal" members, Kenichiro Arai, eventually forced him to disband it. Mochizuki's bad decisions would pursue him to the true return of the stable, Final [=M2K=], as he decided to include some of the previous recruits, and one of them, Second Doi, betrayed him predictably.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: He was the first shoot-style wrestler in Toryumon, and technically the only today, not counting the MMA influenced but otherwise lucharesu trained YAMATO.

* StartMyOwn: He has a personal brand of events, Mochizuki Buyuden ("Mochizuki's Martial Story"), where he used to host matches with other shoot-stylists and wrestlers from other promotions.

* BadassGrandpa: He's the oldest guy on the roster.

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: His Twister finishing move is a spinning brainbuster. He also created an inverted brainbuster version as a counter to YAMATO's Gallaria, and has also used a spinning Falcon Arrow called the Twister II.

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* BigBrotherMentor: To all face wrestlers. He also attempted to do this with Aagan Iisou, but it backfired on him.

Masaaki Mochizuki (b. 1964) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er, best known by his work in Wrestling/{{Toryumon}} and Wrestling/DragonGate. Originally a UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} fighter, he fell in love with professional wrestling thanks to Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada, becoming a shoot-style wrestler under Wrestling/KojiKitao and debuting as part of his entourage in Wrestling/GenichiroTenryu's Wrestle Association R. After building some career in WAR, Battlarts and Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, he landed on Wrestling/UltimoDragon's Toryumon circuit, which soon became his home. Masaaki was initially a sore thumb in Toryumon, a stern shooter who preferred to kick people in the head rather than playing their lucharesu game, and this was his gimmick for a most of the conflict between the babyfaces of the company and the heel faction Crazy MAX. However, one day Masaaki decided he was tired of everybody, so he recruited two anarchists named Yasushi Kanda and Susumu Mochizuki (no relation) and created [=M2K=], the nastiest stable in all the promotion. Their presence and wild attacks ended up turning Crazy MAX into heroes, and this gave birth to a gang war that lasted through years and eventually outlasted Toryumon itself, leading to the birth of the new company Dragon Gate. Mochizuki has remained one of the promotion's aces from then, trusting on his experience and toughness to teach respect to the new generations, and that's what he does now.

* ArchEnemy: CIMA, Wrestling/MagnumTOKYO, Milano Collection A.T. and YAMATO.

* TheArtifact: His wrestling style can be considered such, not only because shoot-style was hugely popular back when Mochizuki became a pro wrestler yet is pretty much forgotten today, but also because Masaaki's usage of it came from being a member of a shoot-style themed stable that disappeared from Toryumon in less of a year. Over the years, he adopted a more lucharesu-inspired approach to fit with the rest of the promotion, but he still stands out for his stiff kicks and holds.

* BattleStrip: Over the years, he has been reducing his attire. He started wrestling in a sleeveless karategi, later changed it to just long pants and finally adopted regular tights. Since siding with [=BxB=] Hulk though he went back to long pants.

* BigGood: He is the most frequent and long-lasting of all who have occupied this place in Dragon Gate. He became the Seikigun's leader after being kicked out of [=M2K=], as the original BigGood, Magnum TOKYO, had joined his former henchmen. Some mistrust and his failure with Shin [=M2K=] drove him to become heel again with Aagan Iisou, but he repented and returned again, and he has been on/off on the job through the years until today.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Although the heel Mochizuki was more of a disenchanted hero than a cackling villain, he was still unable to notice that the Crazy MAX guys were TrueCompanions who would follow each other to any direction of the moral compass, while in contrast his own [=M2K=] wrestlers were essentially mercenaries without any real loyalty to him. This came back to bite him on his ass when he underwent an epyphany and tried to turn his group into a new face unit like his own actions had pushed Crazy MAX into being.

* EvilIsNotAToy: He discovered it himself when Kanda, Susumu and Darkness Dragon, the three wrestlers he had personally recruited to counter Crazy MAX because they were even more wicked than CIMA and company (as well as Horiguchi, a new ally), turned on him when he vowed to drop his beef and become more heroic.
* ExtremityExtremist: Downplayed. His offense consists primarily (though not at all exclusively) of karate-style kicks.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Kenichiro Arai had to defeat Mochizuki in a match to force him into stopping trying to recreate his old glory days with unfit replacements in Shin [=M2K=].
* GoneHorriblyRight: In his bitter enmity with Crazy MAX, Mochizuki resolved to utilize wrestlers and tactics so brutal that they made his enemies look heroic underdogs in comparison, and he suceeded by forming [=M2K=]. The only thing is that they turned on him at the moment he lost their respect.
* GrumpyOldMan: Especially when facing younger talent.

** Mochizuki was aware that he was allied to two anarchists, an evil dragon and a rogue surfer vandal when he returned to [=M2K=] from his 2001 hiatus; what he got wrong was the belief that he held enough influence over them to make them turn their moral codes upside down at his whim, as they actually only obeyed him because his experience and fighting skill made him a good leader. As it is natural, the [=M2K=] guys became appaled that he tried to make them a heroic unit, so they kicked him out and replaced him with the much eviler Wrestling/MagnumTOKYO. (However, he would be proven right at long term, as his former friends would eventually discover some nostalgia for his leadership and helped him to form Shin [=M2K=] and Final [=M2K=].

* NobleDemon: He remains a serene, honorable fighter whenever he turns heel, which has gained him a couple betrayals due to the scoundrels he sometimes associates himself with.

Masaaki Mochizuki (b. 1964) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er, best known by his work in Toryumon and Wrestling/DragonGate. Originally a UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} fighter, he fell in love with professional wrestling thanks to Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada, becoming a shoot-style wrestler under Wrestling/KojiKitao and debuting as part of his entourage in Wrestling/GenichiroTenryu's Wrestle Association R. After building some career in WAR, Battlarts and Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, he landed on Wrestling/UltimoDragon's Wrestling/{{Toryumon}} circuit, which soon became his home. Masaaki was initially a sore thumb in Toryumon, a stern shooter who preferred to kick people in the head rather than playing their lucharesu game, and this was his gimmick for a most of the conflict between the babyfaces of the company and the heel faction Crazy MAX. However, one day Masaaki decided he was tired of everybody, so he recruited two anarchists named Yasushi Kanda and Susumu Mochizuki (no relation) and created [=M2K=], the nastiest stable in all the promotion. Their presence and wild attacks ended up turning Crazy MAX into heroes, and this gave birth to a gang war that lasted through years and eventually outlasted Toryumon itself, leading to the birth of the new company Dragon Gate. Mochizuki has remained one of the promotion's aces from then, trusting on his experience and toughness to teach respect to the new generations, and that's what he does now.

* ArchEnemy: CIMA and Wrestling/MagnumTOKYO.

* ExtremityExtremist: His offense consists primarily (though not at all exclusively) of karate-style kicks.
* GrumpyOldMan: Especially when facing the younger talent.

* AscendedFanboy: Was a Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada fanboy, and his moveset and its moves' names are based in Takada.

Masaaki Mochizuki (b. 1964) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er, best known by his work in Toryumon and Wrestling/DragonGate. Originally a UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} fighter, he fell in love with professional wrestling thanks to Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada and sought to be like him, becoming a shoot-style wrestler under Wrestling/KojiKitao and debuting as part of his entourage in Wrestling/GenichiroTenryu's Wrestle Association R. After building some career in WAR, Battlarts and Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, he landed on Wrestling/UltimoDragon's Toryumon circuit, which soon became his home. Masaaki was initially a sore thumb in Toryumon, a stern shooter who preferred to kick people in the head rather than playing their lucharesu game, and this was his gimmick for a most of the conflict between the babyfaces of the company and the heel faction Crazy MAX. However, one day Masaaki decided he was tired of everybody, so he recruited two anarchists named Yasushi Kanda and Susumu Mochizuki (no relation) and created [=M2K=], the nastiest stable in all the promotion. Their presence and wild attacks ended up turning Crazy MAX into heroes, and this gave birth to a gang war that lasted through years and eventually outlasted Toryumon itself, leading to the birth of the new company Dragon Gate. Mochizuki has remained one of the promotion's aces from then, trusting on his experience and toughness to teach respect to the new generations, and that's what he does now.