Kai En Tai

Kai En Tai (also spelled Kaientai) was a professional wrestling stable made up of Japanese wrestlers: Funaki, Dick Togo and Mens Teioh, later joined by Taka Michinoku. The group was managed by Yamaguchi-san when they were in the WWF (now WWE).

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Professional wrestling - Stable - Japanese - Funaki - Dick Togo - Mens Teioh - Taka Michinoku - Managed - Yamaguchi-san - WWF

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The group debuted in Japan's Michinoku Pro wrestling promotion in late 1994 when SATO, Terry Boy and Shiryu introduced themselves as Kai En Tai. They had many high profile tag team matches before two of them changed their names; SATO became Dick Togo, Terry Boy became Mens Teioh while Shiryu's name remained unchanged. The stable's name was also changed to Kaientai Deluxe, or Kaientai DX for short. They would later be joined by Taka Michinoku and Funaki as new members.

Related Topics:
Michinoku Pro - Promotion - Shiryu - Tag team

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Kai En Tai (with the exception of Shiryu, who was in WCW as Kaz Hayashi) made their first appearance in the WWF in 1998, now known only as Kaientai because WWF already had a stable named DX. They attacked Taka Michinoku -- who signed with the WWF much earlier -- for unknown reasons, and their alliance with Taka in Japan was not mentioned. Kaientai was originally referred to by the announcers as Club Kamikaze, but Yamaguchi-san announced their actual name upon his arrival shortly afterwards.

Related Topics:
WCW - DX

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Their most infamous WWF feud was with Val Venis, who had a porn star gimmick at the time. Yamaguchi was enraged when he was shown a pornographic video of his (onscreen) wife, sleeping with Venis, and threatened to punish both of them. Mrs Yamaguchi-San was brought to the ring for what was going to be a spanking by Yamaguchi-san using a wooden paddle, but she was rescued by Venis. A week later, just as Venis had finished a match, Yamaguchi and Kaientai showed up with a salami on a table. Yamaguchi proceeded to cut the salami in two using a katana while shouting at Venis, "I choppy choppy your pee pee!"

Related Topics:
Feud - Val Venis - Porn star - Gimmick - Mrs Yamaguchi-San - Spanking - Katana - Pee pee

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The following week, Venis teamed up with Taka Michinoku to take on Togo and Teioh in a tag team match. However, Taka made a swerve by turning against Venis, proclaiming that Mrs Yamaguchi-San was his sister. Venis was dragged backstage by Kaientai to be castrated, though the audience did not see what happened next. Venis returned after a week, explained that Yamaguchi's sword narrowly missed his genitalia, broke up his relationship with Mrs Yamaguchi-San and thus ended the feud.

Related Topics:
Swerve - Castrated - Genitalia

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After Togo, Teioh and Yamaguchi left the WWF, Michinoku and Funaki began wrestling as a tag team using the name Kai En Tai. They were primarily comedy jobbers, best known for their "Indeed!" skits in which voices in English were dubbed into their promos while they lip-synched, and Michinoku eventually left the WWF. He now runs a promotion called Kaientai Dojo (or K-Dojo). Funaki remained in the WWF, finding a niche as part of the SmackDown! crusierweight division and as a backstage interviewer.

Related Topics:
Jobbers - Promos - SmackDown!

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