Keiji Takayama, born on February 20th, 1969 is better known as Gedo, a long time professional wrestler. Gedo debuted in the parody of WWF's "Rock 'n Wrestling", Takeshi Puroresu Gundan (TPG). Gedo had his debut match against Monkey Magic Wakita who would later be known as Super Delfin on March 19th, 1989. After TPG died out, Gedo, Jado and Delfin left NJPW. Jado and Gedo would become one of the premiere tag teams in Japan.

Jado and Gedo headed to UWA in Mexico as Punish (Jado) and Crush (Gedo) and defeated Silver King and El Texano for the Intercontinental Tag Team titles on November 8th, 1991. They would win these belts on two more occasions in 1992. Jado and Gedo headed to WAR in 1994 and became one of the top tag teams there, winning the WAR 6 man tag team titles with Kodo Fuyuki defeating Tenryu, Animal Hamaguchi & Koki Kitahara on June 6th, 1994. Gedo would win this belt four more times throughout 1994, 1995 and 1996.

Gedo, with the addition of being a great tag team wrestler, was also one of the top junior heavyweights in Japan. Gedo reached the semi finals of the 1994 Super J Cup where he would lose to Wild Peagsus (Chris Benoit). Gedo was in the 1995 Super J Cup and reached the finals, losing to Jushin Liger in the finals in his 4th match of the night. Gedo won his first singles title when he defeated Lionheart (Chris Jericho) for the WAR International Junior Heavyweight title on March 26th, 1995. Gedo would win this belt again later down the year, defeating Ultimo Dragon for it.

Jado and Gedo left WAR which was declining and headed to FMW, one of Japans top independent promotions. Gedo with Jado and Kodo Fuyuki won the FMW World Street Fight 6 Man Tag Team titles defeating The Headhunters & Hisakatsu Oya on March 21st, 1997. It was in 1997 that Gedo would tour North America, appearing in WCW Halloween Havoc wrestling Chris Jericho and winning the Rocky Mountain North American Mid-Heavyweight title defeating Ricky Fuji on August 31st, 1997.

Gedo would win the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team titles not with Jado but with Koji Nakagawa when they defeated Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda on June 13th, 1999. Gedo would leave the declining FMW and wrestled in independent promotion WEW where he would win their 6 man tag team titles with Fuyuki and Nakagawa and another reign with the belt with Jado and Nakagawa, both in 1999. Gedo would have many tag team title reigns in WEW before he headed back to NJPW in 2001 and won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight tag team titles with Jado when they defeated Jushin Liger and El Samurai on July 20th, 2001.. Gedo had a fierece rivarly with Liger after Jado and Gedo made a surprise appearance in NJPW when both unmasked Liger.

Jado and Gedo would win the IWGP Jr. Hvywght belts again in 2003, beating Liger and Samurai again. Gedo has received a lot of criticsm for being a poor wrestler in the 90's. A lot of this was fueled because Gedo advanced far in the Super J Cups, a tournament featuring Japans best Junior Heavyweights. Many felt that Gedo should have lost very early as there were better wrestlers. Gedo was also flabby in the 90's and was mocked heavily in the internet for that. Gedo is in much better shape today and is a very entertaining wrestler, being able to play a face and a heel well. Gedo is scheduled to wrestle in TNA's 2006 X World Cup as a part of Team Japan along with Jushin Liger, Black Tiger and Minoru Tanaka.

Debut: March 19th, 1989

Championships and accomplishments

• BJW

• 1-time BJW Tag Team Champion (w/Jado)

  • Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling

• 1-time FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champion (w/Koji Nakagawa)

• 1-time FMW World Street Fight Six Man Tag Team Champion (w/Hiromichi Fuyuki & Jado)
  • IWGP

• 2-time IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champion (w/Jado)

  • UWA

• 4-time UWA Intercontinental Tag Team Champion (Two times w/Punish, one time w/Pat Tanaka, and one time w/Dick Togo)

  • WAR

• 2-time WAR International Jr. Heavyweight Champion

• 1-time WAR International Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team titles (w/Lionheart)
• 6-time WAR Six Man Tag Team Champion (w/Hiromichi Fuyuki & Jado)
  • World Entertainment Wrestling

• 1-time WEW Hardcore Tag Team Champion (w/Jado)

• 5-time WEW Six Man Tag Team Champion (One time w/Kodo Fuyuki & Koji Nakagawa and one time w/Koji Nakagawa & Jado)
• 3-time WEW Tag Team titles (One time w/Koji Nakagawa, one time w/Kado, and one time w/Masato Tanaka)
  • Other

• 1-time Rocky Mountain North American Mid-Heavyweight

External links

• Gedo on ObsessedWithWrestling.com

• Japanese professional wrestlers