TIGER MASK
(SATURO SAYAMA)
 
born: November 27, 1957
Tokyo, Japan
Pro debut:1977 (aged 19)
5'5" 175 lbs
Sayama, had a very good training period, wrestling in New Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom.....Upon his return to Japan, New Japan booker, Hisashi Shinma chose him to portray the famous cartoon character, this is where he got the chance to show his incredible footspeed and the Lucha style he had adopted.

Tiger Mask made his debut on April 13th 1981and was an immediate success. After having a series of matches with Tommy Billington(The DynamiteKid) to get him over with the fans, he went on to win the WWF Junior heavyweight title and the very next night proceeded to pin Les Thornton for the NWA junior heavyweight title(May 24th and 25th 1982).

The copyright for the Tiger Mask character was sold to an opposing wrestling organisation, this meant that Sayama had to hand in the mask that had brought him his great popularity, his replacement , MItshara Misawa, although no slouch, just wasn't the Tiger Mask everyone knew, in 1985, Sayama then went to wrestle for the UWF in japan, as firstly the Tiger then Super Tiger.
One night whilst wrestling Akira Maeda, things got  a tad nasty as Maeda began to "shoot"
Maeda was then DQ'D and to my knowledge Saturo Sayama  has not been seen in wrestling ring since.

Saturo Sayama
 
 
 
Tiger Maskless and "Lionheart"