T-Hawk

Takuya Onodera (小野寺卓也), best known by the ring name T-Hawk (shortened from Tomahawk T.T.), is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for Gleat, where he is the current G-Rex Champion in his first reign.

He is best known for competing in Dragon Gate and Oriental Wrestling Entertainment, where, in both, he worked alongside Cima and El Lindaman; all three are now collective in the #STRONGHEARTS stable in Gleat.

He is also known for his work with Mexican promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG).

Onodera trained for his professional wrestling career at the NEX wrestling school, which is associated with the Japanese promotion Dragon Gate.

Upon his professional wrestling debut on March 29, 2010 he adopted the ring name Takuya Tomakomai after his hometown.

He lost his debut match to Dragon Gate veteran Super Shisa.

Over the following months Tomakomai wrestled in low card matches, gaining ring experience as he developed his wrestling skills further.

On September 16, 2010, Tomakomai made an appearance for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, teaming with Yohei Nakajima in a tag team match at NEVER.2, where they were defeated by Taichi and Tomoaki Honma.

In 2011 he had built a reputation of being a promising wrestler who used a very powerful knife edge chop as his signature move.

The reputation led to the Dragon Gate group "Junction Three" offering him a spot on their team.

The offer was turned down in favor of another Dragon Gate group called "Blood Warriors".

Tomakomai changed his ring image and name, transforming himself into a face painted, silent "warrior" known as Tomahawk T.T. In his debut he teamed Gamma as the team lost to Shingo Takagi and Yamato.

His refusal to join Junction Three led to a feud between the two factions that spanned several months until a 7-man team from Blood Warriors defeated a 7-man team of Junction Three forcing the losing group to disband per the match stipulation.

His reputation for his knife edge chops was put on the line as Dragon Gate arranged a "King of Chop" tournament in April 2012.

The tournament was decided by fan applause after each wrestler chopped their opponent once.

Tomahawk T.T. advanced to the finals of the tournament but was defeated by Eita Kobayashi.

In January 2012, Naoki Tanizaki from Tomahawk's group had been sidelined with a shoulder injury.

The injury led to Dragon Gate taking the Open the Triangle Gate Championship away from the group.

A few weeks later, Tomahawk T.T. began working as "Naoki Tanisaki" (written as "谷崎なおき" instead of "谷嵜直樹", romanized with an "s" instead of a "z" in the last name), adopting his moveset, attire and wearing fake tattoos to look more like the original.

Blood Warriors claimed he was the real Naoki returning early from injury, but the slight change in spelling of the last name was used to indicate that Tanisaki was an impostor.

In the early parts of 2012 the group changed its name from Blood Warriors to "Mad Blankey".

Tanisaki and B×B Hulk won the Open the Twin Gate Championship on June 10, 2012 when they defeated Jimmyz (Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu).

Mad Blankey would only hold the championship for 7 days before losing them back to Jimmyz in a match that also included a team called Windows (K-Ness and Kenichiro Arai).

When the original Tanizaki returned from his injury he started a feud with the impostor who "stole his name", joining the Jimmyz group.

The Mad Blankey team of Tanisaki, B×B Hulk and Akira Tozawa competed in Dragon Gate's 2012 Summer Adventure Tag League, which they won by defeating the teams of Jimmyz (Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee, Naoki Tanizaki and Ryo "Jimmy" Saito), Windows (Kenichiro Arai, Super Shisa and Syachihoko Boy) and finally Kaettekita Veteran-gun (Don Fujii, Dragon Kid and Masaaki Mochizuki).

With their victory, Mad Blankey also won the Open the Triangle Gate Championship.

Tomahawk joined fellow young Dragon Gate wrestler Eita who had been on an extended training stay since mid-2012.

On September 23, 2013 Mad Blankey defended the Open the Triangle Gate Championship against the Jimmyz Group of Horiguci, Saito and Tanizaki, with the added stipulation that if Mad Blankey won the match they would also win the rights to the "Naoki Tanizaki" name.

Mad Blankey won the match and thus the rights to the name.

After the match, the defeated former-Tanizaki wanted to rename himself to Naoki Jimmy, but the victorious Tanisaki claimed the right to choose Tanizaki's new name.

Saying that Tanizaki's whining and crying reminded him of the "kyu kyu" noise a dolphin makes, he renamed Tanizaki to Mr. Kyu Kyu Toyonaka Dolphin.

On October 21, 2013 Mad Blankey lost the Triangle Gate championship to the team of Gamma, Hub and Magnitude Kishiwada.

The feud between the current and the former Naoki Tanizaki saw "Mr. Kyu Kyu Toyonaka Dolphin" win the 2013 New Year Dragon Scramble match over, among others, Naoki Tanisaki.

A few weeks later the two faced off in a "loser leaves town" match, which initially saw Tanisaki win, only to have an immediate rematch take place with the same stipulation, won by Yoyonaka Dolphin, negating the results of the earlier match and giving Naoki Tanizaki the rights back to his name.

He also renamed the fake Tanisaki "Mr. Pii Pii Tomakomai Penguin".

The rivalry culminated on February 11, when the Jimmyz defeated Mad Blankey in a five-on-five elimination tag team match, as a result of which Penguin was exiled from Dragon Gate.

After the match, Tanizaki shook hands with Penguin and offered to team with him in the future.

Tanizaki then also fought off Mad Blankey, when they turned on Penguin for losing the match.

On February 15, Penguin teamed with Tanizaki, who worked as "Mr. Kyu Kyu Naoki Tanizaki Toyonaka Dolphin", in a tag team match, where the two lost to Akira Tozawa and B×B Hulk.

Following one last match in Dragon Gate he traveled to Mexico to work for Dragon Gate's affiliated promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), working as "Tomahawk".