El Desperado (wrestler)
Kyosuke Mikami (三上 恭佑, Mikami Kyōsuke, born December 29, 1983), better known by his ring name El Desperado (エル・デスペラード, Eru Desuperādo), is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a former three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion. He was a member of the Suzuki-gun stable from 2014 until its disbandment in 2022.
| El Desperado | |
|---|---|
Mikami as El Desperado in May 2017 | |
| Birth name | Kyosuke Mikami |
| Born | December 29, 1983 Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | El Desperado Kyosuke Mikami Namajague |
| Billed height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) |
| Billed weight | 90 kg (198 lb) |
| Trained by | NJPW Dojo Koji Kanemoto Jado |
| Debut | March 7, 2010 |
Mikami was trained by the NJPW dojo and worked for NJPW for two years as a Young Lion. In 2012, he traveled to Mexico for a learning excursion, working for NJPW's Mexican affiliate Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as the masked character Namajague, a Spanish translation of Namahage, a Japanese folk demon. While in CMLL, he won his first professional wrestling title alongside Okumura, the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship, in March 2013. After being unmasked due to losing a match and briefly working without one, Mikami returned to NJPW in January 2014 and was repackaged under another mask as El Desperado. During his time with Suzuki-gun, he is a former two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and a four-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion (alongside Yoshinobu Kanemaru).