Milano Collection A.T.

Milano Collection A.T.
Ring name(s)	Milano Collection A.T. Masked Italiano
Billed height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Billed weight	85 kg (190 lb)
Born	August 27, 1976 (1976-08-27) (age 35) Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Trained by	Jorge "Skayde" Rivera Último Dragón Rudy Boy Gonzalez(Texas Wrestling Academy)
Debut	May 13, 2000
Retired	January 18th, 2010

Akihito Terui (born August 27, 1976), also known as Milano Collection A.T., is a Japanese retired professional wrestler.

Career

Terui made his debut in 2000 in Toryumon, and gained success. He later adopted the persona of Milano Collection A.T. (A.T. being his initials; compare Magnum T.A. in the United States) to achieve greater success and attract attention from many, and upon his landing in Japan, he was the ace of Toryumon's T2P class. His gimmick is that of an Italian fashion aficionado/supermodel, wearing lavish coats and trunks and showing his outrageousness with an invisible dog named Mikeru. In mid 2006, he surfaced at the Texas Wrestling Academy in San Antonio, Texas at the urging of World Wrestling Entertainment's Shoichi Funaki, and trained under Rudy Boy Gonzalez. During his tenure in the TWA, he held the Television Championship for 8 months. He has wrestled for many other American wrestling federations, including East Coast Wrestling Association, Ring of Honor, NWA Anarchy, and Chikara. His legitimacy as a wrestler was proven full-force in 2007 when he won New Japan Pro Wrestling's Best of the Super Juniors tournament.

He worked for New Japan Pro Wrestling as a part of the R.I.S.E. faction. He competed in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's World X Cup as a part of Team Japan, winning his first and only singles match for TNA against Curry Man, gaining 2 points for his team.^[1] He then competed at Victory Road in the third round, which was a four team triple elimination match, dominating early in the match before getting eliminated.^[2]

On January 18, 2010, Terui announced his retirement from the professional wrestling because of inferior oblique palsy. A retirement ceremony was held on February 14.

In wrestling

• Finishing moves

• AT Lock (Headscissors armbar)
• IR – Italian Revolution (Cut–throat wrist–clutch bridging fisherman suplex)
• IR II – Italian Revolution II (Double hammerlock belly to back inverted mat slam)
• Paradise Lock (Over–rotated Delfin clutch)
• Victoria Milanese (Bridging leg hook saito suplex)

• Signature moves

• Armani Shoe Exchange (Middle rope springboard corkscrew senton)
• Emporio Armani Shoe (Middle rope springboard moonsault)
• Enzuigiri
• Super Kick to a kneeling opponent
• Handspring back elbow smash
• Milan–Gatame (Snapmare floated over into a modified cradle)
• Standing STF

Championships and accomplishments

• Dragon Gate

• Dragon Gate Open the Triangle Gate Championship (1 time) – with YOSSINO and Anthony W. Mori

• NWA Florida

• Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup (2006)

• New Japan Pro Wrestling

• Best of the Super Juniors (2007)

• Toryumon

• NWA International Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• UWA World Trios Championship (4 times) – with Brother YASSINI and YOSSINO (2), and YOSSINO and Condotti Shuji (2)
• T2P Strongest League (2002)
• Young Dragons Cup (2000)

• Other

• ICW/ICWA Tex-Arkana Television Championship (1 time)

References

1. ^ Sokol, Bryan (2008-07-04). "Impact: Bad dates and Sting's return". SLAM! Sports. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2008/07/04/6065381.html. Retrieved 2009-04-06. 
2. ^ Kapur, Bob (2008-07-13). "Main event mars Victory Road". SLAM! Sports. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/PPVReports/2008/07/13/6147126.html. Retrieved 2009-04-06. 

External links

Professional wrestling portal

Persondata
Name	Milano Collection A.T.; Masked Italiano
Alternative names	Terui, Akihito
Short description	Professional wrestler
Date of birth	August 27, 1976
Place of birth	Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Date of death
Place of death