Super Shisa

Okay, "Super Shisa" — I'll be honest, the name alone stopped me cold. Shisa are those fierce lion-dog guardian statues all over Okinawa, and you'd assume anyone carrying that name was born somewhere tropical. Nope. This guy is from Mombetsu-gun, Hokkaido — deep in the cold, wide-open east of Japan, about as far from Okinawa as you can get on the same island chain. That gap between the name and the origin is genuinely funny and kind of perfect for pro wrestling, where mystique and mismatch are half the game.

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Super Shisa (ring name; surname SAITO) is a Japanese professional wrestler born on April 9, 1970, in Monbetsu District, Hokkaido, Japan. He competes under the ring name Super Shisa, a name evoking the Okinawan shisa guardian lion, despite his origins in the far north of Japan. He debuted in Mexico in July 1994, wrestled for Toryumon and was with Dragon Gate from its inception until April 2022; he now works as a freelancer and also runs a restaurant.

Name (English)

Super Shisa

Name (Japanese)

SAITO

Reading

さいとー

Born

April 9, 1970 (age 56)

Origin

Monbetsu District, Hokkaido, Japan

Occupation

Professional Wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dog

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAITO
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4455615

Tags

• From Hokkaido
• Professional Wrestler

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.