Kyosuke Mikami
Born: 1983-12-29 in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
Kyosuke Mikami, better known by his ring name El Desperado, is a Japanese professional wrestler who debuted in 2010 and is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). After joining Suzuki-gun in 2011, he established himself as one of the promotion's defining junior heavyweights, winning the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship five times, the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship four times with Yoshinobu Kanemaru, and the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship alongside Minoru Suzuki and Ren Narita. Following the end of Suzuki-gun in 2022, El Desperado reached new heights by winning the 2024 Best of the Super Juniors after previously capturing the 2021 Super Junior Tag League with Kanemaru. His success has also earned him recognition outside Japan, ranking No. 39 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated's PWI 500 in both 2022 and 2025.
Filmography
2026
- NJPW Dominion 6.14 In Osaka-Jo Hall 2026 as El Desperado
- NJPW Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XIX ~Aogi Futotsu~ as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 36 - Day 19 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 36 - Day 18 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2026 - Day 12 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 6 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Year Dash !! 2026 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 11 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 4 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 8 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to Sakura Genesis 2026 - Day 5 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 4 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 5 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to Sakura Genesis 2026 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 9 as El Desperado
- NJPW Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVII ~ Aoyi Transition ~ as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 12 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Road in Karatsu 2026 ~ Ignition to Dominion as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to Sakura Genesis 2026 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVIII as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 7 as El Desperado
- NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 10 as El Desperado
- NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 5 as El Desperado
- NJPW Tiger Mask's Retirement Match as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 9 as El Desperado
- GCW: Gringo Loco's The WRLD on Lucha 2026 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 7 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 8 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to Sakura Genesis 2026 - Day 4 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 14 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2026 - Day 11 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 10 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to G1 Climax 36 - Day 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to Sakura Genesis 2026 - Day 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to G1 Climax 36 - Day 6 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 13 as El Desperado
- NJPW Death Vegas Invitational as El Desperado
- NJPW Sakura Genesis 2026 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to G1 Climax 36 - Day 4 as El Desperado
- Stardom Cinderella Tournament 2026 ~Quarterfinal Round~ as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to G1 Climax 36 - Day 5 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning USA 2026 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to G1 Climax 36 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to G1 Climax 36 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20 as El Desperado
- NJPW Vs. DDT: Toru Yano vs. Super Sasadango Machine, Part 2 as El Desperado
- MLW & NJPW Present CMLL Fantastica Mania USA 2026 as El Desperado
- SENJO 20th Anniversary Show in Korakuen Hall as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to Destruction 2026 - Day 1 as El Desperado
2025
- NJPW x AEW x CMLL x ROH x STARDOM: Wrestle Dynasty as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 17 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to Tokyo Dome 2025 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to Tokyo Dome 2025 - Day 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to Tokyo Dome 2025 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2025 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 14 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 15 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 19 as El Desperado
- NJPW 53rd Anniversary Event as El Desperado
- Starlight Kid 10th Anniversary ~ Kid Family in Crisis!? as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 16 as El Desperado
- TJPW Summer Sun Princess '25 as El Desperado
- NJPW Tanahashi Jam as El Desperado
- NJPW New Year Dash!! 2025 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Soul 2025 - Day 8 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 10 as El Desperado
- NJPW Battle in the Valley 2025 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 35: Day 19 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 6 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Redzone in Hiroshima as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Road in Ishikari 2025 as El Desperado
- NJPW Death Pain Invitational as El Desperado
- NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to King of Pro-Wrestling 2025 - Day 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVI as El Desperado
- NJPW Blue Justice XV - Wrestling Life 40th Anniversary Yuji Nagata as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2025 - Day 9 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 9 as El Desperado
- NJPW Destruction In Kobe 2025 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to King of Pro-Wrestling 2025 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 5 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 6 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 4 as El Desperado
- AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door 2025 - Zero Hour as El Desperado
- NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 5 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 8 as El Desperado
- NJPW Hiroshi Tanahashi ~ Final Homecoming as El Desperado
- NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 4 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 11 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to King of Pro-Wrestling 2025 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 8 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 35: Day 18 as El Desperado
- NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 7 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 7 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 12 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Road in Anjo 2025 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to King of Pro-Wrestling 2025 - Day 4 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2025 - Day 13 as El Desperado
- NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 1 as El Desperado
2024
- NJPW Dominion 6.9 In Osaka-Jo Hall ~ Best of the Super Junior 31 Final ~ 2024 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2024 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2024 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2024 - Night 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW x STARDOM: Historic X-Over II as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18 as El Desperado
- NJPW 52nd Anniversary Event & New Japan Cup 2024 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 7 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning in Nagoya as El Desperado
- DESPE invitacional as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2024 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Year Dash!! 2024 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2024 - Night 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 6 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 5 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW Sakura Genesis 2024 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 4 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 3 as El Desperado
2023
- NJPW Road to Sakura Genesis 2023 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Royal Quest III as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17: Night 1 in Tokyo Dome as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 4 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17: Night 2 in Yokohama Arena as El Desperado
- IMPACT Wrestling x NJPW: Multiverse United 2: For Whom The Bell Tolls as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2023 as El Desperado
- NJPW Capital Collision 2023 as El Desperado
- All Together Again as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2023 as El Desperado
- NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2023 as El Desperado
- NJPW Sakura Genesis 2023 as El Desperado
- NJPW Collision in Philadelphia as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2023 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 16 as El Desperado
- NJPW Destruction In Ryogoku 2023 as El Desperado
- AEW x NJPW Present Forbidden Door 2023: Zero Hour as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 19 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW 51st Anniversary Event & New Japan Cup 2023: Day 2 as El Desperado
- GCW Cage of Survival 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 17 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 15 as El Desperado
- GCW Tournament of Survival 8 as El Desperado
2022
- NJPW Dominion 6.12 In Osaka-Jo Hall 2022 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 15 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW Battle Autumn 2022 - Day 16 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 14 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 13 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 7 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 8 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 9 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 6 as El Desperado
- NJPW x STARDOM: Historic X-Over as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 10 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 11 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 12 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 2 as El Desperado
- AEW x NJPW Presents Forbidden Door 2022: The Buy-In as El Desperado
- JTO TAKA Michinoku Debut 30th Anniversary: TAKATaichiDespeMania as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 10 as El Desperado
- NJPW Royal Quest II - Night 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Declaration of Power as El Desperado
- NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 9 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 6 as El Desperado
- JTO 50th Anniversary for TAKATaichi Together ~ Last TAKATaichi as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2022 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 14 as El Desparado
- NJPW Music City Mayhem as El Desperado
- NJPW & NOAH: Wrestle Kingdom 16 - Night 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW Royal Quest II - Night 2 as El Desperado
2021
- NJPW Dominion 6.6 in Osaka-jo Hall 2021 as El Desperado
- NJPW Castle Attack 2021 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam In Tokyo Dome as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2021 - Day 9 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15: Night 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW 49th Anniversary Show as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 13 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 19 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW New Year Dash !! 2021 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2021 - Night 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning in Hiroshima 2021 - Night 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning in Hiroshima 2021 - Night 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam in MetLife Dome: Night 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Power Struggle 2021 as El Desperado
- NJPW Sakura Genesis 2021 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 12 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 11 as El Desperado
2020
- NJPW Dominion 7.12 in Osaka-Jo Hall 2020 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 5 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 6 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 7 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Year Dash !! 2020 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2020 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 19 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2020 as El Desperado
- NJPW Summer Struggle In Jingu as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Sengoku Lord in Nagoya as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2020 - Day 9 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2020 - Day 1 as El Desperado
2019
- All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite as Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 13 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2019 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW 47th Anniversary Show as El Desperado
- NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2019 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Year Dash !! 2019 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2019 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2019 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2019 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2019 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Showdown San Jose as Kyosuke Mikami
2018
- NJPW Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall 2018 as El Desperado
- RevPro Uprising 2018 as El Desperado
- NJPW Best of the Super Junior 25 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2018 - Night 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2018 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW Power Struggle 2018 ~ Super Junior Tag League 2018 Final as El Desperado
- NJPW Sakura Genesis 2018 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 18 as El Desperado
- NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2018 as El Desperado
- NJPW Destruction in Hiroshima 2018 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2018 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2018 - Night 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 10 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 19 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 6 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Year Dash !! 2018 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 8 as El Desperado
- NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2018 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka 2018 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 4 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2018 - Day 4 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2018 - Day 3 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2018 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW 46th Anniversary Show as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 16 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 14 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2018 - Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 12 as El Desperado
2017
- NJPW Destruction in Hiroshima 2017 as El Desperado
- NJPW Power Struggle 2017 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 18 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 17 as El Desperado
- NJPW Sakura Genesis 2017 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2017 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 19 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 12 as El Desperado
- NJPW 45th Anniversary Show as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 6 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2017 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 4 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 5 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 13 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 8 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 15 as El Desperado
- NJPW Wrestling Toyonokuni 2017 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 11 as El Desperado
- NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2017 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 16 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 10 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 14 as El Desperado
- RevPro & NJPW: Global Wars UK 2017 - Night 1 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2017 - Day 2 as El Desperado
- RevPro & NJPW: Global Wars UK 2017 - Night 2 as El Desperado
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2017 - Day 1 as El Desperado
2015
- NJPW New Year Dash !! 2015 as El Desperado
2014
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2014 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning in Hiroshima 2014 as El Desperado
- NJPW Power Struggle 2014 as El Desperado
- NJPW Road To Tokyo Dome - Day 6 as El Desperado
- NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2014 as El Desperado
- NJPW World Tag League 2014 - Day 11 as El Desperado
- NJPW G1 Climax 24: Day 12 (Final) as El Desperado
- NJPW Back to the Yokohama Arena as El Desperado
- NJPW Invasion Attack 2014 as El Desperado
- NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2014 as El Desperado
- NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2014 as El Desperado
2012
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 6 as Kyosuke Mikami
2011
- Stardom on Stardom World as El Desperado
2005
- NJPW New Japan Cup as El Desperado
1972
- New Japan Pro Wrestling as El Desperado