yeah his nickname is just "burning spirit"

I'm pretty sure he's fictional. The only post I found addressing his origin was also listing a few fictional characters. No idea if he was like a mascot or made by one of the editors or a member of the magazine staff or a contest or what, but.... yeah, looks like he was an intentionally low-key fictional character.

I saw exactly ONE mention of him as part of a news blurb referring to a Dorimaga wrestling league called "GWP" but it didn't go into detail, didn't mention him in the article itself, and I can't find anything else on GWP.

Yeah, that's really helpful. I appreciate the detective work.

When I did a translation with an app, I got "windmill; wind, air, style, manner" for the name, which I assumed was wrong, but I guess not. For the nickname, I got "phosphorous, to burn, to get fired up" which could just be a reference to Fire Pro.

I don't think it will help but the other people in the pack were: Randy Couture, Mark Coleman, Akira Shoji, Steve Wright, Barry Windham (possibly), Wolf from Virtua Fighter, Valentijn Overeem, Vanderlei Da Silva. and a mystery video game or anime character.

sorry for spamming replies, I found two references to this guy on the internet. Kazaguruma Riron seems to be the name (though I suppose I could check for alternate readings, if I remember how), whoever he is he apparently has some relation to the defunct gaming magazine "Dorimaga", according to a 2ch post from 2001.

I'll see if I can find any other message board posts about this guy, I have no idea how to navigate these 2ch archives.

(The other one was a mention in a news article from 2004 about Yuke's "Online Pro Wrestling", which doesn't check out in the timeline.)

who else was on this save? I might be able to dig something up with some of that info. Doubt it but, eh.

his name (風車 理論 / Kazaguruma Riron?) translates to "Windmill Theory," which is a theory espoused by Antonio Inoki about selling and realism. I couldn't figure out his nickname (it's "soul of" something) because I'm not actually good at Japanese and couldn't read the first character clearly enough to look it up.

I don't know if that helps, but it DOES make me lean towards either a fictional edit or someone HOPELESSLY obscure (like a go-nowhere Inoki prospect or something)

Based on the 9/7 date of birth, it's Molly Holly. Yeah, I got nothing.

Maybe it's just one of the developers.