is a Japanese

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currently working for the Japanese promotion

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where he is the current World Junior Heavyweight Champion in his first reign.

Professional wrestling career

Japanese independent scene (2019-present)

Aoyagi seldomly competes for several promotions from the Japanese independent scene. At ''

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G PROWRESTLING Ver. 12'' on December 8, 2021, he teamed up with Musashi, falling short to Coelacanths ( Kaz Hayashi and Minoru Tanaka). At Pro Wrestling Zero1's ''20th and 21st Anniversary'' event from April 10, 2022, he defeated Takumi Baba. At ''Korakuen Hall 60th Anniversary Festival'', a cross-over event held by AJPW in partnership with New Japan Pro Wrestling on April 16, 2022, Aoyagi teamed up with Yuma Aoyagi and

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( Togi Makabe and

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) in a losing effort against

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( Bushi, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito).

All Japan Pro Wrestling (2019-present)

Aoyagi is best known for competing in

, promotion in which he has also made his

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debut on January 2, 2019, on the first night of the ''AJPW New Year's Wars'' where he first competed in a 15-man battle royal won by Jake Lee and also involving notable opponents such as Gianni Valletta, Atsushi Aoki, Masanobu Fuchi,

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, Kotaro Suzuki and Osamu Nishimura, and secondly in a tag team match in which he paired up with Dan Tamura in a losing effort against Hikaru Sato and Atsushi Aoki. At ''AJPW Raising An Army Memorial Series 2021'' on October 31, he teamed up with his "Nextream" stablemate Yuma Aoyagi to unsuccessfully challenge Strong Hearts (

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and T-Hawk) for the All Asia Tag Team Championship. On the seventh night of the 2021 World's Strongest Tag Determination League from November 28, Aoyagi unsuccessfully challenged Tajiri for the MLW World Middleweight Championship. At ''AJPW 50th Anniversary'' on September 18, 2022, Aoyagi defeated Tiger Mask to win the World Junior Heavyweight Championship. Aoyagi is known for competing in various of the promotion's signature events such as the AJPW Junior Tag League, making his first appearance at the 2020 edition where he teamed up with Raising Hayato and defeated Black Menso~re and SUSHI in the first rounds, Jin ( Koji Iwamoto and

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in the semifinals, but fell short to Evolution ( Dan Tamura and Hikaru Sato) in the finals, all matches taking place on December 27. At the 2021 edition of the tournament, Aoyagi teamed up with Yu Iizuka to defeat Takayuki Ueki and

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in the first rounds but fell short to Dan Tamura and Hikaru Sato again in the semifinals on December 26. Another competition for which he is known to evolve in is the AJPW Junior League, making his first appearance at the 2021 edition where he fell short to Sugi in the first rounds from June 2. As for the Ōdō Tournament, Aoyagi made his first appearance at the 2022 edition where he fell short to

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in the first rounds from August 7.

Personal life

His brother

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is a fellow professional wrestler and was also one of his trainers.

Championships and accomplishments

** World Junior Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time, current) ** Jr. Battle of Glory (

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)

References

{{World Junior Heavyweight Championship (AJPW) 1999 births Living people Japanese male professional wrestlers World Junior Heavyweight Champions (AJPW) People from Nagano Prefecture Sportspeople from Nagano Prefecture 21st-century professional wrestlers