is a Japanese professional wrestler who is currently wrestling in the

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in Japan. Since debuting in 1993, Ikeda has worked for a number of promotions in Japan, including Battlarts, All Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Noah and Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling (FMW).

Professional wrestling career

Ikeda was trained by

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and joined Fujiwara's promotion

Fujiwara Gumi Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Group (''Purofesshonaru-resuringu Fujiwara-Gumi'', プロフェッショナルレスリング藤原組) was a shoot style professional wrestling promotion based in Tokyo, Japan, operating from 1991 to 1996. It was formed b ...

in 1993. In 1994, representing Fujiwara Gumi, he fought for Fighting Network RINGS in his only mixed martial arts fight against Tsuyoshi Kosaka in a losing effort. In 1995 he moved to BattlARTS. As one of the few heavyweights competing in a promotion made up mostly of junior heavyweights (compare Jinsei Shinzaki in Michinoku Pro Wrestling), he often had to look out of the promotion for challenges, including Shinzaki and

FMW Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded on July 28, 1989, by Atsushi Onita as (FMW). The promotion specializes in hardcore wrestling involving weapons such as barbed wire and fire. They held their ...

talent such as Hayabusa,

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, and Hiromichi Fuyuki. In 1998 he started making appearances in All Japan Pro Wrestling, and finally in early 2000 he joined the promotion as a full-time worker. He did not stay long as later that year he left for Mitsuharu Misawa's new promotion Pro Wrestling Noah. He briefly joined Misawa's ''Wave'' faction, but left soon after. On June 1, 2004 he beat Takeshi Morishima for the WLW Heavyweight Championship. In December 2004 he announced his departure from Noah. He now wrestles in the Japanese

, and runs his own promotion, Fu-Ten Promotion.

Championships and accomplishments

*A-Team ** WEW World Tag Team Championship (

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) – with HASEGAWA (1) and Keiichi Sato (1) *

/ Battlarts ** FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with

(1), and Hayabusa (1) **BattlARTS Young Generation Battle League (1999) * WLW **

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(1 time) * Tokyo Sports ** Newcomer Award (1995)

References

Profile at fansiteProfile at Green Destiny

External links

Official site (Japanese)
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ikeda, Daisuke Japanese male professional wrestlers Living people 1968 births People from Kumamoto Prefecture 20th-century male professional wrestlers 21st-century male professional wrestlers FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champions WEW World Tag Team Champions