(born February 9, 1981) is a Japanese
professional wrestler
Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring o ...
, currently signed to
Big Japan Pro Wrestling
(BJW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established in 1995. It is most famous for its deathmatch style contests.
History
Big Japan Pro Wrestling was founded in March 1995 by former AJPW wrestlers Shinya Kojika and Kendo Nagasaki, ...
(BJW) in the Strong BJ division. He is also known for his appearances in
Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max
(stylized as Pro Wrestling ZERO1), formerly known as Pro Wrestling Zero-One and Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max (stylised in all capital letters) and often referred to simply as Zero1, is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded in 2001. I ...
. He is a three-time
BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion, while also being a former one-time NWA Pan-Pacific Premium Heavyweight Champion, one-time
wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion and a two-time
Zero1 World Heavyweight Champion. Other major singles championships include the
BJW Heavyweight Championship
The BJW Heavyweight Championship was a title defended in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Big Japan Pro Wrestling. It lasted from 2001 through 2004.https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=744
Title history
Combined reigns
Footno ...
, the
KO-D Openweight Championship
The is a professional wrestling world openweight championship and the top singles accomplishment in the Japanese promotion CyberFight currently defended in the DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand division. It is one of CyberFight's top major world ti ...
and the
Strongest-K Championship. Also a successful tag team wrestler, he has held the
AJPW World Tag Team Championship
The is a professional wrestling World tag team championship in Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling. It was created on June 10, 1988 as a unification of two previous tag team titles in All Japan; the PWF Tag Team Championship, and the NWA I ...
three times, the
All Asia Tag Team Championship
The is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). It was created on November 16, 1955, in the Japan Wrestling Association (JWA) when King Kong Czaya and Tiger Joginder Singh defeated JWA fou ...
two times, the
BJW Tag Team Championship twelve times and the
KO-D Tag Team Championship two times with his most successful tag team combination being with
Yuji Okabayashi.
Professional wrestling career
Big Japan Pro Wrestling (1999–present)
Daisuke Sekimoto made his professional wrestling debut for
Big Japan Pro Wrestling
(BJW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established in 1995. It is most famous for its deathmatch style contests.
History
Big Japan Pro Wrestling was founded in March 1995 by former AJPW wrestlers Shinya Kojika and Kendo Nagasaki, ...
(BJW) on August 10, 1999 by losing to
Ryuji Ito.
As is customary in professional wrestling, especially in Japan, Sekimoto lost the majority of his matches in his early career. Sekimoto would win his first match ever on March 27, 2000 when he teamed up with Daikokubo Benkei to defeat Guerrero del Futuro and Ryuji Ito.
On January 28, 2001, Sekimoto teamed up with
MEN's Teioh and defeated Kamikaze and
Abdullah Kobayashi
, is a Japanese professional wrestler best known by his ring name after Abdullah the Butcher, who was one of his trainers.
Professional wrestling career
He began his career in 1995 as one of the main wrestlers in Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) in ...
to become the
BJW Tag Team Champions, this was the first championship Sekimoto ever held.
This combination of Sekimoto and Teioh would prove to be extremely successful, along with the BJW Tag Team Championship, the pair would go on to defeat
Kintaro Kanemura and
Ryuji Yamakawa for the
FMW/WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship and would hold it for over one hundred days before losing the titles to
Jun Kasai and The Winger on March 21, 2002.
While still holding the BJW Tag Team Championship, Sekimoto challenged Daikokubo Benkei for the
BJW Heavyweight Championship
The BJW Heavyweight Championship was a title defended in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Big Japan Pro Wrestling. It lasted from 2001 through 2004.https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=744
Title history
Combined reigns
Footno ...
and on August 18, 2002 defeated him for the title which was the first singles honour of his career.
Holding both the BJW Heavyweight Championship and the BJW Tag Team Championship, Sekimoto was on top of Big Japan but this would last only a short time. Cracks started to show in the relationship between Sekimoto and Teioh and on September 15, 2002 they lost the BJW Tag Team Championship to Benkei Daikokuboh & Abdullah Kobayashi.
After losing the titles, Teioh turned on Sekimoto which led to a match between the two for the BJW Heavyweight Championship which took place on September 23 which Teioh won.
With 2003 and 2004 being mostly uneventful for Sekimoto, he started 2005 with a bang by winning the New Generation Battle Tournament by defeating HERO! in the final on January 9. Over the years, Sekimoto would compete in numerous variations of hardcore matches including barbed wire board tag team death match, Fluorescent Lighttubes tag team death match and prison hall Death match, he also competed at
RIKI-PRO and
Apache Pro Wrestling
was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion operating from 2004 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2016.
History
Following the closure of Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in 2002, Hiromichi Fuyuki formed his own promotion, which ran under the names F ...
(Apache Pro) frequently. On October 14, Sekimoto teamed up with Abdullah Kobayashi to win his second BJW Tag Team Championship.
2006 would start on a low point as Sekimoto and Kobayashi lost the titles to
Mammoth Sasaki and
Shadow WX on January 27.
Sekimoto and Tomohiko Hashimoto took part in the WEW Tag Team Title Tournament but wouldn't go past the first round.
On December 3, 2006, Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki defeated Mammoth Sasaki and Shadow WX for his third BJW Tag Team Championship.
During their four hundred plus days as champions, Sekimoto took on Mammoth Sasaki for the
WEW Heavyweight Championship in February 2007.
On March 2, Sekimoto and Sasaki lost the BJW tag Team Championship to
Kengo Mashimo and Madoka at a
Pro Wrestling Zero1
(stylized as Pro Wrestling ZERO1), formerly known as Pro Wrestling Zero-One and Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max (stylised in all capital letters) and often referred to simply as Zero1, is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded in 2001. ...
(Zero1) event.
With this loss, Sekimoto teamed up with Katsumasa Inoue to take on
GAINA and
Zero
0 (zero) is a number representing an empty quantity. In place-value notation such as the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, 0 also serves as a placeholder numerical digit, which works by Multiplication, multiplying digits to the left of 0 by th ...
for the
Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship
The is the top tag team title in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Osaka Pro Wrestling. The title was established in 2001 when Daio Quallt and Gamma won a seven-team round-robin tournament to win the inaugural titles.
Being a prof ...
but lost.
Sekimoto and Inoue teamed up once again and took on Handsome Joe and
Taka Michinoku
(born October 26, 1973), better known by his ring name (with his first name usually stylized in all capital letters), is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. Michinoku is known in North America for his work for ...
for the
Strongest-K Tag Team Championship.
During a joint event between Big Japan and El Dorado Pro Wrestling, Sekimoto teamed up with
Shuji Kondo
is a Japanese professional wrestler. Prior to becoming a pro wrestler, he played rugby. After starting his career in Toryumon, Kondo eventually joined All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he became one of the promotion's top junior heavyweig ...
and defeated
KAGETORA and
Takashi Sasaki to win the Thanksgiving Day Tag Tournament.
On July 13, 2008, Sekimoto and Mammoth Sasaki defeated
Kengo Mashimo and
Madoka for the BJW Tag Team Championship, however, on March 7, 2009, Saksaki was injured in an auto mobile accident and vacated the championship.
In the Maximum Tag League 2009, Sekimoto and
Masato Tanaka
is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) in Japan where he was a one-time FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion and a one-time WEW World Heavyweight Champion and in Ex ...
finished top of block B but would lose to Takashi Sasaki and
Yuko Miyamoto
is a Japanese professional wrestler. He originally started his career in Wrestling Marvelous Future in August 2003, but later left the promotion and in 2004, signed with Dark Pro-Wrestling 666 (666). Miyamoto has since appeared in Big Japan Pro W ...
in the semifinal. On July 27, 2009, Sekimoto and
Yuji Okabayashi defeated
Isami Kodaka and
Masashi Takeda
is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, primarily working for Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) in the Deathmatch division. Takeda also competes as a freelancer for Freedoms and occasionally, All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW).
E ...
to win his fifth BJW Tag Team Championship.
A month later, Sekimoto won the Eight Man Tag Team Tournament with Shinya Ishikawa, Yoshihito Sasaki and Yuji Okabayashi.
On December 13, 2009, Sekimoto and Okabayashi lost the titles to Yoshihito Sasaki and Shinya Ishikawa. 2010 kicked off with a loss at
Osaka Pro Wrestling when Sekimoto and Okabayshi lost Hideyoshi &
Masamune in a match for the Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship.
On February 28, 2010, Sekimoto defeated
Shuji Ishikawa for the
KO-D Openweight Championship
The is a professional wrestling world openweight championship and the top singles accomplishment in the Japanese promotion CyberFight currently defended in the DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand division. It is one of CyberFight's top major world ti ...
.
After several defences, he lost the title to
Harashima on July 25.
He would return next year in the same month to take part in a four-way elimination match for the
KO-D Tag Team Championship and teamed with
Masa Takanashi and won. They would lose the title on August 28 to
Danshoku Dino
, better known by his ring name , also written Danshoku Dieno, is a Japanese professional wrestler. Dino has spent most of his career competing for DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), where he plays an overly exaggerated homosexual character. His ring name ...
and
Kota Ibushi.
Sekimoto began teaming with Yoshihito Sasaki to take part in the BJW Tag Team Championship Tournament and reached the final, which took place on April 28, 2010, and lost to
Jaki Numazawa and
Jun Kasai.
On October 10, Sekimoto and Sasaki defeated Numazawa and Kasai to become a six time BJW Tag Team Championship but would lose the title to Numazawa and Kasai.
Sekimoto and Kazuki Hashimoto took part in a year long tag tournament called Dainichi-X 2011 but would not gain enough points to progress to the semifinal.
Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi took part in the Big Japan Tag League 2011 and won.
In March 2012, Sekimoto participated in the Ikkitousen Strong Climb Tournament in block A and reached the final before losing to Yoshihito Sasaki.
On August 22, Sekimoto defeated
Kengo Mashimo for the
Strongest-K Championship and lost it to
Yuji Hino on November 13.
On September 8, 2013, Sekimoto worked the
inaugural event of the
Wrestle-1
was a Japanese ''puroresu'' or professional wrestling promotion, founded in July 2013 by Keiji Mutoh following his resignation from All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). The core of the promotion's roster was formed by wrestlers loyal to Mutoh, who lef ...
(W-1) promotion, which
Keiji Mutoh
is a Japanese professional wrestler and professional wrestling executive currently signed to Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), where he is a former GHC Heavyweight Champion. He is best known for his work as in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and N ...
formed after leaving All Japan. Teaming with his regular partner Yuji Okabayashi, the two defeated
Kaz Hayashi
is a Japanese professional wrestler known simply as . He is best known for his work in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where in addition to being a wrestler for the promotion, he also served as the head booker for the company's junior heavyweigh ...
and
Shuji Kondo
is a Japanese professional wrestler. Prior to becoming a pro wrestler, he played rugby. After starting his career in Toryumon, Kondo eventually joined All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he became one of the promotion's top junior heavyweig ...
in a tag team match.
American promotions (2004–present)
On October 5, 2004, Sekimoto made his American debut, defeating
Ian Rotten
John Benson Williams (born June 1, 1970) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Ian Rotten. He has wrestled in the Global Wrestling Federation (GWF), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), the United States Wrestling As ...
at an IWA East Coast event. Two days later on October 7, Sekimoto made his debut
IWA Mid-South, defeating Nate Webb at an event in
New Albany, Indiana
New Albany is a city in Floyd County, Indiana, United States, situated along the Ohio River, opposite Louisville, Kentucky. The population was 37,841 as of the 2020 census. The city is the county seat of Floyd County. It is bounded by I-265 ...
.
In October 2008, Sekimoto made his
Chikara debut, participating in the promotion's Global Gauntlet weekend.
In April 2010, Sekimoto, along with Kankuro Hoshino and Yuji Okabayashi, to take part in Chikara's
King Of Trios tournament as Team Big Japan, reaching the semifinals before being eliminated by
Bruderschaft des Kreuzes, who went on to win the tournament.
In April 2011, Sekimoto reached the semifinal of
Combat Zone Wrestling
Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) is an American independent wrestling promotion. In 1998, John Zandig and five of his students, Ric Blade, T.C.K, Lobo, Nick Gage and Justice Pain, along with trainer Jon Dahmer, began to run professional wrestling ...
's (CZW) Best Of The Best X tournament but was eliminated by
Sami Callihan.
On November 27, 2017, it was announced that Sekimoto would participate at
Evolve's WrestleMania weekend events.
Pro Wrestling Zero1 (2006–present)
Sekimoto debuted for
Pro Wrestling Zero1
(stylized as Pro Wrestling ZERO1), formerly known as Pro Wrestling Zero-One and Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max (stylised in all capital letters) and often referred to simply as Zero1, is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded in 2001. ...
(Zero1) by taking part in the
Fire Festival 2001 where he gained no points and there could not progress further.
He returned in 2006, once again participating in the
Fire Festival
is an annual professional wrestling round-robin tournament held by Pro Wrestling Zero1 to determine the top wrestler in the promotion, typically contested in late July/early August. Within the English-speaking professional wrestling world, ...
but would do a little better by defeating
Kohei Sato
is a Japanese professional wrestler contracted with Pro Wrestling Zero1. Sato is also a former mixed martial artist.
Career
A former judoka and amateur wrestler, Sato made his transition to mixed martial arts after meeting Kazunari Murakami and ...
which left Sekimoto with two points.
On March 8, 2007, Sekimoto defeated
Ryouji Sai to become the
NWA United National Heavyweight Champion.
As champion he participated in
Fire Festival 2007 and once again fared poorly, gaining three points.
On November 13, Sekimoto lost the NWA United National Heavyweight Championship to Yoshihito Sasaki.
In block B of the
Fire Festival 2008, Sekimoto gained three points and therefore didn't progress further and in next years
Fire Festival 2009 gained five points, he was joint top in block B with Masato Tanaka and
Ryouji Sai and therefore a decision three-way match took place which Sai won.
The next few years would prove to be very eventful for Sekimoto, he started out competing in the
Fire Festival 2010 and would once again fall at the first hurdle. However, shortly after the tournament, Sekimoto defeated
Bambikiller to win the
World Heavyweight Championship on September 9.
Sekimoto would enter his first
Furinkazan when he teamed up with Masato Tanaka, the team would reach the final where the
NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship was also up for grabs, however, they would lose to KAMIKAZE and Kohei Sato.
On March 6, 2011, Sekimoto lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Ryouji Sai.
Sekimoto would enter the
Fire Festival 2011 and would come out on top in the tournament which meant he also became the first NWA Pan-Pacific Premium Heavyweight Championship.
On May 16, 2012, Sekimoto took on
Akebono in a unification match between the NWA Pan-Pacific Premium Heavyweight Championship and the World Heavyweight Championship, which Akebono won. He would take part in that years
Fire Festival
is an annual professional wrestling round-robin tournament held by Pro Wrestling Zero1 to determine the top wrestler in the promotion, typically contested in late July/early August. Within the English-speaking professional wrestling world, ...
and gained five points thus meaning he could not progress further.
Westside Xtreme Wrestling (2009–2015)
On March 6, 2009, Sekimoto took part in
Westside Xtreme Wrestling's (wXw) 16 Carat Gold Tournament 2009 and reached the quarterfinal before being eliminated by Steve Douglas.
Next year, Sekimoto and Okabayashi defeated Oberhausen Terror Corps to become the number one contenders for the wXw World Tag Team Championship and would lose their championship match to the champions The Switchblade Conspiracy.
On January 15, 2012, Sekimoto defeated
Big van Walter
Walter Hahn (born 20 August 1987) is an Austrian professional wrestler and trainer. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Gunther and is the current WWE Intercontinental Champion in his firs ...
for the
wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship and would lose the championship back to him on March 3.
On October 3, 2013, Sekimoto returned to wXw to take part in the 2013 World Triangle League. Three days later, he defeated
Jonathan Gresham and
Zack Sabre Jr. in the finals to win the tournament.
[ In 2015 at the 15th Anniversary Tour Finale, Sekimoto unsuccessfully challenged Karsten Beck for the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship.
]
All Japan Pro Wrestling (2011–2012, 2016–present)
Sekimoto and Okabayashi debuted for All Japan Pro Wrestling
(AJPW/AJP) or simply All Japan is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established on October 21, 1972 when Giant Baba split away from the Japanese Wrestling Association and created his own promotion. Many wrestlers had left with Baba ...
(AJPW) on January 3, 2011, defeating Ryota Hama
(born November 21, 1979) is a retired Japanese sumo wrestler and current professional wrestler, signed to Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) in the Strong BJ division.
Sumo career
Hama joined sumo in July 1995, and he fought for the Hakkaku stable ...
and Yasufumi Nakanoue
is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by the ring name , currently signed to Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) in the Strong BJ division, where he is the current BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion. He started his career in All Japan P ...
. For the first few months, Sekimoto and Okabayashi would perform for All Japan sporadically and on March 21, they defeated Manabu Soya
is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his work in All Japan Pro Wrestling. He previously lived in Canada training at the Can-Am Wrestling School under Scott D'Amore, working regularly for the Maximum Pro Wrestling promotion. He is c ...
and Seiya Sanada
, better known by his ring name Sanada (stylized as SANADA), is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a member of the stable ''Los Ingobernables de Japón''.
As part of NJPW, Sanada is mostly ...
for the All Asia Tag Team Championship
The is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). It was created on November 16, 1955, in the Japan Wrestling Association (JWA) when King Kong Czaya and Tiger Joginder Singh defeated JWA fou ...
. They held the championship for three months before losing it to Soya and Sanada once again. On October 23, Sekimoto and Okabayashi defeated Soya and Sanada becoming two-time All Asia Tag Team Champions. They also participated in World's Strongest Tag Determination League 2011 and gained ten points but not enough to progress to the semifinals. During their second title regain they would defend the title at both All Japan and Big Japan. Sekimoto also took part in Champion Carnival
The is a professional wrestling tournament held by All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). The tournament is also known by the nickname and is sometimes abbreviated to CC. Created by AJPW founder Giant Baba, the tournament has been held annually since ...
2012 and gained six points therefore not progressing to the semifinal. On July 1, Sekimoto and Okabayashi lost the All Asia Tag Team Championship to Akebono and Ryota Hama
(born November 21, 1979) is a retired Japanese sumo wrestler and current professional wrestler, signed to Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) in the Strong BJ division.
Sumo career
Hama joined sumo in July 1995, and he fought for the Hakkaku stable ...
. They returned next month to take on Manabu Soya and Takao Omori for the same title but lost. Sekimoto and Okabayashi returned to All Japan to take part in the World's Strongest Tag Determination League 2012.
Sekimoto returned to AJPW in early 2016, winning the 2016 Champion Carnival. After failing to win the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship
The is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the Japanese All Japan Pro Wrestling promotion.
History
The championship was established after the unification of its then-flagship title the PWF World Heavyweight Championsh ...
from Kento Miyahara
is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he is the current six time Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion. He was trained by Kensuke Sasaki and started his career in his Kensuke Office promotion ...
on May 25, Sekimoto and Okabayashi won the World Tag Team Championship
The world tag team championship is the name usually given to the primary tag team championship (professional wrestling), championships in professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotions, promotions.
Nomenclature
The name of the promo ...
on June 15.[
]
Other media
In 2006, Sekimoto appeared as himself alongside Ryuji Ito, Abdullah Kobayashi
, is a Japanese professional wrestler best known by his ring name after Abdullah the Butcher, who was one of his trainers.
Professional wrestling career
He began his career in 1995 as one of the main wrestlers in Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) in ...
, Takashi Sasaki and Jaki Numazawa in '' Dirty Sanchez: The Movie''. Sekimoto and the other wrestlers perform wrestling moves on the three main cast members.
Championships and accomplishments
*All Japan Pro Wrestling
(AJPW/AJP) or simply All Japan is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established on October 21, 1972 when Giant Baba split away from the Japanese Wrestling Association and created his own promotion. Many wrestlers had left with Baba ...
:*All Asia Tag Team Championship
The is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). It was created on November 16, 1955, in the Japan Wrestling Association (JWA) when King Kong Czaya and Tiger Joginder Singh defeated JWA fou ...
(2 times
"2 Times" is a song co-written and recorded by British Italian-based singer Ann Lee. It was released in 1999 as the lead single from her debut album, ''Dreams'' (1999). The single entered and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. Outside ...
) – with Yuji Okabayashi
:*World Tag Team Championship
The world tag team championship is the name usually given to the primary tag team championship (professional wrestling), championships in professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotions, promotions.
Nomenclature
The name of the promo ...
( 3 times) – with Yuji Okabayashi
:*Champion Carnival
The is a professional wrestling tournament held by All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). The tournament is also known by the nickname and is sometimes abbreviated to CC. Created by AJPW founder Giant Baba, the tournament has been held annually since ...
(2016
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)[
*]Big Japan Pro Wrestling
(BJW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established in 1995. It is most famous for its deathmatch style contests.
History
Big Japan Pro Wrestling was founded in March 1995 by former AJPW wrestlers Shinya Kojika and Kendo Nagasaki, ...
:*BJW Heavyweight Championship
The BJW Heavyweight Championship was a title defended in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Big Japan Pro Wrestling. It lasted from 2001 through 2004.https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=744
Title history
Combined reigns
Footno ...
( 1 time)
:* BJW Tag Team Championship ( 12 times) – with Men's Teioh (1), Abdullah Kobayashi
, is a Japanese professional wrestler best known by his ring name after Abdullah the Butcher, who was one of his trainers.
Professional wrestling career
He began his career in 1995 as one of the main wrestlers in Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) in ...
(1), Yoshihito Sasaki (2), Mammoth Sasaki (1), Yuji Okabayashi (5), The Bodyguard (1) and Kohei Sato
is a Japanese professional wrestler contracted with Pro Wrestling Zero1. Sato is also a former mixed martial artist.
Career
A former judoka and amateur wrestler, Sato made his transition to mixed martial arts after meeting Kazunari Murakami and ...
(1)
:*BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship
The is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by the Japanese Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) promotion. It is one of two heavyweight championships promoted by BJW, the other being the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championshi ...
( 4 times)
:*Sakatako Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kazuki Hashimoto
:*WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship
The FMW/WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship was a tag team hardcore wrestling championship contested in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling from April 2000 until FMW closed in February 2002. The title was picked up by Big Japan Pro Wrestling that same ...
( 1 time) – with Men's Teioh
:*Yokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Championship
Yokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling six-man tag team championship owned by the Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) promotion. The title was created on August 4, 2012. As the name suggests, the title is usual ...
( 5 times) – with Jaki Numazawa and Ryuji Ito (1), Kohei Sato and Hideyoshi Kamitani
is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW).
Professional wrestling career
Big Japan Pro Wrestling (2012–present)
Kamitani made his professional wre ...
(1), Daichi Hashimoto
is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) in the Strong BJ division, where he is a former two-time BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion and three-time BJW Tag Team Champion. He is the son of Shiny ...
and Hideyoshi Kamitani (2) and Akira Hyodo and Takuho Kato (1)
:*BJW Danichi-X (2004, 2005)
:*BJW 8-Man Tag Tournament (2009)
:* BJW Maximum Tag League (2001
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, 2002
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) – with Men's Teioh
:*Saikyo Tag League
is a professional wrestling round-robin hardcore tag team tournament annually held by Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), considered a spin-off of New Japan Pro-Wrestling's World Tag League and All Japan Pro Wrestling's World's Strongest Tag Determin ...
(2011
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, 2015
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, 2016
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) – with Yuji Okabayashi
* DDT Pro-Wrestling
:*KO-D Openweight Championship
The is a professional wrestling world openweight championship and the top singles accomplishment in the Japanese promotion CyberFight currently defended in the DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand division. It is one of CyberFight's top major world ti ...
( 1 time)
:* KO-D Tag Team Championship ( 3 times) – with Kazusada Higuchi (1), Masa Takanashi (1) and Yuji Okabayashi (1)
* Japan Indie Awards
:* Best Bout Award (2010) vs. Masa Takanashi on April 4
:*Best Bout Award (2015) vs. Yuji Okabayashi on July 20
:*Best Bout Award (2019) vs. Michael Elgin
Aaron Frobel (born December 13, 1986) is a Canadian professional wrestler and promoter, better known by his ring name Michael Elgin. He most recently worked for Pro Wrestling Noah, where he was a one-time GHC Tag Team Champion with Masa Kitamiya ...
on August 24
:*Best Bout Award (2021) vs. Takuya Nomura
is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working as a freelancer and is best known for his tenure with the professional wrestling promotions Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) and Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1).
Professional wrestling career Indep ...
on October 18
:*MVP Award
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(2010)
*Kaientai Dojo
Active Advance Pro Wrestling (2AW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion and training facility originally owned and promoted by Taka Michinoku. The promotion places emphasis on a style of puroresu that combines high-flying, technical wr ...
:* Strongest-K Championship ( 1 time)
:*Singles Match of the Year (2012) vs. Yuji Hino on November 13
*Mobius
:*Apex of Triangle Six–Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Nosawa Rongai and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
*Pro Wrestling Expo
:*Continent Confrontation Tag Team League (2008) – with Masato Tanaka
is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) in Japan where he was a one-time FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion and a one-time WEW World Heavyweight Champion and in Ex ...
*''Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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:*Ranked No. 63 of the top 500 wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016
*Pro Wrestling Noah
(stylised as Pro Wrestling NOAH) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion, founded in 2000 by former All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) ace Mitsuharu Misawa after he had led a mass exodus in which 24 of AJPW's 26 contracted wrestlers left th ...
:*Best Bout Award (2014) vs. Takashi Sugiura
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on November 8
:*Global League Tournament Fighting Spirit Award (2013)
*Pro Wrestling Zero1
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:* NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (2 times
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) – with Akebono (1) and Kohei Sato (1)
:* NWA United National Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time)
:*NWA Pan-Pacific Premium Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
:* World Heavyweight Championship (2 times
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)
:*Fire Festival
is an annual professional wrestling round-robin tournament held by Pro Wrestling Zero1 to determine the top wrestler in the promotion, typically contested in late July/early August. Within the English-speaking professional wrestling world, ...
(2011
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)
:*Best Bout (2011) vs. Masato Tanaka
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on August 7
*Real Japan Pro Wrestling
is a Japanese professional wrestling and martial arts promotion founded in 2005 by Satoru Sayama as , before being renamed in 2019. It runs shows every two or three months, and feature both pro wrestling activities and a variety of martial arts ...
:* Legend Championship ( 1 time)
* Tenryu Project
:* Tenryu Project Six-Man Tag Team Championship ( 1 time) – with Tatsutoshi Goto and Yoshihiro Takayama
is a former Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Debuting for UWF International (UWFI) in the 1990s, Takayama joined All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in 1997 after UWF-i folded. In 2000, he joined Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), and ...
*'' Tokyo Sports''
:*Fighting Spirit Award
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(2013)
:* Best Tag Team Award (2011, 2016) – with Yuji Okabayashi
:* Technique Award (2007)
*Toshikoshi Puroresu
:*Three Organization Shuffle Tag Tournament (2015) – with Konosuke Takeshita[
* Westside Xtreme Wrestling
:* wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship ( 1 time)]
:*World Triangle League (2013)
References
External links
Daisuke Sekimoto at BJW.co.jp
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1981 births
Japanese male professional wrestlers
Sportspeople from Osaka
Living people
20th-century professional wrestlers
21st-century professional wrestlers
All Asia Tag Team Champions
World Tag Team Champions (AJPW)
KO-D Tag Team Champions
KO-D Openweight Champions
Tenryu Project World 6-Man Tag Team Champions
WEW Hardcore Tag Team Champions
Strongest-K Champions
BJW Tag Team Champions
BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champions
Yokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Champions