is a

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, currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion

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(DDT). His ring name is an hommage to Thai

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Thanomsak Sithbaobay Thanomsak Sithbaobay ( th, ถนอมศักดิ์ ศิษย์โบ๊เบ๊; born: April 5, 1965 in Maha Sarakham province) is a retired Thai professional boxer, who challenged the world champion three times, but not successful ...

Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit (1998–present)

Toba worked for several other promotions such as

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, where at the ''Gatoh Move Japan Tour #183'' from August 15, 2015, he participated in a 18-person battle royal facing notable opponents like

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and Gabai-jichan. At ''K-DOJO Valentine's Day Kiss'', an event produced by

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on February 14, 2016, Toba teamed up with his long time tag team partner

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to defeat Kaji Tomato and Bambi. Another notable promotion in which he activated was the Inoki Genome Federation, where at ''IGF Genome36'', an event hosted on May 29, 2016, he unsuccessfully challenged

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Dramatic Dream Team (1998–present)

Toba made his

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debut in his long-tenuring promotion

at a house show hosted by them on January 31, 1998, where he fell short to Hidetomo Egawa. He participated in one of the longest matches in professional wrestling history, a 108-man battle royal at Tenka Sanbun no Kei: New Year's Eve Special, a cross-over event held between

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, DDT and

from December 31, 2009, competing against other infamous wrestlers such as

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, and the winner of the match,

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. Toba took part of many signature events of DDT. At ''

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'' on July 25, he teamed up swith his Suicide Boyz tag partner Mikami and won a Gauntlet tag team match to determine the #1 contenders to the

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, also involving Wild Snake ( Manabu Nakanishi and

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), Ningen Shitei (

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and Yukihiro Abe), Massive Brothers (

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and Jiro Hachimitsu) and Josai International (Goro Tsurumi and Tomomitsu Matsunaga). At ''

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'' on July 24, he participated in an Ironman Rumble for the

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also involving

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, Emi Sakura,

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, and

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. At '' Budokan Peter Pan 2012'' from August 18, he teamed up with

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, Antonio Honda,

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and Yoshiko) as ''Akira-waku FC'' losing to ''Tonkatsu SC'' (

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, Daisuke Sasaki,

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, Tetsuya Endo and

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) in a 5 vs. 5 Soccer match score 2-0 on penalties. At ''

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'' from October 21, Toba teamed up with

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and participated in a Gauntlet tag team match which also involved ''Shuten-dōji'' ( Kudo and

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), Mike Bailey and Antonio Honda, Renegades (Mizuki Watase and Jason "The Gift" Kincaid),

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and Kota Umeda, and Tomomitsu Matsunaga and

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. At '' Judgement 2008'', Toba teamed up with Mikami, Takashi Sasaki and Gentaro, falling short to

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and

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in an

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. At '' Judgement 2011'' from March 27, Toba teamed up with

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and Rion Mizuki to defeat Tsunehito Naito, Akito and

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in a

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. He participated in several

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events, the last of them being the 2005 edition, where he teamed up with

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, placing themselves in the A Block and scoring a total of three points after going against the teams of

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and Glenn "Q" Spectre, Sanshiro Takagi and

, and Toru Owashi and Darkside Hero!. Toba is known to have competed in various tournaments promoted by DDT. One of them is the

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, event where he made his first appearance at the 2010 edition, which was also a no.1 contendership tournament for the

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where he fell short to

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in a first round match. He made his last performance at the 2018 edition of the event where he defeated

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in the first round and falling short to Kazusada Higuchi in the second round.

Championships and accomplishments

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( 5 times) :*

( 5 times) – with

(2),

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(1) and

(2) :*

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(1 time) – with Gentaro,

, Takashi Sasaki and Mikami :*

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( 1 time) :*

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( 2002) – with Mikami :*KO-D Tag Team Title League (2008) – with Mikami

References

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