Steven Owens, better known by ring name Chase Owens is an American professional wrestler currently signed with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is a member of Bullet Club.
36 Facts About Chase Owens
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Chase Owens is a former IWGP Tag Team Champion with Bad Luck Fale and KOPW trophy winner.
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Chase Owens participated in the 2007 CWA Best of the Best tournament, but he was defeated in the first round by The Jin.
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On November 14,2008, Chase Owens competed in his first title match, but was defeated by the defending AWA World Heavyweight Champion Tony Givens.
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Chase Owens participated in the 2009 and 2010 editions of the CWA Best of the Best tournament, but was unsuccessful, with Robbie Cassidy winning in 2009 and Alyx Winters winning in 2010, respectively.
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On February 26,2011, Chase Owens defeated Sigmon to win his first title, the Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling Junior Heavyweight Championship.
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Chase Owens won the tournament by defeating Alyx Winters, Chance Prophet, Jason Kincaid, Jeff Connelly, and Menace in the finals.
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Chase Owens defeated Steve Walters in the first round, Scorpio Sky in the second round, but was defeated in the finals by Kevin Douglas.
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In July 2014, Chase Owens made his debut for Canadian Wrestling's Elite.
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On February 11,2017, Chase Owens defeated Jason Kincaid to win the NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship, ending Kincaid's historic reign of 1,951 days.
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On June 16,2018, Chase Owens defeated his trainer and mentor Ricky Morton on a Battle On The Border show.
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In 2019, Chase Owens started wrestling less dates for independent promotions as he signed with New Japan Pro-Wrestling full-time.
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On October 13,2014, Chase Owens made his debut for New Japan Pro-Wrestling at King of Pro-Wrestling, successfully defending the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship against Bushi.
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Chase Owens returned to NJPW on February 11,2015, at The New Beginning in Osaka, where he and Rob Conway defeated Liger and Hiroyoshi Tenzan in a tag team match.
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Three days later at The New Beginning in Sendai, Chase Owens unsuccessfully challenged Liger for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship.
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Chase Owens returned to NJPW in May to take part in the 2015 Best of the Super Juniors tournament.
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Chase Owens finished the tournament with a record of four wins and three losses, failing to advance to the finals.
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In May 2016, Chase Owens appeared in NJPW as a late replacement for an injured Nick Jackson in the 2016 Best of the Super Juniors tournament.
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Chase Owens finished second to last in his block with a record of three wins and four losses.
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Around this time, Chase Owens was quietly promoted to the promotion's heavyweight division.
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Chase Owens participated in the 2017 World Tag League, teaming with Bad Luck Fale, the duo finished with a record of three wins and four losses, failing to advance form their block.
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At the G1 Special in San Francisco show, Chase Owens teamed with his Bullet Club stablemates to defeat the team of Chaos, later that night he sided with The Elite after being attacked by the Guerrillas Of Destiny and Haku.
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Chase Owens would spend the rest of the year sided with the 'Elite' group, suffering many pinfall losses.
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Chase Owens announced that he had signed a contract with New Japan, making it the first time he was full-time with the company.
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Chase Owens would start this year off well, achieving many pinfall victories, albeit over weaker opposition.
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In March 2019, Chase Owens entered the New Japan Cup, defeating the IWGP United States Champion Juice Robinson in the first round but losing to Yoshi-Hashi in the second round.
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On March 23,2019, at the New Japan Cup finals, Chase Owens unsuccessfully challenged Juice Robinson for the IWGP United States Championship.
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Chase Owens participated in the 2019 World Tag League teaming again with Bad Luck Fale, the duo finished with a record of six wins and nine losses failing to advance to the final round.
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On January 4,2021, at Wrestle Kingdom 15, Chase Owens participated in the New Japan Rambo, entering first and making it to the final four, thus qualifying for a match at night 2 for the Provisional KOPW 2021 Trophy.
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At Wrestle Grand Slam in Tokyo Dome, Chase Owens won the Provisional KOPW after last eliminating Yano in the New Japan Rambo.
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Chase Owens lost the Provisional KOPW back to Yano in a no disqualification match "I quit" match at Wrestle Grand Slam in MetLife Dome.
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Chase Owens entered into the 2021 G1 Climax, his first G1 Climax tournament, and scored a shock victory over Hiroshi Tanahashi on October 4.
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Chase Owens scored only one more victory in the tournament, finishing last in the B Block with four points.
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At Wrestling Dontaku 2022, Fale and Chase Owens won the IWGP Tag Team Championship in a three-way tag team match.
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Chase Owens finished with 4 points, therefore failing to advance to the semi-finals.
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The next day at ROH Honor For All, Chase Owens was defeated by the reigning champion Shane Taylor.