25 Facts About Isami Kodaka

Isami Kodaka is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to Pro-Wrestling Basara.

Isami Kodaka originally started his career in the Kaientai Dojo promotion in July 2002, but later left the promotion to become a freelancer, before signing with Union Pro Wrestling in 2005.

Isami Kodaka remained affiliated with Union Pro until the promotion folded in October 2015, after which he became a founding member of Pro-Wrestling Basara.

Isami Kodaka is currently in his fourth reign as the Union Max Champion, and his second reign as BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Champion, while being a former one-time KO-D Openweight Champion and three-time DDT Extreme Champion.

Isami Kodaka is known as one half of the tag team Yankii Nichokenju with Yuko Miyamoto.

Isami Kodaka has won both the BJW Tag Team Championship and the Saikyo Tag League once with Masashi Takeda.

Isami Kodaka was trained in professional wrestling by Taka Michinoku at his Kaientai Dojo promotion's training school.

Isami Kodaka, using only his given name as his ring name, made his professional wrestling debut for the promotion on July 18,2002, facing Daisuke Matsumoto.

Isami Kodaka left Kaientai Dojo shortly afterwards to become a freelancer.

In 2005, Isami Kodaka ended his freelancing days, when he signed a contract with the Union Pro Wrestling promotion.

Isami Kodaka made his deathmatch debut in 2006 and has retained the style ever since.

In June 2007, Isami Kodaka suffered a cervical disc herniation, which would sideline him for eleven months.

The duo held the title for two months, before losing it to Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi, after which Isami Kodaka formed a new tag team named "Deathmatch Nichokenju", later renamed "Yankii Nichokenju", with longtime rival Yuko Miyamoto.

In 2010, Isami Kodaka made several appearances for women's wrestling promotion Ice Ribbon, where he and Chii Tomiya won the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship by defeating Jun Kasai and Miyako Matsumoto on August 7.

On January 3,2011, Isami Kodaka won his first singles title and his first title in his home promotion of Union Pro, when he defeated Kim Nan Pun for the DDT Extreme Championship in a six-man tag team captain's fall match, where he, Keita Yano and Survival Tobita faced Nan Pun, Cao Zhang and Choun Shiryu.

Isami Kodaka regained the title from El Generico on January 3,2012, only to lose it to his own tag team partner, Yuko Miyamoto, on March 29 as part of an interpromotional rivalry between Union Pro and BJW.

On January 14,2013, Isami Kodaka won the DDT Extreme Championship for the third time, after defeating Keisuke Ishii.

Isami Kodaka dominated Samurai TV's year-end independent wrestling awards ceremony, winning the Best Unit Award with Yuko Miyamoto, the Best Bout Award with Shuji Ishikawa and the MVP Award.

Isami Kodaka won the match, making his fourth successful title defense.

On June 29, Isami Kodaka defeated Kudo in the finals to win the 2014 King of DDT tournament and become the number one contender to the KO-D Openweight Championship for DDT's biggest event of the year, Ryogoku Peter Pan.

In July, Isami Kodaka made it to the finals of Pro Wrestling Zero1's 2015 Tenkaichi Jr.

The main event of the show saw Isami Kodaka make his first successful defense of the Union Max Championship against Shuji Ishikawa, retiring the title immediately afterwards.

That same day, Isami Kodaka won the 2015 Dramatic Sousenkyo, DDT's annual general election, to earn a shot at the KO-D Openweight Championship.

Isami Kodaka lost the title to Fuma in his first defense on January 6,2017.

Isami Kodaka returned on January 6,2019, losing to Naoki Tanizaki.