1. Takashi Sasaki is a Japanese professional wrestler and the owner of Pro Wrestling Freedoms.
15 Facts About Takashi Sasaki
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Takashi Sasaki has held the KO-D Openweight Championship once, the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship twice and the King of Freedom World Championship once.
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Takashi Sasaki is known for his tag team with Gentaro, the Aka Rangers, and have held the KO-D Tag Team Championship twice, the WEW Tag Team Championship once and the BJW Tag Team Championship once.
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Whilst studying media at Bunkyo University, Sasaki joined the IWA Kakuto Shijuku dojo and made his professional wrestling debut on September 15,1996 against Tokai Bushido X After graduating from university in March 1997, he joined Dramatic Dream Team.
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Takashi Sasaki debuted for Dramatic Dream Team on January 31,1997, where he teamed up with Yusaku Shimoda in a losing effort to Super Uchuu Power and Wild Sheik.
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Takashi Sasaki was a regular on Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre tours of Japan in the late 90s and made several appearances for Wrestle Association-R during its dying days.
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From July to August, Takashi Sasaki teamed with Gentaro to participate in the KO-D Tag League 2002.
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Takashi Sasaki wrestled in progressively bloody matches which included barbed wire and fluorescent light tubes on his way to challenging for the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship.
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On January 2,2006, Takashi Sasaki turned on Apache Pro when he announced his intention to focus on his team with Ito at the expense of Apache Pro.
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Takashi Sasaki went on to form the Takashi Pro-Wrestling Gundam with Ito, Sekimoto, Tomohiko Hashimoto and several others, and became the top heel stable in Apache Pro alongside New Japan Pro-Wrestling invaders like Togi Makabe.
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On March 14,2007, Takashi Sasaki made his first successful title defence against Yuko Miyamoto in a Scaffold Deathmatch.
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Takashi Sasaki continued making regular appearances for Big Japan Pro Wrestling, even winning the 2011 Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor, but would pull away from the promotion in 2013 to focus on the running of Freedoms.
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Takashi Sasaki became the first King of Freedom World Champion on May 2,2013, after winning a three month knock-out tournament.
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From January to March 2014, Takashi Sasaki teamed with Tatsuhito Takaiwa to participate in the tournament to crown the inaugural King of Freedom Tag Team Championship.
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Takashi Sasaki appears as himself alongside Ryuji Ito, Abdullah Kobayashi, Jaki Numazawa and Daisuke Sekimoto in the 2006 movie Dirty Sanchez: The Movie.