1. Yasushi Kanda is a Japanese professional wrestler currently performing for the Dragon Gate wrestling promotion in Japan.
14 Facts About Yasushi Kanda
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Yasushi Kanda is considered one of Toryumon's greatest heel characters, and was a founding member of the M2K stable.
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Yasushi Kanda suffered a legitimate neck injury on October 10,2001, after taking a back-to-belly piledriver from Genki Horiguchi that displaced his neck vertebrae.
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Yasushi Kanda was a partial heel referee for the M2K stable.
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On September 8,2002, Yasushi Kanda came to the ring with his original M2K partners, Masaaki Mochizuki and Susumu Mochizuki, to officially retire from the ring.
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Yasushi Kanda continued refereeing, though he no longer had an individual role.
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In 2007, Yasushi Kanda captured the Open the Brave Gate Title from Genki Horiguchi on July 1,2007, successfully defending it twice before losing it to Masato Yoshino on September 22.
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Just as it seemed like Kinta had the match won, Yasushi Kanda turned heel and helped the MO'z win the match.
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Yasushi Kanda was then announced as the newest member of the group.
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Yasushi Kanda feuded with both BxB Hulk and his own stablemate Masato Yoshino.
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Yasushi Kanda's 2008 started with several high-profile wins, but this collapsed after Yoshino helped Hulk defeat him in a multiple man hair vs hair cage match, and when Hulk debuted his Killer Hulk persona, defeating him in their blow-off match in a squash.
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The quarreling escalated further when, during subsequent tag matches they had, Yasushi Kanda misfired on protein powder attacks, blinding Gamma instead of their opponents and costing them the matches.
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Yasushi Kanda eventually said to Gamma that he would rather team with Cyber Kongcito than him.
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On November 23,2014, Yasushi Kanda defeated Ryo "Jimmy" Saito to win the Open the Owarai Gate Championship.