Atsushi Aoki

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Atsushi Aoki

Atsushi Aoki with an armbar on Joel Redman
Ring name(s) Atsushi Aoki
Billed height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Billed weight 82 kg (180 lb)[1]
Born September 25, 1977 (1977-09-25) (age 34)[1]
Tokyo, Japan[1]
Trained by Jun Akiyama[1]
NOAH Dojo[1]
Debut 02005-12-24 December 24, 2005[1]

Atsushi Aoki (born September 25, 1977) is a Japanese professional wrestler working for the Japanese wrestling promotion Pro Wrestling Noah, where he is one half of the reigning GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Aoki made his professional wrestling debut in 2005 and has worked primarily for NOAH where he was part of the Sternness group. Together with Go Shiozaki he held the AAA World Tag Team Championship which was his first professional wrestling championship ever.

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[edit] Personal life

Atsushi Aoki began wrestling in high school, winning the 69 kg (150 lb) weight division in 2000.[1] He later began training under Jun Akiyama in the Pro Wrestling Noah Dojo in May, 2005.[1]

[edit] Professional wrestling career

[edit] Pro Wrestling Noah

His professional wrestling debut came on December 24, 2005 during NOAH's NOAHful Gift in Differ '05 teaming up with Yoshiniro Ota, losing to NOAH founder Mitsuharu Misawa and Japanese wrestling legend Akira Taue.[1] Aoki spent most of 2006 gaining hard earned experience in the ring, mostly on the losing side of matches. He would also make appearances for other Japanese promotions such as Zero-1 MAX and Dragon Gate.[2][3] A month later Aoki undertook a "learning excursion" to Europe where he wrestled for such promotions as Real Quality Wrestling and International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom in the United Kingdom and westside Xtreme Wrestling in Germany for the two months the excursion lasted.[1] Following his return to NOAH he teamed up with American Rocky Romero to participate in the 2007 Nippon TV Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League. The team ended up with just two points, winning only one match out of five when the team defeated Bryan Danielson and Davey Richards.[4] On September 3, 2007 Aoki teamed up with Ippei Ota for a match at a Asistencia Asesoría y Administración / Pro Wrestling Noah co-promoted show called TripleSEM. The team wrestled in the third match of the night and lost to AAA representatives Real Fuerza Aerea (Laredo Kid and Super Fly) in 08:15.[5] In November, 2007 Aoki took part in NOAH's Mauritius Cup tournament, earing 8 points in total by defeating Ippei Ota, Tsutomu Hirayanagi and Akihiko Ito while wrestling to a draw against Shuhei Taniguchi and Taiji Ishimori. Despite not losing a single match in the tournament Shuhei Taniguchi managed to score 9 points to take the Mauritius Cup.[6]

Aoki teamed up with Akihiko Ito to participate in the 2008 Nippon TV Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League. The team earned only three points, one point more than Aoki's previous Nippon TV Cup league as the team only managed to defeat Kento Miyahara and Naomichi Marufuji and wrestle to a time limit draw against Eddie Edwards and Ricky Marvin.[7] He was invited to be part of New Japan Pro Wrestling's (NJPW) 2009 Best of the Super Juniors tournament. Aoki earned eight points, ending in second place in "Block A" with victories over AKIRA, Black Tiger V, Jado and Milano Collection A.T. and only losing to "Block A" winner Prince Devitt (Block winner) and Tiger Mask IV. In the semi final of the tournament he was defeated by eventual tournament winner Koji Kanemoto.[8] Unlike the 2007 and 2008 version of the Nippon TV Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League Aoki's 2009 participating alongside Kota Ibushi was much more successful as the team won all three round robin matches, defeating the teams of Kenta and Taiji Ishimori, Genba Hirayanagi and Kikutaro and the team of Bryan Danielson and Roderick Strong. In the semi-final match they defeated Eddie Edwards and Ricky Marvin but lost to Kotaro Suzuki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru in the finals of the tournament.[9] In December, 2009 NJPW invited Aoki back, this time to compete in the 2009 Super J Cup. Aoki did not make it past the first round as he was defeated by Prince Devitt.[10]

[edit] Shining Magic 10 Match Series

On December 23, 2007 Atsushi Aoki took on a "10 match challenge" designed to push him to the limit and earn experience against very experienced wrestlers. The first match was against his mentor Jun Akiyama which he lost. The match series was called the "Shining Magic 10 Match Series" and would stretch out over the next two and a half years.[1] In his second match he defeated Davey Richards, but went on to lose against Kenta, Bryan Danielson, Yoshinari Ogawa and Kaz Hayashi.[1] The Seventh match in the series took place on November 14, 2008 and saw Aoki lose to Yoshinobu Kanemaru.[11] In his eight Shining Magic 10 Match Aoki lost to Junior Heavyweight legend Jushin Liger.[12] In his penultimate Sining Magic match Atsushi Aoki lost to Naomich Marufuji on December 6, 2009 almost two years after the 10 Match series begun.[13] His tenth and final match in the Shining Magic 10 Match series took place on February 28, 2010 which saw Aoki lose to Minoru Suzuki ending the series with one victory and nine defeats.[14]

[edit] Tag team division

On October 30, 2010, Aoki and Kenta defeated Roderick Strong and Eddie Edwards in the finals of a tournament to win the 2010 Nippon TV Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League.[15] As a result, Aoki and Kenta received a shot at the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, but were defeated by the champions, New Japan Pro Wrestling representatives Koji Kanemoto and Tiger Mask IV, on November 23, 2010.[16] On December 24, 2010, Aoki and Naomichi Marufuji defeated Kanemoto and Tiger Mask IV to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, Aoki's first title in Noah.[17] Aoki and Marufuji were stripped of the title on April 29, 2011, after Marufuji suffered an injury. On July 30, Aoki and Kotaro Suzuki defeated Kenta and Yoshinobu Kanemaru to win the 2011 Nippon TV Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League, making both of them two-time winners of the tournament. On October 16, 2011, Aoki and Suzuki defeated Kenta and Kanemaru to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

[edit] Asistencia Asesoría y Administración

On May XX, 2010 Aoki teamed up with Go Shiozaki to defeat the team of Takeshi Morishima and Taiji Ishimori to win the AAA World Tag Team Championship, which was Aoki's first wrestling title.[18][Note 1] As a result of winning the title Aoki and Shiozaki are scheduled to travel to Mexico City, Mexico on June 6, 2010 to defend the title as part of AAA's TripleMania XVIII event against the teams of Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm), La Hermandad 187 (Nicho el Millonario and Joe Lider) and Los Maniacos (Silver King and Último Gladiador).[18] At TripleMania Aoki and Shiozaki was the first team eliminated when Joe Lider pinned Shiozaki, which meant that they lost the AAA Tag Team championship 14 days after winning it. Los Maniacos (Silver Cain and Último Gladiador) won the match and the championship.[19]

[edit] In wrestling

  • Finishing moves
  • Signature moves

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ The AAA Tag team championship is primarily promoted in Mexico but Morishima and Ishimori won the titles during a tour of Mexico and were allowed to defend them in NOAH as well.

[edit] External links

[edit] References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Aoki Atsushi". Pro Wrestling Noah. http://www.noah.co.jp/prof026.php. Retrieved May 26, 2010. 
  2. ^ "ZERO1-MAX MAX Satisfaction - Tag 1: Ex-Impact" (in German). CageMatch.net. March 8, 2007. http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=10627. Retrieved May 25, 2010. 
  3. ^ "Dragon Gate Memorial Gate 2007" (in German). CageMatch.net. March 25, 2007. http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=10522. Retrieved May 25, 2010. 
  4. ^ "NTV Junior Heavyweight Tag Team League 2007". ProWrestlingHistory.com. July 1–27, 2007. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/japan/noah/ntv.html#2007. Retrieved May 26, 2010. 
  5. ^ Yoav (September 3, 2007). "Super Luchas desde Japón: Resultados TripleSEM en el Differ Ariake de Tokio (3 SEP 07)" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. http://superluchas.net/2007/09/03/super-luchas-desde-japon-resultados-triplesem-en-el-differ-ariake-de-tokio-3-sep-07/. Retrieved September 12, 2009. 
  6. ^ "Mauritius Cup" (in German). CageMatch.net. November 15–28, 2007. http://www.cagematch.net/?id=26&nr=1276. Retrieved May 25, 2010. 
  7. ^ "NTV Junior Heavyweight Tag Team League 2008". ProWrestlingHistory.com. August 23 - September 6, 2008. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/japan/noah/ntv.html#2008. Retrieved May 25, 2010. 
  8. ^ "Best of the Super Juniors 2009". ProWrestlingHistory.com. May 30 - June 14, 2009. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/japan/newjapan/superjr00.htm#2009. Retrieved May 10, 2010. [dead link]
  9. ^ "NTV Junior Heavyweight Tag Team League 2009". ProWrestlingHistory.com. July 12–25, 2009. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/japan/noah/ntv.html#2009. Retrieved May 25, 2010. 
  10. ^ "Super J Cup: 5th Stage". ProWrestlingHistory.com. December 22–23, 2009. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/japan/newjapan/jcup.html#5. Retrieved May 26, 2010. 
  11. ^ "NOAH Winter Navigation '08 - Tag 1" (in German). CageMatch.net. November 14, 2008. http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=30804. Retrieved May 25, 2010. 
  12. ^ "NOAH Southern Navigation '09 - Tag 11" (in German). CageMatch.net. June 22, 2009. http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=40585. Retrieved May 25, 2010. 
  13. ^ "NOAH Winter Navigation '09 - Tag 10" (in German). CageMatch.net. December 6, 2009. http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=45398. Retrieved May 25, 2010. 
  14. ^ "NOAH The Second Navigation 2010 - Tag 9" (in German). CageMatch.net. February 28, 2010. http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=48601. Retrieved May 25, 2010. 
  15. ^ a b "Results from 10/30 Korakuen Hall Show!". Noah-USA. http://www.noah-usa.cc/newspage%202010%20second.html. Retrieved 2010-10-31. 
  16. ^ "(Results) New Japan, 11/23/10 & Kanemoto and Tiger retain GHC Jr. Tag Title". Strong Style Spirit. 2010-11-23. http://www.puroresufan.com/njpw/?p=2320. Retrieved 2010-11-23. 
  17. ^ a b "Kanemoto & Tiger Mask lose GHC Jr. Tag Title". Strong Style Spirit. 2010-12-24. http://www.puroresufan.com/njpw/?p=2478. Retrieved 2010-12-26. 
  18. ^ a b c "De última hora: En Japón los cinturones AAA cambian de manos, los nuevos campeones vienen a Triplemania 18" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. May 23, 2010. http://superluchas.net/2010/05/23/de-ultima-hora-en-japon-los-cinturones-aaa-cambian-de-manos-los-nuevos-campeones-vienen-a-triplemania%c2%a018/. Retrieved May 24, 2010. 
  19. ^ "Triplemania XVIII: Fiesta de Fiestas" (in Spanish). Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. June 7, 2010. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. http://web.archive.org/web/20100815092851/http://www.luchalibreaaa.com/triplemaniaxviii.html. Retrieved June 8, 2010. 
  20. ^ http://www.pwponderings.com/puroresuspirit/pro-wrestling-noah/aoki/
  21. ^ Meltzer, Dave (2007-01-22), "2006 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards", Wrestling Observer Newsletter (Campbell, CA): 1–12, ISSN 10839593 
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