Osaka Pro Wrestling

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Osaka Pro Wrestling
Founded 1998
Style Puroresu
Comedy
Lucha libre
Professional wrestling
Headquarters Osaka, Japan
Founder(s) Super Delfin

Osaka Pro Wrestling is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion, founded in 1998 by Super Delfin. In 2010 Osaka Pro started a close working relationship with American promotion Chikara. On March 1, 2014, it was announced that the promotion would be folding due to financial difficulties on April 20, 2014, after which all of its wrestlers would become freelancers.[1] However, after securing a new sponsor, it was announced that Osaka Pro Wrestling would continue under the new regime of president Yuji Sakagami and wrestlers Kuishinbo Kamen and Takoyakida. The new Osaka Pro Wrestling lost many of the old one's key wrestlers as well as their home base of Nasci Hall Umeda, forcing them to employ a new tour format.[2]

Roster

  • Caramel Boy
  • Ebessan (III) (Freelancer)
  • Gamma (Freelancer)
  • Golden Dragon
  • Hiroaki Moriya
  • HUB (Freelancer)
  • Johnel Sanders (Freelancer)
  • Kaiju New World
  • Kuishinbo Kamen
  • Kushikatsu Oyaji
  • Magnitude Kishiwada (Freelancer)
  • Night Cooper Hiroshi
  • Okonomiyakida
  • Tadasuke (Freelancer)
  • Takoyakida
  • Tigers Mask (II)
  • Tsubasa (Freelancer)
  • Ultimate Spider J
  • Yutaka (Freelancer)
  • Robbie Wolf

Alumni

Staff

  • Yuji Sakagami (President)

Current champions

Championship Current champion(s) Date won
Osaka Pro Wrestling Championship Vacant Junuary 31, 2016
Osaka Pro Wrestling Owarai Championship Ebessan III July 12, 2014
Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship Shiori Asahi April 12, 2015
Osaka Meibutsu Sekaiichi Championship Kuishinbo Kamen July 19, 2010

Inactive championships

Championship: Last champion(s): Date won:
Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship Vacant April 20, 2014
Osaka Pro Wrestling Battle Royal Championship Vacant April 20, 2014
MWF World Junior Heavyweight Championship Vacant August 25,2012
Tenpohzan Grand Prix Championship Vacant April 30, 2013

Annual tournaments

Tournament Last winner(s) Date won
Tennozan Zeus December 23, 2013
Osaka Tag Festival Big Guns
(The Bodyguard and Zeus)
June 23, 2013

References

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