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Akito

Akito in 2020
Personal information
Born	Akito Nishigaki (1987-02-28)February 28, 1987 (age 38)[2] Nagoya,Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring names	Akihiko Nishigaki Akiko Akito Akito "Co-Chin" Nishigaki Cao Zhang
Billed height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Billed weight	84 kg (185 lb)
Debut	2009

Akito Nishigaki (西垣彰人,Nishigaki Akito) is a Japaneseprofessional wrestler, better known by hisring nameAkito (彰人,Akito). He is working for the Japaneseprofessional wrestling promotionDDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT).^[3]

Nishigaki made hisprofessional wrestling debut atSportiva It's Saturday Pro DX !! ~ Tsurumai Muso 09 from November 28, 2009, an event hosted by the Sportiva Entertainment^[4] promotion, where he scored a defeat in front of Kekumo.^[5] He worked for other promotions such asKaientai Dojo, where he worked alongside Michio Kageyama and Toru Sugiura to unsuccessfully challenge Silence (Daigoro Kashiwa, Kaji Tomato andMarines Mask) for theChiba Six Man Tag Team Championship atKaientai Dojo's 10th Anniversary on February 2, 2012.^[6] He also wrestled in cross-over events held betweenDramatic Dream Team,Big Japan Pro Wrestling andKaientai Dojo such as theBJW/ DDT/K-Dojo: Sapporo Pro-Wrestling Festa 2014 on October 14, where he teamed up with Ryuichi Kawakami and Ryuichi Sekine in a losing effort toRyuji Ito,Harashima andKengo Mashimo in asix-man tag team match.^[7] On November 28, 2016, Nishigaki worked a match forTokyo Gurentai at theTokyo Dream 2016 show where he teamed up withCima andMasato Tanaka and scored a victory againstMinoru Fujita,Mazada andKikuzawa.^[8]

Nishigaki worked most of his career inDDT under the name Akito. He is aDDT Extreme Champion, title which he won the first time after defeatingDanshoku Dino in anobody knows rules match at DDT Dramatic General Election 2014 on September 13.^[9] He was a part of the All Out stable, and alongside his fellow stablematesKonosuke Takeshita andDiego, defeated Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki,Mad Paulie andShuji Ishikawa to win theKO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship atDDT Shin-Kiba, I Came Back! from November 2, 2017.^[10] Akito won thechampionship on two more occasions under the stable, first withKonosuke Takeshita andShunma Katsumata after defeatingChihiro Hashimoto,Dash Chisako andMeiko Satomura at theDDT/Sendai Girls All Out X Sendai Girls Pro Wrestling^[11] event on June 24, 2019, and the other time also withTakeshita and Yuki Ino atDDT Live! Maji Manji Super - New Year Special on January 3, 2019, scoring a victory against #StrongHearts (Cima,T-Hawk and Duan Yingnan).^[12] He is a multiple timeIronman Heavymetalweight Champion, last time winning it atDDT You Can Get A Lot Of Protein From Peanuts! on September 7, 2019 when he teamed up withKonosuke Takeshita to take on Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki andPuma King) in atag team match in which he pinned the latter to win the contest and the title.^[13]

• DDT Pro-Wrestling

• DDT Extreme Championship (5 times)^[14]
• Greater China Unified Zhongyuan Tag Team Championship (1 time) – withChoun Shiryu^[15][16]
• Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (6 times)^[17]
• KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship (5 times) – withKonosuke Takeshita andDiego (1), Konosuke Takeshita andShunma Katsumata (1), Konosuke Takeshita andYuki Iino (1),Kazuki Hirata andShota (1) and Harashima andYasu Urano (1)^[18]
• KO-D 8-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – withYoshiaki Yatsu,Hiroshi Yamato andKeigo Nakamura^[19]

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated

• Ranked No. 264 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in thePWI 500 in 2015^[20]

• Akito's profile atCagematch,Wrestlingdata,Internet Wrestling Database

• 1987 births
• Living people
• Japanese male professional wrestlers
• Aichi Shukutoku University alumni
• 21st-century male professional wrestlers
• 21st-century Japanese professional wrestlers
• DDT Extreme Champions
• Ironman Heavymetalweight Champions
• KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions
• KO-D 8-Man/10-Man Tag Team Champions

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