.jpg) Ikeda (left) in March 2020 atwXw Ambition 12, wrestlingYuki Ishikawa | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1968-02-13)February 13, 1968 (age 57) |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name | Daisuke Ikeda |
| Billed height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Billed weight | 105 kg (231 lb) |
| Trained by | Yoshiaki Fujiwara |
| Debut | December 5, 1993 |
Daisuke Ikeda (池田 大輔,Ikeda Daisuke; born February 13, 1968) is aJapaneseprofessional wrestler who is currently wrestling in theIndependent circuit in Japan. Since debuting in 1993, Ikeda has worked for a number of promotions in Japan, includingBattlarts,All Japan Pro Wrestling,Pro Wrestling Noah andFrontier Martial Arts Wrestling (FMW).
Ikeda was trained byYoshiaki Fujiwara and joined Fujiwara's promotionFujiwara Gumi in 1993. In 1994, representing Fujiwara Gumi, he fought forFighting Network RINGS in his onlymixed martial arts fight againstTsuyoshi Kosaka in a losing effort. In 1995 he moved toBattlARTS. As one of the few heavyweights competing in a promotion made up mostly of junior heavyweights (compareJinsei Shinzaki in Michinoku Pro Wrestling), he often had to look out of the promotion for challenges, including Shinzaki andFMW talent such asHayabusa,Masato Tanaka, andHiromichi Fuyuki.
In 1997 he started making appearances inAll Japan Pro Wrestling, and finally in early 2000 he joined the promotion as a full-time worker.
He did not stay long as later that year he left forMitsuharu Misawa's new promotionPro Wrestling Noah. He briefly joined Misawa'sWave faction, but left soon after. On June 1, 2004 he beatTakeshi Morishima for the WLW Heavyweight Championship. In December 2004 he announced his departure from Noah. He now wrestles in the JapaneseIndependent circuit, and runs his own promotion, Fu-Ten Promotion.
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