 Honda in August 2021 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (2000-02-11)February 11, 2000 (age 25)[2] |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name | Ryuki Honda |
| Billed height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)[1] |
| Billed weight | 100 kg (220 lb) |
| Trained by | Wrestle-1 |
| Debut | 2018 |
Ryuki Honda (本田竜輝,Honda Ryūki) is a Japaneseprofessional wrestler working for the JapanesepromotionAll Japan Pro Wrestling where he was formerlyWorld Tag Team Champions in his first reign alongsideShotaro Ashino.[3]
Honda is known for sporadically competing in various promotions of theJapanese independent scene. AtHono Pro-Wrestling Yamato Shinshu, an event promoted byPro Wrestling Zero1 on March 27, 2021, he teamed up with Shuji Ishikawa in a losing effort toEvolution (Dan Tamura andSuwama.[4] AtGleat G PROWRESTLING Ver. 3 on September 1, 2021, Honda teamed up with Koji Iwamoto and Shuji Ishikawa in a losing effort againstCima,Kaz Hayashi andMinoru Tanaka.[5] At2AW Infinity ~ 2021 Autumn, an event promoted byActive Advance Pro Wrestling on September 23, 2021, he teamed up withSeigo Tachibana in a losing effort againstTaishi Takizawa and Takuro Niki.[6]
Honda made his professional wrestling debut inWrestle-1 atW-1 Pro-Wrestling Love In Yokohama 2018 on September 2, event where he teamed up with Hajime in a losing effort against Masayuki Mitomi andRyuji Hijikata.[7] During his two years with the company, he often competed for various titles such as theWrestle-1 Result Championship for which he fought in the semifinals of a tournament against Ganseki Tanaka unsuccessfully atW-1 Pro-Wrestling Love 2018 In Osaka on September 29.[8] Honda participated at the promotion's last show, theW-1 WRESTLE-1 Tour 2020 Trans Magic from April 1, where he competed in a31-man battle royal won byManabu Soya and also involving plenty of the promotion's top athletes such asEl Hijo del Pantera,El Lindaman,Jiro Kuroshio,Yasufumi Nakanoue,Masayuki Kono and many others.[9]
AfterWrestle-1's closure, Honda headed toAll Japan Pro Wrestling, promotion for which he made his debut on the first night of the 2020 edition of theChampions Carnival from September 12 where he teamed up withTakao Omori andBlack Menso-re in a losing effort against Purple Haze (Izanagi,Zeus and Utamaro) as a result of asix-man tag team match.[10] He soon began chasing several of the company's championships. On the third night of theAJPW New Year Wars 2022 from January 23, he fell short toKento Miyahara in a tournament for the vacantTriple Crown Heavyweight Championship.[11] AtAJPW Champions Night 4: 50th Anniversary Tour on June 9, 2022, Honda teamed up with Shotaro Ashino as "Gungnir of Anarchy" and defeated Twin Towers (Shuji Ishikawa andKohei Sato) to win theWorld Tag Team Championship.[12]
Honda is known to compete in various of the promotion's signature events such as theChampion Carnival, making his first appearance at the 2020 edition where he fought in the A block, failing to score any points after competing againstJake Lee,Shuji Ishikawa, Shotaro Ashino,Shigehiro Irie andT-Hawk.[13] Another tournament in which he competed is theŌdō Tournament, where he made his first appearance at the 2021 edition, where he fell short to Hokuto Omori in the first rounds of September 14.[14] At the 2022 edition of the tournament, Honda fell short to Omori again in the first rounds of the competition which took place on August 7.[15] As for theWorld's Strongest Tag Determination League, Honda made his first appearance at the 2021 edition where he teamed up withKoji Iwamoto in the D block where they scored a total of three points after competing against the teams of Kuma Arashi and Koji Doi, Zeus and Shigehiro Irie, and Takao Omori andIsami Kodaka.[16]
On May 29, 2024, Honda challengedNWA World Heavyweight ChampionEC3 for his title, in the first NWA World title match in AJPW in 35 years, and lost.[17]
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