 Isaka in February 2023 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1998-09-21)September 21, 1998 (age 27)[2] |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Sachihiro Isaka Leo Isaka |
| Billed height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in)[1] |
| Trained by | Chigusa Nagayo |
| Debut | 2017 |
Leo Isaka (井坂レオ,Isaka Reo) is a Japaneseprofessional wrestler currently signed to the JapanesepromotionMarvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling.[3] He is also known for his tenure withPro Wrestling Zero1 where he is the currentWorld Junior Heavyweight Champion andInternational Junior Heavyweight Champion in his first reign with both titles.[4]
Despite being a male competitor, Isaka made hisprofessional wrestling in ajoshi promotion,Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling. He wrestled his first ever match atMarvelous 1st Anniversary on April 15, 2017, where he fell short toDick Togo in asingles competition.[5]
Due to Marvelous holding business partnerships with various promotions from theJapanese independent scene, Isaka competed in many cross-over events or other strictly promoted ones by both male and joshi promotions. AtDiana/CRYSIS ASUKA Produce, an event produced by World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana on March 28, 2021, he teamed up withCherry andKyoko Inoue to defeatGuts Ishijima,Kazuki andMegumi Yabushita in aintergender six-person tag team match.[6] AtDDT DAMNATION Produce Illegal Assembly Returns Vol. 4, an event produced byDDT Pro-Wrestling on July 26, 2021, he fell short toTetsuya Endo insingles competition.[7] AtMarvelous/WAVE Fusion ~ Tommy 40th Anniversary from October 1, 2021, he fell short toShunma Katsumata.[8] AtBASARA 170 ~ Hojiro, an event promoted byPro-Wrestling Basara on September 20, 2021, he teamed up with Sento Minzoku (Daiki Shimomura andIsami Kodaka) to defeatFuminori Abe,Takumi Tsukamoto andYasu Urano in asix-man tag team match.[9]
Isaka made his debut inPro Wrestling Zero1 atZERO1/Super Fireworks Fireworks Dream Series ~ The Birth of Team on May 7, 2017, where he fell short toIkuto Hidaka.[10] AtZERO1 Tochigi Pro-Wrestling Halloween Smile Festival on November 30, 2022, he teamed up withShoki Kitamura to unsuccessfully challengeJunya Matsunaga and Takafumi for theIntercontinental Tag Team Championship (Zero1).[11] During his time in the company, he chased for various championships promoted by it. AtZero1 Happy New Year 2023 on January 1, he defeated Astroman to win both theWorld Junior Heavyweight Championship and theInternational Junior Heavyweight Championship which were sanctioned together.[12]
He is known for competing in one of the promotion's signature events, theFurinkazan tournament. He made his first appearance at the 2022 edition where he teamed up withShoki Kitamura and fell short to Kubota Brothers (Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota) in the first rounds from November 11.[13] Another event in which he previously competed is theTenkaichi Junior Tournament in which he made his first appearance at the 2021 edition where he defeated Genta Hiriki in the first rounds but fell short to Hide Kubota in the second ones.[14] At the 2022 edition of the tournament, Isaka competed in the block A where he scored a total of ten points after going against Shoki Kitamura,Yoshikazu Yokoyama,Astroman andJun Masaoka.[15]
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