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Shunma Katsumata

Katsumata in 2019
Personal information
Born	(1992-09-12)September 12, 1992 (age 33)[2] Kashiwa, Chiba,Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Carousel Shun Shunma Katsumata
Billed height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Billed weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Trained by	Yasu Urano
Debut	2014

Shunma Katsumata (勝俣瞬馬,Katsumata Shunma; born September 12, 1992) is a Japaneseprofessional wrestler working for the Japaneseprofessional wrestling promotionDDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT).^[3]

Katsumata is known for tenures with variousJapanese professional wrestling promotions. On October 10, 2017 atPro Wrestling Noah's The Great Voyage 2017 In Yokohama, he teamed up with Mao as a part of New Wrestling Aidoru and unsuccessfully challenged Ratel's (Hayata andYo-Hey) for theGHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.^[4] He took part in a cross-over event betweenDDT andSendai Girls' Pro Wrestling, at the DDT/Sendai Girls All Out X show on June 24, 2019 where he teamed up withKonosuke Takeshita and Yuki Iino as part of ALL OUT to defeatDash Chisako,Chihiro Hashimoto andMeiko Satomura in asix-person intergender tag team match to win theKO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship.^[5] On March 4, 2018, he worked a match during theWrestle-1's Cherry Blossom Tour in which he lost toJiro Kuroshio.^[6] He also worked forBig Japan Pro Wrestling, competing in variousdeath matches such as a8-man fluorescent lighttube match at BJW Last Buntai ~ Goodbye Yokohama Buntai on September 6, 2020 where he teamed up with Yuki Ishikawa and the 3rd Generation Chimidoro Brothers (Masaya Takahashi &Toshiyuki Sakuda) in a losing effort againstAbdullah Kobayashi,Jaki Numazawa,Ryuji Ito and Takashi Sasaki.^[7]

Katsumata made hisprofessional wrestling debut atJudgement on March 21, 2014 in afive-minute time limit dark match against Suguru Miyatake which ended in a draw.^[8] During his time in DDT Pro-Wrestling, he participated in notable matches such as a 34-man tag team match in which he teamed up with Bernard Ackah, DJ Nira,Daisuke Sasaki,Kota Ibushi, Suguru Miyatake, Gota Ihashi,Michael Nakazawa, Saki Akai,Kudo,Masa Takanashi,Yukio Sakaguchi, Akito,Harashima, Yasu Urano, Super Sasadango Machine and Tomomitsu Matsunaga to defeatBrahman Kei,Brahman Shu, Gorgeous Matsuno, Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita,Tetsuya Endo,Hoshitango, Kota Umeda,Makoto Oishi,Mikami,Shuji Ishikawa, Kazuki Hirata,Sanshiro Takagi,Toru Owashi,Shigehiro Irie, Soma Takao and Yoshihiko at New Year's Gift Special 2015.^[9] He also won theIronman Heavymetalweight Championship for the first time in abattle royal at Saitama Super DDT on February 15, 2015, dethroning the previous champion, Kubo Yumakoto.^[10] On February 28, 2016 atInto The Fight, he teamed up with Kazusada Higuchi and Kouki Iwasaki to capture the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship from T2Hii (Kazusada Higuchi, Sanshiro Takagi and Toru Owashi).^[11] Katsumata won the six-man titles with two other teams. Once with New Wrestling Aidoru (Makoto Oishi and Mao) at theDDT 22nd Anniversary on March 20, 2017 in a three-way tag team match also involving his former team partners Kazusada Higuchi, Kouki Iwasaki and Mizuki Watase;^[12] and once with All Out (Konosuke Takeshita and Yuki Iino) at What Are You Doing on June 24, 2018 after defeating Kota Umeda, Koju Takeda andYuki Ueno.^[13] At Yukemuri Natural Hot Spring Pro Wrestling on February 28, Kastumata won theDDT Extreme Championship in athree-wayFalls Count Anywhere45-minute Iron Man match also involving the champion Sanshiro Takagi and Batten×Burabura.^[14] AtJudgement 2020: DDT 23rd Anniversary on March 20, 2020, he teamed up withHideki Okatani, falling short to Keigo Nakamura and Naomi Yoshimura.^[15]

• DDT Pro-Wrestling

• DDT Extreme Championship (3 times)^[16]
• Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (14 times)^[17]
• KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship (5 times) – withKazusada Higuchi andKouki Iwasaki (1),Makoto Oishi andMao (1),Konosuke Takeshita andAkito (1), Konosuke Takeshita andYuki Iino (1) andYuni andKazuma Sumi (1)^[18]
• KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mao,Yuki Ueno,Toui Kojima andShinya Aoki^[19]
• KO-D Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Konosuke Takeshita (1) andMao (2)^[20]
• Ultimate Tag League (2021) – withKonosuke Takeshita^[21]

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • Ranked No. 394 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in thePWI 500 in 2023^[22]

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