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 Kato in February 2018 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Born | (1998-01-02)2 January 1998 (age 28)[2] |
| Professional wrestling career | |
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| Billed height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1] |
| Billed weight | 95 kg (209 lb) |
| Debut | 2018 |
| Retired | 2023 |
Takuho Kato (加藤拓歩,Katō Takuho) is a Japanese retiredprofessional wrestler, best known for his tenure with Japanese promotionBig Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a formerYokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Champion.[3]
Kato made hisprofessional wrestling debut inBig Japan Pro Wrestling atBJW New Year 2018 on January 2, where he teamed up withTakuya Nomura in a losing effort against Masaki Morihio andYuya Aoki in tag team competition.[4]
During his five-year tenure with the promotion, Kato chased for various championships owned by it. He won only one title in his career, theYokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Championship on October 3, 2019, at ahouse show alongside Daisuke Sekimoto and Akira Hyodo by defeatingAbdullah Kobayashi,Kankuro Hoshino, andYuko Miyamoto for the vacant titles.[5] Their reign lasted for 450 days with a total of five successful defenses.[1] At ahouse show from September 8, 2019, Kato teamed up withYuji Okabayashi to unsuccessfully challenge Daisuke Sekimoto andThe Bodyguard for theBJW Tag Team Championship.[6] AtBJW Weekday Premium on October 1, 2021, Kato teamed up with Hiroyuki Suzuki to unsuccessfully challenge Astronauts (Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura) for theIron Fist Tag Team Championship, titles promoted byPro-Wrestling Basara.[7]
Kato competed in several signature events of the promotion. As for theIkkitousen Strong Climb, he made his only appearance at the 2022 edition in which he competed in the A Block againstYasufumi Nakanoue,Hideyoshi Kamitani, Yuji Okabayashi, Takuya Nomura andKota Sekifuda, scoring a total of two points.[8] In theSaikyo Tag League, Kato made his first appearance at the 2019 edition of the tournament in which he teamed up with Akira Hyodo in the A Block where they failed to score any points after competing against the teams ofShigehiro Irie and Yuji Okabayashi, Okami (Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani),Kazumi Kikuta andRyuichi Kawakami, Daisuke Sekimoto and The Bodyguard,Ryota Hama and Yasufumi Nakanoue, StrongHearts (El Lindaman andT-Hawk), and Astronauts (Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura).[9] He marked his last appearance at the 2022 edition in which he teamed up with Hiroyuki Suzuki and scored a total of ten points in the A Block which was enough to qualify them into the semifinals. In the Block A, they fought against the teams of Astronauts (Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura), Yasufumi Nakanoue andAndy Wu, Yankee Two Kenju (Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto),Kohei Sato and Kazumi Kikuta, Kota Sekifuda andTomato Kaji,Masaya Takahashi andMasked GO!GOGO,Ryuji Ito andJaki Numazawa, and Daisuke Sekimoto and Kazumasa Yoshida. In the semifinals, Kato and Suzuki fell short to Abdullah Kobayashi and Daiju Wakamatsu.[10]
Due to BJW holding multiple business partnerships with various promotions from the Japanese independent circuit, Kato often made external appearances as a developmental talent.[1] InKaientai Dojo, he competed in the 2018 edition of the K-Metal League in which he defeatedTatsuya Hanami, Marines Mask, Shinichiro Wakita and Kelly Sixx to make it to the finals where he fell short to Marines Mask.[11]
Kato also competed several times forAll Japan Pro Wrestling. AtAJPW Summer Explosion Series 2019 on September 3, he teamed up with Akira Hyodo andYuki Ishikawa in a losing effort againstAtsuki Aoyagi,Dan Tamura andYusuke Okada.[12] Kato briefly returned to the promotion three years later and competed atAJPW Excite Series 2022 on February 23, where he teamed up with Kazumasa Yoshida in a losing effort against Dan Tamura andRyuji Hijikata.[13]
Kato retired from professional wrestling on September 28, 2023.[14]
