Tsukamoto in September 2015 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1991-01-06)January 6, 1991 (age 34)[3] |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Angus Tsukamoto Takumi Tsukamoto |
| Billed height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] |
| Billed weight | 91 kg (201 lb) |
| Trained by | Daisuke Sekimoto |
| Debut | 2009[2] |
Takumi Tsukamoto (塚本拓海,Tsukamoto Takumi) is aJapaneseprofessional wrestler currently working for Japaneseprofessional wrestling promotionBig Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW).[4]
AtBJW World Triangle Night In Korakuen, a cross-over event held betweenBig Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW),Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) andCombat Zone Wrestling (CZW) on July 30, 2012, Tsukamoto teamed up withKazuki Hashimoto andMen's Teioh to defeatTrent Seven, Atsushi Ohashi and MK McKinnan.[5] Tsukamoto took place in theCZW Tournament of Death 12, an event promoted byCombat Zone Wrestling on June 18, 2013, where he competed into apain of glass first-round match in which he defeatedD. J. Hyde, and into afluorescent lighttube semi-final match where he fell short toDanny Havoc.[6] Tsukamoto participated at theTokyo Gurentai Tokyo Carnival 2018 on September 26, 2018, where he teamed up withYuko Miyamoto, replacing an injuredIsami Kodaka in aTokyo Intercontinental Tag Team Championship defense againstMasaaki Mochizuki andRocky Kawamura against whom they fell short.[7] He also worked forAll Japan Pro Wrestling, participating atAJPW Super Power Series 2016 from May 21, where he teamed up withMasashi Takeda as B Faultless Junky's andAtsushi Maruyama to defeatMasanobu Fuchi,Sushi andYohei Nakajima in asix-man tag team match.[8] AtBASARA 132 ~ Koo ~ on September 8, 2020, Tsukamoto teamed up withYasu Urano to unsuccessfully challenge Speed Of Sounds (Banana Senga andTsutomu Oosugi) for theIron Fist Tag Team Championship.[9] AtDDT Ultimate Party 2019 from November 3, Tsukamoto teamed up withYasu Urano and Takato Nakano to successfully defend theirUWA World Trios Championship in athree-way tag team match against Damnation (Tetsuya Endo,Mad Paulie and Nobuhiro Shimatani) andKen Ohka, Yumehito Imanari and Miss Mongol.[10]
Tsukamoto made his official debut as aprofessional wrestler atBJW/OZ Academy Asahikawa Pro-Wrestling Festival, a cross-over event promoted byBig Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) andjoshi promotionOz Academy on September 22, 2009, where he fell short toKazuki Hashimoto.[11] He participated in one of the longest matches inprofessional wrestling history, a108-man battle royal atTenka Sanbun no Kei: New Year's Eve Special, a cross-over event held betweenBig Japan Pro Wrestling,Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) andKaientai Dojo (K-Dojo) from December 31, 2009, competing against other infamous wrestlers such asKota Ibushi,Taka Michinoku,Kenny Omega,Kankuro Hoshino,[12] and the winner of the match,Jun Kasai.[13] At a BJW'shouse show from January 25, 2018, Tsukamoto teamed up withMasashi Takeda as Crazy Lovers to defeatAbdullah Kobayashi andRyuji Ito in afluorescent lighttubes death match to win theBJW Tag Team Championship.[14] AtBJW 2021 New Year on January 2, Tsukamoto defeatedMinoru Fujita in abarbed wire death match to win theBJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship.[15]