Yuni

Yuni in January 2024
Personal information
Born	(2008-02-08)February 8, 2008 (age 18)[2] Osaka, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring names	Yuni El Unicorn
Billed height	160 cm (5 ft 3 in)[1]
Billed weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Trained by	Makoto Oishi
Debut	2016

Yuni (夢虹,Yuni) is a Japaneseprofessional wrestler working for the JapanesepromotionDDT Pro-Wrestling where he is one third of the currentKO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions in his current reign. He is known for being one of the youngest debuting male wrestlers of all time, as well as one of the youngest recognized champions in professional wrestling.^[3][4]

Yuni (written inhiragana asゆに) made hisprofessional wrestling debut at the early age of 8, inDDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), at Osaka Octopus 2016 on December 4, where he teamed up withShigehiro Irie andYasu Urano, picking up a victory over New Wrestling Aidoru (Makoto Oishi,Mao andShunma Katsumata). Over his debut, Yuni was compared to other early-starting wrestlers such asRam Kaicho andRiho who also debuted under the age of ten.^[5]

On March 20, 2017, atJudgement, Yuni teamed up withJaguar Yokota,Keisuke Ishii andMasahiro Takanashi to defeatToru Owashi,Kazuki Hirata,Antonio Honda andLadybeard.^[6] On August 5, at Beer Garden Fight, he foughtDaiki Shimomura to atime limit draw in his firstsingles bout, adark match with a 3-minute time limit.^[7] Yuni is a former multiple-timeIronman Heavymetalweight Champion, having won the title for the first time at Who's Gonna Top?, on September 24, where he defeated his trainer Makoto Oishi for the belt, making him one of the youngest recognized champions in theJapanese independent scene.^[8]

AtJudgement 2019: DDT 22nd Anniversary on February 17, he participated in aRumble rules match for the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship won bySaki Akai and also involving other notable opponents, both male and female such asEl Lindaman,Mina Shirakawa,Gorgeous Matsuno,Asuka,Gota Ihashi,Hoshitango andYuka Sakazaki.^[9]

On January 13, 2020, at Wrestle Tororokobu!, Yuni teamed withTetsuya Endo in a losing effort to Disaster Box (Toru Owashi andYuki Ueno), dropping the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship to Ueno in the process.^[10] He then went on a hiatus.

In July 2021, DDT unveiled their DDTeeeen!! brand, focused on younger wrestlers recruited through a talent scouting program.^[11] Yuni wrestled for the brand as the masked El Unicorn, with his real identity being kept secret.^[12] His first appearance as El Unicorn was on August 21, atWrestle Peter Pan 2021, where he teamed withHarashima,Naomi Yoshimura, Raimu Imai andYusuke Okada, and defeated the team of Ilusion,Mizuki Watase,Tamura,Yuji Okabayashi andYuki Iino.

On March 21, 2023, in the pre-show ofJudgement, El Unicorn had his DDTeeeen!! graduation match in which he teamed with Raimu Imai in a losing effort to Ilusion and Munetatsu Nakamura. After the match, he unmasked. The next day, during a press conference, he announced he would revert to his real name Yuni, written as夢虹 (lit. 'dream rainbow').[13]

On April 9, 2023, at April Fool 2023, Yuni re-debuted in-ring by facing Yuki Ueno in a losing effort.^[14]

• DDT Pro-Wrestling
  • KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – withShunma Katsumata andKazuma Sumi
  • Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (10 times)^[15]

• Yuni's profile atCagematch,Wrestlingdata,Internet Wrestling Database
• Yuni's profile onDDT's website
• Yuni onTwitter

• 2008 births
• Living people
• Japanese male professional wrestlers
• 21st-century male professional wrestlers
• 21st-century Japanese professional wrestlers
• Professional wrestlers from Osaka Prefecture
• Ironman Heavymetalweight Champions
• KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions

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