Japanese professional wrestler
Yoshihiro Sakai Muscle Sakai in 2014
Born (1977-11-05 ) November 5, 1977 (age 47) [ 1] Niigata , Japan Ring name(s) Yoshihiro Sakai Muscle Sakai Muscle LesnarSuper Sasadango Machine Billed height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[ 2] Billed weight 120 kg (265 lb) Debut 2002
Yoshihiro Sakai (坂井良宏 , Sakai Yoshihiro , born November 5, 1977) is a Japanese professional wrestler , better known by his ring name Super Sasadango Machine (スーパー・ササダンゴ・マシン , Sūpā Sasadango Mashin ) and is working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT).[ 3]
Professional wrestling career
Dramatic Dream Team/DDT Pro Wrestling (2002–present)
Sakai made his professional wrestling debut for Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) under his real name, Yoshihiro Sakai at a Non-Fix event on June 20, 2002, in a losing effort to Hero! .[ 4]
Sakai was a part of Team Midbreath alongside Sanshiro Takagi (under the name Mr. Strawberry) and Ken Ohka who went under the nickname of O.K. Revolution, and together they were the inaugural Sea Of Japan 6-Person Tag Team Champions after defeating Super Uchuu Power , Tomohiko Hashimoto and Shuji Ishikawa in a tournament final which took place at the I Shall Return event on July 20, 2003.[ 5] [ 6] In 2004, while working under the name Muscle Sakai, he was the main protagonist and producer of the DDT sub-brand Muscle (マッスル , Massuru ) which parodied the style of Hustle (ハッスル , Hassuru ) , a promotion created earlier that year and focused on the sports entertainment aspect of wrestling. Muscle went on to produce 26 shows between 2004 and 2012, a special event with Ken Ohka in 2015, a "Musclemania" event in 2019 and it was then revived as Hiragana Muscle (まっする , (Hiragana) Massuru ) in 2020.[ 7] [ 8]
In 2012, he assumed a masked character by the name of Super Sasadango Machine (a parody of New Japan Pro Wrestling 's Super Strong Machine ).
During his tenure with DDT, he worked alongside various wrestlers and personalities such as Ken Ohka, Ladybeard , LiLiCo and Makoto Oishi with whom he won the KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship at Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2017 on August 20.[ 9] During their reign, Keisuke Ishii replaced Ladybeard in several title defenses such as the one that occurred at God Bless DDT on November 23, 2017, where thet fought Shiro Koshinaka , Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi , Shigehiro Irie and Antonio Honda in a ten-man tag team match to retain the titles.[ 10] On September 27, 2015, at Who's Gonna Top?, Sasadango teamed up with fellow #OhkaEmpire stable members Ken Ohka and Danshoku Dino to defeat Team Dream Futures (Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie and Soma Takao ) for the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship .[ 11] At Ultimate Party 2019 , Sakai teamed up with Jiro Kuroshio , Makoto Oishi, Hiroshi Yamato and Yuna Manase to battle Danshoku Dino, Asuka , Yuki Iino , Mizuki and Trans-Am★Hiroshi in a losing effort for the vacant KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship.[ 12]
Championships and accomplishments
References
^ Saalbach, Axel. "Super Sasadango Machine/General Information" . wrestlingdata.com . Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "Super Sasadango Machine-Personal Data" . cagematch.net (in German). Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ Internet Wrestling Database (IWD). "Yoshihiro Sakai • Profile & Match Listing" . profightdb.com . Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "Events Database » DDT Non-Fix 6/20" . cagematch.net (in German). Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ "DDT Yoshihiro Sakai - I Shall Return" . Wrestlingdata.com . Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
^ "DDT 7/20新潟フェイズ大会~坂井良宏 I Shall Return"その2" . Extreme Party (in Japanese). Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
^ Dark angel (February 22, 2019). "DDT: «Muscle Mania 2019 in Ryogoku» Calm before the storm" . superluchas.com . Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ マッスル観戦記INDEX . Extreme Party (in Japanese). Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ Justin, Dylan (August 23, 2017). "DDT PETER PAN 2017 (AUGUST 20) RESULTS & REVIEW" . voicesofwrestling.com . Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ Justin, Dylan (November 24, 2017). "DDT GOD BLESS DDT 2017 (NOVEMBER 23) RESULTS & REVIEW" . voicesofwrestling.com . Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ Dark angel (September 29, 2015). "DDT: Results «Who's Gonna Top? ~ DDT Dramatic General Election »- 27/09/2015 - Three titles at stake" . superluchas.com . Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ "Ultimate Party 2019~DDTグループ大集合!~" . DDT Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). November 3, 2019. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
^ "DDT Extreme Division Title" . wrestling-titles.com . February 28, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ "Ironman Heavymetalweight Title" . wrestling-titles.com . February 28, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ "Jiyūgaoka 6-person Tag Team Title" . wrestling-titles.com . February 28, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ "KO-D (King Of DDT) 6-man Tag Team Title (Japan)" . wrestling-titles.com . February 28, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ "Champions and Championships" . wrestlingdata.com . Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
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Individual champions
Collective champions (teams, groups)
2010s
Team Drift (Keisuke Ishii , Shigehiro Irie and Soma Takao )
Monster Army (Antonio Honda , Daisuke Sasaki and Yuji Hino )
Golden☆Rendezvous~ (Gota Ihashi , Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi )
Monster Army (Antonio Honda , Hoshitango and Yuji Hino )
Ten Million Gay Powers (Danshoku Dino , Kensuke Sasaki and Makoto Oishi )
Akebono , Sanshiro Takagi and Toru Owashi
Team Homo Sapiens (Aja Kong , Danshoku Dino and Makoto Oishi )
Golden☆Storm Riders (Daisuke Sasaki , Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi )
Shuten-dōji (Kudo , Masa Takanashi/Masahiro Takanashi and Yukio Sakaguchi )
Happy Motel (Antonio Honda , Konosuke Takeshita and Tetsuya Endo )
T2Hii (Kazuki Hirata , Sanshiro Takagi and Toru Owashi )
Genpatsu Daio (Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu and Gorgeous Matsuno )
#OhkaTeikoku (Danshoku Dino , Ken Ohka and Super Sasadango Machine )
#OhkaTeikoku (Danshoku Dino , Kenso and Super Sasadango Machine )
Kazusada Higuchi , Kouki Iwasaki and Shunma Katsumata
Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki , Mad Paulie and Tetsuya Endo )
Team DNA (Kazusada Higuchi , Kouki Iwasaki and Mizuki Watase )
NωA (Makoto Oishi , Mao and Shunma Katsumata )
All Out (Akito , Diego and Konosuke Takeshita )
Koju Takeda , Kota Umeda and Yuki Ueno
All Out (Akito , Shunma Katsumata and Konosuke Takeshita )
Damnation (Tetsuya Endo , Mad Paulie and Soma Takao )
#StrongHearts (Cima , T-Hawk and Duan Yingnan)
All Out (Akito , Konosuke Takeshita and Yuki Iino )
Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling (Chihiro Hashimoto , Dash Chisako and Meiko Satomura )
All Out (Konosuke Takeshita , Shunma Katsumata and Yuki Iino )
2020s
#DamnHearts (Tetsuya Endo , T-Hawk and El Lindaman )
Eruption (Kazusada Higuchi , Yukio Sakaguchi and Saki Akai )
Young Communication Generation (Akito , Kazuki Hirata and Shota )
Damnation (Tetsuya Endo , Soma Takao and Yuji Hino )
Pheromones (Danshoku Dino , Yuki Iino and Yumehito Imanari )
Damnation T.A. (Daisuke Sasaki , Minoru Fujita and MJ Paul )
Damnation T.A. (Daisuke Sasaki , MJ Paul and Kanon ) (current)
Omega (Yuji Hino , Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi )
Naruki Doi , Toru Owashi and Kazuki Hirata
Burning (Tetsuya Endo , Kotaro Suzuki and Yusuke Okada )
Shinya Aoki , Super Sasadango Machine and Yuki Ueno
Harimau (Kazusada Higuchi , Ryota Nakatsu and Yuki Ishida )
Eruption (Yukio Sakaguchi , Saki Akai and Hideki Okatani )
D・O・A (Jun Akiyama , Danshoku Dino and Makoto Oishi )
Smile Squash (Akito , Harashima and Yasu Urano )
2010s 2020s
Shinya Aoki , Super Sasadango Machine , Antonio Honda and Kazuki Hirata
Team Thoroughbred (Sanshiro Takagi , Yukio Naya , Chikara and Yakan Nabe)
Team Olympian (Yoshiaki Yatsu , Akito , Hiroshi Yamato and Keigo Nakamura )
Toru Owashi , Antonio Honda , Kazuki Hirata and Yoshihiko
Poison Sawada Julie , Gentaro , Takashi Sasaki , Mikami and Thanomsak Toba
The37Kamiina (Mao , Yuki Ueno , Shunma Katsumata , Toy Kojima ) and Shinya Aoki
Schadenfreude International (Antonio Honda , Masahiro Takanashi , Takeshi Masada , Mecha Mummy and Chris Brookes )
Keigo Nakamura , To-y , Yuya Koroku, Yuki Ishida and Kazuma Sumi (current)