Yuki Ueno
Ueno in September 2019
Born (1995-09-01) September 1, 1995
Yao, Osaka, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Yuki Ueno
Billed height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Billed weight78 kg (172 lb)
Debut2016[2]

Yuki Ueno (上野勇希, Ueno Yūki) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), where he is the current KO-D Openweight Champion in his first reign.[3]

Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit (2016–present)

Ueno made his professional wrestling debut at the 2016 edition of "Who's Gonna Top?" in a time-limit draw dark match against Akito.[4] Throughout his career so far, he has worked mostly for DDT, but had several matches for other promotions such as Dradition where he worked alongside famous wrestlers such as Masato Tanaka, Yukio Sakaguchi and Super Tiger II.[5]

In May 2017, he was a participant in Kaientai Dojo's K-Metal League Tournament of which he reached but ultimately lost the final against Go Asakawa.[6]

He won the first title of his career at DDT's 21st Anniversary show, the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship with Koju Takeda and Kota Umeda after defeating Shuten-Dōji (Kudo, Masahiro Takanashi and Yukio Sakaguchi) in a six-man tag team match.[7] He also won the KO-D Tag Team Championship with his tag team partner Naomi Yoshimura at DDT's 2020 New Year Special after defeating Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki and Soma Takao).[8] Ueno defeated Chris Brookes at Ultimate Party 2020 to win the DDT Universal Championship on November 11.[9] He is also a six-time holder of the comedic Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, winning it for the first time at DDT Beer Garden 2019 after drinking a beer can.[10] At Judgement 2020: DDT 23rd Anniversary, on March 20, 2020, Ueno teamed up with fellow Disaster Box stablemates Naomichi Marufuji and Harashima to defeat All Out (Akito, Yuki Iino and Royce Chambers).[11]

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ↑ Saalbach, Axel. "Yuki Ueno/General Information". wrestlingdata.com. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  2. ↑ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "Yuki Ueno-Career Data". cagematch.de (in German). Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Yuki Ueno • Profile & Match Listing". profightdb.com. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  4. ↑ Dark, Angel (September 27, 2016). "DDT: Results «DDT Dramatic General Election 2016 - The Last Hope» - 25/09/2016 - Shuji Ishikawa imposes his law". superluchas.com. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  5. ↑ Dradition.jp. "Dradition Raging Outlaw Tour In Tokyo "Hiro Saito 40th Anniversary"". pwresults.com. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  6. ↑ "K-DOJO K-Metal League 2017 (29. April 2017 to 7. May 2017)". www.wrestlingdata.com. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  7. ↑ Voices Of Wrestling (March 22, 2018). "DDT JUDGEMENT 2018 (DDT 21ST ANNIVERSARY) PREVIEW & PREDICTIONS". voicesofwrestling.com. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  8. ↑ Da, Tigerman (January 3, 2020). "RISULTATI: DDT NEW YEAR SPECIAL 2020! ALL SEATS 2000 YEN SHOW 03/01/2020". zonawrestling.net (in Italian). Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  9. ↑ Glasier, Robert (November 2, 2020). "Preview: DDT Ultimate Party 2020 (11/3/20)". lastwordonsports.com. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  10. ↑ Dark angel (August 13, 2019). "DDT: «Fighting Beer Garden 2019» The Iron Man Heavy Metal at stake". en.superluchas.com. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  11. ↑ DDT Pro-Wrestling (March 20, 2020). "Judgement2020～DDT旗揚げ23周年記念大会～". ddtpro.com (in Japanese). Retrieved April 1, 2021.
  12. ↑ Wrestling Titles (May 29, 2021). "DDT Universal Title (Japan)". wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  13. ↑ "KO-D (King Of DDT) Tag Team Title (Japan)". wrestling-titles.com. October 25, 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  14. ↑ "KO-D (King Of DDT) 6-man Tag Team Title (Japan)". wrestling-titles.com. March 14, 2021. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  15. ↑ KO-D8人タッグ／KO-D10人タッグ選手権. Syu-Kaku Kombu (in Japanese). Retrieved June 25, 2022.
  16. ↑ "Ironman Heavymetalweight Title History". wrestling-titles.com. February 28, 2021. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  17. ↑ DDT Pro-Wrestling (December 4, 2022). "DDT ProWrestling" D王 GRAND PRIX 2022 the FINAL. ddtpro.com (in Japanese). Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  18. ↑ "Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 2021 - the Internet Wrestling Database".
  19. ↑ １０年ぶり開催のディファカップでＤＤＴ・竹下組がＶ. Tokyo Sports (in Japanese). November 29, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
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