Active Advance Pro Wrestling
Active Advance Pro Wrestling (2AW for short) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion and training facility originally owned and promoted by Taka Michinoku. The promotion places emphasis on a style of puroresu that combines high-flying, technical wrestling and martial arts. The promotion was originally called Kaientai Dojo (or K-DOJO for short).
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| Acronym | 2AW |
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| Founded | 2002 |
| Style | Puroresu |
| Headquarters | Japan |
| Founder(s) | Taka Michinoku |
| Formerly | Kaientai Dojo (K-DOJO) |
This style was largely contributed to by Taka Michinoku and is gaining popularity in Japan and abroad. K-DOJO is also heavily influenced by American-style wrestling and places a large amount of importance on presentation. For instance, each Club-K 3000 show that K-DOJO runs is equipped with a large screen near the entrance gate, similar to the Titantron, where a short introductory vignette is played during each wrestler's entrance and where the crowd can follow the action on-screen.
They had a home building that doubles as their training facility, Chiba Blue Field, where all of their Club-K 3000 shows were held; in December 2011, the building was bought by all Women's professional wrestling promotion Universal Woman's Pro Wrestling Reina, but K-Dojo continues to run shows from the renamed Reina Arena.[1] On April 1, 2013, the arena was again renamed Blue Field.
History
Kaientai Dojo originated in 2000 as a small wrestling school in Puerto Rico run by Taka Michinoku. After Taka returned to Japan in 2002, he established the Japanese branch of Kaientai Dojo, which would soon become a wrestling promotion. The small federation grew over the years and is now an independent league that runs as a promotion, wrestling school and talent loan organization to various other leagues such as AJPW, Dragon Gate and Michinoku Pro.
Until recently, K-DOJO was separated into two distinct sides, GET and RAVE, which ran separate shows but often joined together during large shows and tours. GET was led by Taka Michinoku while RAVE's leader was Hi69. After Hi69's departure, Taka Michinoku became commissioner of RAVE and 296 became commissioner of GET. On April 22, 2007, RAVE ran its last show; the two brands merged and now run joint shows.
A particular aspect of K-DOJO is that it is one of the few wrestling promotions to feature both men and women. Women can wrestle in the same ring as men, either during mixed tag matches or even singles matches. Also, they can challenge for championship belts, something that would be unheard of in most wrestling promotions.
In November 2018, it became known that Taka Michinoku had an eight-year-long extramarital relationship with a woman. After this scandal, the promotion fired him and sanctioned him for one year without payment.[2]
In April 2019, the promotion announced that they were rebranding as Active Advance Pro Wrestling (2AW for short). This came as the company attempted to rebrand themselves after the Taka Michinoku scandal, also changing their colors to black & white. That same night, young wrestler Ayato Yoshida won the Strongest-K Championship, symbolically leading the company into the future.[3]
On January 10, 2020, it was announced that 2AW is now part of the Allied Independent Wrestling Federations as their Japanese affiliate.[4]
Roster
Championships
Current
| Championship | Current champion(s) | Reign | Date won | Days held | Defenses | Location | Notes |
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| 2AW Openweight Championship | Yuji Okabayashi | 1 | March 25, 2020 | 143+ | 1 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2AW Tag Team Championship | Ayumu Honda and Taishi Takizawa | 1 | June 9, 2020 | 67+ | 0 | Chiba, Japan | |
| AIWF World Heavyweight Championship | Kevin Phoenix | 1 | August 24, 2019 | 357+ | Mount Airy, North Carolina | ||
| Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship | Keisuke Ishii | 2 | September 28, 2019 | 322+ | 2 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Shuichiro Katsumura at DDT Ganbare Pro I Do Not Need A Comic Magazine! 2019. |
| UWA World Middleweight Championship | Kyu Mogami | 1 | June 20, 2019 | 422+ | 0 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Fuminori Abe. |
| UWA World Tag Team Championship | Yapper Man 1 and Yapper Man 2 | 5 (5, 5) |
October 19, 2019 | 301+ | 0 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Ikuto Hikada and Minoru Fujita at Michinoku 2019 Tokyo Conference Vol. 6. |
| Chiba 6-Man Tag Team Championship | Ayumu Honda, Kyu Mogami and Taishi Takizawa | 1 (3, 3, 1) |
January 10, 2020 | 218+ | 0 | Tokyo, Japan |
Chiba Six Man Tag Team Championship
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| Promotion | Active Advance Pro Wrestling Kaientai Dojo | ||||||||||||||||
| Date established | April 30, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Ayumu Honda, Kyu Mogami and Taishi Takizawa | ||||||||||||||||
| Date won | January 10, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
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The Chiba Six Man Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship promoted by the Japanese promotion Active Advance Pro Wrestling. It was previously known as promoted by Kaientai Dojo, promotion which changed its name to 2AW Pro Wrestling, owned by Taka Michinoku until 2019. The championship is contested for by teams of three wrestlers and like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a match with a predetermined outcome. There have been eighteen reigns, shared among fifteen teams with 33 different champions and two vacancies. The current champions are Hiro Tonai, Shiori Asahi and Yuki Sato who are in their first reign as a tag team.
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | Little Galaxy (Hiro Tonai, Shiori Asahi and Yuki Sato) |
April 30, 2011 | Club-K Tour In Osaka | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 140 | Defeated Kaiji Tomato, Marines Mask and Taishi Takizawa to become the inaugural champions. | |
| 2 | Bambi, Ricky Fuji and Yuji Hino | September 17, 2011 | Live event | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 92 | ||
| 3 | Silence (Daigoro Kashiwa, Kaji Tomato and Marines Mask) |
December 18, 2011 | K-Special Chiba BlueField Final Show | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 97 | ||
| 4 | Isami Kodaka, Kengo Mashimo and Taka Michinoku | March 24, 2012 | Live event | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 63 | ||
| — | Vacated | May 26, 2012 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 5 | Satoshi, Shoichi Uchida and Tadanobu Fujisawa | June 17, 2012 | Live event | Osaka, Japan | 1 | N/A | The length of this reign is uncertain. | |
| — | Deactivated | N/A | — | — | — | — | The titles were abandoned and deactivated under unknown circumstances somewhere between the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013. | |
| 6 | Dinosaur Takuma, Kotaro Yoshino and Yuma | April 22, 2018 | 16th Anniversary Club-K Super Evolution 16 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 98 | Defeated Aki Shizuku, Bambi & Makoto; Go Asakawa, Kaji Tomato & Marines Mask; Kasai, Kelly Sixx & One Man Kru and Carbell Ito, Ricky Fuji & Yoshihiro Horaguchi in a five-way gauntlet match to win the reactivated vacant titles. | |
| 7 | Ayumu Honda, Kyu Mogami and Yuki Sato (2) | July 29, 2018 | GRAND SLAM In TKP Garden City Chiba | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 148 | ||
| 8 | Chojin Yusha G Valion, Dinosaur Takuma (2) and Kotaro Yoshino (2) | December 24, 2018 | K-SPECIAL Final Show Of The Year | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 48 | ||
| 9 | Ayato Yoshida, Tank Nagai and Tatsuya Hanami | February 10, 2019 | GRAND SLAM In Blue Field | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 130 | ||
| 10 | Rasse, Yapper Man I and Yapper Man II | June 20, 2019 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 23 | ||
| 11 | Muno Taiyo (Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu and The Great Sasuke) |
July 13, 2019 | Michinoku Pro Sunzen Shakuma Day 1 | Yahaba, Japan | 1 | 1 | ||
| 12 | Rasse, Yapper Man I and Yapper Man II | July 14, 2019 | Michinoku Pro Sunzen Shakuma Day 2 | Sendai, Japan | 2 | 35 | ||
| 13 | Muno Taiyo (Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu and The Great Sasuke) |
August 18, 2019 | Michinoku Pro Summer Vacation Series 2019 Day 7 | Tsuruoka, Japan | 2 | 6 | ||
| 14 | Rasse, Yapper Man I and Yapper Man II | August 24, 2019 | Michinoku Pro Michinoku 2019 Tokyo Conference Vol. 5 | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 8 | ||
| 15 | Ayumu Honda (2), Kunio Toshima and Kyu Mogami (2) | September 1, 2019 | GRAND SLAM In Korakuen Hall | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 40 | ||
| 16 | Chango, Dinosaur Takuma (3) and Kaji Tomato (2) | October 11, 2019 | GRAND SLAM In Shinkiba | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 30 | ||
| 17 | Ayato Yoshida (2), Kotaro Yoshino (2) and Tank Nagai (2) | November 10, 2019 | GRAND SLAM In TKP Garden City Chiba | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 61 | ||
| 18 | Ayumu Honda (3), Kyu Mogami (3) and Taishi Takizawa | January 10, 2020 | GRAND SLAM In Shinkiba | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 218+ | [5] | |
Combined reigns
As of August 15, 2020.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|---|
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain |
| Rank | Team | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ayumu Honda, Kyu Mogami and Taishi Takizawa † | 1 | 218+ |
| 2 | Ayumu Honda, Kyu Mogami and Yuki Sato | 1 | 148 |
| 3 | Little Galaxy (Hiro Tonai, Shiori Asahi and Yuki Sato) | 1 | 140 |
| 4 | Ayato Yoshida, Tank Nagai and Tatsuya Hanami | 1 | 130 |
| 5 | Dinosaur Takuma, Kotaro Yoshino and Yuma | 1 | 98 |
| 6 | Silence (Daigoro Kashiwa, Kaji Tomato and Marines Mask) | 1 | 97 |
| 7 | Bambi, Ricky Fuji and Yuji Hino | 1 | 92 |
| 8 | Rasse, Yapper Man I and Yapper Man II | 3 | 74 |
| 9 | Isami Kodaka, Kengo Mashimo and Taka Michinoku | 1 | 63 |
| 10 | Ayato Yoshida, Kotaro Yoshino and Tank Nagai | 1 | 61 |
| 11 | Chojin Yusha G Valion, Dinosaur Takuma and Kotaro Yoshino | 1 | 48 |
| 12 | Ayumu Honda, Kunio Toshima and Kyu Mogami | 1 | 40 |
| 13 | Chango, Dinosaur Takuma and Kaji Tomato | 1 | 30 |
| 14 | Muno Taiyo (Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu and The Great Sasuke) | 2 | 7 |
| 15 | Satoshi, Shoichi Uchida and Tadanobu Fujisawa | 1 | ¤N/A |
By wrestler
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ayumu Honda † | 3 | 405+ |
| Kyu Mogami † | 3 | 405+ | |
| 3 | Yuki Sato | 2 | 288 |
| 4 | Ayato Yoshida | 2 | 191 |
| Tank Nagai | 2 | 191 | |
| 6 | Dinosaur Takuma | 3 | 176 |
| 7 | Taishi Takizawa † | 1 | 218+ |
| 8 | Hiro Tonai | 1 | 140 |
| Shiori Asahi | 1 | 140 | |
| 10 | Tatsuya Hanami | 1 | 130 |
| 11 | Kaji Tomato | 2 | 127 |
| 12 | Kotaro Yoshino | 2 | 109 |
| 13 | Yuma | 1 | 98 |
| 14 | Marines Mask | 1 | 97 |
| 15 | Bambi | 1 | 92 |
| Ricky Fuji | 1 | 92 | |
| Yuji Hino | 1 | 92 | |
| 18 | Rasse | 3 | 74 |
| Yapper Man I | 3 | 74 | |
| Yapper Man II | 3 | 74 | |
| 21 | Isami Kodaka | 1 | 63 |
| Kengo Mashimo | 1 | 63 | |
| Taka Michinoku | 1 | 63 | |
| 24 | Chojin Yusha G Valion | 1 | 48 |
| 25 | Kunio Toshima | 1 | 40 |
| 26 | Chango | 1 | 30 |
| 27 | Brahman Kei | 2 | 7 |
| Brahman Shu | 2 | 7 | |
| The Great Sasuke | 2 | 7 | |
| 30 | Satoshi | 1 | ¤N/A |
| Shoichi Uchida | 1 | ¤N/A | |
| Tadanobu Fujisawa | 1 | ¤N/A |
Defunct
| Championship: | Final champion(s): | Date won: |
|---|---|---|
| Strongest-K Championship | Ayato Yoshida | April 13, 2019 |
| Strongest-K Tag Team Championship | Kaji Tomato and Taishi Takizawa | April 13, 2019 |
| UWA/UWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship | Kazma and Kengo Mashimo | March 5, 2006 |
| WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship | Kunio Toshima and Yuma | April 17, 2016 |
| Kitakami 6-Man Tag Team Championship | Kengo Mashimo, Tank Nagai and Yuki Sato | May 22, 2016 |
Annual tournaments
| Tournament | Latest winner: | Date won: |
|---|---|---|
| Bo-so Golden Tag Tournament | Ayato Yoshida and Kyu Mogami | January 29, 2017 |
| K-Metal League | Marines Mask | May 6, 2018 |
| Kaio Tournament | Kengo Mashimo | August 26, 2018 |
References
- "千葉BlueField名称変更のお知らせ". Kaientai Dojo (in Japanese). December 10, 2011. Archived from the original on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
- https://www.solowrestling.com/new/75985-taka-michinoku-es-despedido-como-director-de-kdojo
- "KAIENTAI DOJO 17周年記念大会 GRAND SLAM in 後楽園ホール | KAIENTAI DOJO". www.k-dojo.co.jp. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- "Welcome 2AW of Japan to AIWF Wrestling Family!". January 10, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
- https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=4497
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