is a

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professional wrestler Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring o ...

primarily working for

DDT Pro-Wrestling is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Its name stands for Dramatic Dream Team, which was the promotion's official name from 1997 to 2004. Founded in March 1997 by Shintaro Muto, the promotion was eventually bo ...

(DDT), where he competes as part of the Damnation T.A unit under the ring name . He was previously known under the name .

Professional wrestling career

Style-E, IGF and BJW (2003–2016)

After training at

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's U-File Camp, Shibata debuted in December 2003 and primarily competed in Style-E for the next few years. In March 2007, he received his first opportunity at the Style-E Openweight Championship, unsuccessfully challenging

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. In December, he once again challenged for the title, this time losing to Kazuhiro Tamura. In March 2012, Shibata teamed up with Shota to unsuccessfully challenge DDT's

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and Soma Takao for the

KO-D Tag Team Championship The is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the Japanese promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). The title was established in 2001. In its early days, DDT occasionally referred to the title as the . It is currently the only tag te ...

. In June, Shibata once again unsuccessfully challenged for the Style-E Openweight Championship, losing to Kenichiro Arai. In September, Shibata won Apache Pro Wrestling's WEW Tag Team Championship, teaming with Kotaru Nasu to defeat Kengo Nishimura and Tomohiko Hashimoto, but lost the championship to Hashimoto and Shoichi Imiya two weeks later. 柴田正人 photo

In January 2015, Shibata teamed with

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to capture the UWA World Tag Team Championship, defeating Isami Kodaka and Fuma in overtime. The duo lost the championship to the

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in June.

DDT (2008–present)

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as Sasaki's "pet". In his first match as Paulie, Shibata and Sasaki defeated

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and

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. Soon after, Sasaki and Paulie were joined by Shuji Ishikawa, with Sasaki calling Ishikawa his other "pet". The trio dubbed themselves "Damnation", and in July added a fourth member to their ranks when Tetsuya Endo turned on his partner

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to join. In August, Paulie, Sasaki, and Endo entered the tournament for the vacant

KO-D 6 Man Tag Team Championship The is a professional wrestling championship owned by the DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) promotion. The title was first announced during DDT's year-end event on December 23, 2012, becoming the promotion's fifth active title. The first champions were ...

, defeating Shuten-dōji (Sakaguchi, Takanashi and Kota Umeda) in the final to win the tournament and the championship. On October 10, they made their first successful defence, defeating Happy Motel (Antonio Honda and Konosuke Takeshita) and Mike Bailey, but dropped the championship to Shuten-dōji (Takanashi, Sakaguchi and Kudo) on November 11.

Championships and accomplishments

* Apache Pro Wrestling Army :*

WEW World Tag Team Championship The WEW (World Entertainment Wrestling) World Tag Team Championship is a tag team professional wrestling championship formerly contested in the Japanese promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and World Entertainment Wrestling and currently con ...

(1 time) – with Kotaro Nasu *

( 1 time) – with Tetsuya Endo :*

( 4 times, current) – with Tetsuya Endo and

(1), Tetsuya Endo and

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(1), Daisuke Sasaki and

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(1), and Daisuke Sasaki and Kanon (1) :*

Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship The is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the Japanese promotion CyberFight in its DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand. Open to anyone, regardless of gender or DDT employment status, the championship is defended " 24/7", as ...

(3 times) *Guts World Pro-Wrestling :*

GWC 6-Man Tag Team Championship The is a six-person tag team title established in 2006 by the Japanese professional wrestling promotion . After the promotion folded in 2018, the titles moved to Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling, a sub-brand of DDT Pro-Wrestling. In June 2021, the tit ...

( 1 time) – with

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and Kotaro Nasu *Japan Indie Awards :*Best Unit Award (2016, 2017) – Damnation with Daisuke Sasaki,

and Tetsuya Endo *

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UWA World Tag Team Championship The UWA World Tag Team Championship is a tag team professional wrestling championship created by the Mexican Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) and defended there until the UWA closed in 1995. After the UWA's closing, the title was inactive unt ...

(1 time) – with Shuji Ishikawa *Pro-Wrestling Secret Base :*Captain Of The Secret Base Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Bear Fukuda *River City Wrestling :*RCW International Championship (1 time) *Style-E :*Style-E Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Bear Fukuda

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shibata, Masato 1978 births Living people Japanese male professional wrestlers People from Akiruno, Tokyo Sportspeople from Tokyo Metropolis 20th-century professional wrestlers 21st-century professional wrestlers UWA World Tag Team Champions Ironman Heavymetalweight Champions KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions KO-D Tag Team Champions WEW World Tag Team Champions