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(born April 21, 1982), known by his
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Kagetora (formerly stylized in all capitals), is a Japanese
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who works for Dragon Gate. He wrestles in independent wrestling leagues all around
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and has wrestled in the
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for Chikara and
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. He has wrestled many famous wrestlers including
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.


Career


Toryumon (2002–2004)

Hashimoto was part of Mini Crazy MAX as SUWAcito early in his career with Takuya Sugi (Mini CIMA) and Masaki Okimoto (Small Dandy Fuji). They were little version of the Japanese wrestlers CIMA, Suwa and Don Fujii.


Michinoku Pro Wrestling (2004–2009)

Hashimoto started competing in Michinoku Pro Wrestling in 2005 under the new name of Kagetora, based in Uesugi Kagetora. He initially wore a menpō mask during his matches, but he dropped it. After a tag team tenure with Shanao, Kagetora turned on him and became a
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. He joined
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's faction STONED, and after Gamma departed from Michinoku Pro, Kagetora became the leader of the stable. He won the
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on March 19, 2006 but vacated the championship after the match so it could be decided in a tournament. He turned face again after he was kicked from STONED in El Dorado Wrestling. In 2007, Kagetora and Rasse beat
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for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship and during their title reign they won the
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, becoming dual champions.


Dragondoor and El Dorado Wrestling (2006–2007)

After Kagetora became the leader of STONED, the stable started appearing as well in Dragondoor, where they clashed with dominant stable Aagan Iisou, led by
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. As the promotion closed after a few events, Kagetora moved his independent ventures to
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, where he found himself teaming up with a member of Aagan Iisou,
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, who had been recruited for STONED by Gamma. When Dragondoor was reopened as El Dorado Wrestling, Kagetora started wrestling regularly there under the modified name of KAGETORA, in all caps. Under his command, STONED started a feud against Aagan Iisou over which would recruit Sugawara, as the latter was now a simultaneous member of both factions and there were friction between all three parties. Ultimately, Sugawara chose STONED, but he and the
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turned on KAGETORA and expelled him, renaming the group as HELL DEMONS. Afterwards, KAGETORA allied ironically with another ex-member of Aagan Iisou,
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, as part of the latter's Animal Planets faction. He challenged Kota Ibushi for the
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, but lost the match. He started teaming with Ibushi and they won the
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, but they later vacated the titles.


Dragon Gate (2008–present)

On December 19, 2008, KAGETORA debuted in Dragon Gate after it was announced that El Dorado would be closing, intruding after the opening match. He openly declared war on Dragon Gate, attacking m.c. KZ and criticizing fellow former El Dorado wrestler Naoki Tanisaki for abandoning the company months prior. He stated that he himself had abandoned Dragon Gate in 2004, but was now back to wreak havoc. However, Toryumon veteran K-ness reminded him that it was Dragon Gate who had abandoned KAGETORA and the rest of Toryumon X, not the other way around. K-ness did state that he was happy for Toryumon X wrestlers such as El Blazer and Shinjitsu Nohashi for returning, but not KAGETORA, and he dismissed him and referred to him by his dojo boy name, "Hashimoto-kun". This led to the announcement of KAGETORA first two Dragon Gate matches, against m.c.KZ and then K-ness. He then joined up with the Real Hazard stable. He fought in the one-night Battle of Tokyo Tournament on January 25, 2009, where he beat K-ness in the opening round, and then would go on to win the tournament, beating
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in the finals. The victory earned him an Open the Brave Gate title shot against
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a few weeks later, but he failed to win it.
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started verbally abusing him for the loss, which continued right up until March 1. On that day, he had had enough: When
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& Cyber Kong were defending their
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against Susumu Yokosuka &
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, he interfered and cost his stablemates the titles. He then left Real Hazard and joined Yokosuka, Gamma, and the returning CIMA in their WARRIORS-5 stable. On April 15, he captured his first title in Dragon Gate, winning the Open the Triangle Gate titles with CIMA & Gamma. In August, he made another attempt on the Brave Gate by participating in a tournament for the vacant title, and though he made it to the finals, he lost to
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. When Susumu Yokosuka left WARRIORS-5 for Real Hazard on December 3, he began to distance himself from the remainder of the unit over the next few weeks, and then went missing. When he went missing, a new Dr. Muscle appeared in Real Hazard. When Dragon Kid left KAMIKAZE for WARRIORS-5 on January 11, 2010, he broke his silence the next day, posting a blog where he questioned why Kid was allowed into the stable, and he hinted at crashing the January 15th show, since he had no match scheduled for that day. He didn't show up, but the day after, he revealed himself to be the one under the Dr. Muscle mask, and re-joined Real Hazard. However, he openly stated his distrust of everyone in the stable, except for Takuya Sugawara, and he very quickly began to regret joining them. Then, on February 7, he oddly went to
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for advice, asking him if he made the right decision in rejoining Real Hazard, or if he should have stayed in the WARRIORS-5 stable. Tozawa simply replied that it was his path, so he had to find his own answer. Things got worse for KAGETORA three days later, when he accidentally cost Sugawara a shot at becoming the next challenger for the Open the Dream Gate Title. This set up a match for the following day between himself and stablemate Kzy (the former m.c.KZ), where the loser would be kicked out of Real Hazard. He also sought advice from Tozawa again, wondering if his upcoming trip to Germany would go wrong just like how leaving WARRIORS-5 and joining Real Hazard went wrong, but they both couldn't come up with an answer. The next day, Kzy defeated him, expelling him from Real Hazard. Yasushi Kanda and Kenichiro Arai started to attack him afterwards, but Tozawa came to his rescue. He tried to console KAGETORA, but KAGETORA told him he wanted to be alone and ran off. After the main event match concluded, CIMA called him out. He came to the ring and apologized for deserting WARRIORS-5, and then tried to get some advice from him, prompting Tozawa to come back out and attempt to assert his newfound role as KAGETORA's mentor. As a result, a match was made for February 27, with CIMA, Gamma & Dragon Kid of Warriors-5 facing Tozawa, YAMATO & Shingo Takagi of KAMIKAZE, and the winning team would get KAGETORA. During the match, KAGETORA was hit by an errant cane attack from Gamma, and took the cane away from Gamma when he attempted to cheat again. The finish of the match occurred when KAGETORA accidentally hit Gamma with his cane, leading to Tozawa pinning Gamma for KAMIKAZE's win. KAGETORA thus joined KAMIKAZE, promising his new stablemates that he would do his best. On April 15, 2011, KAGETORA represented Team Dragon Gate in the 2011 King of Trios tournament along with
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and
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. In the first round of the tournament, Team Dragon Gate defeated the Spectral Envoy ( UltraMantis Black, Hallowicked and Frightmare). The following day, Team Dragon Gate was eliminated from the tournament in the quarter-final stage by
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(Amasis, Hieracon and Ophidian). On April 17, the final day of the tournament, KAGETORA and Shisa took part in a gauntlet tag match and were the final team to enter, but they were defeated by Atsushi Kotoge and
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. On May 13, 2011, Takagi disbanded KAMIKAZE, after which KAGETORA followed him and YAMATO to
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's new stable, Junction Three. On December 1, KAGETORA and Susumu Yokosuka failed to capture the Open the Twin Gate Championship in a match against the Blood Warriors team of Akira Tozawa and BxB Hulk and as a result were forced to change their ring names to Jimmy KAGETORA and Jimmy Susumu, respectively. On February 9, 2012, Junction Three was forced to disband, after losing a fourteen-man elimination tag team match to Blood Warriors. On March 3, KAGETORA formed the Jimmyz stable with H-A-Gee-Mee, Jimmy Kanda, Ryo "Jimmy" Saito and Jimmy Susumu. The following day, KAGETORA and Jimmy Susumu defeated Akira Tozawa and BxB Hulk to win the Open the Twin Gate Championship. They lost the title to BxB Hulk and "Naoki Tanisaki" on June 10, but regained them on June 17 in a 3-way Elimination tag team match which also included MadoGiwa Windows members K-ness & Kenichiro Arai. They would lose the Twin Gate belts to -akatushi- members Shingo Takagi and YAMATO at the Kobe Pro-Wrestling PPV on July 22, 2012. On June 19, 2016, Kagetora and Susumu defeated T-Hawk and Big R Shimizu to capture their third Twin Gate Championship. They would lose the titles to CIMA and Dragon Kid on November 3. On March 20, 2017, Jimmy Kagetora defeated
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in the finals of a tournament to win the vacant Open the Brave Gate Championship. He made his first successful defense on May 5, 2017 at Dead Or Alive, against Takehiro Yamamura.


Championships and accomplishments

* Dragon Gate **
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(3 times) - with CIMA &
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(1), Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! and Jimmy Susumu (1), and BxB Hulk and Susumu Yokosuka (1,current) **
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(3 times) - with Jimmy Susumu ** Open the Brave Gate Championship (2 times) **Battle of Tokyo Tournament (2009) ** Summer Adventure Tag League (
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) - with Jimmy Susumu *El Dorado Wrestling **
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(1 time) - with Kota Ibushi * Michinoku Pro Wrestling **
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(1 time) ** Tohoku Tag Team Championship ( 2 times) - with Rasse (1) and
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(1) **Iron Man Tournament (2005) **Futaritabi Tag Team League (2005) - with Shanao **Futaritabi Tag Team League (2007) - with Rasse **M-12 Battle Royal (2006) with Yoshitsune *
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(1 time) - with Rasse *''
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'' **Ranked No. 230 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the
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in 2017 * Toryumon X **Yamaha Cup Tag Tournament (2004) - with Mini CIMA *
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(1 time) - with Jimmy Susumu


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