is a

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professional wrestler Professional wrestling, often shortened to either pro wrestling or wrestling,The term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to modern scripted professional wrestling, though it is also used to refer to real-life wrest ...

primarily working for

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(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

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. In March 2012, Shibata teamed up with Shota to unsuccessfully challenge DDT's

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and Soma Takao for the

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. 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. 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, 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 :*

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(1 time) – with Kotaro Nasu *

(

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) – with Tetsuya Endo (1), and

(1) :* KO-D 6 Man Tag Team Championship ( 6 times) – with Tetsuya Endo and Daisuke Sasaki (1), Tetsuya Endo and

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(1), Daisuke Sasaki and

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(1), and Daisuke Sasaki and Kanon (3, current) :*

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

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( 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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(1 time) – with Shuji Ishikawa *Pro-Wrestling Secret Base :*Captain Of The Secret Base Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with

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*River City Wrestling :*RCW International Championship (1 time) *Style-E :*Style-E Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Bear Fukuda

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shibata, Masato 1978 births Living people Japanese male professional wrestlers People from Akiruno, Tokyo Sportspeople from Tokyo Metropolis 21st-century male 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 GWC 6-Man Tag Team Champions