is a Japanese professional wrestler and former

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ka and

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, best known for his time with

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(DDT), where he competed as a mainstay from 2000 to 2006. After working as a freelancer on the Japanese

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for many years, mostly at Apache Pro-Wrestling Army, in 2017 he began promoting its successor promotion, Pro-Wrestling A-Team.

Professional wrestling career

Dramatic Dream Team (2000–2006)

Being a former

ka, Hashimoto was trained by Koichiro Kimura for a

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career and made his wrestling debut under the

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Tomohiko Hashimoto on April 14, 2000, by defeating Tom Burton at a JPWA event. He then joined

(DDT) and received his further training at the DDT dojo, where he debuted at the ''Y2D Core'' event on May 28 by defeating Cannonball Kazu. Later that year, Hashimoto won the 2000 DDT Tag League with his trainer Koichiro Kimura by defeating

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and Exciting Yoshida. The following year, Hashimoto won the Two Day Tag Team Tournament with Sanshiro Takagi. At ''Sheep'', Hashimoto won his first professional wrestling championship when he and Sanshiro Takagi defeated Gentaro and Takashi Sasaki to win the KO-D Tag Team Championship on January 31, 2003. The title was vacated after Hashimoto suffered an injury at ''Non-Fix 5/8'' on May 8. He returned to DDT, a month later by defeating Shuji Ishikawa. He teamed with Seiya Morohashi to participate in the 2003 KO-D Tag League for the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship, which they won by defeating Takashi Sasaki and Tanomusaku Toba in the tournament final on September 28. They lost the title to Hero! and Kudo on December 29 in a tables, ladders and chairs match also involving the team of Mikami and Onryo. Hashimoto and Morohashi participated in the 2004 KO-D Tag League where they qualified for the semi-final where they lost to Hero! and Kudo. Hashimoto won his third and final KO-D Tag Team Championship with Nobutaka Moribe by defeating Seiya Morohashi and Tanomusaku Toba at ''Don't Try This At Home''. They successfully defended the title against Morohashi and Toba at the company's 8th Anniversary Show, before losing the title back to Morohashi and Toba in a three-way match also involving Macho Pump and Sho Kanzaki at ''Max Bump'' on May 4. At ''Non-Fix Saturday Night In Blue Field'', Hashimoto and Muscle Sakai became the #1 contenders for the KO-D Tag Team Championship, earning their title shot against Kota Ibushi and Daichi Kakimoto at ''God Bless DDT'', where they lost. After being a mainstay for the promotion since his debut, Hashimoto left DDT in 2006 and became a freelancer.

Freelance (2006–2016)

Hashimoto began freelancing for various

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, most notably Apache Army. He also founded a booking agency Team Vader with Big Van Vader and won their Vader Cup in 2008. He won Apache Army's WEW World Tag Team Championship five times and the WEW World Heavyweight Championship once. Hashimoto also made appearances for the

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spin-off Cho Sento Puroresu FMW, where he teamed with W*ING Kanemura and Raijin Yaguchi to defeat

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, Masato Tanaka and Hideki Hosaka to win the FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship on January 24, 2016. They lost the title to Onita, Hosaka and Sean Guinness on February 26.

A-Team and beyond (2017–present)

After Apache Army closed in 2016, Hashimoto won his sixth WEW World Tag Team Championship with Masashi Takeda by defeating Tetsuhiro Kuroda and

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at an A-Team show ''Take Off'' on April 16, 2017. They lost the title to Daisaku Shimoda and Blue Shark on August 11.

Mixed martial arts career

During his career in DDT Pro-Wrestling, Hashimoto also competed in a few

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fights representing the DDT promotion. He had an extremely unsuccessful career with four losses and one win via knockout.

Other media

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Championships and accomplishments

* Apache Pro-Wrestling Army/Pro Wrestling A-Team :* WEW World Heavyweight Championship ( 3 times) :* WEW World Tag Team Championship ( 10 times) – with Kengo Nishimura (1), Shoichi Ichimiya (1),

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(1), Kazushi Miyamoto (1), Keisuke Okuda (1), Masashi Takeda (1), Nobutaka Moribe (1), Gajo (2), and Super Tiger II (1) * Cho Sento Puroresu FMW :* FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship ( 1 time) – with W*ING Kanemura and Raijin Yaguchi * Daiwa Entertainment Pro-Wrestling :*DEP Open-weight Championship (1 time) *

:* KO-D Tag Team Championship ( 3 times) – with

(1), Seiya Morohashi (1) and Nobutaka Moribe (1) :* DDT Tag League/KO-D Tag League (

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) – with Seiya Morohashi :*Two Day Tag Team Tournament – with Sanshiro Takagi (2001) *

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:* NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship ( 1 time) – with Gajo *Team Vader :*Vader Cup (2008)

Mixed martial arts record

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References

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