Yasu Urano
Japanese professional wrestler
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Yasu Urano (ヤス・ウラノ, Yasu Urano) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working as a freelancer.[4] He is best known for his tenures with Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) and Kaientai Dojo promotions.
Taz Urano
Yasu Urano
Urano in 2015 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 19, 1976[1] |
| Alma mater | Nihon University |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Yasuura Urano Taz Urano Yasu Urano |
| Billed height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[2] |
| Billed weight | 87 kg (192 lb) |
| Trained by | Koji Nakagawa Taka Michinoku |
| Debut | 2000[3] |
Professional wrestling career
Independent circuit (2001-present)
Although some sources state that Urano had his first professional wrestling match on November 19, 2000, the first documented match was at an IWA Puerto Rico house show on January 11, 2001, where he defeated Hiroki.[5] He is known for his early tenure with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, wrestling at 2001 events such as FMW Super Dynamism 2001 on August 11; there, he teamed with Tomokazu Morita in a losing effort against Naohiko Yamazaki and Ricky Fuji.[6] He wrestled a match for Wrestle-1 at the Pro-Wrestling ACE Vol. 6 event on July 2, 2017, where he defeated Andromeda Ken.[7] He wrestled a match for Ice Ribbon at Ice Ribbon Tax Pro Wrestling Vol. 5 on February 21, 2021, where he teamed up with Ram Kaicho and Onryo, falling short to Fuminori Abe, Koju Takeda and Taro Yamada in a six-man intergender tag team match.[8] At 2AW Fujita Pro Wrestling School Performance ~ Winter Special Lesson 2020 on February 15, Urano teamed up with Yuko Miyamoto and Yuma to defeat Kyu Mogami, Shu Asakawa and Taishi Takizawa. [9]
Dramatic Dream Team/DDT Pro Wrestling (2006-present)
Urano participated at Budokan Peter Pan on August 18, 2012, where he competed in 5 vs. 5 Soccer match, where he teamed up with Antonio Honda, Yuji Hino, Tanomusaku Toba and Yoshiko as Akira-waku FC and lost score 2–2 (2–0 on penalties) against Tonkatsu SC (Masa Takanashi, Daisuke Sasaki, Hoshitango, Tetsuya Endo and Tsukasa Fujimoto).[10] At DDT Audience 2017 on May 28, Urano unsuccessfully challenged Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship.[11] At DDT Sweet Dreams! 2017 on January 29, he unsuccessfully challenged All Japan Pro Wrestling's Keisuke Ishii for the AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Championship.[12] Urano teamed up with Takato Nakano and Takumi Tsukamoto at DDT BASARA 105 ~ Manji No Kitsune 2 Hikime ~ on September 14, 2019, to defeat Sento Minzoku (Daiki Shimomura, Isami Kodaka and Ryuichi Sekine) to win the UWA World Trios Championship.[13] Urano is a former multiple time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion, title for which he latest competed at Judgement 2019: DDT 22nd Anniversary in a gauntlet battle royal against the winner Saki Akai, Yuka Sakazaki, El Lindaman, Asuka and others.[14]
Championships and accomplishments
- Dove Pro Wrestling
- Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (6 times)[15]
- Jiyūgaoka 6-Person Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kudo and Antonio Honda[16]
- KO-D Tag Team Championship (5 times) – with Yuji Hino (2), Gentaro (1), Kudo (1) and Harashima (1)[17]
- KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Akito and Harashima
- Strongest-K Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Handsome Joe[19]
- UWA World Middleweight Championship (2 times)[20]
