Yusaku Obata

Yusaku Obata (小幡優作, Obata Yusaku, born February 13, 1984) is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently a freelancer.

In 2004, Obata joined Kaientai Dojo as a trainee.

He was scheduled to debut against Yasu Urano but was postponed due to a neck injury.

On April 24, 2005, Obata made his in-ring debut losing to Hajime Ishikawa.

Obata then took part of the 2005 K-Metal League, finishing with one win and five losses placing last.

Obata was originally trained by Kaientai Dojo and left the promotion in 2006.

Obata was then drafted to the GET brand and would later take part of the 2006 Strongest-K Tournament at GET Block A losing all of his matches in his block.

On September 3, he would join KAZMA’s Kinnoto unit after appealing to join.

This would be short lived due to Obata leaving K-Dojo after his contract expired on November 12.

Before signing with Apache Pro, Obata made sporadic appearances until he signed after leaving K-Dojo on December 16, 2006.

During his time in Apache he would regularly compete in Big Japan Pro Wrestling.

This led to Obata getting his first title opportunity as he teamed with Kintaro Kanemura to challenge Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki for the BJW Tag Team Championship on November 26, 2007 but they lost.

He would also appear in New Japan Pro-Wrestling LOCK UP events.

In 2008, Apache Pro closed and he then joined Kanemura's XMF promotion but that promotion was short lived and closed in 2009.

After leaving K-Dojo, Obata had much better success after signing with ZERO1 in 2012.

Before he joined Pro Wrestling ZERO1, he would make sporadic appearances until he signed with promotion in June 2012.

On June 22, Obata made his official debut after signing losing to Kohei Sato.

On August 5, Obata won his first title defeating Shito Ueda for the NWA United National Heavyweight Championship.

After a two month reign, Obata lost the NWA United National Heavyweight Championship to James Raideen on October 16.

On November 6, Obata and Ueda defeated Masato Tanaka and Zeus for the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship.

Obata and Ueda took part in the 2012 Furinkazan tournament, losing to Zeus and James Raideen in the finals on December 15.

He's best known for his time in Pro Wrestling Zero1 (ZERO1), where is a former World Heavyweight Champion, a former two-time NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Champion, a former NWA United National Heavyweight Champion, the winner of the 2013 and 2016 Furinkazan and the 2016 Fire Festival.

He is also known for his work in Apache Pro Wrestling Army, where he was a former WEW Tag Team Champion alongside HIROKI.

Obata and Ueda vacated the titles on January 18, 2013 due to Obata being sidelined with an injury.

In July, Obata took part in the 2013 Fire Festival tournament, where he finished with 3 points failing to advance to the finals.

Obata and Ueda then took part of the 2013 Furinkazan tournament, defeating Raideen and Tama Williams in the finals on December 17.

After Obata and Ueda won the tournament, Ueda turned on Obata which led to a feud between the two.

Subsequently, Obata formed an alliance with Masato Tanaka, Daichi Hashimoto and Ikuto Hidaka.

The three later formed a stable named Dangan Yankees.

On January 1, 2014 Obata and Tanaka received an opportunity for the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship losing to KAMIKAZE and Shinjiro Otani.

The feud between Obata and Ueda didn't end as Ueda formed Daemon-gun with KAMIKAZE, Takuya Sugawara and Touru Owashi.

The two faced each other twice on March 18 and on March 30 where the loser would be forced to change his name and would also lose his hair.

Obata ended up losing both matches with Ueda forcing Obata to have his head shaved and to being renamed to Omatayuuchaku.

On April 9, after Omatayuuchaku lost to his Dangan Yankees Masato Tanaka, he would get the rights to his name back.

From July until August, Obata took part of the 2014 Fire Festival at block A. He would finish his block with four wins five losses, finishing at last after losing to another block A participant Daisuke Sekimoto.

At the end of the year, Obata took part of the 2014 Furinkazan tournament with Akebono losing in the semifinals to Shinjiro Otani and Yoshikazu Yokoyama on December 24.

In 2015, Obata received two shots for the NWA United National Heavyweight Championship.

The first shot was on July 7 and the second on July 21 losing to the defending champion KAMIKAZE on both occasions.

Obata then entered the 2015 Fire Festival, where he finished with a record of two wins, two losses and one draw, same as block semifinalist Masato Tanaka, but failed to advance to the finals due to the match against Tanaka ending in a time-limit draw in their head-to-head match.

On September 23, Obata unsuccessfully challenged Kohei Sato for the ZERO1 World Heavyweight Championship.