Hajime Ohara

Hajime Ohara (大原 甫) is a Japanese professional wrestler.

Ohara worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in Mexico for several years as part of his training, mixing the lucha libre style of Mexico with the Japanese Puroresu style of wrestling.

In Japan, Ohara is best known for his work in the Hustle, Smash and Wrestling New Classic (WNC) promotions.

He is signed to Pro Wrestling Noah, where he is a one time GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion and a six-time GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion.

Hajime Ohara began his professional wrestling career in Mexico, training at the Toryumon Mexico dojo under Último Dragón and Jorge Rivera, better known as Skayde.

On May 16, 2004, Ohara made his professional wrestling debut in a losing effort against Kanjyouro Matsuyama.

Ohara spent the first five year of his career predominantly in Mexico, wrestling most notably with Toryumon Mexico and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

During his years in Mexico, Ohara also fought in mixed martial arts, obtaining a record of eleven wins and three losses with his most notable win coming against AAA star Electroshock.

Ohara lost to Kazuchika Okada in the first round of Young Dragons Cup 2004 and teamed up with Okada in the Yamaha Cup 2005, losing to Hiromi Horiguchi and Ryusuke Taguchi in the semi-final.

Ohara and Okada would meet again in the final of the Young Dragons Cup 2005 where Okada got the better of him once again to win the Young Dragons Cup.

On August 28, 2005, Ohara made his debut for CMLL teaming with Okumura and Ryusuke Taguchi and losing to Brazo de Plata, Negro Casas and Último Dragón.

In late 2005, Ohara formed La Ola Amarilla (Spanish for "The Yellow Wave") with Masada and Okumura.

Ohara was part of the 2006 International Grand Prix but was the first man eliminated when he was pinned by Heavy Metal.

On April 16, 2006, Ohara wrestled his first match in Japan as part of an Último Dragón produce show, defeating Guillermo Akiba.

On May 13, 2006 Ohara defeated La Máscara to win the vacant NWA World Welterweight Championship, becoming the first NWA Welterweight champion in almost two years.

Ohara made two successful title defences against Fantasma Jr. and El Hijo del Fantasma.

On January 20, 2007 Ohara lost the title to Super Delfin during an Osaka Pro wrestling show in Japan, but regained the title on February 10 before returning to Mexico.

On May 13, Ohara successfully defend his title against La Máscara.

By the end of 2007 a deal had been struck between Último Dragón, who owned the NWA title and CMLL to return ownership of the championship to CMLL, who had owned the title until 1996.

On November 27, 2007 Ohara lost the title to CMLL regular La Sombra.

Throughout 2008 and 2009, Ohara feuded with his mentor Último Dragón across three continents and multiple promotions including Dradition in Japan, Nu-Wrestling Evotolution (NWE) in Europe and Toryumon in Mexico.

In NWE, Ohara wrestled under a mask as Dark Dragon, an evil counterpart to Último Dragon.

On June 28, 2008, Ohara lost a lucha de apuestas match to Último Dragón and was forced to unmask.

On December 14, Ohara defeated Último Dragón to win the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship.

In Japan, he debuted for Hustle as Ray Ohara on December 24, joining the Monster Army and developing a one sided rivalry with the Hustle Supernova Kushida.

After trading tag and trios wins, the pair finally met in a singles match on January 29, 2009 where Ohara emerged victories.

Nevertheless, on February 19, Kushida was rewarded a title shot for Ohara's NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship which ended in a no contest.

Three days later, Kushida defeated Ohara in a tag team match and demanded another title shot.

Ohara agreed on the condition that Kushida would leave Hustle should he lose; Kushida accepted.

On March 25, Ohara defeated Kushida, forcing Kushida to leave the promotion.

Back in Mexico, on August 22, Ohara and Último Dragón finally settled their rivalry in a mask vs hair match which Último Dragón won.

On September 13, Ohara exacted some revenge as he defended his NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship against Último Dragón at Dradition.

Ohara held the NWA International Junior Heavyweight championship for 291 days before losing the belt to Mineo Fujita on October 1, 2009.

At the final Hustle event on November 10, Ohara teamed with Super Crazy and lost to KG and Último Dragón.

Ohara would make his Pro Wrestling Zero1 debut on November 19, 2009, under Hajime Ohara and beat Shota Takanishi.

Ten days later he would participate in Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament 2009 and was defeated by Fujita Hayato in the second round.

Ohara would go on to team up with Shiro Koshinaka to take part in Furinkazan, a round-robin tag team tournament, in block B. Their first match against Kamikaze and Kohei Sato ended in a time limit draw and the team would go on the win two matches and lost another giving them a total of 5 points which was not enough to progress to the final.

Ohara would also take on Ikuto Hidaka for the Zero1 International Junior Heavyweight Championship and lost.

Ohara would spend the rest of his time at Zero1 teaming up with wrestlers from Hustle such as Tajiri.

In March 2010, Ohara began working for Yoshihiro Tajiri's new Smash promotion, losing to Kushida in the main event of the promotion's first ever show on March 26.