Kazma Sakamoto

Kazma Sakamoto (born 1 October 1982) is a Japanese professional wrestler.

He originally started his career working for Kaientai Dojo in Japan, where he became a one-time Strongest-K Champion and a three-time Strongest-K Tag Team Champion alongside Ryota Chikuzen, Kengo Mashimo and Miyawaki.

He spent two years working for WWE, as well as for its development brands, Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) and NXT.

Kazma was trained by Taka Michinoku at his Kaientai Dojo wrestling school and made his debut for the promotion on 3 May 2003.

In 2005, Kazma took on Michinoku for the Strongest-K Championship and a few days later took part in the Strongest-K 2005 tournament and would lose both.

In 2005, under the guidance of former Far East Connection manager, 296, Kazma formed a stable along with Kengo Mashimo called Kinnoutou and started to dominate, eventually taking on Ryota Chikuzen and Kunio Toshima as well.

Mashimo and Kazma were very successful as a group, Mashimo and Kazma went on an undefeated streak since the formation of Kinnoutou and did not drop a fall until well after he left the group.

Mashimo and Kazma won the first Strongest-K Tag Team tournament and were crowned the first ever Strongest-K Tag Team Champions.

The two began dominating the tag team scene in K-Dojo as they also won the UWA and UWF Intercontinental Tag Team championships, absorbing them into the Strongest-K Tag Team championship.

When K-Dojo split its roster into two, Kazma, along with the rest of his Kinnoutou allies were drafted to GET.

Early 2006 saw Mashimo and Kazma lose their first ever tag match together, losing the Strongest-K Tag Team titles in February to Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi.

After losing, signs of friction started to grow in Kinnoutou with Kunio Toshima's sense of justice saving Michinoku from a Kinnoutou attack.

In the beginning of 2007, Kazma began teaming up with Michinoku and together participated in Strongest-K Tag League 2007 and reached the finals before they were eliminated by Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi.

In March, Kazma defeated Miyawaki to become the number one contender for the Strongest-K Championship and a month later took on former Kinnotou member Kengo Mashimo for the championship and lost.

Kazma teamed up with Ryota Chikuzen to take on Miyawaki and Yoshiya for the Strongest-K Tag Team Championship and lost.

In summer 2007, Kazma participated in Strongest-K Tournament 2007 and reached the semifinals before being knocked out of the competition.

On 4 September 2007, Kazma and Chikuzen defeated Miyawaki and Naoki Tanizaki to become the Strongest-K Tag Team Champions and held the titles for about a month before losing them to Mashimo and Madoka.

Kazma, Kengo Mashimo and Ryota Chikuzen teamed up to defeat Joe, Michinoku and Taishi Takizawa in Chikuzen's K-Dojo retirement match and with Chikuzen leaving, Kinnotou was no more.

In the beginning of 2008, Kazma teamed up with Takizawa and lost in the first round of the Kaientai Dojo Tag League 2008.

With this loss Kazma teamed up with Yuji Hino to take part in the same tournament and reached the final before being eliminated by Mashimo and Madoka.

After the tournament, Kazma joined the stable OMEGA and for most of the first part of 2008 teamed up with members of OMEGA to take part in tag team matches against rivals Handsome and Slum.

On 20 June 2008, Kazma and Miyawaki defeated Handsome members, Joe and Michinoku, for the Strongest-K Championship.

After winning the championships, Kazma participated in the Strongest-K Tournament 2008 and in the first round, Michinoku would get his revenge by knocking Kazma out of the competition.

In August, Kazma and Miyawaki lost the tag team championship to the former champions.

He would eventually leave the stable to form a new one with former Kinnotou member, Mashimo.

Along with Kazma and Mashimo, Kaji Yamato, Daigoro Kashiwa and Hiro Tonai were also part of Monster Plant.

For most of 2009, Kazma would take on members of other stables and factions in both singles and tag team match ups.

In the Strongest-K Tournament 2009 he would lose to Daigoro Kashiwa in the semifinals.

Kazma would take part in two tournaments in quick succession, the first being a one-day three-way tournament, which was won by Hino, and Strongest-K Tournament 2009, where he was eliminated by Kashiwa in the semifinals.

On 17 October 2009, Kazma finally defeated Michinoku to become Strongest-K Champion.

He went on to team up with Tonai in the Kaientai Dojo Tag League 2010 and earned four points which two other teams in block A had also and therefore took part in a decision three-way won by Asahi and Hino.

Throughout 2009 and 2010 Kazma would defend his championship on multiple occasions and always retaining it until 15 August 2010, where he lost it to Hino.

With the loss of his title Monster Plant would disintegrate, leaving Kazma on his own.

With no stable or faction Kazma would be alone and his prospects would suffer as a result.

Throughout 2011, Kazma had multiple opportunities to become a champion or the number one contender and lost all of them.

Kazma and Harashima would lose to Hiroki and Mashimo for the Strongest-K Tag Team Championship.

Kazma also lost his rematch for the Strongest-K Championship.

In the summer of 2011, he participated in number one contendership for the Strongest-K Championship in battle royals and other types of match ups.

After his release from WWE, he returned to Japan working as a freelancer for Kaientai Dojo (K-Dojo), Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) and Wrestle-1 (W-1), the latter of which he signed for in 2015.

A year later, his contract with Wrestle-1 expired, and he returned to freelancing work, later appearing for Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), Dragon Gate (DG) and Gleat.