Yasu Urano

Yasu Urano
Urano, in a Yes t-shirt, in 2015
Personal information
Born (1976-02-19) February 19, 1976 (age 50)
Tokorozawa, Japan
EducationNihon University
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Yasuura Urano
Taz Urano
Yasu Urano
Billed height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Billed weight87 kg (192 lb)
Trained byKoji Nakagawa
Taka Michinoku
Debut2000

Yasu Urano (ヤス・ウラノ, Yasu Urano) is a Japanese freelance professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures with the Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) and Active Advance Pro Wrestling wrestling promotions.

Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit (2001–present)

Urano's first documented match was at an IWA Puerto Rico house show on January 11, 2001, where he defeated Hiroki Tanabe. During the early stages of his career, he made appearances at events hosted by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling. On August 11, 2001 at FMW Super Dynamism, he joined Tomokazu Morita in a losing effort against Naohiko Yamazaki and Ricky Fuji.

On July 2, 2017 Urano defeated Andromeda Ken at Pro-Wrestling ACE Vol. 6, an event hosted by Wrestle-1. He also wrestled a match for the joshi puroresu promotion Ice Ribbon at Ice Ribbon Tax Pro Wrestling Vol. 5 on February 21, 2021, where he teamed up with Ram Kaicho and Onryo; the trio lost to Fuminori Abe, Koju Takeda and Taro Yamada in a six-man intergender tag team match. At the 2AW Fujita Pro Wrestling School Performance ~ Winter Special Lesson, hosted by Active Advance Pro Wrestling on February 15, 2020, Urano teamed up with Yuko Miyamoto and Yuma to defeat Kyu Mogami, Shu Asakawa and Taishi Takizawa.

Dramatic Dream Team/DDT Pro Wrestling (2006–present)

Urano participated at Budokan Peter Pan on August 18, 2012, where he competed in a "5 vs. 5 soccer match" - a variant of an iron man tag team match where tiebreaks were decided by a soccer penalty shoot-out. He teamed up with Antonio Honda, Yuji Hino, Tanomusaku Toba and Yoshiko as Akira-waku FC, and lost with a score of 2–2 (2–0 on penalties) against Tonkatsu SC (Masa Takanashi, Daisuke Sasaki, Hoshitango, Tetsuya Endo and Tsukasa Fujimoto). On May 28, 2017 at DDT Audience, Urano unsuccessfully challenged Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship. At DDT Sweet Dreams! on January 29, 2017, he unsuccessfully challenged All Japan Pro Wrestling's Keisuke Ishii for the AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Championship.

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) and win the UWA World Trios Championship. Urano is a former multiple-time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion; he last competed for the title at Judgement 2019: DDT 22nd Anniversary in a gauntlet battle royal against Yuka Sakazaki, El Lindaman, Asuka, eventual winner Saki Akai, and several other wrestlers.

Championships and accomplishments

References

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  5. ↑ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "IWA Puerto Rico Event". cagematch.de (in German). Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  6. ↑ "FMW Entertainment Pro Wrestling History Part 3". fmwwrestling.us. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  7. ↑ Wrestle-1 (June 29, 2017). ""Pro-Wrestling ACE-Vol.6-" 7.2 Notice of match order decision for Shinkiba 1st Ring Tournament, Tokyo". w-1.co.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved March 21, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  10. ↑ DDT "武道館ピーターパン～DDTの15周年、ドーンと見せます超豪華4時間SP！～" 8/18 日本武道館大会その５. Extreme Party (in Japanese). January 24, 2020. Archived from the original on May 28, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
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  13. ↑ Daly, Wayne (September 14, 2019). "DDT Results: BASARA 105 ~ No Kitsune 2 Hikime – Tokyo, Japan (9/14)". wrestling-news.net. Archived from the original on December 2, 2023. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  14. ↑ DDT Pro-Wrestling (February 25, 2020). "Judgement2019～DDT旗揚げ22周年記念大会～". ddtpro.com. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
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  16. ↑ "Jiyūgaoka 6-person Tag Team Title". wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  17. ↑ "KO-D (King Of DDT) Tag Team Title (Japan)". wrestling-titles.com. October 25, 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  18. ↑ Ice Ribbon. "Triangle Ribbon Championship History". iceribbon.com (in Japanese). Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  19. ↑ "Kaientai Dojo Strongest-K Tag Team Title". wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  20. ↑ "Universal Wrestling Association World Middleweight Title". wrestling-titles.com. June 20, 2019. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
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  22. ↑ "U.W.A. World Trios Title". Puroresu Dojo. February 27, 2008. Retrieved April 7, 2021.