Gentaro

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gentaro
Occupation	Amateur Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Oct 28, 1974(1974-10-28)
Age	50
Birthplace	Koganei
Country	Japan
Birth City	Tokyo
Horoscope	Libra

Gentaro Biography

Gentaro is one of the most popular and richest Amateur Wrestler who was born on October 28, 1974 in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan. Gentaro Takahashi (Gao Qiao Yuan Ta Lang , Takahashi Gentaro, born on October 28th 1974) is a Japanese professional wrestler who is than his name of the ring Gentaro (stylized using the capital letter of all). Although he is officially associated to the Pro Wrestling Freedoms promotion, Gentaro is also employed by numerous other independent promotions like DDT Pro-Wrestling Kaientai Dojo and women’s wrestling promotion Ice Ribbon, where he plays the role of the chief announcer of the play-by play. Takahashi is also seen occasionally as the masked figure Benten (also written in capital letters).

The year 2002 was when Gentaro was signed to the newly-formed World Entertainment Wrestling (WEW) and joined forces together with Takashi Sasaki on the 23rd of August to beat Hi68 as well as Taka Michinoku, and became the first WEW-sponsored World Tag Team Champions. After seven months of reign, Gentaro and Sasaki lost the title to Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda on the 11th of March the 11th of March, 2003. The next time, WEW folded and was replaced by Apache Pro-Wrestling Army, with Gentaro moving to the new division and joining in the Apache Army. As part of the Apache Army, Gentaro formed a regular alliance along with The Winger and created a new character which was adamant against all hardcore wrestlers. The 23rd of September, 2007 Gentaro together with The Winger beat Jun Kasai and Jaki Numazawa to take home The WEW World Tag Team Championship and began Gentaro’s second reign as the champion. They lost the title against Tokyo Gurentai (Mazada and Nosawa Rongai) on April 17th in 2008. The next season, Apache Pro-Wrestling Army folded.

After the folding of Apache Pro-Wrestling Army, Gentaro returned to Kaientai Dojo on May 5, 2009, reuniting with Yoshiya. On August 9, Gentaro and Yoshiya unsuccessfully challenged Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi for the Strongest-K Tag Team Championship. On September 23, Gentaro defeated Oishi to win the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship. Afterwards, Gentaro began spending more time in his new home promotion, Freedoms, but returned on April 2, 2010, to lose the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship to Marines Mask II. Gentaro’s next Kaientai Dojo appearance took place on December 16, 2011, when he wrestled in Kengo Mashimo’s tenth anniversary match, where Mashimo, Hiroki and Yasu Urano defeated Gentaro, Taka Michinoku and Yoshiya. On January 9, 2012, Gentaro and Hiroki entered the Kaientai Dojo Tag League, where they made it to the finals, before losing to Kengo Mashimo and Taka Michinoku on January 28. On February 4, Gentaro and Hiroki defeated Mashimo and Ryuichi Sekine in a tag team match, with Gentaro pinning Mashimo for the win. As a result, Gentaro was named the number one contender to Mashimo’s Strongest-K Championship, but was defeated in the title match on February 26.

After the folding of Apache Pro-Wrestling Army, Gentaro officially made Pro Wrestling Freedoms his new home promotion, debuting at the promotion’s first ever event on September 2, defeating the promotion’s founder and former partner Takashi Sasaki in the opening match. Later in the main event, Gentaro teamed with The Winger in a losing effort against the team of Taka Michinoku and Tajiri. At the promotion’s second event on September 27, Gentaro defeated El Samurai in the main event to retain the International Junior Heavyweight and VKF Championships. During the rest of the year, Gentaro also successfully defended the titles against Madoka and just the International Junior Heavyweight Championship against Kazuhiko Ogasawara. In November, Gentaro was invited to represent Freedoms in New Japan Pro Wrestling’s 2009 Super J-Cup. He was eliminated from the tournament in the first round on December 22 by Ryusuke Taguchi. In early 2010, Gentaro continued defending both titles, while also regularly teaming with The Winger, with the two joining the Freedoms Army in the process. Freedoms Army feuded with the Big Japan Pro Wrestling based Kojika Army, culminating on June 21, 2010, in a special event, where members of both stables faced each other in singles matches. In the main event of the evening, Gentaro defeated Kojika Army leader, The Great Kojika, in a singles match, winning the match series for Freedoms Army 3–2. At the following event on July 15, Gentaro turned on the Freedoms Army and jumped to the Kojika Army. The turn built to a four-on-four elimination match between the two stables on November 23, which Takashi Sasaki won for Freedoms by pinning Gentaro. On December 15, Gentaro was defeated by Sasaki in a Two Out of Three Falls main event, ending the rivalry between the two wrestlers. In 2011, the Kojika Army moved on to feuding with the DDT Pro-Wrestling based TKG48 stable, led by Sanshiro Takagi. On March 6, Gentaro teamed with The Great Kojika to defeat Takagi and Riki Sensyu in a tag team match, pinning Takagi for the win. On March 26, Gentaro unsuccessfully challenged Jun Kasai for American promotion Combat Zone Wrestling’s (CZW) Ultraviolent Underground Championship in a “Pool of Blood Deathmatch”. On May 8, Gentaro returned to defending the VKF Championship, when he defeated TKG48 member Shigehiro Irie in the main event to retain the title. The following September, Gentaro left the Kojika Army and on October 27, 2011, defeated The Great Kojika in a singles match. On August 5, 2012, after a match at a Freedoms event, Gentaro was hospitalized and diagnosed with cerebral infarction. Gentaro resumed training in May 2013 and in early 2014 announced he was ready to return to the ring. On May 2, 2014, Gentaro was defeated by Isami Kodaka in his first match in 21 months. On March 5, Gentaro won his Freedoms title, when he and Kenichiro Arai defeated El Hijo del Winger Uno and El Hijo del Winger Dos for the King of Freedom World Tag Team Championship. They lost the title to Buffalo and Yuya Susumu in their first defense on March 23. On May 1, Gentaro unsuccessfully challenged Masashi Takeda for the King of Freedom World Championship. On July 25, Gentaro and Takashi Sasaki defeated Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki to win the King of Freedom World Tag Team Championship. They lost the title to Kenji Fukimoto and Minoru Fujita four days later.

On the 16th of August on 2003 Gentaro began his career as a member of Kaientai Dojo, teaming with Hi69 to beat Kengo Mashimo, and Kunio Toshima, in a tag- team match. In the months following, Gentaro formed a regular trio that included Hi69 as well as Kazma. The trio of December 3, 2003 Gentaro, Daigoro Kashiwa, Hi69, Kazma, Psycho and Teppei Ishizaka reached the semifinals in the Survivor-K tournament, only to be eliminated by Kengo Mashimo Kunio Toshima Mike Lee Jr., Miyawaki Super-X, and Yuu Yamagata. On July 3, 2004, Gentaro won his first title in Kaientai Dojo, when he was paired with Yoshiya to beat Daigoro Kashiwa along with Teppei Ishizaka in the UWA/UWF Intercontinental Tag Team Champion. After four months, Gentaro and Yoshiya lost the title to Taka Michinoku and Ryota Chikuzen on October 30. Gentaro was crowned champion once more in February of 2005 after he beat Onryo in his UWA World Middleweight Championship. However, his reign came to an end within seven days, when he lost to Boso Boy Raito. After that, Gentaro took a four-month absence of Kaientai Dojo to concentrate on his work with Apache Pro-Wrestling Army, defeating Psycho in his second match on the 11th of June. In the next month, he competed in into the Strongest-K tournament, overcoming female wrestlers Tomoka Nakagawa as well as Kunio Toshima in order to make it to the finals of the tournament in which, on August 6 the winner was Psycho. In the following 4 years Gentaro was only able to make three appearances at Kaientai Dojo.

Gentaro Net Worth

Gentaro is one of the richest Amateur Wrestler from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gentaro 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The trainer was an organization called the Wrestle Dream Factory (WDF) promotion, Takahashi made his professional wrestling debut on May 8th 1999 at the WDF occasion held in Tokorozawa, Saitama. As well as appearing in Kageki Pro as the masked character Nasty Black Panther, Takahashi continued to be a part of WDF over two years until he became a free-lancer in the year 2001.

On the 30th of November, 2000 Gentaro began his first appearance as a member of the Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) in a match with Takashi Sasaki for the tag team game in which they beat Kengo Takai along with Yuki Nishino. Gentaro began to work regularly with the organization in October of 2001, after which his storyline became a rivalry with Mikami. On November 1st, Gentaro took home the first time in DDT by winning the title with Yoshiya together with Yoshiya were able to defeat Mikami as well as Tanomusaku Toba to take home the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship. Gentaro and Yoshiya were able to make their first defence on the 30th of November beating Mikami along with Toba during a second match which ended with Gentaro taking down his opponent for the victory. But on the 12th of December, Mikami came back and defeated Gentaro to make him as well as Gentaro’s former teammate Takashi Sasaki as the newly-crowned KO-D Tag Team Champions. In June of 2002 Gentaro got his first shot at DDT’s most prestigious singles title the KO-D Openweight Championship in which he failed to beat Kintaro Kanemura. The following month, Gentaro reunited with Takashi Sasaki under the name of team Akarangers and took part at the 2002 KO-D Tag League, where they were third. On the 24th of October the Akarangers beat Mikami and Tanomusaku in the Toba Championship vs. Championship match to keep their WEW World Tag Team Championship and to win the KO-D Tag Team Championship. In November 14 Gentaro beat Sasaki as well as Tomohiko Hashimoto during the three-way battle to become the top contender for the KO-D Openweight Championship. On November 29 Gentaro beat Sanshiro Takagi, making him the new Openweight Champion of KO-D. His victory lasted less than a month when he was defeated by opponent Mikami on December 22 in a four-way fight which also featured Sanshiro Takagi and Tomohiko Hashimoto. The 4th of January, 2003 Gentaro made his debut appearance in a kabuki mask as Benten as he took part of a royal battle to win the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship. Benten has since been seen in the arena in Kaientai Dojo, Apache Pro-Wrestling Army, New Japan Pro Wrestling and Union Pro Wrestling. The 31st of January, 2003 Gentaro and Sasaki were eliminated from their KO-D Tag Team Championship to Tomohiko and Sanshiro Tachimoto. Then, Gentaro left DDT for the remainder of 2003 but returned in the beginning of 2004 when he was reunited with Sasaki and Sasaki, defeated Hero! as well as Kudo in February to win their KO-D Tag Team Championship. After three consecutive victories, they were defeated by Ryuji Ito as well as Sanshiro Takagi on the 1st of July. On September 30th, Gentaro won the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship twice during an intense battle royal lasting ten minutes, but he was unable to walk away from the contest without the trophy. Between October 2004 and November 2009 Gentaro was a mere fifteen times in the ring for DDT and nonetheless, he was able to take home the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship for the third time on April 9, 2008 but lost the title two days after.

On July 14, 2008, Gentaro made his debut for women’s wrestling promotion Ice Ribbon, teaming with Riho to defeat Emi Sakura and Ribbon Takanashi in a tag team match. Gentaro returned to Ice Ribbon seventeen months later on December 20, 2009, when he began working regularly for the promotion, becoming only the second male wrestler to have a regular spot on the roster (the first being Ribbon Takanashi). In March 2010, Gentaro got involved in a storyline with Miyako Matsumoto, starting on March 31, when he successfully defended the DDT Extreme Division Championship against her. Following the match, Gentaro and Matsumoto formed a tag team, wrestling Keita Yano and Munenori Sawa to a fifteen-minute time limit draw on April 7. However, problems quickly arose between the two, when Matsumoto revealed that Gentaro’s fellow Freedoms worker Jun Kasai was her favorite wrestler. On April 17, when Matsumoto and Kasai were named the number one contenders to the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship, held by Kazumi Shimouna and Nanae Takahashi of Passion Red, Gentaro interrupted the announcement and demanded to be included in the match. When Emi Sakura agreed to change the match, Keita Yano entered the ring and attacked Matsumoto, revealing himself as Gentaro’s partner. The three-way match, contested under hardcore rules, took place on May 3, and saw Matsumoto and Kasai become the new champions. On August 11, Gentaro formed a new tag team with Mai Ichii, with the two defeating the reigning International Ribbon Tag Team Champions, Chii Tomiya and Isami Kodaka, in a non-title match in their first match together. As a result, Gentaro and Ichii were granted a shot at the title on September 23, where they defeated Tomiya and Kodaka to become the new International Ribbon Tag Team Champions. However, Gentaro’s and Ichii’s reign ended just two days later, when they were defeated by Emi Sakura and Nanae Takahashi. Since losing the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship, Gentaro has mainly remained outside of storylines, wrestling only sporadically, and instead began working as the lead play-by-play announcer on Ice Ribbon’s broadcasts on Ustream and Samurai TV.

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Facts & Trivia

Gentaro Ranked on the list of most popular Amateur Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Gentaro celebrates birthday on October 28 of every year.

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