Masa Takanashi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Masa Takanashi
Occupation	Professional Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Jan 22, 1983(1983-01-22)
Age	41
Country	Japan
Birth City	Ichikawa
Horoscope	Capricorn

Masa Takanashi Biography

Masa Takanashi is one of the most popular and richest Professional Wrestler who was born on January 22, 1983 in Ichikawa, Japan. Masahiro Takanashi (Gao Li Jiang Hong , Takanashi Masahiro, born January 22, 1983) is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Masa Takanashi (masa Gao Li , Masa Takanashi) . Takanashi was trained by the Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) and has been a part of the team since September

2003. He was a one-time Openweight Champion of KO-D and a two-time KO D Tag Team Champion and a seven-time KO D 6-Man Tag Team Champion and the twice DDT Extreme Division Champion, an 18-time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion, and a single-time UWA World Trios Champion. Takanashi is also famous for his involvement in the women’s professional wrestling Ice Ribbon, where he wrestled under the ring under the ring name Ribbon Takanashi (ribonGao Li , Ribon Takanashi) and was a single-time International Ribbon Tag Team and Triangle Ribbon Champion.

After healing from an ACL injured, Takanashi, still unable to wrestle was able to return on Ice Ribbon on June 15 2011 and lost his Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship to Emi Sakura. After that, and following title changes that involved Remi Nagano, and Hikari Minami Takanashi was awarded the title back from Sakura and was able to return to DDT with the title. The month of September was when Takanashi was wrestling on a regular basis in matches of three ways. These culminated in a fight on the 30th of November in which he beat Neko Nitta as well as Makoto Oishi in the Triangle Ribbon Championship, becoming the first male wrestler to ever been awarded the title. Takanashi took his first final defense of the title on January 4th, 2012 at Shinshun Ribbon beating Miyako Matsumoto as well as Yasu Urano. The following day, on January 25, Takanashi lost the title back to Neko Nitta, in a three-way match that also included Miyako Matsumoto. In May 5, Golden Ribbon 2012, Takanashi was joined by Kurumi in the 2nd annual Go! Go! Golden Mixed Tag Tournament. After defeating teams Hamuko Hoshi and Hoshitango and Dynasty and Hikari Minami in the opening 2 rounds Takanashi as well as Kurumi were able to defeat Maki Narumiya, and Masamune at the end of the tournament to be the winners of the tournament. Takanashi wrestled in his last Ice Ribbon match on July 21st when he beat Tetsuya Endo in an individual match. Following that, Takanashi worked as a play-by-play announcer for the Ice Ribbon 19 O’Clock Girls ProWrestling programme on Ustream until the end of 2012. Takanashi started working on a regular basis on Emi Sakura’s latest Gatoh move pro wrestling promotion.

On August 26, DDT General Manager Amon Tsurumi ordered all stables in the promotion disbanded, effectively ending the short-lived Familia. On September 19, Daisuke Sasaki turned on Takanashi and formed a new stable named “Los Calientes” with Antonio Honda, who simultaneously turned on Yasu Urano, and Hoshitango. Takanashi responded by announcing that he was forming his own stable with Toru Owashi and Yuji Hino and going after Los Calientes. The two stables faced off on September 30, however, during the match Hino turned on Takanashi, which led to Hoshitango pinning him for the win. Following the match, Honda announced that he, Hoshitango, Sasaki and Hino were reforming the Monster Army, claiming that Takanashi and Urano were the ones who ruined the original stable. Takanashi returned to title contention on June 13, 2013, when he unsuccessfully challenged Kenny Omega for the DDT Extreme Division Championship. Ten days later, Takanashi took part in a nine-man battle royal, during which he won the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship from Gorgeous Matsuno for the twelfth time, only to lose it to Tomomitsu Matsunaga nine seconds later. Takanashi then resumed his rivalry with his former Monster Army stablemates, which built to an eight-man tag team match on August 17, during the first day of DDT’s 16th anniversary weekend in Ryōgoku Kokugikan, where he, Akito, Kazuki Hirata and Yukio Sakaguchi defeated Antonio Honda, Daisuke Sasaki, Hoshitango and Yuji Hino. On December 17, Takanashi produced his tenth anniversary event in Tokyo’s Tobu Friend Hall, which saw him lose to Kudo in the main event. On January 13, 2014, Takanashi won a four-way match to earn the right to challenge for the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship whenever and wherever he wanted. He used the right later that same event, surprising DDT Triple Crown Champion Harashima with a schoolboy after his match to become the new Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion. On January 26, Takanashi put his new title on the line in a ten-minute battle royal. Early on in the match, Takanashi lost the title to Tomomitsu Matsunaga, but later came back to defeat Yasu Urano, regain the title and leave the match as the reigning champion. Following the main event, Takanashi came out to challenge Harashima for the KO-D Openweight Championship, but was then surprised by Urano, who pinned him to become the new Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion. On February 2, Takanashi failed to recapture the title from Urano in a match billed as a KO-D Openweight Championship number one contender’s match. However, following the match, Takanashi revealed that he and Emi Sakura had tricked DDT General Manager Amon Tsurumi into signing a contract making him the number one contender, regardless of the result of the match. Takanashi received his title shot on February 23, but was defeated by the defending champion, Harashima.

On March 2, Takanashi formed a new stable with Kudo and Yukio Sakaguchi, based on the three’s shared love of alcohol. On March 9, the stable was named Shuten-dōji, after a sake drinking oni of the same name. On March 21, Takanashi won his second “Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere” contract in the annual battle royal. However, after Kudo captured the KO-D Openweight Championship later in the main event, Takanashi announced he would not be betraying his “brother” and using the contract. After holding the contract for only nine days, Takanashi lost it to Kazuki Hirata after being pinned by him in a ten-man tag team match. In April, Shuten-dōji announced they were taking over DDT and every one of its championships with Takanashi being assigned with capturing the DDT Extreme Division Championship as well as the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship alongside his stablemates. The first title match took place on May 4 and saw Shuten-dōji defeat Daisuke Sasaki, Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi to capture the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship. Shuten-dōji’s takeover of DDT continued on May 9, when Takanashi defeated Danshoku Dino to win the DDT Extreme Division Championship for the second time. Takanashi’s reign lasted only sixteen days, before he lost the title to Makoto Oishi on May 25. On June 8, Shuten-dōji made their first successful defense of the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship against Smile Squash (Akito, Harashima and Yasu Urano). They lost the title to Happy Motel (Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita and Tetsuya Endo) in their second defense on July 13. Shuten-dōji, however, regained the title from Happy Motel just seven days later in a three-way match, which also included Team Drift (Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie and Soma Takao). They lost the title to Team Drift on August 17 at DDT’s largest event of the year, Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2014. On February 15, 2015, Shuten-dōji won the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship for the third time, defeating previous champions Genpatsu Daio (Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu and Gorgeous Matsuno). Shuten-dōji then entered a series of matches with Team Drift, where the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship changed hands between the two teams three times in six weeks with Shuten-dōji losing the title on March 1, winning it on March 21, and losing it again on April 11. On July 5, Takanashi received a shot at the DDT Extreme Division Championship, but was defeated by the defending champion, Akito, in a Bullrope match. Takanashi received another shot at the title on August 23 at Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2015, but was this time defeated by Antonio Honda. On January 3, 2016, Takanashi was named the number one contender to the KO-D Openweight Championship, after pinning Harashima in a six-man tag team match. He was defeated in the title match on January 31 by Isami Kodaka. On July 17, Takanashi announced he was returning to working under his real name of Masahiro Takanashi. On December 11, Takanashi, Kudo and Sakaguchi defeated Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki, Mad Paulie and Tetsuya Endo) to win the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship for the fifth time. They lost the title to Kazusada Higuchi, Kouki Iwasaki and Mizuki Watase in a three-way match, also involving Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita and Trans-Am★Hiroshi, on January 22, 2017. Takanashi, Kudo and Sakaguchi won the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship for a record-tying sixth time on June 25, 2017, by defeating NωA (Makoto Oishi, Mao and Shunma Katsumata). They were stripped of the title on October 10, when Kudo was sidelined with a concussion. Following Kudo’s return, Shuten-dōji won the title for the seventh time by defeating All Out (Akito, Diego and Konosuke Takeshita) on December 10.

Despite the plot, Takanashi did not miss any event organized by DDT at the time of January 2009 when he started appearing in the promotion under the name Louis Takanashi XIV. On May 21st, Takanashi earned his way back to DDT by beating Sanshiro Taagi in a singles game. In this summer, Takanashi took home four championships: the DJ Nira World Championship and the World’s Most Powerful Championship as well as the GAY World Anal Championship, the J.E.T. World Jet Championship and the World Mid Breath Championship, all of which were contested by various DDT wrestlers, none of these are officially recognised by any organization. This culminated in the nine championship battle with Takanashi as well as Danshoku Dino on the 23rd of August that Dino was victorious to keep his five titles and also win the four championships of Takanashi. In the final days of the year Takanashi and Dino have re-formed to form the Belt HunterxHunter stable. On the 29th of November, Takanashi, Dino and Hikaru Sato defeated Italian Four Horsemen (Antonio Honda, Francesco Togo and Piza Michinoku) to become the first DDT-sponsored UWA World Trios Champions. On January 24 the 24th of January, 2010, they lost their title Tokyo Gurentai (Fujita, Mazada and Nosawa Rongai). The 14th of March Takanashi took part in a 15-man fight royal and became the most likely contender for DDT’s highest title the KO-D Openweight Champion. In the next event, on the 21st of March, Takanashi defeated Munenori Sawa to take home the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship for the fifth time. The title would be lost to Danshoku Dino the next day in a four-way contest that also featured belt HunterxHunter participants Hikaru Sato as well as Keisuke Ishii. Takanashi was able to win the Openweight Championship KO-D on April 4 however, he was defeated by the current champion Daisuke Sekimoto, who weighed Takanashi by 50 kilograms (110 pounds). The contest was acknowledged by many as being one of the top fights that took place on the Japanese independent circuit throughout the course of 2010 and is regarded as Takanashi’s first major win. On May 12th, DDT announced that Takanashi was out of competition for the rest of his life after dislocating the right knee of his opponent, injuring the anterior cruciate ligament as well as damage to his collateral ligament medial.

Masa Takanashi Net Worth

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

Takanashi was initially trained as a professional wrestler with Ultimo Dragon, who was the Ultimo Dragon Gym. After failing to graduate from the classes, Takanashi moved to the dojo for training of the Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) promotion. From August 19 until September 6 in 2003 Takanashi participated in several matches of the exhibition for DDT before making his first official appearance in this promotion in September when he, who was now wrestling under the name of the ring that is shorter Masa Takanashi (spelled as Masa Takanashi in the western name order, with the given name firstand last) fell to the Uchu Power. Uchu Power. Through the remainder of 2003, Takanashi wrestled mostly opening matches. He scored his first victory on December 29 when he pin Daichi Kakimoto to the mat in a tag team of six men match. In the early part of 2004 Takanashi began to regularly wrestle alongside Danshoku Dino. On May 29th, Takanashi defeated Shoichi Ichimiya in the opening round of the first King of DDT tournament. On the following day the tournament was canceled and he was eliminated competition in finals with Danshoku Dino. Between April and Mai 2005 Takanashi was a part of DDT in Kontai Dojo’s K-Metal League, where he did not make it to the finals. When he returned in DDT, Takanashi began wrestling as a DDT representative. Cruiser’s Game project. In January of 2006, Takanashi was, in the storyline, caught in the influence by Poison Sawada Julie. She transforms into a snake that could be a human. Takanashi would fight as an ally the Julie’s Snake Corps, before managing to escape the group in May together with Seiya Morohashi. On the 25th of June, Takanashi won his first title, when he, acting under the name of Masahiro Mekanashi, who was a character inspired by Mecha Mummy defeated Mecha Stanley to win his Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship. Takanashi was then a part of a battle royal, in which he fell short of the crown to NatsukiHead but regained the title from Mikami before losing the title in the hands of Mecha Mummy. In 2005, Takanashi was the first to make his appearance as a wrestler for El Dorado Wrestling, where he teamed up with the Ultimo Dragon Gym training buddies to play King Pocota. The character was later transferred to DDT and was changed to Poco Takanashi. He took home his first Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship two more times, holding the title for less than one day. On November 23 Takanashi was awarded his very first title when he together with Seiya Morohashi took on Francesco Togo and Mori Bernard to claim his KO-D Tag Team Championship. After five months of reign, Takanashi and Morohashi lost the title to Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga on April 1st 2007. Following his return to the stage in the role of Masa Takanashi, Takanashi defeated Danshoku Dino, and Kudo in a tri-match in February 20th, 2008 to take home the DDT Extreme Division Championship. He would later be defeated by Francoise Takagi on the 6th of July. In in the summer of 2008 Takanashi established his “Belt HunterxHunter” stable that included Hikaru, Danshoku Dino, Keisuke Ishii and Tigers Mask. This stable’s rivalry with Italian Four Horsemen stable built into an eight-man tag team match on the 28th of December 2008, in which the winner of the match was thrown out of DDT. The game ended with Horsemen members Antonio Honda pinning Takanashi for the win. As it turned out, Takanashi was, in the storyline, removed from DDT.

On the 15th of October, on the 15th October of 2006 Takanashi who was wrestling under the name of the ring Ribbon Takanashi, made his debut in the new women’s professional wrestling organization, Ice Ribbon, teaming with Makoto in a loss against the team consisting of Choun Shiryu as well as Riho. Takanashi has been wrestling regularly for the organization since then and has become the only male wrestler who has the position of a regular member on the roster, and also aiding Emi Sakura with training wrestlers for the organization. On the 29th of July 2008. Takanashi took home his very first championship in Ice Ribbon, when he was working under the character of a transvestite Masako Takanashi and Chounko to beat Etsuko Mita as well as Makoto to win the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship and become the only male wrestlers who won the title. On the 24th of October They lost their title Riho as well as Yuki Sato during their very first defense. Reverting with the Ribbon Takanashi ring name, Takanashi together in tandem with Emi Sakura, tried to win back this title Riho as well as Sato on the 15th of November but they failed in their fight.

Though still unable to wrestle due to his injury, Takanashi resumed working storylines around the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship in May 2011. Takanashi wrestled his return match on June 19, 2011, and before the end of the month, won the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship for the eleventh time. On July 24, Takanashi recruited former opponent, Daisuke Sekimoto, as his tag team partner and together the two of them defeated Harashima and Hero!, Gentaro and Yasu Urano, and Kenny Omega and Michael Nakazawa in a four- way match to become the new KO-D Tag Team Champions. The comedic big man/little man team would lose the title to Homoiro Clover Z (Danshoku Dino and Kota Ibushi) on August 28. On October 23, Takanashi won a sixteen-person rock-paper-scissors tournament to become the number one contender to the KO-D Openweight Championship, but would be defeated in the title match on November 6 by the defending champion, Kudo. On December 3, Takanashi made his American debut, when took part in the Indie Summit 2011, promoted by Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, wrestling in a three-way match, which was won by Kudo and also included Dick Togo. Later that same day, Takanashi appeared on CZW’s internet pay-per-view, Cage of Death 13, wrestling in a ten-man tag team match, where he, Jaki Numazawa, Jun Kasai, Kamui and Yoshihito Sasaki were defeated by Danshoku Dino, Kengo Mashimo, Kudo, Ryuji Ito and Takashi Sasaki. In early 2012, Takanashi began feuding with the Homoiro Clover Z stable. After leading fellow DDT Seikigun members Daisuke Sasaki and Harashima to a six-man tag team victory over Homoiro Clover Z on March 11, the stable’s leader, the reigning KO-D Openweight Champion Danshoku Dino, named Takanashi and Sanshiro Takagi his top two contenders for the title. On March 18, Takanashi was defeated by Takagi in a number one contender’s main event. On April 1, Takanashi took part in the annual Anytime and Anywhere battle royal, a match combining elements of a regular battle royal and a ladder match, where he managed to grab the “Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere” contract to earn the right to challenge for the KO-D Openweight Championship at a time of his own choosing. Later that same event, Takanashi used his contract, after Sanshiro Takagi had defeated Danshoku Dino to win the KO-D Openweight Championship, and defeated him to become the new champion. On May 4, Takanashi lost the KO-D Openweight Championship to Yuji Hino in his first title defense, ending his reign at 33 days. On June 24, Takanashi and Daisuke Sasaki received a shot at the KO-D Tag Team Championship, but were defeated by the defending champions, Homoiro Clover Z representatives Kudo and Makoto Oishi. On July 8, Takanashi and Sasaki joined Antonio Honda, Hoshitango, Yasu Urano and Yuji Hino to form the Monster Army. The group wrestled its first match together on July 22, when they were defeated by Akito, DJ Nira, Poison Julie Sawada, Rion Mizuki and Tetsuya Endo in a ten-man tag team match, after Hino and Hoshitango began brawling with each other. The brawling continued after the match with Takanashi and Sasaki siding with Hoshitango and Honda and Urano with Hino, which led to Takanashi announcing that the Monster Army was history and that he, Sasaki and Hoshitango were now known as “Familia”. Later that same day, Takanashi made a special appearance for Pro Wrestling Noah, facing former training partner Taiji Ishimori in a losing effort. On August 18 at DDT’s 15th anniversary event in Nippon Budokan, Takanashi, Daisuke Sasaki, Hoshitango, Tetsuya Endo and Tsukasa Fujimoto, representing Familia, defeated Antonio Honda, Tanomusaku Toba, Yasu Urano, Yoshiko and Yuji Hino, representing Crying Wolf, in a ten- person tag team match, contested under “Soccer rules”.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Facts & Trivia

Masa Ranked on the list of most popular Professional Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Masa Takanashi celebrates birthday on January 22 of every year.