Masato Shibata (柴田 正人, Shibata Masato, born September 13, 1978) is a Japanese professional wrestler primarily working for DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), where he competes as part of the Damnation T.A unit under the ring name MJ Paul (MJポー, Emu Jē Pō).

After training at Kiyoshi Tamura's U-File Camp, Shibata debuted in December 2003 and primarily competed in Style-E for the next few years.

[7] In September, Shibata won Apache Pro Wrestling's WEW Tag Team Championship, teaming with Kotaru Nasu to defeat Kengo Nishimura and Tomohiko Hashimoto,[8] but lost the championship to Hashimoto and Shoichi Imiya two weeks later.

The trio dubbed themselves "Damnation", and in July added a fourth member to their ranks when Tetsuya Endo turned on his partner Konosuke Takeshita to join.

[13] On October 10, they made their first successful defence, defeating Happy Motel (Antonio Honda and Konosuke Takeshita) and Mike Bailey,[14] but dropped the championship to Shuten-dōji (Takanashi, Sakaguchi and Kudo) on November 11.