Takashi Sasaki

Whilst studying media at Bunkyo University,[3] Sasaki joined the IWA Kakutō Shijuku dojo and made his professional wrestling debut on September 15, 1996 against Tokai Bushido X.

He was a regular on Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) tours of Japan in the late 90s[6][7] and made several appearances for Wrestle Association-R (WAR) during its dying days.

[8] After a few short years, Sasaki had risen to upper mid-card status within DDT, just below wrestlers such as Exciting Yoshida, Poison Julie Sawada and Sanshiro Takagi.

On June 2, 2001, Sasaki and Nosawa became the inaugural KO-D Tag Team Champions when they defeated Starman and Vertigo at a CMLL event in Mexico.

On August 23, Sasaki and Gentaro won the vacant WEW Tag Team Championship by defeating Hi69 and Taka Michinoku.

[10] The following day, they would lose their semi final matchup vs. Mikami and Tanomusaku Toba[11] and finished third place in the tournament after defeating Miyuki Maeda and Sanshiro Takagi on August 25.

[12] Sasaki and Gentaro, now known as Aka Rangers (アカレンジャーズ, Akarenjāzu), avenged their semi final loss on October 24 when they defeated Mikami and Toba for the KO-D Tag Team Championship.

[19] He wrestled in progressively bloody matches which included barbed wire and fluorescent light tubes on his way to challenging for the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship.

He formed a tag team with Ito and fought a series of deathmatches vs. 045 Junkies (Jaki Numazawa and Jun Kasai) and Muscle & Fat (Abdullah Kobayashi and Daisuke Sekimoto) throughout 2005.

[23] In August, he won a tournament with Badboy Hido to become win the vacant WEW Tag Team Championship; they'd lose the titles on September 24 to Jun Kasai and Tomoaki Honma.

[29] Looking for revenge, on November 24, Sasaki teamed with Shadow WX and debuted for NJPW as part of their Lock Up brand but lost to Makabe and Toru Yano.

[32] In February 2008, Apache Pro was rocked by a sexual harassment scandal involving their top star Kintaro Kanemura.

[33] Having lost fans and sponsors due to the scandal, the promotion struggled to stay afloat and eventually closed down for good after their final event on August 8, 2009.

Sasaki continued making regular appearances for Big Japan Pro Wrestling, even winning the 2011 Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor,[37] but would pull away from the promotion in 2013 to focus on the running of Freedoms.

[42] On May 5, 2019, Sasaki won the Yokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Championship with Ryuji Ito and Yuko Miyamoto from Abdullah Kobayashi, Hideki Suzuki & Yoshihisa Uto.

[43] On March 20, 2022, at Judgement 2022: DDT 25th Anniversary, he teamed up with Gentaro, Poison Sawada Julie, and Suicide Boyz (Mikami and Thanomsak Toba), being accompanied to the ring by Naomi Susan, to defeat Toru Owashi, Antonio Honda, Kazuki Hirata and Yoshihiko for the KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship.

Sasaki in June 2015