Luke James Uggles Eatwell (born 24 July 1987), known by his ring name Zack Sabre Jr. (Japanese: ザック・セイバーJr., Hepburn: Zakku Seibā Junia) and its abbreviated form ZSJ, is an English-born professional wrestler.
[3] He joined Suzuki-gun in 2016, after defeating Katsuyori Shibata in his NJPW debut match for the RevPro British Heavyweight Championship.
In his early career, he made a name for himself as part of the "Leaders of the New School" with Marty Scurll, holding the IPW:UK Tag Team Championship twice.
He would later win the same title (now called RPW Undisputed British Tag Team Championship) alongside Suzuki-gun stablemate Minoru Suzuki.
Sabre's offensive style includes a wide array of intricately complex technical wrestling holds and pinning combinations, strikes, athleticism and acrobatics.
[1] On 22 October 2005, Sabre won the NWA United Kingdom Junior Heavyweight Championship and held the title until 1 June 2008 when it was vacated.
[18][19][20] In 2015, Sabre took part in the first ever Progress Wrestling Super Strong Style 16 tournament, competing in four matches over the weekend – defeating Zack Gibson,[22] Tommaso Ciampa and Scurll before losing to Will Ospreay in the final.
The two faced each other at Progress' biggest show to date, held at the Brixton Academy in London, in a Two Out of Three falls match which Sabre won.
[29] Sabre made his debut for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) at the 2014 Battle of Los Angeles on night 1 teaming with Chuck Taylor and Kenny Omega and defeating Adam Cole and The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson).
In April 2015, he returned to the promotion, answering the challenge from PWG World Champion Roderick Strong in a title match at Don't Sweat the Technique in a losing effort.
[37] His name was taken down shortly after as he would have a qualifying match at Progress Wrestling's Chapter 29 event in London to earn his spot, where he defeated Flash Morgan Webster.
[43] On 21 February 2017, it was announced that Sabre would be making his debut for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) at the promotion's 45th anniversary show on 6 March, where he would challenge Katsuyori Shibata for the RPW British Heavyweight Championship.
[44] Sabre won the match with help from Minoru Suzuki and Davey Boy Smith Jr., joining the Suzuki-gun stable in the process.
[49] Prior to the G1 Climax, Sabre took part in a tournament to crown the inaugural IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship at G1 Special in USA, where he made it to the semifinals, before losing to Tomohiro Ishii.
[50] On 17 July, Sabre scored a major win in his first G1 Climax match by submitting the reigning IWGP Intercontinental Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi.
After the match, he challenged IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada for a title shot at Sakura Genesis on 1 April.
[59] Sabre competed in the 2018 G1 Climax where he finished with 12 points, failing to advance due to his losses against Ibushi and Kenny Omega.
[61] He walked away with 8 points after winning four matches, beating Bad Luck Fale, Will Ospreay, fellow Suzuki-gun stablemate Lance Archer, and Kenta, whilst suffering losses to Okada, Sanada, Tanahashi, Ibushi, and Evil.
[63] On Night 3, Sabre and fellow Suzuki-gun stablemate Yoshinobu Kanemaru lost to Pro Wrestling Noah's Naomichi Marufuji and Yoshinari Ogawa.
[71][72] The following month, Sabre defeated Evil to advance to the tournament finals, facing Ren Narita at Wrestle Kingdom 17.
[73] In December, at the World Tag League and Best of the Super Juniors finals, Suzuki announced the disbandment of Suzuki-gun by the end of the year.
[74] The final match between the faction took place on 23 December, where the team of Taichi, Sabre, Kanemaru and Douki defeated Suzuki, Archer, Desperado and Taka Michinoku.
This led to a rematch on 8 April at Sakura Genesis, where Sabre defeated Umino to make his fourth successful title defense.
[90] On 4 January at Wrestle Kingdom, Sabre lost the World Television Championship to Tanahashi, ending his reign at 365 days.
[93][94] On 12 April at Windy City Riot, Sabre defeated Matt Riddle to regain the World Television Championship for the second time.
Following his win, he would announce his plans to challenge for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship on 14 October at King of Pro-Wrestling rather than at Wrestle Kingdom, and he successfully did so by defeating Tetsuya Naito for the title.
[103] This led to, on the 22 June episode of Dynamite, Danielson acknowledging Sabre's challenge, however he also announced that he was injured and not medically cleared to compete at Forbidden Door, due to his loss at Double or Nothing in the Anarchy in the Arena match.
[104] However, Danielson announced a mystery opponent for Sabre, who he claimed was the "one person" he trusted to take his place at the PPV and at the subsequent special episode of Dynamite, AEW Blood and Guts.
On the 21 June episode of Dynamite, Sabre teamed with Daniel Garcia to defeat Cassidy and Katsuyori Shibata, after which a four-way match was set up for the upcoming Forbidden Door PPV.
[115] In 2019, following the news that child poverty in the UK had reached record highs under the Conservatives, he began selling a custom anti-Conservative T-shirt with a percentage of the profits going to the Trussell Trust.