Yumehito Imanari
Imanari in December 2016
Born (1985-09-22) September 22, 1985 (age 38)[1]
Nagaoka, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Yumehito Imanari
Yumehito "Fantastic" Imanari
Yumeto Imasei
Yuusha Imanari
Yumeto
Billed height167 cm (5 ft 6 in)[2]
Billed weight73 kg (161 lb)
Debut2013

Yumehito Imanari (今成夢人, Imanari Yumehito) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for CyberFight. He appears on the Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro) brand under his real name, and on the DDT Pro-Wrestling brand as part of the Pheromones stable under the name Yumehito "Fantastic" Imanari (今成”ファンタスティック”夢人, Imanari "Fantasutikku" Yumehito).

Professional wrestling career

Ganbare Pro (2013–present)

Imanari made his professional wrestling debut in DDT Pro-Wrestling in the Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro) branch of the company which hosted the No Cry, No Wrestle event from April 17, 2013, where he fell short to Osamu Namiguchi.[3] At Can You Celebrate? on September 29, 2018, he unsuccessfully challenged Keisuke Ishii for the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship.[4] Imanari often wrestled in unusual matches, such as a 13-on-1 handicap match which took place at Momoiro Kneel Kick on April 14, 2019, where he teamed up with Cherry, Gota Ihashi, Minoru Fujita, Moeka Haruhi and others to defeat Ken Ohka.[5]

On May 3, 2022, Imanari defeated Tatsuhito Takaiwa to win the Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship.[6]

DDT Pro-Wrestling (2013–present)

Imanari seldom works for the bigger branch of the company. At Beer Garden Fight on August 2, 2018, Imanari competed in a 20-man falls count anywhere battle royal also involving Antonio Honda, Super Sasadango Machine, Danshoku Dieno, Yasu Urano, Yuki Ueno and others.[7] At the 2020 edition of the Ganbare Climax, he scored the win by defeating Shinichiro Tominaga in the finals.[8]

He is known for competing in various of the promotion's signature events such as DDT Peter Pan, making his first appearance at Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2018 on October 21 where he participated in a Rumble rules match won by Nobuhiro Shimatani and also involving Gorgeous Matsuno, Shota, Tiger Mask and others.[9] Another notable event where he competed is DDT Ultimate Party, making his only appearance at Ultimate Party 2019 on November 3 where he teamed up with Ken Ohka and Miss Mongol to face Takumi Tsukamoto, Yasu Urano and Takato Nakano and Damnation (Tetsuya Endo, Mad Paulie and Nobuhiro Shimatani) in a Three-way match for the UWA World Trios Championship.[10] At CyberFight Festival 2021, a cross-over event promoted by CyberFight on June 6 in which all DDT, Pro Wrestling Noah and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling companies took part, Imanari teamed up with Shuichiro Katsumura and Kouki Iwasaki to defeat Ken Ohka, Keisuke Ishii and Shota in a six-man tag team match.[11] In 2021, he formed the Pheremones stable with Danshoku "Dandy" Dieno & Yuki "Sexy" Iino.

Pro Wrestling Zero1 (2020–present)

Imanari is also known for competing in Pro Wrestling Zero1. He won the 2020 edition of the Furinkazan Tournament by teaming up with Shinjiro Otani defeating Revengers (Takuya Sugawara and Masato Tanaka) in the first round, Voodoo Murders (Yoshikazu Yokoyama and Chris Vice) in the semi-finals and The Kubota Brothers (Yasu Kubota and Hide Kubota) in the final from December 25 which was also for the vacant NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship.[12] At the 2021 edition of the event he teamed up with Yuna Manase and fell short to Hartley Jackson and Junya Matsunaga in the first round.[13]

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ^ Saalbach, Axel. "Yumehito Imanari • General Information". wrestlingdata.com. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
  2. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "Yumehito Imanari/Career Data". cagematch.de (in German). Retrieved October 8, 2021.
  3. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (April 17, 2013). "DDT Ganbare Pro-Wrestling "No Cry, No Wrestle"". cagematch.de (in German). Retrieved October 8, 2021.
  4. ^ DDT Pro Wrestling (September 29, 2018). "DDT ProWrestling" CAN YOU CELEBRATE? 2018. ddtpro.com (in Japanese). Retrieved October 8, 2021.
  5. ^ DDT Pro Wrestling (April 14, 2019). "DDT ProWrestling" 石井慧介プロデュース興行「初花凛々～桃色ニールキック2019～」. ddtpro.com (in Japanese). Retrieved October 8, 2021.
  6. ^ a b "LOVE PHANTOM 2022". ddtpro.com (in Japanese). DDT Pro-Wrestling. May 3, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
  7. ^ DDT Pro Wrestling (August 2, 2018). "DDT ProWrestling" 闘うビアガーデン2018～男色ディーノ＆スーパー・ササダンゴ・マシンDAY～. ddtpro.com (in Japanese). Retrieved October 8, 2021.
  8. ^ DDT Pro-Wrestling (August 12, 2018). "DDT ProWrestling" ガンバレ☆クライマックス2018 FINAL ROUND (in Japanese). Retrieved September 27, 2021.
  9. ^ DDT Pro-Wrestling (October 21, 2018). "DDT ProWrestling" 両国ピーターパン2018～秋のプロレス文化祭～. ddtpro.com (in Japanese). Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  10. ^ "Ultimate Party 2019～DDTグループ大集合！～". DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  11. ^ Pro Wrestling Noah (June 6, 2021). 2021年06月06日 （日） CyberFight Festival 2021｜サイバーファイトフェスティバル2021. noah.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  12. ^ 試合結果速報【ZERO1】2020/12/25(金)東京都新宿FACEZERO1 2020年最終興行 新宿大会 「Christmas Night」風林火山タッグトーナメント2020 準決勝&決勝戦 (in Japanese). Pro Wrestling Zero1. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  13. ^ "Pro-Wrestling ZERO1 Results: 2021" (in German). PuroLove.com. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
  14. ^ "DDT タイトル史". extremeparty.net. Extreme Party. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  15. ^ DDT Pro-Wrestling (November 3, 2021). "D 王 GRAND PRIX 2021 II in Ota-ku". ddtpro.com (in Japanese). Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  16. ^ Samurai TV [@samuraitv] (December 31, 2021). 「輝く!日本インディー大賞 2021」の結果は以下となりました。 [The results of the "Japan Indie Awards 2021" results are as follows.] (Tweet) (in Japanese) – via Twitter.
  17. ^ Wrestling Titles (December 25, 2020). "NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Title". wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
  18. ^ Dark angel (January 11, 2021). "Zero1: «2020 Final Show» Furinkazan Tag League Grand Final". superluchas.com. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
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