Kaientai Dojo
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| Acronym | K-DOJO |
| Established | 2002 |
| Location | Japan |
| Founder(s) | Taka Michinoku |
| Owner(s) | Taka Michinoku |
Kaientai Dojo (or K-DOJO for short) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion and training facility owned and promoted by Taka Michinoku.
The promotion emphasises on a new style of Puroresu that combines high-flying, technical wrestling and martial arts. This style was largely contributed to by Taka Michinoku and is gaining popularity in Japan and abroad. K-DOJO is also heavily influenced by American-style wrestling and places a large amount of importance on presentation. For instance, each Club-K 3000 show that K-DOJO runs is equipped with a large screen near the entrance gate, similar to the Titantron, where a short introductory vignette is played during each wrestler's entrance and where the crowd can follow the action on-screen. They have a home building that doubles as their training facility, Chiba Blue Field, where all of their Club-K 3000 shows are held.
Kaientai Dojo originated in 2001 as a small wrestling school in Puerto Rico run by Taka Michinoku. After Taka finally returned to Japan in 2002, he established the Japanese branch of Kaientai Dojo, which would soon become a wrestling promotion. The small fed grew over the years and is now a respected independent league that runs as a promotion, wrestling school and talent loan organization to various other leagues such as AJPW, Dragon Gate and Michinoku Pro.
K-DOJO is separated into two distinct sides, GET and RAVE, which run separate shows but often join together during their tour shows. GET is lead by Taka Michinoku while RAVE's leader was Hi69. After Hi69's departure, Taka Michinoku became commissioner of RAVE and 296 became commissioner of GET.
A particular aspect of K-DOJO is that it's one of the few inter-gender wrestling promotions. Women can wrestle in the same ring as men, either during mixed tag matches or even singles matches. Also, they can challenge for championship belts, something that would be unheard of in most wrestling promotions.
K-DOJO has a show on GAORA TV (a Japanese sports channel) called "Puroresu King", which features wrestling from Japan and Mexico. It also holds a large monthly show, CLUB-K Super, usually at Tokyo Korakuen Hall. Many of its shows have been released on video and DVD. K-DOJO markets t-shirts and compilation albums of the wrestlers' theme songs as well.
Some of K-DOJO's top stars include Taka Michinoku, Kengo Mashimo, KAZMA, Ryota Chikuzen, Yuji Hino, Handsome Joe, PSYCHO, Super X and DJ Nira.
[edit] Roster
Please see Kaientai Dojo roster.
[edit] Titles
- Strongest-K Championship — Kengo Mashimo
- Strongest-K Tag Team Championship — Handsome Joe and Yasu Urano
- UWA World Middleweight Championship — Shiori Asahi
- WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship — YOSHIYA and Apple Miyuki
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