Japanese professional wrestler
Antonio Honda
Honda in 2020
Born (1978-01-02 ) January 2, 1978 (age 46)
[1]
Tokyo ,
Japan Relatives
Tetsu Watanabe (father)
Ring name(s) Antonio The Dragon Hanoreku Hogaso A. YazawaAntonio Honda Billed height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
[2] Billed weight 80 kg (176 lb) Trained by
Dick Togo Debut 2005
Soichiro Honda (本多宗一郎 , Honda Sōichirō , born January 2, 1978) is a Japanese
professional wrestler , better known by his ring name Antonio Honda (アントーニオ本多 , Antōnio Honda ) . He is currently working for the Japanese
professional wrestling promotion
DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT).
[3] He is the son of actor
Tetsu Watanabe .
[4]
Professional wrestling career
Independent circuit (2005–present)
One of the rising stars of
DDT Pro-Wrestling in 2007, Honda started his career as one of the "Four Italian Horsemen". He later became the leader of the aWo (Aloha World Order) stable, mainly sticking to a
comedic gimmick .
[5] Honda made his
professional wrestling debut as A. Yazawa at the Guts World Prowrestling's Guts World Vol. 2 event from March 15, 2005, where he teamed up with Cabbage Taro in a losing effort to Gutara and Potato Saburota.
[6] He participated in one of the longest matches in professional wrestling history, a
108-man battle royal at
Tenka Sanbun no Kei: New Year's Eve Special , a cross-over event held between
Big Japan Pro Wrestling , DDT and
Kaientai Dojo from December 31, 2009, competing against other infamous wrestlers such as
Great Kojika ,
Taka Michinoku ,
Kenny Omega ,
Abdullah Kobayashi ,
[7] and the winner of the match,
Jun Kasai .
[8] On November 2, 2016, at
Wrestle-1 's W-1 Tour 2016 Autumn Bout, Honda teamed up with
Konosuke Takeshita as part of the Happy Motel stable to defeat
Keiji Mutoh and
Jiro Kuroshio .
[9] At
Ice Ribbon 's New Ice Ribbon #700 (RibbonMania 2015: Neko Nitta Retirement Show) from December 31, 2015, he teamed up with Mochi Miyagi to defeat
Gentaro and
Yuji Hino , and Jun Kasai and
Miyako Matsumoto in a
three-way intergender tag team match .
[10] On April 5, 2019, at the
WrestleCon Joey Ryan's Penis Party , a freelance event held and produced by
Joey Ryan , Honda participated in a
7-person gauntlet match also involving
Danshoku Dino ,
Makoto Oishi ,
Sanshiro Takagi ,
Mao ,
Maki Itoh and Yoshihiko (a love doll) for the
Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship .
[11]
DDT Pro-Wrestling/Pro Wrestling Basara (2005–present)
Honda defeated
Gentaro at Never Mind 2010 to become the
interim
KO-D Openweight Champion .
[12] A unification match took place at Sweet Dreams! 2011 on January 30, where he was eventually defeated by
Dick Togo .
[13]
He is a former multiple-time
KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champion , title which he won as part of Monster Army alongside stablemates
Daisuke Sasaki ,
Hoshitango , and Yuji Hino at Sweet Dreams!
[14] on January 27, and Road to Ryōgoku in Hiroshima: Dramatic Dream Toukasan on June 23, 2013.
[15] He also won the championship as part of the Happy Motel stable alongside Konosuke Takeshita and
Tetsuya Endo at Road to Ryōgoku in Osaka: Dramatic Dream Tsutenkaku on July 13, 2014.
[16]
On April 28, 2019, he defeated
Harashima in a
Panty-Hunt Tiger Club Rope Deathmatch at Max Bump 2019 to win the
DDT Extreme Championship .
[17]
At
Kawasaki Strong 2021 on February 14, Honda teamed up with
Kazuki Hirata ,
Shinya Aoki and
Super Sasadango Machine to win the vacant
KO-D 8-Man Tag Team Championship by defeating Danshoku Dino, Makoto Oishi, Sanshiro Takagi and
Toru Owashi .
[18]
Championships and accomplishments
References
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^ Kreikenbohm, Philip.
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^ Internet Wrestling Database (IWD).
"Antonio Honda • Profile & Match Listing" . profightdb.com . Retrieved March 15, 2021 .
^
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Sports Nippon (in Japanese). 2013-08-18. Retrieved 2015-08-09 .
^ Puroresu Central.
"Antonio Honda Profile/DDT Roster" . puroresucentral.com . Retrieved March 15, 2021 .
^ Kreikenbohm, Philip.
"Guts World Vol. 2" . cagematch.de (in German). Retrieved March 15, 2021 .
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DDT Pro-Wrestling (June 23, 2013).
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DDT Pro-Wrestling .
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"KO-D (King Of DDT) Open-weight Title" . wrestling-titles.com . Retrieved March 19, 2021 .
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"Ironman Heavymetalweight Title (Japan)" . wrestling-titles.com . March 14, 2021. Retrieved March 15, 2021 .
^
"Jiyūgaoka 6-person Tag Team Title" . wrestling-titles.com . Retrieved March 22, 2021 .
^
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DDT Pro-Wrestling (November 3, 2021).
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External links
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Individual champions
Collective champions (teams, groups)
2010s
Team Drift (
Keisuke Ishii ,
Shigehiro Irie and
Soma Takao )
Monster Army (
Antonio Honda ,
Daisuke Sasaki and
Yuji Hino )
Golden☆Rendezvous~ (
Gota Ihashi ,
Kenny Omega and
Kota Ibushi )
Monster Army (
Antonio Honda ,
Hoshitango and
Yuji Hino )
Ten Million Gay Powers (
Danshoku Dino ,
Kensuke Sasaki and
Makoto Oishi )
Akebono ,
Sanshiro Takagi and
Toru Owashi
Team Homo Sapiens (
Aja Kong ,
Danshoku Dino and
Makoto Oishi )
Golden☆Storm Riders (
Daisuke Sasaki ,
Kenny Omega and
Kota Ibushi )
Shuten-dōji (
Kudo ,
Masa Takanashi/Masahiro Takanashi and
Yukio Sakaguchi )
Happy Motel (
Antonio Honda ,
Konosuke Takeshita and
Tetsuya Endo )
T2Hii (
Kazuki Hirata ,
Sanshiro Takagi and
Toru Owashi )
Genpatsu Daio (
Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu and
Gorgeous Matsuno )
#OhkaTeikoku (
Danshoku Dino ,
Ken Ohka and
Super Sasadango Machine )
#OhkaTeikoku (
Danshoku Dino ,
Kenso and
Super Sasadango Machine )
Kazusada Higuchi ,
Kouki Iwasaki and
Shunma Katsumata
Damnation (
Daisuke Sasaki ,
Mad Paulie and
Tetsuya Endo )
Team DNA (
Kazusada Higuchi ,
Kouki Iwasaki and
Mizuki Watase )
NωA (
Makoto Oishi ,
Mao and
Shunma Katsumata )
All Out (
Akito ,
Diego and
Konosuke Takeshita )
Koju Takeda ,
Kota Umeda and
Yuki Ueno
All Out (
Akito ,
Shunma Katsumata and
Konosuke Takeshita )
Damnation (
Tetsuya Endo ,
Mad Paulie and
Soma Takao )
#StrongHearts (
Cima ,
T-Hawk and Duan Yingnan)
All Out (
Akito ,
Konosuke Takeshita and
Yuki Iino )
Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling (
Chihiro Hashimoto ,
Dash Chisako and
Meiko Satomura )
All Out (
Konosuke Takeshita ,
Shunma Katsumata and
Yuki Iino )
2020s
#DamnHearts (
Tetsuya Endo ,
T-Hawk and
El Lindaman )
Eruption (
Kazusada Higuchi ,
Yukio Sakaguchi and
Saki Akai )
Young Communication Generation (
Akito ,
Kazuki Hirata and
Shota )
Damnation (
Tetsuya Endo ,
Soma Takao and
Yuji Hino )
Pheromones (
Danshoku Dino ,
Yuki Iino and
Yumehito Imanari )
Damnation T.A. (
Daisuke Sasaki ,
Minoru Fujita and
MJ Paul )
Damnation T.A. (
Daisuke Sasaki ,
MJ Paul and
Kanon ) (current)
Omega (
Yuji Hino ,
Makoto Oishi and
Shiori Asahi )
Naruki Doi ,
Toru Owashi and
Kazuki Hirata
Burning (
Tetsuya Endo ,
Kotaro Suzuki and
Yusuke Okada )
Shinya Aoki ,
Super Sasadango Machine and
Yuki Ueno
Harimau (
Kazusada Higuchi ,
Ryota Nakatsu and
Yuki Ishida )
Eruption (
Yukio Sakaguchi ,
Saki Akai and
Hideki Okatani )
D・O・A (
Jun Akiyama ,
Danshoku Dino and
Makoto Oishi )
2010s 2020s
Shinya Aoki ,
Super Sasadango Machine ,
Antonio Honda and
Kazuki Hirata
Team Thoroughbred (
Sanshiro Takagi ,
Yukio Naya , Chikara and Yakan Nabe)
Team Olympian (
Yoshiaki Yatsu ,
Akito ,
Hiroshi Yamato and
Keigo Nakamura )
Toru Owashi ,
Antonio Honda ,
Kazuki Hirata and Yoshihiko
Poison Sawada Julie ,
Gentaro ,
Takashi Sasaki ,
Mikami and
Thanomsak Toba
The37Kamiina (
Mao ,
Yuki Ueno ,
Shunma Katsumata ,
Toy Kojima ) and
Shinya Aoki
Schadenfreude International (
Antonio Honda ,
Masahiro Takanashi ,
Takeshi Masada , Mecha Mummy and
Takayuki Ueki )(current)
2000s 2010s 2020s
Other recognized champions
Interim
1980s 1990s 2000s
Crazy-Max (
Cima ,
Suwa and
Big Fuji )
M2K (
Darkness Dragon ,
Yasushi Kanda and
Susumu Mochizuki )
Dragon Kid ,
Magnum Tokyo and
Ryo Saito
M2K (Darkness Dragon,
Masaaki Mochizuki and
Susumu Mochizuki )
Italian Connection (
Milano Collection A. T. ,
Yossino and
"brother" Yasshi )
Do Fixer (
Genki Horiguchi ,
Ryo Saito and
Susumu Yokosuka )
Shin M2K (
Kenichiro Arai ,
Dragon Kid and
Masaaki Mochizuki )
Italian Connection (
Milano Collection A. T. ,
Condotti Shuji and
Yossino )
Hagure Gundam/Aagan Iisou (
Toru Owashi ,
Condotti Shuji and
Yassini )
Kenichiro Arai ,
Dragon Kid and
Second Doi
Gedo ,
Jado and
Katsushi Takemura
Los Salseros Japoneses (
Takayasu Fukuda ,
Pineapple Hanai and
Takeshi Minamino )
Hell's Demons (
Takuya Sugawara ,
Brahman Shu and
Brahman Kei )
Nobutaka Araya,
Toru Owashi and
Takuya Sugawara
The Italian Four Horsemen (
Francesco Togo ,
Piza Michinoku and
Antonio Honda )
Belt Hunter×Hunter (
Danshoku Dino ,
Hikaru Sato and
Masa Takanashi )
2010s
Tokyo Gurentai (
Fujita ,
Mazada and
Nosawa Rongai )
Atsushi Kotoge ,
Daisuke Harada and
Takoyakida
Ebessan (III),
Kanjyuro Matsuyama and
Kuishinbo Kamen
Hikaru Sato ,
Keisuke Ishii and Yoshihiko
Great Kojika , Mr. #6 and
Riho
Shit Heart♥Foundation (
Hikaru Sato ,
Michael Nakazawa and
Tomomitsu Matsunaga )
Disaster-Box (
Harashima ,
Toru Owashi and Yukihiro Abe)
Jackets (
Jiro Kuroshio ,
Seiki Yoshioka and
Yasufumi Nakanoue )
Real Desperado (
Kazma Sakamoto ,
Koji Doi and
Nosawa Rongai )
Kaz Hayashi ,
Minoru Tanaka and
Tajiri
Andy Wu ,
Daiki Inaba and
Seiki Yoshioka
Jun Kasai ,
Nosawa Rongai and
Shuji Kondo
New Era (
Daiki Inaba ,
Kohei Fujimura and
Yusuke Kodama )
Kaz Hayashi ,
Masayuki Kono and
Shuji Kondo
New Era (
Andy Wu ,
Koji Doi and
Kumagoro )
Kaz Hayashi ,
Manabu Soya and
Shuji Kondo
Jay Freddie,
Jiro Kuroshio and
Kumagoro
Ganseki Tanaka,
Manabu Soya and
Nosawa Rongai
New Era (
Jiro Kuroshio ,
Koji Doi and
Kumagoro )
Enfants Terribles (
Seigo Tachibana ,
Shotaro Ashino and
Yusuke Kodama )
New Era (
Koji Doi ,
Kumagoro and
Takanori Ito )
Sento Minzoku (
Daiki Shimomura ,
Isami Kodaka and
Ryuichi Sekine )
Takato Nakano ,
Takumi Tsukamoto and
Yasu Urano
Sparky (
Ryota Nakatsu ,
Naoki Tanizaki and Akiyori Takizawa)
2020s