Japanese professional wrestler
Yumehito Imanari
Imanari in January 2024
Born (1985-09-22 ) September 22, 1985 (age 38)
[1]
Nagaoka ,
Japan
Ring name(s) Yumehito Imanari Yumehito "Fantastic" Imanari Yumeto Imasei Yuusha Imanari YumetoBilled height 167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
[2] Billed weight 73 kg (161 lb) Debut 2013
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
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