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Yusuke Okada (岡田佑介, Okada Yūsuke, born March 8, 1993) is a Japanese
professional wrestler who currently works for
DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), where he is a member of the
Burning stable.
Okada made his official
professional wrestling debut for AJPW on January 9, 2017, at the
Yokohama Radiant Hall, in a losing effort against
Yuma Aoyagi.[1][4] On March 25, at the Condition Green event produced by
Hikaru Sato, he faced
Kazuhiro Tamura.[5] On August 27, Okada took part in the AJPW 45th Anniversary event at the
Ryōgoku Kokugikan, where he faced Keiichi Sato in the pre-show, losing in just over three minutes.[6] In November, Okada teamed with
Koji Iwamoto in the
Jr. Tag Battle of Glory tournament. They scored two points after getting only one victory over Black Spider VII and
Black Tiger VII. On December 3, he formed a tag team called "W Okada" with Tsuyoshi Okada, and they were defeated by
Atsushi Aoki and Rey Paloma.[7]
Evolution (2018–2020)
In 2018, Okada asked
Suwama to join the
Evolution stable. He was initially turned down, but after the penultimate match of the February 3 event in the Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium, he officially joined Evolution as a reward for having stood up to
Kazuyuki Fujita,
Kendo Kashin and
Nosawa Rongai.[8] Later in the month, Okada entered the
2018 Jr. Battle of Glory, winning one match against Keiichi Sato. On April 30, Okada suffered a right
fibula fracture that sidelined him for six months.[9] He made his return on October 6.[10] On November 17, Okada defeated the debuting Hokuto Omori.[11]
In the
2019 Jr. Battle of Glory, he won two of his five matches and failed to advance to the final.[12] In July 2019, Okada was scheduled to take part in the
Jr. Tag Battle of Glory with
Franceso Akira, but after the untimely death of Atsushi Aoki on June 3, he asked to instead team with Aoki's partner Hikaru Sato and went on the win the tournament by defeating
Kagetora and
Yosuke♡Santa Maria in the final.[13][14]
In 2020, Suwama started expressing frustration regarding Okada's increasing defeats,[15] and after another defeat at the hands of JIN (
Ayato Yoshida,
Fuminori Abe,
Jake Lee and
Koji Iwamoto) on July 13, Okada announced he was leaving Evolution.[16][17]
Yoshitatsu Kingdom and departure (2020)
After his departure from Evolution, Okada regularly teamed with
Yoshitatsu and was considered an associate of the Yoshitatsu Kingdom stable. On October 17, after being involved in a
Captain's Fallsix-man tag team match for Yoshitatsu's
Gaora TV Championship, he joined Yoshitatsu Kingdom.[18] On December 8, Okada announced that his contract had expired and that he would be leaving AJPW at the end of the year.[19] Okada wrestled his last match with the company at Prime Night 2020, on December 13. He teamed with Yoshitatsu and Chikara in a losing effort to Unchain (
Jun Kasai,
Masashi Takeda and Kenji Fukimoto).[20][3] He was originally scheduled to take part in the
2020 Jr. Tag Battle of Glory, on December 27, teaming with former police officer
Takayuki Ueki.[21]
DDT Pro-Wrestling (2021–present)
On January 3, 2021, Okada appeared at a
DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) press conference to announce he would be touring with the company.[22] He debuted for DDT on January 9, at the Go to DDT! vol. 1 event in
Korakuen Hall, during which he teamed with
Makoto Oishi and
Mizuki Watase to defeat
Damnation (
Tetsuya Endo,
Daisuke Sasaki and
Nobuhiro Shimatani).[23] On March 14, he wrestled
Yuki Ueno for the
DDT Universal Championship in the main event of Day Dream Believer, but failed to win the title.[24] On March 27, Okada announced he had officially signed with DDT.[25] On July 24, Okada was invited in the Junretsu stable by
Jun Akiyama who was his mentor in AJPW.[26] On October 12, at Get Alive, Junretsu failed to capture the
KO-D 8-Man Tag Team Championship from Team Olympian (
Yoshiaki Yatsu,
Akito,
Hiroshi Yamato and
Keigo Nakamura).[27] As a result, and as per Junretsu leader Makoto Oishi's decision, the stable disbanded on October 23.[28] On December 7, DDT announced that, at the request of Tetsuya Endo and Jun Akiyama,
Kenta Kobashi had endorsed the reformation of the
Burning stable (originally formed in 1998, in AJPW) for its fourth incarnation. Okada was invited to join the stable alongside rookie Yuya Koroku.[29]