Pro Wrestling Freedoms
Pro Wrestling Freedoms (プロレスリングFREEDOMS, Puroresuringu Furīdamuzu) often stylized in capital letters as FREEDOMS is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Chigasaki, Kanagawa. Founded by Takashi Sasaki in 2009, the promotion lets wrestlers choose their own fighting style, having the "freedom" of choice.[1]
 Officical logo of the promotion | |
| Acronym | FREEDOMS |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2009 |
| Style | |
| Headquarters | Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Founder(s) | Takashi Sasaki |
| Website | Official website |
History
Following the closure of Apache Pro-Wrestling Army (Apache Pro) on August 8, 2009, Takashi Sasaki announced the creation of Pro Wrestling Freedoms (Freedoms) with Gentaro, Jun Kasai, Kumai, Mammoth Sasaki and The Winger.
Over the years, Freedoms has become one of Japan's premiere deathmatch companies, alongside Big Japan Pro Wrestling. They formed an alliance with the American promotion Game Changer Wrestling that has seen both companies trade stars and co-promote events together. Some of Freedoms' top stars include deathmatch legends Jun Kasai, Masashi Takeda, Toru Sugiura, and Daisuke Masaoka. In 2018, Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) initiated "The Collective", a series of showcases from partnering indie promotions. So, Freedoms held their first-ever event in the United States in April 2020.[2]
It is the latest promotion to jump to Independent Wrestling TV (IWTV),[3] following recent partnerships with GCW, Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling, Defy Wrestling, Combat Zone Wrestling, Absolute Intense Wrestling, and more.[4][5]
The promotion held most of their events in various venues such as Korakuen Hall[6] and Tokyo Dome.[7]
Freedoms began a brief partnership with Active Advance Pro Wrestling, starting promoting a series of shows beginning with FREEDOMS/2AW Versus from December 13, 2020.[8]
Roster
This is a list of professional wrestlers who currently wrestle for the company. Alumni and notable guest superstars are also included.[9]
Active
| Ring name | Real name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Daisuke Masaoka[10] | Unknown | |
| Dragon Libre[11] | Unknown | |
| Drew Parker | Drew Parker | |
| Gentaro[12] | Gentaro Takahashi | |
| Jun Kasai[13] | Jun Kasai | |
| Kamui[14] | Kamui Sawaragi | King of Freedom World Junior Heavyweight Champion |
| Kenji Fukimoto[15] | Unknown | |
| Mammoth Sasaki[16] | Yoshinori Sasaki | King of Freedom Tag Team Champion |
| Takashi Sasaki[17] | Takashi Sasaki | King of Freedom Tag Team Champion |
| Takayuki Ueki | Takayuki Ueki | Freelancer Big Japan Pro Wrestling AJPW TV Six-Man Tag Team Champion |
| Tatsuhito Takaiwa | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | UWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion |
| Tomoya Hirata[18] | Unknown | King of Freedom World Champion |
| Toshiyuki Sakuda | Toshiyuki Sakuda | Freelancer Big Japan Pro Wrestling |
| Toru Sugiura[19] | Unknown | |
| Violento Jack | Jack A. Romero | |
| Yuya Susumu[20] | Unknown | Freelancer Pro Wrestling Noah |
Alumni/notable guests
Championships
| Championship | Current champion(s) | Reign | Date won | Days held | Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King of Freedom World Championship | Tomoya Hirata | 1 | March 23, 2023 | 49+ | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Violento Jack at The Gekokujo 2023. | |
| King of Freedom World Junior Heavyweight Championship | Jun Masaoka | 1 | May 3, 2023 | 8+ | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Kamui at We Love Freedoms! We Are Freedoms! 2023. | |
| King of Freedom World Tag Team Championship | Mammoth Sasaki and Takashi Sasaki | 1 (4, 2) |
January 3, 2023 | 128+ | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Tomoya Hirata and Toru Sugiura at Happy New Freedom 2023. | |
| UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship | Vacant | — | July 2, 2022 | — | — | Kengo vacated the title after suffering an injury.[21] | |
King of Freedom World Tag Team Championship
| King of Freedom World Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 One of the King of Freedom World Tag Team Championship belts | |||||||||||
| Details | |||||||||||
| Promotion | Pro Wrestling Freedoms | ||||||||||
| Date established | March 13, 2014 | ||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Mammoth Sasaki and Takashi Sasaki | ||||||||||
| Date won | January 3, 2023 | ||||||||||
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The King of Freedom World Tag Team Championship is a tag team title created and promoted by Pro Wrestling Freedoms. There have been a total of nineteen reigns and one vacancy shared between eighteen different teams consisting of thirty-three distinctive wrestlers. The current champions are Mammoth Sasaki and Takashi Sasaki who are in their first reign as a team.[22]
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Great Kojika and The Winger | March 13, 2014 | Freedoms | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 194 | 3 | Defeated Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa in a tournament final to become the inaugural champions. | |
| 2 | Unchain (Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda) |
September 23, 2014 | Freedoms | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 128 | 3 | ||
| 3 | El Hijo del Winger Dos and El Hijo del Winger Uno | January 29, 2015 | Freedoms | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 35 | 0 | ||
| 4 | Gentaro and Kenichiro Arai | March 5, 2015 | Reach For The Star 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 18 | 0 | ||
| 5 | Black Buffalo and Susumu | March 23, 2015 | The Gekokujō 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 39 | 1 | ||
| 6 | Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki | May 1, 2015 | We Love Freedoms! We Are Freedoms! | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 86 | 4 | ||
| 7 | Gentaro (2) and Takashi Sasaki | July 26, 2015 | Freedoms @ 24 Hours Pro-Wrestling | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 8 | Unchain (Kenji Fukimoto and Minoru Fujita) |
July 29, 2015 | Midsummer Death Match Carnival At Verge Special | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 18 | 0 | ||
| 9 | Daisuke Masaoka and Kamui | August 16, 2015 | Osaka Death Match Carnival 2015 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 102 | 3 | ||
| 10 | Gentaro (3) and The Winger (2) | November 26, 2015 | Heel Don't Think | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 294 | 4 | ||
| 11 | Hayata and Yuya Susumu (2) | September 15, 2016 | Takashi Sasaki Debut 20th Anniversary | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 157 | 4 | Yuya Susumu was previously known simply as Susumu. | |
| 12 | The Brahman Brothers (Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu) |
February 19, 2017 | Let's Set The Flag Of Glory Much Higher | Hiroshima, Japan | 2 | 32 | 1 | The Brahman Brothers were previously known as El Hijo del Winger Dos and El Hijo del Winger Uno. | |
| 13 | Mammoth Sasaki (2) and Toru Sugiura | March 23, 2017 | The Gekokujō 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 427 | 11 | ||
| 14 | Daisuke Masaoka (2) and Violento Jack | May 24, 2018 | F Spirit 2018 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 215 | 2 | ||
| — | Vacated | December 25, 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 15 | Daisuke Masaoka (3) and Violento Jack (2) | January 3, 2019 | Happy New Freedom 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 14 | 0 | Defeated Kamui and Toru Sugiura to win the vacant titles. | |
| — | Vacated | January 17, 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 16 | Mammoth Sasaki (3) and Violento Jack (3) | January 17, 2019 | Hot Free People 2019 | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 754 | 11 | Defeated Kamui and Toru Sugiura to win the vacant titles. | |
| 17 | Unchain (Minoru Fujita (2) and Rina Yamashita) |
February 9, 2021 | Go Beyond The Limit 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 107 | 1 | This was a scramble tornado match. | |
| 18 | ERE (Takayuki Ueki and Toshiyuki Sakuda) |
May 27, 2021 | F Spirit 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 212 | 2 | This was a scramble tornado free weapon deathmatch. | |
| 19 | Soul Meat (Tomoya Hirata and Toru Sugiura (2)) |
December 25, 2021 | Blood X'Mas 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 374 | 9 | This was a Barbed Wire Board & Stone Ocean Self Produced Weapons Death Match. | [23] |
| 20 | Mammoth Sasaki (4) and Takashi Sasaki (2) | January 3, 2023 | Happy New FREEDOM 2023 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 128+ | 2 | [24] | |
Combined reigns
As of May 11, 2023.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|---|
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mammoth Sasaki and Violento Jack | 1 | 11 | 754 |
| 2 | Mammoth Sasaki and Toru Sugiura | 1 | 11 | 427 |
| 3 | Soul Meat (Tomoya Hirata and Toru Sugiura) | 1 | 9 | 374 |
| 4 | Gentaro and The Winger | 1 | 4 | 294 |
| 5 | Daisuke Masaoka and Violento Jack | 2 | 2 | 215 |
| 6 | ERE (Takayuki Ueki and Toshiyuki Sakuda) | 1 | 2 | 212 |
| 7 | Great Kojika and The Winger | 1 | 3 | 194 |
| 8 | Hayata and Yuya Susumu | 1 | 4 | 157 |
| 9 | Unchain (Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda) | 1 | 3 | 128 |
| 10 | Unchain (Minoru Fujita and Rina Yamashita) | 1 | 1 | 107 |
| 11 | Daisuke Masaoka and Kamui | 1 | 3 | 102 |
| 12 | Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki | 1 | 4 | 86 |
| 13 | Mammoth Sasaki and Takashi Sasaki † | 1 | 2 | 128+ |
| 14 | The Brahman Brothers/El Hijo del Winger Dos and El Hijo del Winger Uno (Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu) | 2 | 1 | 67 |
| 15 | Black Buffalo and Susumu | 1 | 1 | 39 |
| 16 | Gentaro and Kenichiro Arai | 1 | 0 | 18 |
| Unchain (Kenji Fukimoto and Minoru Fujita) | 1 | 0 | 18 | |
| 18 | Gentaro and Takashi Sasaki | 1 | 0 | 3 |
By wrestler
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|---|
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mammoth Sasaki † | 4 | 28 | 1,395+ |
| 2 | Violento Jack | 3 | 13 | 983 |
| 3 | Toru Sugiura | 2 | 20 | 801 |
| 4 | Tomoya Hirata | 1 | 9 | 374 |
| 5 | Daisuke Masaoka | 3 | 5 | 331 |
| 6 | Gentaro | 3 | 4 | 315 |
| 7 | Takayuki Ueki | 1 | 2 | 212 |
| Toshiyuki Sakuda | 1 | 2 | 212 | |
| 9 | Yuya Susumu/Susumu | 2 | 5 | 196 |
| 10 | Great Kojika | 1 | 3 | 194 |
| The Winger | 1 | 3 | 194 | |
| 12 | Kamui | 2 | 7 | 188 |
| 13 | Hayata | 1 | 4 | 157 |
| 14 | Jun Kasai | 1 | 3 | 128 |
| Masashi Takeda | 1 | 3 | 128 | |
| 16 | Minoru Fujita | 2 | 2 | 125 |
| 17 | Rina Yamashita | 1 | 1 | 107 |
| 18 | Takashi Sasaki † | 2 | 2 | 131+ |
| 19 | Brahman Kei/El Hijo del Winger Dos | 2 | 1 | 67 |
| Brahman Shu/El Hijo del Winger Uno | 2 | 1 | 67 | |
| 21 | Black Buffalo | 1 | 1 | 39 |
| 22 | Kenji Fukimoto | 1 | 0 | 18 |
| Kenichiro Arai | 1 | 0 | 18 |
Notes
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