Tanomusaku Toba Documentation Project

 

Tanomusaku Toba is one of the most unique wrestlers in history, making a lengthy career in a company largely associated with weird comedy, while following an extremely single-minded approach focussed on being a skinny motherfucker with boxing gloves who will waffle the shit out of you with punches and kicks. Due to him being a DDT regular (although trained by Koki Kitahara), much of his career has been oversighted by shootstyle fans who would appreciate his style, and much of his career is generally in the dark due to DDT being a niche product during the early 2000s. He has had a solid number of main events though, and despite his simplistic style has proven to have a knack for epic Rocky-style finishing runs, ragdoll bumping and nifty moments. This project will not only explore how how much you can do with a pair of boxing gloves and the willingness to beat the shit out of your opponent, but also how good the early DDT crew really was. As always, matches are broken down into SKIPPABLE, FUN, GREAT and EPIC.

1998

w Chotaro Kamoi & Ichiro Yaguchi & Exciting Yoshida vs. Kengo Takai & Yusaku Shimoda & King Lion & Kurokage (DDT 3/25/1998) - SKIPPABLE

w MIKAMI & Takashi Sasaki vs. Great Takeru & Phantom Funakoshi & Asian Cougar (DDT 5/25/1998) - GREAT

w Chotaro Kamaoi & Ichiro Yaguchi vs. Takashi Sasaki & Kurokage & Sanshiro Takagi, DDT 6/30/1998 - GREAT 

1999

vs. MIKAMI, DDT 4/27/1999 - GREAT

w Takashi Sasaki & Nihao vs. Asian Cougar & Super Rider & Yuki Nishino, DDT 11/25/1999 - GREAT

w Nihao vs. Takashi Sasaki & Asian Cougar, DDT 11/27/1999 - EPIC

w Super Rider & Neo Winger vs. Phantom Funakoshi & Exciting Yoshida & Yuki Nishino (DDT 12/22/1999) - EPIC

 2000

w MIKAMI & Kengo Takai vs. Onryo & Neo Iceman & Masahiko Orihara, DDT 1/30/2000 - FUN

vs. Takashi Sasaki, DDT 1/30/2000 - EPIC 

vs. Survival Tobita, EWF 2/27/2000 - FUN

vs. Fake Onita, EWF 2/27/2000 - SKIPPABLE

w Takashi Sasaki vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Super Rider, DDT 4/19/2000 - EPIC

w MIKAMI vs. Sanshiro Takagi & Takashi Sasaki, DDT 4/20/2000 - EPIC 

w Koichiro Kimura vs. Sanshiro Takagi & Exciting Yoshida (DDT 7/6/2000) - EPIC

vs. Takehiro Murahama, KINGDOM EHRGEIZ 9/2/2000 - GREAT

vs. Takashi Sasaki, DDT 11/19/2000 - GREAT 

w MIKAMI vs. Takashi Sasaki & Yuki Nishino, DDT 12/14/2000 - GREAT

2001

w MIKAMI & Super Uchu Power vs. Issei Fujisawa & Yuki Nishino & Takashi Sasaki (DDT 1/16/2001) - GREAT

vs. Shintaro Karasu, Onita Pro 5/4/2001 - FUN

w Tsunehito Naito vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Tomohiko Hashimoto, DDT 5/26/2001 - EPIC

w Tomohiko Hashimoto vs. Super Uchu Power & MIKAMI (DDT 7/19/2001) - GREAT 

w Takashi Sasaki vs. Super Uchu Power & MIKAMI, DDT 8/30/2001 - GREAT

w Takashi Sasaki vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Issei Fujisawa, DDT 9/6/2001 - GREAT 

w MIKAMI & Sanshiro Takagi vs. Asian Cougar & Asian Condor & Takashi Sasaki, Onita Pro 9/23/2001 - GREAT

w Takashi Sasaki vs. Sanshiro Takagi & Shoichi Ichimiya, DDT 9/30/2001 - FUN

vs. Takeshi Ono, BattlARTS 10/14/2001 - FUN

w Showa vs. Tomohiko Hashimoto & Asian Cougar, Onita Pro 10/28/2001 - GREAT

w MIKAMI & Super Uchu Power & Tomohiko Hashimoto vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Gentaro & Shoichi Ichimiya & YOSHIYA, DDT 10/30/2001 - FUN

w MIKAMI vs. GENTARO & YOSHIYA (DDT 11/30/2001) - EPIC

w Tomohiko Hashimoto & Jason the Terrible vs. Shigeo Kato & Tomohiro Ishii & Issei Fujisawa, DDT 12/12/2001 - FUN 

2002

vs. Takeshi Yamada, Nightmare Pro 2/2/2002 - GREAT

vs. Tomohiko Hashimoto (DDT 5/21/2002) - FUN

w MIKAMI vs. Super Uchu Power & Poison Sawada JULIE, DT 8/25/2002 - EPIC 

w MIKAMI vs. Takashi Sasaki & GENTARO, DDT 10/24/2002 - EPIC

2003

vs. Shinjuku Shark, WEW 5/3/2003 - GREAT

2004

vs. Futoshi Miwa, DDT 5/29/2004 - FUN

vs. Takashi Sasaki, DDT 9/30/2004 - FUN

w Seiya Morohashi vs. HERO! & KUDO, DDT 11/2/2004 - SKIPPABLE

2005

w Seiya Morohashi vs. Nobutaka Moribe & Tomohiko Hashimoto, DDT 3/27/2005 - SKIPPABLE

w MIKAMI vs. Kota Ibushi & Daichi Kakimoto, DDT 12/28/2005 - EPIC 

2006

vs. MIKAMI, DDT 12/29/2006 - GREAT

2007

vs. Shuji Ishikawa, DDT 2/7/2007 - SKIPPABLE

w Kota Ibushi vs. Munenori Sawa & Yuta Yoshikawa, DDT 4/1/2007 - GREAT 

w MIKAMI vs. Harashima & Kota Ibushi, DDT 4/11/2007 - FUN

vs. Munenori Sawa, DDT 5/4/2007 - GREAT 

w MIKAMI vs. Daichi Kakimoto & Chon Shiryu, DDT 5/23/2007 - FUN

vs. Daichi Kakimoto, DDT 6/3/2007 - FUN

w Kota Ibushi vs. Manabu Hara & Katsumi Usuda, DDT 6/13/2007 - EPIC

w Sanshiro Takagi vs. Manabu Hara & Katsumi Usuda, DDT 6/20/2007 - GREAT

w Ranbo Yoshida Okuntun vs. Kota Ibushi & KUDO (DDT 8/8/2007) - EPIC

vs. Shinjuku Shark (Apache Pro 12/30/2007) - GREAT

2008

vs. Kota Ibushi, DDT 2/3/2008 - FUN

vs. Hiroyuki Nozawa (DDT 3/16/2008) - FUN

w MIKAMI vs. HARASHIMA & Poison Sawada, 7/6/2008 - FUN

vs. Masashi Takeda, Hard Hit 7/20/2008 - FUN 

w Munenori Sawa vs. Hoshitango & Kota Ibushi, DDT 8/5/2008 - FUN

vs. Yasu Urano, DDT 8/10/2008 - FUN

vs. Shinjuku Shark, XWF 9/8/2008 - EPIC

2009

w HARASHIMA vs. Masashi Takeda & Takashi Sasaki, 1/25/2009 - EPIC

w Yasu Urano vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Hikaru Sato, DDT 2/10/2009 - GREAT

w MIKAMI vs. KUDO & Choun Shiryu, DDT 4/1/2009 - GREAT

2010

vs. MIKAMI, DDT 4/4/2010 - GREAT

w MIKAMI vs. Sanshiro Takagi & Munenori Sawa, DDT 5/10/2010 - GREAT 

vs. Keisuke Ishii, DDT 5/23/2010 - FUN

2011

w Hikaru Sato & Rion Mizuki vs. Tsunehito Naito & Akito & Kazuki Hirata, DDT 3/27/2011 - GREAT

2013

w MIKAMI vs. Hikaru Sato & Akito, DDT 9/29/2013 - GREAT 

2018

vs. Fuminori Abe, BASARA 4/20/2018 - EPIC 

2019

vs. Shinya Aoki, DDT 1/3/2019 - GREAT

vs. Yukio Sakaguchi, DDT 11/15/2019 - FUN

vs. HARASHIMA, DDT 11/15/2019 - FUN

2020

w Hayato Sakurai & HARASHIMA vs. Masa Takanashi & Yukio Naya & Mizuki Watase, DDT 2/5/2020 - FUN

w MIKAMI vs. Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ueno, DDT 8/15/2020 - GREAT

2021

w Shuji Ishikawa vs. Touro Owashi & Yasu Urano, DDT 2/19/2021 - FUN

2022

vs. Fuminori Abe vs. Shuichiro Katsumura, Ganbare Pro 1/8/2022 - FUN 

2023

w Ikuto Hidaka vs Hikaru Sato & Brother Yasshi, Kakuto Tanteidan 10/12/2023 - EPIC