Shunma Katsumata


Shunma Katsumata is a Japanese professional wrestler working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling.
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Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit (2014–present)

Katsumata is known for tenures with various Japanese professional wrestling promotions. On October 10, 2017 at Pro Wrestling Noah's The Great Voyage 2017 In Yokohama, he teamed up with Mao as a part of New Wrestling Aidoru and unsuccessfully challenged Ratel's for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. He took part in a cross-over event between DDT and Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling, at the DDT/Sendai Girls All Out X show on June 24, 2019 where he teamed up with Konosuke Takeshita and Yuki Iino as part of ALL OUT to defeat Dash Chisako, Chihiro Hashimoto and Meiko Satomura in a six-person intergender tag team match to win the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship. On March 4, 2018, he worked a match during the Wrestle-1's Cherry Blossom Tour in which he lost to Jiro Kuroshio. He also worked for Big Japan Pro Wrestling, competing in various death matches such as a 8-man fluorescent lighttube match at BJW Last Buntai ~ Goodbye Yokohama Buntai on September 6, 2020 where he teamed up with Yuki Ishikawa and the 3rd Generation Chimidoro Brothers in a losing effort against Abdullah Kobayashi, Jaki Numazawa, Ryuji Ito and Takashi Sasaki.

DDT Pro-Wrestling (2014–present)

Katsumata made his professional wrestling debut at Judgement on March 21, 2014 in a five-minute time limit dark match against Suguru Miyatake which ended in a draw. During his time in DDT Pro-Wrestling, he participated in notable matches such as a 34-man tag team match in which he teamed up with Bernard Ackah, DJ Nira, Daisuke Sasaki, Kota Ibushi, Suguru Miyatake, Gota Ihashi, Michael Nakazawa, Saki Akai, Kudo, Masa Takanashi, Yukio Sakaguchi, Akito, Harashima, Yasu Urano, Super Sasadango Machine and Tomomitsu Matsunaga to defeat Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu, Gorgeous Matsuno, Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita, Tetsuya Endo, Hoshitango, Kota Umeda, Makoto Oishi, Mikami, Shuji Ishikawa, Kazuki Hirata, Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi, Shigehiro Irie, Soma Takao and Yoshihiko at New Year's Gift Special 2015. He also won the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship for the first time in a battle royal at Saitama Super DDT on February 15, 2015, dethroning the previous champion, Kubo Yumakoto. On February 28, 2016 at Into The Fight, he teamed up with Kazusada Higuchi and Kouki Iwasaki to capture the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship from T2Hii. Katsumata won the six-man titles with two other teams. Once with New Wrestling Aidoru at the DDT 22nd Anniversary on March 20, 2017 in a three-way tag team match also involving his former team partners Kazusada Higuchi, Kouki Iwasaki and Mizuki Watase; and once with All Out at What Are You Doing on June 24, 2018 after defeating Kota Umeda, Koju Takeda and Yuki Ueno. At Yukemuri Natural Hot Spring Pro Wrestling on February 28, Kastumata won the DDT Extreme Championship in a three-way Falls Count Anywhere 45-minute Iron Man match also involving the champion Sanshiro Takagi and Batten×Burabura. At Judgement 2020: DDT 23rd Anniversary on March 20, 2020, he teamed up with Hideki Okatani, falling short to Keigo Nakamura and Naomi Yoshimura.

Championships and accomplishments