Kai (wrestler)
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Kai holding the Wrestle-1 Championship belt in May 2016
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| Birth name | Atsushi Sakai |
| Born |
May 20, 1983 Yokohama, Kanagawa |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Kai |
| Billed height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) |
| Billed weight | 87 kg (192 lb) (as a junior heavyweight) 100 kg (220 lb) (as a heavyweight) |
| Trained by |
Animal Hamaguchi Kaz Hayashi Keiji Mutoh Virus |
| Debut | February 22, 2007 |
Atsushi Sakai (境 敦史 Sakai Atsushi?, born May 20, 1983) is a Japanese professional wrestler better known under the ring name Kai (stylized in all capital letters). Best known for his work in the All Japan Pro Wrestling promotion, Kai is an accomplished junior heavyweight wrestler, having won the World Junior Heavyweight Championship twice and the Junior League also twice (2008 and 2011), while he and Kaz Hayashi also won the 2011 Junior Tag League. In August 2012, Kai announced that he was ending his junior heavyweight days and becoming a heavyweight wrestler. After taking a seven-month break from in-ring action, Kai returned to All Japan in March 2013, now working as a heavyweight wrestler. However, the following July, Kai quit All Japan following a change in the promotion's management and joined the new Wrestle-1 promotion. In March 2015, Kai won the promotion's top title, the Wrestle-1 Championship. He went on to win the title two more times, before quitting Wrestle-1 in December 2016 to become a freelancer.
After three and a half years of initial training under Animal Hamaguchi, Sakai passed an audition in 2006 to enter Keiji Mutoh's All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) affiliated Mutohjuku training school, where he continued training under Mutoh and Kaz Hayashi.
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