Keita Yano
| Keita Yano | |
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Yano in August 2010
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| Born |
January 9, 1988 Matsubara, Osaka |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) |
Brody Boy Keita in the °C Keita in the House* Keita Kenta Keita Yano Kendo Ke Ita Yano Keita |
| Billed height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) |
| Billed weight | 97 kg (214 lb) |
| Billed from | Detroit, Michigan |
| Trained by |
Joe E. Legend Negro Navarro Yuki Ishikawa |
| Debut | February 25, 2007 |
Keita Yano (矢野 啓太 Yano Keita?, born January 9, 1988) is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working for Professional Wrestling Wallabee. He started his career with Battlarts in February 2007 and remained with the promotion for four years, winning the B-Rule Tournament in 2009. During the years, Yano also represented Battlarts in major Japanese promotions such as New Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Zero1 and American promotion Chikara, where he took part in the Young Lions Cup VIII tournament in August 2010. After the folding of Battlarts, Yano began working for DDT Pro-Wrestling, where, as a representative of the Crying Wolf stable, he became a one-time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion, before parting ways with the promotion in July 2012.
Yano began training professional wrestling with Battlarts in 2006, when the promotion accepted his third application to enter its training program. He eventually made his in-ring debut on February 25, 2007, losing to Manabu Hara. During the rest of 2007, Yano faced the likes of Yuta Yoshikawa, Kota Ibushi and Ryuji Hijikata, losing all of his matches. As Battlarts only held an event every two months, Yano also made regular appearances for Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) and women's wrestling promotion Ice Ribbon, losing all of his matches in those promotions as well. Yano finally picked up his first win at a Battlarts event on March 9, 2008, submitting Akifumi Saito with the Larsson. Despite his first win, Yano's second year in professional wrestling also included mostly opening matches and losses. Through Battlarts' and especially its top star Munenori Sawa's relationship with Pro Wrestling Zero1, Yano also made appearances for the promotion, most notably taking part in the 2008 Tenkaichi Jr. tournament. On January 10, 2009, Yano entered the B-Rule Tournament, advancing directly to the semifinals, after Yuta Yoshikawa was unable to wrestle in his first round match. Later that same day, Yano defeated Super Tiger II in his semifinal match to advance to the finals, where he would defeat veteran Alexander Otsuka via points to win the entire tournament. Finally out of the opening match spot, Yano main evented his first Battlarts event on February 15, when he and Munenori Sawa were defeated in a tag team match by Super Tiger II and Yuki Ishikawa. The following June, Yano entered the 2009 B-1 Climax tournament, but failed to advance from his round-robin block. During 2009, Yano also made debuts for Apache Pro-Wrestling Army, Freedoms, Kaientai Dojo and Osaka Pro Wrestling. On January 17, 2010, Yano made it to the finals of his second B-Rule Tournament in a row, but was this time defeated by Yujiro Yamamoto. During the year, Yano teamed regularly with Munenori Sawa, while also debuting a new look, inspired by the Joker from the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.
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