Jun Kasai

Jun Kasai (葛西 純, Kasai Jun?) is a professional wrestler currently competing in Big Japan Pro Wrestling and FREEDOMS. He has previously competed in the American-based Combat Zone Wrestling and IWA East Coast. He is well known for his hardcore style of wrestling and is nicknamed the "Crazy Monkey".[2]

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[hide]*1 Biography
 * 2 In wrestling
 * 3 Championships and accomplishments
 * 4 References
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[edit] Biography
In 1998, Kasai entered BJW and made his debut in a BJW event in Osaka.

In the early 2000s when the CZW-BJW feud era dawned, Kasai joined the stable "CZW Warriors" (CZW Army) and feuded against the "BJW warriors", and moved to the US. Kasai formed the stable "Big Dealz" in 2001, with John Zandig, Nick Mondo, Wifebeater, Z-Barr and Trent Acid.[2]

After having many matches in CZW, Kasai returned to Japan. Since then Kasai has wrestled mainly for BJW and occasionally for other promotions such as Pro Wrestling Zero1, K-Dojo and Apache Pro Wrestling.

Kasai's body is covered in scars, from all the hardcore wrestling he has done. Including from a Fans Bring the Weapons Match from Combat Zone Wrestling show "Un F'n Believable", in which he took a bump onto a light tube board which ripped open his left elbow, exposing bone.[3]

In 2006 he won the first-ever IWA East Coast Masters of Pain after defeating Toby Klein, Mad Man Pondo and J. C. Bailey.[4]

Kasai has participated five times in an extremely bloody "Razor Deathmatch"; a hardcore match where boards are fitted with many razor blades. The first of these blatantly violent deathmatches was held in 2005 with Jaki Numazawa, in which Jun took a powerbomb onto the razor bladed board. In the second one, held in 2008, Kasai's match was against the American wrestler MASADA. On November 20, 2009, he defeated Ryuji Ito in another razor match after a double underhook facebuster on a cactus. The fourth time was on April 5, 2010 Kasai competed in a Barbwire Treaty Death Match that pitted Team CZW (Jun Kasai, DJ Hyde, and Nick Gage) against Team BJW (Jaki Numazawa, Isami Kodaka, and Masashi Takeda) in which a razor blade board was used in several bumps. On June 21, 2010 Kasai competed against the Necro Butcher in a Hardcore match for the FREEDOMS promotion; the razor blade board came into play mid way through the match.

Soon after a death match titled "Madness of Massacre" against Jaki the Black Angel Numazawa in 2009

"Razor Blade Cross Board" - Since 2005 "razor blade board" deathmatches have been held 5 times in BJW / Apache Pro Wrestling / FREEDOMS, and all of them have been done by Kasai ("razor blade chair" was used by Thumbtack Jack and Drake Younger in wXw in 2007). /vs. Jaki Numazawa - 2005 /vs. Masada - 2008 /vs. Ryuji Ito - 2009 /with Nick Gage & DJ Hyde vs. Jaki Numazawa & Isami Kodaka & Masashi Takeda - 2010 /vs. Necro Butcher - 2010He was born in Hokkaido and now lives in the mainland, but he is claiming that he is from Hiladelhia, America on his official website[5] as a joke; he described Philadelphia as his second homeland. While Kasai wrestled in the US, he was a lodger in Wifebeater's house. He has described Wifebeater as a real mad man unlike many deathmatch wrestlers who are in fact gentlemen outside the ring.[6]

[edit] In wrestling

 * Finishing moves
 * Pearl Harbor Splash (Diving splash, sometimes onto a fluorescent lamp)
 * Sudden Impact (High–angle implant DDT)


 * Signature moves
 * Backslide
 * Brainbuster
 * Corporal Punishment (Elevated powerbomb)
 * Double underhook transitioned into either a lifting sitout facebuster or a piledriver
 * Diving headbutt
 * Enzugiri
 * German suplex
 * Saito suplex
 * Schoolboy
 * Seated chinlock


 * Nicknames
 * "Blood"
 * "666"
 * "The Crazy Monkey"


 * Entrance music
 * "Devil" by Cocobat
 * "Monkey Magic" by Godiego (Hustle)
 * "Monkey Business" by Skid Row (ZERO-ONE)

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

 * Apache Pro Wrestling / Apache Army
 * WEW World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Jaki Numazawa (1) and Tomoaki Honma (1)


 * Big Japan Pro Wrestling
 * WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with The W*NGer
 * BJW Tag Team Championship (2 times, current) - with Jaki Numazawa


 * Ice Ribbon
 * International Ribbon Tag Team Championship - with Miyako Matsumoto


 * Combat Zone Wrestling
 * CZW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Men's Teioh
 * CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)


 * Independent Wrestling Association East Coast
 * Masters of Pain (2006)