Shingo Takagi (November 21, 1982) is a Japanese professional wrestler.
Career
Wrestling facts
- Finishing moves
- Blood Fall (Sitout argentine facebuster) – Used as a signature move from 2019-present
- Gallon Throw
- Last Falconry (DG)/Last Of The Dragon (NJPW) (Pumphandle half nelson fireman's carry driver)
- Made in Japan – Used as a signature move from 2019-present
- MANRIKI
- Noshigami – Used as a signature move from 2019-present
- Pumping Bomber – Used as a signature move from 2019-present
- STAY DREAM (Avalanche wristlock Death Valley driver) – Used as a signature move from 2020-present
- Signature moves
- DDT
- Death Valley driver
- Diving back elbow drop
- High angle belly to back suplex
- Multiple lariat variations
- Corner
- Sliding
- To an opponent leaning against the ropes
- To the back of the head
- Yukon Lariat (Short range, usually preceded by a back elbow and a punch)
- Shoulder block
- Slingshot knee drop
- Sol De Japón (Half nelson double knee gutbuster, as a counter to an opponent blocking the Made in Japan) – 2020-present
- Takagi-Shiki GTR (Spinning headlock lariat into a Backbreaker to an opponent trapped in the ropes) – 2019-present; parodied from Hirooki Goto
- Tope con Hilo; used rarely
- Wheelbarrow suplex, sometimes into the turnbuckles
- Nicknames
- "Pumping Hawk"
- "The Dragon"
- Tag teams and stables
- Theme music
- "Legend Falconry" By Dragon Gate (FIP & ROH)
Championships and accomplishments
- Dragon Gate
- Open the Dream Gate Championship (4 times)
- Open the Owarai Gate Championship (1 time)
- Open The Triangle Gate Championship (6 times) with BxB Hulk and Cyber Kong (2), Gamma and Yamato (1), and Taku Iwasa and Dragon Kid (1), Cyber Kong and T-Hawk (1), Takashi Yoshida and El Lindaman (1)
- Open the Twin Gate Championship (5 times) with Yamato (3), Cyber Kong (1) and Akira Tozawa (1)
- King of Gate (2010)
- New Year's Unit 6-Man Tag 1 Day Tournament (2017) with El Lindaman and T-Hawk
- Summer Adventure Tag League (2009) with Yamato
- New Japan Pro Wrestling
- NEVER Openweight Championship (2 times, Current)
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) with BUSHI
- NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) with BUSHI & EVIL
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI ranked him #43 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 in 2016
- Pro Wrestling NOAH
- GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) with BxB Hulk
- Ring of Honor
- ROH World Tag Team Championship (1 time) with Naruki Doi
- Tokyo Sports
- Technique Award (2008)
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- Rookie of the Year (2005)
- 5 3/4 Star Match (2019) vs. Will Ospreay on June 5
- 5 Star Match (2019) vs. Tetsuya Naito on August 4
- 5 1/2 Star Match (2019) vs. Tomohiro Ishii on August 8
- 5 Star Match (2020) vs. Will Ospreay on September 27
- 5 1/4 Star Match (2020) vs. Kazuchika Okada on October 10
- Match of The Year (2019) vs. Will Ospreay on June 5
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