Hajime Ohara
Encyclopedia
Hajime Ohara is a Japanese professional wrestler
currently working for Smash
. Ohara worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
(CMLL) in Mexico for several years as part of his training mixing the Lucha Libre
style of Mexico with the Japanese Puroresu style of wrestling.
. Through his connections with Dragón and Rivera Ohara started out his career working in Mexico, first for Toryumon Mexico and soon after for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
(CMLL). In CMLL he would often team with other Japenese wrestlers such as Okumura
. Ohara was part of the 2006 International Grand Prix but was the first man eliminated when he was pinned by Heavy Metal
. On May 13, 2006 Ohara defeated La Máscara
to win the vacant NWA World Welterweight Championship
, becoming the first NWA Welterweight champion in almost two years. On January 20, 2007 OHara lost the title to Super Delfin
during an Osaka Pro wrestling show in Japan, but regained the title on February 10 before returning to Mexico. By the end of 2007 a deal had been struck between Último Dragón, who owned the NWA title and CMLL to return ownership of the championship to CMLL (they had owned the title until 1996). On November 27, 2007 Ohara lost the title to CMLL regular La Sombra
.
In 2008 Ohara began working for the Dradition promotion in Japan and also began a feud with Último Dragón in both Toryumon Mexico as well as the European based Nu-Wrestling Evolution
(NWE). In the NWE he played a masked character called Dark Dragon, an "evil counterpart" to Último Dragon. On June 28, 2008 on an NEW show in Madrid
, Spain
Ohara lost a Lucha de Apuesta match to Último Dragón and was forced to unmask. In late 2008 he began wrestling for the Japanese promotion Hustle as Ray Ohara, leaving CMLL and only wrestling in Japan when he worked for Toryumon Mexico. On December 14, 2008 Ohara defeated Último Dragón to win the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship
, a title he would take with him to Japan. Ohara held the title for 291 days before losing the belt to Mineo Fujita on October 1, 2009.
's new Smash
promotion, losing to KUSHIDA
in the main event of the promotion's first ever show on March 26. Initially, Ohara worked as a face as part of the Smash Sekigun and a protégé of Tajiri's, working against wrestlers from the Finnish
promotion, Fight Club Finland (FCF). On July 24 at Smash.5, Ohara was squashed by the debuting Finn StarBuck
. Later that same day on Smash.6, Ohara turned on TAJIRI, after he had lost the FCF Finnish Heavyweight Championship to StarBuck in the main event. The following month, Ohara traveled to Helsinki, Finland
to unsuccessfully challenge StarBuck for the title, after which he kneeled before him and adopted him as his new mentor. Later that same month, Ohara began representing FCF in Smash, forming a regular partnership with transvestite wrestler Jessica Love and often accompanying StarBuck to his matches, while also starting a feud with TAJIRI's number one protégé, KUSHIDA. The rivalry ended on March 31, 2011, at Smash.15, when Ohara defeated KUSHIDA with his new finishing maneuver, the Finnish Forearm, in KUSHIDA's final Smash match, before leaving for New Japan Pro Wrestling
. On June 9, Ohara entered a tournament to determine the first ever Smash Champion
, defeating Último Dragón in his first round match. However, on August 11, Ohara was eliminated from the tournament by VENENO.
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
currently working for Smash
Smash (professional wrestling)
Smash is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion, founded in December 2009 following the folding of Hustle. In the fall of 2009 Hustle ran into financial problems that led to several show cancellations. After a planned restructuring and restarting of the promotion failed, a number of officials...
. Ohara worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre is a Lucha Libre-style professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City while running cards in Guadalajara, Puebla and elsewhere in central and southern Mexico...
(CMLL) in Mexico for several years as part of his training mixing the Lucha Libre
Lucha libre
Lucha libre is a term used in Mexico, and other Spanish-speaking countries, for a form of professional wrestling that has developed within those countries...
style of Mexico with the Japanese Puroresu style of wrestling.
Mexico
Hajime Ohara trained for his professional wrestling debut under Último Dragón and Jorge Rivera, better known as SkaydeSkayde
Jorge Rivera Serrano is a Mexican professional wrestler who is best known for Lucha Libre. He has been a tecnico throughout his wrestling career. He is currently training wrestlers at Arena Xalapa.-Professional wrestling career:...
. Through his connections with Dragón and Rivera Ohara started out his career working in Mexico, first for Toryumon Mexico and soon after for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre is a Lucha Libre-style professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City while running cards in Guadalajara, Puebla and elsewhere in central and southern Mexico...
(CMLL). In CMLL he would often team with other Japenese wrestlers such as Okumura
Shigeo Okumura
Shigeo Okumura is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and is currently billed simply as Okumura. Okumura originally worked for Tokyo Pro Wrestling and later on All Japan Pro Wrestling in Japan but...
. Ohara was part of the 2006 International Grand Prix but was the first man eliminated when he was pinned by Heavy Metal
Erick Casas
Erick Francisco Casas Ruiz is a Mexican professional wrestler currently working under the ring name Heavy Metal for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración...
. On May 13, 2006 Ohara defeated La Máscara
La Mascara (wrestler)
La Mascara is a Mexican professional wrestler active as a tecnico in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, where he is the current NWA World Historic Welterweight Champion. Also one of his uncle is Brazo de Plata. His cousins are Psycho Clown and Máximo. La Mascara is the son of Brazo de Oro, and the...
to win the vacant NWA World Welterweight Championship
NWA World Welterweight Championship
The NWA World Welterweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship governed by the National Wrestling Alliance . For the majority of its existence, the title has been promoted by Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre , where it was known as the Campeonato Mundial Welter de...
, becoming the first NWA Welterweight champion in almost two years. On January 20, 2007 OHara lost the title to Super Delfin
Hiroto Wakita
Hiroto Wakita is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently runs Okinawa Pro Wrestling and is also working as a wrestler there. He is better known by his stage name Super Delfin.-New Japan Pro Wrestling:...
during an Osaka Pro wrestling show in Japan, but regained the title on February 10 before returning to Mexico. By the end of 2007 a deal had been struck between Último Dragón, who owned the NWA title and CMLL to return ownership of the championship to CMLL (they had owned the title until 1996). On November 27, 2007 Ohara lost the title to CMLL regular La Sombra
La Sombra (wrestler)
La Sombra is a Mexican luchador enmascarado . La Sombra's real real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans...
.
In 2008 Ohara began working for the Dradition promotion in Japan and also began a feud with Último Dragón in both Toryumon Mexico as well as the European based Nu-Wrestling Evolution
Nu-Wrestling Evolution
Nu-Wrestling Evolution is an Italian professional wrestling promotion, owned by MAGNUMGROUP srl. The promotion's slogan is "Nu-Wrestling Evolution/NWE the place to be!"-History:...
(NWE). In the NWE he played a masked character called Dark Dragon, an "evil counterpart" to Último Dragon. On June 28, 2008 on an NEW show in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
Ohara lost a Lucha de Apuesta match to Último Dragón and was forced to unmask. In late 2008 he began wrestling for the Japanese promotion Hustle as Ray Ohara, leaving CMLL and only wrestling in Japan when he worked for Toryumon Mexico. On December 14, 2008 Ohara defeated Último Dragón to win the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship
NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship
The NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship started in 1979. It was formed by a split in lineage from the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship caused by the first retirement of champion Nelson Royal the same year. The first champion, Steve Keirn, was recognized as World champion only...
, a title he would take with him to Japan. Ohara held the title for 291 days before losing the belt to Mineo Fujita on October 1, 2009.
Smash
In March 2010, Ohara began working for Yoshihiro TajiriYoshihiro Tajiri
, is a Japanese professional wrestler, perhaps best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment. He is currently competing in SMASH as TAJIRI.-Early years :...
's new Smash
Smash (professional wrestling)
Smash is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion, founded in December 2009 following the folding of Hustle. In the fall of 2009 Hustle ran into financial problems that led to several show cancellations. After a planned restructuring and restarting of the promotion failed, a number of officials...
promotion, losing to KUSHIDA
Yujiro Kushida
is a Japanese professional wrestler. He currently competes in New Japan Pro Wrestling as KUSHIDA. He won the ZST Genesis Lightweight Tournament and AJPW's U-30 Tag Team Tournament in 2008 with T28-Early years:...
in the main event of the promotion's first ever show on March 26. Initially, Ohara worked as a face as part of the Smash Sekigun and a protégé of Tajiri's, working against wrestlers from the Finnish
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
promotion, Fight Club Finland (FCF). On July 24 at Smash.5, Ohara was squashed by the debuting Finn StarBuck
Michael Majalahti
Michael Majalahti is a Canadian-Finnish professional wrestler, singer and artist, better known by the stage name "The Canadian Rebel" StarBuck. His bands include , and...
. Later that same day on Smash.6, Ohara turned on TAJIRI, after he had lost the FCF Finnish Heavyweight Championship to StarBuck in the main event. The following month, Ohara traveled to Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
to unsuccessfully challenge StarBuck for the title, after which he kneeled before him and adopted him as his new mentor. Later that same month, Ohara began representing FCF in Smash, forming a regular partnership with transvestite wrestler Jessica Love and often accompanying StarBuck to his matches, while also starting a feud with TAJIRI's number one protégé, KUSHIDA. The rivalry ended on March 31, 2011, at Smash.15, when Ohara defeated KUSHIDA with his new finishing maneuver, the Finnish Forearm, in KUSHIDA's final Smash match, before leaving for New Japan Pro Wrestling
New Japan Pro Wrestling
is a major professional wrestling promotion in Japan, founded by Antonio Inoki in June 1972 and owned by Yuke's since 2005, when Inoki sold the promotion. Naoki Sugabayashi is the current President of the promotion and has held that position from 2007. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, it...
. On June 9, Ohara entered a tournament to determine the first ever Smash Champion
Smash Championship
The Smash Championship is a professional wrestling championship, owned and promoted by the Japanese promotion in Smash. Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in scripted rivalries. These narratives create feuds between the various...
, defeating Último Dragón in his first round match. However, on August 11, Ohara was eliminated from the tournament by VENENO.
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Devil Ray (Arm trap headscissors rolled into a cradle)
- Finnish Forearm (Sliding forearm smash) – SmashSmash (professional wrestling)Smash is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion, founded in December 2009 following the folding of Hustle. In the fall of 2009 Hustle ran into financial problems that led to several show cancellations. After a planned restructuring and restarting of the promotion failed, a number of officials...
- Muy Bien (Single leg Boston crab with armlock)
- Signature moves
- Do it Now (Over the shoulder belly to back piledriver onto the knee)
- Northern Lights suplex
Championships and accomplishments
- Empresa Mexicana de Lucha LibreConsejo Mundial de Lucha LibreConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre is a Lucha Libre-style professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City while running cards in Guadalajara, Puebla and elsewhere in central and southern Mexico...
- NWA World Welterweight ChampionshipNWA World Welterweight ChampionshipThe NWA World Welterweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship governed by the National Wrestling Alliance . For the majority of its existence, the title has been promoted by Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre , where it was known as the Campeonato Mundial Welter de...
(2 times)
- Toryumon Mexico
- NWA International Junior Heavyweight ChampionshipNWA International Junior Heavyweight ChampionshipThe NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship started in 1979. It was formed by a split in lineage from the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship caused by the first retirement of champion Nelson Royal the same year. The first champion, Steve Keirn, was recognized as World champion only...
(1 time)
Lucha de Apuesta record
| Wager | Winner | Loser | Location | Date | Notes |
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| Mask | Último Dragón | Dark Dragon | Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... , Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula... |
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| Hair | Hajime Ohara | Brazo de Platino | Mexico City, Mexico Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole... |
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| Hair | Último Dragón | Hajime Ohara | Mexico City, Mexico Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole... |