| Daisuke Masaoka | |
| Birth Date: | 10 October 1983[1] |
| Birth Place: | Ehime, Japan |
| Height: | 168 cm[2] |
| Weight: | 70 kg |
| Trainer: | Dick Togo Taro Toyotomi |
| Debut: | 2005 |
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to Pro Wrestling Freedoms, mainly competing in the deathmatch branch. He is also known for his tenures with other promotion from the Japanese independent scene such as Big Japan Pro Wrestling and DDT Pro-Wrestling.[3] [4]
Masaoka made his professional wrestling debut in JWA Tokai Pro Wrestling on January 10, 2005, a promotion in which he has roughly spent one year.[2]
At the 2012 Dragon Gate Summer Adventure Tag League of Dragongate, Masaoka made an appearance during the twelvth night of the competition from August 22, 2010, where he competed in a Survival battle royal won by Genki Horiguchi and also involving various other notable opponents such as BxB Hulk, Cima, Shingo Takagi, Kzy, Yamato and others.[5] Masaoka competed in several other matches for Dragongate.[2] On the second night of the Wrestle-1 Tour 2018 from January 14, Masaoka teamed up with Koji Doi and Kumagoro to defeat Daiki Inaba, K-ness and Tsugutaka Sato.[6] At Prominence Smoke And Flame Rising To The Sky on August 28, 2022, Masaoka defeated Suzu Suzuki in one of the latter's "Ten Death Match Series".[7]
Masaoka made his debut in Big Japan Pro Wrestling at BJW Death Match Wars on March 3, 2009, where he teamed up with Yuya Susumu and Atsushi Kotoge in a losing effort against Kudo, Mineo Fujita and Masa Takanashi.[8] He roughly spent one year with the promotion, having wrestled his last match before taking a hiatus at BJW 15th Anniversary Death Touron April 28, 2010, where he teamed up with Onryo and Shiori Asahi to defeat Kazuki Hashimoto, Men's Teioh and Takumi Tsukamoto.[9] He briefly returned to the promotion at BJW Osaka Surprise 16 on July 12, 2014, where he teamed up with Hayata, Madoka and Yo-Hey in a losing effort against Magnitude Kishiwada, Shoichi Uchida, Tadanobu Fujisawa and Yuki Tanaka in eight-man tag team competition.[10]
Masaoka is best known for his over a decade tenure with Pro Wrestling Freedoms. During his time with the promotion, he has won the King of Freedom World Championship, the promotion's top title on two separate occasions. First at Blood X'Mas 2016 on December 26, by defeating Violento Jack,[11] and secondly, at The Gekokujō 2022 on March 29, by defeating Jun Kasai.[12] Masaoka is a four-time King of Freedom World Tag Team Champion, having won the titles kost recently at Tokyo Death Match Carnival 2023 Vol. 1 on July 6, when he teamed up with Toru Sugiura to defeat reigning champions Mammoth Sasaki and Takashi Sasaki.[13] Between 2017 and 2019, Masaoka was part of the "Los Nomads" stable alongside Violento Jack, Miedo Extremo, Ciclope and Mammoth Sasaki.[2]
Masaoka often competed in cross-over events held by Freedoms in partnership with various other promotions. At FREEDOMS/2AW VersuS, an event produced alongside Active Advance Pro Wrestling on October 23, 2022, he teamed up with Soul Meat (Tomoya Hirata and Toru Sugiura) to defeat The Rule (Ayato Yoshida, Naka Shuma and Takuma Joshiba).[14]
Masaoka seldomly competed in Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) as a developmental talent sent by Freedoms. He made his debut at the GCW Nick Gage Invitational 2 from September 16, 2017, in which he defeated Markus Crane in the semifinals and the fell short to Nick Gage himself in the finals.[15] He wrestled his last match at GCW Planet Death 2023 on July 19, where he teamed up with Yankee Two Kenju (Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto) in a losing effort against Chrli Evans, Rina Yamashita and Sawyer Wreck.[16]