Scramble Time

Yoshioka (left) and Susumu (right)

**Scramble Time** (スクランブル・タイム, *Sukuranburu Taimu*) was a professional wrestling tag team formed by Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu in May 2010. They were best known for their work for Pro Wrestling NOAH (NOAH), as part of the Stinger stable. As part of a working relationship between NOAH and Dragon Gate (DG), they held the Open The Triangle Gate Championship alongside stablemate Yoshinari Ogawa.

The two originally began wrestling together in 2010, and after a eleven-year break, the team reunited in May 2021, when Yoshioka joined the Stinger stable. As members of the Stinger stable, the team worked on NOAH's junior heavyweight division, where they were a former two-time GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.

## History

### Early career (2010–2012)

Both Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu began pursuing their own careers in professional wrestling at Wrestle Gate and Pro Wrestling KAGEKI, under the ring names **Seiki** and **Susumu** (stylized in all capital letters). Eventually, both formed a team on May 30, 2010, with their tag team being dubbed "Scramble Time". In their first official match, Scramble Time were defeated by HANZO and Mentai Kid. Shortly after, Scramble Time began feuding with HANZO and Victory Shanghai, resulted in a #1 contenders match to the Hakata Tag Team Championship, where Scramble Time defeated HANZO and Shanghai to become the #1 contenders on May 30, 2011. On November 27, Scramble Time defeated Cosmo Soldier and Super Taira to win the Hakata Tag Team Championship . They lost the titles to HANZO and Victory Shanghai on May 6, 2012. The team disbanded later that year, after Seiki decided to work professional wrestling full-time in the Tokyo area, leaving Wrestle Gate.

### Pro Wrestling NOAH (2021–2022)

*See also: Stinger*

On July 11, 2021, at NOAH's Cross Over in Sendai event, Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu entered the ring to challenge Daisuke Harada and Hajime Ohara, to a title match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. The challenge was accepted by Harada and Ohara, reforming Scramble Time. On August 1, Scramble Time defeated Daisuke Harada and Hajime Ohara to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. They lost the titles to Atsushi Kotoge and Hajime Ohara on September 12.

On January 10, 2022, Scramble Time faced Atsushi Kotoge and Hajime Ohara in a time-limit draw. Afterwards, Susumu challenged Kotoge and Harada to a rematch, where the winners would become the #1 contenders to the the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships. However on January 19, announced that the winners of their match would be crowned the new GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, after Yoshinari Ogawa tested positive for COVID-19. On January 22, Scramble Time defeated Atsushi Kotoge and Hajime Ohara to win the vacant titles. The titles were vacated on February 11, after Yoshioka was sidelined with an heel injury. On May 4, Susumu and Yoshioka attacked Stinger stablemates Chris Ridgeway and Yoshinari Ogawa, before challenging them to a title match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, with HAYATA siding with them due to a previously shared background. Afterwards, Ogawa and Ridgeway attacked Susumu, Yoshioka and HAYATA, during a post-match interview. This led to a match on May 21 at Dream On Final, for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship where the losing team would be forced to leave Stinger. The match ended in a no contest, following the interference from Los Perros del Mal de Japón, which in turn led the stable to reconcile. On June 7, Susumu, Yoshioka and Ogawa defeated Los Perros del Mal de Japón's Eita, Kotaro Suzuki and Nosawa Rongai to win the Open The Triangle Gate Championship. The following day, Susumu, Yoshioka and Ogawa lost the titles to Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada and YO-HEY. Afterwards, Yoshioka decided to leave Stinger, which led to Susumu warn that he would not be forgiven, disbanding Scramble Time. Susumu then began trying to convince Yoshioka to reconcile, leading to a match between on June 23, which Yoshioka faced Susumu in a winning effort.

## In wrestling

* **Susumu's finishing moves**
	+ Arm trap crossface
	+ *Front Crash/Oriental Crash* (Double underhook lifted into a double knee gutbuster)
* **Yoshioka's finishing moves**
	+ *Clock Strike* (Gory special twisted into a knee lift)
	+ *Crash Driver* (Belly to back inverted mat slam dropped into a modified powerbomb)
	+ *FUMIE* (Standing inverted Indian deathlock surfboard followed by a head stomp)
	+ *Swanton Bomb* (High-angle senton bomb)

## Championships and accomplishments

* **Dragon Gate**
	+ Open The Triangle Gate Championship (1 time) – with Yoshinari Ogawa
* **Pro Wrestling KAGEKI**
	+ Hakata Tag Team Championship (1 time)
* **Pro Wrestling Noah**
	+ GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (2 times)