Satoru Asako

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Omiya, Saitama, Japan

**Satoru Asako** (浅子覚, *Asako Satoru, born March 2, 1971*) is a retired Japanese professional wrestler who worked for All Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling NOAH.

## Professional wrestling career

### All Japan Pro Wrestling (1991-2000)

Asako made his debut in a tag team match with Richard Slinger, losing to Masao Inoue & Mitsuo Momota. Since his debut, he spent most of his time in the opening matches and as an enhancement talent, rarely winning matches. As he improved over time, Asako won his first and only achievement, by winning the January 3 Korakuen Hall Junior Heavyweight Battle Royal on January 3, 1994. Asako continued to show progression in his wrestling skills putting on a classic 6-man tag team match with partners Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi defeating Akira Taue, Tamon Honda & Toshiaki Kawada, In 1998 he entered in the AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Title League and made it to the finals but was unable to win as he lost to Yoshinari Ogawa. He remained in All Japan until he departed ways to form Pro Wrestling NOAH with Misawa and a few other wrestlers.

### Pro Wrestling Noah (2000-2002)

In 2000 Asako wrestled his first match for NOAH in a 6-man tag team match with Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama but was defeated by Daisuke Ikeda, Masahito Kakihara & Yoshinari Ogawa. As a singles wrestler Asako improved his wrestling ability in a last few years of his career and even showing great progress in his singles matches including the Junior Heavyweight Division, In 2001 he was qualified for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Title Tournament, as he defeated Matt Murphy on the first night but lost to Juventud Guerrera. In 2002 of July 26, Asako announce his retirement as he wrestled his last match in a 6-man tag team match with his partners Kobashi and Misawa picking up the victory by defeating Akira Taue, Makoto Hashi & Masao Inoue.

## Personal life

After his retirement, Asako became a trainer and road agent for Pro Wrestling NOAH, as well as a judoka instructor.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ *Maximum Pain* (Stepover toehold single leg Boston crab)
	+ *Spiral Fall* (Tilt-a-whirl powerbomb)
	+ *Super Driver Asako* (Sitout scoop slam piledriver)
* **Signature moves**
	+ Boston crab, sometimes while applying to a single leg
	+ Camel clutch
	+ Diving back elbow drop
	+ Diving somersault kick
	+ Dropkick, sometimes from the top rope
	+ *Flash Bomber* (Fisherman buster)
	+ Frankensteiner
	+ La magistral
	+ One-handed bulldog
	+ Rope hung Boston crab
	+ Spinning legsweep

## Championships and accomplishments

* **All Japan Pro Wrestling**

* January 3 Korakuen Hall Junior Heavyweight Battle Royal (1994)

* **Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards**

* 5 Star Match (1995) with Kenta Kobashi and Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada, Akira Taue and Tamon Honda on June 30

## References

1. ↑ AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Title League 1998 « Tournaments Database « CAGEMATCH . Cagematch.net (1998-07-19). Retrieved on 2013-03-31.
2. ↑ Satoru Asako « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH . Cagematch.net (2002-07-26). Retrieved on 2013-03-31.
3. ↑ Satoru Asako . Puroresucentral.com. Retrieved on 2013-03-31.
4. ↑ Misc. All Japan Events . Prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved on 2013-03-31.