Junta Miyawaki

Junta Miyawaki in December 2022

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Kagawa, Japan

**Junta Miyawaki** (宮脇純太, *Miyawaki Junta*, born June 14, 1997 in Kagawa, Japan) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah).

## Early life

Since junior high school, Miyawaki was inspired to pursue a career as a professional wrestler, which led him to practice Judo. After completing high school, at the age of 18, Miyawaki joined the Pro Wrestling Noah dojo in April 2016.

## Professional wrestling career

### Pro Wrestling Noah (2017–Present)

After eight months, in the Pro Wrestling Noah dojo, Miyawaki began wrestling several exhibition bouts before officially debuting against Hitoshi Kumano on August 12, 2017 in a losing effort. As is customary for most professional wrestlers, Inamura spent most of his matches losing to other, more experienced wrestlers, which would help put over other wrestlers while at the same time give Miyawaki some in-ring, televised, experience. In July 2018, Miyawaki and Seiya Morohashi took part in the 2018 Global Junior Heavyweight Tag League, due to Dradition's LEONA being sidelined with an foot injury. They lost all of their qualifying matches, being defeated by Back Breakers (Hajime Ohara and Hitoshi Kumano), RATEL'S (Daisuke Harada and Tadasuke), RATEL'S (HAYATA and YO-HEY), Ikuto Hidaka and Takuya Sugawara, Hi69 and Minoru Tanaka, and Ricky Marvin and El Hijo del Pantera. In September, Miyawaki took part in the 2018 Global Junior League. He lost all of their qualifying matches, being defeated by HAYATA, Hi69, Ikuto Hidaka, Minoru Tanaka and YO-HEY.

In the following year, in June, Miyawaki and Morohashi took part in the 2019 Global Junior Heavyweight Tag League, winning only one of their qualifying matches. From June 26, until July 19, Miyawaki took part in the 2019 Global Junior League, having the same performance as in the previous year, not managing a single victory during the tournament. This led in January 2020, Miyawaki also losing all of his qualifying match in the 2020 Global Junior League. On February 8, Miyawaki defeated fellow rookie Kinya Okada to win his first professional wrestling match. On March 8, it was announced that Miyawaki had dislocated his shoulder during training, leading him to undergo surgery for his shoulder. On Spetember 23, Daisuke Harada teased that he and his partner Atsushi Kotoge would be joined by a mystery man. Three days later, Miyawaki was revealed to be Harada and Kotoge's partner, making his return match in a countout draw against HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa and Kinya Okada.

On February 7, 2021, it was announced that Miyawaki would undergo to an emergency surgery for his appendicitis. He made his return from injury on March 6, teaming with Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada in a winning effort against Full Throttle (Hajime Ohara, Seiki Yoshioka and YO-HEY). On March 21, Miyawaki and Harada unsuccessfully challenged Stinger (HAYATA and Yoshinari Ogawa) for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. From August 24 until September 9, Miyawaki took part in Pro Wrestling Zero1's 2021 Tenkaichi Junior Tournament, losing to Shoki Kitamura in the semi-finals on September 9.

On May 21, 2022, Miyawaki announced that he was going on a learning excursion in Mexico, as part of the Toryumon Casa project. In his send-off match, on May 31, he faced Kaito Kiyomiya in a losing effort. During his excursion in Mexico, Miyawaki worked regularly for a number of local Mexico independent wrestling promotions such as International Wrestling Revolution Group, All Style Pro Wrestling (ASPW) and Desastre Total Ultraviolento. He stayed in Canada for five months until December 2, working for a ASPW show, where he unsuccessfully challenged Tromba for the ASPW Openweight Championship, which turned out to be his last match in Mexico.

Miyawaki returned from his excursion on December 23, confronting and challenging AMAKUSA after he had defeated Dante Leon to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Afterwards, it was announced that Miyawaki would receive a title shot against AMAKUSA on January 1, 2023 at NOAH The New Year. At the event, on January 1, 2023, Miyawaki unsuccessfully challenged AMAKUSA for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Over the following months, Miyawaki entered in a slump, leading him to beg for Shuji Kondo to help him, who accepted and took him under his wing.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ Cross armbreaker
	+ *Falcon Arrow* (Sitout suplex slam)
* **Signature moves**
	+ Boston crab
	+ Dropkick, sometimes to an opponent kneeling in the corner or from the top rope
	+ Fisherman suplex
	+ Forearm smash
	+ Ipponzeoi
	+ Japanese armdrag
	+ Jumping uppercut
	+ Tiger feint tornado ddt
* **Nickname**
	+ **"Orange Riot"**
* **Entrance themes**
	+ "White Riot" by The Clash (2017–2020)
	+ "Drop!Drop!Drop!**"** (2020–2022)
	+ **"Halcon"** by Takahiro "Anija" Nakamura (2023–Present)

## Championships and accomplishments

* **Pro Wrestling Noah**
	+ Noah Dojo Tag Team Tournament (2021) – with Atsushi Kotoge
	+ U-Cup (2021) – with Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada and Hajime Ohara