Yoshiki Kato

Kato in December 2023

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Mizunami, Gifu, Japan

**Yoshiki Kato** (加藤良輝, *Katō Yoshiki*, born December 12, 1996), is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to Dragon Gate (DG).

Kato was trained in the Dragon Gate Dojo and made his debut in December 2022. Kato worked as a rookie being placed on Dragon Gate's mid-card for under a year, before turning heel almost a year later joining Z-Brats and winning the Open The Triangle Gate Championship in December 2023.

## Professional Wrestling Career

### Dragon Gate

#### Early Career (2021–2023)

After a long series of exhibitions bouts against other people in his class (known as Dragon Gate Future), he made his official debut facing Madoka Kikuta in a losing effort on December 6, 2022. As is customary for most professional wrestlers, Yoshiki spent most of his matches losing to other, more experienced wrestlers, which would help put over other wrestlers while at the same time give him some in-ring experience. On December 25 at Final Gate, Kato won his first professional wrestling match, teaming with fellow rookie Kaito Nagano in a winning effort against Mondai Ryu and Takashi Yoshida. In February 2023, Kato and Nagano took part in the 2023 Rey de Parejas, finishing the tournament with a record of one win and three losses, failing to advance to the semifinals of the tournament. Shortly after, he was sidelined with an eye injury, forcing him four months out of action. Upon his return on October 6, Kato proclaimed that T.N.Revolución was false and requested Dragon Gate General Manager's Ryo Saito a singles match series to prove himself the worthier man. Saito accepted his request and arranged him a five match trial series with former Open The Dream Gate Champions and contenders to the title for Kato to test himself in. He would finish the trial series winless losing all of his matches to Big Boss Shimizu, YAMATO, Shun Skywalker, Ben-K and Masaaki Mochizuki, respectively.

#### Heel turn (2023–Present)

Following his trial series, Kato asked Masaaki Mochizuki if he could start teaming with his son Mochizuki Junior, not as a member of M3K, but for the sake of drawing out his own potential as teaming with Junior would help him achieve that goal, which he accepted. On October 23, Kato and Junior won their first match as a team, facing Daiki Yanagiuchi and Ryoya Tanaka in a winning effort. On November 4 at Power Struggle, Kato and Junior made their debut in NJPW as part of the "Frontier Zone", teaming with Strong Machine J in a losing effort to Oleg Boltin, Ryusuke Taguchi and The DKC. The following day at Gate of Destiny, Kato turned on Junior to join Z-Brats, turning heel for the first time of his career. Four days later, Kato faced Junior's father Masaaki Mochizuki. Kato won the match by disqualification, after he was continuously being hit by Masaaki. On December 10, Yoshiki Kato lost to YAMATO by disqualification, after Z-Brats interfered in the contest. Afterwards, Kato, KAI and ISHIN challenged YAMATO, Dragon Kid and Punch Tominaga to a title match for the Open The Triangle Gate Championship, with Dragon Gate's General Manager Ryo Saito making the match official. On December 24 at Final Gate, Kato, KAI and ISHIN defeated YAMATO, Kid and Tominaga to win the Open Triangle Gate Championship, winning his first professional wrestling title.

## In wrestling

* **Entrance themes**
	+ "Future Dreams" by Yatsuka Nakagawa
	+ **"Letting Zoom"** by YO-HEI

## Championships and Accomplishments

* **Dragon Gate**
	+ Open The Triangle Gate Championship (1 time, current) – with KAI and ISHIN