Advent of Bronco Day 1 - 2025.11.30 - Rare J2000 footage!

J2000 Japan Pro Wrestling 2000 12th Anniversary - Mikiya Sasaki vs. Fuuga - 2016.04.17

The first match of this series might be one of the rarest ones on this list! It takes place on the 12th Anniversary show of J2000 in Combox Komyoike and is for the KWA Championship. I don’t really know Fuuga, also mainly a J2000 wrestler at the beginning of his career, and this is probably the first time I’ve seen him in a match. I really like this venue and it’s one that does come up another time in this series. The match was nothing special to be fair. Sasaki dominates for a fair bit of time, bit Fuuga gets some good offense in, like the Standing Moonsault. Sasaki tries to hit a piledriver, but fails every time. He wins the match with a Spinning Toe Hold! There were some moves that were not as clean and the camera quality is sub-par, but this is probably one of the only Sasaki KWA title defenses available outside of DVD releases in Japan. Alone for that, this is a gem worth watching!

Match on YouTube

Advent of Bronco: Merry Mikiya Sasaki Christmas! 2025

Advent of Bronco: Merry Mikiya Sasaki Christmas! 2025

Introduction

Hello, it's me, SWalkerDDT. Wow, that rhymes lol. Sadly this whole blog was a very short-lived endeavor, but Christmas season is starting and we got a big surprise in the last couple of weeks. At the beginning of January´2026, the beloved Mikiya Sasaki will hold a Produce Show in the Sportiva Arena in Nagoya and I fear, we will never see it outside of Japan. So I thought, if Mikiya Sasaki does not bring his greatness to the world by himself, I will do it instead. So from today on till Christmas Eve, I will post one or two Mikiya Sasaki matches, that will introduce you to our favourite Bronco. So without any further ado let's get started!

This series will feature a (hopefully) balanced mixture of a few matches from this year and mainly matches from before 2025!

Short Biography

Mikiya Sasaki was born at the beginning of 1989. He debuted on August 7, 2005 on a joint J2000/NPW show in Habikino Coliseum in Habikino, Osaka, teaming with J2000-Hiroaki Moriya in a winning afair. Sasaki, known for a retro, "old-school"-style is heavily inspired by the legendary Dory Funk Jr. Nicknamed the "Dotonbori Bronco", he blends humor, nostalgia and a unique charisma into his wrestling style and often comes to the ring wearing a cowboy hat and a carrying a gateball stick.

In the first 10 years of his career, he mainly wrestled for the (now defunct) Osaka-based promotion J2000. During his time there, he was a two-time JWF Tag Team Champion (with partners Hirohiko Funasaki & Yuta Urano) and captured the KWA Championship on two different occasions. 

He toured different companies during and after his time in J2000, mainly in the Osaka area, before finding a new main promotion in Dotonbori Pro in 2020. For them he was a two-time WDWW Champion as well as a Six Man Tag Team Championship holder alongside Hideaki Sumi & Takaku Fuke. In the recent years, while still wrestling in Dotonbori Pro, he now mainly wrestles on the MeriPro Meriken Friday Night shows in Motomachi Ringsoul while also taking multiple outside gigs, with the amount getting bigger and bigger each year, with appearances in 24 different companies this year alone! This features promotions like ZERO1, DDT, 2AW and Pro Wrestling Up Town.

Index

Advent of Bronco Day 1 - 2025.11.30

Advent of Bronco Day 2 - 2025.12.01