Super Delfin

Infobox Wrestler|name=Hiroto Wakita
names=Super Delfin
Monkey Magic Wakita
Momotaro
height=5 ft 7 in (175 cm)
weight=190 lbs (95 kg)
birth_date =birth date|1967|9|22|mf=y
death_date =
birth_place =Izumi, Osaka, Japan
resides=
billed=
trainer=
debut=March 19, 1989
retired=|

Hiroto Wakita is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently runs Osaka Pro Wrestling and is also working as a wrestler there. He is better known by his stage name Super Delfin.

Career

Hiroto Wakita joined the New Japan Pro Wrestling dojo. He was affiliated with the Takeshi Puroresu Gundan, a Japanese take on the "Rock n Wrestling" concept espoused by the WWF at the time in the United States, using comedian and director Takeshi Kitano as the manager of Riki Chōshū and others who had returned from All Japan Pro Wrestling. Due to the fans' non-acceptance of the angle, Kitano and New Japan parted ways, which left Wakita and his fellow dojo students, the future Jado and Gedo, without a home. The three men began training almost on their own, with Wally Yamaguchi as their trainer.

Eventually, Wakita and the others debuted as professional wrestlers in Amsterdam in 1989. At first he wrestled without a mask under the name Monkey Magic Wakita. He began his career in Japan in Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling, and then continued on to Universal Lucha Libre, where he adopted the Super Delfin character after a tour to Mexico. In 1993 he left Universal for Michinoku Pro Wrestling, and in 1994 he defeated El Pantera for the CMLL Welterweight Championship. However Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre did not acknowledge the change and declared the championship vacant because El Pantera had jumped to CMLL's competitor Asistencia Asesoría y Administración before leaving for Japan. Also in 1994 he competed in the Best of the Super Juniors Tournament organised by New Japan Pro Wrestling. He finished second by losing to Jushin Liger in the finals. He attempted to play mind games on Liger by dressing as him for the match.

He formed Osaka Pro Wrestling, a regional independent promotion in 1998, and the company had its first event April 29 1999. He won the UWF Super Welterweight Championship altogether five times, in Universal, Michinoku and Osaka Pro. In 1999 he abandoned that championship and replaced it with the Osaka Pro Wrestling Championship as the most prestigious Osaka Pro championship.

In wrestling

*Finishing and signature moves:*"Osaka Stunner" (Inverted facelock stunner) - Innovated:*"Delfin Clutch" - Innovated:*"Delfin DDT" (Tornado DDT):*"Delfin Elbow" (Diving elbow drop):*"Delfin Special" (Combination German suplex rolled through into another German suplex rolled through into a Japanese leg roll clutch):*"Delfin Special II" (German suplex rolled through into a tiger suplex):*"Delfin Backbreaker" (Delfin grabs a charging opponent, lifts him up on his shoulder, rotates several turns and then kneels down while dropping the opponent back first down on his knee):*"Osaka Rinkai Thrust" (Spinning palm strike)

Championships and accomplishments

*Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre:*1-Time CMLL World Welterweight Champion:*1-Time NWA World Welterweight Champion
*Michinoku Pro Wrestling:*1-Time Tohoku Junior Heavyweight Champion
*Osaka Pro Wrestling:*4-Time Osaka Pro Wrestling Champion:*5-Time Super Welterweight Champion (Abandoned title in 1999 and created the Osaka Pro Wrestling Championship):*Osaka Pro Ten-No-Zan Tournament winner (2001):*Osaka Pro Tag Festival Tournament winner (with Super Demekin) (2002)
*Universal Wrestling Association/Universal Lucha Libre:*2-Time UWA Welterweight Champion
*Pro Wrestling Illustrated:*PWI ranked him #75 in the PWI 500 in 2001

References

* [http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/s/super-delfin.html Profile at Online World of Wrestling]