BattlARTS

BattlARTS

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name = Battlarts


acronym = BATBAT
established = 1996
style = Shoot-style, Professional Wrestling
location = Japan
founder = Yuki Ishikawa
owner = Yuki Ishikawa

Battlarts (格闘探偵団バトラーツ, "Kakutō Tentei-dan Batoratsu", Fighting Investigation Team Battlarts) is a professional wrestling promotion based in Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan. The promotion was formed in 1996 by Japanese wrestler Yuki Ishikawa, and featured all of the wrestlers from the Fujiwara Gumi promotion, who had abandoned the promotion in favor of BattlARTS. They ran shows in the Tokyo area regularly from 1998 to 2002.

Even though Battlarts' style was based around shoot-style wrestling, the promotion often cooperated with other federations and styles, including RINGS, Kingdom, Michinoku Pro and Big Japan Pro Wrestling. The biggest co-promotion occurred on October 17, 1999 when Battlarts and The Great Sasuke's Michinoku Pro Wrestling presented Michinoku Pro vs. Battlarts, which was headlined by a tag match pitting the owners of both promotions (Great Sasuke and Ishikawa) against Jinsei Shinzaki and Alexander Otsuka.

The promotion ceased running regular shows and events in 2001 due to "management aggravation". Battlarts eventually began to run monthly shows mainly in Tokyo, Saitama, and Shizuoka Prefecture, often co-promoting with Daisuke Ikeda's FU-TEN, Kiyoshi Tamura's STYLE-E and Satoru Sayama's RJPW promotions. Their next show is on Sunday April 6 2008 at the Kitasenju Theater 1010, with talent from FU-TEN, Real Japan Pro-Wrestling, BIG MOUTH LOUD, Dradition (previously MUGA WORLD) and STYLE-E competing on the card.

Alumni

*Alexander Otsuka
*Minoru Tanaka
*Yuki Ishikawa
*Daisuke Ikeda
*Ikuto Hidaka
*Joe Malenko
*Carl Malenko (also known as Carl Greco)
*TAKA Michinoku
*Shoichi Funaki
*Katsumi Usuda
*Muhammad Yone
*Anthony Carelli (AKA Johnny GeoBasco and now Santino Marella in WWE)

Championships and tournaments

*UWA World Middleweight Championship
*FMW Junior Heavyweight Championship
*FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship
*BJW World Junior Heavyweight Championship
*Annual BattlARTS Young Generation Battle League


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