Gamma (wrestler)

Infobox Wrestler
name=Yoshito Sugamoto
names=Gamma
Kishiwada King


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weight=convert|82|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
birth_date = birth date and age|1973|5|16|mf=y
death_date =
birth_place =Iwaki, Fukushima
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billed=
trainer=TAKA Michinoku
debut= April 23, 1996
retired=

Gamma (born May 16, 1973 in Fukushima, Japan) is a Japanese professional wrestler for Dragon Gate. He currently is in the heel stable Real Hazard, as is one-third of the Open the Triangle Gate Champions.

Biography

Yoshito Sugamoto began his career in Michinoku Pro when he entered their dojo, where he wrestled often be in dark matches. He then left for Osaka Pro, where he gained heel status. After spending some time in Osaka Pro, he toured the Japanese independent circuit, appearing briefly in dragondoor and in the STONED stable in El Dorado.

He eventually turned up in Dragon Gate, being brought in by his friend Magnitude Kishiwada to replace his position in Blood Generation during his injury. Gamma constantly butted heads with CIMA, however, and was soon kicked out of the faction. Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, and Naoki Tanisaki followed him, causing Blood Generation to split in two, with them on one side and CIMA and Don Fujii on the other. On April 23, 2006, Gamma and Doi beat CIMA and Fujii in a tag match to earn full rights to the Blood Generation name, but they immediately renounced it, instead forming the Muscle Outlaw'z faction. Though Naruki Doi was seen as the leader, Gamma was considered a co-leader or even the real leader.

As September 2007 neared, Gamma challenged the group's personal referee Kinta Tomoaka to a match on September 22 where the loser would be banished from MO'z, after Kinta had cost the group several matches due to misaimed protein powder attacks. Gamma lost the match when all of MO'z surprisingly interfered on Kinta's behalf, so he left MO'z and also seemingly left Dragon Gate when he had his contract annulled soon after the loss. However, he would return a month later, saving Typhoon and New Hazard from a MO'z beatdown, and pledged his allegiance to Typhoon. It was all a ruse: He immediately attacked CIMA and rejoined MO'z, and then he and the others members mobbed and kicked out Kinta.

After he returned, he was no longer treated as a top line player, instead wrestling mainly in tag matches in the midcards. However, on April 27, 2008, he captured the vacant Open the Brave Gate Championship, beating previous champion Anthony W. Mori in a tournament final. After winning it, he discarded the eight pieces that made up the logo plate on the belt's face and replaced it with his own plate, and renamed the title the Open the Gamma Gate Championship. During his reign, he mostly defended the belt against weak opposition, and sometimes retained his title through outrageous means, thanks to him going under his real name and playing the role of the belt's corrupt commissioner, with stablemate Genki Horiguchi enforcing the rules as secretary of the commissioner. He became a dual champion on May 14, when he, Shingo Takagi & YAMATO won the newly-vacated Open the Triangle Gate titles, beating Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino & BxB Hulk in a decision match. Both of his reigns were brought to an end on June 28 and 29: He and his team lost the Triangle Gate to Keni'chiro Arai, Taku Iwasa & Shinobu on the former date (where he took the fall), and on the latter date he lost the Gamma Gate title when Masato Yoshino, as Dr. Muscle, defeated him, and the Brave Gate's faceplate was restored to the belt. He would win the Triangle Gate titles back with Yasushi Kanda & YAMATO on July 12.

In wrestling

*Finishing and signature moves:*"Blitzen" (Crucifix lift flipped into a sitout facebuster):*"Flashback" (Belly to belly lift flipped into a sitout wheelbarrow facebuster):*"Psycho Deathlock" (Seated chinlock / STF combination):*"Gamma Special" (Over the shoulder back to belly piledriver):*"Osui Kougeki" (Gamma spits water to an opponent's face on the top turnbuckle):*Diving elbow drop:*German suplex:*Diving headbutt:*Springboard dropkick:*Suicide dive:*Enzuigiri:*Lariat

Championships and accomplishments

*Dragon Gate:*Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship (1 time; Renamed the "Open the Gamma Gate Championship" during his reign):*Dragon Gate Open the Triangle Gate Championship (5 times) – with Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino (2), Naruki Doi and Magnitude Kishiwada (1), YAMATO and Shingo Takagi (1), Yasushi Kanda and YAMATO (1)

External links

* [http://dgusa.puroresufan.com Gamma profile at Dragon Gate USA]