Yasufumi Nakanoue

Yasufumi Nakanoue (中上 靖文) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently works as a freelancer. He started his career in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), however Nakanoue would quit All Japan following a change in the promotion's management and joined the new Wrestle-1 promotion. He went on becoming a former one-time Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champion with Yuji Okabayashi and a two-time UWA World Trios Champion with Jiro Kuroshio and Seiki Yoshioka. In June, 2016 Nakanoue would quit from Wrestle-1 to become a freelancer. As a freelancer Nakanoue would compete regulary in Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) and after three years Nakanoue would return in All Japan Pro Wrestling, when he and Kento Miyahara lost to Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani.

Training
In 2008 Nakanoue started to train in the Animal Hamaguchi dojo which led to Nakanoue pass an audition to enter Keiji Mutoh's All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) affiliated Mutohjuku training school, where he continued training under Kaz Hayashi and Satoshi Kojima.

All Japan Pro Wrestling (2010–2013)
On January 2, 2010 Nakanoue made his professional wrestling debut against Shuji Kondo. Nakanoue would then compete as a jobber losing matches to gain experience and knowing his place in the card. On November 6 Nakanoue competed in a tournament to determine the 1º Contendership for the All Asia Tag Team Championship with Osamu Nishimura. Nakanoue and Nishimura would lose at the semifinals to Voodoo Murders (KONO and Minoru).

On July 25, 2012 Nakanoue had his first win when he and Hiroshi Yamato defeated Gillette and KAI. On September 8 to October 7 Nakanoue took part in a tournament to crown th first Gaora TV Championship. Nakanoue would defeat a former Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion Ryota Hama and Kazushi Miyamoto to advance to the finals of the tournament. At the tournament finals Nakanoue would lose to Seiya Sanada. On November 21 Nakanoue unsucessfully challenged Sanada into a rematch for the Gaora TV Championship.

During the fall of 2013, Nakanoue, along with several other wrestlers in All Japan, departed the promotion and joined up with Keiji Mutoh and his new promotion Wrestle-1 due to Nobuo Shiraishi taking over as the president of the promotion.

Wrestle-1 (2013–2016)
On July 10, 2013, Nakanoue was announced as part of Keiji Mutoh's new Wrestle-1 promotion. During the promotion's inaugural event on September 8, Nakanoue teamed with Ryota Hama in a tag team match, where they were defeated by Kohei Sato and Ryouji Sai. On February 24, 2014 Nakanoue would compete in a tournament to decide the 1º Contendership for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, Nakanoue would lose to Masakatsu Funaki at the semifinals. Later that night Nakanoue competed in a Battle Royal match to to decide the 1º Contendership for the TNA X-Division Championship. Nakanoue would came up short losing the match with the winner being Seiya Sanada. One month later Nakanoue competed in another Battle Royal to to decide the 1º Contendership for the TNA X-Division Championship, but this time the winner was Seiki Yoshioka. On May 4 Nakanoue and Yoshioka would recieve a chance for the Strongest-K Tag Team Championship but they would came up short and unsucessfully challenged Hiroki and Yuji Hino for the titles. On June 22 Nakanoue competed in another Battle Royal to to decide this time the 1º Contendership was for the ASW British Mid-Heavyweight Championship, but this time the winner was Seiki Yoshioka again.

In September, Nakanoue took part in the Wrestle-1 Championship tournament, where he lost at first round to Yusuke Kodama. On November 15, Nakanoue entered the First Tag League Greatest tournament, set to determine the inaugural Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions, alongside Taiyō Kea under the team name Sunrise. The two finished their block with a record of one win and three losses.

On January 11, 2015 Nakanoue and Yusuke Kodama unsucessfully challenged Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo) for the Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship. On August 2 Nakanoue participated at the 2015 Wrestle-1 Grand Prix, Nakanoue would lose at the first round to Jiro Kuroshio. Following the tournament, Nakanoue formed the stable Jackets with Jiro Kuroshio and Seiki Yoshioka. On October 9, 2015 the trio defeated New Wild Order (Akira, Jun Kasai and Kumagoro) to win the vacant UWA World Trios Championship. On November 3, they lost the titles to Real Desperado (Kazma Sakamoto, Koji Doi and Nosawa Rongai) but would regain the belts on November 27. On January 7, 2016, Jackets would vacate the titles due to Yoshioka being sidelined following cecum surgery and being unable to attend a title defence set for January 10. On January 31, Jackets lost to Kaz Hayashi, Minoru Tanaka and Tajiri for the vacant title. On April 28 Nakanoue and Yoshioka unsucessfully challenged Real Desperado (Kazma Sakamoto and Yuji Hino) for the Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship.

On June 8, 2016 Nakanoue and Yuji Okabayashi defeated Sakamoto and Hino for the Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship. On June 15 to June 26 Nkanoue participated at the 2016 Wrestle-1 Grand Prix where he made it to the second round, before losing to Yuji Hino. On June 28, 2016, Nakanoue announced he was leaving Wrestle-1 due to his contract with the company expiring. Later Jackets would disband.

On July 29, Nakanoue and Okabayashi lost the Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship to Jun Kasai and Manabu Soya in their second defense. That turned out to be Nakanoue's last match in Wrestle-1.

Freelancer (2016-Present)
As a freelancer Nakanoue would regulary compete in Big Japan Pro Wrestling. After three years Nakanoue would return in All Japan Pro Wrestling, when he and Kento Miyahara lost to Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani. In September Nakanoue would compete in the 2016 Saikyou Tag League at block B with Ryuichi Kawakami. The two would finished the tournament with only 2 points one win and two losses. On October 9 Nakanoue would unsucessfully challenged Hideyoshi Kamitani for the BJW Strong World Heavyweight Championship. On December 15 Nakanoue and Daisuke Sekimoto would unsucessfully challenged Jaki Numazawa and Masashi Takeda) for the WDW Tag Team Championship,

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2014)
On March 9, 2014 Nakanoue as Yasu appeared for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as part of TNA's working agreement with Wrestle-1, teaming with The Great Muta and Sanada to defeat Chris Sabin, Christopher Daniels and Kazarian in a six-man tag team steel cage match at Lockdown.

In wrestling

 * Finishing moves
 * Running Elbow
 * Diving Elbow Drop
 * Signature moves
 * Missile Dropkick
 * Small Package Hold adopted from Osamu Nishimura
 * Double Arm Suplex
 * STF
 * Dragon Suplex

Championships and accomplishments

 * Wrestle-1
 * UWA World Trios Championship (2 times) – Jiro Kuroshio with and Seiki Yoshioka
 * Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Yuji Okabayashi