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|name= Jun Kasai
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|name = Jun Kasai
|image= Jun Kasai.jpg
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|image = Jun Kasai.jpg
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|caption = Kasai in December 2022
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|Birth name = {{nihongo|Jun Kasai|葛西 純|Kasai Jun}}
|born= September 9, 1974<br>Obihiro, Hokkaido
 
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|Born = {{Birth date and age|1974|09|09}}
|height= 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
 
 
|Birth place = Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan
|weight= 88 kg (194 lb)
 
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|Death date=
|status= Active in Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS and Wrestle-1
 
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|debut= August 23, 1998
 
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|other= Crazy Monkey<br>Ape The Man<br>Junko Kasai<br>Nazo Fukumen KJ<br>Son Goku<br>Kuki Yoshitaka
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|names = '''Jun Kasai'''<br>Crazy Monkey<br>Ape The Man<br>Junko Kasai<br>Nazo Fukumen KJ<br>Son Goku<br>Kuki Yoshitaka
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{{nihongo|'''Jun Kasai'''|葛西 純|Kasai Jun}} is a Japanese professional wrestler, primarily competing for Pro Wrestling Freedoms. Dubbed the {{nihongo|''Crazy Monkey''|クレイジーモンキー|Kureijī Monkī}} for his violent and often self-harmful style of hardcore wrestling, Kasai is considered a breakthrough talent in Japanese wrestling, able to work both hardcore and technical styles. Outside of Freedoms, Kasai has worked for [[Hustle]], [[Ice Ribbon]], CZW and [[Big Japan Pro Wrestling]].
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{{nihongo|'''Jun Kasai'''|葛西 純|Kasai Jun}} is a Japanese professional wrestler, primarily competing for [[Pro Wrestling Freedoms]] and [[DDT Pro-Wrestling]]. Dubbed the {{nihongo|''Crazy Monkey''|クレイジーモンキー|Kureijī Monkī}} for his violent and often self-harmful style of hardcore wrestling, Kasai is considered a breakthrough talent in Japanese wrestling, able to work both hardcore and technical styles. Outside of Freedoms, Kasai has worked for [[Hustle]], [[Ice Ribbon]], CZW and [[Big Japan Pro Wrestling]].
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
 
In 1998, Kasai made his debut in a Big Japan Pro Wrestling event in Osaka during the Deathmatch Wrestling boom of the late 90s. As BJW established a working relationship with American promotion Combat Zone Wrestling at the turn of the millennium, Kasai joined the stable "CZW Warriors" (CZW Army) and feuded against the "BJW warriors". Kasai formed the stable "Big Dealz" in 2001, with John Zandig, Nick Mondo, Wifebeater, Z-Barr and Trent Acid.<ref name="wzr" />
 
In 1998, Kasai made his debut in a Big Japan Pro Wrestling event in Osaka during the Deathmatch Wrestling boom of the late 90s. As BJW established a working relationship with American promotion Combat Zone Wrestling at the turn of the millennium, Kasai joined the stable "CZW Warriors" (CZW Army) and feuded against the "BJW warriors". Kasai formed the stable "Big Dealz" in 2001, with John Zandig, Nick Mondo, Wifebeater, Z-Barr and Trent Acid.<ref name="wzr" />
   
Since then Kasai has wrestled mainly for BJW and occasionally for other promotions such as [[Pro Wrestling Zero1]], [[Kaientai Dojo|K-Dojo]] and [[Apache Pro-Wrestling]]. Kasai's body is covered in scars, from all the [[hardcore wrestling]] he has done. Including from a Fans Bring the Weapons Match from Combat Zone Wrestling show "Un F'n Believable", in which he took a bump onto a light tube board which ripped open his left elbow, exposing bone.<ref>[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/czw/010414.html Online World of Wrestling : Combat Zone Wrestling - CZW Un F'n Believable]</ref> In 2006 he won the first-ever IWA East Coast Masters of Pain after defeating Toby Klein, Mad Man Pondo and J. C. Bailey.<ref>[http://www.cagematch.de/?id=1&nr=8215 Cagematch : IWA East Coast Masters Of Pain 2006]</ref>
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Since then Kasai has wrestled mainly for BJW and occasionally for other promotions such as [[Pro Wrestling Zero1]], [[Kaientai Dojo|K-Dojo]] and [[Apache Pro-Wrestling]]. Kasai's body is covered in scars, from all the hardcore wrestling he has done. Including from a Fans Bring the Weapons Match from Combat Zone Wrestling show "Un F'n Believable", in which he took a bump onto a light tube board which ripped open his left elbow, exposing bone.<ref>[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/czw/010414.html Online World of Wrestling : Combat Zone Wrestling - CZW Un F'n Believable]</ref> In 2006 he won the first-ever IWA East Coast Masters of Pain after defeating Toby Klein, Mad Man Pondo and J. C. Bailey.<ref>[http://www.cagematch.de/?id=1&nr=8215 Cagematch : IWA East Coast Masters Of Pain 2006]</ref>
   
Kasai has participated five times in an extremely bloody "Razor Deathmatch"; a hardcore match where boards are fitted with many razor blades. The first of these deathmatches was held in 2005 with [[Jaki Numazawa]], in which Jun took a powerbomb onto the razor bladed board. In the second one, held in 2008, Kasai's match was against the American wrestler [[Masada (wrestler)|MASADA]]. On November 20, 2009, he defeated [[Ryuji Ito]] in another razor match after a double underhook facebuster on a [[cactus]].
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Kasai has participated five times in an extremely bloody "Razor Deathmatch"; a hardcore match where boards are fitted with many razor blades. The first of these deathmatches was held in 2005 with [[Jaki Numazawa]], in which Jun took a powerbomb onto the razor bladed board. In the second one, held in 2008, Kasai's match was against the American wrestler [[Masada (wrestler)|MASADA]]. On November 20, 2009, he defeated [[Ryuji Ito]] in another razor match after a double underhook facebuster on a cactus.
   
 
The fourth time was on April 5, 2010 Kasai competed in a Barbwire Treaty Death Match that pitted Team CZW (Jun Kasai, DJ Hyde, and Nick Gage) against Team [[Big Japan Pro Wrestling|BJW]] ([[Jaki Numazawa]], [[Isami Kodaka]], and [[Masashi Takeda (wrestler)|Masashi Takeda]]) in which a razor blade board was used in several bumps. On June 21, 2010 Kasai competed against the Necro Butcher in a Hardcore match for the FREEDOMS promotion; the razor blade board came into play mid way through the match.
 
The fourth time was on April 5, 2010 Kasai competed in a Barbwire Treaty Death Match that pitted Team CZW (Jun Kasai, DJ Hyde, and Nick Gage) against Team [[Big Japan Pro Wrestling|BJW]] ([[Jaki Numazawa]], [[Isami Kodaka]], and [[Masashi Takeda (wrestler)|Masashi Takeda]]) in which a razor blade board was used in several bumps. On June 21, 2010 Kasai competed against the Necro Butcher in a Hardcore match for the FREEDOMS promotion; the razor blade board came into play mid way through the match.
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==In wrestling==
 
==In wrestling==
 
*'''Finishing moves'''
 
*'''Finishing moves'''
:*''Pearl Harbor Splash'' (Diving splash, sometimes onto a fluorescent lamp, with theatrics)
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**''Pearl Harbor Splash'' (Diving splash, sometimes onto a fluorescent lamp, with theatrics)
:*''Sudden Impact'' (High-angle implant DDT)
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**''Sudden Impact'' (High-angle implant DDT)
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**''Murder Rai Bomb ''(One-Handed Electric Chair Driver)
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**''The Stimulation ''(Cradle Piledriver)
   
 
*'''Signature moves'''
 
*'''Signature moves'''
:*Backslide
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**Backslide
:*Brainbuster
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**Brainbuster
:*''Corporal Punishment'' (Elevated powerbomb)
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**''Corporal Punishment'' (Elevated powerbomb)
:*Diving headbutt
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**Diving headbutt
:*Double underhook piledriver
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**Double underhook piledriver
:*Enzugiri
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**Enzugiri
:*German suplex
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**German suplex
:*''Reverse Tiger Driver'' (Lifting double underhook facebuster)
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**''Reverse Tiger Driver'' (Lifting double underhook facebuster)
:*Saito suplex
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**Saito suplex
:*Sitout double underhook powerbomb
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**Sitout double underhook powerbomb
:*Schoolboy
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**Schoolboy
:*Seated chinlock
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**Seated chinlock
:*Snap suplex
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**Snap suplex
   
 
*'''Nicknames'''
 
*'''Nicknames'''
:*"Blood"
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**"Blood"
:*"666"
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**"666"
:*"The Crazy Monkey"
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**"The Crazy Monkey"
   
 
*'''Entrance music'''
 
*'''Entrance music'''
:*'''"Devil"''' by Cocobat
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**'''"Devil"''' by Cocobat
:*"Monkey Magic" by Godiego (Hustle)
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**"Monkey Magic" by Godiego (Hustle)
:*"Monkey Business" by Skid Row (ZERO-ONE)
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**"Monkey Business" by Skid Row (ZERO-ONE)
:*"Wait and Bleed" by Slipknot
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**"Wait and Bleed" by Slipknot
 
 
==Championships and accomplishments==
 
==Championships and accomplishments==
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*'''[[All Japan Pro Wrestling]]'''
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**[[Gaora TV Championship]] (1 time)
 
*'''[[Apache Pro-Wrestling|Apache Pro-Wrestling / Apache Army]]'''
 
*'''[[Apache Pro-Wrestling|Apache Pro-Wrestling / Apache Army]]'''
:*[[WEW World Tag Team Championship]] ([[WEW World Tag Team Championship#Title history|2 times]]) &ndash; with [[Jaki Numazawa]] (1) and [[Tomoaki Honma]] (1)
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**[[WEW World Tag Team Championship]] ([[WEW World Tag Team Championship#Title history|2 times]]) &ndash; with [[Jaki Numazawa]] (1) and [[Tomoaki Honma]] (1)
 
*'''[[Big Japan Pro Wrestling]]'''
 
*'''[[Big Japan Pro Wrestling]]'''
:*[[WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship]] ([[WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship#Title history|1 time]]) &ndash; with The W*NGer
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**[[WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship]] ([[WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship#Title history|1 time]]) &ndash; with [[The Winger]]
:*[[BJW Tag Team Championship]] ([[BJW Tag Team Championship#title history|3 times]]) – with [[Jaki Numazawa]]
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**[[BJW Tag Team Championship]] ([[BJW Tag Team Championship#title history|3 times]]) – with [[Jaki Numazawa]]
 
*'''Combat Zone Wrestling'''
 
*'''Combat Zone Wrestling'''
:*CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championship (1 time)
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**CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championship (1 time)
:*CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
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**CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
:*CZW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) &ndash; with Men's Teioh
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**CZW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) &ndash; with [[Men's Teioh]]
:*CZW Tournament of Death (2014)
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**CZW Tournament of Death (2014)
*'''Pro Wrestling''' '''Freedoms'''
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*'''[[DDT Pro-Wrestling]]'''
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**[[DDT Extreme Division Championship]] ([[DDT Extreme Division Championship#Title history|1 time]])
:*[[King of Freedom World Championship]] (3 times)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://pw-freedoms.co.jp/event_detail.php?id=280 | title = H26.9.15 岩手・一関市総合体育館ユードームメインアリーナ大会 | accessdate=September 20, 2014 | work=Freedoms | language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://pw-freedoms.co.jp/event_detail.php?id=458 | title = H27.12.25 後楽園ホール大会「葛西純プロデュース興行」 | accessdate=December 25, 2015 | work=Freedoms | language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://pw-freedoms.co.jp/event_detail.php?id=733 | title = H28.5.2 後楽園ホール | accessdate=May 7, 2016 | work=Freedoms | language=Japanese}}</ref>
 
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*'''[[Dove Pro Wrestling]]'''
:*[[King of Freedom World Tag Team Championship]] (1 time) – with Masashi Takeda<ref>{{cite web | url = http://pw-freedoms.co.jp/event_detail.php?id=357 | title = H26.9.23千葉・東武スポーツクラブ プレオン船橋アリーナ大会 | accessdate=September 23, 2014 | work=Freedoms | language=Japanese}}</ref>
 
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**[[Dove Pro Tag Team Chapionship]] (1 time) &ndash; with [[GUNSO]]
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*'''[[Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS|Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS]]'''
 
**[[King of Freedom World Championship]] (5 times)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://pw-freedoms.co.jp/event_detail.php?id=280 | title = H26.9.15 岩手・一関市総合体育館ユードームメインアリーナ大会 | accessdate=September 20, 2014 | work=Freedoms | language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://pw-freedoms.co.jp/event_detail.php?id=458 | title = H27.12.25 後楽園ホール大会「葛西純プロデュース興行」 | accessdate=December 25, 2015 | work=Freedoms | language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://pw-freedoms.co.jp/event_detail.php?id=733 | title = H28.5.2 後楽園ホール | accessdate=May 7, 2016 | work=Freedoms | language=Japanese}}</ref>
 
**[[King of Freedom World Tag Team Championship]] (1 time) – with [[Masashi Takeda]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://pw-freedoms.co.jp/event_detail.php?id=357 | title = H26.9.23千葉・東武スポーツクラブ プレオン船橋アリーナ大会 | accessdate=September 23, 2014 | work=Freedoms | language=Japanese}}</ref>
 
*'''[[Ice Ribbon]]'''
 
*'''[[Ice Ribbon]]'''
:*[[International Ribbon Tag Team Championship]] ([[International Ribbon Tag Team Championship#Title history|1 time]]) – with [[Miyako Matsumoto]]
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**[[International Ribbon Tag Team Championship]] ([[International Ribbon Tag Team Championship#Title history|1 time]]) – with [[Miyako Matsumoto]]
 
*'''Independent Wrestling Association East Coast'''
 
*'''Independent Wrestling Association East Coast'''
:*Masters of Pain (2006)
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**Masters of Pain (2006)
 
*'''''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'''''
 
*'''''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'''''
:*PWI ranked him #'''340''' of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.profightdb.com/pwi-500/2016.html|title=Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 2016|accessdate=September 1, 2016|work=The Internet Wrestling Database}}</ref>
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**PWI ranked him #'''340''' of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.profightdb.com/pwi-500/2016.html|title=Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 2016|accessdate=September 1, 2016|work=The Internet Wrestling Database}}</ref>
 
*'''[[Wrestle-1]]'''
 
*'''[[Wrestle-1]]'''
*[[Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship]] ([[Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship#Title history|2 times]]) – with [[Manabu Soya]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w-1.co.jp/schedule/tour.php?id=1553|title=Wrestle-1 Tour 2015 Symbol|date=2015-07-12|accessdate=2015-07-12|work=[[Wrestle-1]]|language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.w-1.co.jp/schedule/tour.php?id=1625 | title = 「Wrestle-1 Tour 2016 Symbol」 | date=2016-07-29 | accessdate=2016-07-29 | work=[[Wrestle-1]] | language=Japanese}}</ref>
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**[[Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship]] ([[Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship#Title history|2 times]]) – with [[Manabu Soya]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w-1.co.jp/schedule/tour.php?id=1553|title=Wrestle-1 Tour 2015 Symbol|date=2015-07-12|accessdate=2015-07-12|work=[[Wrestle-1]]|language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.w-1.co.jp/schedule/tour.php?id=1625 | title = 「Wrestle-1 Tour 2016 Symbol」 | date=2016-07-29 | accessdate=2016-07-29 | work=[[Wrestle-1]] | language=Japanese}}</ref>
:*[[UWA World Trios Championship ]](1 time) - with [[Shuji Kondo]] and [[Nosawa Rongai]]
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**[[UWA World Trios Championship]] (1 time) - with [[Shuji Kondo]] and [[Nosawa Rongai]]
   
 
==References==
 
==References==
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* [http://wrestlingzone.ru/star/j/junkasai/ Jun Kasai at Wrestlingzone.ru]
 
* [http://wrestlingzone.ru/star/j/junkasai/ Jun Kasai at Wrestlingzone.ru]
 
* [http://ameblo.jp/deathmatch-monkey/ Jun Kasai's Blog] (Japanese)
 
* [http://ameblo.jp/deathmatch-monkey/ Jun Kasai's Blog] (Japanese)
 
[[Category:Japanese male professional wrestlers]]
 
 
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[[Category:Wrestlers]]
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[[Category:Big Japan Pro Wrestling Roster]]
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[[Category:Pro Wrestling ZERO1 Roster]]
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[[Category:Apache Pro Wrestling Army roster]]
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[[Category:Kaientai Dojo Roster]]
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[[Category:Wrestle-1 alumin]]
 
[[Category:Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS roster]]
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[[Category:B Faultless Junky's]]
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[[Category:UNCHAIN]]
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[[Category:New Wild Order]]
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Latest revision as of 01:46, 30 December 2022


Jun Kasai (葛西 純, Kasai Jun) is a Japanese professional wrestler, primarily competing for Pro Wrestling Freedoms and DDT Pro-Wrestling. Dubbed the Crazy Monkey (クレイジーモンキー, Kureijī Monkī) for his violent and often self-harmful style of hardcore wrestling, Kasai is considered a breakthrough talent in Japanese wrestling, able to work both hardcore and technical styles. Outside of Freedoms, Kasai has worked for Hustle, Ice Ribbon, CZW and Big Japan Pro Wrestling.

Biography[]

In 1998, Kasai made his debut in a Big Japan Pro Wrestling event in Osaka during the Deathmatch Wrestling boom of the late 90s. As BJW established a working relationship with American promotion Combat Zone Wrestling at the turn of the millennium, Kasai joined the stable "CZW Warriors" (CZW Army) and feuded against the "BJW warriors". Kasai formed the stable "Big Dealz" in 2001, with John Zandig, Nick Mondo, Wifebeater, Z-Barr and Trent Acid.[1]

Since then Kasai has wrestled mainly for BJW and occasionally for other promotions such as Pro Wrestling Zero1, K-Dojo and Apache Pro-Wrestling. Kasai's body is covered in scars, from all the hardcore wrestling he has done. Including from a Fans Bring the Weapons Match from Combat Zone Wrestling show "Un F'n Believable", in which he took a bump onto a light tube board which ripped open his left elbow, exposing bone.[2] In 2006 he won the first-ever IWA East Coast Masters of Pain after defeating Toby Klein, Mad Man Pondo and J. C. Bailey.[3]

Kasai has participated five times in an extremely bloody "Razor Deathmatch"; a hardcore match where boards are fitted with many razor blades. The first of these deathmatches was held in 2005 with Jaki Numazawa, in which Jun took a powerbomb onto the razor bladed board. In the second one, held in 2008, Kasai's match was against the American wrestler MASADA. On November 20, 2009, he defeated Ryuji Ito in another razor match after a double underhook facebuster on a cactus.

The fourth time was on April 5, 2010 Kasai competed in a Barbwire Treaty Death Match that pitted Team CZW (Jun Kasai, DJ Hyde, and Nick Gage) against Team BJW (Jaki Numazawa, Isami Kodaka, and Masashi Takeda) in which a razor blade board was used in several bumps. On June 21, 2010 Kasai competed against the Necro Butcher in a Hardcore match for the FREEDOMS promotion; the razor blade board came into play mid way through the match.

He was born in Hokkaido and now lives in the mainland, but he is claiming that he is from Hiladelhia, America on his official website[4] as a joke; he described Philadelphia as his second homeland. While Kasai wrestled in the US, he was a lodger in Wifebeater's house. He has described Wifebeater as a real mad man unlike many deathmatch wrestlers who are in fact gentlemen outside the ring.[5]

In wrestling[]

  • Finishing moves
    • Pearl Harbor Splash (Diving splash, sometimes onto a fluorescent lamp, with theatrics)
    • Sudden Impact (High-angle implant DDT)
    • Murder Rai Bomb (One-Handed Electric Chair Driver)
    • The Stimulation (Cradle Piledriver)
  • Signature moves
    • Backslide
    • Brainbuster
    • Corporal Punishment (Elevated powerbomb)
    • Diving headbutt
    • Double underhook piledriver
    • Enzugiri
    • German suplex
    • Reverse Tiger Driver (Lifting double underhook facebuster)
    • Saito suplex
    • Sitout double underhook powerbomb
    • Schoolboy
    • Seated chinlock
    • Snap suplex
  • Nicknames
    • "Blood"
    • "666"
    • "The Crazy Monkey"
  • Entrance music
    • "Devil" by Cocobat
    • "Monkey Magic" by Godiego (Hustle)
    • "Monkey Business" by Skid Row (ZERO-ONE)
    • "Wait and Bleed" by Slipknot

Championships and accomplishments[]

References[]

  1. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named wzr
  2. Online World of Wrestling : Combat Zone Wrestling - CZW Un F'n Believable
  3. Cagematch : IWA East Coast Masters Of Pain 2006
  4. Official profile
  5. The Weekly Proresu Directory: 15 years Chronicle ISBN 4-583-61261-3
  6. H26.9.15 岩手・一関市総合体育館ユードームメインアリーナ大会 (in Japanese). Freedoms. Retrieved on 2014-09-20.
  7. H27.12.25 後楽園ホール大会「葛西純プロデュース興行」 (in Japanese). Freedoms. Retrieved on 2015-12-25.
  8. H28.5.2 後楽園ホール (in Japanese). Freedoms. Retrieved on 2016-05-07.
  9. H26.9.23千葉・東武スポーツクラブ プレオン船橋アリーナ大会 (in Japanese). Freedoms. Retrieved on 2014-09-23.
  10. Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 2016 . The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved on 2016-09-01.
  11. Wrestle-1 Tour 2015 Symbol (in Japanese). Wrestle-1 (2015-07-12). Retrieved on 2015-07-12.
  12. 「Wrestle-1 Tour 2016 Symbol」 (in Japanese). Wrestle-1 (2016-07-29). Retrieved on 2016-07-29.