Yasu Urano

Yasu Urano (ヤス・ウラノ, Yasu Urano) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working as a freelancer.^[4] He is best known for his tenures with Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) and Kaientai Dojo promotions.

Yasu Urano
Urano in 2015
Born	(1976-02-19) February 19, 1976 (age 49)[1] Tokorozawa, Japan
Alma mater	Nihon University
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Yasuura Urano Taz Urano Yasu Urano
Billed height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Billed weight	87 kg (192 lb)
Trained by	Koji Nakagawa Taka Michinoku
Debut	2000[3]

Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit (2001-present)

Although some sources state that Urano had his first professional wrestling match on November 19, 2000, the first documented one was at a house show of the IWA Puerto Rico promotion from January 11, 2001, where he defeated Hiroki.^[5] He is known for his early tenure with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling where he wrestled in 2001 at events such as the FMW Super Dynamism 2001 from August 11 where he teamed up with Tomokazu Morita in a losing effort to Naohiko Yamazaki and Ricky Fuji.^[6] He wrestled a match for Wrestle-1 at Pro-Wrestling ACE Vol. 6 event on July 2, 2017, where he defeated Andromeda Ken.^[7] He wrestled a match for Ice Ribbon at Ice Ribbon Tax Pro Wrestling Vol. 5 on February 21, 2021, where he teamed up with Ram Kaicho and Onryo, falling short to Fuminori Abe, Koju Takeda and Taro Yamada in a six-man intergender tag team match.^[8] At 2AW Fujita Pro Wrestling School Performance ~ Winter Special Lesson 2020 on February 15, Urano teamed up with Yuko Miyamoto and Yuma to defeat Kyu Mogami, Shu Asakawa and Taishi Takizawa. ^[9]

Dramatic Dream Team/DDT Pro Wrestling (2006-present)

Urano participated at Budokan Peter Pan on August 18, 2012, where he competed in 5 vs. 5 Soccer match, where he teamed up with Antonio Honda, Yuji Hino, Tanomusaku Toba and Yoshiko as Akira-waku FC and lost score 2–2 (2–0 on penalties) against Tonkatsu SC (Masa Takanashi, Daisuke Sasaki, Hoshitango, Tetsuya Endo and Tsukasa Fujimoto).^[10] At DDT Audience 2017 on May 28, Urano unsuccessfully challenged Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship.^[11] At DDT Sweet Dreams! 2017 on January 29, he unsuccessfully challenged All Japan Pro Wrestling's Keisuke Ishii for the AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Championship.^[12] Urano teamed up with Takato Nakano and Takumi Tsukamoto at DDT BASARA 105 ~ Manji No Kitsune 2 Hikime ~ on September 14, 2019 to defeat Sento Minzoku (Daiki Shimomura, Isami Kodaka and Ryuichi Sekine) to win the UWA World Trios Championship.^[13] Urano is a former multiple time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion, title for which he latest competed at Judgement 2019: DDT 22nd Anniversary in a gauntlet battle royal against the winner Saki Akai, Yuka Sakazaki, El Lindaman, Asuka and others.^[14]

Championships and accomplishments

• Dove Pro Wrestling

• Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• Dramatic Dream Team/DDT Pro-Wrestling

• Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (6 times)^[15]
• Jiyūgaoka 6-Person Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kudo and Antonio Honda^[16]
• KO-D Tag Team Championship (5 times) – with Yuji Hino (2), Gentaro (1), Kudo (1) and Harashima (1)^[17]
• KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Akito and Harashima

• Ice Ribbon

• Triangle Ribbon Championship (1 time)^[18]

• Kaientai Dojo

• Strongest-K Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Handsome Joe^[19]
• UWA World Middleweight Championship (2 times)^[20]

• Michinoku Pro Wrestling

• UWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Hiroki^[21]

• Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out
  • King of JTO Championship (1 time)
• Pro-Wrestling Basara

• Iron Fist Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Takumi Tsukamoto
• UWA World Trios Championship (1 time) – with Takato Nakano and Takumi Tsukamoto^[22]