Active Advance Pro Wrestling

Japanese professional wrestling promotion and training facility

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Active Advance Pro Wrestling

Acronym| 2AW
Founded| 2002
Style| Puroresu
Headquarters| Chiba, Japan
Founder(s)| Taka Michinoku
Formerly| Kaientai Dojo (K-DOJO)

Active Advance Pro Wrestling (2AW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion and training facility originally owned and promoted by Taka Michinoku. The promotion places emphasis on a style of puroresu that combines high-flying, technical wrestling, and martial arts. The promotion was originally called Kaientai Dojo (or K-DOJO for short).

This style was largely contributed to by Taka Michinoku and is gaining popularity in Japan and abroad. K-DOJO is also heavily influenced by American-style wrestling and places a large amount of importance on presentation. For instance, each Club-K 3000 show that K-DOJO runs is equipped with a large screen near the entrance gate, similar to the Titantron, where a short introductory vignette is played during each wrestler's entrance and where the crowd can follow the action on-screen.

They had a home building that doubles as their training facility, Chiba Blue Field, where all of their Club-K 3000 shows were held; in December 2011, the building was bought by the joshi pro-wrestling promotion Universal Woman's Pro Wrestling Reina, but K-Dojo continues to run shows from the renamed Reina Arena.[1] On April 1, 2013, the arena was again renamed Blue Field.

## History

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Kaientai Dojo originated in 2000 as a small wrestling school in Puerto Rico run by Taka Michinoku. After Taka returned to Japan in 2002, he established the Japanese branch of Kaientai Dojo, which would soon become a wrestling promotion. The small federation grew over the years and is now an independent league that runs as a promotion, wrestling school, and talent loan organization to various other leagues such as AJPW, Dragon Gate and Michinoku Pro.

Until recently, K-DOJO was separated into two distinct sides, GET and RAVE, which ran separate shows but often joined together during large shows and tours. GET was led by Taka Michinoku while RAVE's leader was Hi69. After Hi69's departure, Taka Michinoku became commissioner of RAVE, and 296 became commissioner of GET. On April 22, 2007, RAVE ran its last show; the two brands merged and now run joint shows.

A particular aspect of K-DOJO is that it is one of the few wrestling promotions to feature both men and women. Women can wrestle in the same ring as men, either during mixed tag matches or even singles matches. Also, they can challenge for championship belts, something that would be unheard of in most wrestling promotions.

In November 2018, it became known that Taka Michinoku had an eight-year-long extramarital relationship with a woman. After this scandal, the promotion fired him and sanctioned him for one year without payment.[2]

In April 2019, the promotion announced that they were rebranding as Active Advance Pro Wrestling (2AW for short). This came as the company attempted to rebrand itself after the Taka Michinoku scandal, also changing its colors to black & white. That same night, young wrestler Ayato Yoshida won the Strongest-K Championship, symbolically leading the company into the future.[3]

On January 10, 2020, it was announced that 2AW is now part of the Allied Independent Wrestling Federations as their Japanese affiliate.[4]

## Roster

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Main article: List of Active Advance Pro Wrestling personnel

## Championships

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### Current

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Championship | Current champion(s) | Reign | Date won | Days held | Location | Notes

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2AW Openweight Championship |  | Ayato Yoshida | 3  | August 25, 2024  | 88+  | Chiba, Japan | Defeated Taishi Takizawa at 2AW Grand Slam In TKP Garden City Chiba.
2AW Tag Team Championship |
| Buttobe Missile Kickers
(Daiju Wakamatsu and Taishi Takizawa) | 2
(2, 3) | October 27, 2024  | 25+  | Chiba, Japan | Defeated Starlight Dreamers (Ayame Sasamura and Kotaro Yoshino) at 2AW Grand Slam In TKP Garden City Chiba.
Chiba Six Man Tag Team Championship |

| Ayumu Honda, Kyu Mogami & Taishi Takizawa | 1
(3, 3, 1) | January 10, 2020 | 1,777+  | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Ayato Yoshida, Kotaro Yoshino & Tank Nagai at GRAND SLAM In TKP Garden City Chiba.

### Formerly promoted

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Championship | Last champion(s) | Reign | Date won | Location

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AIWF World Heavyweight Championship  | Kevin Phoenix  | 1  | August 24, 2019  |
Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship | Arata  | 2 | January 15, 2021  | Tokyo, Japan
UWA World Middleweight Championship | Kyu Mogami  | 1 | June 20, 2019 | Tokyo, Japan
UWA World Tag Team Championship | Jinsei Shinzaki & The Great Sasuke | 1
(1, 1) | May 4, 2021 | Yahaba, Iwate, Japan
FMW/WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship | Kunio Toshima & Yuma Aoyagi | 1
(1, 1) | April 17, 2016 | Tokyo, Japan

### Annual tournaments

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Tournament  | Latest winner:  | Date won:

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Bo-so Golden Tag Tournament | Ayato Yoshida & Kyu Mogami | January 29, 2017
K-Metal League | Marines Mask | May 6, 2018
Kaio Tournament | Kengo Mashimo | August 26, 2018

## See also

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* Japan portal

* Professional wrestling in Japan
* List of professional wrestling promotions in Japan

## References

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1. ^ "千葉BlueField名称変更のお知らせ". Kaientai Dojo (in Japanese). December 10, 2011. Archived from the original on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
2. ^ "K-Dojo despide de su administración a su fundador TAKA Michinoku". 9 November 2018.
3. ^ "KAIENTAI DOJO 17周年記念大会 GRAND SLAM in 後楽園ホール | KAIENTAI DOJO". www.k-dojo.co.jp. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
4. ^ "Welcome 2AW of Japan to AIWF Wrestling Family!". Facebook. January 10, 2020. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26. Retrieved January 10, 2020.

## External links

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* 2AW Official Site (Japanese)
* K-DOJO Official Site (Japanese)
* K-DOJO Fan Site (English)
* K-DOJO Fan Site (Japanese)

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Championships|

| Current|

* Openweight (reigns)
* 2AW Tag Team (reigns)
* Chiba Six Man Tag Team (reigns)

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Formerly
promoted|

* AIWF World Heavyweight Championship
* Independent World Junior Heavyweight
* UWA World Middleweight
* UWA World Tag Team
* Strongest-K
* Strongest-K Tag Team
* UWA/UWF Intercontinental Tag Team
* WEW Hardcore Tag Team
* Kitakami 6-Man Tag Team Championship

Personnel|

* List of personnel

Tournaments|

* Bo-so Golden Tag Tournament
* K-Metal League
* Kaio Tournament

Partnerships|

| Current|

* Allied Independent Wrestling Federations

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Former|

* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* Dragon Gate
* Michinoku Pro Wrestling
* Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out
* Pro Wrestling Reina

Category

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* t
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Professional wrestling in Japan

Active promotions

Major promotions|

* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* CyberFight
* DDT Pro-Wrestling
* Pro Wrestling Noah
* Dragongate
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling

Women's|

* CyberFight
* Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling
* World Wonder Ring Stardom

Independent promotions|

* Active Advance Pro Wrestling
* Big Japan Pro Wrestling
* Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling-Explosion
* Dradition
* Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling
* Gleat
* Lidet UWF
* G Prowrestling
* Kyushu Pro-Wrestling
* Michinoku Pro Wrestling
* Osaka Pro Wrestling
* Pro-Wrestling Basara
* Pro Wrestling Freedoms
* Pro Wrestling Land's End
* Pro-Wrestling Shi-En
* Pro Wrestling Zero1
* Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out
* Strong Style Pro-Wrestling
* Tenryu Project
* Tokyo Gurentai
* Wrestling of Darkness 666

Women's|

* 2point5 Joshi Pro Wrestling
* Actwres girl'Z
* ChocoPro
* Dream Star Fighting Marigold
* Ice Ribbon
* Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling
* Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling
* Oz Academy
* Pro Wrestling Wave
* Pure-J
* Reina Joshi Puroresu
* Seadlinnng
* Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling
* World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana

Governing bodies and
interpromotional alliances|

| Legitimate|

* Allied Independent Wrestling Federations
* Asia-Pacific Federation of Wrestling
* United Japan Pro-Wrestling
* United Wrestling Network

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Storyline|

* AWA
* International Wrestling Grand Prix
* Global Honored Crown
* New Wrestling Alliance
* Pacific Wrestling Federation

Defunct promotions

Major promotions|

* Fighting Network Rings
* Hustle
* Inoki Genome Federation
* International Wrestling Enterprise
* Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance
* UWF International
* Wrestle-1

Women's|

* All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
* Gaea Japan
* Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling

Independent promotions|

* Apache Pro-Wrestling Army
* Battlarts
* Diamond Ring
* Fighting of World Japan Pro Wrestling
* IWA Japan
* Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Kingdom
* Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi
* Smash
* Super World of Sports
* Tokyo Pro Wrestling
* Toryumon Japan
* Universal Lucha Libre
* Universal Wrestling Federation
* W*ING
* WAR
* Wrestling New Classic

Women's|

* Arsion
* JDStar
* JWP Joshi Puroresu
* NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling
* WNC-Reina

Governing bodies and
interpromotional alliances|

* AWA Superstars of Wrestling
* Global Professional Wrestling Alliance

* Attendance records
* Professional wrestling at the Tokyo Dome
* Puroresu
* Rikidōzan

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