Yoshihito Sasaki

[Dylan Waco]

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[InYourCase]

Someone who has made a huge impression on me when going back and watching Big Japan stuff. Diverse in the sense that he's gotten great outings of other strong lads, juniors, and deathmatch workers. Great tag/six-man tag worker, with his highlight performance probably being the 1/2/08 tag w/ Sekimoto vs. T. Sasaki & Miyamoto. His 10/10/05 Z-1 match with Kanemoto is another classic. Total sprint with a unique finish.

 

Long story short, I'm ranking Sasaki. He'll be on the lower end of my list, but he's too diverse and has put in way too many great matches to not be represented by me.

[HeadCheese]

Really cool wrestler, someone I am hoping to look into deeper on. Something that really stands out is fighting like a jock wrestler I think one of his biggest strengths might be facial selling.  Great bleeder too. In some of one of my favorite BJW's with  Daisuke Sekimoto & Yoshihito Sasaki vs. Jaki Numazawa & Jun Kasai (the babred wire one specifically). He radiates heart, hoping to watch more of him. I hope he is enjoying his post wrestling career life.

[TheBean]

Yoshihito Sasaki is a guy that is under the radar because he mainly worked B level promotions like Zero One & BJW. Also he had a relatively short career at about 10 years. He has become one of my must watch wrestlers though. Lots of intensity and stiff as a starched shirt. Here's some recommendations:

Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita vs T. Kuroda & Yoshihito Sasaki (08/31/04 Zero One Wrestling): Classic structure Jr. tag match with an awesome high energy final act. Great to see FMW alum Kuroda kicking butt! And man Sasaki had a relatively short career but he's so impressive even this early. No one talks about him so I'm going to praise his work and no frills style every chance I get. Here Fujita's execution is on point and the man Hidaka is his usual wizard self. He is just so quick and clean in his movements that it's a joy to watch. Fujita's hot tag to Hidaka is just sick! This is a very very good match.

Masato Tanaka v Yoshihito Sasaki (12/24/07 Zero One) This was called Best of 2007 because these two were the best Zero One Wrestling had to offer. They did not disappoint me. There was good wrestling on the mat. Tanaka tries to weaken Sasaki's arm seeing as the lariat is a big weapon of his. But let's be honest, this is not the point of the match. No, there was fighting on the floor, there are big moves and very hard strikes were there too. Sasaki got busted open the hard way from a table thrown by Tanaka. So he was bleeding most of the match. What really put this above just another great match was the counter moves. There were a few choice moves that really surprised me. It made this really feel like two of the best that Zero One had to offer. By the end both men were loopy and although only one man got his hand raised, both were winners in my eyes. I would call this a classic and highly recommend it.

Sami Callihan vs Yoshihito Sasaki (wXw 16 Carat Gold 2011 - Night 2) - Man, this looks promising! Sami really looks like he's got a screw loose! He brings so much intensity and bravado to the ring that, I'm invested before the bell rings. A handshake to start the match means Sasaki and Sami are going to be rough. And good gravy, this is violent wonderful wrestling and a near classic bout.