Daniel Makabe

[Grimmas]

NovaCVO said: "Makabe is a self taught backyard wrestler who finally broke it big in 3-2-1 Battle! With his series against top 50 GWE contender Timothy Thatcher. 

His style is based on having emotional, sub 20 minute matches full of joint manipulation and realistic grappling and selling all leading to a highspot that shows the direction of the match. 

He was having a breakout year before the pandemic hit, but in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 he was an obvious top 20 WOTY candidate. His sample size has decreased currently as he is impacted heavily by COVID as he is a Western Canadian while the Eastern US is where the indies are booming."

Recommended Matches

His trilogy vs Thatcher (3-2-1 Battle! Wet Hot Seattle Summer 2017, 2018, & 2019)

vs Jonathan Gresham (3-2-1 Battle!: BattleMania 4/19/2019)

w/ Chris Ridgeway vs Daisuke Ikeda & Yuki Ishikawa (wXw: Inner Circle 9 3/5/2020)

vs Kevin Ku (SUP: Stay Cold 1/5/2020)

[Phil Schneider]

Dan is winding down his career, but doing it super strong, his fifth match with Thatcher at DEAN~! was arguably his strongest, and he has Sabre Jr. this weekend. One of the most thoughtful wrestlers around, always coming up with new interesting twists on his formula.

[NotJayTabb]

Makabe/Thatcher is my working MOTY so far, and he's a guy I've never been disappointed by when I watch his matches. Whether there's enough meat on the bone to justify a top 100 spot is tricky, but he's very much on my "IWTV Search Bar" list of guys I'll be dipping into shows to watch more of for this project.

[Phil Schneider]

The Sabre Jr. match was excellent too, he is really hitting the final stretch of his career hard.