For the video game designer, see Jun Akiyama (video game designer).
Jun Akiyama
Akiyama in October 2019
Born
(1969-10-09) October 9, 1969 (age 54)[1] Izumi, Osaka, Japan[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
AJ Ranger White[2] Jun Akiyama[3] Mr. Christmas[4] Shura Uesugi Kenshin[5] White Santa
Billed height
1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Billed weight
110 kg (243 lb)[1]
Debut
September 17, 1992[1]
Jun Akiyama (秋山 潤, Akiyama Jun, ring name: 秋山 準) (born October 9, 1969) is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to DDT Pro-Wrestling, where he is a former KO-D Openweight Champion. He is best known for his time working for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he was the president, representative director, co-head booker, and an in-ring performer. In AJPW, he is a former two-time Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, while also being a six-time overall professional wrestling world champion.[6]
Akiyama is noted for his serious in-ring style and demeanor, innovating the Blue Thunder Driver and the wrist–clutch exploder suplex maneuvers. Considered an outstanding tag team wrestler, Akiyama is a three-time winner of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Tag Team of the Year award.
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^Judgement2017～DDT旗揚げ20周年記念大会～. DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-03-20.
^Meltzer, Dave (September 16, 2013). "Sep 16 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Mayweather vs. Canello hype, Night of Champions preview, Olympic Wrestling, CMLL 80th Aniversario preview, tons more!". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California: 31. ISSN 1083-9593. Jun Akiyama and Masa Fuchi have taken over as bookers for this group.
JunAkiyama (秋山 潤, AkiyamaJun, ring name: 秋山 準) (born October 9, 1969) is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to DDT Pro-Wrestling, where he is a...
part of 1996 the company elevated JunAkiyama by making him Misawa's main tag partner. While this was good for Akiyama and lead to some fresh tag matches...
Gary Albright, Toshiaki Kawada, Mike Barton (Bart Gunn), Akira Taue and JunAkiyama, leading to perhaps AJPW's most profitable period in the 1990s. In 1999...
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Budokan. He and Kawada would later win the 1992 WSTDL, defeating Taue and JunAkiyama (who had only debuted that September) on December 4 and earning their...
against Akiyama and Misawa. However, when Kenta Kobashi returned, it would be in the same match, teaming with Yoshihiro Takayama to take on JunAkiyama and...
Misawa and JunAkiyama vs. The Holy Demon Army (Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue) AJPW Super Power Series Night 5 5 78 54 June 7, 1996 JunAkiyama and Mitsuharu...
final. The 1993 tournament was also noteworthy for introducing rookie JunAkiyama. In 1994, Toshiaki Kawada became the first of the "young lions" to win...
fighting against Akiyama and whatever Japanese partner he had at the moment. Vader and Scorpio won the grudge feud by defeating JunAkiyama and Akitoshi Saito...
white leather strap, the championship was primarily associated with JunAkiyama during it original run. Most matches contested for the championship were...
Victory GHC tour. The tour was held from March 18 through April 15, 2001. † Akiyama and Misawa were originally both counted out, but the match was restarted...
Kea and Jinsei Shinzaki; Hase and Muto reformed their team to battle JunAkiyama and Yuji Nagata on October 8, the rising stars of their respective promotions...
Heavyweight Championship, which he held into the new year before losing it to JunAkiyama on January 22, 2006. On June 27, 2009, following the June 13 death of...
participants. JunAkiyama and Yuji Hino took part in their first tournament. Konosuke Takeshita became a two-time winner and went on to defeat JunAkiyama at Wrestle...
mid-card and only able to get some recognition in 1995, when he and JunAkiyama captured the All Asia Tag Team Championship. In 1998, he and newcomer...
Championship for the second time. He would go on to lose the title to JunAkiyama on October 23, 2011. In later 2012, Suwama formed the Last Revolution...
results" (in German). PuroLove.com. Retrieved 2010-05-03. "All Japan (Akiyama/Funaki) for August 26, 2012". Puroresu Spirit. 2012-08-26. Retrieved 2012-08-26...
tag team composed of Japanese professional wrestlers JunAkiyama and Takao Omori. Although Akiyama and Omori have been using the team name since 2013,...
greatest wrestlers of all time. His matches against Mitsuharu Misawa, JunAkiyama, and Kenta Kobashi in the 1990s are argued by many fans and experts in...
victory against Kazusada Higuchi and Yukio Naya. In the eighth bout, JunAkiyama, Danshoku Dino and Makoto Oishi defeated Kazuki Hirata, Naruki Doi and...
Noah's JunAkiyama, who had won the Triple Crown Championship from Suwama. Muto reunited with Kenta Kobashi at All Together to defeat Akiyama and Takao...
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