Kota Umeda
Japanese professional wrestler
Kota Umeda (梅田公太, Umeda Kōta) is a Japanese professional wrestler best known for his time with the Japanese promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling where he is a former KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champion.
Professional wrestling career
Independent circuit (2014–present)
Umeda is known for seldomly competing for various promotions from the Japanese independent scene. He competed in the 2015 edition of Pro Wrestling Noah's Global Junior Heavyweight Tag League where he teamed up with Kudo and scored a total of two points after going against the teams of El Desperado and Taka Michinoku, Yoshinari Ogawa and Zack Sabre Jr., Masamune and Taiji Ishimori, and Captain Noah and Genba Hirayanagi. On the first night of the AJPW Super Power Series 2015, from May 6, Umeda teamed up with Keisuke Ishii to defeat Xceed (Kotaro Suzuki and Yohei Nakajima).
DDT Pro-Wrestling (2014–2019)
Umeda made his professional wrestling debut in DDT Pro-Wrestling on October 18, 2014, at DDT Dramatic Fanclub Vol. 1, where he gell short to Kazusada Higuchi.
He is known for competing in various of the promotion's signature events such as the DDT Peter Pan, making his first appearance at Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2015 on August 23, where he teamed up with Mao Inoue and Mizuki Watase in a losing effort against Yasu Urano, Akito and Ryota Nakatsu as a result of a Six-man tag team match. At Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2016 on August 28, he teamed up with The Great Kabuki and Yukio Sakaguchi in a losing effort against Sanshiro Takagi, Shiro Koshinaka and Nosawa. At Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2018 on October 21, he teamed up with Kazusada Higuchi and competed in a Gauntlet tag team match won by Shuten-dōji (Kudo and Masahiro Takanashi) and also involving Mike Bailey and Antonio Honda, Renegades (Mizuki Watase and Jason "The Gift" Kincaid), Thanomsak Toba and Keisuke Okuda, and Tomomitsu Matsunaga and Michael Nakazawa. At Wrestle Peter Pan 2019 on July 15, Umeda competed twice, first in a Singles match where he defeated Keigo Nakamura, and secondly in a tag team match where he paired up with Kouki Iwasaki in a losing effort against Kazusada Higuchi and Ryota Nakatsu.
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