Toy Kojima

Toy Kojima (小嶋斗偉, Kojima Tōi, born December 8, 1999) is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for DDT Pro-Wrestling, where he is a member of the The37Kamiina stable.

Toy Kojima
Kojima in December 2020
Born (1999-12-08) December 8, 1999
Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
  • Toui Kojima
  • Toi Kojima
  • Toy Kojima
Billed height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Billed weight80 kg (176 lb)
Trained byJun Akiyama[1]
DebutDecember 27, 2020
Japanese name
Kanji小嶋 斗偉
Hiraganaこじま とうい
Katakanaコジマ トウイ
Transcriptions
RomanizationKojima Tōi

Professional wrestling career

DDT Pro-Wrestling (2021–present)

After having fought two exhibition matches in June and December 2020,[2] Kojima made his official debut in DDT Pro-Wrestling, on December 27, in the opening match of the D-Oh Grand Prix 2021 final event, losing to Hideki Okatani.[3]

Kojima's first victory came at Into The Fight 2021, on February 28, 2021, when he and Yusuke Okada defeated the team of Keigo Nakamura and Yuki Ueno.[4] On June 6, at CyberFight Festival 2021, during his match teaming with Yuki Iino against Junta Miyawaki and Kinya Okada, he dislocated his left elbow.[5] He made his return on November 3, at the D-Oh Grand Prix 2021 II event at the Ota City General Gymnasium. At the event, he teamed with Yuya Koroku and defeated Hideki Okatani and Yuki Ishida.[6] On November 6, Kojima joined the The37Kamiina stable.[7]

On June 25, 2022, during the Dramatic Dream Tour in Yokohama, he teamed with his stablemates Mao, Yuki Ueno and Shunma Katsumata, and also Shinya Aoki to defeat the DDT Legend Army (Poison Sawada Julie, Takashi Sasaki, Gentaro, Mikami and Thanomsak Toba) and win his first title, the KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship.[8]

Professional wrestling persona

Kojima's entrance theme in DDT is "All I Want" by The Offspring.

Championships and accomplishments

References
  1. 【DDT】12.27後楽園でのデビューに向け秋山準が小嶋斗偉（とうい）に直接指導！ (in Japanese). Proresu Today. December 22, 2020. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  2. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "Toi Kojima". Cagematch.net. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  3. D王 GRAND PRIX 2021 the FINAL!!. DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  4. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "Toi Kojima". Cagematch.net. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  5. 小嶋斗偉選手、欠場のお知らせ [Notice of absence of Toui Kojima]. DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). June 7, 2021. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  6. D王 GRAND PRIX 2021 II in Ota-ku. DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). November 3, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  7. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "37KAMIINA". Cagematch.net (in German). Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  8. Saalbach, Axel. "DDT Dramatic Dream Tour 2022 in Yokohama". wrestlingdata.com. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
  9. KO-D8人タッグ／KO-D10人タッグ選手権. Syu-Kaku Kombu (in Japanese). Retrieved June 25, 2022.
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