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Company: Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS
Show Title: Tokyo Death Match Carnival 2021 Vol. 2
Match: Violento Jack vs Masashi Takeda
Stakes: King of FREEDOM World Championship
Length: 20 Minutes
Production Date: August 30, 2021
Air Date: September 5, 2021
The only way to successfully scale a mountain is to keep pushing all your momentum forward. On July 5, 2021 Violento Jack ended the record-breaking 643 day reign of Toru Sugiura’s inaugural run as the King of FREEDOM Champion. Jack was Sugiura’s first defense, Christmas Day 2019 and they met again nine defenses later where Jack was able to overcome the loss.
Violento Jack isn’t a stranger to being King of FREEDOM Champion. This win over Sugiura marked his third time holding the title. What would be new for Jack is defeating Masashi Takeda. As it stands heading into the match, Takeda holds a 2-0 record over Jack (2015 & 2018) and in both cases for the title.
Jack’s journey in FREEDOMS began in 2012 when he and fellow Mexican death match wrestler, Aeroboy, flew in to compete against Takeda & Jun Kasai at Blood X’Mas. Liking what they saw, FREEDOMS brought him back the following year to compete in a tournament which resulted in a semifinal loss to Kasai.
Jack wouldn’t return to FREEDOMS in 2014 but in that time he became the DTU Extreme Champion where he went on a 537 day reign in his home promotion back in Mexico. The reign continued into the following year where he again made an appearance in FREEDOMS. Bringing along Ciclope this time, the duo again lost to Takeda & Kasai but the tour ended with the DTU Extreme Champion taking on and eventually losing to the King of FREEDOM Champion, Masashi Takeda.
After an eleven month wait for another FREEDOMS appearance, Jack returned in 2016 and made an immediate splash by defeating Kasai for the King of FREEDOM Championship. He then spent the rest of the year in Japan, defending the title against FREEDOMS owner, Takashi Sasaki, and challenging for the tag team title alongside yet another Mexican partner, Miedo Extremo.
The reign came to an end after only one defense when Jack was defeated by Daisuke Masaoka. Under Masaoka’s reign is when the title became the King of FREEDOM World Championship thanks to a defense being held in DTU. Jack spent seven straight months in Japan that year and wound up ending Masaoka’s reign.
Earning two defenses during his second reign, once against Kasai and the second in DTU against Kenji Fukimoto, it was Masashi Takeda who would again wind up on the winning side, capturing the title from Jack. Spending the rest of the year in Japan, Jack would focus his attention to the tag titles where he’d align with his rival Masaoka to capture the titles over Toru Sugiura & Mammoth Sasaki.
Both reigns would get cut short due to Masaoka injuries so Jack would find a new teammate in Mammoth Sasaki, the man he ended the record 427-day reign against and the new duo went on a 752-day reign themselves. With the tag titles stealing his attention, Jack had only challenged for the King of FREEDOM Championship once since losing to Takeda in May of 2018.
After eventually losing the tag team titles, Jack regained his focus on the King of FREEDOM Championship by going after Sugiura and recapturing the title. His first reign in 2016 ended after only one defense. The second in 2018 improved to two. Now he faces off with Masashi Takeda. The man who ended his second reign, holds a 2-0 record over Jack and has the opportunity to make this Jack’s shortest reign to date. Jack is a man who’s ascended the FREEDOMS mountain at a steady pace but in order to continue his way forward he must defeat Takeda.
