Rūkā Ōtā

Ōta started as a young lion in SJ-WSP when he was only 23 years old. Trained by Akira Araki, young Rūkā debuted alongside his tag team partner and childhood friend Aruto Rakami. The two of them were jabronis for a big part of their run in SJ during the late 90's, but as their popularity began to rise, they started winning matches both as a team and as solo competitors. It was about the same time Idol Takashi, the owner and founder of SJWSP, had major issues with the Yakuza over huge debts.

As Aruto began to adopt a more hardcore style and kept training with the Underground King Araki, Ōtā wanted to improve his skills and join the new "puro" wave of Japanese wrestlers that would go on to revolutionize the art of pro ice tea wrestling. Tensions began to rise between the former friends who started to argue on a regular basis and, when Rūkā told Aruto and Akira that he will be joining the Crott Wrestling Camp in the US, hell broke loose. Akira Araki renegated him as a student and, to this day, he refuses to admit Ōtā was one of his students. Initially, Aruto was also furious over Ōtā's decission, as their team was slowly joining the Upper Mid-Card, but he knew their bond is strong and, if done carefully, he could convince Rūkā to remain in Japan.

Days before Ōta's departure to the US, the friends met in a Tokyo bar, where Aruto tried his best to change Rūkā's mind. But his decission was already made and nothing was gonna stop him from joining the Crott Camp. As both of them got really drunk on Sake, a fight errupted and soon beer bottles were being thrown left and right across the bar. The brawl was quickly taken outside the futuristic Japanese pub, where a Yakuza partol was looking to get their money back from Idol Takashi, one way or the other. A black Yakuza car charged at full speed towards the two wrestlers, and, in a split second, Aruto Rakami pushed Rùkā away, saving his life at the expense of his own.

Rūkā never fully recovered from this events. He never joined the Crott Camp. He never spoke with either Araki or Takashi again. He wanted to leave wrestling altogether but ultimately decided he would go on, as a tribute to his fallen friend. Ōta followed Aruto's wish of becoming a deathmatch wrestler and began performing gruesome acts around the Japanese indy promotions. He became an alcoholic and his everyday meal of choice was Sake. His wrestling style became a deathwish and, with every deathmatch, more and more scars tattooed his resilient body.

In the end, Ōta finally made the move to the United States and began fighting for various hardcore promotions around the country. Alcohol began to have little to no effect on him so he moved on to another addiction of choice. The daredevil would now ease his pain through meth, a drug that almost ruined him on numerous occassions.

His story, however, gets better. He became sober again and found a stable working place in Neon Dust's EACW. There he gained a cult following and he is now one of, if not the most notorious hardcore/deathmatch wrestler across the world. Luckily, he also decided to stay away from Peruan Beans. Anyway, if you're looking for someone that gives a shit, Ōta is not your guy. He IS the shits.

Theme Song: Seether ~ Careless Whisper