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Battlarts
Acronym	BATBAT
Founded	1996
Style	Shoot-style, Professional Wrestling
Headquarters	Japan
Founder(s)	Yuki Ishikawa
Owner(s)	Yuki Ishikawa
Website	http://www.battlarts.asia

Battlarts (格闘探偵団バトラーツ, Kakuto Tantei-dan Batoratsu, Fighting Investigation Team Battlarts) is a professional wrestling promotion based in Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan. The promotion was formed in 1996 by Japanese wrestler Yuki Ishikawa, and featured all of the wrestlers from the Fujiwara Gumi promotion, who had abandoned the promotion in favor of BattlARTS. They ran shows in the Tokyo area regularly from 1998 to 2002.

Even though Battlarts' style was based around shoot-style wrestling, the promotion often cooperated with other federations and styles, including RINGS, Kingdom, Michinoku Pro and Big Japan Pro Wrestling. The biggest co-promotion occurred on October 17, 1999 when Battlarts and The Great Sasuke's Michinoku Pro Wrestling presented Michinoku Pro vs. Battlarts, which was headlined by a tag match pitting the owners of both promotions (Great Sasuke and Ishikawa) against Jinsei Shinzaki and Alexander Otsuka.

The promotion ceased running regular shows and events in 2001 due to "management aggravation". Battlarts eventually began to run monthly shows mainly in Tokyo, Saitama, and Shizuoka Prefecture, often co-promoting with Daisuke Ikeda's FU-TEN, Kiyoshi Tamura's STYLE-E and Satoru Sayama's RJPW promotions. On September 14, 2008 at a press conference with Yuki Ishikawa and Shinjiro Otani BattlArts announced a working agreement with Pro Wrestling ZERO1.

[edit] Alumni

Alexander Otsuka
Minoru Tanaka
Yuki Ishikawa
Daisuke Ikeda
Ikuto Hidaka
Joe Malenko
Carl Malenko (also known as Carl Greco)
TAKA Michinoku
Shoichi Funaki
Katsumi Usuda
Muhammad Yone
Anthony Carelli (AKA Johnny GeoBasco and now Santino Marella in WWE)
The Willow

[edit] Championships and tournaments

Championship:	Current champion(s):	Date won:
UWA World Middleweight Championship	Makoto Oishi	November 2, 2008
Independent Junior Heavyweight Championship	Makoto Oishi	September 14, 2008
FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship	Koji Nakagawa & Gedo	June 13, 1999
BJW World Junior Heavyweight Championship	Homicide	November 15, 2002

Annual BattlARTS Young Generation Battle League

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