Yuko Miyamoto

Yuko Miyamoto (宮本 裕向, Miyamoto Yūkō; born May 25, 1982) is a Japanese professional wrestler. He originally started his career in Wrestling Marvelous Future in August 2003, but later left the promotion and in 2004, signed with Wrestling of Darkness 666 (Triple Six). Miyamoto has since appeared in Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) and All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW).

Miyamoto is a former one-time DDT Extreme Champion, two-time BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight and a two-time Dove Pro Heavyweight Champion and a one-time CZW Ultraviolent Underground Champion. He is also known as one half of the tag team Yankee Nichokenju (ヤンキー二丁拳銃, Yankī Nichōkenjū; "Yankee Pistols Akimbo") with Isami Kodaka, where they are one-time KO-D Tag Team Champions, three-time BJW Tag Team Champions, one-time Wave Tag Team Champions, two-time All Asia Tag Team Champions and have also won the Dai Nihon Saikyo Tag League three times. In 2016, Miyamto formed a tag team with Harashima, named Smile Yankees (スマイル・ヤンキース, Sumairu yankīsu), where they were one-time KO-D Tag Team Champions.

After entering high school, Yuko Miyamoto joined a bōsōzoku motorcycle gang and within six months became the "suicide squad leader" of a 100-member group. In November 1999, during his sophomore year in high school, he was at the forefront of 50 bōsōzoku groups in the "1999 Ebisu-ko Violence Incident", which was widely covered by the mass media nationwide, and was arrested and detained by the riot police. When he saw his mother crying at the police station where she went to pick up her son, he decided to retire from the motorcycle gang and was expelled from high school. He then worked as a steeplejack.

Miyamoto would find himself as a trainee in WMF (Wrestling Marvelous Future) as he would spare with Mammoth Sasaki. His debut would come on August 2, 2003 against Mineo Fujita in Tokushima, Japan. He would then become aligned with the Wrestling of Darkness 666 promotion, run by The Crazy SKB.

Miyamoto would go on to compete in Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) in which he would begin working in the death match style in 2006, after BJW ran a recruitment for wrestlers to compete in deathmatches. Miyamoto would then go on to win his first ever death match in his career. In the deathmatch circles, Yuko found himself a generational rival in Isami Kodaka.

In 2007 Miyamoto would begin teaming with Takashi Sasaki as the two would remain as a team, off and on, throughout the years to come, they even got close to winning the BJW Saikyo Tag League and becoming the new BJW Tag Team Champions.

On May 4, 2008 Miyamoto defeated the veteran Shadow WX to win the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship. Miyamoto would go on to compete in the United States in 2009 and even go on to capture the CZW Ultraviolent Championship from Nick Gage. Miyamoto would go on to make five successful defenses with the belt defeating Masashi Takeda, Abdullah Kobayashi, Mad Man Pondo, Takashi Sasaki and Isami Kodaka before losing it to Ryuji Ito on May 4, 2010.

In 2010, Miyamoto formed a new tag team named "Deathmatch Nichokenju", later renamed "Yankee Nichokenju", with longtime rival Isami Kodaka.