Following his tag team win with Yuma Aoyagi over Shuji Ishikawa & Ren Ayabe at All Japan Pro-Wrestling’s #ajpwMANIAx 2023 event, Yoshi Tatsu announced in the ring that he would be leaving AJPW effective immediately as his contract with the company had expired.
Tatsu indicated that the wrestling he wants to do is no longer available within AJPW and he will be going on a journey to find it.
As per Yoshi Tatsu:
This will be the last time Yoshi Tatsu belongs to All Japan Pro-Wrestling. The kind of wrestling I wanted to do when I first came here is no longer here, so I’m going on a journey to pursue it. Thank you very much for the past two years as a freelancer and four years as a member
Yoshi Tatsu (translated with Deepl from Tokyo Sports)
Yoshi Tatsu entered AJPW in 2017 as a freelancer and officially signed with the promotion on January 1st 2020. While with AJPW he has held the AJPW World Tag Team Championship, GAORA TV Championship, AJPW TV Six-Man Tag Team Championship and All Asia Tag Team Championship.
Tatsu spent nearly 7 years with the WWE from 2007 until 2014.
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