{"id":31472,"date":"2018-11-24T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T20:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=31472"},"modified":"2018-11-24T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T20:02:43","slug":"japanese-star-fujita-jr-hayato-announces-hes-battling-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/11\/24\/japanese-star-fujita-jr-hayato-announces-hes-battling-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Star Fujita &#8220;Jr.&#8221; Hayato Announces He&#8217;s Battling Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/10\/22\/breaking-roman-reigns-leukaemia-returns-relinquishes-universal-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Roman Reigns<\/strong> isn&#8217;t the only wrestler currently battling cancer<\/a>. Tonight <strong>Michinoku Pro<\/strong> star <strong>Fujita &#8220;Jr.&#8221; Hayato<\/strong> returned to the ring where he announced he was battling cancer himself after a tumor on his spine turned out to be malignant.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/KojimasBread\/status\/1066286104649838593<\/p>\n<p>An amateur wrestler since he was 8 years old, Fujita was trained by his father &#8211; who was also a pro wrestler &#8211; and MMA\/UFC star\u00a0<b>Norifumi &#8220;Kid&#8221; Yamamoto<\/b>, who recently passed away this September from his own battles with stomach cancer. In 2004, he was signed to Michinoku Pro, the company owned by The Great Susake and Jinsei Shinzaki (aka WWE Superstar Hakushi), with Shinzaki completing his training.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UWAI STATION - Bryan Danielson vs Fujita &quot;Jr&quot; Hayato\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vnmjgvqs868?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fujita would go on to be a Michinoku Pro star for the next 13 years, as a 2x MPW Tohoku Junior Heavyweight Champion, as well as tag team champion with <strong>Ikuto Hidaka<\/strong> in <strong>The Dangan Yankees<\/strong>. He also made numerous appearances for <strong>ZERO1<\/strong> and <strong>New Japan Pro Wrestling<\/strong>, where he competed in the 2010 and 2011 <em><strong>NJPW Best of the Super Juniors<\/strong><\/em> tournaments, as well as the 2009 <strong>Super J Cup<\/strong> and 2010 and 2011 <em><strong>Super Junior Tag Leagues<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michi Monthly Match #18: Fujita &quot;Jr.&quot; Hayato vs Manjimaru\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zdH8hqIoOZ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a rough past year for Fujita, who has been out of action since April of 2017 due to a knee injury. We wish Fujita all the best in a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sad to hear about Hayato Jr, I will pray he overcomes this cancer. I\u2019ve always been a fan of his style and developed a friendship while in japan. Stay strong. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GodBless?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GodBless<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FujitaJrHayato?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FujitaJrHayato<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H2RPbG4RFL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/H2RPbG4RFL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michin \ubbf8\uce5c (@MiaYim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiaYim\/status\/1066391906597445632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Roman Reigns isn&#8217;t the only wrestler currently battling cancer. Tonight Michinoku Pro star Fujita &#8220;Jr.&#8221; Hayato returned to the ring where he announced he was battling cancer himself after a tumor on his spine turned out to be malignant. https:\/\/twitter.com\/KojimasBread\/status\/1066286104649838593 An amateur wrestler since he was 8 years old, Fujita was trained by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":31477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[3923,2946],"class_list":["post-31472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","tag-fujita-jr-hayato","tag-michinoku-pro"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}