On the night when Sanshiro Takagi failed to defeat El Generico for the DDT Extreme Championship, the TKG48 leader held a press conference after the event to announce the end to his super group. He hoped that the TKG48 would change the face of Union and the rest of the wrestling world, but the defeat to El Generico made him realise that wasn’t the case. Takagi is still dreaming up plans for the future. On such idea is to create an entirely new brand under the DDT umbrella. But before he could get any further with his thoughts, TKG48 Member #6 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi interrupted the conference. Kikuchi was not happy to hear that the TKG48 was splitting up and he told Takagi he was keeping the TKG48 T-Shirt he was wearing at the time. He challenged Takagi to a match for the 14/12 Union show at Shinjuku FACE.
Takagi formed the TKG48 just under a year ago when he moved as a full time wrestler from DDT to Union. He was inspired by the pop group AKB48 and wanted to create something similar for pro wrestling, a group filled with a mixture of famous names like Genichiro Tenryu and TAKA Michinoku, current stars like Munenori Sawa and Atsushi Aoki, and fresh faced talents like Shigehiro Irie and Takao Soma. The TKG48 caused a number of headaches for the Union Sekigun while also clashing with the SS Susan, a group originally formed by Yoshiaki Yago to fight Takagi’s creation. Takagi, Sawa & Irie all brought in Tag Team gold at one point or another. But the group also suffered some big defeats, such as Takagi losing to Shuji Ishikawa in a Korakuen Hall main event and the failure to sign Jun Akiyama to the group. The group was also active in Freedoms where Takagi went into battle with the Great Kojika and his army of misfits on numerous occasions.
Posted by JamieOD 
