No Limit (professional wrestling)

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No Limit
Tag team
MembersTetsuya Naito/Naito
Yujiro/Yujiro Takahashi
Name(s)No Limit
Takahashi-gumi[1]
Billed heightsNaito:
1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2][3]
Takahashi:
1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[4][5]
Combined
billed weight		(as junior heavyweights) 194 kg (428 lb)[2][4]
(as heavyweights) 207 kg (456 lb)[3][5]
DebutFebruary 17, 2008[6]
DisbandedMay 26, 2011[7]
Years active2008–2011

No Limit (ノー・リミット, Nō Rimitto) was the professional wrestling tag team of Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi. The team formed in early 2008, working in their home promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling's (NJPW) junior heavyweight division, where they later in the year captured the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. For most of 2009, through NJPW's foreign relationships, No Limit worked for promotions in the United States and Mexico, most notably Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), before returning to NJPW at the start of 2010. Now working as a heavyweight tag team, the team captured the IWGP Tag Team Championship shortly thereafter, becoming the first tag team to have held both the junior heavyweight and heavyweight versions of NJPW's tag team championship. Naito and Takahashi broke up in May 2011 and afterwards entered a storyline rivalry with each other.

History

Formation (2008)

On February 17, 2008, Legend (

Mitsuhide Hirasawa.[12] No Limit received their shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship on April 13, but were defeated by Legend.[13] Despite the loss, both Naito and Yujiro proclaimed that they were in the title picture to stay.[13] In May, No Limit was put in their own match series, titled "No Limit Generation Smash", but lost all five of their matches.[14]

Junior heavyweight champions (2008–2009)

Tetsuya Naito

On September 6, 2008, No Limit made their debut for the

The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin), representing the American Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion.[25][26]

Foreign excursion (2009)

On February 15, 2009, No Limit defeated Gedo and Jado, Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi and Unione (

The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide).[32] No Limit's final appearance for TNA took place on the May 14 Impact, where they were defeated by Kevin Nash in a two-on-one handicap match.[37]

Yujiro Takahashi

After leaving the United States, No Limit traveled to

El Texano Jr. in a Hair vs. Hair match and were, as a result, forced to have their heads shaved.[46][47] The following day, NJPW announced that No Limit's foreign excursion was over and that they were returning to their home promotion.[48]

Heavyweight champions (2010)

Upon their return to NJPW, Naito and Yujiro transitioned from being junior heavyweights to being heavyweights, citing their successes working with heavyweight wrestlers in Mexico as a reason.

2010 G1 Tag League, where they advanced from their round-robin block with a record of three wins and two losses.[60] On November 7, No Limit defeated Muscle Orchestra (Manabu Nakanishi and Strong Man) in the semifinals to advance to the finals of the tournament, where, later that same day, they were defeated by Nagata and Inoue.[1][61]

Dissolution and aftermath (2011–2013)

In early 2011, Naito began breaking out as a singles wrestler, most notably challenging

Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome,[62][63] which led to a storyline rift between him and Takahashi. However, on March 19, Naito and Takahashi seemingly made peace with each other and agreed to once more go after the IWGP Tag Team Championship,[64] defeating Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Wataru Inoue on April 19 to become the new number one contenders.[65][66] On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2011, No Limit failed in their attempt to recapture the title from Bad Intentions, after which an angered Takahashi stormed backstage, leaving Naito behind him in the ring.[67][68] No Limit was finally broken up on May 26, when Takahashi turned on Naito, attacking him with Chaos stablemates Gedo, Jado and Masato Tanaka. Takahashi declared No Limit dead, before revealing that he was now the fourth member of Gedo, Jado and Tanaka's Chaos sub-group Complete Players.[7]

The two former members of No Limit had their first singles match against each other on June 18 at

2011 G1 Tag League in October, when he and Tomoaki Honma defeated Takahashi and Tanaka, costing them a spot in the semifinals of the tournament.[72] When Naito suffered a legitimate knee injury in mid-2012, NJPW introduced a storyline, where Takahashi defeated Naito on October 8 at King of Pro-Wrestling via referee stoppage, after causing further damage to his knee.[73][74] In storyline, Takahashi was blamed for Naito requiring surgery to his knee.[75] Naito returned from his injury on June 22, 2013, defeating Takahashi in a grudge match at Dominion 6.22.[76][77] Afterwards, Naito's singles career took off with him first winning the 2013 G1 Climax and then defeating Masato Tanaka for the NEVER Openweight Championship.[78][79][80] On October 14 at King of Pro-Wrestling, Naito successfully defended not only his title, but also his status as the number one contender to the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Takahashi.[81][82]
Since then Naito and Takahashi have remained largely separated from one another, though their rivalry is sporadically brought up.

Championships and accomplishments

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