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2[[caption-width-right:200:Let's mix it up.]]
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4->''"...It was the quintessential ZERO-ONE card offering, if nothing else, variety; junior heavyweights and super heavyweights, flying wrestlers and power wrestlers, 80s tribute gimmicks and 80s superstars, performers old and young, fat and thin, short and tall, good and bad. Wrestling/NaoyaOgawa defeating [[Wrestling/SylvesterTerkay The Predator]] in their first ever cage match highlighted the show."''
5-->--'''Ichiban Puroresu''' about [[http://www.ichibanpuroresu.com/review/review066.html 2002 in Japanese professional wrestling]]
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7Pro Wrestling [=ZERO1=] (formerly called Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE and Pro Wrestling [=ZERO1=]-MAX) is a UsefulNotes/ProfessionalWrestling company founded in 2001 by Wrestling/ShinyaHashimoto. Under his hand, ZERO-ONE was a mainstay in the puroresu scene and a direct rival to the similarly founded Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH, but after Hashimoto left the promotion in 2004, the company began a gradual decline and ended up turning into basically a large-sized indy, the position it occupies today.
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9Originally conceived by Hashimoto as a sub-company within Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, he launched it as an independent promotion in January 2001 after leaving NJPW by booking disagreements. Helped by native loyalists, various friends and foreign allies, Hashimoto led it to success until 2004, year in which the promotion started an interesting crossover with Dream Stage Entertainment to form the sports entertainment-oriented Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE. However, November of that year also saw Hashimoto leaving ZERO-ONE due to economic mismanagement, which caused the promotion to fold and be re-opened by the rest of the staff under the name [=ZERO1=]-Max. The company continued its co-promotion with HUSTLE until the latter's end in 2009, year in which it got renamed again, now as [=ZERO1=]. A couple years later, the late Shinya's son Daichi Hashimoto would debut, though his short tenure in the company would only be the first of several failed attempts to give it its former status.
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11Unlike most puroresu companies, ZERO-ONE stands up for its cosmopolitism and openness. It maintained a memorable working agreement with United States promotion Ultimate Pro Wrestling in the TurnOfTheMillennium, later became the Mecca of the Japanese independent circuit, and still frequently books freelancers and little known foreign wrestlers. Also, following its late creator's interest in martial arts, it used to feature a lot of shoot-style and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts talents, and was the platform for the relaunch of the cult promotion Wrestling/{{Battlarts}}. Currently, the company focuses mostly on its junior heavyweight division and its batch of legends and technical luminaries, but it has not totally cleared off its status as the BazaarOfTheBizarre of the wrestling world.
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16!!! Tropes associated with Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE:
17* AbortedArc:
18** Before Shinya Hashimoto's death, he had planned to return to New Japan for a reunion of the Three Musketers and perhaps to work out the relaionships between NJPW and ZERO-ONE, but it all ended with his demise.
19** UEXILE took the trouble to redebut under his real name with the goal of being a [=ZERO1=] regular, but he vanished shortly after.
20** After the pro wrestling debut of Daichi Hashimoto in 2011, famous kickboxer Yuichiro Nagashima came to announce he was becoming a wrestler too and that he would be Daichi's [[TheRival rival]], which seemed to foretell a lifelong feud full of great wars and five star matches like the wrestlers of yore. Then it all ended abruptly when, after literally two matches for [=ZERO1=], Nagashima left for Inoki Genome Federation and dropped his plans of wrestling full time. Ironically, Daichi also jumped to IGF three years later, but by then Nagashima had abandoned pro wrestling altogether and had returned to kickboxing.
21* {{Acrofatic}}:
22** Matt Ghaffari looked slow and clumsy, but his cartwheels and jumps said otherwise.
23** A minor example is KAMIKAZE, whose stout build doesn't stop him from being a moonsault expert.
24* AppealToForce: Through winning pro wrestling matches, Takao Omori has proven himself to be the best fisherman in the world.
25* ArcNumber: Take a wild guess. The original plan was a spinoff called New Japan 00 or New Japan ZERO, which lasted a year before making a clean break as ZERO-ONE.
26* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Given the plenty of rising young wrestlers and proud martial artists in [=ZERO1=], there had been many of them in it through its history. Naoya Ogawa and Hayato Fujita are the main examples.
27* TheAce: Munenori Sawa had individual trouble, but he and Ikuto Hidaka's 766 day reign as NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Champions saw teams brought in from Wrestling/DragonGate and Wrestling/{{Chikara}} just put an end to them.
28* TheArtifact: The entire company counts as one. It was created by Shinya Hashimoto as his personal fed to rebuild his popularity after his NJPW late career fiasco, but after his death, the people left in charge had clearly no idea about what they should do with the promotion, and it took some years for them to come up with it.
29* AuthorAvatar: Besides Shinya Hashimoto, Nanae Takahashi was largely responsible for the SUN offshoot.
30* AxCrazy: The Predator. And to make things worse he was pretty big too...
31* BashBrothers: OH Gun (Shinya Hashimoto and Naoya Ogawa).
32* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: As he used to do before his encounter with Naoya Ogawa, Hashimoto faced many shootfighters in WorkedShoot matches and defeat them.
33* BigFun: The judoka turned pro wrestler turned sumo wrestler turned pro wrestler [=Y2P=]–160 kg. Shinya himself wasn't the most cut or slim guy and wasn't completely above gags and such either.
34* BigShutUp: Wrestling/AJStyles finds your voices annoying.
35* CostumePorn: The★ZEST and NOIZ. Ikuto Hidaka also likes to wear cool attires and masks during his entrance.
36* {{Crossover}}: The Differ Cup Scramble Tag Team Tournament, hosted by Wrestling/{{D|ramatic Dream Team}}DT, IWA Japan, Wrestling/MichinokuProWrestling, Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH and Pro Wrestling ZERO 1.
37* DelinquentHair: Minoru Fujita, later adopted by his partner Takuya Sugawara.
38* DistaffCounterpart: Pro Wrestling SUN was a brand concept as [=ZERO1=]'s female counterpart, but it didn't thrive.
39* DressedToKill: LEONA, like his father Tatsumi Fujinami, is frequently seen in dress clothes but he can fight quite well.
40* DrillSergeantNasty: Tom Howard.
41* EasilyDistractedReferee: Simply Luscious, though she does it on purpose.
42* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Tom Howard's gimmick was that of a Green Berets hand-to-hand instructor.
43* {{Engrish}}: "Greatest Headbutt of the World" Fugofugo Yumeji.
44* EscalatingBrawl: Thoroughly during an event in March 2003 in midst of Hashimoto and Otani's feud. Otani started attacking Hashimoto, but then Satoshi Kojima did a VillainousRescue and attacked Otani. Then Yoshihiro Takayama came out and attacked Hashimoto and Kojima. Then The Predator also came and attacked Takayama. Then Naoya Ogawa came to save Hashimoto and attacked Takayama as well. Then Matt Ghaffari came and attacked... well, at this point, everybody was attacking everybody.
45* ForeignWrestlingHeel: The Ultimate Pro Wrestling members served esentially as old-school American heels.
46* FullyAbsorbedFinale: Many of the Wrestling/{{A|mericanWrestlingAssociation}}WASuperstars Of Wrestling Title belts ended up in [=ZERO1=]'s possession after the attempted revival of the AWA by former employees in the 50 states and Canada with SOW [[ScrewedByTheLawyers were crushed]].
47* GameBreakingInjury: Perennial rookie Shota Takanishi saw his career ended due to a neck unjury. A more brutal example was the injury which retired and ''almost killed'' Naohiro Hoshikawa.
48* GorgeousGaijin: The ladies took a real liking to [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Leondard Spanky]], so the promoters capitalized.
49* TheGiant: Nathan Jones, The Predator, King Dabada, and more recently, Akebono. Kohei Sato is considered an example for Japanese standards.
50* HeirToTheDojo: Shinya Hashimoto's son Daichi debuted in 2011 and was considered his sucessor as the crown jewel of the company, but his departure in 2014 subverted this.
51* HumiliatingWager
52** Tracy Taylor, Saki Maemura and "[[Wrestling/AjaKong Hula Kong]]" were all forced to dance in coconut bikinis at some point during the Hawai'i Championship Wrestling Tour
53** Osamu Namiguchi and Hikaru lost a loser has to eat Nagano food tag team match.
54* {{Keet}}: Wataru Sakata. His smile was just infectious.
55* LicensedGame: The ''King Of Colosseum'' series has pulled from Zero 1 for its rosters.
56* LightningBruiser: Many of the [=ZERO1=] wrestlers qualify.
57* MartialArtsHeadband: Shinya Hashimoto and his son.
58* MundaneMadeAwesome: Osamu Namiguchi's Dream Catch finishing move, a top rope victory roll.
59* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: A recurrent motif.
60* TheNapoleon: Wrestling/LowKi automatically assumed he was being made fun of for size, or lack there of.
61* NewYearHasCome: Signified by the ''[=ZERO1=] Wrestler's 8 - New Year Gigs'' event
62* OldMaster: Kazuhiko Ogasawara, who was an old Kyokushin UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} master.
63* PowerStable: Far East Connection, Sword Army, Axe Army...
64* StartMyOwn: From New Japan, though it was originally going to be done with their involvement.
65* SurferDude: Sandy Beach, named both for surfing and his appearance...
66* SwordLimbo: Toshie Uematsu has made use of matrix dodges.
67* TheArtifact: ZERO-ONE formerly figured as a member of Wrestling/{{National Wrestling Alliance}}, the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance (which includes Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH, Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam amongst its members) and the World Wrestling League. As such, "Zero-1" or some variation of occasionally pops up in promotions that seem entirely unrelated to it, such as NWA Midwest.
68* TheMovie: ''Oh! My Zombie Mermaid[[CompletelyDifferentTitle Ah! House Collapses]]'', though it's less about [=ZERO1=] itself as it is about a rival promoter trying to destroy a CaptainErsatz of Shinya Hashimoto.
69* ThoseTwoGuys: Ikuto Hidaka tends to be one of those with his many tag team partners, and apparently was it in real life with Takafumi Ito back when they trained together under Masanobu Kurisu.
70* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: SMASH served as neutral ground for as showdown between Zero-1 and Fight Club Finland.
71* WaifFu: During a 3 on 3 tag match at ''[=ZERO1=] Dream Series ~ Growth'' Momono Mio managed to get the win for her team by putting Hartley Jackson in a knee lock. Now Jackson was the smallest man on his team, but still way bigger than Momono, the smallest woman on hers.
72* WholesomeCrossDresser: Lingerie Mutoh, Munenori Sawa's parody of Keiji Mutoh's [[Wrestling/TheGreatMuta pre Great Muta gimmicks]].
73* WildSamoan: Several came from UPW, such as King Dabada and even Wrestling/SamoaJoe.
74* WorkedShoot: Especially back in the 2000s when Hashimoto was still alive.
75* WorthyOpponent: The relationship between Ikuto Hidaka and Masaaki Mochizuki.
76* WrestlingMonster: Shockwave The Robot (and many others).
77* YouAndWhatArmy: Keiji Muto and Shinya Hashimoto got a memorable one each during the feud between AJPW and ZERO-ONE.
78-->''After intruding on the ring.''
79-->'''Muto:''' Hashimoto! ZERO-ONE! Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling and Keiji Muto call you out. We declare all out war!
80-->'''Hashimoto:''' We're right here, so come on! You and All Japan are too disconnected from each other to do anything. Come on!
81-->'''Muto:''' So you think All Japan is disconnected? They're here somewhere. I brought my whole family with me today.\
82''Almost the entire AJPW roster, led by Masanobu Fuchi, comes behind him.''
83-->'''Fuchi:''' All Japan is one. As a major organization, ZERO-ONE will be crushed. Hashimoto, what do you have to say?
84-->'''Hashimoto:''' Everybody here, come out! We'll show those guys what we can do.\
85''The ZERO-ONE roster comes with Hashimoto.''
86-->''Cue brawl.''

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