Dramatic Dream Team (2000–2006) Being a former
judoka, Hashimoto was trained by
Koichiro Kimura for a
professional wrestling career and made his wrestling debut under the
ring name Tomohiko Hashimoto on April 14, 2000, by defeating
Tom Burton at a JPWA event. He then joined
Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) and received his further training at the DDT dojo, where he debuted at the
Y2D Core event on May 28 by defeating Cannonball Kazu. Later that year, Hashimoto won the
2000 DDT Tag League with his trainer Koichiro Kimura by defeating
Sanshiro Takagi and Exciting Yoshida. The following year, Hashimoto won the Two Day Tag Team Tournament with Sanshiro Takagi. At
Sheep, Hashimoto won his first professional wrestling championship when he and Sanshiro Takagi defeated
Gentaro and Takashi Sasaki to win the
KO-D Tag Team Championship on January 31, 2003. The title was vacated after Hashimoto suffered an injury at
Non-Fix 5/8 on May 8. He returned to DDT, a month later by defeating
Shuji Ishikawa. He teamed with Seiya Morohashi to participate in the
2003 KO-D Tag League for the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship, which they won by defeating Takashi Sasaki and Tanomusaku Toba in the tournament final on September 28. They lost the title to
Hero! and
Kudo on December 29 in a
tables, ladders and chairs match also involving the team of
Mikami and
Onryo. Hashimoto and Morohashi participated in the
2004 KO-D Tag League where they qualified for the semi-final where they lost to Hero! and Kudo. Hashimoto won his third and final KO-D Tag Team Championship with Nobutaka Moribe by defeating Seiya Morohashi and Tanomusaku Toba at ''Don't Try This At Home''. They successfully defended the title against Morohashi and Toba at the company's 8th Anniversary Show, before losing the title back to Morohashi and Toba in a
three-way match also involving Macho Pump and Sho Kanzaki at
Max Bump on May 4. At
Non-Fix Saturday Night In Blue Field, Hashimoto and Muscle Sakai became the #1 contenders for the KO-D Tag Team Championship, earning their title shot against
Kota Ibushi and Daichi Kakimoto at
God Bless DDT, where they lost. After being a mainstay for the promotion since his debut, Hashimoto left DDT in 2006 and became a freelancer.
Freelance (2006–2016) Hashimoto began freelancing for various
independent promotions, most notably
Apache Army. He also founded a
booking agency Team Vader with
Big Van Vader and won their Vader Cup in 2008. He won Apache Army's
WEW World Tag Team Championship five times and the
WEW World Heavyweight Championship once. Hashimoto also made appearances for the
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling spin-off Cho Sento Puroresu FMW, where he teamed with
W*ING Kanemura and Raijin Yaguchi to defeat
Atsushi Onita,
Masato Tanaka and
Hideki Hosaka to win the
FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship on January 24, 2016. They lost the title to Onita, Hosaka and Sean Guinness on February 26.
A-Team and beyond (2017–2025) After Apache Army closed in 2016, Hashimoto won his sixth WEW World Tag Team Championship with
Masashi Takeda by defeating
Tetsuhiro Kuroda and
Tatsuhito Takaiwa at an A-Team show
Take Off on April 16, 2017. They lost the title to Daisaku Shimoda and Blue Shark on August 11. ==Mixed martial arts career==