Daisuke Harada

[9.0] "Daisuke Harada is the greatest student to come from Tiger Masks aka Osaka Pro Wrestlings gym. His work! His work is amazing to watch, from fitting popularity with Atsushi Kotoge as Mono No Seishun Tag to a run tagging with Kumano in Pro Wrestling NOAH to being the man in 2014 & for the next 9 years, many tag team, trios and Junior heavyweight championships in his resume until he retired on March 9th 2023."

[10.0] "To me Harada has to go down as one of the absolute greatest junior heavyweight wrestlers in Pro Wrestling NOAH history. I believe he belongs in the same conversation as Kotaro Suzuki, Naomichi Marafuji & KENTA. Just as proficient in singles and tags (Momo No Seishun Tag especially), he has an outstanding body of work highlighted by some of the best junior title matches of the 2010s."

[8.0] "Daisuke Harada is a great Junior, with an amazing moveset and has provided some good matches. He's got a promising future in NOAH, at the age of 34 he keeps improving, love him."

[8.0] "Harada has easily been NOAH's best junior for at least the last two years. He's not even my favourite NOAH junior, but given how frequently he is pushed and how well he grasps those opportunities, he is always the junior that leaves the biggest impression. His offence is fantastic, since he's very speedy yet he never has to dull down his offence in order to produce that level of speed. His strikes are all incredibly sharp and his suplexes are always very impactful, and the technique with which he executes all these attacks is always very clean. Harada also likes to throw in a few occasional high-flying spots, making him out to be a total in-ring all-rounder. He has a bit of a 'grizzled' look that prevents him having a total babyface look, but that isn't ever intended as his character anyways. The real appeal of Harada is seeing him unload a bunch of quick, powerful attacks in rapid succession, and if extended selling sequences were a custom part of his matches then that would sort of dumb down his character and make his eventually impressive offensive displays feel unnatural; so, when you watch Harada, you mostly watch him more so for his pure in-ring work and less so for his character. This isn't to say he doesn't still have good expressions, vocalisations, and the usual other dramatic abilities to make his non-wrestling work engaging, since he definitely knows how to show great fire and determination, but he's not exactly the sort of wrestler to get me emotionally invested in his performances. This isn't a major negative, since his incredibly impressive skills are always more than enough to suck me into his matches, but perhaps my lack of proper connection with his character is what prevents him from being a truly top wrestler in my eyes."

[10.0] "I really hope more people will get to know Harada's work. He's a strong candidate for a title of one of the best Jr. Heavyweights in the world right now and his ongoing title reign in NOAH is filled with incredible matches."

[8.0] "Plays to his strengths. Ground-bound bruiser junior. Plays a nice constant to the more flippy dudes."

[10.0] "a very underrated worker, i hope that with the transitions of Kenoh and Kotoge to the heavyweight divison, he gets more spotlight"

[10.0] "Amazing wrestler that I'm glad to see as the GHC Jr Heavyweight Champion. His matches with Ishimori this year have been some of the best matches I've seen."

[8.0] "Good perfomerm. I think NOAH have made a great choise signing him time ago. He should stay GHC Jr. HW champion for a while.."