Drowning

Drowning is a long standing heel faction from All Meta-Human Impact Pro Wrestling. The faction was born on June 17, 2012 as an answer to Shigehiro Matayoshi's AMIP Heavyweight title reign. The original leader; Wataru Nakamura, would become the first member of the faction to win the AMIP Heavyweight Championship. He and Matayoshi would have a back and forth war for the title until the major January 11 show in 2014 where Nakamura would win the belt for the second time, thus prompting Drowning foot soldier Tatsuhiko Kobayashi to attack Nakamura and declare him kicked out of Drowning.

In March of 2015, Nakamura announced his retirement from in-ring competition and announced Kobayashi as the new ace of AMIP.

On April 9, 2015, Drowning would reach the top of the AMIP echelon by gaining all four championships of the promotions after Toru Sakai and Yohei Nosawa captured the AMIP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team titles.

On July 24, 2019, Toru Sakai would win the King of Juniors Global League and announce his departure from Drowning. On July 29, he would attack former stablemate and Jr. Heavyweight champion Takato Matsuura with Manabu Sonoda and Yohei Nosawa to form Hakai-gun.

On February 27, 2020, many of the longtime Drowning stablemates left in a mass, AMIP exodus after pay-out cuts. The faction currently faces it's smallest numbers to date.