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• Chad Gable Reveals His Mt. Rushmore, Karrion Kross Wants To Be ‘That Guy’ In WWE
During a recent appearance on the “Jay Ferrugia Show,” Chad Gable revealed which wrestlers he would include on his Mount Rushmore, particularly naming one he has faced in the ring. Gable picked Bret Hart, Kenta Kobashi, Jushin Liger, and Kurt Angle. He said, “Bret Hart would be on there. Kenta Kobashi, one of my favorites. […] The post Chad Gable Reveals His Mt. Rushmore, Karrion...2025
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• 5-Star BOOK Reviews: Kenta Kobashi’s Books, Part II

When we last left Kenta Kobashi he had to make the hardest decision of his life thus far: choosing between achieving his dream and helping his family. The two paths were mutually exclusive: following his dream to become a wrestler had no guarantee of success and his beloved mother, who had been working night and […]...2025
• Chad Gable Puts Kenta Kobashi And Kurt Angle On His Wrestling Mount Rushmore
Chad Gable is widely considered one of the best, and most underrated, all-around wrestlers in WWE with many comparing him to Kurt Angle. Angle might not make it on everyone's wrestling Mount Rushmore, but Gable made sure to put the Olympic gold medalist on his. "Bret Hart would be on there. Kenta Kobashi, one of my favorites. As far as a cruiserweight goes, Jushin Liger would be on there. For my...2025
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• 5-Star BOOK Reviews: Kenta Kobashi’s Books, Part I

I’ve got something special lined up for all of you this time around: you’re not getting one Kenta Kobashi review; you’re getting TWO. Kenta Kobashi is quite possibly the internet’s favorite wrestler. He has consistently ranked among the top Japanese wrestlers across many different fansites and forums. He has been featured prominently by various Youtubers […]...2025
• Homicide Says 2025 Will Be His Last Year As An Active Performer
Homicide is wrapping up his career. Speaking to Counted Out, Homicide said 2025 will be his last year, and he's thinking "before March." Homicide reflected on his career, noting that he wrestled Minoru Suzuki, Jerry Lynn, Kurt Angle, and teamed with Jun Akiyama and Kenta Kobashi. "I realized in the end, I think I'm done." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mike And Tyler (@countedout7...2025
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• 5-Star Match Reviews: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi – AJPW January 19, 1995 (30-Year Anniversary Review)

I was originally going to post this yesterday but got sidetracked with other stuff. With lots of great matches happening in past years ending in “5” – 1995, 2005 and 2015 – I figured this would be a good opportunity to revisit some classics from previous years to see how well they hold up. And […]...2025
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• Found Footage Friday: EIGEN SIX MAN~! PARK~! BANDA~! ESTRADA~! REYNA~! MIGHTY ATOM~!
Kenta Kobashi/Mitsuo Momota/Rusher Kimura vs Haruka Eigen/Isamu Teranishi/Motoshi Okuma AJPW 10/20/89MD: All of the Eigen/Okuma stuff is fun but it's especially fun when Rusher's in there. You end up seeing this dynamic so many times that you cherish the familiar and appreciate the variation. This had both being a six man with Teranishi hanging out with the shitheels. I've seen Teranishi on the ot...2024
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• All Time MOTY List Head to Head 2003: Ogawa vs. Kobashi VS. Lesnar vs. Mysterio
Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshinari Ogawa NOAH 11/1/03ER: In 2003. this match was embraced by the people who disliked Yoshinari Ogawa as a Great Ogawa Match. A lot of people actually disliked Ogawa in 2003. Half my lifetime ago, people actually got mad on the internet about Ogawa winning the GHC Heavyweight Title off Akiyama in under 5 minutes. Scott Keith called him Rat Boy and babies cried of cronyism. ...2023
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• Eddie Kingston: If You Pay Up, I'll Be On AEW Collision
Eddie Kingston returned to AEW on the June 14 episode of AEW Dynamite, coming out and immediately going after Claudio Castagnoli. Kingston had been sidelined with a hernia injury and "quit" AEW earlier in the year to take a more active role on ROH TV. AEW debuted its new show, AEW Collision, on June 17. Dynamite and Collision don't have a hard roster split and talent will be appearing on both sh...2023
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• Five Years of Found Footage Friday: EARLIEST KOBASHI~! KAWADA~! A SAWYER~! A MICHAELS~! ARAI~! SATO~!
MD: We started this on May 25, 2018 given the weekly footage we were getting from the WWE Network and the wellspring of handhelds that were popping up from Japan ebay. Somehow, amazingly, we've kept it up for five whole years, at least three matches a week. It went from being New to being Found, but that's more for the alliteration than to smooth the possibility that some of this stuff had been ou...2023
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• Found Footage Friday: HANSEN~! SPIVEY~! KOBASHI~! ACE~! PUTSKI~! FUJI~! KUWAIT~! SMOTHERS~! EATON~! ROCK 'n' ROCKERS~!
Ivan Putski vs. Mr. Fuji WWF (Kuwait) 1982MD: The Rex match might have been technically better and even more primal and straightforward in some ways, but this had astoundingly glorious bullshit. At the two minute mark of the video, Fuji starts to play "hide the salt" and they milk it for another three and a half minutes before locking up, with the fans getting more and more into it as the ref can'...2023
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• Kenta Kobashi Says Meiko Satomura Got WWE Permission To Compete At Fortune Dream 9
Kenta Kobashi discusses Meiko Satomura competing at Fortune Dream 9. Meiko Satomura will compete at Fortune Dream 9, teaming with Takumi Iroha to take on Team 200kg's Chihiro Hashimoto and Yuu. The event is being put on by Kenta Kobashi. Speaking to Tokyo Sports (via MeraWrestling), Kobashi revealed that Satomura got WWE permission to compete at the event. "She is the person who is the most imp...2024
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• ROH On Honor Club (10/3/2024) Results: Mark Briscoe vs Matt Taven, Kenta Kobashi vs Samoa Joe Rewind
Ring of Honor aired the 84th episode of ROH TV on October 3, 2024. The event aired on HonorClub. The show was headlined by Atlantis Jr facing Peter Avalon. The full results are listed below. Refresh the site for the latest updates as the show happens. ROH On Honor Club - Episode 84 (10/3/2024). ROH World Championship: Mark Briscoe (c) vs. Matt Taven. ROH World Six Man Tag Team Championship Provin...2024
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• AEW Dynamite in Quebec City (reports needed), last week’s Dynamite poll results and grade, Kenta Kobashi, Charlie Haas, SoCal Val, Sylvain Grenier, Mike Mondo, Swede Hanson, Kenny Jay
By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor... The post AEW Dynamite in Quebec City (reports needed), last week’s Dynamite poll results and grade, Kenta Kobashi, Charlie Haas, SoCal Val, Sylvain Grenier, Mike Mondo, Swede Hanson, Kenny Jay appeared first on Pro Wrestling Dot Net....2024
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• Wrestling Observer Flashback – 01.13.97

Wrestling Observer Flashback – 01.13.97 And now, the results of the 1996 Wrestling Observer Year End Awards! – Wrestler of the Year was Kenta Kobashi, defeating Shawn Michaels, even though Shawn got more first place votes. – Rey Mysterio Jr. won Most Outstanding, in a blowout over Manami Toyota. – Shawn Michaels was Best Babyface, […]...2023
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• Kenta Kobashi Chops The Sh*t Out Of Australian Wrestler Goran Nikolov In Viral Video
Kenta Kobashi, certified legend. Despite being retired for over ten years at this point, Kenta Kobashi is still considered to be one of the best professional wrestlers of all time. Over his 25 year career, Kobashi spent the majority of his time in Pro Wrestling NOAH and All Japan Pro Wrestling, winning championships such as the GHC World Heavyweight Championship and the Triple Crown Championship. ...2023
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• West Coast Pro Wrestling “West Coast 5” results: Vetter’s review of Titus Alexander vs. Starboy Charlie for the WCPW Title, Takumi Iroha vs. Masha Slamovich for the WCPW Women’s Title, Kenta Kobashi appears
By Chris Vetter, ProWrestling.net Contributor... The post West Coast Pro Wrestling “West Coast 5” results: Vetter’s review of Titus Alexander vs. Starboy Charlie for the WCPW Title, Takumi Iroha vs. Masha Slamovich for the WCPW Women’s Title, Kenta Kobashi appears appeared first on Pro Wrestling Dot Net....2023
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• Minoru Suzuki And Sanshiro Takagi Battle On A Bullet Train For DDT Pro Wrestling
Wrestling on a bullet train. DDT Pro-Wrestling presented Minoru Suzuki vs. Sanshiro Takagi on a Shinkansen (bullet train). The bout featured cameos from Kenta Kobashi and Jun Akiyama along with a lot of hijinks and shenanigans. The finish saw Suzuki hit Takagi with the gotch piledriver. --史上初『新幹線プロレス』現在開催中！高木が呼び込んだ助っ人は正田！ --この模様は9月24日PPV配信！https://t.co/phB9za5Wsq#新幹線プロレス #ddtpro pic.twitter.c...2023
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• Eddie Kingston: If You Pay Up, I'll Be On AEW Collision
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• Tony Schiavone Didn't Know He Was Going To Be Scissored On 6/17 AEW Collision
Tony Schiavone interviewed The Acclaimed (Max Caster, Anthony Bowens, & Billy Gunn) on the premiere episode of AEW Collision. The interview ended with a four-way scissoring as Schiavone joined in on the scissoring festivities, possibly losing his scissor virginity. Speaking on What Happened When, Schiavone reflected on the segment. "That was tremendous. We had talked about it earlier. We talked...2023
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• Darby Allin & Jungle Boy weigh in on ‘Four Pillars of AEW’ label
ShopAEW.com On Sunday (May 28), Darby Allin & Jungle Boy Jack Perry will get in the ring with Sammy Guevara & Maxwell Jacob Friedman for a 4Way with MJF’s AEW World title on the line. It’s not just any 4Way, though. It’s a 4Way with the young men AEW labeled its “Four Young Pillars” back in 2021, after Friedman used the term on Dynamite. “We’re on the precipice of something truly specta...2023
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• 5-Star BOOK Reviews: Kenta Kobashi’s Books, Part II
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• (Almost) 5-Star Match Reviews: Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshinari Ogawa – NOAH Navigating Against The Current 2003
Kenta Kobashi is many longtime wrestling fans’ favorite wrestler. His career is filled with outstanding matches, crazy moves, and insane moments. Even though he spent 99% of his career in his native country he created an interesting legacy for himself. Though he was never as famous, wealthy, or popular as the biggest names in American […]...2024
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• Davey Boy Smith Jr. wins prestigious AJPW championship in Japan

@NatbyNature It is a prosperous time in the busy landscape of professional wrestling. One of the cooler pieces of news from this past weekend was Davey Boy Smith Jr. achieving a childhood goal to win the All Japan Pro Wrestling Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship. Smith challenged champion Yuma Aoyagi at Giant Series 2024 in Sapporo, Japan on November 4. In a hard-fought battle (full mat...2024
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• Found Footage Friday: EIGEN SIX MAN~! PARK~! BANDA~! ESTRADA~! REYNA~! MIGHTY ATOM~!
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• Jay On Wrestling KENTA: I Feel So Lucky That I Could Share The Ring With A Legend Like That
Jay discusses his match with KENTA. At OTT's Ninth Anniversary last year, KENTA came to Dublin for a match with OTT's resident Kingslayer, Jay. The bout was an incredibly physical match between the pair, with KENTA eventually scoring the win with a GTS. After the match, the two men would share a Too Sweet as Jay had earned his respect. While speaking to Fightful's Corey Brennan in a recent intervi...2024
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• All Time MOTY List Head to Head 2003: Ogawa vs. Kobashi VS. Lesnar vs. Mysterio
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• Found Footage Friday: TSURUTA-GUN~! VS~! SUPER~! GENERATION~! ARMY~! BARR~! DANDY~! PANTHER~! CHARLES~! ESTRADA~! RAYO~! HERMANOS DINOMITA~!
Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue/Masa Fuchi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Kenta Kobashi NJPW 3/3/91 MD: Oops, this one's on me guys, sorry. There was a big dump of handhelds that came into the community back in 2018 and it was a lot to parse through. Over the years, we've covered a lot here, and I'd had reached out to all the usual tape trading subjects from years past to see what was really n...2023
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• Five Years of Found Footage Friday: EARLIEST KOBASHI~! KAWADA~! A SAWYER~! A MICHAELS~! ARAI~! SATO~!
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• Darby Allin & Jungle Boy weigh in on ‘Four Pillars of AEW’ label
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• Found Footage Friday: HANSEN~! SPIVEY~! KOBASHI~! ACE~! PUTSKI~! FUJI~! KUWAIT~! SMOTHERS~! EATON~! ROCK 'n' ROCKERS~!
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• Eddie Kingston: If You Pay Up, I'll Be On AEW Collision
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• ABC News Covers Minoru Suzuki’s Match With Sanshiro Takagi On A Bullet Train

Minoru Suzuki‘s battle on a bullet train has gone mainstream. Suzuki faced Sanshiro Takagi in a match for DDT-Pro Wrestling, and the bout was contested on a Shinkansen, also known as a Bullet Train. Kenta Kobashi and Jun Akiyama appeared during the chaotic match, and Suzuki ultimately emerged victorious. ABC News covered the match and […] The post ABC News Covers Minoru Suzuki’s ...2023
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• Tony Schiavone Didn't Know He Was Going To Be Scissored On 6/17 AEW Collision
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• Darby Allin & Jungle Boy weigh in on ‘Four Pillars of AEW’ label
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• Kenta Kobashi Says Meiko Satomura Got WWE Permission To Compete At Fortune Dream 9
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• Minoru Suzuki And Sanshiro Takagi Battle On A Bullet Train For DDT Pro Wrestling
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• Samoa Joe plans to trash the current AEW title belt

AllEliteWrestling.com Samoa Joe looks to be a breath of fresh air in All Elite Wrestling after winning the World Championship from MJF at Worlds End. As the new champ aims to revitalize the focus on AEW’s in-ring action, fans can expect other changes under Joe’s administration. One of the first things to go will be MJF’s custom version of AEW’s top title. Anyone who was a fan of the Big Bu...2023
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• Tony Khan On AEW Roster Split- ‘It’s Not A Bad Thought, I Would & Could Consider’
During the recent media call for AEW WrestleDream 2024, AEW President Tony Khan announced another iconic match for tonight’s episode of ROH TV, stating that it solidified his appreciation for Ring Of Honor. Last week, ROH TV began incorporating classic matches into its schedule, starting with Samoa Joe vs. Kenta Kobashi. This week’s episode will […] The post Tony Khan On AEW Rost...2024
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• Lio Rush vs. Mustafa Ali, David Finlay vs. Kevin Knight, More Added To NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed
Multiple matches have been added to NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed. NJPW announced that Lio Rush will face Mustafa Ali at NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed on November 8th. Plus, David Finlay will clash with Kevin Knight, and Ryohei Oiwa will take on KENTA. NJPW also confirmed that Gabe Kidd will defend the NJPW Strong Openweight Championship against Kosei Fujita. From NJPW: Gabe Kidd will defend th...2024
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• Tony Khan On AEW Roster Split- ‘It’s Not A Bad Thought, I Would & Could Consider’
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• Homicide and Kenta Kobashi vs Samoa Joe & Low-Ki (Unforgettable 2005)
On October 2nd, 2005, legendary wrestler and one of Japan’s pillars in pro wrestling, Kenta Kobashi, stepped in the ring for Ring of Honor for a second time and with Homicide. In his second matchup, Kenta Kobashi would team with Homicide to face Samoa Joe & Low Ki. Each of these men would go on […]...2024
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• WWE Gave Meiko Satomura Permission To Work Fortune Dream 9
Meiko Satomura is scheduled to participate in the “Fortune Dream 9” event on June 12, where she will team up with Takumi Iroha to take on Chihiro Hashimoto and Yuu. In a recent interview with Tokyo Sports, event promoter Kenta Kobashi stated that Satomura received permission from WWE to wrestle at the event. Kobashi mentioned that […] The post WWE Gave Meiko Satomura Permission T...2024
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• Meiko Satomura Got Permission From WWE To Work Kenta Kobashi’s Fortune Dream 9 Show
Meiko Satomura got permission from WWE to work outside of the promotion. While speaking with Tokyo Sports this week, Japanese legend Kenta Kobashi spoke about Satomura getting permission from WWE to compete at the Fortune Dream 9 show. Satomura is scheduled to team with Takumi Iroha to take on Team 200kg’s Chihiro Hashimoto and Yuu […] The post Meiko Satomura Got Permission From WWE To...2024
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• Jay On Wrestling KENTA: I Feel So Lucky That I Could Share The Ring With A Legend Like That
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• Samoa Joe plans to trash the current AEW title belt
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• (Almost) 5-Star Match Reviews: Kenta Kobashi & KENTA vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima – NOAH, June 14, 2008
Pro-Wrestling NOAH’s fall from grace is one of wrestling’s sadder stories. Once a company filled with promise and a bottomless well of fan support, the company enjoyed a terrific two-year peak that turned it into the biggest company in the country. In some ways it was like ROH or TNA during the same period or […]...2023
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• All Time MOTY List Head to Head 2003: Ogawa vs. Kobashi VS. Lesnar vs. Mysterio
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