Hiroyoshi Yamamoto is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, and is better known by his ring name Hiroyoshi Tenzan . With Satoshi Kojima, in 2008, they won the World's Strongest Tag Determination League in All Japan Pro Wrestling and the G1 Tag League in NJPW, becoming the only tag team which has done both. He is a four-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion and a record twelve-time IWGP Tag Team Champion. He is also a former National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Champion.
Tenzan in February 2016
Tenzan in June 2014.
Tenzan (left) and Satoshi Kojima as the IWGP Tag Team Champions in February 2012.
Tenzan (left) and Satoshi Kojima as the NWA World Tag Team Champions in June 2014.
Satoshi Kojima is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, but he makes appearances for Pro Wrestling Noah, All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) and Major League Wrestling (MLW), where he is the current MLW World Heavyweight Champion in his second reign and one-half of the current MLW World Tag Team Champions in his first reign. Considered to be one of the greatest Japanese professional wrestlers of the 21st century and of all-time, he was the first wrestler to hold NJPW's IWGP Heavyweight Championship and AJPW's Triple Crown Championship simultaneously, the fourth to win the three major heavyweight championships in Japan with the Triple Crown Heavyweight, IWGP Heavyweight, and Noah's GHC Heavyweight Championship, and one of three wrestlers to hold the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, Triple Crown Championship, and NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship, and is an overall eight-time world champion in major professional wrestling promotions.
Kojima in January 2023
Kojima in August 2011
Kojima in November 2011
Kojima is a two-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion...