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Koji Kanemoto

Title History

  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight title defeating Norio Honaga (February 19, 1995);
  • UWA (Mexico) World Welterweight title defeating Shinjiro Ohtani (April 16, 1995);
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight title defeating Sabu (June 14, 1995);
  • UWA (Mexico) World Junior Light Heavyweight title defeating El Samuari (March 17, 1996);
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight title defeating Jushin Liger (March 17, 1999);
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team titles w/Minoru Tanaka defeating Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Shinjiro Ohtani (June 25, 2000);
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight title defeating Minoru Tanaka (July 19, 2002);
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team titles w/Jushin Liger defeating Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (January 26, 2003);
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team titles w/Wataru Inoue defeating Gedo & Jado (March 4, 2005);
  • AJPW All Asia tag team titles w Minoru Tanaka defeating Hikaru Sato & Hiroshi Yamato (February 10, 2013);
  • 4FW junior heavyweight title defeating Owen Phoenix (January 16, 2015);

Career Highlights

  • Koji Kanemoto is known as the stiffest wrestler in the New Japan Junior Heavyweight division..
  • Koji Kanemoto uses many stiff kicks, hard chops and painful submission holds..
  • Koji Kanemoto wrestled under a mask as the third version of the Tiger Mask gimmick until being unmasked after a match with Liger..
  • October 14, 2002 – NJPW: Koji Kanemoto defeated Heat (Minoru Tanaka) to retain the IWGP Jr Heavyweight title..
  • October 26, 2002 – NJPW: Koji Kanemoto defeated Bas Rutten to retain the IWGP Jr Heavyweight title..
  • November 13, 2004–New Japan: Heat defeated Koji Kanemoto to retain the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight title..
  • January 4, 2005–New Japan Pro Wrestling: Jushin Liger defeated Koji Kanemoto..
  • May 14, 2005–NJPW: Hirooki Goto & Minoru (Tanaka) defeated Koji Kanemoto & Wataru Inoue to win IWGP Jr. Tag Team titles..
  • October 8, 2005–New Japan PPV: Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Yoshito Sasaki (Zero-One Max) beat Koji Kanemoto & Wataru Inoue..
  • November 23, 2005–NJPW: Jushin Thunder Liger & Minoru Tanaka defeated Koji Kanemoto & Tiger Mask..
  • November 26, 2005–NJPW: Koji Kamemoto & Tiger Mask & Akiya Anzawa beat Jushin Thunder Liger & Minoru Tanaka & El Samurai..
  • November 27, 2005–NJPW: Koji Kanemoto defeated Masahito Kakihara..
  • November 30, 2005–NJPW: Koji Kanemoto & Masayuki Naruse defeated Minoru Tanaka & Akiya Anzawa
  • December 3 2005–NJPW: Koji Kanemoto & Tiger Mask IV defeated Jushin Thunder Liger & Minoru Tanaka..
  • December 4, 2005–NJPW: Jado & Gedo & Hirooki Goto beat Koji Kanemoto & Tiger Mask IV & Ryusuke Taguchi..
  • December 6, 2005–NJPW: Koji Kanemoto & Tiger Mask IV defeated Safari & Sangre Azteca..
  • December 7, 2005–NJPW: Safari & Sangre Azteca defeated Koji Kanemoto & Akiya Anzawa..
  • December 8, 2005–NJPW: Jushin Liger/Minoru Tanaka/Masayuki Naruse beat Koji Kanemoto/Tiger Mask/Akiya Anzawa..
  • December 9, 2005–NJPW: Jado & Gedo defeated Koji Kanemoto & El Samurai..
  • December 10, 2005–NJPW: Koji Kanemoto defeated Minoru Tanaka..
  • December 11, 2005–NJPW: Koji Kanemoto defeated Tiger Mask IV..
  • June 13, 2009: Koji Kanemoto defeated Prince Devitt in the finals of the Best of the Super Junior tournament..
  • December 11, 2012–AJPW: Hiroshi Yamato defeated Koji Kanemoto to retain the World junior heavyweight title.
  • December 15, 2012–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto & Masakatsu Funaki) defeated Stack Of Arms (Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka).
  • January 2, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka defeated Andy Wu & Osamu Nishimura.
  • January 3, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo) to retain the All Asia tag team titles.
  • January 12, 2013–AJPW: Koji Kanemoto defeated MAZADA.
  • January 13, 2013–AJPW: Koji Kanemoto defeated Hikaru Sato.
  • January 14, 2013–AJPW: Akebono & Hiroshi Yamato defeated Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto & Masakatsu Funaki).
  • January 17, 2013–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Jonetsu Hentai Baka (Hikaru Sato & Hiroshi Yamato) & Akebono.
  • January 19, 2013–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka) defeated SMOP (Akebono & Ryota Hama) & Jonetsu Hentai Baka (Hikaru Sato & Hiroshi Yamato).
  • January 20, 2013–AJPW: SMOP (Akebono & Ryota Hama) & Hiroshi Yamato defeated Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki & Masayuki Kono).
  • January 26, 2013–AJPW: Jonetsu Hentai Baka (Hikaru Sato & Hiroshi Yamato) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) to win the All Asia tag team titles.
  • February 9, 2013–AJPW: Last Revolution (Joe Doering & Suwama) & Jonetsu Hentai Baka (Hikaru Sato & Hiroshi Yamato) defeated Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka) in a tag team elimination match.
  • February 10, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Jonetsu Hentai Baka (Hikaru Sato & Hiroshi Yamato) to win the All Asia tag team titles.
  • February 11, 2013–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Last Revolution (Joe Doering & Suwama) & Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo) in a tag team elimination match.
  • February 13, 2013–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Last Revolution (Joe Doering & Suwama), Hiroshi Yamato & Shuji Kondo in a tag team elimination match.
  • February 15, 2013–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Last Revolution (Joe Doering & Suwama), Hiroshi Yamato & Kaz Hayashi in a tag team elimination match.
  • February 16, 2013–AJPW: Last Revolution (Joe Doering & Suwama) & Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo) defeated Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka) in a tag team elimination match.
  • February 17, 2013–AJPW: Last Revolution (Joe Doering & Suwama) & Jonetsu Hentai Baka (Hikaru Sato & Hiroshi Yamato) defeated Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka) in a tag team elimination match.
  • February 19, 2013–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Last Revolution (Joe Doering & Suwama), Hiroshi Yamato & Manabu Soya in a tag team elimination match.
  • February 20, 2013–AJPW: Last Revolution (Joe Doering & Suwama) & Jonetsu Hentai Baka (Hikaru Sato & Hiroshi Yamato) defeated Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka) in a tag team elimination match.
  • February 23, 2013–AJPW: Last Revolution (Joe Doering & Suwama), Hikaru Sato & MAZADA defeated SMOP (Akebono & Ryota Hama) & Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto & Masakatsu Funaki) in a tag team elimination match.
  • March 10, 2013–AJPW: Koji Kanemoto defeated Atsushi Aoki.
  • March 12, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & Kaz Hayashi defeated Burning (Atsushi Aoki, Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru).
  • March 13, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Atsushi Aoki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defeated Hiroshi Yamato & Koji Kanemoto.
  • March 14, 2013–AJPW: Kaz Hayashi & Koji Kanemoto defeated Burning (Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru).
  • March 15, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Atsushi Aoki, Go Shiozaki & Kotaro Suzuki) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & Manabu Soya.
  • March 17, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Burning (Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki) to retain the All Asia tag team titles.
  • March 30, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Andy Wu & SUSHI.
  • March 31, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Masanobu Fuchi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru.
  • April 2, 2013–AJPW: Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka).
  • April 4, 2013–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Ryota Hama, Suwama, Takao Omori & Yutaka Yoshie.
  • April 6, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki) vs. Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) ended in a time limit draw.
  • April 7, 2013–AJPW: Jonetsu Hentai Baka (Hikaru Sato & Hiroshi Yamato) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka).
  • April 18, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Atsushi Aoki, Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto, Minoru Tanaka) & SUSHI.
  • April 20, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Atsushi Aoki, Go Shiozaki & Kotaro Suzuki) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & KENSO.
  • April 21, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & SUSHI defeated Burning (Atsushi Aoki, Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru).
  • April 24, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & KAI defeated Burning (Atsushi Aoki, Go Shiozaki & Kotaro Suzuki).
  • April 25, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) to win the All Asia tag team titles.
  • April 26, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki) defeated Koji Kanemoto & Yasufumi Nakanoue.
  • April 26, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Atsushi Aoki, Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & Takaku Fuke.
  • April 29, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & Hiroshi Yamato defeated Burning (Atsushi Aoki, Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru).
  • May 18, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) to retain the All Asia tag team titles.
  • May 19, 2013–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki & Masayuki Kono) defeated Last Revolution (Shuji Kondo, Suwama & Yasufumi Nakanoue).
  • May 22, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Atsushi Aoki, Go Shiozaki, Jun Akiyama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defeated Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka).
  • May 23, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & Hiroshi Yamato defeated Burning (Atsushi Aoki, Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru).
  • May 25, 2013–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto & Masayuki Kono) defeated Last Revolution (Joe Doering & Yasufumi Nakanoue).
  • May 26, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Hiroshi Yamato & SUSHI.
  • May 28, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Atsushi Aoki, Go Shiozaki & Kotaro Suzuki) defeated Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki & Minoru Tanaka).
  • May 30, 2013–AJPW: Koji Kanemoto & Masayuki Kono defeated Jun Akiyama & Masanobu Fuchi.
  • June 1, 2013–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto & Masakatsu Funaki) defeated HUB & KAI.
  • June 2, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated HUB & Menso-re Oyaji.
  • June 9, 2013–Michinoku Pro: Fujita Hayato defeated Koji Kanemoto to retain the  MPW Tohoku Junior Heavyweight title.
  • June 16, 2013–AJPW: Hiroshi Yamato & Takao Omori defeated Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto & Masayuki Kono).
  • June 18, 2013–AJPW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Burning (Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru).
  • June 20, 2013–AJPW: Koji Kanemoto defeated MAZADA.
  • June 22, 2013–AJPW: Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto & Masakatsu Funaki) defeated Stack Of Arms (Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka).
  • June 23, 2013–AJPW: Koji Kanemoto defeated SUSHI.
  • June 25, 2013–AJPW: Burning (Go Shiozaki, Jun Akiyama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defeated Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki & Minoru Tanaka).
  • June 26, 2013–AJPW: Last Revolution (Kaz Hayashi & Yasufumi Nakanoue) defeated Koji Kanemoto & MAZADA.
  • June 30, 2013–AJPW: SMOP (Akebono & Ryota Hama) & Osamu Nishimura defeated Stack Of Arms (Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki & Masayuki Kono).
  • September 8, 2013–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Fujita Hayato & Masaaki Mochizuki.
  • September 15, 2013–W-1:  Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka).
  • September 21, 2013–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Hiroshi Yamato & Seiki Yoshioka.
  • September 22, 2013–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo.
  • October 5, 2013–BJW: Koji Kanemoto & Yuji Okabayashi defeated Kazuki Hashimoto & Ryuichi Kawakami.
  • October 6, 8, 2013–W-1: Koji Kanemoto defeated Seiki Yoshioka.
  • October 9, 2013–W-1: Koji Kanemoto vs. Seiki Yoshioka ended in a no contest. Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Masayuki Kono & Ryouji Sai) defeated Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki & Yasufumi Nakanoue.
  • October 10, 2013–W-1: Koji Kanemoto vs. Seiki Yoshioka ended in a no contest. Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Masayuki Kono, Ryouji Sai) & Rene Dupree defeated Koji Kanemoto, Masakatsu Funaki, Seiki Yoshioka & Yasufumi Nakanoue.
  • October 12, 2013–W-1: Koji Kanemoto defeated Seiki Yoshioka.
  • October 14, 2013–W-1: Kaz Hayashi, Koji Kanemoto & Shuji Kondo defeated El Hijo del Pantera, Hiroshi Yamato & Seiki Yoshioka.
  • October 26, 2013–W-1: Koji Kanemoto & Shuji Kondo defeated Daiki Inaba & Seiki Yoshioka.
  • November 3, 2013–BJW: Kazuki Hashimoto & Ryuichi Kawakami defeated Koji Kanemoto & Yasufumi Nakanoue.
  • November 13, 2013–Tenryu Project 13: Koji Kanemoto & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Dragon JOKER & Jushin Thunder Liger.
  • November 16, 2013–W-1: Koji Kanemoto defeated Seiki Yoshioka.
  • November 17, 2013–W-1: Jay Bradley & Rob Terry defeated Koji Kanemoto & Seiki Yoshioka.
  • November 19, 2013–Dradition: Koji Kanemoto & Tatsumi Fujinami defeated First Tiger Mask & Naomichi Marufuji.
  • November 24, 2013–W-1: Jay Bradley & Rob Terry defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka).
  • November 26, 2013–W-1: Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Masayuki Kono & Rene Dupree) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & Seiya Sanada. Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) vs. Seiki Yoshioka & Seiya Sanada ended in a no contest.
  • November 28, 2013–W-1: Jay Bradley & Rob Terry defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka).
  • November 29, 2013–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Daiki Inaba & Seiki Yoshioka.
  • December 1, 2013–W-1: Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka).
  • December 22, 2013–W-1: Koji Kanemoto defeated Seiki Yoshioka.
  • December 23, 2013–W-1: Koji Kanemoto defeated Seiki Yoshioka.
  • December 31, 2013–Osaka Pro: The Big Guns (The Bodyguard & Zeus) defeated Black Buffalo & Koji Kanemoto.
  • January 2, 2014–BJW: Koji Kanemoto defeated Kazuki Hashimoto.
  • January 12, 2014–W-1: Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi) defeated Koji Kanemoto & Seiki Yoshioka.
  • January 19, 2014–W-1: Koji Kanemoto & Shuji Kondo defeated Gabai Ji-chan & Hiroshi Yamato.
  • January 24, 2014–W-1: Koji Kanemoto defeated Daiki Inaba.
  • January 25, 2014–W-1: Koji Kanemoto & Yasufumi Nakanoue defeated Kazuki Hashimoto & Ryuichi Kawakami.
  • January 30, 2014–WNC: Koji Kanemoto defeated Koji Doi.
  • January 31, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka), Jushin Thunder Liger & Yoshiaki Fujiwara defeated Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Masayuki Kono, Rene Dupree & Ryouji Sai).
  • February 15, 2014–W-1: Koji Kanemoto was in the #1 contenders battle royal for the TNA X-Division title won by Seiya Sanada.
  • February 21, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Daiki Inaba & Hiroshi Yamato.
  • February 23, 2014–W-1: Koji Kanemoto defeated Hiroshi Yamato.
  • February 25, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Hiroshi Yamato & Manabu Soya.
  • March 2, 2014–W-1: Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels & Kazarian) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka).
  • March 13, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Tokyo Gurentai (MAZADA & NOSAWA Rongai).
  • March 14, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Andy Wu & Kaz Hayashi.
  • March 15, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Daiki Inaba & Hiroshi Yamato. Koji Kanemoto was also in the #1 contenders battle royal for the TNA X-Division title won by Seiki Yoshioka.
  • March 22, 2014–W-1: Koji Kanemoto defeated KAZMA SAKAMOTO.
  • March 30, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka defeated Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Masayuki Kono).
  • April 4, 2014–Osaka Pro: Koji Kanemoto defeated Tigers Mask.
  • April 17, 2014–W-1: HUB & Tigers Mask defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka).
  • April 27, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka), Kaz Hayashi & Masakatsu Funaki defeated Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Masayuki Kono, Rene Dupree & Ryouji Sai).
  • April 28, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & Masakatsu Funaki defeated Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Masayuki Kono & Ryouji Sai).
  • April 29, 2014–W-1: Desperado (Masayuki Kono, Rene Dupree & Ryouji Sai) defeated Daiki Inaba, Koji Kanemoto & Masakatsu Funaki.
  • May 1, 2014–W-1: Koji Kanemoto defeated KAZMA SAKAMOTO.
  • May 3, 2014–W-1: Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo), Koji Kanemoto & Masakatsu Funaki defeated Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Masayuki Kono, Rene Dupree & Ryouji Sai).
  • May 4, 2014–W-1: Kaz Hayashi, MAZADA & Shuji Kondo defeated Andy Wu, Daiki Inaba & Koji Kanemoto.
  • May 11, 2014–Dradition: Koji Kanemoto vs. Tatsumi Fujinami ended in a time limit draw.
  • May 22, 2014–W-1: Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Masayuki Kono & Rene Dupree) defeated Koji Kanemoto, LEONA & Masakatsu Funaki.
  • May 24, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka), LEONA & Masakatsu Funaki defeated Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Masayuki Kono, Rene Dupree & Ryouji Sai).
  • May 25, 2014–W-1: Koji Kanemoto, LEONA & Masakatsu Funaki defeated Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Masayuki Kono & Ryouji Sai).
  • June 8, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & Shuji Kondo defeated Tokyo Gurentai (MAZADA & NOSAWA Rongai) & Kikutaro.
  • June 18, 2014–W-1: Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo) & Hiroshi Yamato defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) & Seiki Yoshioka.
  • June 21, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo).
  • June 22, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo) to become #1 contenders for the TNA world tag team titles.
  • June 24, 2014–W-1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Andy Wu & Seiki Yoshioka.
  • June 27, 2014–W-1: Koji Kanemoto & LEONA defeated Desperado (KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Rene Dupree).
  • July 6, 2014–W-1: The Wolves (Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards) defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) to retain the TNA world tag team titles.
  • July 19, 2014–Legend The Pro-Wrestling: Koji Kanemoto & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Bear Fukuda & Hiro Saito.
  • August 21, 2014–BJW: Atsushi Maruyama & Koji Kanemoto defeated Kazuki Hashimoto & Ryuichi Kawakami.
  • August 24, 2014–BJW: Kazuki Hashimoto defeated Koji Kanemoto.
  • September 18, 2014–RJPW: First Tiger Mask, Masakatsu Funaki & Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Great Tiger, Koji Kanemoto & Taka Kunou.
  • September 23, 2014–BJW: Kazuki Hashimoto & Koji Kanemoto defeated Shinobu & Shiori Asahi.
  • October 7, 2014–Tenryu Project: Koji Kanemoto & Ryuichi Kawakami defeated Classic Kid & Tatsuhito Takaiwa in the semi-finals.
  • October 20, 2014–BJW: Kazuki Hashimoto & Koji Kanemoto defeated Speed Of Sounds (Hercules Senga & Tsutomu Oosugi).
  • October 26, 2014–BJW: Twin Towers (Kohei Sato & Shuji Ishikawa) defeated Kazuki Hashimoto & Koji Kanemoto.
  • October 27, 2014–BJW: Kazuki Hashimoto & Koji Kanemoto defeated Daisuke Sekimoto & Hideyoshi Kamitani.
  • October 31, 2014–BJW: Kazuki Hashimoto & Koji Kanemoto defeated Wild Network (Manabu Soya & Ryuichi Kawakami.
  • November 1, 2014–Michinoku Pro: Bad Boy (Manjimaru & Takeshi Minamino) defeated Fujita Hayato & Koji Kanemoto.
  • November 21, 2014–BJW: Yankee Two Kenju (Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto) defeated Kazuki Hashimoto & Koji Kanemoto in the semi-finals.
  • December 10, 2014–Fortune Dream 2: Kazuki Hashimoto & Koji Kanemoto vs. Masaaki Mochizuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru ended in a time limit draw.
  • December 15, 2014–BJW: Atsushi Maruyama & Ryuichi Kawakami defeated Hideyoshi Kamitani & Koji Kanemoto.
  • December 21, 2014–BJW: Kazuki Hashimoto & Koji Kanemoto defeated Atsushi Maruyama & Tatsuhito Takaiwa.
  • December 23, 2014–BJW: Kazuki Hashimoto & Koji Kanemoto defeated Heisei Gokudo Combi (Kankuro Hoshino & Masato Inaba).
  • December 28, 2014–Dove Pro: Koji Kanemoto defeated Sakigake.
  • January 12, 2015–Legend The Pro-Wrestling: Koji Kanemoto, LEONA & Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Tokyo Gurentai (FUJITA, MAZADA & NOSAWA Rongai).
  • January 16, 2015–4FW: Koji Kanemoto defeated Owen Phoenix to win the junior heavyweight title.
  • January 17, 2015–4FW: Koji Kanemoto defeated Marty Scurll to retain the junior heavyweight title.
  • January 18, 2015–PWP: Koji Kanemoto defeated Dick Riley.
  • January 24, 2015–4FW: Doug Williams defeated Koji Kanemoto to retain the heavyweight title.
  • January 25, 2015–PWP: Koji Kanemoto defeated Ultimo Tiger.
  • April 25, 2015–Kana Produce: Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani defeated Katsuhiko Nakajima & Yuko Miyamoto.
  • April 29, 2015–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto, Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Ikuto Hidaka, Kengo & Magnitude Kishiwada.
  • May 5, 2015–BJW: Koji Kanemoto & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Kazuki Hashimoto & Shinobu.
  • May 17, 2015–FREEDOMS: Koji Kanemoto & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Daisuke Masaoka & Toru Sugiura.
  • May 24, 2015–AAA World Cup: Blue Demon Jr., Dr. Wagner Jr. & Solar defeated Kenzo Suzuki, Masamune & Tiger Mask in the quarter-finals.
  • May 30, 2015–Tenryu Project: Koji Kanemoto & Ryuichi Kawakami defeated Buki & Tatsuhito Takaiwa.
  • July 20, 2015–BJW: Team Yamato (Daichi Hashimoto & Kazuki Hashimoto) defeated Koji Kanemoto & Tatsuhito Takaiwa.
  • August 18, 2015–Masahito Kakihara Support Show Kaki Aid ~ Moving On ~: Minoru Tanaka, Tatsuo Nakano & Yoshiaki Fujiwara defeated Koji Kanemoto, Masayuki Naruse & Takuma Sano.
  • October 29, 2015–BJW: Team Yamato (Daichi Hashimoto & Kazuki Hashimoto) & Koji Kanemoto defeated Atsushi Maruyama, Kazumi Kikuta & Tatsuhito Takaiwa.
  • November 1, 2015–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto, Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Buffa, Ikuto Hidaka & YASSHI.
  • November 3, 2015–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto defeated Ikuto Hidaka.
  • November 7, 2015–RDPW: Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka defeated Churaumi Saver & Rekka.
  • November 15, 2015–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani defeated Ikuto Hidaka & Takuya Sugawara.
  • December 19, 2015–ZERO1: Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka to retain the NWA International lightweight tag team titles.
  • January 1, 2016–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto, Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Dangan Yankees (Ikuto Hidaka, Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto).
  • May 15, 2016–Apache: Koji Kanemoto defeated Kintaro Kanemura to retain the WEW heavyweight title.
  • July 31, 2016–Apache: Kintaro Kanemura & Koji Kanemoto defeated Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Tomohiko Hashimoto.
  • August 28, 2016–Apache: Koji Kanemoto, Hazard, Keisuke Okuda, Syuou Fujiwara & The Blue Shark defeated MIKAMI, Rion Mizuki, Tomohiko Hashimoto, Kuniyoshi Wada & Masaru Kameda.
  • September 10, 2016–K-DOJO: Koji Kanemoto defeated Ayato Yoshida.
  • September 26, 2016–FMW: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Hi69 & KAI.
  • October 2, 2016–Apache: Koji Kanemoto defeated Hi69 to retain the WEW heavyweight title.
  • October 16, 2016–DDT: Cavalry (Ryota Nakatsu & Ryuichi Sekine) & Koji Kanemoto defeated SAGAT, Takumi Tsukamoto & Trans Am Hiroshi.
  • October 23, 2016–Odate Wrestling Festival: Ikuto Hidaka & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka ended in a time limit draw.
  • December 2, 2016–Fumihiko Uwai Produce Strong Style History ~ Go For Broke! Forever: Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani defeated Akihiko Mori & Yoshihiro Takayama.
  • December 10, 2016–ZERO1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Chris Orndorff & Shinjiro Otani.
  • December 11, 2016–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto defeated Yoshikazu Yokoyama.
  • December 12, 2016–ZERO1: Ikuto Hidaka, Kotaro Suzuki & Takuya Sugawara defeated Koji Kanemoto, Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa.
  • December 13, 2016–ZERO1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Ikuto Hidaka & Yoshikazu Yokoyama.
  • December 14, 2016–ZERO1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Kazuki Hashimoto & Shinjiro Otani in the 2nd round.
  • December 16, 2016–ZERO1: KAI & Yusaku Obata defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) in the semi-finals.
  • December 18, 2016–ZERO1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka), Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Ikuto Hidaka, Isami Kodaka, Takumi Tsukamoto & Takuya Sugawara in a tag team elimination match.
  • December 25, 2016–Apache Pro: Kintaro Kanemura defeated Koji Kanemoto to win the WEW heavyweight title.
  • December 25, 2016–DDT: Abdullah Kobayashi, Masaya Takahashi & Takayuki Ueki defeated Cavalry (Ryota Nakatsu & Ryuichi Sekine) & Koji Kanemoto to retain the Yokohama Shopping Street 6 man tag team titles.
  • January 1, 2017–ZERO1: Isami Kodaka & Takumi Tsukamoto vs. Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka ended in a double pin. Kodaka & Tsukamoto retains the NWA International lightweight tag team titles.
  • January 22, 2017–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani defeated Kotaro Suzuki & Takuya Sugawara.
  • January 26, 2017–ZERO1: Ikuto Hidaka & Kotaro Suzuki defeated Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani.
  • February 3, 2017–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto, Minoru Tanaka & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Isami Kodaka, Takumi Tsukamoto & Trans Am Hiroshi.
  • March 2, 2017–ZERO1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Isami Kodaka & Takumi Tsukamoto to win the NWA International lightweight tag team titles.
  • March 5, 2017–Super Fireworks: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Fujita Hayato & Ikuto Hidaka to retain the NWA International lightweight tag team titles.
  • March 10, 2017–wXw: Timothy Thatcher defeated Koji Kanemoto in the 1st round of the 16 carat gold tournament.
  • March 11, 2017–wXw: Koji Kanemoto defeated Francis Kaspin.
  • March 12, 2017–wXw: Bobby Gunns defeated Koji Kanemoto.
  • March 30, 2017–Super Fireworks: Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani defeated Ikuto Hidaka & Takuya Sugawara.
  • April 4, 2017–ZERO1: Takumi Tsukamoto defeated Koji Kanemoto.
  • April 8, 2017–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto defeated Kotaro Suzuki.
  • April 9, 2017–ZERO1: Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Koji Kanemoto.
  • April 12, 2017–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto defeated Ikuto Hidaka.
  • April 22, 2017–Dradition: Koji Kanemoto, Shiro Koshinaka & Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Takuma Sano, Vader & Yoshiaki Fujiwara.
  • April 23, 2017–Dradition: Koji Kanemoto defeated Super Delfin.
  • April 26, 2017–ZERO1: Chris Orndorff & Koji Kanemoto defeated Takuya Nomura & Yoshikazu Yokoyama.
  • May 12, 2017–ZERO1: Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) to win the NWA International lightweight tag team titles.
  • May 21, 2017–ZERO1: Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka) defeated Chris Orndorff & Yoshikazu Yokoyama.
  • June 2, 2017–NEW: Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka defeated Mitsuyoshi Nakai & Yuya Susumu.
  • June 17, 2017–NEW: Koji Kanemoto & Masakatsu Funaki defeated Naoki Tanizaki & Shinya Aoki.
  • June 18, 2017–NEW: Koji Kanemoto & Masakatsu Funaki defeated Mitsuyoshi Nakai & Shinya Aoki.
  • July 2, 2017–RDPW: Churaumi Saver, Gurukun Mask, Hija Kidman, Tida Heat & Ultra Soki defeated Daisuke Masaoka, Jun Kasai, Koji Kanemoto, Takashi Sasaki & Yuya Susumu in a tag team elimination match.
  • July 4, 2017–DDT: Koji Kanemoto defeated Mizuki Watase.
  • July 7, 2017–NEW: Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka vs. Naoki Tanizaki & Yuya Susumu ended in a time limit draw.
  • August 5, 2017–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto, Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Voodoo Murders (Masato Tanaka, Takuya Sugawara & TARU).
  • August 6, 2017–A-TEAM: Kendo Kashin, KENSO & Koji Kanemoto defeated Dick Togo, Hi69 & Tomohiko Hashimoto.
  • August 11, 2017–Kansai Pro-Wrestling: Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka defeated Billy Ken Kid & Tsubasa.
  • August 13, 2017–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani defeated TARU & Voodoo Mask.
  • September 30, 2017–ZERO1: Koji Kanemoto & Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa.
  • October 29, 2017–Dradition: Koji Kanemoto & Super Delfin defeated Takuma Sano & Tatsuhito Takaiwa.
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Trained By

Debut

Birthday

October 31, 1966

Hometown

Gender

Male

Height

5'9"

Weight

198 lbs

Finishing Move(s)

Moonsault Press

Favorite Move(s)

Super Powerslam
Tiger Suplex Hold
Valkyrie Splash

Notable Feuds

Jushin Lyger
Shinjiro Ohtani
Chris Benoit
Sabu

Status

Living