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Wrestler:	Kenta Kobashi
Real Name:	Kenta Kobashi
Birthday:	March 27, 1967
Hometown:	Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan
Marital Status:	Married to Mizuki Mai
Height & Weight:	6' 2" - 260 lbs
Trained by:
Debut:	Feburary 26, 1988
Previous Names:	"Orange Crush"
Finishing Move:	Lariat
Favorite Moves:	Moonsault Burning Hammer Orange Crush Corner Powerbomb Half-Nelson Suplex Diamond Head Rolling Back Chop
Notable Feuds:	Mitsuharu Misawa

AJPW All Asia Tag Team titles w/Tiger Mask defeating Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat (April 9, 1990);

AJPW All Asia Tag Team titles w/Johnny Ace defeating Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers for vacant titles (September 7, 1990);

AJPW All Asia Tag Team titles w/Johnny Ace defeating Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat (July 8, 1991);

AJPW All Asia Tag Team titles w/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi defeating Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat (May 25, 1992);

AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Mitsuharu Misawa won Real World Tag Team Tournament (December 10, 1994);

AJPW (All Japan) Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight title defeating Akira Taue (July 24, 1996);

AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Johnny Ace defeating Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (May 27, 1997);

AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Johnny Ace defeating Gary Albright & Steve Williams (October 4, 1997);

AJPW (All Japan) Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight title defeating Toshiaki Kawada (June 12, 1998);

AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Jun Akiyama defeating Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (January 7, 1999);

AJPW (All Japan) World Tag Team titles w/Jun Akiyama defeating Yoshinari Ogawa & Mitsuharu Misawa (October 23, 1999);

AJPW (All Japan) Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight title defeating Vader (February 27, 2000);

NOAH Global Honored Crown Heavyweight title defeating Mitsuharu Misawa (March 1, 2003);

NOAH Global Honored Crown Tag Team titles w/Tamon Honda defeating Akitoshi Saito & Jun Akiyama (June 6, 2003);

NOAH Global Honored Crown Tag Team titles w/Tamon Honda defeating Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone (June 4, 2006);

Kenta Kobashi formed a team with Patriot & Johnny Ace known as "GET" or Global Energy Team..

Kenta Kobashi was a member of the All Japan stable "Burning"..

June 11, 1998: Kenta Kobashi defeated Toshiaki Kawada for the All-Japan Triple Crown..

Kenta Kobashi is most known for his great "Triple Crown Championship" matches against Mitsuharu Misawa..

Kenta Kobashi combines all wrestling styles to create his own very unique "stiff" style of power, technical & risk taker..

Kenta Kobashi has also used one of the most devastating moves in wrestling, the "Burning Hammer"..

2001: Kenta Kobashi had five knee operations and returned to the ring after 13 months of rehabing the injury..

September 10, 2004: Kenta Kobashi retained the GHC title over Akira Taue at Budokan Hall ..

March 5, 2005: Takeshi Rikio defeated Kenta Kobashi's to end Kobashi's two year reign as GHC heavyweight champion..

May 31, 2005--NOAH: Kenta Kobashi & KENTA defeated Bison Smith & Low Ki..

September 24, 2005--World League Wrestling: Kenta Kobashi defeated Wade Chism (WLW Champion) in a non-title match..

October 1, 2005 - Ring of Honor: Kenta Kobashi defeated Samoa Joe in the best match in the history of Ring of Honor..

October 2, 2005 - Ring of Honor: Kenta Kobashi & Homicide defeated Low Ki & Samoa Joe..

November 12, 2005--Universal Uproar: Jun Akiyama & Doug Williams defeated Go Shiozaki & Kenta Kobashi..

November 18 2005--NOAH: Jun Akiyama & Shiro Koshinaka defeated Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga..

November 20, 2005--NOAH: Bison Smith & Low Ki defeated Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga..

November 21, 2005--NOAH: Jun Akiyama & Akira Taue defeated Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi ..

November 22, 2005--NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa/Yoshinari Ogawa/Kotaro Suzuki beat Kenta Kobashi/Kentaro Shiga/Go Shiosaki

November 23, 2005--NOAH: Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda & KENTA beat Scorpio & Bison Smith & Low Ki..

November 24, 2005--NOAH: Jun Akiyama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru defeated Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiosaki..

November 26, 2005--NOAH: Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda & Kentaro Shiga beat Jun Akiyama & Genichiro Tenryu & SUWA..

November 27, 2005--NOAH: Kenta Kobashi/Mitsuharu Misawa/Akira Taue beat KENTA/Naomichi Marufuji/Mushiking Terry ..

November 29, 2005--NOAH: Mitsuhari Misawa/Yoshinari Ogawa/Kotaro Suzuki beat Kenta Kobashi/Kentaro Shiga/KENTA..

December 4, 2005--NOAH: Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka defeated Kenta Kobashi & Junji Izumida..

December 25, 2005: Kenta Kobashi won "Best ROH Legend" and co-won "ROH Match of the Year" on the 2005 OWW.com Awards..

January 22, 2006--NOAH: Akebono & Takeshi Rikio defeated Kenta Kobashi & Jun Izumida...

May 4, 2006--NOAH: Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda beat Mohammed Yone & Takeshi Morishima to win the GHC Tag Team titles..

June 2006: Kenta Kobashi (aged 39) was hospitolized after being diagnosed with kidney cancer in Tokyo, Japan..

July 5, 2006: Kenta Kobashi underwent successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his kidney in Tokyo..

December 2, 2007--NOAH: Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama beat Kenta Kobashi (1st match back) & Yoshihiro Takayama..

Mike Aldren wrote (On June 29, 2010): Japanese legend Kenta Kobashi, 43, and Enka singer Mizuki Mai, 36, announced they are getting married in Tokyo on 10/1. The couple are said to have been dating for about 10 years. Kobashi, considered one of the all-time greats in professional wrestling, has been trying to rebuild his career of late following long term injury set backs and surviving kidney cancer in 2006. He is currently vice-president of Pro Wrestling NOAH, a position he took on last year shortly after the devastating death of Misawa Mitsuharu.