WRESTLER PROFILES

	Wrestler: Koji Kanemoto Real Name: Birthday: October 31, 1966 Hometown: Marital Status: Height & Weight: 5'9" - 198 lbs Trained by: Debut: Previous Names: Tiger Mask III Finishing Move: Moonsault Press Favorite Moves: Super Powerslam Tiger Suplex Hold Valkyrie Splash Notable Feuds: Jushin Lyger Shinjiro Ohtani Chris Benoit Sabu
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);
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..