WRESTLER PROFILES

[Japanese Wrestler Gallery]	Wrestler: Shin'ya Hashimoto Real Name: Shinya Hashimoto Birthday: July 3, 1965 Hometown: Gifu, Japan Marital Status: Height & Weight: 6' - 260 lbs Trained by: Debut: September 1, 1984 Previous Names: Hashif Kahn (Stampede) Finishing Move: BrainBuster Favorite Moves: Jumping DDT Enzuigiri Triangle Hold Uraken Neck Chop Notable Feuds: Genichiro Tenryu Masa Chono Naoya Ogawa
IWGP Tag Team titles w/Masa Saito defeating Takayuki Iizuka & Riki Choshu (September 20, 1989); IWGP Heavyweight title defeating Great Muta (September 20, 1993); IWGP Heavyweight title defeating Tatsumi Fujinami (May 1, 1994); IWGP Tag Team titles w/Junji Hirata defeating Mike Enos & Scott Norton for vacant titles (July 13, 1995); IWGP Heavyweight title defeating Nobuhiko Takada (April 29, 1996); NWA World Heavyweight title defeating Gary Steele & Steve Corino in a Round Robin Triangle Match (December 15, 2001); NWA (Zero One Max) Intercontinental Tag Titles w/Naoya Ogawa defeating Nathan Jones & John Heidenreich (October 26, 2002); AJPW (All Japan) Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight title defeating Great Muta (February 23, 2003); NWA (Zero One Max) Intercontinental Tag Titles w/Naoya Ogawa defeating Tom Howard & Matt Ghaffari (April 29, 2003); NWA (Zero One Max) Intercontinental Tag Titles w/Yoshiaki Fujiwara defeating Shiro Koshinaka & Takao Omori (June 17, 2004);
In The Beginning: New Japan Pro Wrestling: ZERO ONE Japan: November 13, 2000: Shinya Hashimoto registered the ZERO-ONE name, and quit his long-time home-promotion of NJPW.. March 2, 2001: Shinya Hashimoto's ZERO-ONE promotion had its first show.. January 4, 2004 - Z1 Hustle-1: Shin'ya Hashimoto defeated Big Van Vader.. March 7, 2004 - Z1 Hustle-2: Mark Coleman & Kevin Randleman defeated Shinya Hashimoto & Toshiaki Kawada.. May 8, 2004 - Z1 Hustle-3: Naoya Ogawa & Shin'ya Hashimoto defeated The Outsiders (Kevin Nash & Scott Hall).. July 25, 2004 - Z1 Hustle-4: Shin'ya "Hustle King" Hashimoto defeated Gama King.. July 11, 2005: Shinya Hashimoto collapsed suddenly and was rushed to the hospital and is believed to have been dead on arrival.. ~~~The cause of the sudden death of this Japanese legend is said to have been due to a brain hemorrhage. He was 40.