Great Bash Heel
| Great Bash Heel | |
|---|---|
| Stable | |
| Members |
Togi Makabe Tomoaki Honma |
| Name(s) | Great Bash Heel (G.B.H.) |
| Former member(s) |
Hiroyoshi Tenzan (original leader) Black Tiger Gedo Giant Bernard Jado Karl Anderson Low Ki Rick Fuller Shiro Koshinaka Takashi Iizuka Tomohiro Ishii Toru Yano Val Venis |
| Debut | October 2, 2006 |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Promotions |
NJPW Apache Pro BJW Noah Riki Pro Zero1 |
Great Bash Heel (グレート・バッシュ・ヒール Gurēto Basshu Hīru?), often abbreviated to G.B.H., is a professional wrestling stable turned tag team in New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW).
Originally formed by Hiroyoshi Tenzan in October 2006, G.B.H. was the top villainous group in NJPW until April 2009, when the rest of the group turned on their leader, Togi Makabe, and formed a new stable named Chaos, under the leadership of Shinsuke Nakamura.
On October 2, 2006, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, fresh off his G1 Climax triumph and a big win over former mentor Masahiro Chono and on his way to challenging for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, announced the formation of his first stable and named former interim IWGP Tag Team Champions, Togi Makabe and Shiro Koshinaka, as his first recruits. Tenzan announced that the criteria for joining his group was to "be strong, bad and cool" and that the intention of his new stable was to revive the old "beautiful New Japan". Tenzan immediately began sending out invitations to other New Japan wrestlers, such as Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi and even Makabe's and Koshinaka's blood rivals, Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano, to join the group, which was unofficially named Mougyu Ikka. On October 9, Tenzan failed in his attempt to regain the IWGP Heavyweight Championship from Hiroshi Tanahashi, but despite the setback, announced that his quest had only just begun. Finally on October 15, Tenzan announced that the official name of his stable was Great Bash Heel, G.B.H., and named their goal to become the biggest villainous group in New Japan history by causing "grievous bodily harm", something the group's name was also a reference to. The following day, Tenzan orchestrated a truce between the teams of Makabe and Koshinaka and Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano, who became the fourth and fifth member of G.B.H.
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