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Hiroyoshi Tenzan

Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Hiroyoshi Tenzan NWA World Heavyweight Champion.jpg
Tenzan as the NWA World Heavyweight Champion in March 2015
Born (1971-03-23) March 23, 1971 (age 45)
Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Residence Tokyo, Kantō, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Hiroyoshi Yamamoto
Billed height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Billed weight 115 kg (254 lb)
Debut January 11, 1991

Hiroyoshi Yamamoto (山本 広吉 Yamamoto Hiroyoshi?, born March 23, 1971) is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, and is better known by his ring name Hiroyoshi Tenzan (天山 広吉 Tenzan Hiroyoshi?). With Satoshi Kojima, in 2008, they won the World's Strongest Tag Determination League in All Japan Pro Wrestling and the G1 Tag League in NJPW becoming in the only tag team which has done it. He is a four-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion and a record 11-time IWGP Tag Team Champion. He is also a former National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Champion.

Hiroyoshi Yamamoto first worked for New Japan Pro-Wrestling. He debuted in January 1991, wrestling Osamu Matsuda.

In 1993, after winning the Young Lions Cup, NJPW sent Yamamoto on a European excursion; one of his stops was in the Catch Wrestling Association in Germany, where in July 1993, he defeated Lance Storm to become the first CWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion. A few weeks later, he lost the title to Storm. Three months later, he would regain and lose the title back to Storm.


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