Kouhiro Kanemura | |
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Kanemura in February 2013
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Born | August 9, 1970 |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Kintaman Kintaro Kanemura W*ING Kanemura Wing Kanemura Yukihiro Kanemura |
Billed height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Billed weight | 112 kg (247 lb; 17.6 st) |
Debut | December 20, 1990 |
Retired | December 27, 2016 |
Yukihiro Kanemura (金村 珩皓 Kanemura Yukihiro?) (Korean: 김행호) (born August 9, 1970) is a Zainichi-Korean professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Kintaro Kanemura (金村 キンタロー Kanemura Kintaro?). He is also known as W*ING Kanemura or Wing Kanemura (ウイング金村 Uingu Kanemura?).
He is best known for his death matches in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and Big Japan Pro Wrestling. He has also wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling. He retired from professional wrestling in December 2016.
Yukihiro Kanemura made his debut in December 1990 for Pioneer Senshi, against Akitoshi Saito, who also debuted. Within months, Pioneer Senshi folded.
In September 1991, Kanemura made his debut for Wrestling International New Generations. Although he started on the undercard, he work his way up the ladder in W*ING. On May 5, 1992, he defeated The Grappler in Osaka to lay claim to a version of the Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship, whose championship belt was owned by Grappler (that title win, however, is not recognized as part of the official title history for the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship, which was held at that point by C.W. Bergstrom and would be until Pacific Northwest Wrestling folded in July 1992 after Don Owen's retirement). In December 1992, he would win the WWC Caribbean Heavyweight Championship, defeating Miguel Perez, Jr.