Japanese professional wrestler who has won multiple IWGP Tag Team Championships with partners like Toru Yano and Kazuo Yamazaki in New Japan Pro Wrestling. He also won a GHC Tag Team Championship with Pro Wrestling Noah in 2013. He made his professional wrestling debut in a match against Akira Nogami in New Japan Pro Wrestling in November 1986. He left for the Soviet Union to receive training in sambo in June 1989.
