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Riki Choshu

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Born
1951 (73 years old)

Birth Place
Tokuyama, Yamaguchi

Position
Wrestler

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Asian

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1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight
120 kg (265 lb)

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Mitsuo Yoshida (吉田 光雄 Yoshida Mitsuo, born December 3, 1951), better known by his ring name Riki Choshu (長州 力 Chōshū Riki) is a Korean-Japanese retired professional wrestler who is best known for his longtime work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) as both a wrestler and a booker. He is considered one of Japan’s most influential wrestlers for his work in the 1980s and 1990s and is known as the first wrestler to popularize the Sasori-Gatame, better known in English as the Scorpion Deathlock or Sharpshooter. After leaving NJPW in 2002, he formed Fighting World of Japan Pro Wrestling (WJ), but eventually returned to New Japan in October 2005 as a site foreman, booker, and part-time wrestler. Choshu once again left NJPW in 2010 and primarily worked in Tatsumi Fujinami’s Dradition, as well as his own self-produced Power Hall events as a freelancer.

Career Honours

IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champion 1997 _Retired WWE	G1 Climax 1996 _Retired WWE	IWGP Heavyweight Champion 1992 _Retired WWE	World Tag League 1992 New Japan Mens
IWGP Heavyweight Champion 1990 _Retired WWE	IWGP Heavyweight Champion 1989 _Retired WWE	IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champion 1989 _Retired WWE	IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champion 1988 _Retired WWE
PWF Heavyweight Champion 1986 _Retired WWE

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