Name
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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