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Strong Kobayashi (ストロング小林) Real name: Shozo Kobayashi (小林省三) Professional names: Shozo Kobayashi, Fukamen Taro, Strong Kobayashi, Korean Assassin Life: 12/25/1940-12/31/2021 Born: Hongo, Tokyo, Japan Career: 1967-1981; 1992 (one-off return) Height/Weight: 187cm/125kg (6’2”/275 lbs.) Signature moves: Bearhug, Canadian backbreaker, brainbuster (vertical suplex), atomic drop Promotions: International Wrestling Enterprise, New Japan Pro-Wrestling Titles: IWA World Heavyweight [IWE] (2x), IWA World Tag Team [IWE] (3x: 1 w/Toyonobori, 1 w/Great Kusatsu, 1 w/Haruka Eigen), NWA North American Tag Team [NJPW] (2x, w/Seiji Sakaguchi) Strong Kobayashi was t…
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Surugaumi (駿河海) Real name: Mitsuo Sugiyama (杉山光男) Professional names: Surugaumi Life: 1/1/1920-11/24/2010 Born: Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan Career: 1953-1959, 1961 Height/Weight: 186cm/105kg (6'1"/231lbs.) Signature moves: unknown Promotions: Japan Wrestling Association Titles: Japanese Junior Heavyweight [JWA] (1x) The first junior heavyweight champion in puroresu history, Surugaumi was a charter member of the JWA whose disputes with Rikidozan shortened his career. Mitsuo Sugiyama entered sumo through the Kansai Kakuriki Association, an organization which was formed by Saburo Tenryu after he left the Japan Sumo Association. (This was roo…
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