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Kenta Kobashi Retires
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: May 11, 2013, 5:48 pm
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Former 3 time All Japan Triple Crown and GHC Heavyweight
Champion Kenta Kobashi has retired.
Kobashi's retirement event, Final Burning in Budokan took place
on May 11. After the second match on the show, his retirement
ceremony was held. Toshiaki Kawada, Mitsuo Momota, former
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, legendary NTV announcers
Akira Fukuzawa and Kazuo Tokumitsu, Hiroshi Hase, Masahiro
Chono, Stan Hansen and former WWE Senior Vice President of
Talent Operations John Laurinaitis via video message, and many
others appeared. During the ceremony, he was declared GHC
Absolute Champion and was presented with a title belt. In the
main event, Kobashi teamed with Jun Akiyama, Keiji Mutoh, and
Kensuke Sasaki in an eight-man tag team match, where they
defeated his protégés Yoshinobu Kanemaru, KENTA, Go Shiozaki,
and Maybach Taniguchi, with Kobashi pinning Kanemaru with a
moonsault for the final win of his career. The event at Nippon
Budokan was attended by 17,000 fans and aired live across Japan
on the television network BS Sky! and in movie theaters.
He will now move on to his knew role as Pacific Wrestling
Federation (PWF) chairman, a figure head role for All Japan Pro
Wrestling formerly held by Hiro Hase who will be concentrating
on politics.
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