Burning (professional wrestling)
| Burning | |
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Logo of Burning's third incarnation
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| Stable | |
| Members |
Atsushi Aoki Go Shiozaki Jun Akiyama Kenta Kenta Kobashi Kentaro Shiga Kotaro Suzuki Shuhei Taniguchi Takeshi Rikio Tamon Honda Tsuyoshi Kikuchi Yoshinobu Kanemaru |
| Name(s) | Burning |
| Debut |
First incarnation: August 1998 Second incarnation: 2000 Third incarnation: January 26, 2013 |
| Years active | 1998–2000 2000–2012 2013–2015 |
| Promotions |
AJPW DDT DR Noah |
Burning (バーニング Bāningu) was a professional wrestling stable originally formed in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in August 1998 by Jun Akiyama, Kenta Kobashi, Kentaro Shiga and Yoshinobu Kanemaru. Akiyama and Kobashi dominated AJPW's tag team ranks for the next two years, winning the World Tag Team Championship twice and the World's Strongest Tag Determination League also twice.
In July 2000, Burning took part in a mass exodus led by Mitsuharu Misawa and left AJPW to join the newly founded Pro Wrestling Noah promotion, where it was rebuilt with Akiyama leaving the alliance and Kobashi taking several rookies under his wing. As representatives of Burning, Kobashi held the GHC Heavyweight Championship for two years and he and Tamon Honda won the GHC Tag Team Championship on two occasions, while the stable also launched the careers of Kenta and Go Shiozaki, both of whom eventually climbed to the top of the promotion. Eventually Kobashi's battle with kidney cancer and other various injuries led to the quiet dissolution of the stable.
Burning was reformed back in AJPW in January 2013, when original members Jun Akiyama and Yoshinobu Kanemaru and second incarnation member Go Shiozaki along with Atsushi Aoki and Kotaro Suzuki quit Pro Wrestling Noah and joined AJPW as a unit. The stable quickly began dominating the promotion, winning three titles and two tournaments within three months of its reformation. Despite the success, Aoki, Shiozaki and Suzuki all quit Burning before the end of 2013 to form their own new group. The stable was effectively dissolved when Kanemaru left AJPW at the end of 2015.
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