Satoshi Kojima
| Satoshi Kojima | |
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Kojima in September 2015
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| Born |
September 14, 1970 Kōtō, Tokyo |
| Website | Cozy-Official.net |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) |
Satoshi Kojima The Great Koji The Great Kosuke Joe-Joe Lee Lion Satoshi |
| Billed height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
| Billed weight | 112 kg (247 lb) |
| Trained by |
Animal Hamaguchi Stan Hansen NJPW Dojo |
| Debut | July 16, 1991 |
Satoshi Kojima (小島 聡 Kojima Satoshi?) is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling. He is a former six-time IWGP Tag Team Champion. As a singles wrestler, he was the first wrestler to hold NJPW's IWGP Heavyweight Championship and All Japan Pro Wrestling's Triple Crown Championship simultaneously, and one of three wrestlers to hold the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, Triple Crown Championship and NWA World Heavyweight Championship (the other two being Keiji Mutoh and Shinya Hashimoto). As a team, he and Hiroyoshi Tenzan became the first team to win G1 Tag League and World's Strongest Tag Determination League on the same year. He and Tenzan are also former National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Tag Team Champions. Between the NWA, AJPW, and NJPW, Kojima has held 17 total championships.
Like many Japanese wrestlers, Kojima has a background in judo, but he chose not to continue the sport when he went to college. He got his start loading trucks for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), and after some months of persuasion finally convinced head trainer Animal Hamaguchi to accept him into the dojo.
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