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Kota Ibushi
(飯伏幸太)

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1982 (42 years old)

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1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)

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93 kg (205 lb)

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Kota Ibushi (飯伏幸太, Ibushi Kōta, born May 21, 1982) is a Japanese professional wrestler and martial artist who is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is best known for his tenure with New Japan-Pro Wrestling (NJPW).

His career began with the Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) promotion in 2004 and over the next eleven years became a three-time KO-D Openweight Champion, five-time KO-D Tag Team Champion and a two-time KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champion. Two of the KO-D Tag Team title reigns was with Kenny Omega as the Golden☆Lovers; their combined total of 351 days is still a DDT record.

In 2009, Ibushi started working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling and eventually signed with the promotion in 2013. In NJPW, Ibushi is a former NEVER Openweight Champion, three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and a one-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion. He resigned from both DDT and NJPW in February 2016 and has performed in several different organizations as a freelancer, including both DDT and NJPW as well as WWE, where he participated in the 2016 Cruiserweight Classic tournament.

After continuing to perform as a freelancer for NJPW after 2016 (including as Tiger Mask W, the protagonist of the anime of the same name, from 2016 to 2017), he signed a new full-time contract with NJPW in early 2019, winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for the first and only time in his career in 2021 before unifying it with the IWGP Intercontinental Championship to become the inaugural IWGP World Heavyweight Champion later that year. Ibushi is also a former IWGP Tag Team Champion. Ibushi has also won several tournaments for NJPW, including the 2011 Best of the Super Juniors, the 2015 New Japan Cup and the 2019 and 2020 editions of the G1 Climax, being the only wrestler to have won all three tournaments. He is also one of only four wrestlers to win two consecutive G1 Climax tournaments alongside Masahiro Chono, Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Kazuchika Okada, as well as the only wrestler to reach the finals stage of four consecutive G1 Climax tournaments.
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IWGP Heavyweight Champion
2021

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IWGP Intercontinental Champion
2021

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IWGP World Heavyweight Champion
2021

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G1 Climax
2020

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IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champion
2020

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IWGP Intercontinental Champion
2019

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G1 Climax
2019

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NEVER Openweight Champion
2018

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New Japan Cup
2015

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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion
2014

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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion
2012

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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion
2011

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Best of the Super Juniors
2011

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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion
2010

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