Riki Choshu

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Born
1951 (74 years old)
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Tokuyama, Yamaguchi

Position
Wrestler

Status

Ethnicity
Asian

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Height
1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight
120 kg (265 lb)

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Kit
Wage Year

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Archive

Full Body Render

Sport

Fighting

Team
_Retired WWE

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League
_Defunct Fighting Teams

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Description

Mitsuo Yoshida (吉田光雄 Yoshida Mitsuo, born December 3, 1951), better known by his ring name Riki Choshu (長州力 Chōshū Riki) is a Korean-Japanese retired professional wrestler who is best known for his longtime work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) as both a wrestler and a booker. He is considered one of Japan’s most influential wrestlers for his work in the 1980s and 1990s and is known as the first wrestler to popularize the Sasori-Gatame, better known in English as the Scorpion Deathlock or Sharpshooter. After leaving NJPW in 2002, he formed Fighting World of Japan Pro Wrestling (WJ), but eventually returned to New Japan in October 2005 as a site foreman, booker, and part-time wrestler. Choshu once again left NJPW in 2010 and primarily worked in Tatsumi Fujinami’s Dradition, as well as his own self-produced Power Hall events as a freelancer.

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