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PROFILE

Toru Yano

UNIT

CHAOS 

HEIGHT

186cm 

WEIGHT

115kg 

YEAR OF BIRTH

18 May 1978 

Toru Yano
HEIGHT
186cm 
WEIGHT
115kg 
YEAR OF BIRTH
18 May 1978 
PLACE OF BIRTH
Arakawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan 
BLOOD TYPE
DEBUT
18 May 2002 
FINISH HOLD

Oni-Koroshi, Uragasumi, Goriki, Kagami-Wari, Aka-Kiri, Kuro-Kirishima

 
THEME SONG
intoxication 
BLOG
http://ameblo.jp/ytr-ebrietas/ 
TWITTER
@YTR_CHAOS 

BIOGRAPHY

Yano is one of professional wrestling’s greatest polymaths. Variously he has been a recording artist, DVD producer, master curry chef, bar owner, local tourism ambassador and sommelier out of the ring, and within it a vicious brawler, fundamentally skilled mat wrestler and cunning master thief.

After a promising college amateur wrestling career, where he was a successful part of the prestigious Nippon University team, Yano was scouted by the NJPW Dojo, and truly came into his own in the Great Bash Heel faction, until he poached its talent to form CHAOS. Between the two stables, Yano became an IWGP Tag Team Champion three times and a NEVER Openweight 6-Man Champion four times. On August 29 2020, Yano shocked Kazuchika Okada to win the unique KOPW 2020 trophy.

Yano held that trophy until the end of 2020, and despite a brief blip as Chase Owens held the prize for a short period, he would claim the 2021 prize as well. 2022 started with Yano in the four way to crown the year’s first trophy holder, but it would be Minoru Suzuki that was victorious. After a second reign with the trophy, he would lose it again to Taichi. Now separated from his ‘baby’, Yano nonetheless seeks to continue proving that he is king of his own brand of professional wrestling. 

Yano is one of professional wrestling’s greatest polymaths. Variously he has been a recording artist, DVD producer, master curry chef, bar owner, local tourism ambassador and sommelier out of the ring, and within it a vicious brawler, fundamentally skilled mat wrestler and cunning master thief.

After a promising college amateur wrestling career, where he was a successful part of the prestigious Nippon University team, Yano was scouted by the NJPW Dojo, and truly came into his own in the Great Bash Heel faction, until he poached its talent to form CHAOS. Between the two stables, Yano became an IWGP Tag Team Champion three times and a NEVER Openweight 6-Man Champion four times. On August 29 2020, Yano shocked Kazuchika Okada to win the unique KOPW 2020 trophy.

Yano held that trophy until the end of 2020, and despite a brief blip as Chase Owens held the prize for a short period, he would claim the 2021 prize as well. 2022 started with Yano in the four way to crown the year’s first trophy holder, but it would be Minoru Suzuki that was victorious. After a second reign with the trophy, he would lose it again to Taichi. Now separated from his ‘baby’, Yano nonetheless seeks to continue proving that he is king of his own brand of professional wrestling. 

FINISH HOLD

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    Uragasumi

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