HEIGHT
186cm
Oni-Koroshi, Uragasumi, Goriki, Kagami-Wari, Aka-Kiri, Kuro-Kirishima
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.