History Characters / Battlarts

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: During a tour in Korea, the local staff pronounced his ring name as "Hajikata", it was also said that his opponent on that tour Wrestling/AJStyles also pronounced it that way.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Alvin or Urban Ken?

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some sites list his name as "Muneki Sawa", another spelling of the kanji.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His real name I'd written as 竹嶋 健史, while his ring name is written as タケシマケンヂ.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His surname is usually spelled as Krueger by English sites.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name is sometimes spelt as Cow*Cow on some sites.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name is sometimes spelt as Riley Shonen.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: During a tour in Korea, the local staff pronounced his ring name as "Hajikata", it was also said that his opponent on that tour Wrestling/AJStyles also pronounced it that way.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Alvin or Urban Ken?

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some sites list his name as "Muneki Sawa", another spelling of the kanji.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His real name I'd written as 竹嶋 健史, while his ring name is written as タケシマケンヂ.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His surname is usually spelled as Krueger by English sites.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name is sometimes spelt as Cow*Cow on some sites.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name is sometimes spelt as Riley Shonen.

* CanadaEh: Born in Toronto, Ontario, though he now lives in Miami, Florida.

* CanadaEh: From Winnipeg, Manitoba.

* GutturalGrowler: Honma's characteristically hoarse voice is the result of crushed vocal chords.

** Has wrestled Wrestling/{{Kana}} in a rather one-sides beatdown.

* IWasBeatenByAGirl: On April 8, Yano took part in a ten-minute, six-person battle royal for the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship. Towards the end of the match, Yano pinned Wrestling/{{Kana}} to win the title, however, just twenty seconds later, Kana rolled him up to regain the title.

!!![[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Kana]]

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Was the only official female Battlarts wrestler (Wrestling/{{Kana}} may have trained at their dojo and wrestled at their events, but was never officially considered a Battlarts wrestler).

* ThreeAmigos: With Gedo and Jado and the trio were refered to as Junior Toukon Sanjyu-shi.

* ThreeAmigos: With Wrestling/TheGreatSasuke and Wrestling/JinseiShinzaki as Team Michinoku.

* ThreeAmigos: Yamamoto was considered to be part of the NJPW "big three" executives along with Wrestling/AntonioInoki and Hisashi Shinma. Also along with Inoki and Wrestling/KarlGotch, they are said to be responsible for the fundamentals of the Japanese "strong style".

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Made a {{Cameo}} at WWF's 1997 Royal Rumble match. He eliminated himself, diving off the top rope out of the ring onto Pierroth Jr, whom he himself had just eliminated. Such a move is common in lucha libre but it is technically a mistake in the Royal Rumble as it leads to elimination.

%%* HowlingToTheNight: Did this in his entrances.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: He was born in Japan, but spent most of his life growing up in the United States.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: He went to an international school and was fluent in English, and also worked as a journalist as an English-language reporter and writer in the early 1970s for Gong Magazine. Because of his fluency in English, he was responsible for booking gaijin talent in Japan, as well as booking Japanese talent overseas. He would also accompany Japanese talent booked overseas to not only oversee the tour, but to assist them in making the travel easier and fun.