History Wrestling / ShinyaHashimoto

* ThreeAmigos: He, Masahiro Chono and Keiji Muto/The Great Muta are often referred to as "''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''".

* DownerEnding: His death at the age of 40.

* ArchEnemy:
** In real life, Wrestling/RikiChoshu. On one hand, Hashimoto and many other wrestlers disliked Choshu for his infamous Ishin Gundan revolution, in which he and his stable abandoned NJPW only to return when their venture failed. On the other hand, Choshu himself disliked Hashimoto because he saw him as lazy and unorthodox (Choshu famously hates shoot-stylists and martial arts-themed wrestlers). Thus, after Choshu and his crew came back to NJPW, a great tension arose between the native talents and the returned wrestlers, and it ultimately burst out with Hashimoto brutally attacking Hiro Saito during a tour, which ended with Masa Saito and Choshu himself coming to his aid and beating down Shinya. Their relationship never improved after that.
** His own mentor Wrestling/AntonioInoki became the greatest after his relationship with Hashimoto went awry, apparently due to disagreements over Hashimoto's bookings and performance. Hashimoto got eventually tired of Inoki trying to replace him with Naoya Ogawa and left NJPW to escape his influence, while Inoki initially tried to make it seem an one-sided affair for a time before he also turned against Hashimoto in the press. Their enmity from that point was so known that when Hashimoto died, Inoki caused controversy when he homaged Hashimoto, as people believed he was being subtlely sarcastic.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Hashimoto The Other Wiki]] and about his acting work at [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0368075/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1 IMDB]].

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: To Toshiaki Kawada in Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling. Both were kick-expert, brainbuster-using, heavyweight badasses.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He portrayed a martial artist (who even learned literal kung fu at one point) that could become very boastful and overconfident in a given occasion. Hashimoto also had this reputation in real life, as he was reportedly difficult to train with and often worked very stiff even whenever other wrestlers asked him not to.
* AuthorAppeal: Hashimoto liked wrestlers with legit backgrounds, like judoka, karateka, amateur wrestlers, kickboxers and MMA fighters, as he was a martial artist himself. However, he would only do it when he booked the matches himself, wisely enough. He refused to wrestle a K-1 fighter in the first WRESTLE-1 events probably fearing he might be shot at during the match or forced to job to him.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Was described as such by some fellow wrestlers.

* IKnowKarate: A former Sato-Juku UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} competitor. He also had a 3º dan black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, and supposedly trained some wushu in China to improve his spinning kicks.

** His own mentor Wrestling/AntonioInoki became the next one after he sold Hashimoto's career to build Naoya Ogawa.

* BigBrotherMentor: Was it in the gym for several younger wrestlers, like Wrestling/KazuyukiFujita, and even for some older ones, like Tadao Yasuda, who debuted in the business late in his life.

* BrilliantButLazy: Reputedly, Hashimoto had a bit of "too talented to train" attitude in the locker room. Although his natural charisma and his relatively non-demanding wrestling style allowed him to get away with this for several years (he could actually get over by just kicking and chopping his opponent around while screaming), it might have been one of the reasons why chairman Inoki turned on him in the 2000s. According to some, Inoki would have liked Hashimoto to be fit and muscled like most MMA fighters of the time, which Hashimoto would have refused due out of laziness.
* BrokenPedestal: He idolized Antonio Inoki, his main reason to become a professional wrestling. However, he broke bonds with Inoki in 2004 after the latter used callously Hashimoto's career to build Naoya Ogawa as the next star. Inoki didn't seem to harbour bad feelings towards him, and later even expressed his delight in seeing Hashimoto and Ogawa becoming best friends in ZERO-ONE, but he eventually turned publicitly against Hashimoto too after they had a falling out over Mark Kerr's contract.

He debuted in 1984 for New Japan and also competed in various North American territories, including the Continental Wrestling Association in Memphis, the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico and Stampede Wrestling in Canada, as well as Catch Wrestling Association in Austria/Germany. Among his in-ring achievements, he was the second wrestler, after Keiji Muto/Wrestling/TheGreatMuta, to have held the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/newjapan/iwgp-h.html New Japan IWGP Heavyweight Title]], the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html All Japan Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]] and the Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-h.html World Heavyweight Title]]. He also had the record for the longest reign as IWGP Heavyweight Champion, at 489 days between April 1996 to August 1997, before been broken by Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada in 2017. He made his American [=PPV=] debut as a replacement for Akira Nogami at ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} The Great American Bash 1992'', in the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Title]] Tournament. He and Hiroshi Hase defeated the Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin), and lost later to Wrestling/BarryWindham and [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]]. He was inducted into the ''[[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]'' Hall of Fame in 2000. He died of a brain aneurysm in Tokyo on July 11, 2005 at the age of 40.

* AbortedArc: Although Hashimoto had promised to retire if he lost his final match with Naoya Ogawa, the overwhelming fan reaction led him to stay in NJPW, so he next announced he was planning to rebuild his momentum by creating a sub-promotion named NJPW ZERO in order to compete with Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH. However, this ended up leading nowhere because Riki Choshu and other executives vetoed his idea, and Hashimoto instead left NJPW and established a promotion on his own.

* HotBlooded

* OddFriendship: With comedian Kunikazu Katsumata, who described Hashimoto as a brother and their friendship as "[[Anime/{{Doraemon}} very much like Suneo and Gian.]]"

Shinya Hashimoto (July 3, 1965 – July 11, 2005) was a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and promoter best known for his work in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling and his own promotion [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZERO1 Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE]] from the 1980s until his death. He debuted in 1984 for New Japan and also competed in various North American territories, including the Continental Wrestling Association in Memphis, the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico and Stampede Wrestling in Canada, as well as Catch Wrestling Association in Austria/Germany. Among his in-ring achievements, he was the second, after Keiji Muto/Wrestling/TheGreatMuta, wrestler to have held the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/newjapan/iwgp-h.html New Japan IWGP Heavyweight Title]], the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html All Japan Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]] and the Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-h.html World Heavyweight Title]]. He also had, to date, the longest ever reign as the New Japan Pro Wrestling IWGP Heavyweight Champion, at 489 days. He made his American [=PPV=] debut as a replacement for Akira Nogami at ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} The Great American Bash 1992'', in the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Title]] Tournament. He and Hiroshi Hase defeated the Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin), and lost later to Wrestling/BarryWindham and [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]]. He was inducted into the ''[[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]'' Hall of Fame in 2000. He died of a brain aneurysm in Tokyo on July 11, 2005 at the age of 40.

Shinya Hashimoto (1965-2005) was a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and promoter best known for his work in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling and his own promotion [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZERO1 Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE]] from the 1980s until his death. He debuted in 1984 for New Japan and also competed in various North American territories, including the Continental Wrestling Association in Memphis, the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico and Stampede Wrestling in Canada, as well as Catch Wrestling Association in Austria/Germany. Among his in-ring achievements, he was the second, after Keiji Muto/Wrestling/TheGreatMuta, wrestler to have held the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/newjapan/iwgp-h.html New Japan IWGP Heavyweight Title]], the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html All Japan Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]] and the Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-h.html World Heavyweight Title]]. He also had, to date, the longest ever reign as the New Japan Pro Wrestling IWGP Heavyweight Champion, at 489 days. He made his American [=PPV=] debut as a replacement for Akira Nogami at ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} The Great American Bash 1992'', in the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Title]] Tournament. He and Hiroshi Hase defeated the Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin), and lost later to Wrestling/BarryWindham and [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]]. He was inducted into the ''[[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]'' Hall of Fame in 2000. He died of a brain aneurysm in Tokyo on July 11, 2005 at the age of 40.

* EverythingIsBetterWithSpinning: One of his kick techniques was the ''suimengeri'', a spinning legsweep.

* ArchEnemy: In real life, Riki Choshu. Supposedly, all began when Choshu did his infamous Ishin Gundan revolution and left for JPW, which Hashimoto and many other wrestlers didn't like. After Choshu and his crew came back to NJPW, tension arose between the native talents and the returned wrestlers, and it burst out in the form of Hashimoto brutally attacking Hiro Saito during a tour, which ended with Masa Saito and Choshu himself coming to his aid and beating down Shinya. Their relationship never improved after that.

** UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain: Most notably against Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada and Naoya Ogawa.
** He, Masahiro Chono and Keiji Muto/The Great Muta are often referred to as "''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''".

* OddFriendship:
** He teamed up a lot with Riki Choshu, who is infamous for hating shoot-style and martial arts-themed wreslers, despite Hashimoto being an example of the latter. The fact that Hashimoto was a NJPW trueborn unlike most other shooters probably helped to it.
** With comedian Kunikazu Katsumata, who described Hashimoto as a brother and their friendship as "[[Anime/{{Doraemon}} very much like Suneo and Gian.]]"

* TakeThat: One of his most famous moves, a running spinning heel kick from the ropes, was actually taken from Wrestling/AkiraMaeda's signature spinning heel, which he abandoned at the time of the second Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation.

* AuthorAppeal: He liked wrestlers with legit backgrounds, like judoka, karateka, amateur wrestlers, kickboxers and MMA fighters, as he himself was one of the him (though, wisely, only when he booked the matches himself; he refused to be in the ring with a K-1 fighter in the first WRESTLE-1, possibly fearing he might be forced to job to them).
* BashBrothers: With Masa Saito, Riki Chōshū, Wrestling/NaoyaOgawa, Junji Hirata and Wrestling/YoshiakiFujiwara.

* BoringButPractical: His matwork was simple, trusting mostly in his judo holds to do the work, but according to Masa Saito, Hashimoto was very proficent with it.
* BrokenPedestal: He idolized Antonio Inoki, his main reason to become a professional wrestling. However, he turned upset and broke bonds with him after Inoki used Hashimoto's career to build Naoya Ogawa as the next star, even if it went against the wish of basically everybody and even Shinya himself threatened with leaving if they didn't change their booking plans. Inoki didn't seem to harbour bad feelings towards him, and later even expressed his delight in seeing Hashimoto and Ogawa becoming best friends in ZERO-ONE; however, he eventually turned publicitly against Hashimoto after they had a falling out over Mark Kerr's contract.

* IKnowKarate: A former Sato-Juku competitor. He also had a 3º dan black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, and supposedly trained some wushu in China to improve his spinning kicks.

* OddFriendship: With comedian Kunikazu Katsumata, who described Hashimoto as a brother and their friendship as "[[Anime/{{Doraemon}} very much like Suneo and Gian.]]"

* PowerStable: Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE Army.

* PowerStable: Wrestling/{{HUSTLE}} Army.

* RealSongThemeTune: Moving Pictures' "Never"

* TimeToUnlockMorePotential: He learned his signature ''suimengeri'' spinning legsweep (in China, according to him) after losing to Tony Halme.

'''Shinya Hashimoto''' (1965-2005) was a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and promoter best known for his work in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling and his own promotion [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZERO1 Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE]] from the 1980s until his death. He debuted in 1984 for New Japan and also competed in various North American territories, including the Continental Wrestling Association in Memphis, the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico and Stampede Wrestling in Canada, as well as Catch Wrestling Association in Austria/Germany. Among his in-ring achievements, he was the second, after Keiji Muto/Wrestling/TheGreatMuta, wrestler to have held the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/newjapan/iwgp-h.html New Japan IWGP Heavyweight Title]], the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html All Japan Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]] and the Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-h.html World Heavyweight Title]]. He also had, to date, the longest ever reign as the New Japan Pro Wrestling IWGP Heavyweight Champion, at 489 days. He made his American [=PPV=] debut as a replacement for Akira Nogami at ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} The Great American Bash 1992'', in the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Title]] Tournament. He and Hiroshi Hase defeated the Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin), and lost later to Wrestling/BarryWindham and [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]]. He was inducted into the ''[[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]'' Hall of Fame in 2000. He died of a brain aneurysm in Tokyo on July 11, 2005 at the age of 40.

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