History Wrestling / KentaKobashi

-->-'''A common chant heard during his matches'''

-->'''''Kobashi! Kobashi! Kobashi!'''''
-->-''A common chant heard during his matches''

Kobashi (Born in March of 1967) started his career in Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling in the early 90's by losing 63 matches in a row, all to establish him as the ultimate {{Determinator}}, showing plenty of fire, charisma, and fight in every one, until the day he finally won his first singles competition. He eventually rose to the main event and put on legendary bouts with longtime nemesis Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa, [[OvershadowedByAwesome Akira Taue]], and Wrestling/{{Toshiaki Kawada}}. And then he did it all again when he eventually moved to Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH alongside his erstwhile friend Misawa. He is also the progenitor of the ''Burning Hammer'' finishing move, a DangerousForbiddenTechnique that is so well-protected and so infrequently used it became legendarily powerful, to the point that anyone who has tried it since him has only ever done it in the most dire of circumstances, and it's pretty much always finished the match. He's even said [[Memes/ProfessionalWrestling to have killed his own cancer with it]].

'''Kobashi! Kobashi! Kobashi!'''

Who is '''Kenta Kobashi'''? Simply put, he is one of the greatest practitioners of [[ProfessionalWrestling puroresu]] in history. Kobashi started his career with Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling by losing 63 matches in a row, all to establish him as the ultimate {{Determinator}}. He eventually rose to the main event and put on legendary bouts with longtime nemesis Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa, [[OvershadowedByAwesome Akira Taue]], and Wrestling/{{Toshiaki Kawada}}. [[Memes/ProfessionalWrestling Oh, and he killed cancer with a Burning Hammer]].

Announced his retirement in December 2012 -- 25 years after his first match -- before spending the next four months training just for his retirement match, which was held on May 11th, 2013.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The reason the Burning Hammer is considered such a devastatingly powerful move is because it's very nearly THE most dangerous move ever invented in professional wrestling, basically amounting to picking your opponent up across your shoulders, then dropping sideways to slam them down ''right on their head.'' The move is flat-out ''banned'' in Wrestling/{{WWE}} because it's too dangerous to be used, and even Kobashi himself only used it ''7 times'' in 25 years. [[spoiler:When [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Brian Kendrick]] pulled it out against Kota Ibushi in their match at the Wresling/WWECruiserweightClassic tournament, the crowd predictably lost their shit- even more so when [[CueTheFlyingPigs Ibushi kicked out of it]].]]

Who is '''Kenta Kobashi'''? Simply put, he is one of the greatest practitioners of [[ProfessionalWrestling puroresu]] in history. Kobashi started his career with Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling by losing 63 matches in a row, all to establish him as the ultimate {{Determinator}}. He eventually rose to the main event and put on legendary bouts with longtime nemesis Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa, [[OvershadowedByAwesome Akira Taue]], and Wrestling/Toshiaki Kawada. [[Memes/ProfessionalWrestling Oh, and he killed cancer with a Burning Hammer]].

Who is '''Kenta Kobashi'''? Simply put, he is one of the greatest practitioners of [[ProfessionalWrestling puroresu]] in history. Kobashi started his career with Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling by losing 63 matches in a row, all to establish him as the ultimate {{Determinator}}. He eventually rose to the main event and put on legendary bouts with longtime nemesis Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa, [[OvershadowedByAwesome Akira Taue]], and [[BloodKnight Toshiaki Kawada]]. [[Memes/ProfessionalWrestling Oh, and he killed cancer with a Burning Hammer]].

* LightningBruiser: In his early years, complete with having a moonsault for his finisher, although age and a horrific number of knee injuries (at least in part racked up from said moonsaults) turned him into a MightyGlacier.

* TheMentor: To Wrestling/KentaKobayashi. To avoid confusion with his mentor, Kobayashi changed his ring name to KENTA (all caps and in Roman letters).

%%* LightningBruiser: In his early years, complete with having a moonsault for his finisher, although age and a horrific number of knee injuries (at least in part racked up from said moonsaults) turned him into a MightyGlacier.

* LightningBruiser: In his early years, complete with having a moonsault for his finisher, although age and a horrific number of knee injuries (at least in part racked up from said moonsaults) turned him into a MightyGlacier.

* PexFlex: Even when he's just goofing off it can be rather intimidating.

* ColourCodedForYourConvienence: Orange when he was with Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling.

* AlliterativeName

* TheMentor: To Kenta Kobayashi. To avoid confusion with his mentor, Kobayashi changed his ring name to KENTA (all caps and in Roman letters).

* UnderwearOfPower

* RedBaron: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Absolute Champion]], [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes Orange Crush]].

* MadeOfIron

Retired in December 2012, 25 years after his first match.

* LightningBruiser: Though age has slowed him down.

** Also mentor and tag partner to Gou Shiozaki, who at one point was essentially "mini Kobashi."

Who is '''Kenta Kobashi'''? Simply put, he is one of the greatest practitioners of [[ProfessionalWrestling puroresu]] in history. Kobashi started his career with AllJapanProWrestling by losing 63 matches in a row, all to establish him as the ultimate {{determinator}}. He eventually rose to the main event and put on legendary bouts with longtime nemesis MitsuharuMisawa, [[OvershadowedByAwesome Akira Taue]], and [[BloodKnight Toshiaki Kawada]]. [[Memes/ProfessionalWrestling Oh, and he killed cancer with a Burning Hammer]].

Retired in December 2012.