Line #55 Wrestling/ShinyaHashimoto


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3	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.
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5	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.
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7	Forced to leave ZERO-ONE in November 2004 due to economic troubles, Hashimoto invested the next year in healing from injuries, but before he could make his return, he died of a brain aneurysm in Tokyo on July 11, 2005 at the age of 40.
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9	!! "Vertical Trope Brainbuster":
10	* 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 Wrestling/RikiChoshu and other executives vetoed his idea, and Hashimoto instead left NJPW and established a promotion on his own.
11	* AfroAsskicker: As part of his Music/ElvisPresley emulation. He became a fan while he was working in Memphis after visiting the Elvis Presley museum.
12	* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: To Wrestling/ToshiakiKawada in Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling. Both were kick-expert, brainbuster-using, heavyweight badasses.
13	* 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, which brought him a lot of trouble.
14	* AuthorAppeal: Hashimoto liked wrestlers with legit backgrounds, like judoka, karateka, amateur wrestlers, kickboxers and MMA fighters, as he was a martial artist himself (and possibly because they were less likely to complain if he wrestled stiff against them). 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.
15	* BashBrothers: With Masa Saito, Wrestling/RikiChoshu, Wrestling/NaoyaOgawa, Junji Hirata and Wrestling/YoshiakiFujiwara.
16	* BigBrotherMentor: Was it for several young wrestlers in the NJPW dojo, like Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Osamu Nishimura and Wrestling/KazuyukiFujita, and even for some older ones, like Tadao Yasuda, who debuted in the business late in his life.
17	* BigEater: Was a famous one, which can be seen in his paunch. He often invited his assistant wrestlers to large diners.
18	* 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 even in real life.
19	* BrattyHalfPint: When acting as Inoki's second in his match against Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher, a young Hashimoto judged that Abdullah was being too stiff, so he went and kicked him when they were outside of the ring. He was suspended for a time due to this.
20	* 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. In fact, 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.
21	* BrokenPedestal: He idolized Antonio Inoki, his main reason to become a professional wrestling. However, after a series of disagreements backstage, he broke bonds with Inoki when 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 in 2001.
22	* BumblingSidekick: The young Hashimoto was one to Seiji Sakaguchi in real life, back when he was assigned to be Sakaguchi's ''tsukibito'' or assistant. Hashimoto would turn out to be so clumsy in his chores that Akira Nogami (later known as AKIRA) had to be brought as a second assistant to help him. This might have been why he later became very kind and forgiving to his own assistants.
23	* CaptainErsatz:
24	** Kouta Shishioh is one of Hashimoto himself (and is played by Hashimoto) in ''Oh! My Zombie Mermaid''(otherwise known as ''Ah! House Collapses''). A successful promoter buys a new house for himself and his wife, causing a rival promoter to send wrestlers to destroy him.
25	** A regular in ''Videogame/FireProWrestling''.
26	* CatchPhrase: During his ZERO-ONE days, his PreAssKickingOneLiner was "This has just begun, we are in the Hell's worst neighborhood!"
27	* CelebrityResemblance: Commentator Ichiro Futurachi once called him Toru Watanabe, a popular actor and singer.
28	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He was reportedly a big jokester with a very, very weird sense of humor. He also admitted to have once gone out disguised as Batman for the kicks.
29	* DefeatMeansFriendship: Became best friends with Naoya Ogawa, who had beat him in Hashimoto's supposed NJPW "retirement" match. Especially touching, given that Ogawa had been essentially ordered by Inoki to destroy Hashimoto's aura to the extent of shooting on him, and yet Shinya forgave him and welcomed him to ZERO-ONE.
30	* {{Face}}: This was his role, and he drew ''huge'' in it. In his best times, he could fill up an arena with only his name on the posters.
31	* FinishingMove: Vertical drop brainbuster and jumping spike DDT. In shoot-style matches and different style fights, he would use the inverted triangle choke (done in the inverted, ''ushiro-sankaku-jime'' manner, to highlight his judo background) and a simple kick to the head.
32	* GoodIsNotNice: Despite being a solid face, Hashimoto's mannerisms in the ring were sometimes a bit heelish, kicking his opponents [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown while they were down]] or [[InTheBack off-guard]] and aggressively taunting them.
33	* IHaveManyNames: SHOGUN, Hashif Khan (in Stampede), and his own.
34	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Naoya Ogawa.
35	* HotBlooded: A big part of both his gimmick and his real life personality.
36	* IKnowKarate: This was his entire gimmick. He was a former Sato-Juku UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} competitor, as well as a a 3º dan black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, and supposedly trained some wushu in China to improve his spinning kicks.
37	* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Hashimoto favored clean matches without things like cheating and external help. This was played in the main angle of HUSTLE, where Hashimoto became offended that Takada had Wrestling/GiantSilva intervene against Ogawa, which Hashimoto derided as American pro wrestling shenanigans.
38	* LightningBruiser: Big, strong, fast, could absolutely work on the mat, and could even come off of the top rope.
39	* ManlyTears: Cried before the cameras when he revealed in an interview that he was the last person to speak to Masakazu Fukuda before his death on the ring.
40	* MartialArtsHeadband: Wore one during his entrance as part of his martial artist image, which eventually became a trademark of his.
41	* MetaGuy: In HUSTLE, even pointing out in HUSTLE-4 that in a manga it would be just the beginning of the story.
42	* MurderousThighs: Had a triangle choke and a crucifix/ashi-gatame among his submission moves.
43	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Or rather an Elvis Impersonator Martial Artist Pro Wrestler.
44	* OddFriendship: With comedian Kunikazu Katsumata, who described Hashimoto as a brother and their friendship as "[[Manga/{{Doraemon}} very much like Suneo and Gian.]]"
45	* OutOfCharacterMoment: The usually polite Hashimoto had a fit of his in-ring rage during a press conference from the days of his feud with Ogawa, throwing a table and having to be slapped to sense by Tatsumi Fujinami.
46	* PowerStable: In Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE, the HUSTLE Army.
47	* RedBaron: "Hakai O" ([[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "The King of Destruction"]]), "Toukon Densho" ("The Heart and Soul of the Fighting Spirit") and "Bakusatsu Shooter" ("Explosive Shooter").
48	* TheRival: Keiji Muto and especially Naoya Ogawa.
49	* SupremeChef: Reported to be great in the kitchen.
50	* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Was a booker for ZERO-ONE and HUSTLE.
51	* SpinAttack: One of his kick techniques was the ''suimengeri'', a spinning legsweep.
52	* StartMyOwn: [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZERO1 Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE]] in November 2000, after getting fired from New Japan.
53	* TagTeam: OH Gun, with Naoya Ogawa in ZERO-ONE.
54	* 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 kick.
55	* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: He learned his signature ''suimengeri'' spinning legsweep (in China, according to him) after losing to Tony Halme.
56	* TournamentArc: The Shinya Hashimoto Legacy Cup of Premier Wrestling Federation.
57	* UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain: While not excessively ugly, he was still fat and funny-looking, most notably in comparison to his rivals Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada and Naoya Ogawa.
58	* UnwantedAssistance: In his apprentice days, a young and overzealous Hashimoto once attacked Abdullah the Butcher after a match with Inoki in the belief he had been shooting on him. It got him punished and away from the rings for a time.
59	* WrestlingFamily: His son Daichi, who debuted for ZERO-ONE in March 2011.

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