YMMV / Kenta Kobashi

• Awesome Moments:
  • The Undertaker may have The Streak, but Kobashi has the Burning Hammer. It is a move so deadly that nobody he has used it on ever kicked out of it — and he used it less than ten times throughout his entire career.
  • On March 1, 2003, Kobashi finally defeated longtime rival Mitsuharu Misawa for a singles championship, the GHC Heavyweight Championship, in what's highly regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestling matches of all time. He would go on to embark on a two-year title reign, becoming the longest-reigning GHC Heavyweight Champion in history, which stands to this day.
  • If you haven't watched his match against Samoa Joe… hunt it down, trade for it, buy it, do what you must. Find it. Now uploaded onto the ROH YouTube page, free for everyone to watch.
  • For over four minutes at Noah Destiny 2005, Kobashi and Kensuke Sasaki did only one move to each other. Chops. No punches, no kicks, no suplexes or any other moves. Just chops. Chops that would make Ric Flair piss his pants. Chops that would make Walter get on his knees and pray for strength. For four minutes Kobashi and Sasaki chopped the ever loving shit out of each other, sweat misting off their bodies with each of the 167 chops they delivered together, until their chests turned purple, until the crowd went from cheering, to incredulous, to roaring, until they were absolutely exhausted... and they kept wrestling.
• Memetic Badass: He cured his own cancer by hitting it with a Burning Hammer. Or chops.
• Memetic Mutation: It's never a clothesline that gets thrown by Kobashi. It's always a LARIATOOOOOO!!!