Hiroshi Tanahashi
Hiroshi Tanahashi, widely known as the “Ace,” is a Japanese sports executive and retired professional wrestler signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he serves as president and representative director. He debuted in 1999 after graduating from the NJPW Dojo as a Young Lion and later went on excursion to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the United States. He had his final match on January 4, 2026, against longtime rival Kazuchika Okada at Wrestle Kingdom 20. Across his NJPW career, Tanahashi became an eight-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, two-time IWGP Intercontinental Champion, three-time IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion, one-time NEVER Openweight Champion, one-time NJPW World Television Champion, two-time IWGP U-30 Openweight Champion, and six-time NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champion. In tournament competition, he won the G1 Climax three times in 2007, 2015, and 2018 and the New Japan Cup twice in 2005 and 2008. He is recognized as the fourth wrestler to complete NJPW’s Triple Crown and the second to achieve its Grand Slam. Outside NJPW, Tanahashi is a one-time RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion, a one-time GHC Tag Team Champion with Yuji Nagata, a one-time CMLL World Tag Team Champion with Jushin Thunder Liger, a one-time CMLL World Trios Champion with Okumura and Taichi as La Ola Amarilla, and the winner of the Campeón Universal del CMLL 2013 Tournament. Fans, journalists, and fellow wrestlers often credit Tanahashi as a central
Фильмы и сериалы
- All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite (2019), роль
- 仮面ライダー平成ジェネレーションズ Dr.パックマン対エグゼイド&ゴーストwithレジェンドライダー (2016), роль
- All Elite Wrestling: Collision (2023), роль
- Мой папа – рестлер-злодей (2018), роль
- 99.9 -刑事専門弁護士- (2016), роль
- AEW Double or Nothing 2025 (2025), роль
- AEW x NJPW Presents Forbidden Door 2022 (2022), роль
- AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door 2025 (2025), роль
- AEW x NJPW Present Forbidden Door 2023 (2023), роль
- AEW x NJPW Present Forbidden Door 2024 (2024), роль
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 16 (2023), роль
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 17 (2023), роль
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12 (2018), роль
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 13 (2019), роль
- New Japan Pro Wrestling (1972)
- 株式会社スターダム (2011), роль
- ROH: Supercard of Honor 2023 (2023), роль
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom II (2008), роль
- NJPW Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall 2017 (2017), роль
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 5 (2019), роль