Report Last Updated - 12/07 (Winter)
Real Name - Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Birthdate - 9/23/73
5'8" 172 bs. - Yamanashi, Japan

Aliases - none

Athletic background - Baseball (Yamanasi Institute University)

Professional background - All Japan(`95-`00), NOAH(`00-)

Groups - BURNING, STERNNESS

Career Highlights -
- Wins the 1999 Junior Heavyweight Battle Royal
- Wins the 2000 Asunaro Cup
- Becomes the first GHC Junior Heavyweight champion by defeating Juventud Guerrara
- Regains the Junior title in a tournament to fill its vacany
- Teams with Tsuyoshi Kikuchi to win the IWGP Junior tag titles

Finisher(s) -
- Touch Out (Spinning Brainbuster)
- Deep Impact (Flying DDT)
- Moonsault
- Kanemaru Clutch

Favorites -
- Springing Enzui Legdrop (opponent on guardrail)
- Hollywood Star Press (Split-Legged Moonsault)
- Slingshot Somersault Splash
- Frog Splash
- Low Blow

Ringwork Rating -
move set - 8
science - 3
aerial - 5
power - 7
strikes - 7

Intangible Rating -
entertainment - 7
selling - 8
bumping - 8
heat - 6
carrying - 8
push - 7
potential - 4

Outlook - Yoshinobu Kanemaru is one of NOAH’s most consistently strong workers and has been since the company began. In All Japan, he had been one of the juniors who was going nowhere fast. Now he is the established one and more dynamic and more youthful wrestlers are nipping at his heels. NOAH’s junior division has become the best in the world with amazing depth and prospects. Kanemaru is the division’s perennial champion and backbone and probably will retain that role for a few more years.