Report Last Updated - 12/07 (Winter)
Real Name - Yoshinari Ogawa
Birthdate - 11/2/66
5'11" 198 lbs. - Toride, Ibaragi, Japan

Aliases - none

Athletic background - Baseball

Professional background - All Japan(`84-`00), NOAH(`00-)

Groups - WAVE

Career Highlights -
- Defeats Dan Kroffat to win the All Japan Junior Heavyweight title
- Beats Tsuyoshi Kikuchi to hold the title for a second time
- Defeats Satoru Asako in a 5-man tournament to win the belt for a third and final time
- Teams with Mitsuharu Misawa (Untouchables) to beat Takao Omari & Yoshihiro Takayama for the AJPW Tag titles
- Beats Jun Akiyama in a huge upset to win the GHC Heavyweight title

Finisher(s) -
- Pinning Back Suplex
- Bridged Cross Leg Rollup

Favorites -
- Chin Crusher
- DDT
- Fisherman Suplex
- Enzugiri
- Bionic Elbow

Ringwork Rating -
move set - 5
science - 2
aerial - 1
power - 6
strikes - 5

Intangible Rating -
entertainment - 6
selling - 7
bumping - 7
heat - 6
carrying - 5
push - 7
potential - 3

Outlook - Since jumping to NOAH, Yoshinori Ogawa has bounced up and down the card. In All Japan, he frequently held the junior heavyweight and enjoyed success as Mitsuharu Misawa's tag partner. However, NOAH was a different environment. Their junior division was beyond Ogawa's abilities, so he spent most of his time in tags matches. Though he was given the GHC title (a failure by most accounts), Ogawa is just not a legit top contender. Ogawa's lack of size makes him an underdog, however he prefers to act heelish. The safest bet is to stick him with a partner and stay in tag matches. Ogawa is a good hand, who has been pushed for so long that he has some credibility. Unfortunately for him, he is just not top heavyweight material. Now in his forties and past his physical prime, Yoshinori Ogawa has little to offer NOAH aside from a body in the midcard.