Profile Info
- Gender Male
- Real Name Toru Yano (矢野 通)
- Ring Names
- Toru Yano ( May 18, 2002 - Present)
- Height 6 ft 1 in (186 cm)
- Weight
- 254 lbs (115 kg)
- Born May 18, 1978 (age 44)
- Birth Place Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan
- Billed From
- Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan
- Nicknames Binwan Purodyūsā (Skilled Producer); Suko Naru Dai Dorobo (Sublime Master Thief); YTR
Career History
- Roles
- Wrestler ( May 18, 2002 - Present)
- Companies / Promotions
Promotion from to Promotion May 18, 2002 Present Promotion NOAH
April 21, 2016 November 23, 2016 - Face / Heel Turns
Alignment from to Face May 4, 2014 Present Heel April 1, 2004 May 3, 2014 Face May 18, 2002 March 31, 2004 - Images
Jan 2015Apr 2004May 2002
- Finishers
- Oni-Koroshi - Kneeling Powerbomb ( May 18, 2002 - Present)
- Aka-Kiri - Head and Leg Hook Inside Cradle ( April 1, 2004 - Present)
- Kuro-Kirishima - Modified Schoolboy ( April 1, 2004 - Present)
- Urakasumi - Leg Hook Front Facelock rolled into a Cradle ( April 1, 2004 - Present)
- Kagami-Wari - Scoop Brainbuster ( May 3, 2010 - May 3, 2014)
- Theme Songs
- Theme Song "intoxication?" by New Japan Pro Wrestling - Single ( January 4, 2018 - Present)
- Theme Song "Original Kyoku" by New Japan Pro Wrestling - Single ( April 1, 2004 - January 3, 2018)
- Theme Song "trick・ster" by Yonosuke Kitamura - with Great Bash Heel - Team ( October 16, 2006 - April 23, 2009)
Titles & Accomplishments
- Titles Won
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
- 3 IWGP Tag Team Championship (1 with Togi Makabe, 1 with Takashi Iizuka, 1 with Tomohiro Ishii)
- 4 NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (2 with Jay & Mark Briscoe, 1 with Beretta & Tomohiro Ishii, 1 with Ryusuke Taguchi & Togi Makabe)
- 2 KOPW Championship (2020, 2021)
- 4 Provisional KOPW Championship
Pro Wrestling Noah
- 2 GHC Tag Team Championship (1 with Takashi Iizuka, 1 with Naomichi Marufuji)
Apache Pro-Wrestling Army
- 1 WEW Heavyweight Championship
European Wrestling Promotion
- 1 EWP Tag Team Championship (with Kendo Kashin)
- Other Accomplishments
- NJPW New Japan Rambo Winner (2021)
- NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling Title Tournament Winner (2020)
- PW Noah Global Tag League Winner (2016 – with Naomichi Marufuji)
- EWP Tag Team Title Tournament Winner (2005 – with Kendo Kashin)
- Tokyo Sports Best Bout Award (2011 - with Takashi Iizuka vs. Keiji Mutoh & Kenta Kobashi, All Together)
- Tokyo Sports Best Tag Team Award (2007 - with Togi Makabe)
Relations
- Tag Teams & Stables
- CHAOS - Alex Koslov, Brian Kendrick, Chuck Taylor / Chuckie T., Davey Richards, Gedo, Hirooki Goto, Jado, Jay White, Karl Anderson, Kazuchika Okada, Kris Statlander, Low Ki, Masato Tanaka, Matt Bloom / Albert / Tensai / Giant Bernard, Nick Miller / Mikey Nicholls, Orange Cassidy, Robbie Eagles, Rocky Romero, Shinsuke Nakamura, SHO, Tetsuya Naito, Tomohiro Ishii, Trent Beretta / Barreta, Wheeler YUTA, Will Ospreay, YOH, YOSHI-HASHI, Yujiro Takahashi, Takashi Iizuka, Kazushi Sakuraba ( April 23, 2009 - Present)
- Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii - Tomohiro Ishii ( March 4, 2006 - Present)
- Taguchi Japan - David Finlay, Hiromu Takahashi, Juice Robinson / CJ Parker, Kushida, Ryusuke Taguchi ( January 4, 2019 - June 24, 2019)
- Naomichi Marufuji & Toru Yano - Naomichi Marufuji ( April 21, 2016 - November 23, 2016)
- CHAOS Top Team - Shinsuke Nakamura ( August 1, 2011 - January 30, 2016)
- Crazy Ichizoku - Takashi Iizuka ( April 23, 2009 - May 25, 2014)
- Great Bash Heel - Gedo, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Jado, Karl Anderson, Low Ki, Matt Bloom / Albert / Tensai / Giant Bernard, Rocky Romero, Shinsuke Nakamura, Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma, Tomohiro Ishii, Val Venis, Takashi Iizuka, Shiro Koshinaka, Rick Fuller, Black Tiger V ( October 16, 2006 - April 23, 2009)
- Most Violent Players - Togi Makabe ( August 13, 2004 - April 23, 2009)
- Black New Japan - Super Strong Machine / Junji Hirata, Togi Makabe, Masahiro Chono, Ryushi Yanagisawa, Scott Norton ( April 1, 2005 - September 22, 2005)