Hirotaka Yokoi
- January 6, 2024
- Judoka
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Hirotaka Yokoi Biography
| Name | Hirotaka Yokoi |
| Birthday | Jun 8 |
| Birth Year | 1978 |
| Place Of Birth | Iwamizawa |
| Home Town | Hokkaido |
| Birth Country | Japan |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
Hirotaka Yokoi is one of the most popular and richest Judoka who was born on June 8, 1978 in Iwamizawa, Hokkaido, Japan. Hirotaka Yoki (Heng Jing Hung Kao) was born June 8, 1978. He is a former Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler. From 2000 to 2007, Yokoi was a professional MMA fighter. In professional wrestling, he primarily wrestled for Pro Wrestling Zero.
Yokoi, who made his debut at the organization against Jerrel Venetiaan (Dutch kickboxer), November 24, 2002 at Pride 23 won the third round via armbar submission.
After the All Japan affair, Yokoi diversified to his singles career aside from Rowdy, and challenged The Predator for the Zero-One United States Heavyweight Championship and Masato Tanaka for the NWA United National Heavyweight Championship. He and Sato also challenged for the NWA tag team titles several times, but they failed. From 2004 to 2006, Yokoi competed sporadically in Hustle as a member of the babyface Hustle Army, teaming up with “Hustle K” Toshiaki Kawada, while trying luck in Zero-One’s Fire Festival tournaments and keeping his team with Kohei Sato. He was released from Zero-One in February 2007, leaving pro wrestling altogether.
After picking up a TKO win over Wilson Gouveia, the undefeated Yokoi fought former Pride Heavyweight Champion Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira in the opening round of the Pride Total Elimination 2004 tournament. Yokoi performed unexpectedly well, taking Nogueira down repeatedly with judo throws and pulling out reversals and occasional ground and pound on the Brazilian jiu- jitsu expert, but he ultimately fell to an anaconda choke in the second round for the first loss of his career.
Yokoi was a member of Pro Wrestling Zero1 since May 2002. He began to team up with other shoot-style wrestlers like Yuki Ishikawa, Wataru Sakata and Yoshiaki Fujiwara. He also won significant victories in the Fire Festival beating Kohei Sato, Tetsuhiro Kunroda. The rest of the year he was involved in random tag team matches and lost to Shinjiro Okani and Kazuhiko Ozawara. In the midst of the feud between native wrestlers, Steve Corino’s American faction, he formed a tag-team with Kohei Sato. They challenged Corino, CW Anderson, for the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship on two occasions, but came up short in each.
Hirotaka Yokoi Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Judoka |
| House | Living in own house. |
Hirotaka Yokoi is one of the richest Judoka from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hirotaka Yokoi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Yokoi started his training in judo as a high school student, but he became more interested in Universal Wrestling Federation (and its offshoots). During his time at Kinki University, he participated in Shooto mixed martial art tournaments. He later moved to Fighting Network RINGS. Yokoi was given the nickname “Kaibutsu” (meaning “Monsterkun”) because of his physical resemblance with the title character in the 1980s anime Kaibutsu.
Yokoi made a professional debut in 2000. He won his first eight fights in the RINGS organisation before moving to PRIDE. He joined the Alliance team after Tsuyoshi KOHSA’s death.
Around the same time, in which their team was named as Rowdy, they started appearing in All Japan Pro Wrestling as Zero-One representatives. Sato and Yokoi put their eyes in the All Asia Tag Team Championship, taking part in a special league for the vacated title. Rowdy was successful, winning the belts against Turmeric Storm (Kazushi Miyamoto and Tomoaki Honma) in July 2003. They retained the title against challengers like King Adamo and King Joe and Nobukazu Hirai and Shigeo Okumura, but ended up losing it in October to the Zero-One team of Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 5 ft 10 in |
Hirotaka Yokoi height 5 ft 10 in Hirotaka weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
Who is Hirotaka Yokoi Dating?
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Facts & Trivia
Hirotaka Ranked on the list of most popular Judoka. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Hirotaka Yokoi celebrates birthday on June 8 of every year.