Tomoaki Honma

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tomoaki Honma
Occupation	Professional Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Nov 18, 1976(1976-11-18)
Age	48
Birthplace	Higashine
Country	Japan
Birth City	Yamagata Prefecture
Horoscope	Scorpio

Tomoaki Honma Biography

Tomoaki Honma is one of the most popular and richest Professional Wrestler who was born on November 18, 1976 in Higashine, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Tomoaki Honma (Ben Jian Peng Huang , Honma Tomoaki, born on November 18th 1976) is a Japanese professional wrestler who is currently employed by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) as freelancer. In NJPW Honma is a former IWGP Tag Team Champion and double World Tag League winner with Togi Makabe.

As of 2005, Honma joined Kensuke’s Kensuke Office agency in an effort to enhance his professional standing. A serious neck injury prevented him from working for a good portion of the first half of 2006 but he returned in March of the same year. Honma announced his resignation at AJPW on April 28th, 2006 and then became an independent contractor. Through the course of 2006, he was working for Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max as well as King’s Road, where he revived Turmeric Storm with Kazushi Miyamoto. The 24th of September, 2006 Tomoaki Honma and Jun Kasai took home the Apache Pro-Wrestling Army’s WEW World Tag Team Championship from Takashi Sasaki and Badboy Hido. The team was disqualified from the championship on the 20th of February the 20th of February, 2007.

On March 23, 2013, Honma returned to NJPW, saving Togi Makabe from Chaos. It was later revealed that Honma would be working for NJPW full-time as a freelancer. The reunited GBH had their first match back together on April 7 at Invasion Attack, where they were defeated by Masato Tanaka and Yujiro Takahashi in a tag team match. On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2013, Honma unsuccessfully challenged Tanaka for the NEVER Openweight Championship. Honma received another shot at the title a year later at Wrestling Dontaku 2014, but was again defeated by the defending champion, Tomohiro Ishii. From July 21 to August 8, 2014, Honma took part in his first G1 Climax as a late replacement for an injured Kota Ibushi, losing all ten of his matches and finishing last in his block. Honma’s struggle in the tournament made him one of the most popular wrestlers in all of NJPW, creating a movement called “Honmania”. In November, Honma took part in the 2014 World Tag League, alongside Togi Makabe. The two finished last in their block with a record of three wins and four losses. The series of losses built to a big win on January 4, 2015, at Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome, where Honma, Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima defeated Bullet Club’s Bad Luck Fale, Jeff Jarrett and Yujiro Takahashi, with Honma pinning Takahashi for the win. On February 14 at The New Beginning in Sendai, Honma replaced an ill Togi Makabe in a match for the now vacant NEVER Openweight Championship, but was defeated by Tomohiro Ishii. During July and August, Honma took part in the 2015 G1 Climax. After losing his first seven matches in the tournament, Honma finally picked up his first ever win in the tournament over Tomohiro Ishii on August 12. After losing his final match against Yujiro Takahashi, Honma again finished last in his block with a record of one win and eight losses. Honma’s win over Ishii led to him unsuccessfully challenging Ishii for the NEVER Openweight Championship on November 7 at Power Struggle. In December, Honma and Makabe won their block in the 2015 World Tag League with a record of four wins and two losses, advancing to the finals of the tournament.

In November 2015, Honma’s former girlfriend of 18 years, fellow professional wrestler Kiyoko Ichiki, accused him of domestic violence over the past four years. Honma denied the accusation, instead claiming that he was abused by her and stating that he was seeking legal action against her for trying to damage his career.

In the course of 2006 Honma was a part of the New Japan Professional- Wrestling’s (NJPW) Wrestle Land sub-brand as “Makai Masked Canadian”, an masked member from the Makai Club faction. Honma took part at the New Japan Cup tournament, losing against veteran Takashi Iizuka during his initial round. Before the game, Honma was interested in joining Hiroyoshi Tenzan’s GBH group, and was accepted after making a good impression of Tenzan However, Tenzan became disenchanted with Honma’s struggles to win and he compelled Honma to go through an initial trial series in order to show that he is a member of GBH. After completing his trial series with a loss record, Honma was initially kicked out of GBH however, he was allowed to stay within the group after Togi Makabe assumed the group’s management. Then, in April of 2009 Honma demonstrated his support for Makabe by staying in GBH following the departure of other members of the group departed to join the Chaos faction, which included Shinsuke Nakamura.

Tomoaki Honma Net Worth

Tomoaki Honma is one of the richest Professional Wrestler from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tomoaki Honma 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In his second year of the high school system, Honma began to dream of becoming a member of the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) dojo. He participated in a trial however, he was not successful and began to train elsewhere. Honma eventually was a part of Michinoku Pro Wrestling over one year, but he did not make his debut as a member of Michinoku Pro however, he instead, he spent his initial time with Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) and made his debut for the promotion in the month of May 1997. After wrestling in the opening matches of this promotion Honma started competing in the deathmatch division of BJW. As a member of BJW Honma was the first wrestler to utilize the lightube during matches, an item that has been a symbol of deathmatch wrestling across the world. Then, in October of 2000 Honma quit BJW after disagreements with management of the company.

After performing with various independent promotions, including IWA Japan, Onita Pro along with Rainbow Pro, Honma debuted in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) on the 24th of November 2001, when she took on Nobukazu Hirai. Honma was offered by the owner Motoko Baba in the company and signed a long-term contract with the organization at the end of March. Then, in the month of February 2003, Honma joined Turmeric Storm with Kazushi Miyamoto The team then ended up disbanding on April 20 2004 after they lost an initial series.

On December 23, 2011, Honma received a rare championship opportunity, when he challenged for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship in the main event of a NJPW show at Korakuen Hall, losing to champion Masato Tanaka at the end of a 23 minute bout. On March 28, 2012, New Japan announced that the promotion had released Honma from his contract due to a “personal problem”. Following his release from NJPW, Honma returned to AJPW on September 8, 2012, where he remained for the rest of the year and much of early 2013. In March 2013, Honma began appearing in Pro Wrestling Noah, where he took part in the 2013 Global Tag League with Akitoshi Saito. The duo finished the tournament with one win and two points.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Tomoaki Honma height 5 ft 11 in Tomoaki weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Tomoaki Honma Dating?

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On March 19, 2019, he appeared in the first match of New Japan Cup 2019 in a team consisting of Yota Tsuji, Ren Narita and Shota Umino.

Facts & Trivia

Tomoaki Ranked on the list of most popular Professional Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Tomoaki Honma celebrates birthday on November 18 of every year.