Toshiaki Kawada

Quick Facts

Full Name	Toshiaki Kawada
Occupation	Professional Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Dec 8, 1963(1963-12-08)
Age	61
Birthplace	Shimotsuga District
Country	Japan
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Toshiaki Kawada Biography

Toshiaki Kawada is one of the most popular and richest Professional Wrestler who was born on December 8, 1963 in Shimotsuga District, Japan.

Kawada was very active during his high school years in amateur wrestling, becoming a national champion in his senior year after defeating Keiichi Yamada (who later became Jyushin Thunder Liger in professional wrestling) in the finals. Kawada attended the same high school as Misawa, who was one year Kawada’s senior. Initially, he wanted to join the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) dojo, however, Misawa convinced him to try out for rival All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) instead. He made his professional wrestling debut at the age of 18 on October 4, 1982 for AJPW, competing against future tag partner Hiromichi Fuyuki. Kawada was then sent to North America for a year in November 1985, where he gained experience as a professional wrestler in Fred Behrend’s Texas All-Star Wrestling (San Antonio, Texas), Stu Hart’s Stampede Wrestling (in Calgary) and Frank Valois’ International Wrestling (in Montreal); despite having no Korean heritage, Kawada was billed as “Kio Kawata” from Seoul, South Korea in Stampede Wrestling for a very short time around June 1986. Reportedly unhappy with his time overseas, Kawada has rarely spoken about his experiences in America in subsequent years.

His first major break came in 1987 when he joined his mentor Genichiro Tenryu’s “Revolution” group. Kawada was paired with Hiromichi Fuyuki, forming a tag team known as “Footloose”. The duo held the All Asia Tag Team Championship on three occasions between March 9, 1988 and October 20, 1989; their standout rivalries were against Shunji Takano and Shinichi Nakano, as well as against the Can-Am Express (Dan Kroffat and Doug Furnas). When Revolution stable mate Ashura Hara was expelled from All Japan in 1988 for gambling debts, Kawada was promoted to team with Tenryu in that year’s World’s Strongest Tag Determination League, losing a memorable final match to Stan Hansen and Terry Gordy.

Toshiaki Kawada Net Worth

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

Toshiaki Kawada (川田 利明 , Kawada Toshiaki) (born December 8, 1963) is a Japanese semi-retired professional wrestler best known for his work in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), whom he worked for from his debut in 1982 up until

2008. In All Japan, he was a 5 time Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, a 9 time World Tag Team Champion, three time winner of the Real World Tag League and a two time winner of the Champion Carnival. He was also recognised as the ace of the promotion from 2000–2005.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Kawada spent much of 1996 in Giant Baba’s doghouse for publicly questioning All Japan’s isolationist promotional policy at a time when rival New Japan drew record business running interpromotional matches; he watched Taue and Kobashi win the Triple Crown in the place of what looked to be the time for “his push”. Kawada worked one interpromotional match on a major UWFi show, but All Japan chose not to follow up on either a promotional feud with UWFi nor on the sudden attention Kawada drew. He was allowed out of the doghouse in time for Kawada & Taue to break through in 1996 to win the World’s Strongest Tag Determination League for the first time, beating Misawa and Jun Akiyama. Kawada pinned Misawa for the first time in a singles match in the 1997 Carnival Finals mini-round robin, then followed up to pin Kobashi the same night to win the Canival championship for the second time; neither win had quite the impact one would expect given the results. Kawada and Taue would take their second straight World Tag League championship to close out year that saw both spend much of it in the shadows of Misawa and Kobashi. The crowning moment of Kawada’s career came on May 1, 1998, as he pinned Misawa for the second time to win the Triple Crown at All Japan’s first Tokyo Dome show AJPW 25th Anniversary. However, he was promptly defeated by Kobashi on June 12, 1998, in his first title defense. After receiving little singles push over the last half of 1998, Kawada was given (with no build up) a Triple Crown match against Misawa on January 22, 1999; in something of a surprise, Kawada took his second straight Triple Crown match against Misawa to win with title for the third time. However, he broke his arm during the match and vacated the title the following day. Kawada returned in May 1999, but would revert to the sidelines due to an eye injury in August. He didn’t return until January 2000, but suffered high-profile losses to Kobashi, Vader, and Misawa. In June 2000, Kawada and Taue won the World Tag Team Championship for the sixth time, breaking a record they shared with not only Jumbo Tsuruta and Yoshiaki Yatsu, but Terry Gordy and Steve Williams as well.

Facts & Trivia

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After losing the titles to Satoshi Kojima on February 16, 2005, Kawada signed a contract with Dream Stage Entertainment, the parent company of PRIDE Fighting Championships. Kawada made the sports entertainment based HUSTLE promotion his new home, and immediately turned heel in 2005; he turned his back on his young student Taichi Ishikari and friends Shinjiro Ohtani and Naoya Ogawa of the HUSTLE Army to join the dastardly Monster Army, led by Generalissimo Takada and swimsuit model Yinling the Erotic Terrorist. Due to the way Kawada’s contract with DSE was structured, he was free to work where he pleased (including New Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Noah, and other various independent groups). However, when All Japan reopened relations with FEG to begin running WRESTLE-1 shows again in 2005 with the parent company of PRIDE’s biggest competitor in Japan (that being the K-1 fighting group, run by FEG), DSE requested that Kawada not work for All Japan any longer because of the conflict of interest. On July 18, 2005, at the Tokyo Dome, Kawada wrestled one final 27-minute classic against his old rival Mitsuharu Misawa.