Yoshiaki Yatsu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yoshiaki Yatsu
Occupation	Professional Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Jul 19, 1956(1956-07-19)
Age	68
Birthplace	Ora, Israel
Country	Israel
Birth City	Jerusalem District
Horoscope	Cancer

Yoshiaki Yatsu Biography

Yoshiaki Yatsu is one of the most popular and richest Professional Wrestler who was born on July 19, 1956 in Ora, Israel, Jerusalem District, Israel. Yoshiaki Yatsu (Gu Jin Jia Zhu Yatsu Yoshiaki) is a Japanese professional wrestler. He was born July 19, 1956. He is well-known for being part of the first ever World Tag Team Champions with Jumbo Turuta. He won the NWA International Tag Team Championship as well as the PWF Tag Team Championship. This unification brought the two titles together.

To fulfill his Olympic dream, Yatsu decided to take a break from professional wrestling in 1986. After winning the 1986 Japanese National Championship in super heavyweight and training for the 1987 Asian Wrestling Championships in Tokyo, the International Olympic Committee declared Yatsu a professional wrestler and banned him not only from that competition but also from the 1988 Summer Olympics. Yatsu did not appeal the decision, which shocked many.

After spending multiple years out of the spotlight, Yatsu, aged 44, received a big money offer to fight for mixed martial arts promotion Pride Fighting Championships. On October 31, 2000, Yatsu faced Gary Goodridge in Osaka. Yatsu, who hadn’t had any stand-up training at all and hadn’t wrestled in 13 years, was defeated at 8:58 in the first round. Despite being dominated, Yatsu received a standing ovation from the crowd due to the amount of damage he absorbed without quitting, even trying a leglock at a point. The two were booked in a rematch on September 24, 2001. Goodridge again dominated the fight, got Yatsu in a guillotine choke and asked for his corner to throw in the towel, which they did.

In recent years, Yatsu has been the president of a transportation company. On November 30, 2010, he returned to the professional wrestling ring to wrestle his retirement match. The match took place in front of 500 fans at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, and saw Yatsu and Koji Ishinriki losing to Tatsumi Fujinami and Tiger Mask, when Yatsu submitted to Fujinami.

He would have been eligible to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. But Japan chose not to support the American-led boycott.

Yoshiaki Yatsu Net Worth

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

Yatsu, then 20, competed in amateur wrestling in Montreal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He didn’t place in the tournament.

Yatsu was the first person to announce his plans to become a professional wrestler in 1980, just after Japan had decided not to send any of their athletes to the Summer Olympics in Moscow. In just a few short years, Yatsu was a regular headliner at New Japan Pro-Wrestling, before joining Riki Choshu. He left All Japan Pro Wrestling in 1984. Yatsu and Choshu created a tag team in All Japan, which won the NWA International Tag Team Championship.

While Yatsu was training for his Olympic dream, Choshu left All Japan and returned to New Japan. Upon his return to professional wrestling, Yatsu decided not to join his tag team partner in New Japan, but to stay in All Japan. Afterwards, All Japan broke up the tag team of Genichiro Tenryu and Jumbo Tsuruta and made Tsuruta Yatsu’s new tag team partner. The tag team, known as “The Olympics”, would go on to win the World Tag Team Championship five times, the PWF World Tag Team Championship once and in 1987 the team also won the World’s Strongest Tag Determination League. In 1990 the team broke up when Yatsu jumped to Super World of Sports. In 1991, while working for the promotion, Yatsu unsuccessfully challenged Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship. When Super World of Sports folded in 1992, Yatsu formed his own promotion Social Pro Wrestling Federation (SPWF), but would wrestle himself only semi-regularly. In 1994 he returned to New Japan to take part in the G1 Climax tournament.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Facts & Trivia

Yoshiaki Ranked on the list of most popular Professional Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Israel. Yoshiaki Yatsu celebrates birthday on July 19 of every year.