Tetsuhiro Kuroda is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently competing as a freelancer on the Japanese independent circuit.
44 Facts About Tetsuhiro Kuroda
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda is best known for his time with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, where he primarily competed from 1993 until the promotion's closure in 2002.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda started his FMW career after being trained at the FMW Dojo in 1993 and initially worked in low-card matches as an enhancement talent during his initial years with the company until he joined Atsushi Onita's ZEN faction in 1997, earning his first title shot at the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship and the FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship that December.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda would remain a part of many factions throughout the late 1990s and began rising to the main event status, winning his first WEW Heavyweight Championship in 2000.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda headlined the company's flagship event FMW Anniversary Show in 2001.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda won several championships in his career including being a four-time WEW Heavyweight Champion.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda was a highly decorated tag team champion, winning the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship once, the WEW World Tag Team Championship ten times, the FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship three times, the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship four times, the All Asia Tag Team Championship two times and the WMG Tag Team Championship once.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda began his professional wrestling career in January 1993, when he was trained by Pro Wrestling Crusaders at their dojo and made his debut on March 18,1993, against Hideki Hosaka.
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PWC closed after a few months and Tetsuhiro Kuroda resumed his training at the Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling dojo.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda remained in the low card for many years in the company and was usually utilized in opening matches on the card and served as an enhancement talent against higher level opponents, winning against only lesser known talent.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda was often paired with fellow newcomer Tanaka in mid-card matches during the early years of his career and often wrestled Tanaka, Koji Nakagawa and Gosaku Goshogawara.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda received the first championship match of his career on May 19,1996, by teaming with Masato Tanaka and Katsutoshi Niiyama against Super Leather and The Headhunters for the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship but were defeated.
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Five days later, at Kawasaki Legend: Fall Spectacular, Tetsuhiro Kuroda won a royal rumble match by last eliminating Ricky Fuji to win a cheque of 10,000,000 yens.
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On January 7,1998, Onita, Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda competed at ZEN's first promoted show and scored a win against Gannosuke, Kanemura and Hido to gain revenge.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda played an important role in ZEN's rivalry with TNR.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda began 1999 by competing in high-profile matches with Hayabusa and the returning Masato Tanaka.
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Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda participated in a round robin tournament for the vacant Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship, in which they defeated Hido and Yukihiro Kanemura, Hideki Hosaka and Super Leather, Hisakatsu Oya and Mr Gannosuke, and Armageddon.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda received his title match in the main event against Kodo Fuyuki and was defeated.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda continued to side with Hayabusa, who had transformed into H to battle Fuyuki and his allies.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeated Masato Tanaka in singles competition for the first time in his career to win his first WEW Heavyweight Championship on January 5,2000.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda would remain out of the title picture for the next few months and competed with H against Fuyuki and his allies.
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At Deep Throat, Tetsuhiro Kuroda forced Gannosuke to retire by defeating him in a match by debuting his new finishing move Technan Buster DDT, which stipulated that Gannosuke would have to retire on losing due to his insane behaviour.
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Later that night, Tetsuhiro Kuroda began turning into a villain by attacking Hayabusa, who was taking a hiatus due to injury.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda then proclaimed that he would become the new ace of FMW.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda hit a lariat on Inoue, costing her the match against Fuyuki.
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Garuda left FMW and Tetsuhiro Kuroda became the new ace of FMW.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda won the WEW Tag Team Championship with Kintaro Kanemura by defeating GENTARO and Takeshi Sasaki on March 11,2003.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda represented WEW in the company's prestigious 2002 Fire Festival, where he reached the finals by topping his Block B with six points and lost to Shinjiro Otani in the final round.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda formed a stable with GOEMON, Hisakatsu Oya and Soldier called Brand Double Cross and the group became the top villainous group of the company.
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In early 2003, Tetsuhiro Kuroda teamed with Chocoball Mukai to participate in Pro Wrestling NOAH's first Differ Cup tournament, in which they lost to Kudo and Mikami in the quarter-final.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda next participated in the 2003 Fire Festival, in which he scored four points and failed to qualify for the final.
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Gannosuke and Tetsuhiro Kuroda lost the title to The Great Kosuke and Shiryu on January 2,2004, at an AJPW event.
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Kintaro Kanemura formed a freelancer stable of former FMW wrestlers called Apache Army and Tetsuhiro Kuroda was a part of the group.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda participated in his third straight Fire Festival in the summer of 2004, in which he scored only three points.
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At Hustle-8, Tetsuhiro Kuroda participated in a battle royal to determine the promotion's inaugural Hardcore Hero Champion.
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On January 28,2006, Tetsuhiro Kuroda debuted for New Japan Pro-Wrestling by teaming with Kintaro Kanemura and Hido against Control Terrorism Unit, with the match ending in a no contest after Apache Army and CTU began brawling with each other.
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On January 8,2007, Tetsuhiro Kuroda unsuccessfully challenged Togi Makabe for the WEW Heavyweight Championship.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda worked many shows for Hustle as Kurodaman while teaming with Kintaman from 2007 to 2009.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda received subsequent title shots for the WEW Heavyweight Championship in 2008 against Mammoth Sasaki and Tomohiro Ishii but failed to win the title.
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In 2009, Tetsuhiro Kuroda participated in his fourth Fire Festival, where he lost three out of four matches in his block, winning only against Daisuke Sekimoto.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda unsuccessfully challenged Arashi for the WEW Heavyweight Championship on February 29,2012, but defeated Arashi in a rematch to win the title for the third time on April 26.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeated Kintaro Kanemura, Manjimaru, Arashi and Takeshi Minamino to win the tournament and his fourth WEW Heavyweight Championship.
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Tetsuhiro Kuroda lost the title to Kintaro Kanemura in a street fight on September 1,2013.
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On January 5,2017, Tetsuhiro Kuroda debuted for the resurrected FMW under the Cho Sento Puroresu FMW name by competing with Masato Tanaka and NOSAWA Rongai against Atsushi Onita, Hideki Hosaka and Ricky Fuji in a losing effort.