Tetsuhiro Kuroda | |
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Birth name | Tetsuhiro Kuroda |
Born | Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan | November 23, 1971
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Tetsuhiro Kuroda Kurodaman |
Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Billed weight | 100 kg (220 lb) |
Trained by | Pro Wrestling Crusaders Dojo FMW Dojo |
Debut | March 18, 1993 |
Tetsuhiro Kuroda (黒田 哲広, Kuroda Tetsuhiro, born 23 November 1971) is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently competing as a freelancer on the Japanese independent circuit. He is best known for his time with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), where he primarily competed from 1993 until the promotion's closure in 2002.
He 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. He 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. By the end of the year, the underdog Kuroda established himself as the company's top villain and formed his own group Team Kuroda to feud with the company's top fan favorite Hayabusa. He headlined the company's flagship event FMW Anniversary Show in 2001.
Kuroda won several championships in his career including being a four-time WEW Heavyweight Champion. He 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.[1]