Satoshi Kojima
![Kojima in 2023](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/20230122cozy1.jpg)
is a Japanese
professional wrestler. He is currently signed to
New Japan Pro-Wrestling, but he makes appearances for
Pro Wrestling Noah,
All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) and
Major League Wrestling (MLW), where he is the current
MLW World Heavyweight Champion in his second reign and one-half of the current
MLW World Tag Team Champions in his first reign (with
Shigeo Okumura). Considered to be one of the greatest Japanese professional wrestlers of the 21st century and of all-time, he was the first wrestler to hold NJPW's
IWGP Heavyweight Championship and AJPW's
Triple Crown Championship simultaneously, the fourth to win the three major heavyweight championships in Japan with the Triple Crown Heavyweight, IWGP Heavyweight, and Noah's
GHC Heavyweight Championship, and one of three wrestlers to hold the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, Triple Crown Championship, and
NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship (the other two being
Keiji Mutoh and
Shinya Hashimoto), and is an overall eight-time
world champion in major
professional wrestling promotions.
As a team, he and
Hiroyoshi Tenzan are
six-time IWGP Tag Team Champions and became the first team to win
G1 Tag League and
World's Strongest Tag Determination League in the same year. He and Tenzan are also former
NWA World Tag Team Champions. Between the NWA, AJPW, NJPW, and Noah, Kojima has held 20 total championships.
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