Satoshi Kojima Satoshi Kojima ( September 4 , 1970 ) is a Japanese professional wrestler and currently works as a freelancer in Japan . As a singles wrestler , he was the first wrestler to hold NJPW ' s IWGP Heavyweight Championship and AJPW ' s Triple Crown Championship simultaneously . As a team , he and Hiroyoshi Tenzan became the first team to won G1 Climax Tag League and World ' s Strongest Tag Team League on the same year . In New Japan Pro Wrestling , Kojima is the current IWGP Heavyweight Champion in his second reign . Before Wrestling . Like many Japanese wrestlers , Kojima has a background in Judo , but he chose not to continue the sport when he went to college . He got his start loading trucks for New Japan Pro Wrestling & after some months of persuasion finally convinced head trainer Animal Hamaguchi to accept him into the dojo . Career . New Japan Pro Wrestling ( 1991 – 2002 ) . Kojima entered the New Japan Pro Wrestling dojo in February 1991 . He debuted as a wrestler on September 14 in a match against Hiroyoshi Yamamoto , who would later adopt the stage name of Hiroyoshi Tenzan . In 1994 he defeated Manabu Nakanishi in the Young Lions Cup finals , winning the tournament . In the end of that year he went to Europe , and returned to NJPW in January 1996 . When he returned , he formed The Bull Powers with Nakanishi , who had returned from WCW . In May 1997 he defeated Riki Chōshū and Kensuke Sasaki with Nakanishi to become an IWGP Tag Team Champion for the first time . At the end of 1998 he joined nWo Japan , by Keiji Mutoh ' s leadership . Kojima and Tenzan ( known together as Ten - Koji , a portemanteau of their last names ) formed a tag team and ended up holding the IWGP Tag Team titles together two times . All Japan Pro Wrestling ( 2002 – 2010 ) . In January 2002 , in opposition to Antonio Inoki focusing the IWGP title on unreliable shoot style wrestlers such as Kazuyuki Fujita and Tadao Yasuda , Kojima left NJPW with his mentor Keiji Mutoh , and joined All Japan Pro Wrestling where he was finally able to receive the push of a top star . He held both of the company ' s tag team titles , the AJPW Double Cup Tag Team Championship twice . On February 16 , 2005 , he won the Triple Crown , AJPW ' s unified heavyweight championship from Toshiaki Kawada . Only four days later he won NJPW ' s heavyweight championship , the IWGP Heavyweight Championship , from his former tag team partner Hiroyoshi Tenzan in a cross - promotional double title match . On May 14 , 2005 , Tenzan won the IWGP title back , but not the Triple Crown . Upon joining AJPW , Kojima began to use the Great Koji ( copying The Great Muta ) and Great Kosuke ( copying The Great Sasuke ) personas for special matches . On July 3 , 2006 Kojima lost the Triple Crown to Taiyō Kea . Three days later it was revealed that Kojima would return to New Japan to compete in the 2006 G - 1 Climax , where he would go to lose in the finals against former tag team partner and rival Hiroyoshi Tenzan . In October 2006 it was announced that TenKoji would reform for the upcoming World ' s Strongest Tag Team League tournament . On December 2 , 2006 the reformed TenKoji won the Real World Tag League defeating Kohei Suwama and RO ' Z in the finals when Kojima used a lariat on RO ' Z . The duo next faced Masahiro Chono and Keiji Muto at the NJPW / AJPW Wrestle Kingdom at the Tokyo Dome . They lost when Chono forced Tenzan to submit . In July 2007 , Kojima shocked the All - Japan Army when he betrayed them and joined the Voodoo Murders , where he was quickly made the group ' s co - leader along with TARU . Soon after joining , Kojima and TARU won the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship s from Toshiaki Kawada and Taiyō Kea . Kojima left the group in 2008 after returning from injury to side with his sworn friend Hiroyoshi Tenzan and to feud with the alliance of Great Bash Heel ( Tenzan ' s former group ) and the VooDoo Murders . In 2008 , Tenzan and Kojima became the first tag team to ever win G1 Climax Tag League and Real World Tag League in the same year . Later he started his 1st stable named F4 ( Friend Fight Fan and Future ) with young proteges YAMATO and KAI . A 4th member in ZODIAC joined later in 2009 . On September 26 , 2009 a few days after his 39th birthday Kojima lifted the All - Japan Triple Crown off of Yoshihiro Takayama , returning the titles to All - Japan and winning them for the 2nd time . He lost the title on March 21 , 2010 to Ryota Hama . Kojima ' s AJPW page was taken down soon before he agreed to compete in New Japan Pro Wrestling ' s 20th annual G1 Climax . It ' s reported that he was plagued with an arm injury that required surgery and needed time off to heal . AJPW then refused to discuss resigning Kojima until he was healthy . It ' s been reported Kojima was not pleased with this and began entertaining other possibilities . It is however still unknown where he may end up . Return to New Japan ( 2010 ) . Kojima returned to New Japan in August 2010 in order to take part in the 2010 G1 Climax tournament . His return match took place on August 6 , 2010 , when he teamed up with El Samurai in a tag team match , where they were defeated by Hirooki Goto and Ryusuke Taguchi . In the round robin stage of the tournament Kojima won five out his seven matches and won his block to advance to the finals , where , on August 15 , he defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win G1 Climax . On October 11 Kojima defeated Togi Makabe to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for the second time . On December 11 Kojima made his first successful defense of the title , defeating Shinsuke Nakamura .