Hiroyoshi Tenzan Announces Retirement

On May 11th, 2026 NJPW President Hiroshi Tanahashi & Hiroyoshi Tenzan to announce that Tenzan is retiring from wrestling on August 15th.

The reason Tenzan is retiring is due to a lower back injury as well as numbness & tingling in his legs.

He will have his retirement match on August 15th during the G1 Climax tour in Tokyo Japan inside Ryogoku.

Here are Tenzan’s Accomplishments in wrestling

AJPW

2x Real World Tag League Winner (2006 & 2008 with Satoshi Kojima)

CWA

2x Junior Heavyweight Champion

NWA

1x NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion

1x NWA World Tag Team Champion (with Satoshi Kojima)

NJPW

4x IWGP Heavyweight Champion

12x IWGP Tag Team Champion (5x with Masahiro Chono, 6x with Satoshi Kojima & 1x with Osamu Nishimura)

3x G1 Climax Winner (2003, 2004 & 2006)

3x G1 Tag League Winner (2001 & 2008 with Satoshi Kojima & 2003 with Osamu Nishimura)

1995 Super Grade Tag League Winner with Masahiro Chono

1993 Young Lion Cup Winner

2008 Yuke’s Cup Tag Tournament with Shinjiro Otani

2004 10,000,000 Yen Tag Tournament with Shinsuke Nakamura

2x MVP Award Winner (2003 & 2004)

2x Best Singles Bout (2003 with Jun Akiyama on August 17th & 2004 with Hiroshi Tanahashi on August 15th)

3x Best Tag Team Bout (2000 with Satoshi Kojima vs. Manabu Nakaninishi & Yuji Nagata on October 9th, 2002 with Masahiro Chono vs. Manabu Nakaninishi & Osamu Nishimura on June 5th & 2004 with Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Katsuyori Shibata & Hirooki Goto on October 24th)

Nikkan Sports

2008 Tag Team Of The Year with Satoshi Kojima

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

#223 in the PWI 500 in 2003

#10 in the PWI 500 in 2005

Tokyo Sports

2004 Fighting Spirit Award Winner

3x Tag Team Of The Year (1995, 1996 & 2000)

Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards 

2001 Tag Team Of The Year with Satoshi Kojima

1996 Best Gimmick Award (New World Order)

1996 Feud Of The Year (NWO vs. WCW)

Factions

TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) (1998-2026)

Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Masahiro Chono (1995-2008)

Tag Teams

Ookami Gundan (Masahiro Chono, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Hiro Saito) (1995-1997)

NWO Japan (Masahiro Chono, Keiji Muto/The Great Muta, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Scott Norton, Hiro Saito, nWo Sting, Michael Wallstreet, Brian Adams, Big Titan, Marcus Bagwell) (1997-2000)

Team 2000 (Masahiro Chono, Scott Norton, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Don Frye, Koji Kanemoto, AKIRA, Hiro Saito, Tatsutoshi Goto, Michiyoshi Ohara, Michael Wallstreet, Jado, Gedo, nWo Sting, Giant Silva, Giant Singh, Eddie Guerrero, Scott Hall, Black Tiger, Goku Do) (1999-2003)

GBH (Togi Makabe, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Shiro Koshinaka, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano, Tomoaki Honma, Jado, Gedo, Karl Anderson, Takashi Iizuka & Giant Bernard) (2006-2007)

Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Shiro Koshinaka, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano, Tomoaki Honma, Jado, Gedo, Karl Anderson, Takashi Iizuka & Giant Bernard) (2006-2009)

Myself & Bodyslam.net would like to congratulate Tenzan on his retirement.