All Japan Pro Wrestling (1985–2000) Yoshinari Ogawa debuted in
All Japan Pro Wrestling in 1985, working on the undercard, until joining
Genichiro Tenryu's group
Revolution, which helped him elevate higher on the card. He remained in the group until it disbanded in 1990 upon Tenryu's abrupt departure from AJPW. After Tenryu left, Ogawa became one of the top stars in AJPW's junior heavyweight division in the 1990s, winning the junior heavyweight championship three times. He also reigned as tag team champion with his mentor,
Mitsuharu Misawa.
Pro Wrestling Noah (2000–2024) Ogawa left AJPW for Misawa's newly formed
Pro Wrestling Noah in 2000, where he continued his tag team with Misawa, even winning the
GHC Tag Team Championship becoming the second ever champions by defeating the team of
Scorpio and
Vader, holding the titles for nine days before losing the titles to
Takao Omori and
Yoshihiro Takayama. On April 7, 2002, he scored a huge upset, beating
Jun Akiyama very quickly to become the
GHC Heavyweight Champion. Ogawa held the title for 153 days, defending his championship twice against
Akira Taue and
Takeshi Rikio, before ultimately losing it to Takayama on September 7, 2002. On January 10, 2004, Ogawa and Misawa won the
GHC Tag Team Championship for a second time, this time defeating
Hiroshi Tanahashi and
Yuji Nagata at the Great Voyage 2004 show. The team held the championship for a then-record 379 days while defending the belts seven times, another record at the time. They lost the championships to the team of
Scorpio and
Doug Williams on January 23, 2005. Ogawa became a mainstay in the junior heavyweight division forming a partnership with
Zack Sabre Jr. starting in 2013 as the pair joined to take part in the
NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League for the vacant
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. The team came in second place in their block losing to eventual block and league winners
Jyushin Thunder Liger and
Tiger Mask IV on the final day. However, the team defeated Liger and Tiger Mask on December 7, 2013, at 'Great Voyage in Tokyo Vol. 2' to become the tag team champions for the first time. The pair defended their titles for the first, and only, time on March 8, 2014, defeating
Kenoh and
Hajime Ohara at 'Great Voyage in Tokyo' show. The team lost the titles on March 21, 2014, to the team of
Atsushi Kotoge and
Taiji Ishimori, but Ogawa and Sabre became two-time champions less than a month later by defeating Kotoge and Ishimori for the championships. Yet again, on July 5, 2014, after just one defense over
Hiro Tonai and
Shiori Asahi which occurred on May 3, Ogawa and Sabre lost the titles to Kotoge and Ishimori at 'Great Voyage in Tokyo Vol.2'. The pair entered the 2014 NTV G+ Junior Tag League and finished last in their four-team block with four points. On May 10, 2015, Ogawa and Sabre received a title match against the champions
El Desperado and
Taka Michinoku at Great Voyage in Yokohama. This match was a losing effort from the team and Ogawa, in the summer of 2015, took part in his first singles tournament since 2008, the
Global Junior Heavyweight League. Ogawa finished fifth in the block of seven with six points and victories over Desperado,
Hitoshi Kumano, and
Sho Tanaka. Ogawa and Sabre took part in their third straight NTV G+ Junior Tag League and finished second, again losing to the eventual block winners, Desperado and Michinoku, on the final day of the league. This match was their final match as a team and on November 30, 2015, Ogawa's six-man team of Hitoshi Kumano and
Muhammad Yone defeated Sabre's team of
Genba Hirayanagi and
Captain Noah with Ogawa scoring the decision over Sabre in what was Sabre's final match in Pro Wrestling Noah. Ogawa, alongside several Noah company-mates, took part in the first two
New Japan Pro-Wrestling '
Lion's Gate Project' shows where he defeated
Jay White on the first show on February 25, 2016, then defeated David Finlay on the second show which took place on May 19. Ogawa took part in the qualifying for the 2016
Super J-Cup defeating Hitoshi Kumano in his first qualifier but losing to
Taiji Ishimori in the final of his qualifying region. In 2019, Ogawa won the
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship with
Kotaro Suzuki and formed a stable named Stinger later joined by
Atsushi Kotoge and Chris Ridgeway. On January 4, 2020, Ogawa defeated
Hayata to win the
GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship for the first time in his career, thereby completing his win of NOAH's four major GHC titles and becoming the fourth man to do so after
Naomichi Marufuji,
KENTA and
Takashi Sugiura. On August 13, 2024, it was announced that Ogawa would be retiring due to a neck injury suffered in an eight-man tag team match on August 4, in which his team with
Daga,
Super Crazy and Yu Owada lost to
Tadasuke,
HAYATA,
AMAKUSA and
YO-HEY. == Championships and accomplishments ==