Pioneer Senshi (1990–1991) Yukihiro Kanemura made his debut in December 1990 for Pioneer Senshi, against
Akitoshi Saito, who also debuted. Within months, Pioneer Senshi folded.
Wrestling International New Generations (1991–1994) Kanemura made his debut for
Wrestling International New Generations (W*ING) on August 7, 1991, as a
fan favorite underdog by teaming with Ryo Miyake against
The Headhunters in a losing effort. Although he started in the undercard, he worked his way up the ladder in W*ING and quickly became one of the top stars of the company due to his willingness to take damage in
deathmatches. On May 5, 1992, he defeated
The Grappler in
Osaka to lay claim to a version of the
Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship, whose championship belt was owned by Grappler (that title win, however, is not recognized as part of the official title history for the
NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship, which was held at that point by
C.W. Bergstrom and would be until
Pacific Northwest Wrestling folded in July 1992 after
Don Owen's retirement; however, W*ING recognized Kanemura as their Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Champion until the promotion's closure). On June 4, Kanemura teamed with Mitsuteru Tukoda against The Headhunters in a
steel cage match, which Kanemura lost after suffering an injury which put him out of action for two months. Kanemura returned to W*ING at
One Night One Soul on August 2, where he teamed with Tokuda to defeat
Super Invader and
The Masked Inferno in a
hair vs. mask barbed wire barricade match when Kanemura pinned Masked Inferno, forcing Inferno to take off his mask and begin competing as Rochester Roadblock. As a result, Kanemura began feuding with Roadblock and the two wrestled each other to a double disqualification on August 14. After coming up short in a title shot on September 27, Kanemura finally defeated
Miguel Perez Jr. on December 18 to win the
Caribbean Heavyweight Championship. On March 1, 1993, Kanemura wrestled
Kevin Sullivan at a television taping for
Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) in the
United States, which Kanemura won by disqualification after Sullivan bladed Kanemura's arm with a spike; the incident was censored on national television in America. The injury required Kanemura to get fifty-eight stitches. However, Matsunaga vacated the title only six days later to wrestle Leatherface. Kanemura continued his feud with Sullivan to avenge the attack in SMW and the two battled each other to no contest at
Dog in the Box on May 27. The two had another rematch at
Hollywood Nightmare, which again ended in a no contest. Kanemura became W*ING's top fan favorite after Mitsuhiro Matsunaga left the company to join
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). On October 19, Kanemura and Shoji Nakamaki lost to
Jado and Gedo in a
falls count anywhere match. At
Odawara Brazing Night, Kanemura and Nakamaki lost to Jado and Gedo in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Scramble Fire Deathmatch, when Jado executed a
Powerbomb on Kanemura into the fire with
Hido's help, burning 75 percent of his skin tissue off his back and shoulder. As a result, Jado and Gedo were awarded the win by forfeit and Kanemura was taken to hospital on a stretcher. Kanemura returned to W*ING on November 20 to show his burns to the crowd and Gedo and Hido tried to confront him until he chased them away with his umbrella. He made his in-ring return to W*ING on February 15 by defeating Hido in a
Loser Leaves W*ING Street Fight, forcing Hido to leave W*ING. On March 13, Kanemura headlined the show by teaming with Shoji Nakamaki against
Kendo Nagasaki and Nobutaka Araya in a
Ring Filled with Cream tornado tag team match, which Kanemura's team lost. This would turn out to be W*ING's last show as the promotion closed due to financial loss on March 21. While there, he feuded with Shoji Nakamaki in a series of chain matches, until a dispute with bookers caused Kanemura to quit on August 31, 1994. W*ING and FMW battled each other in many matches between late 1994 and early 1995 and W*ING established itself as the top villainous
group. On March 7, 1995, Kanemura won his first
title in FMW as he and Mr. Pogo defeated Atsushi Onita and
Mr. Gannosuke to win the
Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. They lost the title to Hisakatsu Oya and
Ricky Fuji at the
6th Anniversary Show after a miscommunication took place between Kanemura and Pogo. This led Pogo to
blow fire on Kanemura after the match to turn on W*ING and join Lethal Weapon. The following month, Kanemura took on Mr. Pogo in a Street Fight on June 25 to avenge the betrayal at 6th Anniversary Show, which he lost. In July, Kanemura participated in the
Young Spirit Tournament, a tournament featuring the new generation of young wrestlers of FMW after the departure of Atsushi Onita. He made to the finals of the tournament, where he lost to Masato Tanaka on July 30, but reaching in the finals earned both men place in the
Grand Slam Tournament for the vacant
Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. Kanemura was eliminated from the tournament and scored only two points as his only win in the tournament came against Masato Tanaka on September 5. W*ING briefly turned
fan favorites by siding with FMW after Mitsuhiro Matsunaga showed respect to
Hayabusa after Hayabusa defeated Matsunaga in a match. On October 28, Kanemura and Tanaka lost to Hayabusa and Matsunaga in a match and all four men formed an alliance to fight Lethal Weapon.
Super Leather and
Hido took exception to it and joined Lethal Weapon. However, it turned out to be a
swerve as Matsunaga turned on Hayabusa during a match against Mr. Pogo and Super Leather of Lethal Weapon and then Super Leather and Hido turned on Lethal Weapon and W*ING Alliance reunited as a group and became a serious threat to FMW and Lethal Weapon. At
Year End Spectacular, the W*ING Alliance squared off against each other as the team of Super Leather, W*ING Kanemura and Hido lost to Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, Jason the Terrible and
Hideki Hosaka in a W*ING Caribbean Barbed Wire Double Hell Glass Deathmatch. On February 23, W*ING alliance lost to the FMW team of
Koji Nakagawa, Masato Tanaka and
Tetsuhiro Kuroda in the first-ever
WarGames match in FMW, which ended FMW's feud with W*ING as
Víctor Quiñones returned to FMW and introduced Puerto Rican Army to attack FMW and W*ING. As a result, W*ING reverted to fan favorites. At
7th Anniversary Show, Kanemura replaced Mitsuhiro Matsunaga and challenged
Cactus Jack for the
IWA King of the Deathmatch Championship in a Caribbean Barbed Wire Barricade Spider Net Glass Deathmatch, which Kanemura ended up losing. The match raised Kanemura's stock and enabled him to shine as W*ING's standout performer as Mitsuhiro Matsunaga would leave FMW after the event and Kanemura became the main focus of the group and began rising in popularity in FMW. and Super Leather in the semi-final, a Caribbean Barbed Wire Deathmatch to advance to the final round to determine the first champion at
Summer Spectacular, where he defeated Masato Tanaka to win the tournament and become the inaugural Independent Heavyweight Champion. On September 1, the FMW team of Koji Nakagawa, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda took on Kanemura, Hido and Hideki Hosaka in a no rope barbed wire double hell deathmatch, during which Kanemura injured his ear after Nakagawa threw him into the exploding barbed wire. Kanemura returned to FMW on October 12 by teaming with Jason the Terrible to defeat Hisakatsu Oya and
The Gladiator. After the match, Kanemura was attacked by Gladiator, setting up a
title unification match between the two at
Year End Spectacular, where Gladiator's Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship would also be on the line. After successfully defending the Independent Heavyweight Championship against Hisakatsu Oya in his first title defense on October 26, Kanemura lost the title to Gladiator in the title unification match at Year End Spectacular. This led to the unification of the Independent Heavyweight Championship and the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship which would be collectively defended as the FMW Double Championship. In 1997, W*ING Alliance joined forces with the returning Atsushi Onita to feud with Funk Masters of Wrestling. On April 25, Kanemura and Hido defeated
The Headhunters to end their year-long reign to win the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. At
8th Anniversary Show, the team of Onita, Masato Tanaka and W*ING Kanemura defeated the team of Cactus Jack, The Gladiator and
Terry Funk in a Texas Tornado Street Fight Deathmatch when Kanemura pinned Gladiator. On May 25, Kanemura earned the right to face Onita in the
main event of
Fall Spectacular, after Onita, Kanemura and Hido defeated Koji Nakagawa, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda when Onita pinned Tanaka. However, Tanaka begged Onita and Kanemura to give him one more chance and the request was accepted with Kanemura defeating Tanaka in a No Rope Barbed Wire Deathmatch at
Shiodome Legend to earn the right to face Onita in the main event of Fall Spectacular. On August 21, Kanemura and Hido lost the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship to Mr. Gannosuke and Hisakatsu Oya. Shortly after the title loss, Kanemura fractured his foot but still competed in his scheduled match against Atsushi Onita in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Steel Cage Time Bomb Deathmatch at Fall Spectacular, which stipulated that if Onita lost, he would be forced to
retire and if Kanemura lost then W*ING Alliance would be forced to disband. Kanemura lost the match due to his fractured foot, resulting in him being forced to disband W*ING Alliance.
ZEN and Team No Respect (1997–2000) Atsushi Onita grew upset at Yukihiro Kanemura, Hideki Hosaka and Hido being worried due to the end of W*ING Alliance and no group would accept them in FMW. This led Onita to denounce himself as a FMW wrestler and take the former W*ING Alliance members and FMW's young rising star Tetsuhiro Kuroda under his wing to form a new
nWo-themed group named
ZEN at a press conference on September 30, 1997. On October 19, Onita and Kanemura defeated Funk Masters of Wrestling's
Hisakatsu Oya and
Mr. Gannosuke to win the
Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. The impact of ZEN's dominance led Oya, Gannosuke and The Gladiator to end Funk Masters of Wrestling and jump ship to ZEN. The following month, Onita and Kanemura vacated the tag team titles due to Onita's inactivity. On November 28, Kanemura teamed with Mr. Gannosuke to defeat
Hayabusa and
Masato Tanaka for the vacant Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. Gannosuke and Kanemura had a great chemistry and they became
over with the fans due to their villainous antics and surpassed their leader Atsushi Onita to get
heat from the audience. On December 22, Gannosuke, Kanemura and Onita lost to Hayabusa, Jinsei Shinzaki and Masato Tanaka in a Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Ladder WarGames match and Gannosuke and Kanemura
turned on Onita by attacking him after the match until
Koji Nakagawa made the save for Onita. The duo, along with
Hido left ZEN. On January 16, Gannosuke, Kanemura and
Jado defeated Hayabusa, Hisakatsu Oya and Masato Tanaka to win the
World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. They lost the title to Atsushi Onita, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda on February 13. The following month, Kanemura participated in a tournament to determine the #1 contender for Mr. Gannosuke's Double Championship, defeating Koji Nakagawa in the quarter-final before losing to The Gladiator in the semi-final. Kanemura would wrestle the departing Jinsei Shinzaki in Shinzaki's last FMW match at the company's first
pay-per-view event 9th Anniversary Show, which Kanemura lost. After the event,
Kodo Fuyuki took over as the leader of Team No Respect due to Mr. Gannosuke being injured. On May 5, Fuyuki, Kanemura and Hido defeated Atsushi Onita, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to win the
World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship after Nakagawa apparently suffered a shoulder injury, forcing ZEN to disband as a result of the pre-match stipulation. Later that month, Fuyuki and Kanemura formed a
tag team called
The New Footloose, a spin-off of Fuyuki's old tag team with
Toshiaki Kawada called
Footloose in
All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). In June, TNR vacated the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship, only to regain it as Fuyuki, Kanemura and new member Koji Nakagawa defeated Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka and Hisakatsu Oya to win the title. On June 26, Kanemura unsuccessfully challenged Hayabusa for the Double Championship. TNR grew in power and began influencing FMW and feuded with Atsushi Onita's
ZEN and Hayabusa's Team Phoenix throughout the year. On October 26, New Footloose lost the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship to Hayabusa and
Daisuke Ikeda. On November 20, FMW President
Shoichi Arai stripped TNR of the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship and awarded the titles to the departing Atsushi Onita as a reward for founding FMW and making it a successful promotion. In December, Kanemura participated in an
Over the Top Tournament to determine the #1 contender for the Double Championship. He defeated Hideki Hosaka in the opening round before losing to eventual winner Mr. Gannosuke in the quarter-final round. In early 1999, Kanemura teamed with Hido to participate in a tournament for the vacant Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship and they were eliminated from the tournament losing all of the matches. On May 18, Kodo Fuyuki separated the Double Championship into
Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship and the
Independent Heavyweight Championship and awarded the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship to Kanemura. Kanemura lost the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship to Hayabusa at the
Hayabusa Graduation Ceremony pay-per-view on August 23. Two days later, Kanemura unsuccessfully challenged Masato Tanaka for the Independent Heavyweight Championship at
Last Match, which would turn out to be the last match of the title as it would be retired after the event. On September 20, Kanemura changed his ring name to
Kintaro Kanemura, a name given to him by
Shark Tsuchiya based on Korean wrestler
Kintarō Ōki and was awarded the new
Hardcore Championship by Kodo Fuyuki. Later at the event, Kodo Fuyuki lost a
loser leaves FMW match to Masato Tanaka and Mr. Gannosuke left TNR to form a tag team with
H, which left Kanemura as the leader of Team No Respect and the group turned fan favorites. The following night, TNR defeated ECW's Balls Mahoney, Axl Rotten,
Super Crazy and
Yoshihiro Tajiri. In 2000, Kanemura began an
angle with
Big Japan Pro Wrestling's (BJW)
Ryuji Yamakawa, resulting in an interpromotional feud between BJW and FMW. On February 23, Kanemura lost the Hardcore Championship to Yamakawa at a BJW event. Kanemura then wrestled for ECW, where he lost to Balls Mahoney at
Living Dangerously. At
FMW 11th Anniversary Show, Kanemura defeated Ryuji Yamakawa to win his second Hardcore Championship.
Championship reigns (2000–2002) On June 16, Kanemura disbanded Team No Respect to join Kodo Fuyuki's
Shin Fuyuki-Gun, thus turning into a villain and teamed with
Hideki Hosaka and
Yoshinori Sasaki to defeat
Tetsuhiro Kuroda,
Hisakatsu Oya and Flying Kid Ichihara. He would be involved in a comedy feud with Hisakatsu Oya, which culminated in a
ladder match between the two on July 23, which Oya won. Kanemura successfully defended the Hardcore Championship against Mike Samples on July 28. He then began a violent feud with Masato Tanaka, which culminated in a match between the two for Kanemura's Hardcore Championship at
Deep Throat, which Kanemura won to retain the title. In 2001, Shin Fuyuki-Gun disbanded after Tetsuhiro Kuroda turned on Kodo Fuyuki to form Team Kuroda. Kanemura teamed with Ryuji Yamakawa on February 23 to defeat
GOEMON and
Onryo to win the
Hardcore Tag Team Championship. Kanemura and Yamakawa successfully defended the title against Azusa Kudo and
Mammoth Sasaki on March 5. On March 13, Kanemura lost to Tetsuhiro Kuroda in a #1 contender's match for the
WEW World Heavyweight Championship. On March 18, Yamakawa suffered a severe brain injury in a match against
The Wifebeater, which put him out of action and Kanemura continued to compete in singles competition. Kanemura
dropped the Hardcore Championship to Mammoth Sasaki on April 1. At
12th Anniversary Show, Kanemura defeated Sasaki to regain the title winning it for a third time. Kanemura successfully defended the title against
Jun Kasai on May 22 and then retired the title afterwards. On June 8, Kanemura affiliated with Kodo Fuyuki, who owned 48% of the company's shares and wanted to sale it to Stuart Levy's
Tokyopop. Kanemura would then feud with Hayabusa and Shoichi Arai's FMW team. On July 30, Kanemura, Mr. Gannosuke and Kodo Fuyuki defeated the team of Flying Kid Ichihara, Hisakatsu Oya and
Ricky Fuji to win the
WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship. On August 3, Kanemura pinned Hayabusa in a
six-man tag team match to earn a title shot at Hayabusa's WEW World Heavyweight Championship on August 11, where he defeated Hayabusa to win the title with help from Mammoth Sasaki. Kanemura lost the title back to Hayabusa in a rematch on September 5, but the FMW President Senmu Yoshida overturned the decision on September 9 by showing a video in which Hayabusa used a
low blow on Kanemura to win the title and returned the title to Kanemura. On November 23, Kanemura successfully defended the WEW World Heavyweight Championship against
The Great Sasuke. Later that night, Kanemura turned fan favorite by siding with Mr. Gannosuke, Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Mammoth Sasaki to feud with Kodo Fuyuki, who had turned on FMW to ally with
Genichiro Tenryu's
WAR alliance. On December 9, FMW's team of Kuroda, Gannosuke, Kanemura and Sasaki defeated WAR's team of Fuyuki, Tenryu,
Arashi and
Koki Kitahara. On December 23, Kanemura teamed with Sasaki and participated in a tournament for the vacant
WEW World Tag Team Championship, defeating
Balls Mahoney and
Horace Boulder in the quarter-final and
Super Crazy and
Crazy Boy in the semi-final before losing to Mr. Gannosuke and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in the final. On January 6, 2002, Kanemura lost the WEW World Heavyweight Championship to Kodo Fuyuki. The following month, on February 4, the team of Kanemura, GOEMON and Mammoth Sasaki defeated
Vic Grimes, Paul LeDuc and
Mitsunobu Kikuzawa. This would turn out to be FMW's last show as the promotion closed on February 15 due to bankruptcy. The following week, on April 25, Kanemura teamed with Super Uchu Power to defend the title against Takagi and Takashi Sasaki in a match, during which Takagi pinned Kanemura to win the title. On May 16, Kanemura defeated
GENTARO and Takashi Sasaki in a
three-way match to become the #1 contender for the
KO-D Openweight Championship. At
Max Bump, Kanemura defeated champion Sanshiro Takagi to win the KO-D Openweight Championship, also winning Takagi's Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship for the second time in the process. Kanemura lost the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship six days later to Chocoball Mukai. Kanemura would then team with Futoshi Miwa to participate in the 2002 KO-D Tag League, in which the two managed to score eight points. Kanemura lost the KO-D Openweight Championship back to Sanshiro Takagi on September 7. Kanemura would frequently make appearances in
Pro Wrestling Zero-One as part of a working partnership between WEW and Zero-One, participating in Zero-One's
Fire Festival, where he won only one match in his block against
Taka Michinoku. Kanemura defeated Tetsuhiro Kuroda to win the reinstated
WEW World Heavyweight Championship on a WEW television show which aired on September 3. On March 3, 2003, the team of Kanemura and Kuroda defeated
Gentaro and Takashi Sasaki to win the
WEW World Tag Team Championship. Later that month, Kanemura defeated
Shadow WX in a Lighttubes and Glass Deathmatch to win the vacant
BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship on March 30 during the
Harder than Hardcore IV tour. He successfully defended the title against
Abdullah Kobayashi in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Deathmatch on June 1, before
dropping the title to
Ryuji Ito in a
steel cage match on August 24. Kanemura continued to compete as WEW's top wrestler until the promotion closed in 2003 due to the death of its owner Kodo Fuyuki and the promotion was changed into Fuyuki Army. Kanemura would then also begin making appearances for
Hayabusa's Wrestlings Marvelous Future (WMF) promotion, where he debuted at
Marvelous Days 3rd event on July 25 as the tag team partner of Mammoth Sasaki and Tetsuhiro Kuroda against Mr. Gannosuke, Mr. Iwaonosuke and Mr. Rocknosuke, which Kanemura's team won. On August 25, Kanemura defeated Mr. Gannosuke in a match and after the match, Kanemura formed a
stable with several former FMW wrestlers called Apache Army. The stable would include Gannosuke, Taka Michinoku, Tetsuhiro Kuroda,
GOEMON,
GENTARO,
Hido, Go Ito and Takashi Sasaki. On October 2, the team of
2 Tuff Tony, Kintaro Kanemura and
Mad Man Pondo defeated Gosaku Goshogawara, Taka Michinoku and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to win the
WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship. A week later, Kanemura and Kuroda won the
All Asia Tag Team Championship by defeating
Hirotaka Yokoi and
Kohei Sato. On December 5, Kanemura was scheduled to team with Mr. Gannosuke and Tetsuhiro Kuroda against
Shinjiro Otani, Masato Tanaka and
Tatsuhito Takaiwa but was pulled out of the show due to a
lymph infection and was replaced by Mammoth Sasaki. The injury forced Kanemura to vacate the All Asia Tag Team Championship on December 10. On August 19, Kanemura and Hido defeated
Tomohiro Ishii and
Kendo Kashin to win the
WMG Tag Team Championship at a
Riki Pro show. On August 28, Kanemura started a promotion
Apache Pro-Wrestling Army, which grew out of their stable. Things were going well for Kanemura until February 2008, when a sexual harassment scandal cost him several bookings from other promotions. On November 15, 2015, Kanemura announced that he plans on retiring from the ring sometime in the next year. Kanemura's retirement match took place on December 27, 2016, and saw him, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda lose to
Daisuke Sekimoto,
Kohei Sato and
Yuji Hino in a six-man tag team match with Sekimoto pinning Kanemura to end his career. ==Championships and accomplishments==