New Japan Pro-Wrestling (1994–2006) Yoshie was born in
Maebashi,
Gunma Prefecture, Japan on January 5, 1974. Later that year, Yoshie teamed with
Manabu Nakanishi to take part in NJPW's
G1 Tag League, where the team, named Big Mountain, reached the semifinals before losing to the eventual winners of the tournament, TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima). On December 6, 2008, Yoshie and Nakanishi unsuccessfully challenged The Most Violent Players (
Togi Makabe and
Toru Yano) for the IWGP Tag Team Championship. On February 6, 2010, Yoshie debuted for
Pro Wrestling Noah in a match where he defeated
Shuhei Taniguchi. In June, Yoshie made another return to NJPW to compete in the J Sports Crown Openweight 6 Man Tag Tournament, where, under a mask and the ring name Pink Strong Machine, he teamed with
Super Strong Machine and
Tonga Strong Machine. The team was eliminated in the second round by
Prince Devitt, Ryusuke Taguchi and
Hirooki Goto. In April 2012, Yoshie entered AJPW's 2012 Champion Carnival, but an ankle fracture on April 23 forced him to pull out of the tournament. Yoshie returned to the ring at an AJPW event on January 20, 2013, when he teamed with
Kenso to defeat Mazada and
Sushi in a tag team match. The following month, Yoshie formed the Momokuro-gun tag team with
Black Tiger V. On February 24, Yoshie returned to Pro Wrestling Noah, defeating
Masao Inoue in a singles match. On January 26, 2014, Yoshie formed a super heavyweight tag team with
Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion Akebono. The team won AJPW's
World Tag Team Championship on March 22, 2015, by defeating
Jun Akiyama and
Takao Omori. They lost the title to
Go Shiozaki and
Kento Miyahara on May 6. On November 23, 2017, Yoshie and
Shogun Okamoto won Zero1's
2017 Furinkazan Tag Tournament, defeating
Yuko Miyamoto and Yusaku Obata in the finals. On January 1, 2018, Yoshie and Okamoto defeated
Hideki Suzuki and Kohei Sato to win the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship. ==Death==