Masahiro Chono
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Nov 2, 2026
Kefin MahonHOST
Ah, yes.
Jo GrahamHOST
So that was Masahiro Chono, who we've talked about before many times.
Jo GrahamHOST
Big
Kefin MahonHOST
fans.
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Kefin MahonHOST
But I think a lot of that only was possible because Tanahashi made such strong foundations and took it to a successful place where he then had someone who was established like him.
Kefin MahonHOST
And he didn't have the benefit of like, oh, the younger generation, the older generation didn't put him over.
Kefin MahonHOST
Like Masahiro Chono didn't like, oh yeah, come beat me.
Jo GrahamHOST
Yeah.
Tom CampbellHOST
Yes.
Tom CampbellHOST
It was at the Tokyo Dome against Masahiro Chono.
Tom CampbellHOST
Following the match, he shot an angle with Jeff Jarrett.
Tom CampbellHOST
Yes, he did.
Jim RossGUEST
And when he was healthy and motivated, Brian was extraordinary.
Conrad ThompsonHOST
So we're trying to do a segment next where Missy Hyatt is going to have bill Watts out and they're going to talk about who are going to be the referees for the recruit Masahiro Chono match.
Conrad ThompsonHOST
And, uh, it comes out to be in Suki Sasaki.
Conrad ThompsonHOST
He's going to be the referee, which Belcher says was pretty anticlimactic and not very dramatic at all.
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Conrad ThompsonHOST
Right.
Conrad ThompsonHOST
Well, next up is, well, a match that Meltzer says destroyed the NWA title in the United States, and it destroyed the show.
Conrad ThompsonHOST
It's Rick Rude and Masahiro Chono, two Hall of Fame performers who went 22 minutes and 33 seconds for the NWA title.
Conrad ThompsonHOST
Meltzer says the only positive is that it wasn't televised in Japan.
Alex MeloGUEST
Well, if you know me and if you know my love of late 90s pyro, You know, there's only one man for me, and that is the purveyor of not only NWO Japan, but the epitome of cool.
Alex MeloGUEST
Give me Masahiro Chono.
RyanHOST
My hero, Chono.
RyanHOST
I would have probably took him top three rounds if I didn't take him a lot.
Sonny OnooGUEST
And I said, great.
Sonny OnooGUEST
Well, And I found this out only many years later, the Hulk Hogan, Jimmy Hart, and Eric Bischoff was on a boat, Hulk's boat, on Clearwater, and you're going to have all these Japanese guys like Great Muta, Masahiro Chono, Tenzan, Masa Saito, versus staying in all the top guys.
Sonny OnooGUEST
And we had we had, I don't think they called it World War Three was one of those anyway.
Sonny OnooGUEST
But and Eric was, you know, Jimmy says you got to have a mouthpiece.
Josh WhiteHOST
So, yeah, that kind of tracks, unfortunately.
Josh WhiteHOST
But, yeah, as I said, the next bullet point was Tenzin, who has 12 reigns across many different partners and was a tag champ for over 1,000 days with just Chono.
Chris LansdellGUEST
Masahiro Chono, yeah.
Chris LansdellGUEST
That's not in one single reign.
Chris LansdellGUEST
That's over multiple reigns.
Ken Zimmerman Jr.HOST
It had, uh, Steve Williams and Steve Austin when he was stunning Steve Austin versus Dustin Rhodes and Barry Windham in a tag team match that was very good.
Ken Zimmerman Jr.HOST
You had, uh, Rick Rude taking on Masahiro Chono, another, uh, really underrated match for Halloween Havoc.
Ken Zimmerman Jr.HOST
And you had Vader.
Ken Zimmerman Jr.HOST
Now I can't remember who Vader took on for the U.S. title.
JeffHOST
Yeah.
RyanHOST
There's a Rick Rude and Masahiro Chono match on here.
RyanHOST
And I want to say this match is fucking awful.
RyanHOST
Because I think this is right after Rick Rude hurt his back in Japan.
Nick PicconeHOST
This was memorable.
Nick PicconeHOST
Uh, the NWA World Title Match, Chono versus Rick Rude.
Vaughn JohnsonHOST
Man.
Nick PicconeHOST
Brutal.
Vaughn JohnsonHOST
... was so brutal about this one for you?
Nick PicconeHOST
The rest holds.
Nick PicconeHOST
Like, some- something happened in the cr- in the crowd that everybody else is paying attention to while Rick Rude has a headlock on Masahiro Chono.
Nick PicconeHOST
Like, just-
Kris ZellnerHOST
It's just the excitement of that happening, yeah.
Kris ZellnerHOST
Medusa's doing a segment every Sunday on Main Event talking about Masahiro Chono.
Kris ZellnerHOST
They show close to Chono's wedding.
Kris ZellnerHOST
Chono playing soccer with his kids.
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Kris ZellnerHOST
All right, let's go to Nijapan.
Kris ZellnerHOST
They're running the Super Great Tag League during our week.
Kris ZellnerHOST
NWA champion Masahiro Chono did two jobs.
Kris ZellnerHOST
On October 16th, Yakaichi, him and his partner Tony Haume lost to Scott Norton at Super Strong Machine when Machine pinned him with a diving headbutt off the top rope.