Kenta Kobayashi
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Kenta Kobayashi

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Kenta Kobayashi, better known by his ring name KENTA, is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist who debuted in 2000 with Pro Wrestling NOAH and went on to compete internationally, including a run in WWE as Hideo Itami. After joining New Japan Pro-Wrestling in 2019, he captured the NEVER Openweight Championship, IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, before returning to NOAH in 2025 where he also made his N-1 Victory tournament debut that same year.

NOAH: European Navigation 2008
NOAH: Accomplish Our First Navigation 2001 - Day 9 (2001)
NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 7
NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 8
NJPW: Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2024
NJPW Sakura Genesis 2021
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17: Night 2 in Yokohama Arena
IMPACT Wrestling x NJPW: Multiverse United: Only The Strong Survive
NJPW 52nd Anniversary Event & New Japan Cup 2024: Day 1
NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2020
NJPW STRONG Independence Day 2023 - Day 2
NOAH: Departure 2004
IMPACT Wrestling: Bound For Glory 2023
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2024 - Night 2
ROH: Chi-Town Struggle
NJPW Sakura Genesis 2024
NJPW Sakura Genesis 2023
NJPW 51st Anniversary Event & New Japan Cup 2023: Day 2 (2023)
Danielson vs McGuinness
NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 6
NJPW New Year Dash !! 2023
NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2024
NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2023
NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 7
NJPW STRONG Independence Day 2023 - Day 1
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2024 - Night 1
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 2
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 1
NOAH: Naomichi Marufuji 20th Anniversary Show
NJPW Collision in Philadelphia
NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 2
NJPW Battle Autumn 2022 - Night 16 (2022)
NJPW 49th Anniversary Show
NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 3
NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 1
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 8
NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 4
WWE Royal Rumble 2019
NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2019
NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 6
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 4
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 7
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 5
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 19
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 9
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 6
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 10
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 2
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 1
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 3
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 11
NJPW Resurgence 2024
NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable
Chris Hero: Ring of Hero
ROH: Fight of The Century
NJPW Capital Collision 2023
ROH: Glory by Honor V - Night Two
NXT Takeover: Brooklyn II
Danielson vs The World
KENTA: Go 2 Sleep
NOAH Summer Navigation '07 - Day 12 (2007)
NJPW Power Struggle 2021
NJPW Battle In The Valley
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 18
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 17
IMPACT Wrestling: No Surrender 2023
NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2023 - Night 2
NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2023 - Night 1
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 14
NJPW: Royal Quest
ROH: Best In The World
NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 1
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 20 (Final)
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 17
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 10
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 13
NXT's Greatest Matches Vol. 1
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 19 (Final)
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 11
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 15
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 12
IMPACT Wrestling x NJPW: Multiverse United 2: For Whom The Bell Tolls
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 16
AEW Beach Break
NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 18
ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 2 (2013)
NJPW Dominion 6.9 In Osaka-Jo Hall ~ Best Of The Super Junior 31 Final ~
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 9
ROH: Time To Man Up
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 3
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 15
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 1
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 2
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 7
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 17
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 4
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 14
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17 Pre-Show
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 18
NJPW The New Beginning in Nagoya
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 13
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 1
ROH: Throwdown
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 6
NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2019
NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 19 (Final)
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 1
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 8
WWE NXT Live: From San Jose 2015
NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 19 (Final)
NOAH: 3rd Great Voyage 2005
NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 11
NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 5
NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III
Finn Bálor The Demon Revealed
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 19 (Final)
ROH: End of An Age
NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 4 (2023)
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 12
The Briscoe Brothers: The Baddest Tag Team on the Planet
NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 9
ROH: Year Four
NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 5
ROH: In Your Face
NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 6
NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 2
ROH: Year 5
ROH: Japan's Finest
WWE NXT Takeover: Chicago
Mark Hitchcock Memorial Wrestlecon Supershow 2023
NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 5
NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2020 - Night 1
NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 1 (2023)
NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 8
NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 10
NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 16
NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2020 - Night 2
ROH: Final Battle 2005
NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 7
NOAH: Destiny 2005
Nigel McGuinness: In It to Win It
NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 3 (2023)
ROH: Driven
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 13
NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 15
NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 14
NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2019
NXT TakeOver: R-Evolution
ROH: The Tokyo Summit
ROH: 7th Anniversary
NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 6
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 14
ROH: Best In The World
NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 16
NOAH: Great Voyage
MLW Blood & Thunder
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 3
NOAH: The New Year 2022 (2022)
NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 3
NOAH Navigate For Evolution 2002 - Day 10 (2002)
NOAH Navigation Over The Date Line 2003 - Day 13 (2003)
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 11
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 5
NJPW New Japan Cup 2024 • Day 2
NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 17
Bryan Danielson: World Champion
NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 13
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 7
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 9
NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 9 (Final)
NOAH The Second Navigation 2009: Day 7 (2009)
NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 7
NOAH Wrestle Odyssey (2025)