Chris Hero

What strikes me about Chris Hero is how deeply he belongs to the independent wrestling circuit rather than the mainstream spotlight. The Ohio kid out of Dayton built his name across PWG, ROH, CZW and Chikara before settling into AEW as a coach. At 193 cm he had the frame, but what I respect more is the longevity and the pivot to teaching. Passing craft to the next generation is its own kind of legacy, and the fact that he wrestled under the Kassius Ohno name too tells me he kept reinventing himself. A worker's worker, not a marketing creation.

Name (English)

Chris Hero

Name (Japanese)

クリス・ヒーロー

Reading

くりす・ひーろー

Born

December 24, 1979 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

Origin

Dayton, Ohio, United States

Height

193 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler / actor

High school

Northmont High School

• Official sitehttps://www.thechrishero.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/KassiusOhno
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Hero
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q632872

Tags

• Ohio
• professional wrestler
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.