Yoshi Tatsu

What strikes me about Yoshi Tatsu is the sheer audacity of his journey. Plenty of wrestlers stay home and build a comfortable career, but Naofumi Yamamoto cut his teeth in New Japan under his own name and then crossed an ocean to fight in WWE, where language and culture stack the odds against you. That kind of move takes a hunger most performers never summon. The boxing chapter only underlines it: this is a man who simply needs to compete. I admire athletes who chase the bigger arena even when it means being the outsider, and he absolutely did.

Name (English)

Yoshi Tatsu

Name (Japanese)

山本尚史

Reading

やまもと なおふみ

Born

August 1, 1977 (age 49)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

Origin

Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Height

183 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler / boxer

University

Kokushikan University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshi%20Tatsu
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%84
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q438383

Tags

• Gifu Prefecture
• professional wrestler
• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-23

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