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Cho-Ten
Tag team
MembersMasahiro Chono
Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Name(s)Cho-Ten[1]
Masahiro Chono and Hiroyoshi Tenzan[2]
Ookami Gundan[3]
Billed heightsChono:
1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[4]
Tenzan:
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[5]
Combined
billed weight		223 kg (492 lb)
Billed fromJapan
DebutFebruary 1995[6]
DisbandedSeptember 2006[7]

Cho-Ten was a

1995 Super Grade Tag League.[8][9]

History

Team Wolf (1995–1998)

Cho-Ten first began teaming up on February 19, 1995 along with veteran

1995 Super Grade Tag League
marking their second achievement in less than a year.

After several months out of the title hunt, Cho-Ten received a title shot against

1997 Super Grade Tag League.[11][16] During 1997, both Chono and Tenzan received shots at the IWGP Heavyweight Championship but both failed to win the title and Tenzan also became the runner up in the 1997 G1 Climax.[17][18]

On May 7, 1998, Chono and Mutoh were stripped of the tag team titles due to Mutoh suffering from a knee injury.[10] Following the vacancy, Cho-Ten reunited and on June 5, 1998 they defeated Genichiro Tenryu and Shiro Koshinaka to win the titles for the third time.[11] The title reign would not last as they lost the titles on July 15, 1998 to Tenryu and Koshinaka in a rematch.[19] After the title loss, Cho-Ten broke up again as Chono began focusing on singles competition while Tenzan formed another highly successful tag team: Tencozy with Satoshi Kojima.

Cho-Ten (2002–2006)

In 2002, Keiji Mutoh,

Ryushi Yanagisawa,[25] Yasuda and Kazunari Murakami).[26][27] During the title reign, Chono won his fourth G1 Climax on August 11, 2002[28] adding more trophies to the team. Eventually the team would lose the titles on June 13, 2003 to Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yutaka Yoshie.[29] After the title loss, Cho-Ten broke up once again as both decided to focus on their singles careers with Tenzan winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship 4 times between 2003–2005 and the 2003 and 2004 G1 Climax while Chono won the 2005 G1.[23]

On October 30, 2005, Cho-Ten reunited once again to challenge Hiroshi Tanahashi and

Naofumi Yamamoto, and Manabu Nakanishi and Giant Bernard.[27] Unfortunately during the title reign, Chono would suffer an injury and upon his return, the two would begin to show dissension and eventually had a falling-out. Due to their refusal to defend the title together, Cho-Ten were stripped of the tag titles on September 24, 2006, and began feuding from there.[4]

Aftermath

After breaking up, Chono and Tenzan began feuding with each other with Tenzan defeating Chono on September 24, 2006.[4] Soon after Chono formed Chono-Nakamura gun/BLACK with Shinsuke Nakamura while Tenzan formed GBH (Great Bash Heel) and the feud continued. After Tenzan was eventually kicked out of GBH in February 2008,[5] the two began to make peace as they began teaming up again in tag matches.[32] Despite teaming again, Cho-Ten never officially got back together as Tenzan instead began re-teaming with Kojima as well began suffering numerous injuries.[5]

In February 2010, Chono left New Japan to become a Freelancer.[33] Tenzan future was unknown as he had been inactive since August 2009 due to injuries,[5] until returning to New Japan in November 2010.

In October 2011, Chono and Tenzan reunited, alongside Hiro Saito, for Tenzan's 20th Anniversary Show, defeating Osamu Nishimura, Shinjiro Otani, and Koji Kanemoto.

Championships and accomplishments

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