{"id":11099,"date":"2013-05-13T17:11:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11099"},"modified":"2013-05-13T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:17:12","slug":"kenta-kobashi-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11099","title":{"rendered":"Kenta Kobashi Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Edit: Now with pics of the actual retirement show!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PxvsLsD.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/QRakSm2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/yYNJLcR.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>50 years old cancer survivor.\u00a0 Still doing perfect moonsaults off the top rope 0_o<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gYExpIf.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qeLRIGg.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/fsorcFN.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favourite Japanese puro wrestler Kenta Kobashi retired this weekend.\u00a0 Although I&#8217;m sad to see him hang up the boots, he was definitely in the twilight of his career and its a far better way to go out than his childhood friend and long time rival Mitsuharu Misawa who died in the ring four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Kobashi was a barrel-chested freak of nature who was famous for his hard hitting chops, incredibly physical matches and being a crowd favourite for the better part of three decades in Japan.\u00a0 He&#8217;s probably had more classic matches than you&#8217;ve had hot dinners.<\/p>\n<p>Without doubt my favourite match of his was from 2003 in Pro Wrestling NOAH when he fought for the GHC World Heavyweight title.\u00a0 The match is a bruising encounter, has a molten hot crowd and is pretty much amazing from start to finish. It&#8217;s featured in its entirety in the Youtube clip below.<\/p>\n<p>Happy retirement, big guy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W1CyGiX1TtQ\" height=\"473\" width=\"630\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edit: Now with pics of the actual retirement show! 50 years old cancer survivor.\u00a0 Still doing perfect moonsaults off the top rope 0_o My favourite Japanese puro wrestler Kenta Kobashi retired this weekend.\u00a0 Although I&#8217;m sad to see him hang up the boots, he was definitely in the twilight of his career and its a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1614,1613],"class_list":["post-11099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-kenta-kobashi","tag-puro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11099"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11145,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions\/11145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}