1968 - Today
Naoya Ogawa (Japanese: 小川 直也, Ogawa Naoya) (born 31 March 1968) is a Japanese Olympic and world champion judoka, retired professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist. He won a total of seven medals at the All-Japan Judo Championships (second only behind Yasuhiro Yamashita), and set a record of seven medals at the World Judo Championships. Ogawa won the silver medal in the +95 kg judo weight class at the 1992 Summer Olympics.Ogawa is also known for his career in professional wrestling, where he primarily worked for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and took part in one of the promotion's most high-profile feuds of the 1990s with Shinya Hashimoto. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Naoya Ogawa has received more than 213,290 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Naoya Ogawa is the 273rd most popular wrestler (down from 233rd in 2019), the 1,731st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,555th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Wrestler.
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Among wrestlers, Naoya Ogawa ranks 273 out of 700. Before him are Saori Yoshida, Road Warrior Animal, William Regal, Goldust, Don Muraco, and Pavel Pinigin. After him are Sabu, Shohei Ono, Marc Alexandre, Dolph Ziggler, Henry Cejudo, and Lukáš Krpálek.
1982 - Present
HPI: 38.11
Rank: 267
1960 - 2020
HPI: 38.04
Rank: 268
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.00
Rank: 269
1969 - Present
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 270
1949 - Present
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 271
1953 - Present
HPI: 37.95
Rank: 272
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.95
Rank: 273
1964 - Present
HPI: 37.93
Rank: 274
1992 - Present
HPI: 37.87
Rank: 275
1959 - Present
HPI: 37.86
Rank: 276
1980 - Present
HPI: 37.84
Rank: 277
1987 - Present
HPI: 37.67
Rank: 278
1990 - Present
HPI: 37.62
Rank: 279
Among people born in 1968, Naoya Ogawa ranks 478. Before him are Magaly Carvajal, Michael Bartels, Warren Ellis, William Regal, Rory Kennedy, and Niamh Kavanagh. After him are Jon Schaffer, Alan Budikusuma, Shinichiro Tani, Fatou Diome, Jennifer Lynch, and Hisashi Kurosaki.
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.08
Rank: 472
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.07
Rank: 473
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.02
Rank: 474
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.00
Rank: 475
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.99
Rank: 476
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 477
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.95
Rank: 478
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.94
Rank: 479
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.93
Rank: 480
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.85
Rank: 481
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.83
Rank: 482
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.82
Rank: 483
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.74
Rank: 484
Among people born in Japan, Naoya Ogawa ranks 1,731 out of 6,048. Before him are Kiyotaka Matsui (1961), Takumi Horiike (1965), Shinji Nakano (1971), Harumi Kori (1953), Kōji Nakata (1979), and Ryo Miyaichi (1992). After him are Mai Kuraki (1982), Yūko Minaguchi (1966), Takayuki Morimoto (1988), Rika Fukami (1963), Atsushi Natori (1961), and Shohei Ono (1992).
1961 - Present
HPI: 38.04
Rank: 1,725
1965 - Present
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 1,726
1971 - Present
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 1,727
1953 - Present
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 1,728
1979 - Present
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 1,729
1992 - Present
HPI: 37.95
Rank: 1,730
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.95
Rank: 1,731
1982 - Present
HPI: 37.95
Rank: 1,732
1966 - Present
HPI: 37.94
Rank: 1,733
1988 - Present
HPI: 37.94
Rank: 1,734
1963 - Present
HPI: 37.92
Rank: 1,735
1961 - Present
HPI: 37.88
Rank: 1,736
1992 - Present
HPI: 37.87
Rank: 1,737
Among wrestlers born in Japan, Naoya Ogawa ranks 20. Before him are Yuji Takada (1954), Takanohana Kōji (1972), Jiichiro Date (1952), Hitoshi Saito (1961), Tadahiro Nomura (1974), and Saori Yoshida (1982). After him are Shohei Ono (1992), Ryoko Tani (1975), Kaori Icho (1984), Yoshihiro Tajiri (1970), Shoichi Funaki (1968), and Shinichi Shinohara (1973).
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.89
Rank: 14
1972 - Present
HPI: 39.82
Rank: 15
1952 - 2018
HPI: 39.59
Rank: 16
1961 - 2015
HPI: 39.50
Rank: 17
1974 - Present
HPI: 38.75
Rank: 18
1982 - Present
HPI: 38.11
Rank: 19
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.95
Rank: 20
1992 - Present
HPI: 37.87
Rank: 21
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.45
Rank: 22
1984 - Present
HPI: 37.06
Rank: 23
1970 - Present
HPI: 36.32
Rank: 24
1968 - Present
HPI: 35.76
Rank: 25
1973 - Present
HPI: 35.31
Rank: 26