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Naoya Ogawa

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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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  • 2.16

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  • 3.08

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Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Naoya Ogawa ranks 273 out of 700Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Naoya Ogawa ranks 478Before 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.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Naoya Ogawa ranks 1,731 out of 6,048Before 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).

Among WRESTLERS In Japan

Among wrestlers born in Japan, Naoya Ogawa ranks 20Before 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).