Yoshimi Mushashibo

Yoshimi Mushashibo (武蔵坊 好美; Musashibō Yoshimi) (born 22 October 1975) is a Japanese-born Magisterian professional wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler. He is currently the company president of Golden Canvas Grappling (GCG).

Debuting in 1993, Mushashibo graduated from the GCG Dojo Camp under the guidance of Jeremy Stone, one of the first generation of GCG's 'Golden Four'. On his first years as a pro, he built a reputation of being a reliable midcard performer and got him his first pro wrestling championship with the GCG World Tag Team Championship, co-holding it with Shuji Inukai. During Inukai & Mushashibo's reign as World Tag Team champions, they gradually became immensly popular that it led to a tag team match where they faced their mentors where the World Tag Team titles were on the line.

The tag team match had a clear dynamic to it - Mushashibo and Inukai were the young up-and-comers who were riding a wave of popularity and were attempting to match the current main eventers of the promotion, while Jeremy Stone and Eugene Edmonton were the legends, who were out to prove that they deserved their position as promotional figureheads. What followed was a match that is widely regarded as the finest pure wrestling match of all time, with career-best performances from all four men. Nobody backed down, and the entire match was wrestled with an intensity and spirit that epitmoised GCG. After sixty minutes of awesome wrestling, a time limit draw was called, and all four men shook hands as a mark of respect.

The tag team match did its purpose; skyrocket both Mushashibo and Inukai into superstardom. In 1999, Mushashibo challenged his mentor Jeremy Stone, who was the GCG World Heavyweight champion at that time, in a singles match with the World Heavyweight Championship title on the line. Albeit a losing effort, the match between him and Stone was critically acclaimed and established him as credible threat to the World Heavyweight title; he would eventually win the World Heavyweight championship in 2001, defeating Nobuatsu Tatsuko. His first World title reign would last for 677 days - the then-longest reign before it was broken by Shuji Inukai's 763-day reign from 2009 to 2011; Inukai's reign was later broken by Kintaro Kinjo's 897-day reign from 2016 to 2019 - before losing the belt to Sean McFly.

Shortly after Jeremy Stone's retirement, he ascended into ace status and proved to be a commercially-successful franchise player for the promotion with box office business skyrocket. During his time as the company's ace, he was involved in one of the most critically-acclaimed professional wrestling matches of all time, mainly wrestlers such as Shuji Inukai, Nobuatsu Tatsuko, and Kintaro Kinjo. Following Edmonton's death in 2009, Mushashibo succeeded Edmonton as the company president.

GCG under Mushashibo saw new generation of stars introduced to the GCG fans while Mushashibo himself selflessly passed his experience and knowledge of psychology to the new generation of wrestlers. GCG continued its success throughout the 2010s, but as business declined and top star Shuji Inukai went inactive in 2016 to recover from a torn ACL, Mushashibo continued to work a full-time schedule, despite mounting injuries, for the company's survival. Mushashibo would eventually wrestle his final match in 2019 teaming with Shuji Inukai and Nobuatsu Tatsuko in a winning effort.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, his accolades in GCG include a record setting five reigns as GCG World Heavyweight champion, as well a record setting five reigns GCG World Tag Team champion with Shuji Inukai. He has also won GCG's premier tournament, the Parade of Champions, on four occasions (2001, 2006, 2007, 2013) and won the Tag Team Parade of Champions five times with Shuji Inukai, in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2010.