Yoshimi Mushashibo

Yoshimi Mushashibo (武蔵坊 好美; Musashibō Yoshimi) is a Japanese-born Magisterian professional wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler. He is currently the company president of Pro Wrestling Integrity (PWI).

Debuting in 1993, Mushashibo graduated from Edmonton's Golden Warrior Dojo under the guidance of Eugene Edmonton. Mushashibo was one of the first signings of Edmonton's newly-opened Pro Wrestling Integrity (PWI).

In 1997, PWI had been in business for just one year, but had been building a good reputation for themselves, and were beginning to get in a position where they could challenge GCTG. PWI founder and then-president Eugene Edmonton pulled off a risky move - he scheduled a PWI show one day after a major GCTG event, and publically stated that they would put on a better quality show than their much bigger rivals. The show was headlined by a tag team match with the team of Mushashibo and Tatsuko facing the team of Edmonton and Deacon.

The tag team match had a clear dynamic to it - Mushashibo and Tatsuko 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 Edmonton and Deacon 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 PWI. After sixty minutes of awesome wrestling, a time limit draw was called, and all four men shook hands as a mark of respect.

After the critically-acclaimed tag team match, Edmonton's promise was fulfilled, as PWI blew away the GCTG show, which was no small feat given that the larger promotion put on an excellent night of entertainment themselves. The show - mainly the tag team match - sky-rocketed PWI in popularity, and made them a serious threat to GCTG, a position them kept from that point onwards. Afterwards, Mushashibo and Tatsuko would regularly tag team before breaking up in 1998 as both were groomed to become main eventers.

In 2000, Mushashibo challenged then-ace Pat Deacon in a singles match with the World Championship title on the line. Albeit a losing effort, the match between him and Deacon launched Mushashibo's career into superstardom that eventually led him to his first Royal Crown title win against Nobuatsu Tatsuko in 2001. His first World title reign would last for 677 days - the then-longest reign before Shuji Inukai's 763-day reign from 2003 to 2005 - before losing the belt to Sean McFly.

Shortly after Pat Deacon'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. In 2009, Eugene Edmonton passed away and Mushashibo succeeded him as the company president.

PWI under Mushashibo saw new generation of stars introduced to the PWI fans while Mushashibo himself selflessly passed his experience and knowledge of psychology to the new generation of wrestlers. PWI 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 and pain killer abuses, 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 PWI include a record setting seven reigns as PWI World Champion, and a record six reigns as PWI World Tag Team Champion with Shuji Inukai. All totaled, Mushashibo has won 13 championships in PWI. He has also won PWI's premier tournament, the Royal Summit, on four occasions (2001, 2005, 2006, 2013) and won the Royal Tag Team Summit five times with Shuji Inukai, in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2010.