Renouned Japanese shoot fighter, praised by Big Dave for constantly wrestling lesser talented men to five star fake matches. He is currently co-leader alongside Glen Jacobs of the BURNING faction in NOAH which consists of four men on a mission to rid the world of cancerous kidney's and young age scaldings. On December 12, 2007, SOMETHING HAPPENNED IN JAPAN GUYS when Kobashi comes back and laid some straight shootin' bitches.