Masahiro Chono - in Wrestling

In Wrestling

• Finishing moves
  • Kenka Kick (Running arched big boot)
  • Multiple STF variations
    • FTS (Over rotated stepover toehold into a sleeper hold) – Innovated
    • Into a facelock, sometimes while crossing the opponent's legs together
    • Into a sleeper hold – Innovated
    • Into a inverted facelock - Innovated
  • Shining Black (Single leg running front dropkick to the face of a kneeling opponent while using their knee for leverage)

• Signature moves
  • Cradle piledriver
  • Diving shoulder block
  • Double underhook
  • Octopus stretch
  • Manhattan Drop (Inverted atomic drop)
  • Samoan drop
  • Hangman's neckbreaker
  • Falling inverted DDT
  • Dragon screw
  • Russian legsweep
  • Belly to back suplex

• With Hiroyoshi Tenzan
  • Cho-Ten Torpedo (Double diving shoulder block)
  • CTC – Cho-Ten Crash (Running high knee / Running back elbow combination)
  • Shining Assault (Shining Kenka Kick (Chono) / Lariat (Tenzan) combination)

• Nicknames
  • "Mr. G1"
  • "Mr. August"

• Managers
  • Bill Dundee
  • Sonny Onoo

• Entrance themes
  • New Japan Pro Wrestling
    • "Soca & So On" by Paul Mauriat (1984–1989)
    • "Fantastic City" (1989–1992)
    • "Fantastic City '92" (1992–1994)
    • "Main Eventer" (August 5, 1993)
    • "Crash" (1994–1996)
    • "nWo Crash" (1996–1999)
    • "Team 2000 Crash" (1999–present)
  • Pro Wrestling NOAH
    • "Hard Crush" (2003)
  • World Championship Wrestling
    • "Pacific Zone" (1991–1992)
    • "1,000 Suns" (1995–1996, 2000)
    • "Tear It Up" by J.Hart and H.Helm (1996–1997)