# Genichiro Tenryu

> Genichiro Shimada , better known as Genichiro Tenryu  is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and professional wrestling promoter. At age 13, he entered sumo wrestling and stayed there for 13 years, after which he turned to Western-style professional wrestling. "Tenryu" was his shikona. He had two stints with All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he spent the majority of his career while also promoting Super World of Sports (SWS), Wrestle Association R (WAR) and Tenryu Project. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. At the time of his retirement, professional wrestling journalist and historian Dave Meltzer wrote that "one could make a strong case [that Tenryu was] between the fourth and sixth biggest native star" in the history of Japanese professional wrestling.

*Japanese professional wrestler and rikishi*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Athlete ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131))
- **Category:** Athletes
- **Country:** Japan
- **Born:** 1950-02-02
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 50.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 7.7 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 55.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/tenryu_genichiro/ (@tenryu_genichiro)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1106518/ (@nm1106518)

## Sources
- [天龍源一郎](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E9%BE%8D%E6%BA%90%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E)
- [جينيكيرو تينريو](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88)
- [Genichiro Tenryu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genichiro_Tenryu)
- [Genichiro Tenryū](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genichiro_Tenry%C5%AB)
- [Genichiro Tenryu](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genichiro_Tenryu)
- [Genichiro Tenryu](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genichiro_Tenryu)
- [天龍源一郎](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E9%BE%8D%E6%BA%90%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q610157)
- [Genichiro Tenryu](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3979785)

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