# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kaz-hayashi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:37:27.709Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kaz-hayashi"
name: "Kaz Hayashi"
slug: "kaz-hayashi"
description: "Kazuhiro Hayashi , best known by the ring name Kaz Hayashi , is a Japanese business executive and retired professional wrestler who last competed in Gleat and serves as the company's chief technical officer (CTO). He is best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where in addition to being a wrestler for the latter promotion, he also served as the head booker for the company's junior heavyweight division. After leaving AJPW in 2013, Hayashi competed for Wrestle-1, where he also worked as a trainer. In April 2017, Hayashi took over as the new president of Wrestle-1, remaining in the position until the promotion's closure in 2020; he was also the promotion's final champion of the Wrestle-1 Championship."
tagline: "Japanese professional wrestler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kaz_Hayashi_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1973-05-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.420381333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/kaz_hayashi"
    handle:    "kaz_hayashi"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/kaz_hayashi1973/"
    handle:    "kaz_hayashi1973"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6602655/"
    handle:    "nm6602655"
sources:
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%8B_%E0%B8%AE%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B4"
    title: "แคซ ฮายาชิ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "كاز هاياشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaz_Hayashi"
    title: "Kaz Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaz_Hayashi"
    title: "Kaz Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaz_Hayashi"
    title: "Kaz Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A4%E3%82%B7"
    title: "カズ・ハヤシ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%80%EC%A6%88_%ED%95%98%EC%95%BC%EC%8B%9C"
    title: "가즈 하야시"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1141538"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump