# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masahiro-chono
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:54:16.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masahiro-chono"
name: "Masahiro Chono"
slug: "masahiro-chono"
description: "Masahiro Chono  is an American-born Japanese retired professional wrestler and actor best known for his 26-year stint with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). As the leader of nWo Japan, Team 2000 and Black New Japan, he was the promotion's top heel for much of his career, beginning in 1994 when he adopted a yakuza inspired gimmick."
tagline: "Japanese professional wrestler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bonzaikid.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: "1963-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           73.72
  momentum:             12.37138919843091
  historical:           11.10895866666667
  currentAttention:     18.36785694452157
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 72
totalFollowers: 154000
platforms:
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
    url:       "https://www.tiktok.com/@masahiro_chono"
    handle:    "masahiro_chono"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/masahirochono"
    handle:    "masahirochono"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/2020chono1225/"
    handle:    "2020chono1225"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://chono.jp/"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/aristristshop"
    handle:    "aristristshop"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1333487/"
    handle:    "nm1333487"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_QmWAdFCquOuYHnp1FsuCQ"
    handle:    "@chonochannel"
    followers: 154000
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/55a2ac30-1537-4770-9e66-540d698cb7df"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "ماساهيرو تشونو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "ماساهيرو تشونو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Chono"
    title: "Masahiro Chono"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Chono"
    title: "Masahiro Chono"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Ch%C5%8Dno"
    title: "Masahiro Chōno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Chono"
    title: "Masahiro Chono"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%9D%B6%E9%87%8E%E6%AD%A3%E6%B4%8B"
    title: "蝶野正洋"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Тёно, Масахиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AE%E0%B8%B4%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0_%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%8A%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B0"
    title: "มาซาฮิโระ โชโนะ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%9D%B6%E9%87%8E%E6%AD%A3%E6%B4%8B"
    title: "蝶野正洋"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3090501"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216232"
    title: "Masahiro Chono"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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