Michiyoshi Ohara (Japanese:小原道由,Ohara Michiyoshi) (born November 15, 1967) is a Japaneseprofessional wrestler andmixed martial artist, best known for his work inNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he wrestled from 1990 to 2004, winning theIWGP Tag Team Championship withTatsutoshi Goto in 1999.^[4]

The former captain of theKokushikan Universityjudo team, Michiyoshi Ohara debuted forNew Japan Pro-Wrestling on June 30, 1990, againstOsamu Matsuda. In December 1991, Ohara won the Young Lion Tournament by defeatingKoji Kanemoto. In the summer of 1992, he wrestled in Europe forOtto Wanz'sCatch Wrestling Association, under the nameFuji Yamaha.

In 1993, he joinedShiro Koshinaka'sHeisei Ishingun, acting as one of the group's main members, and upon joining the group, he began partnering withThe Great Kabuki, untilTatsutoshi Goto joined the unit later on, where their partnership lasted past Heisei Ishingun's disbandment in 1999. While with the Ishingun, Ohara won the One Night Tag Team Tournament with fellow memberAkira Nogami on November 3, 1996, and also had one-off matches for other promotions likeWAR, winning theWAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship with Goto andShiro Koshinaka in one occasion, andPro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi. However at one point, in 1997, Goto and Ohara left the Ishingun and joined thenWo Japan as associates forMasahiro Chono, but they left after a confrontation with Chono andHiroyoshi Tenzan, joining Heisei Ishingun once again until the end.

After Heisei Ishingun's ending, Ohara and Goto remained asThe Mad Dogs, being affiliated withMasahiro Chono's newly formedTEAM 2000, feuding with New Japan's loyalists. On June 27, 1999, duringSummer Struggle tour, Ohara and Goto defeated their former leader Shiro Koshinaka andKensuke Sasaki for theIWGP Tag Team Championship after Goto pinned Koshinaka. They held the belts for two months, once successfully defending it against Koshinaka andKengo Kimura, until dropping it toYuji Nagata andManabu Nakanishi on August 28, during theJingu Climax event. After their loss, they took part in the G1 Tag League of that year, finishing the tournament in 7th place with 6 points, with a notable victory over their leader Chono and his partnerDon Frye. The next year, The Dogs would find themselves on the mid-card again, not having any success on title matches or tournaments, and scoring occasional victories over young lion teams. They once again took part in the G1 Tag League tournament, however, not as the Mad Dogs, but as a parody ofSuper Strong Machine calledT2000 Machines, since the group was feuding with the original Strong Machine, so they parodied his gimmick. The T2000 Machines finished last on the tournament with only two points, by scoring a victory over then reigning IWGP Tag Team champions and fellow TEAM 2000 members,Satoshi Kojima and Hiroyoshi Tenzan. On December 10, 2000, Ohara made history on a New Japan Pro-Wrestling show, after losing a match to Kensuke Sasaki in only 6 seconds, in which Ohara ran from his corner towards Sasaki, with the latter intercepting him by hitting a singleLariat, knocking him out, a record that was since broken byYota Tsuji after he pinnedGedo in 5 seconds with a singleGene Blaster. After some more matches, Ohara left New Japan in July 2001 to venture onMixed Martial Arts, disbanding with Goto in the process.

In early 2003, The Mad Dogs reunited when Ohara returned to New Japan, the two formed a new stable: The Crazy Dogs withHiro Saito and MMA legend:Enson Inoue. The group spent all of 2003 feuding with theMakai Club andKantaro Hoshino where the two sides exchanged victories until the feud ended at Wrestling World 2004 when the Crazy Dogs lost to the Makai Club in an eight-man tag team match. Following the loss, Ohara and Inoue left New Japan. Goto would eventually leave in 2006.

After 14 years with the New Japan, Ohara's contract was not renewed in 2004, and he would venture on freelancing withKensuke Office,Dradition and Big Mouth Loud. He reunited with Goto as The Mad Dogs for Big Mouth Loud in 2005, before making brief returns to New Japan, as Makai #3 and himself. His last appearance for New Japan occurred on March 6, 2007, teaming with Shiro Koshinaka as Heisei Ishingun for one night, in a losing effort againstRiki Choshu and Super Strong Machine. In 2007, he joinedAntonio Inoki's new promotion,Inoki Genome Federation.^[5] In 2008, he retired due to injuries suffered in a car accident.

Ohara briefly became amixed martial artist where he competed inPRIDE Fighting Championships. He had a total of two fights and lost both, his first fight took place againstRenzo Gracie on November 3, 2001, atPRIDE 17 where he lost by unanimous decision.^[1] His second fight took place just under a year after his first againstKevin Randleman on September 29, 2002, atPRIDE 22, the fight resembled much like the first as he lost by unanimous decision.^[1]

• New Japan Pro-Wrestling

• IWGP Tag Team Championship (1 time) - withTatsutoshi Goto^[4]
• Young Lion Tournament (1991)^[6]
• One Night Tag Team Tournament (1996)- withAkira Nogami^[7]

• Wrestle Association "R"

• WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (1 Time) - withShiro Koshinaka & Tatsutoshi Goto

• Japanese male professional wrestlers
• Japanese male mixed martial artists
• Mixed martial artists utilizing wrestling
• Mixed martial artists utilizing judo
• Japanese male judoka
• 1967 births
• Living people
• Professional wrestlers from Nagano Prefecture
• People from Matsumoto, Nagano
• IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions
• Tenryu Project World 6-Man Tag Team Champions
• 20th-century male professional wrestlers
• 20th-century Japanese professional wrestlers
• 21st-century male professional wrestlers
• 21st-century Japanese professional wrestlers
• New World Order (professional wrestling) members
• 20th-century Japanese sportsmen

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