Kazushige Nosawa

Kazushige Nosawa (野沢一茂, Nosawa Kazushige), better known by his ring names Nosawa and Nosawa Rongai, is a Japanese freelance professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in All Japan Pro Wrestling and various independent promotions.

Career

NOSAWA spent most of his early career training and wrestling in Mexico. Most notably with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. In the U.S indy scene, Nosawa has competed for such promotions as Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, and Xtreme Pro Wrestling. Along with Kikuzawa, Mazada, Fujita and Takemura, they created the group "Tokyo Gurentai".

He adopted in 2004 the ring name of Nosawa Rongai (lit. "Nosawa Out of the Question") as a play off to a comment by Kaz Hayashi, who had replied "Nosawa is out of the question" when he was asked about whether he was going to allow Kazushige to challenge for the Junior Heavyweight Championship. By doing this, Nosawa forced a title match against him, and although he lost, he decided to keep the name for the rest of his career.