Kenta Kobayashi
Born: 1981-03-12 in Sōka, Saitama, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
Kenta Kobayashi, better known by his ring name KENTA, is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist who debuted in 2000 with Pro Wrestling NOAH and went on to compete internationally, including a run in WWE as Hideo Itami. After joining New Japan Pro-Wrestling in 2019, he captured the NEVER Openweight Championship, IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, before returning to NOAH in 2025 where he also made his N-1 Victory tournament debut that same year.
Filmography
2025
- NOAH: The New Year 2025 as KENTA
- NOAH Star Navigation Premium 2025 #4 as KENTA
- NOAH Star Navigation Premium 2025 #3 as KENTA
- NOAH 25th Anniversary Memorial Voyage 2025 in Yokohama ～NOAH Jr. Tag League 2025～ as KENTA
- NJPW New Year Dash!! 2025 as KENTA
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 19 as KENTA
- MLW SuperFight 6 as KENTA
- NOAH Star Navigation Premium 2025 #2 ~ NOAH Jr. Tag League 2025 ~ as KENTA
- NOAH Star Navigation 2025 #1 as KENTA
- NOAH Star Navigation 2025 #5 as KENTA
- NOAH 25th Anniversary Memorial Voyage 2025 in Kokugikan as KENTA
- NOAH Star Navigation 2025 #2 as KENTA
- NOAH 25th Anniversary Memorial Voyage 2025 In Osaka as KENTA
- NOAH Star Navigation 2025 #4 as KENTA
- NOAH Star Navigation 2025 #3 as KENTA
- NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 1 as KENTA
- NOAH Wrestle Odyssey as KENTA
- NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 9 (Final) as KENTA
- NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 8 as KENTA
- MLW Kings of Colosseum 2025 as KENTA
- NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 6 as KENTA
- NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 4 as KENTA
- NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 2 as KENTA
- NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 3 as KENTA
- NOAH N-1 Victory 2025 - Day 7 as KENTA
2024
- NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2024 as KENTA
- NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2024 as KENTA
- NJPW Sakura Genesis 2024 as Kenta
- NJPW Resurgence 2024 as KENTA
- NJPW 52nd Anniversary Event & New Japan Cup 2024: Day 1 as KENTA
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2024 • Day 2 as KENTA
- MLW Blood & Thunder as KENTA
- NJPW The New Beginning in Nagoya as KENTA
- NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 7 as KENTA
- NJPW Dominion 6.9 In Osaka-Jo Hall ~ Best of the Super Junior 31 Final ~ as KENTA
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2024 - Night 2 as KENTA
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2024 - Night 1 as KENTA
- NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 6 as KENTA
2023
- NJPW Resurgence 2023 as KENTA
- NJPW Capital Collision 2023 as KENTA
- IMPACT Wrestling: No Surrender 2023 as Kenta
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 19 (Final) as KENTA
- NJPW Collision in Philadelphia as Kenta
- NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2023 as Kenta
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 1 as KENTA
- IMPACT Wrestling: Bound For Glory 2023 as Kenta
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17: Night 2 in Yokohama Arena as Kenta
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 17 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 18 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 1 as KENTA
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17 Pre-Show as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 3 as KENTA
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 4 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 11 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 9 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 7 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 14 as KENTA
- IMPACT Wrestling x NJPW: Multiverse United 2: For Whom The Bell Tolls as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 5 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 13 as KENTA
- NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 3 as KENTA
- NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2023 as KENTA
- NJPW Sakura Genesis 2023 as KENTA
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2023 - Day 1 as KENTA
- NJPW 51st Anniversary Event & New Japan Cup 2023: Day 2 as KENTA
- IMPACT Wrestling x NJPW: Multiverse United: Only The Strong Survive as KENTA
- NJPW New Year Dash !! 2023 as KENTA
- NJPW STRONG Independence Day 2023 - Day 2 as KENTA
- NOAH: The New Year 2023 as Kenta
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2023 - Day 2 as KENTA
- Mark Hitchcock Memorial Wrestlecon Supershow 2023 as KENTA
- NJPW STRONG Independence Day 2023 - Day 1 as KENTA
- NJPW Battle In The Valley 2023 as Kenta
2022
- NOAH: The New Year 2022 as KENTA
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 2 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 1 as KENTA
- NJPW & NOAH: Wrestle Kingdom 16 - Night 3 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 8 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 3 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 4 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 11 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 9 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 5 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 15 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 17 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 2 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 16 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 10 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 6 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 13 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 14 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 7 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 12 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 20 (Final) as KENTA
- NJPW Battle Autumn 2022 - Night 16 as KENTA
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 1 as KENTA
2021
- AEW Beach Break as Kenta
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15: Night 1 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 15 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 17 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 11 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 19 (Final) as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 5 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 1 as KENTA
- NJPW Sakura Genesis 2021 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 13 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 3 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 9 as KENTA
- NJPW Power Struggle 2021 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 7 as KENTA
- NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam In Tokyo Dome as KENTA
- NJPW 49th Anniversary Show as KENTA
2020
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 1 as KENTA
- NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 6 as KENTA
- NJPW New Year Dash !! 2020 as KENTA
- NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 2 as KENTA
- NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 5 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 2 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 19 (Final) as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 12 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 8 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 18 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 4 as KENTA
- NJPW STRONG as Kenta
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2020 - Day 1 as KENTA
- NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2020 - Day 2 as KENTA
- NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2020 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 16 as KENTA
- NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 7 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 6 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 10 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 30: Day 14 as KENTA
2019
- All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite as KENTA
- WWE Royal Rumble 2019 as Hideo Itami (Preshow)
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 4 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 1 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 3 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 13 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 2 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 19 (Final) as KENTA
- NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2019 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 9 as KENTA
- NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2019 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 6 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 7 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 14 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 8 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 18 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 17 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 16 as Kenta
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 5 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 15 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 10 as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 11 as KENTA
- NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2019 as KENTA
- NJPW: Royal Quest as KENTA
- NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 12 as KENTA
2018
- NOAH: Naomichi Marufuji 20th Anniversary Show as Hideo Itami
2017
- WWE NXT Takeover: Chicago as Hideo Itami
- NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III as Hideo Itami
2016
- WWE 205 Live as Hideo Itami
- NXT Takeover: Brooklyn II as Hideo Itami
- NXT's Greatest Matches Vol. 1 as Hideo Itami
2015
- WWE WrestleMania 31 as Hideo Itami
- NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable as Hideo Itami
- ROH: Year 5 as KENTA
- Finn Bálor The Demon Revealed as Hideo Itami (archive footage)
- WWE NXT Live: From San Jose 2015 as Hideo Itami
- NXT TakeOver: Rival as Hideo Itami
2014
- NXT TakeOver: R-Evolution as Hideo Itami
- ROH: Year Four as KENTA
- NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way as Hideo Itami
2013
- Danielson vs The World as KENTA
- ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 1 as KENTA
- ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 2 as KENTA
- Bryan Danielson: World Champion as KENTA
- Nigel McGuinness: In It to Win It as KENTA
2012
- Danielson vs McGuinness as KENTA
- Chris Hero: Ring of Hero as KENTA
- ROH: Japan's Finest as KENTA
- KENTA: Go 2 Sleep as KENTA
2011
2010
- WWE NXT as Hideo Itami
2009
- NOAH The Second Navigation 2009: Day 7 as KENTA
- Ring of Honor Wrestling as Kenta
- ROH: End of An Age
- ROH: 7th Anniversary as KENTA
2008
- ROH: The Tokyo Summit
- ROH: Best In The World as KENTA
- NOAH: European Navigation 2008 as KENTA
2007
- ROH: Driven as KENTA
- NOAH Summer Navigation '07 - Day 12 as KENTA
2006
- ROH: Throwdown as KENTA
- ROH: Glory by Honor V - Night Two as KENTA
- ROH: Honor Reclaims Boston as KENTA
- ROH: Time To Man Up as KENTA
- ROH: Fight of The Century as KENTA
- ROH: Glory By Honor V - Night One as KENTA
- ROH: Best In The World as KENTA
- ROH: In Your Face as KENTA
- ROH: Chi-Town Struggle as KENTA
2005
- ROH Final Battle 2005 as KENTA
- NOAH: Destiny 2005 as KENTA
- NOAH: 3rd Great Voyage 2005 as KENTA
2004
- NOAH: Departure 2004 as KENTA
2003
2002
2001
2000
- Pro Wrestling NOAH as Kenta
- NOAH: Great Voyage
1972
- New Japan Pro Wrestling as KENTA