Yota Tsuji
Tsuji in November 2023 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Yota Tsuji September 8, 1993 |
| Alma mater | Nippon Sport Science University |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Yota Tsuji Yota Mascara Kantansu Tomato Philip Marlowe Jr. |
| Billed height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) |
| Billed weight | 227 lb (103 kg) |
| Billed from | Yokohama, Japan |
| Trained by | NJPW Dojo Hiroshi Tanahashi Ultimo Guerrero Tetsuya Naito |
| Debut | April 10, 2018 |
Yota Tsuji (辻 陽太, Tsuji Yōta; born September 8, 1993) is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the current IWGP Heavyweight Champion in his first reign and the current IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion in his record-tying second reign. He is also a member of the Unbound Co. stable, the successor to Bullet Club and Los Ingobernables de Japon.
Tsuji is the winner of the 2024 New Japan Cup and is a one-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion with Bushi and Hiromu Takahashi. During his excursion to Mexico, he wrestled for partner promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as the mononym Yota. On Fantastica Mania tours, he performs under the ring name Philip Marlowe Jr., his alter ego inspired by the fictional detective Philip Marlowe.