Nagai and Yoshikazu Yokoyama in the first rounds, obtained a walkover victory in the second ones, but fell short to Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi in the third rounds. At the 2014 edition, Maruyama teamed up with Daemon Ueda to defeat Atsushi Onita and Masashi Aoyagi in the first rounds and then fell short to Masato Tanaka and Takashi Sugiura in the second ones. At the 2016 edition, he teamed again with Kohei Sato and fell short to Kai and Yusaku Obata in the first rounds. New Japan Pro Wrestling (1994, 2005–2008) Maruyama made sporadic appearances in New Japan Pro Wrestling. He began in the NJPW Super Grade Tag League IV, a tournament which took place between October 15, 1994, in which he teamed up with Masayoshi Motegi and failed to score any points after competing against the teams of El Samurai and 2 Cold Scorpio, Black Tiger and The Great Sasuke, Super Delfin and Taka Michinoku, Shinjiro Otani and Wild Pegasus, Gran Hamada and Norio Honaga, and Dean Malenko and Tokimitsu Ishizawa. At NJPW Toukon Souzou New Chapter on October 8, 2005, where he teamed up with Kohei Sato, Ryouji Sai and Shinjiro Otani in a losing effort against Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Naofumi Yamamoto, Takashi Iizuka and Yutaka Yoshie as a result of an eight-man tag team match. At Toukon Shidou Chapter 1 on January 4, 2006, he teamed up with Daisuke Sekimoto, Kohei Sato, Riki Choshu, Takashi Uwano and Yoshihito Sasaki to defeat Hirooki Goto, Hiroshi Nagao, Osamu Nishimura, Takashi Iizuka, Tatsumi Fujinami and Toru Yano in a Twelve-man tag team match. At NJPW Lock Up on February 24, 2008, he teamed up with Yoshihito Sasaki in a losing effort against Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe and Toru Yano). Championships and accomplishments Apache Pro-Wrestling Army WEW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kohei Sato Big Japan Pro Wrestling BJW Heavyweight Championship (1 time, inaugural) BJW Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Shunme Matsuzaki (1) and Abdullah Kobayashi (1) Six Man Maximum Tag League (1998, 2001) Pro Wrestling Illustrated Ranked No. 428 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2010 Pro Wrestling Zero1 World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) United National Heavyweight Championship (2 times) NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Kohei Sato (2) and Shinjiro Otani (1) Furinkazan (2010) – with Kohei Sato References 1971 births Living people Japanese male