The Bodyguard

Noboru Kurakawa (倉川 昇) is a Japanese bodybuilder and professional wrestler better known as The Bodyguard or Bodyguard (ボディガー). He currently held the World Tag Team Championship with Zeus and they are known as The Big Guns. Bodyguard his a former 2 times Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship with Zeus and he is a former IWF Heavyweight Championship.

Osaka Pro Wrestling (2009-2014)
The Bodyguard made his first appearance in Osaka Pro in the fall of 2008, assisting Tigers Mask in completing his heel turn. Originally called Kurofuku, his strength was evident from the start and immediately started to cause trouble by helping Tigers win matches. He started a feud with Zeus, which led to him being outed as former professional bodybuilder Noboru Kurakawa. Kurakawa won two Musclemania Japan competitions in 2002 and 2007. The two engaged in some power battles, including an arm-wrestling contest that expectedly had no clean finish. Bodyguard would make his official in-ring debut at Hurricane 2009 against Zeus, but unfortunately lost in just over 8 minutes. Bodyguard continued to be a wall for LOV until he stunned everybody by joining forces with Asian Cooger and Orochi to form the new JOKER heel group in August 2010. However, he was kicked out of JOKER by Kuuga after refusing their help in a match against Zeus five months later. Bodyguard was beaten down by JOKER, but was saved by Zeus and the two shook hands afterwards to signal a new alliance. Known as the Big Guns, he & Zeus won the Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship in February 2011 and held them for a few months. Various injuries kept him out for a good portion of 2011, but he returned in the fall. A knee injury once again sidelined Bodyguard in early 2012, but he returned for a Big Guns produced show in May. Shortly after that, he announced that other than for Big Guns-related matches, his ring name would be MACHO Samurai. At Hurricane 2012, Bodyguard blew out his knee during a three-way Tag Team Match for the Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship and needed surgery. The injury would keep him out for about 8 months.In March 2013, Bodyguard returned to the ring and announced that he would now be a full-time roster member. He’s one of the more popular wrestlers on the roster and always has time for fans during and after shows. They also won the Osaka Tag Festival 2013 and later in 2013 they won the Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Champions for the second time and Zeus also won the Osaka Pro Wrestling Championship and at the Tennozan 2013 Zeus and Bodyguard faced each other in the finals and the winner was Zeus. On March 1, 2014, it was announced that the promotion would be folding due to financial difficulties on April 20 with all of its workers becoming freelancers. It was later announced that Osaka Pro Wrestling would continue under new management and The Bodyguard and Zeus vacated the Osaka Pro Wrestling Championship and the Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship. On April 20 Zeus and Bodyguard wrestled their last match with Quiet Storm against Billyken Kid, Bull Armor Takuya and Black Buffalo and they lost.

All Japan Pro Wrestling (2014–Present)
On March 28, 2014 Zeus and The Bodyguard made their debut in AJPW by defeating Menso re-Oyaji and Sushi. On May 16 Zeus and The Bodyguard had a oppurtunity for the World Tag Team Championship but they lost to the defending champions Evolution (Joe Doering and Suwama and they suffered their first lost. Zeus and The Bodyguard participated at the 2014 Ōdō Tournament but Zeus was eliminated at the second round by the eventual winner of the tournament Go Shiozaki and Bodyguard lost at the first round against Takao Omori. Zeus and The Bodyguard participated at the 2014 World's Strongest Tag Determination League and they finished the tournament with 8 points, and they failed to win the World Tag Team Champions. On January 12, 2015 Zeus defeated Kenso for 1 contender for the Triple Crown Heavyweight title.On February 7 Zeus failed to capture the Triple Crown Heavyweight tile from Go Shiozaki.

Both Zeus and The Bodyguard participated at 2015 Champion Carnival and Zeus finished the tournament with 3 points on block b and at the block A Bodyguard finished the tournament with 2 points. On May 31 they had another shot at the World Tag Team Champions but they lost against Xceed (Go Shiozaki and Kento Miyahara). On August 15 Zeus and Bodyguard scored a big win against the former World Tag Team Champions Akebono and Yutaka Yoshie. Zeus and The Bodyguard participated at the 2015 World's Strongest Tag Determination League and they lost their first two matches but they manage to win the rest of the matches, and they make all the way into the finals finishing the tournament with 8 points and they were defeated by Kento Miyahara and Suwama at the finals of the tournament. On December 23 they finally manage to win the World Tag Team Champions by defeating Wild Burning (Jun Akiyama and Takao Omori).

On January 10, 2016 after Zeus and Bodyguard, Billyken Kid defeated Suwama, Atsushi Aoki & Hikaru Sato Zeus called out for a shot at the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship. On February 12 at the first day of the Jr.Battle Of Glory Zeus lost to Kento Miyahara for the vancated Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion. On February 21 Zeus and Bodyguard retained the World Tag Team Champions against Nextream (Jake Lee and Kento Miyahara). On April 9 to April 24 Bodyguard participated at 2016 Champion Carnival at block A. Bodyguard finished his block with 6 points and failed to advanced to the finals. On June 15 Zeus and Bodyguard lost the World Tag Team titles to Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi). On November 27 Zeus and Bodyguard defeated Sekimoto and Okabayashi to win the World Tag Team titles back.

In wrestling

 * Finishing and signature moves
 * Powerslam
 * Short Range Lariat
 * Kirisute Gomen
 * The Bounce (Running Black Tiger Bomb)
 * Double team moves
 * Muscle Explosion (Doomsday Device)
 * Entrance Theme
 * "It's Time" by Rick Pier O'Neil (Osaka Pro)

Bodybuilding

 * Musclemania Japan (2002, 2007)

Professional Wrestling

 * All Japan Pro Wrestling
 * World Tag Team Championship (2 times, current) – with Zeus
 * Independent Wrestling Federation
 * IWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * Osaka Pro Wrestling
 * Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Zeus
 * Osaka Tag Festival (2013) – with Zeus