Nobuhiko Oshima

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Nobuhiko Oshima
Statistics
Ring name(s)	CIMA Shiima Nobunaga SHIMA
Billed height	174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Billed weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Born	November 15, 1977 Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Trained by	Ultimo Dragon
Debut	May 11, 1997

Nobuhiko Oshima, better known by his stage name CIMA, is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently wrestles for Dragon Gate.

1 Career
2 Wrestling facts
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 External links

[edit] Career

Oshima graduated from the first class of Ultimo Dragon's Toryumon dojo. He quickly became the Toryumon wrestling promotion's biggest star. He first wrestled as Shiima Nobunaga (making a few appearances in WCW under that name), then as SHIIMA, until finally shortening his stage name to CIMA, under which he still wrestles today. He was one of the founders of the Crazy MAX stable, and had a years long feud with Magnum TOKYO, another first class graduate. He began as a high flyer, utilizing the Mad Splash as his finisher. This however took toll on his body and especially his knees. After returning from knee surgery he changed his style and started using the Schwein as his finisher. He wrestled in Toryumon Japan until 2004, when the promotion separated itself from Ultimo Dragon's dojo, and changed its name to Dragon Gate. He still wrestles in Dragon Gate today. He created the Blood Generation stable in 2005, which had its final match in January 2007.

CIMA also made his first appearance in a North American wrestling promotion in about seven years in August 2005, appearing in Ring of Honor in a match against AJ Styles, who CIMA defeated.

CIMA would return to North America for a three day tour with Ring of Honor. On March 30, 2006, in Detroit, Michigan, CIMA teamed with fellow Blood Generation members Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino to defeat Ring of Honor faction Generation Next, represented by Austin Aries, Roderick Strong, and Jack Evans.

On March 31, 2006, in Chicago, Illinois, CIMA would once again team with fellow Blood Generation members Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino in Ring of Honor, this time losing a match to another stable from Dragon Gate, Do Fixer (Dragon Kid, Ryo Saito, and Genki Horiguchi). The match is said to have completely stole the show. Dave Meltzer gave the match the coveted 5 star rating.

On April 1, 2006, once again in Chicago, Illionis, at the third and final Ring of Honor show, CIMA teamed with Naruki Doi in a losing attempt to win the Ring of Honor Tag Titles from champions Generation Next (Austin Aries and Roderick Strong).

CIMA's next return to Ring of Honor happened in late December of 2006. CIMA teamed with SHINGO on December 22nd in Hartford, CT to challenge Christopher Daniels and Matt Sydal for the ROH World Tag Team Titles, but the Japanese stars came up short in the match. The next night, in Manhattan, NY, CIMA and SHINGO teamed with Matt Sydal to take on the team of Austin Aries, Roderick Strong, and Delirious. This time, they were successful in their outing, when CIMA pinned Delirious. After the match, CIMA proclaimed "Thank you US, thank you ROH, see you in 2007".

On 6th January 2007, CIMA travelled to Australia and competed in the AWF (Australia Wrestling Federation). In the main event, he wrestled the AWF Champion Steve Ravenous & TNT (also known as Aussie Ozbone on Japan) in a Triple Threat Elimination Match which CIMA won to become the AWF Champion. The next night in Newcastle, TNT defeated CIMA for the AWF Title.

[edit] Wrestling facts

Finishing and signature moves

Schwein (Over the shoulder back to belly piledriver)
Schwein Redline (Wrist clutch over the shoulder back to belly piledriver)
Schweinegatame (Over the shoulder back to belly piledriver into cross arm breaker)
Mad Splash (Frog splash)
Goriconoclasm (Cross-arm iconoclasm)
Mona Lisa Overdrive (Somersault corner-to-corner missile dropkick)
Neji to Hashi (Cross-leg fisherman suplex)
Perfect Driver (Cross-leg Michinoku driver II)
Sasorizagatame (Iconoclasm into cross arm breaker)
Venus (Leaping palm strike to an opponent sitting on the top rope)
Salmonella (Jumping piledriver)
Tokarev (Corner-to-corner missile dropkick)
Iconoclasm

(CIMA is a big fan of the Japanese band Buck-Tick, and names many of his moves after Buck-Tick songs or albums.)

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

Toryumon Japan

Ultimo Dragon Gym Championship (2 times)
Ultimo Dragon Gym International Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
UWA World Trios Championship (4 times) – with SUWA three times, Big/Don Fujii four times, and TARU once
IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship (1 time)
El Numero Uno 2003 League winner