10 Best Wrestlers Over 45 Years Old In The World Today

7. Jun Akiyama

Twenty years ago, Jun Akiyama was in the thick of All Japan Pro Wrestling's thriving heavyweight division. While Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Toshiaki Kawada, and Akira Taue made up the "Four Corners of Heaven", Akiyama was the proverbial "Fifth Corner". He worked matches will all of those men and formed championship tag teams with both Misawa and Kobashi. Akiyama was part of the early 2000 exodus to NOAH, and it was there that he first became a World Champion. He captured the company's GHC Heavyweight Title three times, and even went back to work at All Japan, finally capturing the Triple Crown Championship that had eluded him while he was in his twenties. At 46 years of age, Akiyama is still an athletic worker and a brutal striker. The pretty-boy good looks may be gone, but in their place is the grizzled, bald visage of experience. Akiyama is the veteran Misawa and Kobashi were ten years ago. Like them, he's brought his talents into middle age. Akiyama may be the current president of All Japan Pro Wrestling, but he shows no signs of slowing down between the ropes.