Kensho Obayashi (大林 賢将, Ōbayashi Kenshō, born January 27, 1982)[1] is a Japanese bodybuilder and professional wrestler better known by his ring name Zeus (ゼウス, Zeusu).
He teamed up with Gaina to win the Osaka Pro Tag Title shortly afterwards,[2] but they would lose them at Hurricane 2007 to Hideyoshi & Masamune in a three-way match also featuring Tsubasa and Flash Moon.
[3] Zeus started to break out as a singles wrestler in late 2007, reaching the Tennozan final but losing to the Osaka Pro Champion, Tigers Mask.
After Hurricane 2008, he started the rookie group Blood & Guts (B&G), recruiting Daisuke Harada, Tadasuke and eventually Atsushi Kotoge[5] to join.
After defeating the Bodyguard,[8] Zeus announced that he was going to start training for a career in boxing and that he would be leaving the wrestling industry effective immediately.
His in-ring return was delayed after he underwent further training and spent time to trying to build up body mass after losing a lot of weight for boxing.
His official return to wrestling took place in November 2010 at Osaka Pro: Zeus Will Be Back, where he teamed with Daisuke Sekimoto to defeat Akebono and Don Fujii.
It was later announced that the promotion would continue under new management, but Zeus and Bodyguard eventually vacated their all of their championships, and on April 20 wrestled their last match in OPW, teaming with Quiet Storm in a losing effort against Billyken Kid, Bull Armor Takuya and Black Buffalo.
[17] On February 3, 2013, Kohei Sato and Zeus received an opportunity at the vacated NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship, but lost to Zero64 (Akebono and Daisuke Sekimoto).
[21] On September 13, Zeus received an opportunity at the DDT Extreme Division Championship, losing against Danshoku Dino in a "Kiss Pin" match.
[23] On May 16, Zeus and The Bodyguard received an opportunity at the World Tag Team Championship, but were unable to defeat defending champions Evolution (Joe Doering and Suwama).
[29] On August 15, Zeus and Bodyguard scored a big win, defeating former World Tag Team Champions Akebono and Yutaka Yoshie.
[32] On December 23, Zeus and Bodyguard finally captured the World Tag Team Championship, defeating Wild Burning (Jun Akiyama and Takao Omori).
On February 25, 2018, they defeated Kento Miyahara and Yoshitatsu to win the titles for the fourth time, but lost them exactly one month later to Ryoji Sai and Dylan James.