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Oleg Igorevich Boltin[a] (born 10 February 1993) is a Kazakh professional wrestler and former freestyle wrestler signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he performs under the name Boltin Oleg[b] (ボルチン・オレッグ, Boruchin Oreggu). As a freestyle wrestler, he was the gold medalist at the 2021 Asian Wrestling Championships in the 125 kg (275 lb) division.
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| Birth name | Oleg Igorevich Boltin | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 February 1993[1] Ridder, Kazakhstan[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Ring name(s) | Boltin Oleg | ||||||||||||||
| Billed height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Billed weight | 120 kg (265 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Billed from | Almaty, Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||||
| Trained by | NJPW Dojo Yuji Nagata | ||||||||||||||
| Debut | 2 April 2023[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Oleg was born on 10 February 1993[1][2] in Ridder, East Kazakhstan Region.[3][4] He speaks Japanese fluently.[5] He is of Russian descent.
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Since the early 2010s, Oleg has been training in Japan.[4] In 2017, he joined the Bushiroad Club (now Team New Japan).[5]
In 2020, Oleg won the gold medal at the Kazakhstani Wrestling Championships in the 125 kg category.[6] In the same category, he won the gold medal at the 2021 Asian Wrestling Championships.[7][8] Oleg finished in fifth-place at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships.[9][10] In October 2022, he retired from amateur wrestling when he signed a contract with the Japanese professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling.[11]
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On October 10, 2022, at Declaration of Power, Yuji Nagata introduced Oleg as a future NJPW wrestler. Oleg, in turn, expressed a desire to become as "strong and famous as possible", and cited The Rock and Brock Lesnar as role models.[5] Oleg's first in-ring match took place on January 4, 2023, at Wrestle Kingdom 17, where he had a three-minute exhibition match against Ryohei Oiwa in the pre-show. The match ended in a draw.[12][13] He made his full in-ring debut on April 2, at night two of Road To Sakura Genesis, where he, Ryusuke Taguchi, Shota Umino lost to TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr., Robbie Eagles, and Kosei Fujita).[14][15] On May 28, at day 12 of the 2023 Best of the Super Juniors, Oleg has his first win when he teamed up with Togi Makabe to defeat Yuto Nakashima and Oskar Leube.[16]
In March 2024, Oleg began teaming up with Hiroshi Tanahashi and Toru Yano. The trio defeated House of Torture (Evil, Sho and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) at Wrestling World 2024 in Taiwan to win the vacant NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship.[17] Yano, Tanahashi and Oleg lost the titles to Yota Tsuji, Bushi and Hiromu Takahashi at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall, but regained them the following week at New Japan Soul 2024.[18][19]
Name Clarification
Although New Japan occasionally references Oleg as "Oleg Boltin",[7] several promotional graphics with Oleg has his in-ring name written as "Boltin Oleg".[3]
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Freestyle wrestling
- Asian Wrestling Championships
- 2021 Asian Wrestling Championships gold medal (125 kg)
Professional wrestling
- Kazakh: Олег Игоревич Болтин
- As it is custom in Japan when it comes to Slavic languages (akin to Japanese language names and customs), the name as stated is ordered Boltin Oleg.
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