Description

Japanese professional wrestler of the shoot-style UWF. With Karl Gotch he trained Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki, the founders of Pancrase.

Students (2)

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  Minoru Suzuki

  swordsCatch Wrestling Probable

  Probable

  Single source.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Single source.

  “Trained by Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Suzuki also had excellent submissions”

  — Snowden, Jonathan; Shields, Kendall. (2010). The MMA Encyclopedialink info

  “Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki had tons of potential in traditional professional wrestling. [...] But the students of Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Karl Gotch weren’t looking to take pratfalls”

  — Snowden, Jonathan; Shields, Kendall. (2010). The MMA Encyclopedialink info
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  Masakatsu Funaki

  swordsCatch Wrestling Probable

  Probable

  Single source.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  1 source expand_more

  fact_check

  Single source.

  “Trained by Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Karl Gotch, Funaki was the best and most technically proficient of the Pancrase fighters.”

  — Snowden, Jonathan; Shields, Kendall. (2010). The MMA Encyclopedialink info

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