Masakatsu Funaki

Description

Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. He founded Pancrase with Minoru Suzuki in 1993 and was its chief trainer, teaching Ken Shamrock and Bas Rutten.

Teachers (2)

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  Yoshiaki Fujiwara

  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 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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  Karl Gotch

  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

Lineage

• Catch WrestlingKarl Gotch ← Billy Riley ← Willie Charnock · 3 generations

Students (2)

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  Ken Shamrock

  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

  2 sources expand_more

  fact_check

  Single source.

  “He won the main event at the very first Pancrase card in Japan, beating his mentor Masakatsu Funaki with an arm triangle”

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

  “Funaki was the chief trainer in Japan for both Shamrock and Rutten, two fighters who both beat him in the ring.”

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

  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.

  “Funaki was the chief trainer in Japan for both Shamrock and Rutten, two fighters who both beat him in the ring.”

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

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