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Minoru Suzuki

Japan
Born 1968-06-17

Description

Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, co-founder of Pancrase with Masakatsu Funaki in 1993. The first fighter to beat Ken Shamrock under Pancrase rules.

Teachers (2)

  • 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
    2 sources expand_more
    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
  • 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.
    “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

Lineage

Sources

“Suzuki was the first fighter to beat UFC Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock under Pancrase rules.”
— Snowden, Jonathan; Shields, Kendall. (2010). The MMA Encyclopedialink info

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M6C18DS7XNBF9C5P9AQXZH6K
Wikidata

Cite and reuse

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Minoru Suzuki. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M6C18DS7XNBF9C5P9AQXZH6K - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
BibTeX
@incollection{martialis_01M6C18DS7XNBF9C5P9AQXZH6K, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Minoru Suzuki}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M6C18DS7XNBF9C5P9AQXZH6K}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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