This article is about the professional wrestler also known as Kurasawa. For the filmmaker, see Akira Kurosawa.
Manabu Nakanishi
Nakanishi in February 2020
Born
(1967-01-22) January 22, 1967 (age 57)[1][2] Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan[2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Kurasawa[1] Manabu Nakanishi[1][3] Mascara Don[4] Maybach Don[5] Super Strong Machine Don
Billed height
1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[2]
Billed weight
120 kg (265 lb)[2]
Billed from
Tokyo, Japan
Trained by
Karl Gotch Joe Malenko Hiroshi Hase Kensuke Sasaki
Debut
October 13, 1992[1][2]
Retired
February 22, 2020
Manabu Nakanishi (中西 学, Nakanishi Manabu, born January 22, 1967) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler, who was primarily associated with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a one-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, one-time G1 Climax winner and three-time IWGP Tag Team Champion.
Nakanishi has always stayed based in Japan, but has wrestled for various other promotions including World Championship Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Noah and Pro Wrestling Zero1.[6] Nakanishi's career slowly declined after a spinal injury in 2011, but he continued to wrestle for a further nine years, before retiring on February 22, 2020.
In 1992, Nakanishi won bronze in freestyle wrestling at the Asian Championships. Later that year, he competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, and placed eleventh.
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would repeat this feat again in 1999, but would lose the final to ManabuNakanishi. Other then-reigning champions to reach the final include Kensuke Sasaki...
short-lived stable known as Fighting Club G-EGGS, the stable included ManabuNakanishi, Yuji Nagata, Brian Johnston and Yutaka Yoshie.[citation needed] On...
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position on the card behind more experienced rookies like Yuji Nagata, ManabuNakanishi and Satoshi Kojima. In 1999, he requested to leave New Japan with the...
many bloody battles and disqualifications. On March 8, 2007, he and ManabuNakanishi lost the ZERO1-MAX Intercontinental Tag Team Championship to Yoshihiro...
Yokoyama Tenkaichi Junior (2007) MVP (2007, 2008) Best Bout (2008) vs. ManabuNakanishi on April 6 Best Bout (2011) vs. Daisuke Sekimoto on August 7 Super...
thus qualifying to the final against ManabuNakanishi, which he lost, leading to a match between Muto and Nakanishi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship...
Yamamoto (later to be known as Hiroyoshi Tenzan). In 1994 he defeated ManabuNakanishi in the Young Lions Cup finals, winning the tournament. In the end of...
Yokohama, but was defeated. On August 28, 1999, in Tokyo, Nagata and ManabuNakanishi defeated Tatsutoshi Goto and Michiyoshi Ohara for the IWGP Tag Team...
winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. In the semi-main event, ManabuNakanishi and Yuji Nagata successfully defended the IWGP Tag Team Championship...
reigns, Kensuke Sasaki's fourth reign, Kazuyuki Fujita's third reign, ManabuNakanishi's only reign, Hiroshi Tanahashi's eighth reign, and Jay White's only...
Satoshi Kojima, ManabuNakanishi, Nobukazu Hirai from WAR, and Tatsuhito Takaiwa. The league scores remain unclear but Kojima and Nakanishi qualified for...
2005 Osaka Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium 5,800 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. ManabuNakanishi 2 New Japan Cup 2006 April 30, 2006 Amagasaki Amagasaki Memorial Park...
a singles wrestler to a sold-out crowd in Tokyo in a match against ManabuNakanishi. His career began to rapidly climb from this point. In the later half...
the card included Kensuke Sasaki and Riki Choshu versus Bull Powers (ManabuNakanishi and Satoshi Kojima) for the IWGP Tag Team Championship, Antonio Inoki...
first match in his career when he teamed with Tomoyuki Oka to defeat ManabuNakanishi and Tetsuhiro Yagi in a tag match. Kitamura and Oka continued teaming...
Fukuoka Dome Fukuoka, Japan Kazunari Murakami and Naoya Ogawa vs. ManabuNakanishi and Riki Choshu June 6 Super-Force Group Declaration Nippon Budokan...
Tenzan Triathlon Survivor (2002) – with ManabuNakanishi & Yutaka Yoshie Tag Team Best Bout (2002) with ManabuNakanishi vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono...
replaced an injured Yoshihiro Takayama in his October 14 match against ManabuNakanishi. The two exchanged taunts and attacks on the weeks leading to the match...
Tag Team Championships. The group was formed by Hiroshi Tanahashi, ManabuNakanishi and Ryusuke Taguchi, and later came to include Juice Robinson, Michael...
semifinals. On March 11, 2007, in Nagoya, Bloom and Travis Tomko defeated ManabuNakanishi and Takao Omori to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship. At the February...
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