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Rusher Kimura
Birth name
Masao Kimura
Born
June 30, 1941 Nakagawa, Nakagawa District, Hokkaidō, Japan
Died
May 24, 2010(2010-05-24) (aged 68)[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Masao Kimura Mr. Toyo Rusher Kimura
Billed height
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Billed weight
275 lb (125 kg)
Trained by
Toyonobori Billy Robinson
Debut
April 2, 1965
Retired
July 10, 2004
Masao Kimura (木村 政雄, Kimura Masao, June 30, 1941 – May 24, 2010) was a Japanese professional wrestler, best known by his ring name Rusher Kimura (ラッシャー木村, Rasshā Kimura). He was a five-time IWA World Heavyweight Champion, making him a five-time world champion.
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Kusatsu and RusherKimura for the IWA World Tag Team Championship in a two out of three falls match. The tour also saw Ole Anderson face RusherKimura in a pair...
He was a regular midcarder although his teams with Sueo Inoue and RusherKimura were main event. He also made forays into North American wrestling in...
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six-man tag team matches; he frequently teamed with Baba and old rival RusherKimura in matches against teams which included Masanobu Fuchi, Haruka Eigen...
the nWo in WCW in America. The promotion is also credited for making RusherKimura a major star in Japanese Puroresu and holding Japan's first steel cage...
began to feel disenchanted. He rekindled his feud with RusherKimura beginning in 1981 when Kimura joined NJPW after IWE closed. In 1983, he joined Riki...
Japanese vs Japanese program pitting Inoki and NJPW wrestlers against RusherKimura and IWE wrestlers, who were actually employed by NJPW following the...
Wrestling Enterprise, later became Dr. Death In 1970, he wrestled against RusherKimura the promotion's first ever steel cage match. He later All Japan Pro...
times) - with Great Kusatsu and RusherKimura TWWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Toyonobori and RusherKimura Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild;...
December 5, 1998, at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, where he teamed with RusherKimura and Mitsuo Momota to take on Masanobu Fuchi, Haruka Eigen, and Tsuyoshi...
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two-out-of-three falls match. They lost the titles to Great Kusatsu and RusherKimura several weeks later. The Russians (which also included Krusher Kruschev)...
Animal Hamaguchi, Great Kusatsu, Katsuzo Matsumoto, Mighty Inoue, and RusherKimura. In 1974, Flair left the AWA for Jim Crockett's Mid-Atlantic region...
Pro Wrestling on May 1, 1987, teaming with Giant Baba and defeating RusherKimura and Goro Tsurumi. Tenta had a solid 18-month career, teaming with Baba...
During the tour, Ellering and Terry Latham defeated Mighty Inoue and RusherKimura in a two-out-of-three falls match to win the IWA World Tag Team Championship...
Antonio Inoki vs. Bill Robinson (December 11) 1976 Jumbo Tsuruta vs. RusherKimura (March 28) International Wrestling Enterprise All Japan Pro Wrestling...
current All Elite Wrestling star Katsuyori Shibata) and the future RusherKimura (Masao Kimura). Antonio Inoki, who was coming back from a long excursion to...
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