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The Great Sasuke
The Great Sasuke in 2014
Birth name
Masanori Murakawa[1][2]
Born
(1969-07-18) July 18, 1969 (age 54) Morioka, Tōhoku, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
The Great Sasuke Masa Michinoku Ninja Sasuke Sasuke Black Ninja Sasuke The Ram
Billed height
1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Billed weight
82 kg (181 lb)
Trained by
Kotetsu Yamamoto Gran Hamada
Debut
March 1, 1990
Masanori Murakawa (村川 政徳, Murakawa Masanori, July 18, 1969), best known under his ring name The Great Sasuke (ザ・グレート・サスケ, Za Gurēto Sasuke), is a Japanese professional wrestler, professional wrestling promoter and politician. He is the founder of Michinoku Pro Wrestling (MPW). Aside from professional wrestling, he is also a former Iwate Prefectural Assembly legislator. He has wrestled in Japan and in the United States in various professional wrestling promotions. He is said to have an incredible tolerance for pain, mainly in reference to the injuries he has had including a cracked skull on two occasions.
^"The Great Sasuke profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
^"Profile at Puroresu Central". Puroresu Central. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
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Championship with his trainer theGreatSasuke and Gran Hamada. Just over a year into his wrestling career Tiger Mask won the UWA World Middleweight Championship...
quarterfinal but lost to TheGreatSasuke in the semifinal. However, Liger rebounded with his participation in the 1994 Best of the Super Juniors, in which...
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by many to be a great achievement. The first match rated more than five stars by Meltzer was Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat in 1989. The highest-ever rating...
Terry Boy and Dick Togo battle TheGreatSasuke, Gran Hamada and Masato Yakushiji (who replaced the injured Gran Naniwa). The action was back-and-forth between...
friendship. After the WAR demise, Orihara landed in Michinoku Pro Wrestling, where he became SasuketheGreat, a TheGreatSasuke copycat. Orihara formed...
JCW hosted the inaugural Jersey J-Cup, which featured many of the top independent wrestlers of that period. They would continue to host the tournament...
Super J-Cup tournament in 1994, defeating Black Tiger, Gedo, and TheGreatSasuke in the finals. He wrestled outside New Japan occasionally to compete in...
part of the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye event. He teamed up with Akira Shoji against TheGreatSasuke and Daijiro Matsui, but his team lost when Sasuke pinned him...
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