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Masakatsu Funaki

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Masaharu Funaki , is a Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler who wrestled in New Japan Pro Wrestling, PWFG, as well as the UWF. He is currently performing at All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is one half of the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Champions, along with Keiji Mutoh. He is also the co-founder of Pancrase, one of the first mixed martial arts organizations and non-rehearsed shoot wrestling promotions (following five years after the inception of Shooto but predating America's Ultimate Fighting Championship). Funaki was also Pancrase's biggest star; Josh Barnett described him as the "symbol of Japan", Frank Shamrock labeled Funaki "the golden boy" of Pancrase, and Guy Mezger called Funaki "hands down the smartest and most skilled fighter in Pancrase next to Ken Shamrock". Not only the organization's co-founder, Funaki was also one of Pancrase's most successful fighters to date, scoring submission victories over numerous MMA champions such as Ken Shamrock, Frank Shamrock, Guy Mezger, Yuki Kondo, Minoru Suzuki and Bas Rutten through the course of his 50-fight career. He is the only fighter in mixed martial arts to hold wins over both Shamrock brothers and Bas Rutten, and was the first man to win the King of Pancrase title twice. Funaki is widely considered to be one of the greatest Japanese fighters in mixed martial arts history according to Sherdog.com  Sherdog.com ranked him as the #1 mixed martial artist in the world for the years 1996 and 1997, and also had him ranked as a top 4 pound for pound fighter from 1993 to 1998. Description above from the Wikipedia article Masakatsu Funaki, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Mar 13, 1969 In Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Movie/TV Credits:
55
First Appeared:
In the movie Tekken 1990-11-23
Latest Project:
Movie Josh Barnett's Bloodsport Bushido 2024-06-22
Known For
Poster of Dream 2
Poster of Colors
Poster of Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire
Poster of Ginji - The Slasher
Filmography
Movie Josh Barnett's Bloodsport Bushido 2024-06-22
Movie NOAH: The New Year 2022 Masakatsu Funaki 2022-01-01
Movie NOAH: Destination 2021 - Back To Budokan 2021-02-12
Movie NOAH: 20th Anniversary - NOAH The Chronicle Vol. 4 Masakatsu Funaki 2020-11-22
Movie TNA One Night Only: Global IMPACT Japan 2014 Masakatsu Funaki 2014-07-04
Movie Wrestle-1 Raising An Army Tour - Day 1 2013-09-08
Movie NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 6 Masakatsu Funaki 2012-01-04
Movie NJPW & AJPW 40th Anniversary: We Are Pro-Wrestling Love 2012-07-01
Movie Baton Hades (voice) 2009-04-28
Movie Dream 2 himself 2008-04-29
Movie Shinjuku Gangster Hanabi 2 2008-03-25
Movie The Sword of Alexander 2007-04-07
Movie Young Thugs: Chinatown Romeo and Juliet 2007-09-28
Movie K1 Dynamite!! 2007-12-31
Movie Shinjuku Gangster Hanabi 2007-12-25
Movie LoveDeath 2006-02-24
Movie Like a Dragon: Prologue Kazuma Kiryu 2006-03-24
Movie MURAMASA Chapter 6: Golden Dragon 2006-01-28
Movie Honor Mr Sato 2006-07-29
Movie Colors 2006-07-15
Movie MURAMASA Chapter 7: Orochi 2006-04-27
Movie New Shadow Warriors VI: The Final Chapter 2005-02-06
Movie Leviathan 2005-11-25
Movie New Shadow Warriors IV: Jiraika 2 2004-09-20
Movie Godzilla: Final Wars Commander Kumasaka 2004-12-04
Movie Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire Imura Mashahiko 2004-12-15
Movie Ginji - The Slasher Ōmuta (young) 2003-03-29
Movie New Shadow Warriors Kimutsuyoshi Maru 2003-03-22
Movie New Shadow Warriors II Kimutsuyoshi Maru 2003-05-24
Movie Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Banchou Soccer 2003-08-23
Movie Electric Dragon 80.000 V Narrator 2001-01-31
Movie Desert Moon Matsushima 2001-06-19
Movie Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle Tankai 2001-10-07
Movie Shadow Fury Takeru 2001-10-30
Movie Pancrase: Eyes of Beast 1 1995-01-26
Movie Pancrase: Eyes of Beast 2 Himself 1995-03-10
Movie Pancrase: Pancrash! 1 1994-01-19
Movie Pancrase: Road to the Championship 1 Himself 1994-05-31
Movie Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie Fei-Long (voice) 1994-08-06
Movie Pancrase: King of Pancrase Tournament Second Round Himself 1994-12-17
Movie Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 1 1993-09-21
Movie Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 2 1993-10-14
Movie PWFG: Shootfighting 1992-03-20
Movie PWFG: Roar of The Lion Kingdom Part 1 1992-01-15
Movie PWFG: Lion King Legend 1992-05-15
Movie PWFG: Roar of The Lion Kingdom Part 2 1992-02-24
Movie PWFG: Lion King Legend Side Story 1992-08-15
Movie PWFG: Try Again Vol 1 1992-12-05
Movie PWFG: Stack of Arms 1992-10-04
Movie PWFG: Hataage Daiissen 1991-03-04
Movie PWFG: Hataage Daiissen 2 1991-05-16
Movie PWFG: Hataage Dai-yonsen 1991-08-23
Movie PWFG: One For All And All For One 1991-07-26
Movie PWFG: Battle of The Lions 1991-09-28
Movie Tekken 1990-11-23