Koji Nakagawa is a Japanese semi-retired professional wrestler best known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling between 1992 and 2002.
21 Facts About Koji Nakagawa
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An amateur wrestler in his scholastic years, Koji Nakagawa debuted for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling on March 20,1992 in a losing effort against Eiji Ezaki.
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Koji Nakagawa participated in a tournament for the newly created Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship, in which he defeated Eiji Ezaki in the opening round but injured his arm, which put him out of action and Ezaki replaced him in the semi-final round.
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At the 5th Anniversary Show on May 5,1994, Koji Nakagawa teamed with Battle Ranger Z and Masato Tanaka to defeat the Michinoku Pro Wrestling's team of The Great Sasuke, Hanzo Nakajima and Shiryu.
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In 1995, Koji Nakagawa would adopt the "Hitman" persona, reminiscent of Bret Hart, wearing similar ring attire to Hart and receiving a theme song similar to Hart's theme, "Hart Attack".
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Koji Nakagawa scored four points in the tournament by defeating Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hideki Hosaka.
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Koji Nakagawa was promoted as an off-screen booker of FMW.
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Koji Nakagawa began feuding with Katsutoshi Niiyama, after Niiyama joined the Funk Masters of Wrestling and the two competed in a match at 8th Anniversary Show, which Koji Nakagawa won.
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Koji Nakagawa won his second World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship by teaming with Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka to defeat Hisakatsu Oya, Mr Gannosuke and The Gladiator on August 31,1997.
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At Kawasaki Legend: Fall Spectacular, Koji Nakagawa participated in a Royal Rumble match, which was won by Tetsuhiro Kuroda.
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Koji Nakagawa grew upset with his position in the company as FMW President Shoichi Arai had promised him of a push but he was restricted to wrestle in the undercard.
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Koji Nakagawa competed against Hisakatsu Oya and Chris Chetti in a three-way dance at FMW's first pay-per-view event 9th Anniversary Show on April 30,1998, where he was the first to get eliminated.
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Koji Nakagawa turned on Onita by smashing Go Ito's crutch on Onita's back and helping Fuyuki and Kanemura retain the title.
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Koji Nakagawa turned villain for the first time in his career and revealed that the injury was a ruse to end ZEN and then joined Team No Respect.
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In 1999, Koji Nakagawa teamed with TNR teammate Gedo to participate in a tournament for the vacant Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship, where they scored ten points and qualified for the play-off, where they lost to Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda on May 3.
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At Hayabusa Graduation Ceremony, Koji Nakagawa and Gedo lost the WEW Tag Team Championship to Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hisakatsu Oya.
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At Last Match, the team of Kodo Fuyuki, Koji Nakagawa and Gedo successfully defended the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship against Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Hisakatsu Oya and Yoshinori Sasaki.
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At 10th Anniversary Show, Koji Nakagawa teamed with his Team No Respect teammates Jado and Gedo to take on Ricky Fuji, Flying Kid Ichihara and Chocoball Mukai for the vacant WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship, which the latter team won.
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Koji Nakagawa started to wear a half mask to hide the fact that half of his face was turning white like Onryo's.
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Koji Nakagawa was one of the founding members of the Apache Army group in 2003 and the group consisted of various FMW alumni and Japanese independent wrestlers.
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Koji Nakagawa is married to female professional wrestler Yoko Ikeda, who wrestled for FMW during her career.