67 Facts About Mr Gannosuke

Mr Gannosuke is best known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling under the ring name Mr Gannosuke.

Mr Gannosuke left the company in 1995 with his trainer Tarzan Goto due to differences with Onita and worked in International Wrestling Association for nearly two years.

Mr Gannosuke returned to FMW in 1997 and became the main rival of Hayabusa for the next four years.

Mr Gannosuke was the company's most popular villain from 1997 to 1998 and the second top villain from then onwards.

Mr Gannosuke would be a member of villainous groups Funk Masters of Wrestling, ZEN, Team No Respect and Shin Fuyuki-gun.

Mr Gannosuke held many titles in his FMW career including being a one-time Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion and a two-time Independent Heavyweight Champion.

Mr Gannosuke was the winner of Over the Top tournament in 1999.

Mr Gannosuke headlined many pay-per-view events for FMW including the company's flagship event Anniversary Show in 1998,1999 and 2001.

Mr Gannosuke was a fan of professional wrestling since childhood and grew up watching New Japan Pro-Wrestling.

Mr Gannosuke joined Kumamoto University in 1987 and excelled in weight training, where he befriended Eiji Ezaki and the two trained for a professional wrestling career.

Mr Gannosuke returned on January 5,1993, where he lost to Koji Nakagawa in the opening match of the show.

At Summer Spectacular, Mr Gannosuke teamed with Sambo Asako to take on Big Titan and The Gladiator in a tag team match.

Mr Gannosuke pinned Gladiator by debuting his new finisher, the Mr Gannosuke Clutch to gain a major upset win over Gladiator.

In early 1994, Mr Gannosuke was paired with his mentor Tarzan Goto in a tournament for the new Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship.

Mr Gannosuke began elevating his status in the summer of 1994 by picking up a major victory against Sambo Asako at Summer Spectacular.

Mr Gannosuke then joined forces with Atsushi Onita and his allies to feud with the upstart faction W*ING Alliance.

Mr Gannosuke returned to FMW on January 5,1995, where he teamed with FMW fellows Tarzan Goto, Katsutoshi Niiyama and Tetsuhiro Kuroda against W*ING's Mr Pogo, The Gladiator, Yukihiro Kanemura and Hisakatsu Oya in a losing effort.

At IWA Japan's Kawasaki Dream, Mr Gannosuke participated in the well received King of the Deathmatch tournament, losing to Tiger Jeet Singh in a Barbed Wire Board and Chain Deathmatch in the quarter-final round.

On January 5,1997, Mr Gannosuke and Flying Kid Ichihara returned to FMW, confronting Hayabusa, upset that Hayabusa did not leave FMW with him in 1995.

Mr Gannosuke went on a vicious streak, defeating other wrestlers and calling them victories over Hayabusa.

At 8th Anniversary Show, Mr Gannosuke wrestled Hayabusa in their first singles encounter, a mask vs hair match, which Hayabusa won.

Mr Gannosuke then proceeded to burn Hayabusa's mask and beginning to feud with Shinzaki.

On January 6,1998, Mr Gannosuke defeated Masato Tanaka to win the FMW Double Championship to claim his first world championship reigns.

Mr Gannosuke began mocking Jinsei Shinzaki by appearing in his outfit and using Shinzaki's mannerisms and moves during his matches.

Later in the show, Mr Gannosuke showed up during Kodo Fuyuki's Double Championship title defense against Tetsuhiro Kuroda and reunited Team No Respect as all the members of TNR began dancing to TNR's theme song Come Out and Play.

The group helped Fuyuki in retaining the title against Kuroda, resulting in Mr Gannosuke ending Mr Gannosuke's Outlaws and rejoining TNR.

Mr Gannosuke participated in a six-man tag team tournament with Yukihiro Kanemura and Jado for the new WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

Mr Gannosuke dropped the Independent Heavyweight Championship to Masato Tanaka at Haunted House.

At 11th Anniversary Show: Backdraft, Mr Gannosuke represented FMW against ECW Japan's Sabu and the match ended in a no contest after Mr Gannosuke blew a fireball on Sabu.

Mr Gannosuke turned on H by hitting him with his crutch after H eliminated Kuroda and then Mr Gannosuke defeated H, with Fuyuki's help and turned into a villain.

Later at the show, Mr Gannosuke confronted FMW President Shoichi Arai on the direction that FMW was going through and had turned from a deathmatch wrestling federation to a joke for the sake of sports entertainment and after Arai refused to listen to him, Mr Gannosuke attacked him, which led Arai to fire him from FMW.

Later that night, Mr Gannosuke helped Tetsuhiro Kuroda to defeat Kodo Fuyuki for the WEW World Heavyweight Championship by hitting Fuyuki with a chair and turned into a villain.

Mr Gannosuke became a member of Kuroda's Team Kuroda group and aligned himself with Kuroda in his feud with Hayabusa and The Great Sasuke.

Kuroda and Mr Gannosuke competed against Hayabusa and Sasuke in an Exploding 15000 Volt Thunderbolt Octagon Cage Bomb Deathmatch at 12th Anniversary Show, which Kuroda and Mr Gannosuke lost.

Mr Gannosuke opted to side with Fuyuki while Kuroda sided with Arai and turned face, leading to the breakup of Team Kuroda.

Later that night, Mr Gannosuke teamed with Kintaro Kanemura and the duo defeated Hayabusa and Kuroda in the night's main event.

Mr Gannosuke got involved in a feud between his on-screen girlfriend Mirei and Makiko over the affections of Mr Gannosuke.

Later at the show, Mr Gannosuke teamed with Mammoth Sasaki as the two defeated Biomonster DNA and Dr Luther to win their second WEW World Tag Team Championship.

On January 6,2002, Mr Gannosuke teamed with Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Mammoth Sasaki to take on Kodo Fuyuki's foreign alliance of The Sandman, Balls Mahoney and Vic Grimes.

Mr Gannosuke established himself as a fan favorite by teaming with Jinsei Shinzaki to defeat Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hisakatsu Oya in the company's debut show The Independence Day.

The match ended in a no contest when Mr Gannosuke turned on Shinzaki and became a villain as he aligned himself with GOEMON and GOEMON turned on Kuroda and took him out of Brand Double Cross, with Mr Gannosuke then replacing Kuroda and joining the group as the newest member.

Mr Gannosuke then formed a group called The GUN's with Hirano as Mr Iwaonosuke and Ichiro Yaguchi as Mr Rocknosuke and both men modelled each other after Gannosuke.

Mr Gannosuke defeated Shinzaki in a match at Marvelous Days 2nd.

Mr Gannosuke formed a group called Apache Army with several fellow FMW alumni and various wrestlers from the Japanese independent circuit including Kintaro Kanemura, Hido, Taka Michinoku, Gentaro and Takashi Sasaki and the group would compete in various independent promotions.

At Marvelous Days 5th, the team of Gentaro, Kanemura and Mr Gannosuke defeated Yuko Miyamoto, Mineo Fujita and Seiji Ikeda.

Mr Gannosuke then got involved in Apache Army's feud with his idol Riki Choshu's Fighting World of Japan Pro Wrestling.

In 2004, it was announced that WMF would be closed down due to financial loss and the promotion held its final show Marvelous Days 8th on February 11, where Mr Gannosuke challenged Kensuke Sasaki for the Hawai'i Championship Wrestling Kamehameha Heritage World Heavyweight Championship in a losing effort.

Mr Gannosuke then turned fan favorite as he ended his rivalry with Mammoth Sasaki as the two embraced and hugged each other and they announced that WMF was not ending and going on a hiatus instead as it marked the end of the promotion's Chapter 1 and it would return in the summer of 2004.

At Super Hardcore Night, Mr Gannosuke teamed with Gosaku Goshogawara against Soldier and Balls Mahoney, which Mr Gannosuke's team lost.

At Kawagoe Decisive Battle, Mr Gannosuke brought Kensuke Sasaki as his tag team partner against Soldier and Mahoney, with Mr Gannosuke's team winning the match.

Mr Gannosuke began financing WMF personally after Laing, Inc stopped financial support of the company.

In 2007, Mr Gannosuke teamed with Soldier to participate in the Marvelous Future Tag Team Tournament, in which they defeated Onryo and Yuko Miyamoto in the quarter-final but lost to Mineo Fujita and Kitten Kid in the semi-final.

Mr Gannosuke formed a group with Fujita, Hosaka, GOEMON, Leatherface and Yasu Orano called KHM as the top villainous group to feud with WMF.

On February 17,2008, Mr Gannosuke announced that he was ending the KHM Army, which marked the end of the rivalry between KHM Army and WMF.

Mr Gannosuke announced his retirement at the end of the year and decided to end the WMF promotion and then quit the company.

Mr Gannosuke was one of the founding members of Apache Army group, along with Kintaro Kanemura and several other wrestlers.

Mr Gannosuke was removed from Apache Army due to differences with Kintaro Kanemura and would then continue to focus on reviving his WMF promotion.

Mr Gannosuke made frequent appearances in Kings Road, Muga World Pro Wrestling, Ice Ribbon, Dramatic Dream Team, Fuyuki Army Promotion, Guts World Pro Wrestling and promoted his own shows under the "Kishindo" banner, named after his FMW theme song.

On January 10,2005, Mr Gannosuke appeared for a Big Japan Pro Wrestling show, where he mimicked his idol Riki Choshu as Riki Ganshu and teamed with Riki Sensyu to defeat Abdullah Kobayashi and Poison Julie Sawada by disqualification.

On May 1,2008, Mr Gannosuke announced that he would retire from professional wrestling at the end of the year.

Mr Gannosuke formed a stable with fellow FMW alumni Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Koji Nakagawa and Ricky Fuji called FMW Legends Army and the group feuded with the Apache Army stable.

Mr Gannosuke debuted for Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS on May 1,2015 as a member of Kamui's reformed WMF Army by teaming with Onryo against Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Toru Sugiura.

Mr Gannosuke debuted for the resurrected FMW on March 22,2017 at the occasion of the first anniversary of Hayabusa's death.

Mr Gannosuke teamed with Raijin Yaguchi, Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Tomohiko Hashimoto against Atsushi Onita, Hideki Hosaka, Mammoth Sasaki and Ricky Fuji in an eight-man tag team match, which Mr Gannosuke's team lost.

In 2018, Mr Gannosuke announced his retirement from professional wrestling, promoting his last Kishindo Returns Final show on March 27, where he teamed with Hayabucha against Yuko Miyamoto and Isami Kodaka in a losing effort.

In 2004, the two broke their friendship over combining their WMF and Fuyuki Army Promotions and Kanemura used his links to prevent Mr Gannosuke from competing in other major promotions in Japan.

Mr Gannosuke now promotes shows under his own name about every four months and is a trainer for Emi Sakura's Ice Ribbon promotion.