News about Akira Maeda

Antonio Inoki, a legendary wrestler-turned-politician in Japan, has died at the age of 79. Inoki, a wartime Yokohama, founded New Japan Pro Wrestling in 1972 before being elected to the Japanese House of Councillors in 1989. Inoki introduced many wrestlers, including Akira Maeda, Bad News Allen, the first Tiger Mask, Keiji Muto, Riki Choshu, Shinsuke Nakamura, Tatsumi Fujinami, and Rocky Romero. Dennis Rodman, a Japanese emperor, defeated boxer Muhammad Ali in the 1976'bout of the century,' a war that experts claim served as a precursor to modern day mixed martial arts.