News about Antonio Inoki
Muhammad Ali will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in April 8 years after his death, joining Mike Tyson as the only boxers to be recognized for pro wrestling excellence
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March 11, 2024
Ali died in 2016 and his widow, Lonnie Ali, will be inducted by his widow at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ahead of WrestleMania 40. As the class of 2024 takes form, Ali joins Paul Heyman, Bull Nakano, and the US Express. Ali, who is best known for his boxing prowess, microphone skills, and activism, has a following outside of sports. As he dabbled in pro wrestling on several occasions, the three-time world heavyweight champion is no stranger to the WWE. Ali appeared in a Tokyo exhibition with pro wrestling legend Antonio Inoki in 1976. Many believed that 'The War of the Worlds' was the first war in what became Mixed Martial Arts.'
JEFF POWELL: Tyson Fury's match with Francis Ngannou is nothing new; Muhammad Ali's fight against wrestling legend Antonio Inoki in 1976 was condemned as shameful by the JEFF POWELL
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October 23, 2023
This is a Tale Of Two Cities, as Charles Dickens might have written. This chapter in the lives of two world heavyweight champions from various epochs is also a contentious one. The Gypsy King of Riyadh died on October 28 2023. Read The Greatest in Tokyo, 1976. Tyson Fury is facing millions of brickbats for milking millions from a cross-over fight this weekend that is similar to those that hurled at Muhammad Ali 47 years ago.
Nate Diaz makes his boxing debut opposite Jake Paul, but can he succeed where other UFC legends have failed?Conor McGregor, Tyron Woodley and many others have suffered losses while Francis Ngannou prepares for Tyson Fury
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August 4, 2023
The past of the world's two most popular combat sports, mixed martial arts, and boxing have been inexorably linked. Although both have their origins back to Ancient Greece's Olympic Games, MMA's modern history owes to boxing. After all, the first mixed rules war to be televised saw 'Judo' Gene LeBell face boxer Milo Savage in 1963 in an early attempt to answer the question of whether a good grappler could beat a good boxer. But Savage wasn't the first boxer to compete in proto-MMA. Muhammad Ali defeated Japanese pro wrestling legend Antonio Inoki in a 15-round mixed rules fight in 1976.
Antonio Inoki, a 79-year-old Japanese wrestler and politician, died in Tokyo at the age of 79
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October 1, 2022
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.