In the summer of 1987, Muto took part in the NOW vs. In March 1987, Muto won the IWGP Tag Team Championship with Shiro Koshinaka, before losing the titles to Akira Maeda and Nobuhiko Takada six days later. Muto returned to New Japan in 1986, where he was nicknamed "Space Lone Wolf", a space-age type character that was briefly revived in 2005 by NOSAWA Rongai. During his first excursion, Muto became a one-time NWA Florida Heavyweight Champion and a one-time NWA Southeastern United States Junior Heavyweight Champion. as the "White Ninja", Muto teamed with Kendo Nagasaki. In 1985, Muto was sent on his first learning excursion to the United States. He debuted on October 5, 1984, against Masahiro Chono. Muto was an accomplished amateur wrestler and a judo black belt with experience in many national competitions prior to being trained by Hiro Matsuda in the New Japan Pro-Wrestling Dojo. Professional wrestling career New Japan Pro-Wrestling (1984–1988) 2 Professional wrestling style and persona.1.2 Excursion to Puerto Rico and Texas (1988–1989).He made special appearances for the American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), as part of a TNA/W-1 talent exchange. In 2013, Muto founded W-1, where he also wrestled semi-regularly. He is a thirteen-time world tag team champion: five AJPW World Tag Team Championships, six IWGP Tag Team Championships, one GHC Tag Team Championship and one WCW World Tag Team Championship. He is the only of them to also win the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship and the Wrestle-1 Championship making him a ten-time world champion. Muto is one of the four wrestlers to win the three major championships of puroresu (AJPW's Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, NJPW's IWGP Heavyweight Championship, and Noah's GHC Heavyweight Championship) with Kensuke Sasaki, Yoshihiro Takayama and Satoshi Kojima. He took part in what was generally considered to be one of the bloodiest professional wrestling matches at the time against Hiroshi Hase, leading to the creation of the " Muta scale", which rates the bloodiness of matches relative to this one's 1.0 value. Others copied or modified some of the moves that he popularized or innovated, such as the Shining Wizard, Moonsault, Muta Lock and the Dragon screw leg whip. "The Great Muta" gimmick is one of the most influential in puroresu, emulated by many wrestlers, including Satoshi Kojima (as The Great Koji), Kazushi Miyamoto (as The Great Kazushi), Atsushi Onita (as The Great Nita), and Seiya Sanada (as The Great Sanada). He was the president of All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) from 2002 to 2013 and representative director of Wrestle-1 (W-1) from 2013 to 2020.Ĭonsidered one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, Muto is also one of the first Japanese wrestlers to gain an international fanbase. He is best known for his work as The Great Muta ( ザ・グレート・ムタ, Za Gurēto Muta) in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) during the 1980s and 1990s, and from his runs in other American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican promotions. Keiji Muto ( 武藤 敬司, Mutō Keiji, born December 23, 1962) is a Japanese professional wrestler and professional wrestling executive currently signed to Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), where he is a former GHC Heavyweight Champion.
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