Manabu Nakanishi

Manabu Nakanishi is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler who was primarily associated with New Japan ProWrestling NJPW He is a onetime IWGP Heavyweight Champion onetime G1 Climax winner and threetime IWGP Tag Team Champion Nakanishi has always stayed based in Japan but has wrestled for various other promotions including World Championship Wrestling All Japan Pro Wrestling Pro Wrestling Noah and Pro Wrestling Zero1 Nakanishis career slowly declined after a spinal injury in 2011 but he continued to wrestle for a further nine years before retiring on February 22 2020 In 1992 Nakanishi won bronze in freestyle wrestling at the Asian Championships Later that year he competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona Spain and placed eleventh