🎭 Actor
Manabu Nakanishi
🎂 Born 22 January 1967 (age 59)📍 Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
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Popularity Score
98
Acting Credits
Manabu Nakanishi is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler, who was primarily associated with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a one-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, one-time G1 Climax winner and three-time 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. Nakanishi's 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.
Known For
Full Filmography(98 films)
YearTitleRating
2007Tokyo Serendipity★ 5.92018My Dad Is a Heel Wrestler★ 7.32014NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2014—2016NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 7—2016NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 14 (Final)—2016NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 6—2010NJPW Dominion 6.19—2015NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2015—2015NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2015—1995WCW Halloween Havoc 1995★ 7.02013NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 7—2013NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2013—2018NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2018 - Day 1—2018NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12★ 8.82014NJPW G1 Climax 24: Day 12 (Final)—2011NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 5—2009NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 3★ 5.02016NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2016★ 7.02016NJPW Power Struggle 2016—2016NJPW Destruction in Hiroshima 2016—2012NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2012—2016NJPW New Year Dash !! 2016★ 7.02020NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 5★ 3.52017NJPW 45th Anniversary Show—2013NJPW Destruction 2013★ 7.02016NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2016—1995WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI★ 5.02010NJPW Wrestle Kingdom IV★ 8.02008NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 2★ 3.82014NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2014—2015NJPW Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall—2014NJPW Back to the Yokohama Arena—2018NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2018—2004NJPW Nexess—2018NJPW New Year Dash !! 2018★ 7.02007NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 1—2017NJPW Sakura Genesis 2017★ 10.01995WCW World War 3 1995—2017NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka 2017—2020NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2020—2015NJPW Invasion Attack 2015—2015NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 17—2009NJPW G1 Climax 19: Day 8 (Final)—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 3—2015NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2015—2017NJPW New Year Dash !! 2017★ 8.02013NJPW Power Struggle 2013—2017NJPW Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall★ 9.72015NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2015—2008NJPW G1 Climax 18: Day 7 (Final)—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 17—2015NJPW Tag League Finals 2015★ 10.02016NJPW The New Beginning in Niigata 2016—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 19 (Final)—2017NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2017—2013Becoming the Best in the World: Bryan Danielson★ 10.02017NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 19 (Final)—2008TNA Wrestling: Global Impact! Japan—2019NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 1—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 8—2015NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 19 (Final)★ 8.02016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 10—2015NJPW Destruction In Okayama—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 11—2017NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2017★ 7.02016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 18—2020NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2020 - Day 1—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 12—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 5—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 13—2019NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 4—1995NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 1995—2015NJPW The New Beginning in Sendai—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 16—2018NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2018 - Day 2—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 15—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 2—2009NJPW Masahiro Chono 25th Anniversary ~ Aristrist In Ryogoku Kokugikan~—2019NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2019 - Day 2—2019NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2019★ 9.02020NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2020 - Day 2—2015NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 18—2019NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 2—2020NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 6—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 9—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 7—2017NJPW New Japan Cup 2017 - Day 1—2019NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 3—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 6—2016NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2016—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 4—2007NJPW G1 Climax 17: Day 6 (Final)—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 1—2020NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 7—2016NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 14—2019NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2019 - Day 1—1999NJPW Final Dome—2010NJPW G1 Climax 20: Day 8 (Final)—