Following a loss against Hiroshi Tanahashi on the final day of NJPW’s New Japan Soul tour at Korakuen Hall, Tiger Mask ...

Tiger Mask IV has announced that the next 12 months will be the last of his in-ring career. He wrestled Hiroshi Tanahashi ...

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Bloody Elbow has looked back at the history of Japanese MMA to varying degrees, and included in that history has been a brief glance at Satoru Sayama and the formation of Shooto. Sayama was an ...

Satoru Sayama, the original Tiger Mask, is yet another example of how a colourful hood can add some much needed sizzle to a well-cooked steak... Pound-for-pound one of the finest wrestlers that ...

Tiger Mask I (Satoru Sayama) In the late 1970s and early 1980s, New Japan Pro Wrestling was dominating its rival All Japan, due in part to a focus on smaller Junior Heavyweights over the bigger ...

Satoru Sayama had been wrestling for New Japan Pro Wrestling, providing bulkier wrestlers with a guy to squash. His small frame (160 lbs.) would have likely kept him as a bottom feeder had things ...

Nearly 25 years ago, Japanese professional wrestler Satoru Sayama -- better known as the original Tiger Mask -- had an idea about fighting, the seed of Shooto. The first-ever amateur Shooto event ...

Once upon a time, Satoru Sayama, the legendary Tiger Mask of pro-wrestling lore, dreamed of a truer form of combat than the world of puroresu could offer ...

Still, no version of Tiger Mask — and very few junior heavyweights — had the cultural and professional impact of Satoru Sayama.

Assisting Antonio Inoki in bringing the legendary New Japan Pro Wrestling to prominence, he is credited with, among other things, giving Satoru Sayama the Tiger Mask gimmick.