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Kendo Nagasaki is a professional wrestling stage name, used as a gimmick of that of a Japanese Samurai warrior with a mysterious past and even supernatural powers of hypnosis. The name derives from the modern martial art of Japanese fencing ( Kendo ), and Nagasaki is the name of a city on the south-western coast of Kyūshū , site of the second ...
Peter William Thornley (born 19 October 1941) [4] is an English retired professional wrestler who was best known for the ring character Kendo Nagasaki.The character of Nagasaki was a Japanese samurai with a mysterious past and reputed powers of healing [5] [6] and hypnosis. [2]
Kazuo Sakurada (Japanese: 桜田 一男, Sakurada Kazuo, September 26, 1948 – January 12, 2020), better known as Mr. Sakurada, The Dragonmaster, and as the Japanese version of Kendo Nagasaki (ケンドー・ナガサキ), was a Japanese professional wrestler.
Big Japan Pro Wrestling was founded in March 1995 by former AJPW wrestlers Shinya Kojika and Kendo Nagasaki, during the boom period for Deathmatch wrestling in Japan. Kendo Nagasaki left in 1999; Shinya Kojika is still president of the company to date.
Renamed King Kendo after legal action from Peter Thornley. Unmasked repeatedly at 1981 All Star Wrestling house shows around the UK by the real Kendo Nagasaki. [20] [21] Also appeared as the Red Devil on UK television 1982, unmasked as Clarke by Big Daddy: King Kendo (replacement) All Star Wrestling, World Association of Wrestling: 1994–1996 ...
On June 19 1992, SWS held its final card at Nagasaki International Gym. The promotion's talent split into the following federations: Yatsu's SPWF; Tenryu's new promotion, WAR, including Hara, Fuyuki, Kitahara; NOW, including Kendo Nagasaki, and PWC, including the Takano brothers and Takagi.
British professional wrestler Peter Thornley, best known as the original masked version of Kendo Nagasaki, has reported that in the early 1960s Abbe trained him in judo [27] and kendo [28] and that the samurai sword he used in character as Nagasaki was a personal gift from Abbe. [29] In 1964, Abbe returned to Japan for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
In British professional wrestling, Ryan is also well known as having been the manager and spokesman of masked heel Kendo Nagasaki. He appeared in this capacity intermittently for All Star Wrestling and LDN Wrestling from 1990 (when he replaced the recently deceased "Gorgeous" George Gillette) until 2007 when he and Nagasaki fell out. [8]