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Professional wrestling in Japan

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Professional wrestling in Japan is commonly referred to as puroresu in Japanese, short for "professional wrestling" ("purofesshonaru resuringu"). The word puroresu was made popular by Hisaharu Tanabe among the English speaking fans in the early 1990s through Usenet and online services. Quite different from professional wrestling in the United States, Puroresu is treated as a combat sport as it mixes full contact martial arts strikes with complex and dangerous submission moves and other types of wrestling like amateur and submission wrestling. While it uses very few storylines or gimmicks, match outcomes are predetermined.

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Professional wrestling in Japan is commonly referred to as puroresu in Japanese, short for "professional wrestling" ("purofesshonaru resuringu"). The word puroresu was made popular by Hisaharu Tanabe among the English speaking fans in the early 1990s through Usenet and online services. Quite different from professional wrestling in the United States, Puroresu is treated as a combat sport as it mixes full contact martial arts strikes with complex and dangerous submission moves and other types of wrestling like amateur and submission wrestling. While it uses very few storylines or gimmicks, match outcomes are predetermined. The first Japanese to become a professional wrestler in the Western style was former sumo wrestler Sorakichi Matsuda, who went to the United States in the 1880s and was somewhat successful. Attempts by him to popularize the sport in his native land, however, fell short and he ended back in America, where he died young. Subsequent attempts before and after World War II failed to get off the ground initially, until Japan saw the advent of its first big star, Rikidozan, who made the sport popular beginning in 1951.

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