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Tatsumi Fujinami

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Tatsumi Fujinami is a Japanese professional wrestler, born on December 28, 1953, who uses a different written form of his name as a ring name and is nicknamed The Dragon. He is best known for his long career with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he was a six-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion and four-time IWGP Tag Team Champion. His fluid catch wrestling style is linked to moves he is credited with inventing, the dragon sleeper and the dragon suplex. He also held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and the WWF International Heavyweight Championship, founded the Dradition promotion, and has been inducted into the International Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame and the WWE Hall of Fame.

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