Kazuyuki Fujita

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kazuyuki Fujita
Occupation	Professional Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Oct 16, 1970(1970-10-16)
Age	54
Birthplace	Funabashi
Country	Japan
Birth City	Chiba Prefecture
Horoscope	Libra

Kazuyuki Fujita Biography

Kazuyuki Fujita is one of the most popular and richest Professional Wrestler who was born on October 16, 1970 in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Kazuyuki Fujita (Teng Tian He Zhi , Fujita Kazuyuki, born on 16 October 1970) is a Japanese professional wrestler mixed martial artist, and an ex-amateur wrestler. He most recently wrestled at the Road FC, but is well-known for his participation at the PRIDE Fighting Championships, K-1, Rizin Fighting Federation, and World Victory Road.

On May 1st, Fujita participated in the Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals and he was able to score the first major victory of his career beating Mark Kerr, who at the time was thought to be among the top Heavyweights within MMA. Kerr was dominant during the first half of the match by dragging the Japanese down, and then hitting the ground and pounding his body which was followed by a series of knee strikes on the head, however Fujita was able to take astonishment all the punishment, and waited for his chance. The moment finally arrived when Kerr was clearly tired after striking, at which point Kazuyuki knocked him down by putting him on his back before throwing his own round of hammerfists and knee strikes. Kerr was unable to keep his cool as Fujita gained points over him by striking unnaturally in the final round, and the referee halted the fight in favor of Fujita. The victory over Kerr was thought to be an enormous upset and was the first loss of Kerr’s professional career, ending an unbeaten streak of 13 fights.

In January 2000 Fujita put his professional wrestling career on hiatus and began training for mixed martial arts competition. His trainer was his professional wrestling mentor and mixed martial arts legend, Antonio Inoki, as well as luta livre veteran Marco Ruas.

On August 19 at the K-1 Andy Hug 2001 GP Final, Fujita fought K-1 legend and future MMA legend Mirko Cro Cop in Cro Cop’s MMA debut. The fight was short and brutal, with Fujita shooting a takedown which Cro Cop tried to avoid with a knee strike to the face. Though Fujita was unfazed and completed the takedown, it opened a cut in his eye, which moved the referee to stop the match for a TKO loss for the Japanese.

Fujita was invited by a representative of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) in 1993, while the wrestler was still at the level of amateur wrestlers. Fujita accepted the invitation however, due to his amateur wrestling career his professional debut was delayed by three years to 1996. Fujita made his debut in the ring on the 1st of November of 1996, but lost in the first round to Yuji Nagata. Fujita was coached in the NJPW dojo by Antonio Inoki and Satoru Sayama who described Fujita as an “monster”. Considered a promising youngster due to his natural athleticism and physical strength, Fujita was pushed as an upcoming star during his early lion years. He became one of the wrestlers chosen to wrestle Riki Choshu during one of the retirement games and also was selected to be a training partner of the former Judoka Naoya Ogawa in his transition to professional wrestling. While he was widely praised and promoted as a promising superstar, Fujita had doubts about the possibility of a career in professional wrestling and felt that he was adjusting to the sport in a satisfactory manner. He also struggled to get a regular spot in the lineup, despite being a step behind established rookies such as Yuji Nagata Manabu Nakanishi or Satoshi Kojima. In 1999, Fujita made a request to quit New Japan with the intention of joining Fighting Network Rings, a shoot-based promotion that recently changed its name into a full-on mixed martial arts organization. New Japan higher ups agreed to the move, so did Rings the owner Akira Maeda, but at the last moment, New Japan owner and Fujita’s trainer Antonio Inoki intervened and stopped the move. In an effort for the sake of keeping Fujita within New Japan, Inoki sent Fujita abroad to study for MMA in the hopes of sending Fujita to the Pride Fighting Championship as a representative of Team Inoki. Fujita’s performance at Pride was a success and in 2001, Fujita was brought back as a wrestler in New Japan.

Kazuyuki Fujita Net Worth

Kazuyuki Fujita is one of the richest Professional Wrestler from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kazuyuki Fujita 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Fujita was a freestyle wrestler in high school. He competed at the FILA World Championships in junior 1988, finishing sixth and also in the Espoir division in 1989, he placed eleventh. The year 1993 saw Fujita was fifth in the Asian Championships at the senior level. In 1993 and 1994 He represented Japan in the senior division at the World Cup, a dual meet event. He was also a nation- wide gold medalist at the time in Japan at Greco-Roman wrestling. He did not make his place on the Japanese Olympic team by 1 point during the Olympic qualifying rounds.

Fujita began his professional career as a wrestler in 1993. He enrolled in his first dojo, the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) dojo while wrestling as an amateur. In 1996, he made his debut, Fujita was forced to suspend his wrestling career for suspension in the early 2000s to pursue a career in MMA. In the year following, with a the new shoot-based offense, Fujita won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship immediately, and was able to retain it for two more times before he left the company in the year 2005. After a hiatus of six years, Fujita returned to pro wrestling in 2011 with the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF) as well as making appearances in the form of a free agent particularly in the ring for Pro Wrestling Noah and Real Japan Pro Wrestling (RJPW).

Kazuyuki entered the PRIDE organization as part of the 2000 Openweight Grand Prix. His first opponent was Fighting Network RINGS alumnus Hans Nijman, who Fujita beat fast by taking him down and submitting him with a wrestling neck crank. After this success, Inoki sent him abroad to compete in American promotion Extreme Shootout, where he KOed Dan Chase and then submitted Will Childs, before returning to PRIDE.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Kazuyuki Fujita Dating?

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Egyptian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Karam Gaber was his next opponent, at the K-1 Premium 2004 Dynamite!! event. The younger and bigger Karam managed to push down and fend off Kazuyuki, but he landed a punch after one minute which knocked out Gaber.

Facts & Trivia

Kazuyuki Ranked on the list of most popular Professional Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Kazuyuki Fujita celebrates birthday on October 16 of every year.

After spending most of 2003 in Pride, Fujita returned to New Japan once again in October 2003 at Ultimate Crush II, teaming with Minoru Suzuki, Bob Sapp, Yoshihiro Takayama and Shinsuke Nakamura as “Shin Inoki Gun” to defeat Yuji Nagata, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi and Seiji Sakaguchi. In June 2004, he won the vacated IWGP Heavyweight Championship for a second time by defeating Hiroshi Tanahashi. He lost the championship to Kensuke Sasaki on October 9, 2004.