Harry Fujiwara
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| Harry Fujiwara | |
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| Image:Mr Fuji.jpg | |
| Statistics | |
| Stage names | Mr. Fuji Master Fuji |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 239 lb |
| Born | May 4, 1935 |
| Hometown | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Debut | |
Harry Fujiwara aka Mr. Fuji is a former heel professional wrestler, who is best known for his work as a manager. As a manager, he would often throw salt in the eyes of face wrestlers. Although he was billed as Japanese, he was in fact Japanese-American, born in Hawaii.
As a wrestler Mr. Fuji held World Wrestling Entertainment's World Tag Team Championship several times with different partners including Professor Toru Tanaka (3 times when the company was known as the WWWF), and also Mr. Saito (twice when it was known as the WWF).
He now works as a ticket taker at a movie theater in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Wrestlers managed by Mr. Fuji
- George "The Animal" Steele
- Magnificent Muraco
- Killer Kahn
- Jim Neidhart
- Sika
- Kamala
- Demolition (Ax, Smash, Crush)
- Powers of Pain (The Barbarian & The Warlord)
- Berzerker
- Orient Express (Pat Tanaka & Akio Sato and later Kato)
- Crush
- Yokozuna
- Owen Hart
- Bob Orton, Jr.
Championships and accomplishments
- 5-Time WWWF World Tag Team Champion (with Toru Tanaka 3 times & Mr. Saito twice)
- 1-Time NWA United States Heavyweight Champion (San Francisco version)
- 1-Time NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Champion (with Genichiro Tenryu)
- 1-Time Mid-Southern Tag Team Champion (with Toru Tanaka)
- 1-Time IWA Tag Team Champion (with Tiger Jeet Singh)
- 1-Time British Empire Commonwealth Champion
- 1-Time Canadian Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time NWA Georgia Tag Team Champion (with Toru Tanaka)
- 1-Time Hawaiian Tag Team Champion (with Karl Von Steiger)
- 1-Time NWA Southeast Tag Team Champion (with Toru Tanaka)
- 1-Time NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Champion
- 4-Time NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Champion (with Haru Sasaki 3 times and Tony Borne once)
- 1-Time WWC North American Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time WWC North American Tag Team Champion (with Pierre Martel)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) ranked him # 445 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
Categories: American professional wrestlers | Professional wrestling managers and valets | 1935 births
