
Manabu Nakanishi is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler, who was primarily associated with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a one-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, one-time G1 Climax winner and three-time IWGP Tag Team Champion. Nakanishi has always stayed based in Japan, but has wrestled for various other promotions including World Championship Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Noah and Pro Wrestling Zero1. Nakanishi's career slowly declined after a spinal injury in 2011, but he continued to wrestle for a further nine years, before retiring on February 22, 2020. In 1992, Nakanishi won bronze in freestyle wrestling at the Asian Championships. Later that year, he competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, and placed eleventh.

New Japan Pro Wrestling
TV • 1972

New Japan Pro Wrestling
TV • 1972

The Files of the Young Kindaichi
TV • 1995

99.9 Criminal Lawyer
TV • 2016

Clash of the Champions
TV • 1988

The Files of Young Kindaichi Neo
TV • 2014

My Dad Is a Heel Wrestler
MOVIE • 2018

Tokyo Serendipity
MOVIE • 2007

NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 3
MOVIE • 2019

WCW World War 3 1995
MOVIE • 1995

TNA Wrestling: Global Impact! Japan
MOVIE • 2008

NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 5
MOVIE • 2020

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 7
MOVIE • 2016

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 3
MOVIE • 2009

NJPW Destruction 2013
MOVIE • 2013

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom IV
MOVIE • 2010

NJPW Dominion 6.19
MOVIE • 2010

NJPW Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall
MOVIE • 2017