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Tetsuya Naito – The Rise of New Japan’s Ungovernable One

AUGUST 8, 2026 · 1 MIN READ

Some wrestlers are made by winning. Tetsuya Naito was made by losing, waiting, and then refusing to play the role he’d been handed. Over a two-decade run in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, he went from a fan-rejected “chosen one” to the leader of the most popular faction of his generation, main-eventing Tokyo Dome five times and [...]

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