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601:'s Kawasaki Stadium show on August 24. To take part in this match, Nishimura had to get a waiver from the hospital and have five doctors, nurses and trainers at ringside to monitor Nishimura's health. He and Funk defeated Onita and Yaguchi in a Double Hell Current Blast Deathmatch, as Nishimura used Funk's spinning toe hold to force Yaguchi to submit.
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retroperitoneal tumor in August. He made his triumphant return in June 2000, despite losing to
Tatsumi Fujinami on his first match back. Nishimura's star was bright enough to warrant an earnest push, and he won the IWGP tag team titles with Fujinami. Nonetheless, the bi-promotional duo of Mutoh and
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in a three-way match. He would lose the title in March 2009 to Yun Kang Chul. In May 2017, he returned to
Florida and won the BANG! TV World Heavyweight Championship. In September 2017, Nishmura regained the NKPWA World Heavyweight Championship for the second time. He would hold onto the title for
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Florida promotion, Independent Pro Wrestling, before moving to Germany three months later to wrestle for European Wrestling Promotion. In February 2006, he and old MUGA comrade
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in the first round. In May 2008, he wrestled in South Korea for New Korea Pro
Wrestling Association, winning the NKPWA World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, defeating Riki Bassan and
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3043:Chase Owens
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2979:Bullet Club
2958:Yoshi-Hashi
2913:Kota Ibushi
2877:Bullet Club
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2819:Jay Briscoe
2801:Bullet Club
2787:Togi Makabe
2769:The Kingdom
2757:Meiyu Tag (
2752:Doc Gallows
2744:Bullet Club
2692:Yuji Nagata
2635:Brother Ray
2617:Togi Makabe
2592:Takao Omori
2512:Yuji Nagata
2437:Riki Choshu
2274:Riki Choshu
2260:Riki Choshu
2238:Akira Maeda
2220:Akira Maeda
2135:Yoshi-Hashi
2038:Togi Makabe
2018:Meiyu Tag (
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2001:Bullet Club
1958:Yuji Nagata
1843:Yuji Nagata
1722:Riki Choshu
1623:Rene Goulet
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1505:Chaz Taylor
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179:(NJPW) and
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2920:Suzuki-gun
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2773:Matt Taven
2730:Suzuki-gun
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2368:Tony Halme
2348:Keiji Muto
2321:Hiro Saito
2303:Keiji Muto
2283:Masa Saito
2256:Masa Saito
2229:Keiji Muto
2224:Osamu Kido
2113:Tama Tonga
1968:Suzuki-gun
1814:Keiji Muto
1800:Keiji Muto
1786:Keiji Muto
1740:Keiji Muto
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1518:Ben Jordan
1509:Jerry Lynn
1290:2010-07-31
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1156:2011-04-28
1127:2011-04-28
1036:2017-05-22
991:2013-08-08
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929:2013-04-25
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