That would be the original ‘Tiger Mask’ and founder of Shooto Satoru Sayama for those of you scoring at home:

Not much to the story, but here’s a picture of Keiji Mutoh aka ‘The Great Muta’ paying his media respects to the late Mitsuharu Misawa:

Just posted–Todd Hoster’s review of the Ring of Honor (ROH) pro wrestling PPV ‘Take No Prisoners’. He even works in a Mclean Stevenson reference:
ROH ‘Take No Prisoners’ reviewed @ THE SAVAGE SCIENCE
For those of you too young to remember ‘Hello Larry’ this clip may help you understand of what Todd speaks. Ironically, ‘Hello [...]

SAVSCI favorite MMA fighter/anime geek/metalhead Josh Barnett is now on Twitter. So follow him:
http://www.twitter.com/JoshLBarnett
UPDATE: …as is another SAVSCI favorite the metal-icious ‘Queen of Spades’ Shayna Baszler:
http://twitter.com/QoSBaszler

Here’s the weekly promo-fest from Ring of Honor:

Here’s a great article from the Sports Illustrated archives about longtime WWWF (now the WWE) champ Bruno Samamartino:
At Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena the wrestling crowd is listless. Periodically someone will scream for action, and the place will thunder with laughter when one of the combatants floors the referee, but mostly the preliminary matches are priming the [...]

We could do without the Journey soundtrack, but watching Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid never gets old:

Via MMA-Hole:
Here’s Japanese pro wrestling legend Rikidozan against Japanese judo legend Masahiko Kimura:

Here’s the preview for next Saturday’s ROH show:

In a perfect world, the Lucha Libre Gourmet Taco Shop would have already been awarded a Nobel Prize. Here they are in an appearance on the local news in San Diego: