Masashi Honda

Masashi Honda (本田雅史 Honda Masashi?) is a Japanese professional wrestler better known as Mr. Gannosuke, who competed primarily for Atsushi Onita's Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling promotion. He also held the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Tarzan Goto.

In wrestling

 * Finishing moves
 * Fire Thunder (Over the shoulder reverse piledriver, sometimes inverted)
 * Gannosuke Clutch – innovated
 * Nirvana Strangle (Full nelson camel clutch)


 * Signature moves
 * Lariat
 * Northern Lights suplex, sometimes with a hammerlock – used as a finisher, 1991–1997
 * Over the shoulder back to belly piledriver, sometimes from the top rope
 * Powerbomb, sometimes while using only one shoulder or prayer
 * Sitout suplex slam
 * Swinging neckbreaker


 * Entrance themes
 * "Kishindoh" by FMW Productions (FMW/Freelance, 1997–2008)

Championships and Accomplishments

 * All Japan Pro Wrestling
 * AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Tetsuhiro Kuroda


 * Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling / World Entertainment Wrestling
 * FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
 * FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Atsushi Onita (1), Hisakatsu Oya (1), and Yukihiro Kanemura (1)
 * FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with The Gladiator and Hisakatsu Oya (1), Yukihiro Kanemura and Jado (1)
 * WEW Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with H (1), Mammoth Sasaki (2), and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (1)
 * WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Kodo Fuyuki and Shinjuku Shark (1), Kodo Fuyuki and Kintaro Kanemura (1)


 * International Wrestling Association of Japan
 * IWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Tarzan Goto


 * National Wrestling Alliance
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Tarzan Goto