Masashi Honda (本田雅史 Honda Masashi?) is a semi-retired Japanese professional wrestler, trainer, and promoter 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.
Career[]
In wrestling[]
- Finishing and signature moves
- Fire Thunder
- Gannosuke Clutch – innovated
- Nirvana Strangle (Full nelson Camel clutch)
- 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
- Sitout suplex slam
- Swinging neckbreaker
- Teams and stables
- Funk Masters of Wrestling
- Team No Respect
- ZEN
- Nicknames
- "Road Demon"
- Entrance themes
- "Kishindoh" by FMW Productions (FMW/Freelance, 1997–2008)
- Wrestlers trained
Championships and accomplishments[]
- Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
- FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship (3 times) with Atsushi Onita (1), Hisakatsu Oya (1), and Yukihiro Kanemura (1)
- FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- FMW Six Man Street Fight Tag Team Championship (2 times) with Hisakatsu Oya & The Gladiator (1) and Jado & Yukihiro Kanemura (1)
- WEW Six Man Tag Team Championship (2 times) with Kodo Fuyuki & Shinjuku Shark (1) and Kintaro Kanemura & Kodo Fuyuki (1)
- WEW Tag Team Championship (4 times) with H (1), Mammoth Sasaki (2), and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (1)
- International Wrestling Association (Japan)
- IWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) with Tarzan Goto (1)
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) with Tarzan Goto (1)
