History Wrestling / MrFuji

%%* CaneFu: His WeaponOfChoice.

* NiceHat: A DastardlyDapperDerby.

* BaldOfEvil: In the 1990s. BaldOfAwesome when he and Yokozuna turned face after Wrestling/JimCornette picked Wrestling/{{Vader}} over Yoko.

%%* BadassMustache

* FacialMarkings: When he managed [=Demolition=].
* FinishingMove: Cobra Clutch

* VillainTeamUp: With Cornette.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Fuji The Other Wiki]].

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/RickySteamboat, Wrestling/TheUndertaker

* BadassMustache

* BeardOfEvil
* CaneFu: His WeaponOfChoice.
* EvilLaugh: A staple of his interviews.

* AffablyEvil: Very jolly for a heel. Of course when he is happy he is up to no good.

* HardHead

* StoutStrength

* YellowPeril

** (in the WWF, 1987): See bio, but managing seven wrestlers simultaneously. During 1987 alone, four of those wrestlers all received matches against [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-h.html WWF World Heavyweight Champion]] Wrestling/HulkHogan for the title, with Wrestling/KillerKhan, Sika and "Cowboy" Wrestling/BobOrtonJr all on television. The fourth -- Wrestling/{{Kamala}} -- received non-televised house show shots after Fuji took over the manager's role (following the departure of Wrestling/KingCurtisIaukea, aka "The Wizard"). Also, Wrestling/{{Demolition}} was a mid-card team at this point but was quickly gaining enough of a following to earn upper-card matches against teams like The British Bulldogs (Wrestling/DynamiteKid and Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith) and The Rougeau Brothers (the top face tag teams that weren't Tag Team champions). And the Magnificent Muraco still gained heat, just by his association with Fuji (and Orton(.

** (in the WWF, 1987): See bio, but managing seven wrestlers simultaneously. During 1987 alone, four of those wrestlers all received matches against [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-h.html WWF World Heavyweight Champion]] Wrestling/HulkHogan for the title, with Wrestling/KillerKhan, Sika and "Cowboy" Wrestling/BobOrtonJr all on television. The fourth -- Wrestling/{{Kamala}} -- received non-televised house show shots after Fuji took over the manager's role (following the departure of Wrestling/KingCurtisIaukea, aka "The Wizard"). Also, Wrestling/{{Demolition}} was a mid-card team at this point but was quickly gaining enough of a following to earn upper-card matches against teams like The British Bulldogs (Wrestling/DynamiteKid and Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith) and The Rougeau Brothers (the top face tag teams that weren't Tag Team champions).

* YellowPeril: As the case with many heels in the 50s (e.g., Baron Van Raschke and Fritz Von Erich), the sore feelings of WWII added to the fan hate.

* VillainTeamUp: With Cornette.

Harry Fujiwara (May 4, 1934 – August 28, 2016) was a Japanese-American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er, manager and trainer from Honolulu, UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} who is best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as Mr. Fuji. He debuted in 1965 in Hawaii and would go on to compete for a variety of territories. He switched from wrestling to managing in 1985 and would continue in that role until he retired in 1996. Among his in-ring achievements, he was a 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]], a 4x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pnw/nwa/pnw-t.html NWA PNW Tag Team Champion]], and a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/australia/wcw/au-iwa-t.html IWA (Australia) World Tag Team Champion]]. As a manager, he led Wrestling/{{Demolition}} to their first WWE World Tag Team Title reign and Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}} to his two [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-h.html WWE World Heavyweight Title]] reigns.

* FaceHeelDoubleTurn: Was the central figure in causing one at the 1988 Survivor Series, when he double-crossed his successful tag team, Demolition, to side with the then-face Powers of Pain. The storyline explanation, made known shortly after the event, was that Fuji felt that Demolition -- who by the fall of 1988 was the most popular tag team in the WWF, despite being pushed as heels -- was no longer listening to him, so he secretly conspired with the Powers of Pain (a power-brawling, Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors-esque tag team that wasn't quite getting the desired fan response) to teach his team a lesson. Of course, Demolition became even more popular as a result, and despite Fuji's guidance, the Powers of Pain continued to flounder before being relegated to mid-card matches.

* BadBadActing and MethodActing: To the extreme with his and the Magnificent Muraco's skits on ''Tuesday Night Titans'', most memorably with ''Fuji Vice'' (a ''Series/MiamiVice'' parody) and ''Fuji General'' (a sendup of ''Series/GeneralHospital'' and other medical dramas of the era).

** (in the WWF, 1987): See bio, but managing seven wrestlers simultaneously. During 1987 alone, four of those wrestlers all received matches against WWF World Heavyweight Champion HulkHogan for the title, with Wrestling/KillerKhan, Sika and "Cowboy" Bob Orton all on television. The fourth -- Wrestling/{{Kamala}} -- received non-televised house show shots after Fuji took over the manager's role (following the departure of King Curtis, aka "The Wizard"). Also, Wrestling/{{Demolition}} was a mid-card team at this point but was quickly gaining enough of a following to earn upper-card matches against teams like The British Bulldogs and The Rougeau Brothers (the top face tag teams that weren't Tag Team champions).

* FaceHeelDoubleTurn: Was the central figure in causing one at the 1988 Survivor Series, when he double-crossed his successful tag team, Demolition, to side with the then-face Powers of Pain. The storyline explanation, made known shortly after the event, was that Fuji felt that Demolition -- who by the fall of 1988 was the most popular tag team in the WWF, despite being pushed as heels -- was no longer listening to him, so he secretly conspired with the Powers of Pain (a power-brawling, Wrestling/RoadWarriors-esque tag team that wasn't quite getting the desired fan response) to teach his team a lesson. Of course, Demolition became even more popular as a result, and despite Fuji's guidance, the Powers of Pain continued to flounder before being relegated to mid-card matches.

* GimmickMatches: He had a series of tuxedo matches against Wrestling/HillBillyJim

Harry Fujiwara (May 4, 1934 – August 28, 2016) was a retired Japanese-American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er, manager and trainer from Honolulu, UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} who is best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as Mr. Fuji. He debuted in 1965 in Hawaii and would go on to compete for a variety of territories. He switched from wrestling to managing in 1985 and would continue in that role until he retired in 1996. Among his in-ring achievements, he was a 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]], a 4x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pnw/nwa/pnw-t.html NWA PNW Tag Team Champion]], and a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/australia/wcw/au-iwa-t.html IWA (Australia) World Tag Team Champion]]. As a manager, he led Wrestling/{{Demolition}} to their first WWE World Tag Team Title reign and Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}} to his two [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-h.html WWE World Heavyweight Title]] reigns.

But Fuji's most memorable contribution to 1980s wrestling fans was that of manager. At one point in 1987, he managed seven wrestlers at one time, more than any then-active WWF manager (including Wrestling/BobbyHeenan, during Wrestling/AndreTheGiant's mid-1987 sabbatical from the ring [[note]](between WrestleMania III and shortly before the 1987 Wrestling/SurvivorSeries)[[/note]]); those wrestlers who were simultaneously under Fuji's tutelage in the spring and early summer of '87 were Sika, Wrestling/{{Kamala}}, Wrestling/KillerKhan, Wrestling/{{Demolition}} (Ax and Smash), the [[Wrestling/DonMuraco Magnificent Muraco]] and "Cowboy" Bob Orton. Besides Demolition, whom he managed as Tag Team Champions (during the early months of their reign), Fuji's most successful protege was Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}, a Polynesian wrestler using a sumo wrestler gimmick; Yokozuna was WWF World Heavyweight Champion for nine months in 1993 and 1994, successfully defending his title against Wrestling/BretHart, Wrestling/LexLuger, Razor Ramon, Wrestling/BobBacklund, Wrestling/RandySavage and Wrestling/TheUndertaker before dropping the title to Hart at WrestleMania X.

But Fuji's most memorable contribution to 1980s wrestling fans was that of manager. At one point in 1987, he managed seven wrestlers at one time, more than any then-active WWF manager (including Wrestling/BobbyHeenan, during Wrestling/AndreTheGiant's mid-1987 sabbatical from the ring [[note]](between WrestleMania III and shortly before the 1987 SurvivorSeries)[[/note]]); those wrestlers who were simultaneously under Fuji's tutelage in the spring and early summer of '87 were Sika, Wrestling/{{Kamala}}, Wrestling/KillerKhan, Wrestling/{{Demolition}} (Ax and Smash), the [[Wrestling/DonMuraco Magnificent Muraco]] and "Cowboy" Bob Orton. Besides Demolition, whom he managed as Tag Team Champions (during the early months of their reign), Fuji's most successful protege was Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}, a Polynesian wrestler using a sumo wrestler gimmick; Yokozuna was WWF World Heavyweight Champion for nine months in 1993 and 1994, successfully defending his title against Wrestling/BretHart, Wrestling/LexLuger, Razor Ramon, Wrestling/BobBacklund, Wrestling/RandySavage and Wrestling/TheUndertaker before dropping the title to Hart at WrestleMania X.

During his post-wrestling career--one that did see him continue to occasionally wrestle--one of Fuji's most famous acts was teaming with his protege, the Magnificent Muraco, for a series of television parodies that aired on the WWF's [=USA=] Network program ''Tuesday Night Titans''. The whole thing was a classic Abbott- and Costello-esque storyline of a bad acting duo wanting to break into the movies and looking for their first big break; among the shows featured in these parodies were ''MiamiVice'' and ''GeneralHospital''.