Shinsuke Nakamura

Shinsuke Nakamura, also known as King Nakamura and Nakamura, is a professional wrestler.
== Charactah Account ==
Known the world over as The King of Strong Style, Shinsuke Nakamura employs a hard-hitting style in the ring, incorporating blistering strikes with submission holds. The crown jewel of his arsenal is a devastating knee strike, which has felled many opponents.  
Nakamura’s smashmouth offense, along with an unusual but magnetic charisma, first earned him fame in New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he was a three-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion — a title held by the likes of WWE Hall of Famer Antonio Inoki, Vader, The Great Muta and AJ Styles. He was also the youngest competitor to earn that honor, winning it for the first time at 23. 
First making his mark stateside in WWE NXT where Nakamura was the NXT Champion twice, The Artist immediately excelled under the bright lights of SmackDown, scoring monumental victories over the likes of John Cena, Randy Orton, Dolph Ziggler and anyone else who got in his way.
== Appearance ==
=== Video Games ===
* Fire Pro Wrestling 2
* Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
* King Of Colosseum II
* WWE 2K Battlegrounds
* WWE 2K23
* WWE 2K22
* WWE 2K20
* WWE 2K19
* WWE 2K18
* WWE 2K17
* WWE Champions
* WWE SuperCard
* Wrestle Kingdom
* Wrestle Kingdom 2: Pro-Wrestling World War
=== Wrestling Shows ===
* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* Border City Wrestling
* Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre
* International Wrestling Revolution Group
* New Japan Pro Wrestling
* NJPW Inoki Dojo
* Pro Wrestling NOAH
* Pro Wrestling ZERO1
* Revolution Pro Wrestling
* Ring of Honor
* Sacramento Wrestling Federation
* Total Non-Stop Wrestling Action
* World Wrestling Entertainment
* Wrestle Rampage
* Wrestling in Japan - Freelance Shows
* Wrestling in Mexiko - Freelance Shows
== Trivia ==
* Along with fellow NJPW wrestler Kazuchika Okada, Nakamura is featured in the Japanese music video for Pharrell Williams' song Happy, released in May 2014.
* Back in his amateur wrestling days, Akira Maeda personally offered Nakamura a contract to compete in both professional wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts in his promotion Fighting Network RINGS, but Shinsuke refused in order to pursue a career in New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
* Nakamura was slated to wrestle an anticipated singles match with Naoya Ogawa in the 2004 NJPW Toukon Festival. However, Naka proceeded to all but scream his intentions to shoot on Ogawa in revenge for a similar attack on the late Shinya Hashimoto five years before, and when Ogawa heard of this, he went out of his way to be removed from the match, so the lucrative plans were scrapped for good and the two men were relegated to separate tag team matches. Nakamura didn't get away with the lost chance, though, because Inoki put him to wrestle Kazuyuki Fujita in the Festival and ordered Fujita to legitimately brutalize Shinsuke as a punishment.
* In an interview in 2017, Nakamura revealed that after the end of his MMA tenure in 2005, he was contacted by Ultimate Fighting Championship to continue fighting for them, but he turned the offer down and continued working for New Japan.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Shinsuke Nakamura at Pro Wrestling Wiki
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