Harold Sakata
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Toshiyuki Sakata, known as Harold Sakata, was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in weightlifting, and
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Rikidōzan
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Mitsuhiro Momota, better known by the ring name Rikidōzan, was a Korean-Japanese professional wrestler and sumo wrestler. He was known as the father of professional wrestling in Japan, nicknamed "The
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…Togo. Sakata also wrestled in Japan for the Japanese Wrestling Association between 1955 and 1957, and was an early mentor and sometimes-tag-partner to Rikidōzan. On the basis of his wrestling work, he was cast in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964) as the villain Oddjob, a role he would be closely associated…
Rikidōzan as the Japanese Heavyweight Champion in 1954
Rikidōzan in 1949, in traditional sumo keshō-mawashi
Momota's apartment, nicknamed the Riki Mansion, in 2007
Momota entered Sannoh Hospital after being stabbed