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ANTONIO INOKI

LOOKING AT the year 2018 in wrestling, Antonio Inoki’s influence is impossible to ignore. The founder of New Japan Pro Wrestling and one of the early proponents of what has come to be known as mixed martial arts competition, Inoki is the recipient of this year’s Stanley Weston Award.

Named after the founder of , the Stanley Weston Award,

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