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Antonio Inoki

1943 - 2022

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Muhammad Hussain Inoki (born Kanji Inoki (Japanese: 猪木寛至, Hepburn: Inoki Kanji); February 20, 1943 – October 1, 2022) was a Japanese professional wrestler, martial artist, politician, and promoter of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. He was best known by the ring name Antonio Inoki (アントニオ猪木, Antonio Inoki), a homage to fellow professional wrestler Antonino Rocca. Inoki was a twelve-time professional wrestling world champion, notably being the first IWGP Heavyweight Champion and the first Asian WWF Heavyweight Champion – a reign not officially recognized by WWE. After spending his adolescence in Brazil, Inoki began his professional wrestling career in the 1960s for the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance (JWA) under the tutelage of Rikidōzan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonio Inoki has received more than 2,660,316 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Antonio Inoki is the 4th most popular wrestler (up from 8th in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Japan (up from 218th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Wrestler.

Antonio Inoki is a Japanese professional wrestler, politician, and mixed martial artist. He is most famous for his mixed martial arts fight against Muhammad Ali in 1976.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Antonio Inokis by language

Over the past year Antonio Inoki has had the most page views in the with 601,599 views, followed by English (360,089), and Italian (57,012). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Volapük (223.38%), Simple English (112.87%), and Turkish (107.01%)

Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Antonio Inoki ranks 4 out of 1,027. Before him are André the Giant, Kane, and Hulk Hogan. After him are The French Angel, Aleksandr Karelin, Chyna, Masahiko Kimura, John Cena, Anton Geesink, Dave Bautista, and Mick Foley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Antonio Inoki ranks 73. Before him are Mario Botta, Eduard Limonov, Lucio Dalla, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Johann Deisenhofer, and Jerry Bruckheimer. After him are Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Yohji Yamamoto, David Soul, Arthur Ashe, Roy Andersson, and Joni Mitchell. Among people deceased in 2022, Antonio Inoki ranks 52. Before him are Jerry Lee Lewis, Issey Miyake, Angelo Badalamenti, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Louise Fletcher, and Meat Loaf. After him are Arata Isozaki, Valeri Polyakov, James Lovelock, Hardy Krüger, Stanislav Shushkevich, and Issei Sagawa.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Antonio Inoki ranks 164 out of 6,245. Before him are Iwane Matsui (1878), Ken Watanabe (1959), Shoko Asahara (1955), Osamu Yamaji (1929), Nobusuke Kishi (1896), and Emperor Ōjin (210). After him are Shohei Imamura (1926), Emperor Kaika (-208), Emperor Tenmu (631), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), and Emperor Suinin (-69).

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Among WRESTLERS In Japan

Among wrestlers born in Japan, Antonio Inoki ranks 1. After him are Masahiko Kimura (1917), Giant Baba (1938), Isao Inokuma (1938), Chiyonofuji Mitsugu (1955), Yasuhiro Yamashita (1957), Shozo Sasahara (1929), Shinobu Sekine (1943), Osamu Watanabe (1940), Takehide Nakatani (1941), Asuka (1981), and Atsuji Miyahara (1958).

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