Born
Nov 27, 1957 · age 68
Satoru Sayama (born November 27, 1957) is a Japanese former professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, and founder of Shooto, the world's first dedicated mixed martial arts organisation. Originally known to international audiences as the masked wrestler Tiger Mask, Sayama left pro wrestling in 1984 to develop a reality-based combat sport that combined striking and grappling; that ruleset, codified as Shooto in 1985, predated the UFC by eight years and is widely credited as the structural ancestor of modern MMA. He continues to coach at his Seikendo dojo in Tokyo.
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