Munenori Sawa

Munenori Sawa
Sawa in December 2010
Birth nameMunenori Sawa
Born (1979-04-20) April 20, 1979 (age 45)[1][2][3]
Suginami, Tokyo[2][4]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Ippanjin Munenori Sawa
Lee Ranjei[5][6]
Lingerie Mutoh[1]
Munenori Sawa[1]
Billed height1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)[1][2]
Billed weight80 kg (176 lb)[1][2]
Trained byTamashii Okamoto[1]
Yuki Ishikawa[1]
UWF Snakepit Japan[1]
DebutAugust 31, 2003[3]
RetiredNovember 9, 2011[4]

Munenori Sawa (澤 宗紀, Sawa Munenori, born April 20, 1979)[1][2][3] is a Japanese professional wrestler. Sawa was trained by and spent his entire career in the Battlarts promotion, adopting the promotion's "Bati Bati" wrestling style, known for its stiff strikes and submission-based shoot wrestling, but would often also incorporate comedy into his matches, especially when performing as Lingerie Mutoh (ランジェリー武藤, Ranjerī Mutō), his comedic take on Keiji Mutoh. Besides Battlarts, Sawa also worked for various other promotions in Japan, Germany and the United States, most notably Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1), where he became an NWA Intercontinental Tag Team and NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Champion and the winner of the 2011 Tenkaichi Jr. tournament, and where he wrestled his initial retirement match on November 9, 2011, four days after the folding of Battlarts. Since his retirement from professional wrestling, Sawa has wrestled grappling matches for ZST and has wrestled as Ippanji Munenori Sawa.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i 澤宗紀. Battlarts (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 17, 2008. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e 澤 宗紀. Inoki Genome Federation (in Japanese). Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  3. ^ a b c "Munenori Sawa". Puroresu Central. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
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