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1* PromotedFanboy: Notes in interviews he was a puroresu geek in school, following magazines and trading tapes. Now he is one of the biggest stars in puro.
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3** Back in his amateur wrestling days, Wrestling/AkiraMaeda personally offered Nakamura a contract to compete in both professional wrestling and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts in his promotion Fighting Network RINGS, but Shinsuke refused in order to pursue a career in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling.
4** Nakamura was slated to wrestle an anticipated singles match with Wrestling/NaoyaOgawa in the 2004 NJPW Toukon Festival. However, Naka proceeded to all but scream his intentions to shoot on Ogawa in revenge for a similar attack on the late Wrestling/ShinyaHashimoto five years before, and when Ogawa heard of this, he went out of his way to be removed from the match, so the lucrative plans were scrapped for good and the two men were relegated to separate tag team matches. Nakamura didn't get away with the lost chance, though, because Inoki put him to wrestle Wrestling/KazuyukiFujita in the Festival and ordered Fujita to legitimately brutalize Shinsuke as a punishment.

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