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'''Masashi Ozawa''' (b. 1947) is a retired UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er who competed in the 1970s and 1980s as '''Killer Khan'''. He debuted in 1973, starting his career in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling under his own name. He took on the Khan gimmick in 1979, based on a suggestion by Wrestling/KarlGotch. He competed for a variety of territories, as well as for Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling. He retired in 1987. He is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/nwa/fl-us-t.html NWA United States (Florida) Tag Team Champion]] with Pak Song, a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/canada/ab/stampede/ab-na-h.html Stampede North American Heavyweight Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-tv.html World Class Television Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/la/la-h.html Mid-South Louisiana Heavyweight Champion]] and a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midsouth/mids-ms-h.html Mid-South Mississippi Heavyweight Champion]]. In 1981, both ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' and ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' named his feud with Wrestling/AndreTheGiant "Feud of the Year," and ''[=PWI=]'' also named his May 2nd match with Andre "Match of the Year."
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!!! "Killer Tropes":
%%* AlliterativeName
%%* ArchEnemy: Andre
%%* BaldOfEvil: He had a patch of hair on the back of his head but otherwise was this.
%%* BeardOfEvil
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Broke the ankle of Wrestling/AndreTheGiant with his top rope kneedrop at a time when Andre was (mostly) undefeated.[[note]]In kayfabe, anyway. In reality Andre broke the ankle getting out of bed.[[/note]]
* FinishingMove: Top-rope kneedrop, Cobra Clutch
* FrankensteinsMonster: He was managed by Wrestling/MrFuji during his final WWE run, in 1987. During his {{Squash|Match}} of Rick Hunter on the May 16 (taped April 23), 1987, ''WWF Superstars'', there was an inset promo from his stablemates Wrestling/DonMuraco and "Cowboy" Bob Orton Jr., in which Muraco said, "The evil genius of Mr. Fuji has reincarnated the monster of Frankenstein himself."
* GimmickMatches: He had a series of "Mongolian Stretcher Matches" against Andre, all of which he lost.
* HardHead: When he got in his shoot scuffle with Wrestling/YoshiakiFujiwara, although Khan ended up underneath, Fujiwara injured his hand punching him, and he later told Wrestling/AkiraMaeda backstage that Khan had a "big stone head".
* {{Heel}}: Almost always.
** ForeignWrestlingHeel: Billed from UsefulNotes/{{Mongolia}}.
** [[WrestlingMonster Monster Heel]]: In the U.S.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Spit [[AHandfulForAnEye blinding green mist]].
* LightningBruiser: He was usually 300+ lbs., and his agility was usually acknowledged.
* NightmareFuel: Once was on the receiving end of this, at least according to announcer Kal Rudman. Rudman remarked as such during a 1981 televised match from the Philadelphia Spectrum, where he was on the wrong end of a massive beatdown by Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, and Andre had refused to stop beating on him. (Which, by the way, very few fans shed any tears for ... Khan had tried to cripple Andre months earlier, and the Giant -- who had full support of the fans -- was out for bloody revenge.)
* PowerStable:
** (in Mid-South and WCCW): [[Wrestling/GeneralSkandorAkbar Devastation Inc.]]
** (in New Japan): New Wolves, led by Riki Choshu
*** (in New Japan and All Japan): Ishin Gundan
** (in the WWF, 1987): Was one of seven wrestlers simultaneously managed by Wrestling/MrFuji, the others being Kamala, Sika, Wrestling/{{Demolition}} (Ax and Smash), [[Wrestling/DonMuraco The Magificent Muraco]] and "Cowboy" Bob Orton.
* TemptingFate: Although severely beaten late in their famous "stretcher match" at the Philadelphia Spectrum, Khan continued to get up and try to attack Andre, gaining any advantage he had. At this point, it would have been wiser for him to concede defeat and take the stretcher ride; he finally did, after he was semi-conscious and could no longer get up.
* WouldHitAGirl: A draft storyline, during his 1987 WWF run, would have had Khan spit his "green mist" into Wrestling/MissElizabeth's eyes (after Wrestling/MrFuji cornered and threatened her, of course), to spark a feud with the (then newly-turned face) Wrestling/RandySavage. Although Savage and Khan did wrestle several upper-card matches, this never figured into any actual storyline, and the idea of Elizabeth getting hurt at the hands of a heel would fall to the Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan.