Masked wrestling legend Kendo Nagasaki breaks Guinness World Record to become oldest professional wrestler in history

MASKED wrestling fable Kendo Nagasaki has snapped connected the lycra 1 much clip to go the oldest nonrecreational wrestler successful the world.

The hulking 83-year-old soundless samurai returned to the ringing connected Sunday for a long-awaited match, breaking a Guinness World Record.

The 6ft 2in monster - existent sanction Peter Thornley - took portion successful a three-man tag squad bout astatine Fairfield Halls successful Croydon.

He teamed up with wrestling duo Dead Gorgeous, from Bangor, Northern Ireland, comprising brothers Ben and Jordan Nelson.

They wrestled the LDN Wrestling tag team of Sanjay Bagga, DD Crooks and Stevie Fee.

And successful a arguable determination successful beforehand of the 750-strong assemblage Nagasaki was disqualified from the bout for an amerciable move.

But the ringing villain went connected to WIN the lucifer erstwhile the assemblage got to determine the eventual victor.

Speaking to The Sun afterwards, a buoyant Nagasaki said: “It was a fantastic feeling and it’s genuinely fabulous to beryllium a Guinness World Record breaker.

“It was hard enactment successful that ring, they’re each young and precise enthusiastic, you’ve got to support them nether control, nether manners.

“But it was similar turning the timepiece backmost being retired determination successful beforehand of truthful galore people, it was electric, the roar of the assemblage was incredible.

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“I was disqualified successful the extremity for being naughty, but the determination went to the assemblage who deemed my squad the winners, it was a large time of wrestling, everyone volition retrieve it, conscionable similar the aged days."

At the extremity of the amusement astir 250 radical lined up to get Nagasaki’s autograph.

He added: “I inactive consciousness good, I’m successful large information for my age… who knows you mightiness spot Kendo Nagasaki successful the ringing again successful future.”

Nagaski’s ringing instrumentality marked the 60th day of his archetypal quality successful British nonrecreational wrestling.

The ringing villain ruled the ringing successful the 1970s, unnerving opponents down a sinister striped disguise with tales of losing fractional an scale finger during a brutal martial arts ceremony.

During his unthinkable career, Nagasaki wrestled greats similar Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Andre the Giant - beating them all. 

The villain triggered specified choler among fans that helium was erstwhile stabbed successful the backmost with a fountain pen by a spectator, portion different pistillate instrumentality packed a location ceramic successful her handbag and walloped him implicit the caput with it.

Sanjay Bagga, 39, the proprietor and promoter of LDN Wrestling who staged the event, said: “I’ve got the top respect for Kendo arsenic an athlete, arsenic a wrestler and performer, he’s 83 and he’s inactive beauteous agile, however galore men his property tin determination astir a ringing similar that?

“There was a batch of involvement successful this lucifer and we sold retired the venue and enactment connected a large show.”

But Sanjay said the lucifer was the effect of a long-time beef betwixt the 2 men.

He added: “There’s a spot of past betwixt myself and Kendo from 17 years agone and helium slagged maine disconnected successful his publication which led america to this large match.

“I didn’t deliberation it would pb to this but the nationalist demanded it and they said the combat betwixt america needed to beryllium resolved.

“We went retired determination and risked everything. Obviously I’m disappointed to person lost, but what a large match.

"It was a fight-like ambiance and ended successful controversy, I inactive deliberation I won it, but the assemblage got to decide."