Shinsuke Nakamura, popularly known as the King of Strong Styles, is a professional wrestler who is currently signed to WWE and performs under the RAW brand. He is well known for his unique style and is an excellent in-ring performer. He is one of the most charismatic wrestlers in the Stamford-based promotion and has won several titles in his professional career.
Nakamura was born on February 24, 1980, in Mineyama, Kyoto. Nakamura competed in NJPW before joining WWE and has been a bright wrestler since the beginning of his career. He became the youngest wrestler to hold the IWGP Heavyweight Championship after defeating Hiroyoshi Tenzan.
Nakamura started his WWE career at NXT, where he held the NXT Championship twice during his time there. Shinsuke was shortly called upon on SmackDown, where he went on to defeat big superstars like Randy Orton, John Cena, and others. He is best known for his reign as an IC champion and winner of the 2018 Royal Rumble.
Shinsuke Nakamura’s religion and ethnicity
Shinsuke Nakamura originally hails from Japan and is ethnically Japanese, and his childhood and schooling were done in Japan. There is no concrete information available on his religion, which is yet to be revealed by him. Since his city, Kyoto, consists of Zen Buddhism, Shinto, Atheism, and Christianity, he might fall under one of them.
Shinsuke made his debut on SmackDown in April 2017. Since then, he has performed consistently and even had some main storyline runs.
Shinsuke Nakamura’s family and early life
Shinsuke Nakamura has been happily married to Harumi Maekawa since 2007. The couple has been leading a happy married life for more than 15 years. Nakamura does not have any kids as of now. According to ‘The Famous People‘, Shinsuke was born into a well-disciplined family and was not quite strong in his early days. He faced bullying in school due to his shy nature. Nakamura was an otaku and loved to draw characters from anime.
His life had a major turnaround when he decided to join his school’s amateur wrestling team and became its captain within a year. Winning the JOC Cup took his confidence to a new level, and after that, he firmly decided to pursue wrestling as a career. Nakamura trained himself hard and learned different fighting styles and bodybuilding. His first breakthrough came when he was selected for the New Japan Pro Wrestling when he was only 22 years old.
Shinsuke Nakamura has also contested in Pro MMA, where he fought with Daniel Gracie in his first fight and lost to him. But after that, he made a comeback and won two back-to-back fights. Few people know that Nakamura challenged Brock Lesnar to fight for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in 2006.
Brock accepted the challenge and defeated Shinsuke in the match. Nakamura worked hard after this fight to gain strength and skills. He was called back to NJPW in 2008, where he won the title against Tanahashi. Nakamura has been a great professional wrestler throughout his career and also published his autobiography in 2014 titled ‘King of Strong Styles’. With that, it remains to be seen if ‘The King of Strong Style’ will open up more about his personal life.