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Masa Funaki vs. Minoru Suzuki

Two of the more popular members of the UWF promotion. Leaving the promotion with their teacher, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Funaki and Suzuki form the Pancrase promotion and trained top fighters like Ken Shamrock, Bas Rutten and Josh Barnett.

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