Masanori Saito
Acting
1942-02-01 · Tokyo, Japan
Masanori Saito was a Japanese professional wrestler better known as Mr. Saito or Masa Saito who wrestled for 33 years across the world. He had success as a singles wrestler, winning the AWA World Heavyweight Championship in 1990, and as a tag team wrestler with multiple partners in various National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territories. Saito joined WWE in 1981, where he teamed with Mr. Fuji to hold the WWE World Tag Team Championship twice. In Japan, he wrestled for both top leagues, All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). He wrestled Antonio Inoki across Ganryū-jima island for over two hours. Saito was imprisoned for two years in the mid-1980s for physically assaulting police officers in Waukesha, Wisconsin, following an accusation of vandalism against his friend Ken Patera.
Filmography(24)
movieWorld Wrestling Peace Festival
as · 1996 · 0.0
movieWCW Starrcade 1995
as Masa Saito · 1995 · 9.0
movieNWA Grandslam
as · 1993 · 0.0
movieWCW/New Japan Supershow III
as Masa Saito · 1993 · 10.0
movieWCW/New Japan Supershow II
as Masa Saito · 1992 · 0.0
movieWCW/New Japan Supershow: Rumble in The Rising Sun
as Masa Saito · 1991 · 0.0
movieWCW Starrcade 1990
as Mr. Saito · 1990 · 7.8
movieWWF/AJPW/NJPW Wrestling Summit
as Masa Saito · 1990 · 0.0
movieAWA SuperClash IV
as Mr. Saito · 1990 · 10.0
movieNJPW Ganryujima Island Deathmatch
as Masa Saito · 1987 · 0.0
tvAWA All-Star Wrestling
as Mr. Saito · 1987 · 7.0
movieAWA The Brawl in St. Paul
as Mr. Saito · 1986 · 0.0
movieThe Life and Times of Captain Lou Albano
as Mr. Saito · 1986 · 10.0
movieTag Team Champions
as Mr. Saito · 1986 · 0.0
movieThe Best of the WWF: volume 4
as Mr. Saito · 1985 · 0.0
movieAWA StarCage
as Masa Saito · 1985 · 8.5
moviePWUSA Star Wars
as Mr. Saito · 1985 · 0.0
movieBest of the WWF Volume 2
as Mr. Saito · 1985 · 0.0
movieAWA Christmas Show 1984
as Mr. Saito · 1984 · 0.0
movieAWA Christmas Show 1983
as Mr. Saito · 1983 · 0.0
tvAWA Arena Shows
as Mr. Saito · 1981 · 0.0
movieNWA The Last Tangle in Tampa
as Masa Saito · 1980 · 0.0
movieThe Super Bowl of Wrestling
as Mr. Saito · 1978 · 0.0
tvWWF All-Star Wrestling
as Mr. Saito · 1975 · 0.0