Shōji Nakamaki

Honestly, there's something immediately compelling about a guy from Ueda, Nagano — a landlocked mountain city with zero pretense — who decides to make his living as a professional wrestler. Shoji Nakamaki was born in 1956, which puts him right in the golden age of Japanese pro wrestling, when guys like Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki were national heroes and match night meant the whole family glued to the TV. He got himself a degree from Takushoku University, which has this long tradition of producing serious athletes, so he clearly wasn't just winging it — there was discipline behind the ambition. The public record is pretty sparse on specifics, and I'll admit I'm not deep in the archives on his career, but that's almost beside the point. A kid shaped by Shinshu's cold winters who bet everything on the ring? That kind of commitment tells you something about a person that a trophy list never could.

Shōji Nakamaki is a Japanese professional wrestler born on March 6, 1956, in Ueda, Nagano Prefecture. He attended Takushoku University before pursuing a career in professional wrestling. Details of his active period and ring career are not widely documented in public sources.

Name (English)

Shōji Nakamaki

Name (Japanese)

中牧昭二

Reading

なかまき しょうじ

Born

March 6, 1956 (age 70)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Year of the Monkey

Origin

Ueda, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Professional Wrestler

University

Takushoku University

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E7%89%A7%E6%98%AD%E4%BA%8C

Tags

• from Nagano Prefecture
• Professional Wrestler

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.