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A good deal of you know that in Virtual Pro Wrestling 64, only the WCW wrestlers were licensed, and all other wrestlers had their appearance altered and names changed due to copyright concerns. The fake/altered names interested me to the point where I try to translate some of the names, and hopefully I translated them correctly, because it's a bit hard to see some of the Japanese letters in this game lol. Some were harder to translate than others, especially the Japanese wrestlers, since they use mainly Hiragana, as opposed to Katakana like the foreign wrestlers use.
NSW (New Japan)
Riki Choshu: Rintarō Chiba
Tatsumi Fujiwara: Takurō Funakoshi
Shinya Hoshimoto: Shizuo Hayashi (Naoya Ogawa/David Khakhaleishvili: Nakamichi Ōyama)
Keiji Muto: Kenichi Murata (The Great Muta: Crazy Joker)
Masahiro Chono: Makio Chikura
Jushin Thunder Liger: Mask de Danger
Shinjiro Otani: Shinobu Ogawara
Kensuke Sasaki: Keita Sakuma (Power Warrior: Neo Raiser)
Shiro Koshinaka: Shigezo Kobori
Junji Hirata: Metal Commando Hirosawa
Kazuo Yamazaki: Kantaro Yajima
Hiroyoshi Tenzan: Hisao Terada
El Samurai: The Death Green
Koji Kanemoto: Kojiro Kajita
EWF (All Japan)
Mitsuharu Misawa: Mitsumune Mitamura
Toshiaki Kawada: Toranosuke Katō
Kenta Kobashi: Keisuke Konishi
Jumbo Tsuruta: Bomber Tsukamoto
Steve Williams: Professor Kill
Stan Hansen: Big West
Jun Akiyama: Jiro Ashiwara
Akira Taue: Atsui Tada
Johnny Ace: John Chase
Masonobu Fuchi/Rusher Kimura/Haruka Eigen/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi: Manabu Fujita
Gary Albright: Guernica Austin
Hiroshi Hase: Hitoshi Hayama
WOU (UWF)
Nobuhiko Takada: Nobuhiro Takama
Yoji Anjoh: Koji Ando
Akira Maeda: Asuka Matsunaga
Volk Han: Wolf Man
Masakatsu Funaki: Toshikatsu Uraki
Ken Shamrock: Kevin Sherlock
Masahito Kakihara: Haramasa Takihara
Kiyoshi Tamura: Hitoshi Namura
Dick Vrij: Dion Cry
Minoru Suzuki/Guy Mezger/Yoshiki Takahashi: Hikaru Suzaki
Bas Rutten: Bo Larsson
DAW (FMW)
Genichiro Tenryu: Seiichiro Genryu
Koji Kitao: Kouki Kitaoji
Atsushi Onita: Koji Nioda (or Tsuyoshi Nioda)
Kodo Fuyuki: Harumichi Fubuki (based on his actual first name, which is Hiromichi)
Vader/Bam Bam Bigelow/Aja Kong: Super Boomer
Abdullah the Butcher: Abdara the Botcher
Tarzan Goto: Partisan Goto
Hayabusa: Hayate
Gedo/Jado: Gerou
Hawk/Animal: Doc Raiser
Tiger Jeet Singh: Saber Tiger Sheik
ILW (Michinoku Pro)
The Great Sasuke: Ninja Tasuke
Super Delfin: Space Elwin
TAKA Michinoku: MITI Takamoku
Shunji Takano/Great Zebra: Keiji Norainu
Jinsei Shinzaki/Hakushi: Issei Shintani
Gran Naniwa: Bran Nanba
Dick Togo/Men's Teioh/Hiro Saito: Dandy Tojo
Yoshiaki Fujiwara: Yoshiyuki Tsujiwara
Legends
Antonio Inoki: Amigo Inamura (Muhammad Ali/Andrew Golota/Mike Tyson: Mormad Dali)
Giant Baba: Gigant Hinomaru
Rickson Gracie: Nixon Bracie
Terry Funk: Teddy Fang
Tiger Mask: The Jackal (Kuniaki Kobayashi: Kuninobu Koyama)
Mil Mascaras: El Masquerade
Rikidozan: Rikioudan
Andre the Giant: Andy the Bigfoot
Seiji Sakaguchi: Eagle Sasawa
Bruiser Brody: King Kong Freddie
Maurice Smith/Gerard Gordeau/Don Nielson: Morley Mills
Dory Funk Jr.: Danny Fang Jr.
Dynamite Kid: TNT Kid
Dos Caras: Dosquerade
The Destroyer: The Disclosure or Death Closure
Manami Toyota: Pretty Tomoko
Extra translations (VPW 2)
Terry Gordy: Teddy Barry
Alexander Karelin: Cassandra Galilei
Mark Kerr: Mike Cairns
Ultimo Dragon: Aztec Dragoon
Don Frye: Gordon Cry
Names in bold and italics are who the fake names are referring to.
NSW (New Japan)
Riki Choshu: Rintarō Chiba
Tatsumi Fujiwara: Takurō Funakoshi
Shinya Hoshimoto: Shizuo Hayashi (Naoya Ogawa/David Khakhaleishvili: Nakamichi Ōyama)
Keiji Muto: Kenichi Murata (The Great Muta: Crazy Joker)
Masahiro Chono: Makio Chikura
Jushin Thunder Liger: Mask de Danger
Shinjiro Otani: Shinobu Ogawara
Kensuke Sasaki: Keita Sakuma (Power Warrior: Neo Raiser)
Shiro Koshinaka: Shigezo Kobori
Junji Hirata: Metal Commando Hirosawa
Kazuo Yamazaki: Kantaro Yajima
Hiroyoshi Tenzan: Hisao Terada
El Samurai: The Death Green
Koji Kanemoto: Kojiro Kajita
EWF (All Japan)
Mitsuharu Misawa: Mitsumune Mitamura
Toshiaki Kawada: Toranosuke Katō
Kenta Kobashi: Keisuke Konishi
Jumbo Tsuruta: Bomber Tsukamoto
Steve Williams: Professor Kill
Stan Hansen: Big West
Jun Akiyama: Jiro Ashiwara
Akira Taue: Atsui Tada
Johnny Ace: John Chase
Masonobu Fuchi/Rusher Kimura/Haruka Eigen/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi: Manabu Fujita
Gary Albright: Guernica Austin
Hiroshi Hase: Hitoshi Hayama
WOU (UWF)
Nobuhiko Takada: Nobuhiro Takama
Yoji Anjoh: Koji Ando
Akira Maeda: Asuka Matsunaga
Volk Han: Wolf Man
Masakatsu Funaki: Toshikatsu Uraki
Ken Shamrock: Kevin Sherlock
Masahito Kakihara: Haramasa Takihara
Kiyoshi Tamura: Hitoshi Namura
Dick Vrij: Dion Cry
Minoru Suzuki/Guy Mezger/Yoshiki Takahashi: Hikaru Suzaki
Bas Rutten: Bo Larsson
DAW (FMW)
Genichiro Tenryu: Seiichiro Genryu
Koji Kitao: Kouki Kitaoji
Atsushi Onita: Koji Nioda (or Tsuyoshi Nioda)
Kodo Fuyuki: Harumichi Fubuki (based on his actual first name, which is Hiromichi)
Vader/Bam Bam Bigelow/Aja Kong: Super Boomer
Abdullah the Butcher: Abdara the Botcher
Tarzan Goto: Partisan Goto
Hayabusa: Hayate
Gedo/Jado: Gerou
Hawk/Animal: Doc Raiser
Tiger Jeet Singh: Saber Tiger Sheik
ILW (Michinoku Pro)
The Great Sasuke: Ninja Tasuke
Super Delfin: Space Elwin
TAKA Michinoku: MITI Takamoku
Shunji Takano/Great Zebra: Keiji Norainu
Jinsei Shinzaki/Hakushi: Issei Shintani
Gran Naniwa: Bran Nanba
Dick Togo/Men's Teioh/Hiro Saito: Dandy Tojo
Yoshiaki Fujiwara: Yoshiyuki Tsujiwara
Legends
Antonio Inoki: Amigo Inamura (Muhammad Ali/Andrew Golota/Mike Tyson: Mormad Dali)
Giant Baba: Gigant Hinomaru
Rickson Gracie: Nixon Bracie
Terry Funk: Teddy Fang
Tiger Mask: The Jackal (Kuniaki Kobayashi: Kuninobu Koyama)
Mil Mascaras: El Masquerade
Rikidozan: Rikioudan
Andre the Giant: Andy the Bigfoot
Seiji Sakaguchi: Eagle Sasawa
Bruiser Brody: King Kong Freddie
Maurice Smith/Gerard Gordeau/Don Nielson: Morley Mills
Dory Funk Jr.: Danny Fang Jr.
Dynamite Kid: TNT Kid
Dos Caras: Dosquerade
The Destroyer: The Disclosure or Death Closure
Manami Toyota: Pretty Tomoko
Extra translations (VPW 2)
Terry Gordy: Teddy Barry
Alexander Karelin: Cassandra Galilei
Mark Kerr: Mike Cairns
Ultimo Dragon: Aztec Dragoon
Don Frye: Gordon Cry
Names in bold and italics are who the fake names are referring to.
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