In the pantheon of professional wrestling villains, Mr. Fuji is remembered as the tuxedo-clad, bowler-hat-wearing manager who blinded opponents with salt and managed champions like Yokozuna and Demolition. On television, he was a devious schemer, a caricature of a Bond villain who took pleasure in the pain of others. However, to the wrestlers who shared the road with him during the territorial days and the expansion era of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), the character was simply a toned-down version of the man himself. Harry Fujiwara, known to the world as Mr. Fuji, is widely considered the undisputed “King of Ribs.” In wrestling parlance, a “rib” is a prank. These can range from harmless practical jokes designed to break the monotony of travel to cruel, psychological warfare used

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