Kendo Nagasaki

This article is about the professional wrestling gimmick Kendo Nagasaki in general. For the individual wrestlers who portrayed the character, see Peter Thornley and Kazuo Sakurada.

Kendo Nagasaki is a professional wrestling ring name that has been used by two different individuals. The character is portrayed as a Japanese Samurai warrior with a mysterious past and supernatural powers of hypnosis. The name derives from the modern martial art of Japanese fencing (Kendo), and the site of the second use of the atomic bomb (Nagasaki).

Although the masked British version portrayed by Peter Thornley remains a household name in his home country, most American and Japanese wrestling fans primarily associate the name "Kendo Nagasaki" and related imagery with the face-painted version portrayed by Kazuo Sakurada. The success of both Thornley and Sakurada has spawned an assortment of other wrestlers with characters inspired by, or simply impersonating, the gimmick.

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