Antonio Inoki (アントニオ猪木?) (born Kanji Inoki (猪木寛至 Inoki Kanji) is a Japanese professional wrestling promoter and politician and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. He was also the founder and former owner of New Japan Pro Wrestling before selling his controlling share in the promotion to Yuke's. Best known for most of his life by the ring name Antonio Inoki (often affectionately as Anton (アントン)), he fashioned this name after the wrestler Antonino Rocca as a homage to him. Inoki announced in 2012 that he had converted to Islam in 1990 and his Muslim name is Muhammad Hussain.