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Yoshiaki Fujiwara (Wrestling)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Yoshiaki Fujiwara (b. 1949) is a Japanese Professional Wrestler who later took up acting and promoting. He debuted in 1972 for New Japan Pro-Wrestling as its first dojo graduate ever, learning Catch Wrestling under the legendary Karl Gotch. Thanks to his training and toughness, he was appointed NJPW founder Antonio Inoki's bodyguard, but his lack of charisma kept him tied to the low card. This ended when he attacked native heel Riki Choshu before a match, gaining the crowd's cheers and becoming a famous face of the company. In 1984, he followed his students Akira Maeda and Nobuhiko Takada to found the Universal Wrestling Federation, a promotion which featured a realistic wrestling style called shoot-style. After the UWF's demise, he returned along his pals to NJPW, where he competed for four more years, until Maeda left again to form the second UWF, and after negociating with Inoki, Fujiwara and his two new students Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki were allowed to join it. They enjoyed an immense popularity, but the company fell apart again when its members took separate directions. Fujiwara and his trainees founded Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi, where he put himself over as the company's ace, but again it was short-lived, as half of the roster left to form MMA promotion Pancrase and the other half (this time in good terms with him) to form Battlarts. Now going solo, Fujiwara became a freelancer and worked for feds like All Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE, and got a great victory against gastric cancer in 2007. He remains as a free agent, is associated with the Scientific Wrestling organization, and occasionally works as a trainer for Inoki Genome Federation.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: Unlike the first PWFG schism which created Pancrase, Fujiwara remained in good terms with the founders of Battlarts, and he appeared in their first show to give a speech which ended with a heartfelt "Thank you, my sons". | |
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The Alcoholic: Has the reputation to be a pretty strong drinker, capable to remain standing after enough sake cups to take down completely a man of his size. After he had stomach cancer, he eased up a bit, but is still known as a drinking animal. | |
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The Ace | |
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The Ace: Mainly in Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi. | |
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Achilles' Heel: Fujiwara definitely knew how to strike, but according to people in the business, he did not like to be hit, that being the reason he never indulged in MMA. Most of his matches played with it, with him assuming the role of matwork technician while his opponent worked as a striker. He has also admitted that he never had a good takedown game, which would probably explain why some of his students like Masakatsu Funaki didn’t either. | |
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