Karl Gotch Training UWF Wrestlers

Karl Gotch participates in a training session with wrestlers from the original Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) in Japan. Some of the stars featured in the session include Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Nobuhiko Takada. Afterwards, "the God of Professional Wrestling" endorses the promotion in an interview, claiming that the UWF will bring his style of wrestling back to the forefront.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• karl
• gotch
• UWF
• shoot
• style
• akira
• maeda
• nobuhiko
• takada
• NJPW
• new
• japan
• RINGS
• catch
• wrestling

[Chugganator]

Gotch-ism forever.

[Kolohe86786876786786]

Kazushi Sakuraba anyone?

[CustomJ]

Karl 'No Gimmicks Needed' Gotch. Tha man, The Myth...... The Legend!

[DefLeppardVanHalen]

Osamu Kido is the one that Gotch calls "his son," as he's the only one that came close to his level. And when the UWF was restarted in 1988, Kido stayed in NJPW, because "his father" wasn't there.

[dagreatcapri82]

Real wrestling here! rip Gotch

[Wolfhart81]

@tinobar

"Not even Gotch could make Takada a good shoot fighter"?!

Takada wasnt SUCH a bad fighter after all. He joined the MMA circuit in his mid - thirtees (way too late) by challenging the at this time best fighter in the business! No wonder that he lost. What followed was Takada not realizing that times had changed, still doing worked shoots. Thats what most people blame him for, but keep in mind this was just what Takada had been doing all his life.

[Shinji91]

This is so awesome!

[piggypoo]

scissor single leg counter? COOL.

[exe2517]

@Kolohe86786876786786 If I'm correct, this footage is from Akira Maeda's UWF. Sakuraba started Pro Wrestling in Nobuhiko Takada's UWFi and his master in Catch Wrestling was the legendary Billy Robinson.

[Electronic91Videos]

@RSXemperor

Not even close, I would more think of guys like Hikaru Sato or Minowaman.

[azrielseclements]

@Gedooptics This video took place sometime between 1984-1986 or 1988-1990, because those were the years when the UWF was in business in Japan. Gotch was born in 1924, so he would have been as young as 59 & as old as 66. But I agree, he was in great shape for his age then, and from what I heard he remained in great shape until his death. Even putting to shame a lot of younger guys with body-building backgrounds when it came to some of the exercises he recommends.

[BlueEyeGerman]

1:15 to 1:20

That is why he is one of my all time favorites.