Nobuhiko Takada

[Mattbmf]

Hey Everybody. I was wondering if anybody could give me any information on Nobuhiko Takada? What style does he wrestle? What promotion does he/did he wrestle for? And any other info that could be useful.

[Peru-Yakuza]

Debuted in 1980 against Norio Honaga in New Japan... Was a junior heavyweight until 1987... Moved out to form the old UWF with Akira Maeda and came back in 1986... Won IWGP junior heavyweight title from Shiro Koshinaka and held it for four months before losing it back... Moved up to heavyweight and began teaming with Maeda... They won IWGP tag team title from Koshinaka & Keiji Muto in 1987... After losing the belts to Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki, they were kicked out upon Maeda's shoot kick on Choshu... Spent the next two years in Maeda's new UWF, having exciting matches against Maeda, Yamazaki, Masakatsu Funaki, and others... UWF closes in 1990 and Takada, Yamazaki and most of the other UWFers except Maeda, Fujiwara, and Funaki form UWF International... As its top star, has exciting matches against Gary Albright and Vader for the UWFI title... As the UWFI collapsed in Japan's economic recession, sought and got interpromotional matches against IWGP heavyweight champ Muto... Takada beat Muto on January 1996 and became the only man to hold all existing IWGP titles at the time... Lost the belt to Hashimoto after three months and switched to WAR to feud with Tenryu... After UWFI closed down in December, he and most of the UWFI talent formed Kingdom, except for Kiyoshi Tamura, who jumped to RINGS... Takada began competing in PRIDE most of the time, however, and Kingdom went under... Has lost more real shoots than he won... His style fits better in regular puroresu: martial arts kicks and submissions... Was considered one of the greatest puroresu products, but his abysmal record in shoots have faded him from public attention... His wife is former actress Aki Mukai.

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Great job, Peru!

Peru-Yakuza (10-02-2001 10:40 a.m.):
After losing the belts to Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki, they were kicked out upon Maeda's shoot kick on Choshu...

Small correction. Maeda was the only one who was suspended. Takada and others waited until their contracts with New Japan expired.