Post by The Senator on Jun 16, 2007 0:43:22 GMT -5
Name: Masakatsu Nobunaga (Sometimes referred to as Mr. Cowabunga by the disrespectful, albeit, not to his face)
Age: 66
Height: 6'1
Weight: 235
Hometown: NY, NY(Born in Osaka, Japan)
Appearence: Mr. Nobunaga is a taller than average man of Japanese decent, at six feet tall and two inches in height, looking to be about sixty or so years of age, with a scarred bald head, grey goatee, thickly built, but not overly large physique, and is wearing a shirt promoting his gym, along with long black wrestling tights and boots.
History: (Why not let the man tell it himself?)
Nobunaga: Listen! I started out as a top level student in the top Judo dojo in Japan. I was going to enter the Olympics, until I broke a man's neck in competiton. They banned me for life, and I had to find a way to make a living. I promptly moved from Japan, and made it to the States. Once here, some connections from my past found me a man named Karl Gotch. He trained me in what you know as Catch Wrestling, and I quickly excelled in the field, facing such people as Hiro Matsuda, Billy Robinson and Roland Bock in the '70s and '80s. People feared me in the States, both because of my intense training, and reputation for injuring opponents in the ring. I retired two men from professional wrestling, one who whom jumped me in the middle of a match, and the other one was a crass bastard who thought he could get the referee to double cross me in the match. Both incidents left me blacklisted from half the major territories in the States, and the others feared to sign me to a match anyway. I decided at this point, in the mid '80s, that Catch style wrestling was declining, and instead of trying to promote true combat techniques by demonstrating them in the ring, I would train up a new generation of students to do so. I retired for good a decade later, and my dojo is still here. People who know of me, such as Tim Dwight, send me either their best, or their worst students. Either way, I either break them of their poor habits and lax approach, or I help them make the decision to leave the industry.
(Note: Although definatly retired, Mr. Nobunaga is still very active in training, and takes part daily in sparring matches, and is not to be taken lightly.)
Finisher: Reverse Ipponzei
Description: A rolling arm throw that dumps the opponent on their head. Some believe that he taught Kensuke Sasaki this move.
Signatures
1) Standing Thrust Side Kick
2) Back Rolling Judo Neck Snap
3) Figure Four Headscissors
4) Gotch Style Cradle Piledriver
Weardown
1) Overhand Chop
2) Middle Kick Barrage
3) Low Angle Backdrop Suplex
4) Back Body Drop
5) Standing STO(O-Soto Gari)
6) Grounded Arm Trapping Necklock
7) Half Hatch Falling Throw
8) Arm Wrench into Arm Trapping Standing Side Headlock
Age: 66
Height: 6'1
Weight: 235
Hometown: NY, NY(Born in Osaka, Japan)
Appearence: Mr. Nobunaga is a taller than average man of Japanese decent, at six feet tall and two inches in height, looking to be about sixty or so years of age, with a scarred bald head, grey goatee, thickly built, but not overly large physique, and is wearing a shirt promoting his gym, along with long black wrestling tights and boots.
History: (Why not let the man tell it himself?)
Nobunaga: Listen! I started out as a top level student in the top Judo dojo in Japan. I was going to enter the Olympics, until I broke a man's neck in competiton. They banned me for life, and I had to find a way to make a living. I promptly moved from Japan, and made it to the States. Once here, some connections from my past found me a man named Karl Gotch. He trained me in what you know as Catch Wrestling, and I quickly excelled in the field, facing such people as Hiro Matsuda, Billy Robinson and Roland Bock in the '70s and '80s. People feared me in the States, both because of my intense training, and reputation for injuring opponents in the ring. I retired two men from professional wrestling, one who whom jumped me in the middle of a match, and the other one was a crass bastard who thought he could get the referee to double cross me in the match. Both incidents left me blacklisted from half the major territories in the States, and the others feared to sign me to a match anyway. I decided at this point, in the mid '80s, that Catch style wrestling was declining, and instead of trying to promote true combat techniques by demonstrating them in the ring, I would train up a new generation of students to do so. I retired for good a decade later, and my dojo is still here. People who know of me, such as Tim Dwight, send me either their best, or their worst students. Either way, I either break them of their poor habits and lax approach, or I help them make the decision to leave the industry.
(Note: Although definatly retired, Mr. Nobunaga is still very active in training, and takes part daily in sparring matches, and is not to be taken lightly.)
Finisher: Reverse Ipponzei
Description: A rolling arm throw that dumps the opponent on their head. Some believe that he taught Kensuke Sasaki this move.
Signatures
1) Standing Thrust Side Kick
2) Back Rolling Judo Neck Snap
3) Figure Four Headscissors
4) Gotch Style Cradle Piledriver
Weardown
1) Overhand Chop
2) Middle Kick Barrage
3) Low Angle Backdrop Suplex
4) Back Body Drop
5) Standing STO(O-Soto Gari)
6) Grounded Arm Trapping Necklock
7) Half Hatch Falling Throw
8) Arm Wrench into Arm Trapping Standing Side Headlock
