History Characters / UniversalWrestlingFederationUWFInternational

* FingerlessGloves: Wore them as 200% Machine.

* FanNickname: “Fernie”.

!!!Kungpon Geyu Samrick

* BadassMustache / PornStache

* BadassMustache / PornStache

* BadassBeard

* BadassBeard: Initially debuted with one, though he shaved it off later.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Amateur Wrestling]]: Wrestled for Notre Dame High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and had brief career as a powerlifter.

* BadassMustache / PornStache

* CarpetOfVirility

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Freestyle Wrestling]]: National and international champion.

* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong

* BadassBeard: In nWo Japan.

* CoolMask

* BadassMustache / PornStache

* BadassIsraeli

* BadassMustache: Has a similar one to his brother's.

* BadassMustache: A short one.
* CarpetOfVirility: Over his chest and shoulders.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}}: A freestyle rules Belgian national champion, and also a savate national champion.

* BadassMustache

* GameBreakingInjury: Was forcefully retired from RINGS when he started getting one too many concussions.

* MixedAncestry: His father was American of Irish and Polynesian descent and his mother was German of Jewish descent.

* AlohaHawaii: Was originally from there, though he now lives in Los Angeles.

* AlohaHawaii: Lived there for most of his pre-adult life.

* GondorCallsForAid: With Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and Wrestling Association R (WAR). Unfortunately it was not enough (and may have actually hurt them more than aid them) to keep the promotion going past a year they started working with them.

* DummiedOut: Never appeared in UWFI itself, though he did train with the American shooters under Wrestling/BillyRobinson and tried to get into the promotion before it folded.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Amateur Wrestling]]: Won the 165-pound title at the state tournament in 1951, was undefeated at 46-0, with 36 pins and reportedly was never taken off his feet during his collegiate career for University of Oklahoma, a three-time Big Seven conference champ at 177 pounds (1955–1957), and won the 177-pound title at the NCAA championships those same three years, pinning all three of his finals opponents, being one of two three-time NCAA Division I champs to have done that, the other being Oklahoma A&M's Earl McCready in 1928–1930. Hodge placed 5th in 1952 Olympics, and won the Silver Medal in 1956, in Melbourne, Australia after being defeated at the final by Bulgarian Nikola Stanchev. The Dan Hodge Trophy, named after him, is the amateur wrestling equivalent of the Heisman Trophy and is the only amateur wrestler to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated as an amateur wrestler. He also trained in boxing and won the 1958 Chicago Golden Gloves at Heavyweight, then won a Chicago-NY Intercity bout in October, beating Charley Hood. He finished his amateur career with 17 wins, no losses and 12 KO's. Convinced by boxing manager Art Freeman that he was a better prospect than Rocky Marciano, Hodge decided to become a professional boxer rather than pursue the opportunity to compete as a boxer and a wrestler at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. As a professional, he had a reported record of 8-2, although only 7 wins have been documented.

* TheApprentice: To Bill Packer, Tommy Williams, Ray McCallum, Mike Bell and Dick Woods.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Tenzan, despite the latter's attempts to reconcile during Iizuka's retirement match

!!!Kōji Kanemoto

* CoolMask: As Tiger Mask III.
* FinishingMove: Ankle Hold and Moonsault.
* GuestFighter: From Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling.
* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}: Practiced it during his high school days and won a few championships as a professional before being recruited by the NJPW Dojo. He also trained in shoot style with Kazuo Yamazaki and UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}}.
* LegacyCharacter: Was the third Tiger Mask after Wrestling/SatoruSayama and Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa.
* PowerStable: Team 2000.
* RedBaron: "The Jr. Star", "Junior Charisma", "Kenka Bancho" ("The Brawling Gangleader"), "Puroresu Kai no Aniki" ("The Big Brother of the Pro Wrestling World").
* UrExample: The first New Japan junior heavyweight wrestler to battle for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (the first was MMA legend Creator/BasRutten)and was the first man to defend the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship in the United States. He also supposedly innovated the Koji Clutch and passed it to Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels in his Curry Man Days in NJPW.
* WrestlingFamily: Was once married to Joshi wrestler Hikaru.

!!!Kishin Kawabata
* AlliterativeName

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}}: A multiple time world champion, started training at age 18 in the same gym in Bakersfield where Kathy Long trained under Eric Nolan, then trained at the Jet Center under Benny "The Jet" Urduidez, Ruben Urquidez and David Krapes. He also knows Vietnamese Martial Arts under Bao Truyen and UsefulNotes/MuayThai under guys like Seaksan Janjira and Bob Chaney. He also competed in the Russian equivalent of Chinese sanshou, Draka.
* RedBaron: "Hard As" a PunnyName that plays on his surname and for his powerful legs and toughness. It also acts as an UnfortunateName as it can be misread as "Hard Ass".

* CrazyAwesome: You would have to be to do the things he does in a fight.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness / EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first two fights in PRIDE were long snoozefest draws with Akira Shoji and Sanae Kikuta respectively. It was his fight with Carlos Newton where he showed off how CrazyAwesome he could be.

* AuthorAppeal: UWFI liked using foreigners with pro wrestling backgrounds, though most of them also had amateur wrestling backgrounds as well, with some of them being World Championship and Olympic-level caliber.

* BadassFamily: His son is an amateur MMA fighter.

* IKnowKarate: Also trained in the Seidokaikan before it became K-1, and later added UsefulNotes/MuayThai and fought in about 60 matches under those rules.

* StartMyOwn: Founded a small MMA company called Club Fight.

* RedBaron: "Honoo no Grappler" ("The Flame Grappler"), "Takada Dojo/PRIDE no Kirikomi Taichō" ("Takada Dojo/PRIDE’s Raid Captain").

* RedBaron: "Honoo no Grappler" ("The Flame Grappler"), "PRIDE no Kirikomi Taichō" ("PRIDE’s Raid Captain").

** TheLancer: Yoji Anjo, since he was Takada’s right hand man.

* ThreeAmigos: With Yoji Anjo and Wrestling/YoshihiroTakayama as the Golden Cups.

* GameBreakingInjury: Had to stop a match when he dislocated his fingers in a tag match with Gene Lydick against Wrestling/MasahitoKakihara and Yoji Anjo, from a kick by Anjo.

* GuestFighter: Was brought in for a match against Yoji Anjo.

* GuestFighter: Fought Yoji Anjo at the UWFI show held in Israel.

-->''"[=UWFi=] was a proto-MMA organization that aimed to show that real, tough, submission wrestling could draw large crowds again. Their aim was to bring back credibility and respect back to the world of professional wrestling. There are too many styles in the world of pro-wrestling today responsible for the bad reputation that pro-wrestling is sometimes associated with. In particular the "loud-mouthed", popular style that puts a premium on appearance and useless muscles, silly costumes, and trademark "cartoon" characters but very little premium on competitive wrestling, character, or proven skill. From the [=UWFi=] perspective, that kind of show only encourages body abuse and sends the wrong sort of message to audiences, especially younger ones. The [=UWFi=] message is to get into the gym; get on the mat, learn from your elders and betters, respect your opponents, and do your best. The [=UWFi=] matched all types of athletes; boxers, kickboxers, wrestlers, martial artists to show how effective the [=UWFi=] style is. The [=UWFi=] aimed to bring real professional wrestling back to the world!"''
-->-- '''Ted Pelc''', a summary for UWF Bushido: Way of The Warrior, basically [=UWFi=] shows with English commentary.

-->''"A few years ago, a group of wrestlers got tired of working the kind of show you see on TV, the theatrics you associate with professional wrestling. You see, they learned to shoot, a kind of shooting that has nothing to do with guns, but everything to do with real fighting. They combine the meanest, most realistic elements of jiu-jitsu, boxing, kickboxing, and submission wrestling into the toughest fighting style in the world. You win or lose a fight by a knockout, or by giving up before something gets broken. You can punch, slap, kick, knee, wrestle, almost anything goes as long as it works. Now some people call this street fighting, if so, it's the most highly developed form of street fighting you've ever seen. We prefer to think of it as the newest, toughest form of hand-to-hand combat around."''
-->-- '''Gene Pelc''', from a trailer for UWF Bushido: Way of The Warrior.

* RedBaron: "Kaijin" ("Phantom"), "Puroresurā no Tenteki" ("Pro-Wrestler's Natural Enemy").

-->''"I love the sport. I love the art form. I think it’s a thrill to wrestle the best in the world."''

-->-- Tom Minkel

-->''"People in the wrestling world respect both of us equally, and I think I was happier for him with his Olympic success than he was."''

-->''"His power was legendary, his skills were masterful, and his composure was rock solid. He routinely wrecked the opponents in his weight class "and he was a gentleman while doing it. "''