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* DoingItForTheArt: In his last years he taught UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling for free to anyone who could first pass and maintain his conditioning requirements, unfortunately there weren't many who could.

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* DoingItForTheArt: In his last years he taught UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling for free to anyone who could first pass and maintain his conditioning requirements, unfortunately requirements. Unfortunately, there weren't many who could.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Masanobu Fuchi, Gotch could have been invited to wrestle for Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling in the 1982 World's Strongest Tag Determination League tournament, with Wrestling/BillyRobinson as a potential partner. Gotch apparently even agreed to do it as he was already out of his contract with Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, but it didn’t happen since Gotch was basically a symbol for New Japan and would be very difficult to actually use.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Masanobu Fuchi, Gotch could have been invited to wrestle for Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling in the 1982 World's Strongest Tag Determination League tournament, with Wrestling/BillyRobinson as a potential partner. Gotch apparently even agreed to do it as he was already out of his contract with Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, but it didn’t happen since Gotch was basically a symbol for New Japan and would be very difficult to actually use.book.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Though modern catch wrestling advocates prefer call the Kimura lock "double wrist lock" to keep its original roots (very much like Georges Mehdi and hardcore judoka prefer "gyaku ude garami"), Gotch actually called it Kimura lock, probably because he was friends with Kimura.

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* BeamMeUpScotty: Though modern catch wrestling advocates prefer call the Kimura lock "double wrist lock" to keep its original roots (very much like Georges Mehdi and hardcore judoka prefer "gyaku ude garami"), Gotch actually called it a Kimura lock, probably because he was friends with Kimura.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Masanobu Fuchi, Gotch could have been invited to wrestle for Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling in the 1982 World's Strongest Tag Determination League tournament, with Wrestling/BillyRobinson as a potential partner. Gotch apparently even agreed to do it as he was already out of his contract with WrestlingNewJapanProWrestling, but it didn’t happen since Gotch was basically a symbol for New Japan and would be very difficult to actually use.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Masanobu Fuchi, Gotch could have been invited to wrestle for Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling in the 1982 World's Strongest Tag Determination League tournament, with Wrestling/BillyRobinson as a potential partner. Gotch apparently even agreed to do it as he was already out of his contract with WrestlingNewJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, but it didn’t happen since Gotch was basically a symbol for New Japan and would be very difficult to actually use.
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* DoingItForTheArt: In his last years he taught UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling for free to anyone who could first pass and maintain his conditioning requirements, unfortunately there weren't many who could.

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* DoingItForTheArt: In his last years he taught UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling for free to anyone who could first pass and maintain his conditioning requirements, unfortunately there weren't many who could.could.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Masanobu Fuchi, Gotch could have been invited to wrestle for Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling in the 1982 World's Strongest Tag Determination League tournament, with Wrestling/BillyRobinson as a potential partner. Gotch apparently even agreed to do it as he was already out of his contract with WrestlingNewJapanProWrestling, but it didn’t happen since Gotch was basically a symbol for New Japan and would be very difficult to actually use.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Though modern catch wrestling advocates prefer call the Kimura lock "double wrist lock" to keep its original roots (very much like Georges Mehdi and hardcore judoka prefer "gyaku ude garami"), Gotch actually called it Kimura lock, probably because he was friends with Kimura.

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* BeamMeUpScotty: Though modern catch wrestling advocates prefer call the Kimura lock "double wrist lock" to keep its original roots (very much like Georges Mehdi and hardcore judoka prefer "gyaku ude garami"), Gotch actually called it Kimura lock, probably because he was friends with Kimura.Kimura.
* DoingItForTheArt: In his last years he taught UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling for free to anyone who could first pass and maintain his conditioning requirements, unfortunately there weren't many who could.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Though modern catch wrestling advocates prefer call the Kimura lock "double wrist lock" to keep its original roots (very much like Georges Mehdi and hardcore judoka prefer "gyaku ude garami"), Gotch actually called it Kimura lock, probably because he was friends with Kimura.

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