History Characters / UniversalWrestlingFederationUWFNewborn

** TheSmartGuy: Kazuo Yamazaki, again. Yoji Anjo as well, since he adopted a more eccentric image for himself, wearing zebra tights and bondage gear and using heelish sneaky tactics in the ring.

* UnderwearOfPower: Though he had similar fashion sense to Yoji Anjo.

* CombatPragmatist: During his match with Yoji Anjo, he got out from a cross armbar by elbowing Anjo in the groin.

* MulticoloredHair: Dyed like the Dutch flag for his match against Yoji Anjo. He is usually fair haired though.

* GuestFighter: Brought in for a Mixed Styles Fight against Yoji Anjo and a UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}} bout in UWFI with Wrestling/HiromitsuKanehara.

* PetTheDog: He apologized to Wataru Sakata and his cornermen for the illegal but deliberate headbutt Willie Peeters gave Sakata in their match.

** ManBehindTheMan: Shinzo Jin and Masami Soranaka, the former as the promotion’s president and the latter as the main referee and booker for the American wrestlers.

-->''"In the early 1980's a group of wrestlers electrified the Japanese pro-wrestling scene. At the height of their popularity they quit pro-wrestling and joined a new promotion called the U.W.F. Their style was called "SHOOTING" (and old wrestling term for when you mean to really do someone in). Combining elements of kickboxing, sambo, jiu-jitsu, and catch-as-catch-can wrestling into a new exciting, dangerous and deadly promotion, they began moving professional wrestling away from the theatrics and back toward sport. The addition of kicks and hitting created more action than had ever been seen before. Some of the members found the fighting too physically grueling and injury inducing. They retired from the ring or they went back to the pro-wrestling circuit. The remaining fighters regrouped and quickly rose to great popularity. At their peak they were able to sell out the 50,000+ seat Tokyo Dome in three hours (a feat the even UFC hasn't matched). People lined up the day before and slept in the streets to see them."''
-->-- '''Ted Pelc''', on the success of the UWF.

-->''"The only one that builds wrestling is the UWF. They took what I gave them and they built it. Now they're asking me to help them back again because they can't make any new talent. It takes time. That's why they go once a month. You don't see boxers fighting every night. A real athlete has to work out. "''

* TheApprentice: To Dale "Apollo" Cook.

* TheApprentice: To Wrestling/BradRheingans and Pavel Katsen.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Greco-Roman Wrestling]]: Was on the American Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling team of 1988, a 1987 Pan-American Games gold medalist, placed fourth in the 1986 World Championships, a three-time United States Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion (1986, 1987 and 1988) and a 1981 Division III National Champion.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Greco-Roman Wrestling]]: Was on the American Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling team of 1988 and a 1987 Pan-American champion.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Greco-Roman Wrestling]]: Was on the American Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling team of 1988.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Also listed as [=McDuff=] Roesch.

* UseYourHead: Thanks to Fujiwara, headbutts were still legal.

* BaldOfEvil

* LeanAndMean

* LeotardOfPower: Wore an amateur wrestling one in his early RINGS matches. He later switched to a black singlet with matching kickboxing shorts for the rest of his career.

* PluckyComicRelief: Was a comedy wrestler.

* RedBaron: "Crazy Elephant".

* TheApprentice: To Wrestling/YoshiakiFujiwara and Masami Soranaka.

* TheAce: A multiple UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and sambo medalist, the only 10th dan black belt in Kyokushin under Jon Bluming and powerlifting champion. One of the strongest European grapplers ever, he was the first non-Russian in stealing world sambo tournaments, the only guy who did not get curbstomped by the all-powerful Russian team in the 1974 European UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} Championships, and one of the most feared bouncers in the Amsterdam underground.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Sambo and]] UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}: A multiple time Dutch and national champion in those along with Greco-Roman and Freestyle Wrestling, with silver medals in 1974 European Judo Championships and the 1976 European Sambo Championships, a multiple time medalist at the World Sambo Championships with a gold in 1985 championships +100kg senior (35 and older) division, a 1985 World Games winner, won gold at the 1969 Sambo World Cup with a bronze in 1985 and is also a multiple time Israeli national sambo champion (Dutch sambo competitions only began in the 90s while Israel had competitions since the 80s). He is also a 10th dan black belt in Kyokushin UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} and also trained in UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}}.

* StartMyOwn: Created his own style of sambo, based on his UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and amateur wrestling expertise and whatever he could learn in sambo competitions. He didn’t learn it directly from the Russians because he won the 1969 Sambo World Cup after observing a training session by their team, so one can imagine that they didn’t want to give all their secrets to an outsider who could have dominated their own sport.
* StoneWall: In UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and sambo, his takedown defense was said to be otherworldly, to the point that only great champions like Ruska could aspire to throwing him down and even then was said to give Ruska fits.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Sambo]]: And Greco-Roman wrestling, UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} and UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}}.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Sambo]]: And boxing, UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}} and wrestling.

* TheApprentice: To Caesar Takeshi.

* GuestStarPartyMember: Was a guest trainer at the UWF Dojo.
* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/MuayThai: A champion in the style. He also learned shootboxing at Caesar Gym.

* RedBaron: "Sosiripan".

* TheMedic: Was the ring doctor of shootboxing, UWF Newborn RINGS, K-1, PRIDE, etc. He was an Orthopedic surgeon at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital.

* TheMedic: A physical therapist of Tokyo Police Hospital from 1969 to 2004. He was the ring doctor of UWF Newborn and RINGS where he was also a medical advisor. He now runs the Fighting Medical Association and the Medical Crossing Total Office.
* RedBaron: "The Japanese Fight Doctor".

!!!Singsak Sosiripan
* AlliterativeName
* BadassTeacher: Has his own gym, Singsak Victory Gym and has trained champions like Ken Yasukawa, Kensaku Maeda, Yasuhiro Uchida, Hayashi Ao, Akiomi Nitta, Kazushi Nishida, Arashi Fujiwara, among others.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/MuayThai: A champion in the style.

* RedBaron: Dick "Leon" Vrij, "Fighting Cyborg" or simply "Cyborg".

* {{Bouncer}}: Has experience in being one in Holland.