History Wrestling / YoshiakiFujiwara

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Attacking heel kingpin Riki Choshu from behind in 1984 and leaving him bloodied, which Japanese people call "Tero Jiken" ("The Terrorist Incident").

* TookALevelInBadass: The reason from his uprising from an anodyne low-carder to a NJPW army member was his beatdown on Riki Choshu, who was nearly untouchable until that point.

* CoolVsAwesome: He featured an elite grappling match with sambo master Wrestling/VolkHan in Fighting Network RINGS. Before that, he used to work grappling vs. striking matches with Sayama.

* StartMyOwn: Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi.

* AntiHero: In a time headlined by godlike heroes like Wrestling/AntonioInoki and rugged heels like Riki Choshu, Fujiwara was just an ugly madman who enjoyed headbutting people out.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Averted in pro wrestling, where few things are forbidden, but Fujiwara's favourite armbar technique is a grave foul in its original context of UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} (at least the way Yoshiaki does it, that is, transitioning from standing to prone). The reason is that it can break the opponent's arm with terrifying ease if he doesn't comply immediately, leaving pretty much zero time to try to tap out.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Attacking heel kingpin Riki Choshu from behind in 1984 and leaving him bloodied.

* AlmightyJanitor: He left NJPW for not getting pushed despite being ''very'' popular and a great worker.

* AttackAttackAttack: His grappling philosophy, very in the line of catch wrestling, was composed of avoid thinking in the possibility of losing and never, ''never'' stop trying to wrench some limb off.

* BodyguardingABadass: Aside from wrestling, Yoshiaki worked for a long time as a real life bodyguard for Wrestling/AntonioInoki's thanks to his martial art skills. He even was in his corner during the famous match with UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli along with his and Inoki's master Wrestling/KarlGotch, among other reasons to show the world that Ali didn't have the toughest posse.

** Back when Fujiwara worked as a gym enforcer for NJPW, Bob Orton Jr. (Wrestling/RandyOrton's daddy) did something which upset Fujiwara during a match between the two. What happened exactly is not known, but it is known that Fujiwara came to him after the bout and used Orton to wipe the floor.
** In PWFG, during the everlasting feud between kickboxers and wrestlers, a kickboxer named Don Nakaya Nielsen shot on Fujiwara in a worked match and obliged the medic to stop the bout. Fujiwara was angry and eager to get him, but as he was too old for a MMA match, he sent Wrestling/KenShamrock to get revenge for the shooters. The results are history.

* CoolVsAwesome: He featured an elite grappling match with sambo master Wrestling/VolkHan in Fighting Network RINGS.

* {{Expy}}: Has one in the form of Osamu Kido, which is another tough shooter with a love for the waki-gatame and trained directly by Wrestling/KarlGotch, though one can argue that Fujiwara is actually Kido's expy as Osamu was wrestling before Fujiwara even graduated from the New Japan Dojo.

* BodyguardingABadass: Aside from wrestling, Yoshiaki worked for a long time as a real life bodyguard for Wrestling/AntonioInoki's thanks to his martial art skills. He even was in his corner during the famous match with Creator/MuhammadAli along with his and Inoki's master Wrestling/KarlGotch, among other reasons to show the world that Ali didn't have the toughest posse.

'''Yoshiaki Fujiwara''' (b. 1949) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er who later took up acting and promoting. He debuted in 1972 for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling as its first dojo graduate ever, learning UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling under the legendary Wrestling/KarlGotch. Thanks to his training and toughness, he was appointed NJPW founder Wrestling/AntonioInoki's bodyguard, but his lack of charisma kept him tied to the low card. This ended when he attacked native heel Riki Choshu before a match, gaining the crowd's cheers and becoming a famous face of the company. In 1984, he followed his students Wrestling/AkiraMaeda and Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada to found the Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation, a promotion which featured a realistic wrestling style called shoot-style. After the UWF's demise, he returned along his pals to NJPW, where he competed for four more years, until Maeda left again to form the second UWF, and after negociating with Inoki, Fujiwara and his two new students Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki were allowed to join it. They enjoyed an immense popularity, but the company fell apart again when its members took separate directions. Fujiwara and his trainees founded Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi, where he put himself over as the company's ace, but again it was short-lived, as half of the roster left to form MMA promotion Pancrase and the other half (this time in good terms with him) to form Battlarts. Now going solo, Fujiwara became a freelancer and worked for feds like Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling and [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZERO1 Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE]], and got a great victory against gastric cancer in 2007. He remains as a free agent, is associated with the Scientific Wrestling organization, and occasionally works as a trainer for Inoki Genome Federation.

* RealSongThemeTune: "Die Walküre" by Creator/RichardWagner.

* HiddenDepths: He is a prolific artisan potter.

* HiddenDepths: Before he became the Terrorist of Showa, few people would have said Inoki's ugly-looking assistant could come to be that charismatic.

* BoringButPractical: Almost all of his moves are relatively basic submissions, but you have the assurance he could pull them off in a real fight. His trademark move is just a waki-gatame, which if you are knowledgeable in UsefulNotes{{Judo}} you will known that it is both very simple and cringe-inducing devastating (see Dangerous Forbidden Technique).

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Averted in pro wrestling, where few things are forbidden, but Fujiwara's favourite armbar technique is a grave foul in its original context of UsefulNotes{{Judo}} (at least the way Yoshiaki does it, that is, transitioning from standing to prone). The reason is that it can break the opponent's arm with terrifying ease if he doesn't comply immediately, leaving pretty much zero time to try to tap out.

'''Yoshiaki Fujiwara''' (b. 1949) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er who later took up acting and promoting. He debuted in 1972 for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling as its first dojo graduate ever, learning catch wrestling under the legendary Wrestling/KarlGotch. Thanks to his training and toughness, he was appointed NJPW founder Wrestling/AntonioInoki's bodyguard, but his lack of charisma kept him tied to the low card. This ended when he attacked native heel Riki Choshu before a match, gaining the crowd's cheers and becoming a famous face of the company. In 1984, he followed his students Wrestling/AkiraMaeda and Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada to found the Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation, a promotion which featured a realistic wrestling style called shoot-style. After the UWF's demise, he returned along his pals to NJPW, where he competed for four more years, until Maeda left again to form the second UWF, and after negociating with Inoki, Fujiwara and his two new students Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki were allowed to join it. They enjoyed an immense popularity, but the company fell apart again when its members took separate directions. Fujiwara and his trainees founded Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi, where he put himself over as the company's ace, but again it was short-lived, as half of the roster left to form MMA promotion Pancrase and the other half (this time in good terms with him) to form Battlarts. Now going solo, Fujiwara became a freelancer and worked for feds like Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling and [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZERO1 Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE]], and got a great victory against gastric cancer in 2007. He remains as a free agent, is associated with the Scientific Wrestling organization, and occasionally works as a trainer for Inoki Genome Federation.

* BoringButPractical: Almost all of his moves are relatively basic submissions, but you have the assurance he could pull them off in a real fight. His trademark move is just a waki-gatame, which if you are knowledgeable in judo you will known that it is both very simple and cringe-inducing devastating (see Dangerous Forbidden Technique).

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Averted in pro wrestling, where few things are forbidden, but Fujiwara's favourite armbar technique is a grave foul in its original context of judo (at least the way Yoshiaki does it, that is, transitioning from standing to prone). The reason is that it can break the opponent's arm with terrifying ease if he doesn't comply immediately, leaving pretty much zero time to try to tap out.
* TheDreadedOne: His shooting skills were so feared that Wrestling/KillerKhan once abandoned a match with him after feeling him out, fearing Fujiwara might get angry on him.

* TheHeavy: He was in charge of welcoming challenging martial artists in the NJPW Dojo, and he was nicknamed "Inoki no Kagemusha" ("Inoki's Body Double") because they always came looking for Antonio Inoki. Reportedly, none of them ever managed to get through him.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}: Was a very succesful judoka in high school. He also trained in UsefulNotes/{{Kendo}}, and later became Wrestling/KarlGotch's top catch wrestling student. Some sources have him training UsefulNotes/MuayThai as well as all this, but it is dubious.

* OutdoorBathPeeping: According to himself, back when they were doing tours for NJPW, Fujiwara, Satoru Sayama and Don Arakawa used to peep in the women's bath of the hotels they were hosted in.
* OldMaster: A renowned one in catch wrestling. His grappling video instructionals are considered the best documentation about catch-as-catch-can we have today.

* IronChef: He worked as a chef before doing pro wrestling.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Is defined as the strongest shooter in the UWF, and according to many, has a hefty record in closed doors fights. Whenever martial artists came to the NJPW or the UWF dojo with a challenge, Yoshiaki the one in charge to welcome them and wipe the floor with them until they said uncle.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}: Was a very succesful judoka in high school. He also trained in kendo, and later became Wrestling/KarlGotch's top catch wrestling student. Some sources have him training muay thai as well as all this, but it is dubious.

* AchillesHeel: Fujiwara definitely knew how to strike, but according to people in the business, he did not like to be hit, that being the reason he never indulged in MMA. Most of his matches played with it, with him being in charge of the matwork while his opponent worked as a striker.

* AttackAttackAttack: His grappling philosophy, very in the line of catch wrestling, was composed of avoid thinking in the possibility of losing and never, never stop trying to wrench some limb off.

* AxCrazy: Had his moments.

* BadassTeacher: Trained guys like Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki, Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki, Wrestling/KenShamrock, Bart Vale, and all the PWFG native wrestlers.
* BigDamnHeroes: He intruded in IGF to save Wrestling/NaoyaOgawa from Tadao Yasuda before Ogawa's match against Montanha Silva.
* BodyguardingABadass: Aside from wrestling, Yoshiaki worked for a long time as a real life bodyguard for Wrestling/AntonioInoki's, thanks to his martial art skills. He even was in his corner during the famous match with Creator/MuhammadAli along with his and Inoki's master Wrestling/KarlGotch, among other reasons to show the world that Ali didn't have the toughest posse.

** Back when Fujiwara worked as a gym enforcer for NJPW, Bob Orton Jr. did something which upset Fujiwara during a match between the two. What happened exactly is not known, but it is known that Fujiwara came to him after the bout and used Orton to wipe the floor.

* CassandraTruth: When it was announced that Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki would face Rickson Gracie in 2000, many people in Japan thought that the great Funaki would win, but Fujiwara shocked some by telling Masa in a conference that he couldn't win if he wasn't cunning. Then the fight came, and Funaki lost by a failed gameplan and a blowed knee received during a LeeroyJenkins spot. Fujiwara's savviness was never disputed again.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Averted in pro wrestling, where few things are forbidden, but Fujiwara's favourite armbar technique is a grave foul in its original context of judo (at least the way Yoshiaki does it, that is, transitioning from standing to prone). The reason is that it can break the opponent's arm with terrifying ease if he doesn't comply immediately, and pretty much leaves zero time to try to tap out.

* GiverOfLameNames: His suggestion to Bart Vale to promote his fighting system was called the "Kick, Suplex, & Submission Style" because he thought "Shootfighting" was a stupid name. Understandably Vale stuck with his own option.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Judo]]: Was a very succesful judoka in high school. He also trained in kendo, and later became Wrestling/KarlGotch's top catch wrestling student. Some sources have him training muay thai as well as all this, but it is dubious.

* OldMaster: A renowned one in catch wrestling. His grappling video instructionals are considered the best modern documentation about catch as catch can.
* PassingTheTorch: Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki are his top trainees and the closest to him in ability, although it's up to debate how he would have fared in mixed martial arts had started them as a young fighter.

* BodyguardingABadass: Aside from wrestling, Yoshiaki worked for a long time as a real life bodyguard for Antonio Inoki's, thanks to his martial art skills. He even was in his corner during the famous match with Creator/MuhammadAli, among other reasons to show the world that Ali didn't have the toughest posse.

* {{Expy}}: Has one in the form of Osamu Kido, which is another tough shooter with a love for the waki-gatame and trained directly by Karl Gotch, though one can argue that Fujiwara is actually Kido's expy as Osamu was wrestling before Fujiwara even graduated from the New Japan Dojo.

* AttackAttackAttack: His grappling philosophy, very in the line of catch wrestling, was not thinking in the possibility of losing and never stop attacking.

* BadassGrandpa
* BadassTeacher: Trained guys like Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki, Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki, Wrestling/KenShamrock, Bart Vale, & all the PWFG native wrestlers.

* BoringButPractical: Almost all of his moves are relatively basic submissions, but you have the assurance he could pull them off in a real fight.

** Back when Fujiwara worked as a gym policeman for NJPW, Bob Orton Jr. did something which upset Fujiwara during a match between the two. What happened exactly is not known, but it is known that Fujiwara came to him after the bout and used Orton to wipe the floor.

* CassandraTruth: When it was announced that Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki would face Rickson Gracie in 2000, many people in Japan thought that the great Funaki would win, but Fujiwara shocked some by telling Masa in a conference that he couldn't win if he wasn't cunning. Then the fight came, and Funaki lost by a failed gameplan and a blowed knee received in a LeeroyJenkins spot. Fujiwara's savviness was not disputed ever again.

* CoolVsAwesome: He featured an elite grappling match with sambo master Volk Han in Fighting Network RINGS.

* {{Expy}}: Has one in the form of Osamu Kido though one can argue that Fujiwara is an expy of Kido , because Kido was wrestling before Fujiwara even graduated from the New Japan Dojo.
* FinishingMove: Fujiwara Armbar (popularized, but perhaps not innovated) and ankle lock.
* GiverOfLameNames: His suggestion to Bart Vale to promote his fighting system was called the 'Kick, Suplex, & Submission Style' because he thought Shootfighting was a stupid name. Understandably Vale stuck with Shootfighting.

* HypercompetentSidekick: Yoshiaki was Wrestling/AntonioInoki's cornerman and bodyguard. According to Wrestling/KarlGotch, he was about ten times better fighter than him, and Inoki was supposedly no slouch.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Judo]]: Was a very succesful judoka in high school. He also trained in muay thai and kendo, and later became Wrestling/KarlGotch's top catch wrestling student.

* PassingTheTorch: Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki are his top trainees and the closest to him in ability, although it's up to YMMV how he would have fared in mixed martial arts had started them as a young fighter.

* RedBaron: "Showa no Terrorist" ("The Terrorist of Showa"), "Fujiwara Kumicho" ("Boss Fujiwara"), "Kansetsu-Waza no Oni" ("The Demon of Joint Locks") and "Mondo Muyo no Shigotoshi" ("The Practitioner of TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater").

* UseYourHead: Uses ''continiously'' headbutts during his matches, even in a pragmatic and realistic style like the shoot wrestling, and it's known he has a freaking HardHead. He once feuded with Buffalo Allen (aka Wrestling/AllenCoage) around the issue of who had the strongest head, and Fujiwara often repeatedly banged his own head against the ringpost to scare him.
* {{Yakuza}}: His company was called "Fujiwara Gumi" (where "Gumi" a word used to yakuza groups) and he put himself the title of "kumicho" (a word for yakuza boss or gang leader). In general, Yoshiaki enjoys making himself look like a yakuza, and given it's Japan we are talking about, who knows whether it is just a character.

* BullyingADragon: In PWFG, during the everlasting feud between kickboxers and wrestlers, a kickboxer named Don Nakaya Nielsen shot on Fujiwara in a worked match and obliged the medic to stop the bout. Fujiwara was angry and eager to get him, but as he was too old for a MMA match, he sent Wrestling/KenShamrock to get revenge for the shooters. The results are history.

'''Yoshiaki Fujiwara''' (b. 1949) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and promoter. He debuted in 1972 for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling as its first dojo graduate ever, learning catch wrestling under the legendary Wrestling/KarlGotch. Thanks to his training and toughness, he was appointed NJPW founder Wrestling/AntonioInoki's bodyguard, but his lack of charisma kept him tied to the low card. This ended when he attacked native heel Riki Choshu before a match, gaining the crowd's cheers and becoming a famous face of the company. In 1984, he followed his students Wrestling/AkiraMaeda and Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada to found the Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation, a promotion which featured a realistic wrestling style called shoot-style. After the UWF's demise, he returned along his pals to NJPW, where he competed for four more years, until Maeda left again to form the second UWF, and after negociating with Inoki, Fujiwara and his two new students Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki were allowed to join it. They enjoyed an immense popularity, but the company fell apart again when its members took separate directions. Fujiwara and his trainees founded Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi, where he put himself over as the company's ace, but again it was short-lived, as half of the roster left to form MMA promotion Pancrase and the other half (this time in good terms with him) to form Battlarts. Now going solo, Fujiwara became a freelancer and worked for feds like Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling and [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZERO1 Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE]], and got a great victory against gastric cancer in 2007. He remains as a free agent, is associated with the Scientific Wrestling organization, and occasionally works as a trainer for Inoki Genome Federation.

* {{Badass}}

* BadassTeacher

* CassandraTruth: When it was announced that Masakatsu Funaki would face Rickson Gracie in 2000, many people in Japan thought that the great Funaki would win, but Fujiwara shocked some by telling Masa in a conference that he couldn't win if he wasn't cunning. Then the fight came, and Funaki lost by a failed gameplan and a blowed knee received in a LeeroyJenkins spot. Fujiwara's savviness was not disputed ever again.

* CombatPragmatist: He once said that the objetive of a shoot match is "damaging the opponent so he can never fight again".

* HypercompetentSidekick: Yoshiaki was Antonio Inoki's cornerman and bodyguard. According to Karl Gotch, he was about ten times better fighter than him, and Inoki was supposedly no slouch.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Judo]]: Was a very succesful judoka in high school. He also trained in muay thai and kendo, and later became Karl Gotch's top catch wrestling student.

* TookALevelInBadass: The reason from his uprising from an anodine low-carder to a NJPW army member was his beatdown on Riki Choshu, who was nearly untouchable until that point.

* {{Expy}}: It is still not decided if Fujiwara is an expy of Osamu Kido or the other way around.

* RedBaron: "Showa no Terrorist" ("The Terrorist of Showa") and "Kansetsu-waza no Oni" ("The Demon of Joint Locks").
* RingOldies: 65 years old, tons of injuries, and still wrestling.

* {{Yakuza}}: His company was called "Fujiwara Gumi" (where "Gumi" a word used to yakuza groups) and he put himself the title of "kumicho" (a word for yakuza boss or gang leader). In general, Yoshiaki enjoys making himself look like a yakuza, and who knows whether it is just a character.