History Wrestling / YoshihiroTakayama

* ThreeAmigos: Tended to form trios, like the Golden Cups in UWF-i, the Triangle of Power in AJPW, and NO FEAR in NOAH.

* {{Gonk}}: Has been in-universe referred by other wrestlers as such due to his odd-looking face. He was actually pretty good looking in his early UWF-i days; it was years of pro wrestling and MMA fights that made his face what it is now.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Takayama The Other Wiki]].

* AntiHero: Had few heroic qualities even when he played the babyface, if anything because being a humongous brawler with a scary face is not the best recipe to be a sympathetic underdog, but the crowd was still behind him.

** He was one of the last U-system wrestlers to retain almost completely his wrestling style, with plenty of stiff strikes and deadlift suplexes.

* BoringButPractical: His moveset was a throwback to the UWF-i shoot-style, based mostly around kicking very hard and suplex people on their head, to the point there was some commentary that "he could only kick" back when he returned to traditional pro wrestling. However,

* TheBrute: Being so strong and mean, he tends to serve as muscle for higher-ranked wrestlers, like Anjo, Takada, Suzuki.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: When the situation called for it, he used a variation of his suplex finisher called Dharma-style Everest German Suplex, which involved Takayama bearhugging the opponent's arms and body together. He also had the Everest Backdrop, a really high belly-to-back suplex.
* DelinquentHair: He naturally has black hair, he keeps it dyed blond.

* DreadlockWarrior: In his match with Kimo Leopoldo.

* FinishingMove: Everest German Suplex (a big German suplex, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, although with several variations), running jumping knee lift, and cross armbar. He also used briefly a UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}-style ''kata-ha-jime'' back when he debuted in AJPW.

* TheGiant: Being 1.98 meters, he's incredibly tall and burly for Japanese standards. He's even taller than Seiji Sakaguchi and Kohei Sato, who are billed literally as Japanese giants, and arguably qualifies much more than them in terms of ring character: instead of being a traditional native star who happens to be gigantic, Takayama has always played the tough, ugly bruiser who hits hard and serves as muscle for other wrestlers.

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Used the PK or Penalty Kick (a soccer kick to a downed opponent) as part of his moveset, and could be very stiff with it. He once did it to Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa, and the impact was such that he had to get his chin stitched.

* StoutStrength: When he debuted he was actually quite slim. He developed a big gut later in life, apparently due in part as a side effect of his medication for the asthma.
* SuplexFinisher: A very high German.

* MagneticHero: Though not the most personable wrestler ever, nor the most heroic (he might be better considered an AntiHero), Takayama has attracted the friendship of a lot of wrestlers through his career, both in and out of kayfabe, helped by the great diversity of promotions he has worked it.

* ThreeAmigos: Tends to form trios, like the Golden Cup) in UWF-i, the Triangle of Power in AJPW, and NO FEAR in NOAH.

* DangerousForbiddenTecnique: When the situation called for it, he used a variation of his suplex finisher called Dharma-style Everest German Suplex, which involved Takayama bearhugging the opponent's arms and body together. He also had the Everest Backdrop, a really high belly-to-back suplex.

* FinishingMove: Everest German Suplex (a big German suplex, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, although with several variations), running jumping knee lift, and cross armbar.

* FinishingMove: Running Jumping High Knee and Everest German Suplex.

* BashBrothers: With Takao Omori as NO FEAR. He also had another in Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki.
* BrattyHalfPint: Inverted, he debuted at the age of 27, which is quite old for a pro wrestling trainee, especially in a shoot style promotion like UWFI. Though as stated below in EarlyBirdCameo, he did try to break in earlier.
* TheBrute: For Wrestling/YojiAnjo.
* CatchPhrase: "No Fear!".

* EarlyBirdCameo: He was a trainee at the UWF Dojo for the original UWF, but a shoulder injury from rugby prevented him from training and left after a month. He got into UWFI thanks to a chance encounter with Yuko Miyato in the Newborn days.

* TheGiant: Is quite tall and burly for Japanese standards.
* {{Gonk}}: Has been in-universe referred by other wrestlers as such due to his odd-looking face. He was actually pretty good looking in his early UWFI days, it was years of pro wrestling and MMA fights that made his face what it is now.
* HandicappedBadass: Downplayed, he is a lifelong sufferer of asthma.

* StoutStrength: When he debuted he was actually quite slim. He developed a big gut later in life.

* ThreeAmigos: With Yoji Anjo and Kenichi Yamamoto (as Golden Cups) in UWF-i, and with Wrestling/MasahitoKakihara and Wrestling/GaryAlbright (as Triangle of Power) in AJPW.
* UnskilledButStrong: Though never a wrestling technician, he could work hard.

Yoshihiro Takayama (b. 1966) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter. Coming from a unusual background in UsefulNotes/{{Kendo}} and rugby, he started at [[Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation Union of Wrestling Forces International]] under the tutelage of Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada. He gained notoriety from the low card by joining Yoji Anjo and Kenichi Yamamoto in their multifaceted villainous stable Golden Cups, but the promotion fell shortly after, so Takayama found himself working to reinvent himself again in Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling. His big break came by the hand of Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa, who put him and Takao Omori into the powerhouse tag team NO FEAR, and they both thanked him by following him to his company Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH, where Takayama's shoot-style talents were best used. However, Takayama's true breakout came not from pro wrestling, but from a short and seemingly unsuccessful MMA career for PRIDE Fighting Championships. Although barely trained for the sport and never pitted against somebody he could aspire to beat, Takayama carved his place on the MMA history by giving a timelessly legendary brawl against Don Frye that profiled him as one of the toughest men on the Japanese rings. From there, his career turned into a meteoric freelancing between the nation's top wrestling companies, becoming one of the two ever wrestlers to win all three of puroresu's major heavyweight titles in NOAH, AJPW and Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling. His career ended tragically in 2017, when a botched sunset flip in a Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam event aggravated a neck injury that paralyzed Takayama from the neck down, just like the late Eiji Ezaki[=/=]Hayabusa.

* TheBrute: For Yoji Anjo.

Yoshihiro Takayama (b. 1966) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter. Coming from a unusual background in UsefulNotes/{{Kendo}} and rugby, he started at [[Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation Union of Wrestling Forces International]] under the tutelage of Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada. He gained notoriety from the low card by joining Yoji Anjo and Kenichi Yamamoto in their multifaceted villainous stable Golden Cups, but the promotion fell shortly after, so Takayama found himself working to reinvent himself again in Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling. His big break came by the hand of Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa, who put him and Takao Omori into the powerhouse tag team NO FEAR, and they both thanked him by following him to his company Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH, where Takayama's shoot-style talents were best used. However, Takayama's true breakout came not from pro wrestling, but from a short and seemingly unsuccessful MMA career for PRIDE Fighting Championships. Although barely trained for the sport and never pitted against somebody he could aspire to beat, Takayama carved his place on the MMA history by giving a timelessly legendary brawl against Don Frye that profiled him as one of the toughest men on the Japanese rings. From there, his career turned into a meteoric freelancing between the nation's top wrestling companies, becoming one of the two ever wrestlers to win all three of puroresu's major heavyweight titles in NOAH, AJPW and Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling. His career ended tragically in 2017, when a botched sunset flip in a Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam event aggravated a neck injury that paralyzed Takayama from the neck down, just like the late Eiji Ezaki.

-->''"The other wrestler in No Fear was Yoshihiro Takayama. Takayama, known for his toughness and willingness to get near-killed in shoots, became a huge star in Japan - and his Pride fight with Don Frye made him a legend."''

* DelinquentHair: He naturally has black hair, he kept it dyed blond.

* EarlyBirdCameo: He was a trainee at the UWF Dojo for the original UWF, but a shoulder injury from rugby prevented him from debuting.

* {{Gonk}}: Has been in-universe referred by other wrestlers as such due to his odd-looking face.

* EarlyBirdCameo: He was a trainee at the UWF Dojo when UWF Newborn was still in business.
* FinishingMove: Running Jumping High Knee and Everest German Suplex
* MadeOfIron: One of the biggest examples. His MMA fights were [[HopelessWar rather hard]], but he simply didn't care.

* MadeOfIron: Demonstrated through both his wrestling tenures and his MMA career.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Shoot-Style]]: Comes from the UWF International, where he was trained by Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada. He also knew UsefulNotes/{{Kendo}}.

* ThreeAmigos: With Yoji Anjo and Kenichi Yamamoto as the Golden Cups.

Yoshihiro Takayama (b. 1966) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter. Coming from a unusual background in UsefulNotes/{{Kendo}} and rugby, he started at [[Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation Union of Wrestling Forces International]] under the tutelage of Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada. He gained notoriety from the low card by joining Yoji Anjo and Kenichi Yamamoto in their multifaceed villainous stable Golden Cups, but the promotion fell shortly after, so Takayama found himself working to reinvent himself again in Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling. His big break came by the hand of Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa, who put him and Takao Omori into the powerhouse tag team NO FEAR, and they both thanked him by following him to his company Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH, where Takayama's shoot-style talents were best used. However, Takayama's true breakout came not from pro wrestling, but from a short and seemingly unsuccessful MMA career for PRIDE Fighting Championships. Although barely trained for the sport and never pitted against somebody he could aspire to beat, Takayama carved his place on the MMA history by giving a timelessly legendary brawl against Don Frye that profiled him as one of the toughest men on the Japanese rings. From there, his career turned into a meteoric freelancing between the nation's top wrestling companies, becoming one of the two ever wrestlers to win all three of puroresu's major heavyweight titles in NOAH, AJPW and Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling. His career ended tragically in 2017, when a botched sunset flip in a Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam event aggravated a neck injury that paralyzed Takayama from the neck down, just like the late Eiji Ezaki.

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