WRESTLER PROFILES

	Wrestler: Nobuhiko Takada Real Name: Birthday: April 12, 1962 Hometown: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Marital Status: Height & Weight: 6'0" - 209lbs Trained by: Debut: May 9, 1981 Previous Names: Finishing Move: Chickenwing Facelock Favorite Moves: Cross Armbreaker Notable Feuds: Shiro Koshinaka Keiji Muto Gary Albright
IWGP Junior Heavyweight title defeating Shiro Koshinaka (May 19, 1986); IWGP Tag Team titles w/Akira Maeda defeating Shiro Koshinaka & Keiji Mutoh (March 26, 1987); UWF 1 Pro Wrestling Heavyweight title defeating Gary Albright (September 21, 1992); UWF 1 Pro Wrestling Heavyweight title defeating Super Vader (April 20, 1995); IWGP Heavyweight title defeating Keiji Mutoh (January 4, 1996); WAR (Japan) World Six Man Tag Team titles w/Masahito Kakihara & Yuuhi Sano defeating Gedo & Jado & Hiromichi Fuyuki [Tournament] (July 20, 1996);
May 9, 1981: Nobuhiko debuted for New Japan in a match against Norio Honaga.. Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda formed UWF in it's original form.. ~~~In 1988, UWF in it's second form, which marked the end of Takada's New Japan career.. ~~~When the UWF closed, Takada formed the UWF International promotion in 1991.. ~~~~~1995-1996 he was UWF-I's lead figure in the interpromotional war against New Japan.. January 4, 1996: Nobuhiko defeated Keiji Muto for the IWGP Heavyweight title.. April 29, 1996: Shinya Hashimoto defeated Nobuhiko Takada for the IWGP Heavyweight title.. Late 1996: The UWF-I's collapsed, and Takada formed his own fighting promotion known as "Kingdom".. ~~~Kingdom also closed down, so Takada started his own training school known as the Takada Dojo.. October 11, 1997: Nobuhiko Takada came out of retirement to compete for the upstart MMA promotion, PRIDE.. November 24, 2002 - PRIDE 23: Nobuhiko Takada retired from Wrestling/MMA after facing Kiyoshi Tamura..