Nobuhiko Takada made his professional wrestling debut in 1981 against Norio Honaga, for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he started his career as a Junior Heavyweight. He left NJPW in 1984, along with Rusher Kimura, Akira Maeda, Ryuma Go, Mach Hayato, and Gran Hamada, to form the original Universal Wrestling Federation.
The original UWF dissolved in 1986. Takada and Akira Maeda returned to NJPW and formed a UWF stable. Only a few months later, Takada defeated Shiro Koshinaka to capture the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, which he held for four months. In 1987, Takada moved to the Heavyweight ranks. Along with Akira Maeda, he won the IWGP Tag Team Championship from rival, Koshinaka & Keiji Mutoh. He left NJPW in 1988 to form the second incarnation of the Universal Wrestling Federation called Newborn UWF, becoming one of its top stars.
Igor Yaroslavovych Vovchanchyn (Ukrainian:Ігор Ярославович Вовчанчин; born August 6, 1973) is a retired Ukrainian mixed martial artist and kickboxer. After making his professional MMA debut in 1995, he won eight mixed martial arts tournaments, held the longest unbeaten streak in MMA (at 37 fights), and reached the final of the PRIDE Grand Prix 2000. He is an MMA legend in Ukraine, and even has a tournament named after him, the Igor Vovchanchyn Cup.
Biography
Vovchanchyn grew up in the small village Zolochiv. He said that growing up, he caused trouble and got into street fights and different kinds of mischief. At age 17, he moved to Kharkiv and began competing in track and field, running the 100m dash and throwing the discus. Due to his love for fighting, he later moved to boxing under trainer Oleg Ermakov. In 1993, he met Eugenia Borschevskaya, general secretary of the All Eurasian Kickboxing Fedration. After taking up kickboxing, he later went to Denmark to compete at the World Kickboxing Amateur Championships with the Ukrainian national team, where he became the world champion that same year. Vovchanchyn also won the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) kickboxing championship in 1994.
Pro-Wrestling World Heavyweight Title Best Of The World 1994 Tournament Final Match - Super Vader vs. Nobuhiko Takada - August 18, 1994 - UWF-I - Tokyo, Japan, Nippon Budokan (16,500)
Nobuhiko Takada vs Gary Albright (Union of Professional Wrestling Force International 6-10-94)
published: 03 Oct 2023
【FULL FIGHT】Steven Smith vs Nobuhiko Takada / SJJIF WORLD 2024
Master 7 Purple belt Heavy Final
Steaven Smith
vs Nobuhiko Takada
http://www.asjjf.org/
published: 03 Oct 2024
Nobuhiko Takada vs Igor Vovchanchyn PRIDE FC 11 Battle of the Rising Sun
Nobuhiko Takada vs Igor Vovchanchyn PRIDE FC 11 Battle of the Rising Sun
Year : 2000
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published: 06 Mar 2021
PRIDE 11: Nobuhiko Takada surprises Igor Vovchanchyn with some highkicks
PRIDE 11
published: 18 Feb 2017
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Mike Bernardo (31/12/2001)
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Mike Bernardo
IGF Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2001
December 31, 2001 | Saitama, Japan
Heavyweight contest with modified rules. Bernardo was the WBF World Heavyweight Champion.
published: 28 Dec 2023
Groin kick: Nobuhiko Takada vs Kiyoshi Tamura (Pride 23)
published: 24 Jul 2022
Pride 23 - Nobuhiko Takada vs Kiyoshi Tamura (Missing part of round 1)
24/11/2002
Pride 23 - Fight 8
No commentary version
Pro-Wrestling World Heavyweight Title Best Of The World 1994 Tournament Final Match - Super Vader vs. Nobuhiko Takada - August 18, 1994 - UWF-I - Tokyo, Japa...
Pro-Wrestling World Heavyweight Title Best Of The World 1994 Tournament Final Match - Super Vader vs. Nobuhiko Takada - August 18, 1994 - UWF-I - Tokyo, Japan, Nippon Budokan (16,500)
Pro-Wrestling World Heavyweight Title Best Of The World 1994 Tournament Final Match - Super Vader vs. Nobuhiko Takada - August 18, 1994 - UWF-I - Tokyo, Japan, Nippon Budokan (16,500)
Nobuhiko Takada vs Igor Vovchanchyn PRIDE FC 11 Battle of the Rising Sun
Year : 2000
This is non-profit channel and if you want to support this channel and my ...
Nobuhiko Takada vs Igor Vovchanchyn PRIDE FC 11 Battle of the Rising Sun
Year : 2000
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Nobuhiko Takada vs Igor Vovchanchyn PRIDE FC 11 Battle of the Rising Sun
Year : 2000
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Nobuhiko Takada vs. Mike Bernardo
IGF Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2001
December 31, 2001 | Saitama, Japan
Heavyweight contest with modified rules. Bernardo was the WBF Wor...
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Mike Bernardo
IGF Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2001
December 31, 2001 | Saitama, Japan
Heavyweight contest with modified rules. Bernardo was the WBF World Heavyweight Champion.
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Mike Bernardo
IGF Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2001
December 31, 2001 | Saitama, Japan
Heavyweight contest with modified rules. Bernardo was the WBF World Heavyweight Champion.
Pro-Wrestling World Heavyweight Title Best Of The World 1994 Tournament Final Match - Super Vader vs. Nobuhiko Takada - August 18, 1994 - UWF-I - Tokyo, Japan, Nippon Budokan (16,500)
Nobuhiko Takada vs Igor Vovchanchyn PRIDE FC 11 Battle of the Rising Sun
Year : 2000
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Nobuhiko Takada vs. Mike Bernardo
IGF Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2001
December 31, 2001 | Saitama, Japan
Heavyweight contest with modified rules. Bernardo was the WBF World Heavyweight Champion.
Nobuhiko Takada made his professional wrestling debut in 1981 against Norio Honaga, for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he started his career as a Junior Heavyweight. He left NJPW in 1984, along with Rusher Kimura, Akira Maeda, Ryuma Go, Mach Hayato, and Gran Hamada, to form the original Universal Wrestling Federation.
The original UWF dissolved in 1986. Takada and Akira Maeda returned to NJPW and formed a UWF stable. Only a few months later, Takada defeated Shiro Koshinaka to capture the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, which he held for four months. In 1987, Takada moved to the Heavyweight ranks. Along with Akira Maeda, he won the IWGP Tag Team Championship from rival, Koshinaka & Keiji Mutoh. He left NJPW in 1988 to form the second incarnation of the Universal Wrestling Federation called Newborn UWF, becoming one of its top stars.