>kills an entire style of wrestling because he was a mark for himself

who's that and what style

>>18201033
chingchong, chingchong choppy style

>>18201033
Inoki and Inokism

>>18201033
that might be the guy who went to America to challenge the Gracies and got the everloving shit beat out of him in front of Japanese photoraphers

>>18201042
Ah, that guy! A true NJPW legend, he invented the bingbongchop too

>>18201033
yoji anjo, shoot style
he challenged one of the gracies to a fight and got fucking destroyed, annihilating the uwfi's reputation as shoot tough guys

>>18201087
>0-4-1 mma record before he even tried to fight Ryan Gracie
>1-2-2 in kickboxing
Was he really still considered tough with that record before losing?
I found the fight on jewtube, it didn't look that humiliating - he got submitted after over 8 minutes of gay grappling. Sure he got dominated, but by a guy who actually had way more experience with submissions and mma in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuPAw0tRyRI

>>18201154
That is not the fight anon, that is a later fight in a pro organisation.
This was him going to the Gracie gym before the first UFC because they had a rep in martial arts magazines. The Gracies subsequently became massive stars in Japanese MMA lol.

>>18201020 (OP)
But then Sakuraba, a shoot style pro-wrestler, went on to dominate and embarrass the Gracies. So much so even the Gracie who beat up Anjo refused to fight him.

>>18201154
also, they didn't allow the photographers inside to watch but Anjo came out looking half dead being carried by his guys and that shit was a big deal over there

>>18201163
>In December 1994, Anjo was involved in a famous incident with Brazilian jiu-jitsu master Rickson Gracie. After Gracie declined to work with UWF International, Yoji travelled to California along with executive Shinji Sasazaki and a huge Japanese press contingent to perform a dojo challenge on Rickson. However, he lost the subsequent fight, with Rickson dominating him with brutal ground and pound and choking him out after the Japanese refused to give up.
My bad anon. It was before his "career" in shoot mma. I thought that's the fight, because he also lost this one, kek

>>18201170
The Sucksuraba ball-lickers have arrived, beat the Gracies but who the fuck else huh?

*mogs your gook "shooters"*

>>18201087
It also forced Takada's hand into accepting a shoot match with Rickson that he had no chance of winning. Takada went from being regarded as one of the toughest guys in Japan to a National laughing stock in one night. He should have got his Yakuza friends to whack Anjoh for pulling that shit.

>>18201322
>Takada went from being regarded as one of the toughest guys in Japan
yeah but it was all a ruse so it was for the best
and dw they fixed a fight with Coleman for him to get some heat back. unironically