Katsuji Ueda was a Japanese kickboxer, martial artist and professional wrestler, best known for his time with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling between 1990 and 1995.
16 Facts About Katsuji Ueda
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Katsuji Ueda was usually utilized in martial arts fights during his FMW career and won the promotion's World Light Heavyweight Championship three times.
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At Summer Spectacular in Shiodome, Katsuji Ueda teamed with Mr Pogo and Ricky Fuji to defeat the team of Kim Hyun Han, Lee Gak-soo and Sambo Asako.
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Katsuji Ueda turned fan favorite and joined forces with Atsushi Onita on the FMW team.
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Katsuji Ueda successfully defended his World Light Heavyweight Championship against The Shooter on February 8,1992.
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Katsuji Ueda became a major fixture on FMW's mid-card and he was usually utilized for different style fights against various professional wrestlers, kickboxers and martial artists but FMW began phasing away the martial arts style in 1993 and mainly focused on the deathmatch wrestling style and Katsuji Ueda was restricted to mainly different style fights in the mid-card.
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At 4th Anniversary Show, Katsuji Ueda teamed with Tarzan Goto and The Great Punk against Team Canada's Big Titan, Ricky Fuji and The Gladiator in a captain's fall losing captain leaves town no rope barbed wire tornado street fight deathmatch.
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At Summer Spectacular, Katsuji Ueda got a knockout win over former boxing heavyweight champion and former WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Champion Leon Spinks in a different style fight.
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At Year End Spectacular, the kickboxer Katsuji Ueda teamed with former judoka Grigory Verichev and former sambo fighter Sambo Asako against the team of Big Titan, Ricky Fuji and The Gladiator in a street fight.
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Katsuji Ueda continued to perform in the mid-card, usually getting wins over lower and lesser-known talent.
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Katsuji Ueda knocked out Katsutoshi Niiyama in a different style fight at 5th Anniversary Show on May 5,1994.
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Katsuji Ueda continued to perform in FMW's mid-card for the next one year.
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Katsuji Ueda retired from active competition after quitting FMW and competed occasionally.
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Katsuji Ueda returned to wrestling after three years on January 18,1998 by losing to George Takano for a Tokyo Pro Wrestling show.
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On November 23,2004, Katsuji Ueda appeared for a Pro Wrestling Zero-One event, where he teamed with Koji Ishinnki to defeat Rikiya Fudo and Shinsuke Z Yamagasa in a tag team match.
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Katsuji Ueda then competed in two matches for Cho Sento Puroresu FMW.