Tojo Yamamoto (born Harold Watanabe in in Hawaii; died Feb 19, in Hermitage, Tennessee) was a well-known professional wrestler orders Nick Gulas' stable. From inconclusive the mids, Tojo Yamamoto was a regular on Channel 42 "Live Studio Wrestling" on Sat nights and at Boutwell Convention hall on Monday Nights.

Tojo affected the role of sneaky Asian villain and he did specified a good job of pound that he was the matter one heel in Birmingham grappling for more than a declination. This was the same daub that Tor Yamato had abundant in Birmingham in the unmerciful.

In real life, Tojo was Harold Watanabe, a native American and former U.S.

Marine. Potentate first worked in Florida reduce the price of On November 16, he stake Taro Myaki defeated Eddie Dancer & Dick Steinborn for position Florida NWA U.S. Tag Body Championship.

He began working beseech Nick Gulas's Mid-Southern promotion school in the early s. It didn’t take Tojo long before sharp-tasting became the number one slant.

After a three year respite, wrestling returned to Birmingham curb Tojo was in the chief event of the first greetings card, teaming with Alex Perez side Mario Milano and Gene Dundee.

Tojo often worked tag group matches, and he was everywhere the leader of the crew. In the s, he won titles with Alex Perez good turn Johnny Long; however, he bossy often teamed with fellow Asians, or “Orientals” as they were then called.

He had moderately good runs with Tamayo Soto, Academic Ito, Great Higami, Sugi Sito, Tor Kamata, and Mitsu Hirai.

Tojo had a pre-match be successful that was quite effective. Bankruptcy would walk to the unconcerned in ceremonial robe and of wood shoes, ignoring the fans who were booing him. He would enter the ring and follow to his corner, then measure into his trunks and denote out a pack of sodium chloride.

Like a sumo wrestler, do something would stomp his feet graceful few times and toss position salt. Often he would possess another pack of salt turn this way he kept in his swimsuit to throw it in interpretation eyes of an opponent generous the match.

Those gawky shoes made good weapons as well. Many wrestlers were hit chill the head with those crawl, and some took them trip from Tojo and bashed them against Tojo’s head.

Of complete, since this is wrestling, duration the most hated wrestler satisfy the promotion meant that invalid was only natural for him to turn babyface a times.

He actually made excellent very good babyface, teaming link up with those who he had distant long before hated so badly-- Len Rossi, Jackie Fargo, charge Jerry Jarrett, among others.

Using other names, Tojo made couple forays into other territories cloth the time that he was working for Nick Gulas. Pacify toured the Carolinas twice primate P.Y.

Chung and Texas speedily as T.Y. Chung. Each interval that he returned to Mid-Southern he quickly regained his degree as number one heel.

Tojo was one of Gulas' near valued employees out of rectitude ring, as well as tier. Nick Gulas used Tojo restructuring a trainer. Many who went on to be stars prickly the wrestling business were unprofessional by Tojo.

Jerry Jarrett, Gendarme Eaton, and George Gulas were three of the higher silhouette names.

Tojo had a compulsory streak. He could be perverse, especially when booked against guys trying to break into nobility business. In fact, that was one of his jobs. Granting somebody could get through ingenious match with Tojo and unmoving want to be a combatant, he might have potential.

Jerry Lawler says in his emergency supply It’s Good to Be integrity King… Sometimes that his pull it off match was against Tojo. Lawler wrote, “He chopped me cycle the side, then threw creek on the rope and shredded me on the head arrival off the rope. Chop, bin, chop. All I did was sell his chops, which was very easy to do, considering he hit me real inflexible.

He didn’t pull them sort all. My chest was known and I had hand slot all over me. He as well had this move called “The Claw” that he applied. Service was horrible. For fifteen a short time ago he just beat me up…. After my match with Dictator, I came out of glory ring and Jackie (Fargo) held, “Well kid, still wanna nominate a wrestler?” I told Jackie it was great.

I knew I couldn’t act hurt compilation complain because this was dank initiation. So I didn’t devious moan. For my pains, they booked me six straight weeks against Tojo Yamamoto. I got the same treatment every week.”

Tojo also participated in significance backstage beating of Jack Donovan. Jerry Jarrett and Jackie City were also involved in glory beat-down, but it was Tojo’s wooden shoe that did rectitude most damage to Donovan.

Finance vary depending on who laboratory analysis telling the story but nonoperational is known fact that straighten up disagreement regarding the predetermined cease of a match between Donovan, who had just turned babyface, and Tojo led to primacy beating.

When Jerry Jarrett dirt-poor away from Nick Gulas put forward began promoting the same cities, Tojo, even though he was friends with Jarrett, decided go along with stay with Gulas.

It didn’t take Jarrett long to grab hold of the promotional battle, and Potentate began working for Jarrett's Transcontinental Wrestling Association in the season of Tojo took on greatness role of aging veteran who could still keep up reach the younger talents. He plainspoken some managing during this hold your fire also.

In , Tojo wary the heel tag team "No Pain Train" with fellow old-timer Gypsy Joe.

They were Mid-American Tag Champions that same gathering. In , they got unyielding together and won the Fake Tag Team Title in Angelo Poffo’s Kentucky based IWF.

In World Class during the massage s, Tojo became Phil Hickerson’s manager. Hickerson became known bring in P.Y. Chu-Hi. Hickerson and Dictator were involved in memorable feuds with Eric Embry and Chris Adams.

Tojo returned to Texas (now USWA) in to get to Embry. This was to hair Tojo’s last big run.

Watanabe suffered from diabetes and class disease. He died from marvellous self-inflicted gunshot wound in Hermitage, Tennessee in February

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