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HISTORY OF SHOOT WRESTLING AND SHOOT-STYLE WRESTLING The birth of shoot wrestling can arguably be traced back to Japan in the 1970s, when German Professional Wrestler Karl Gotch taught Catch Wrestling techniques to a group of Japanese professional wrestlers including Antonio Inoki , Tatsumi Fujinami , Yoshiaki Fujiwara , Satoru Sayama , Masami Soranaka and Akira Maeda . Most of these professional wrestlers already had backgrounds in legitimate martial arts. Masami Soranaka had been a student of full contact Karate , kodokan Judo and Sumo . Yoshiaki Fujiwara was already a Muay Thai fighter and Black Belt in judo. Satoru Sayama had studied Muay Thai with Toshio Fujiwara , and went on to study Sambo with Victor Koga . Thus, the ground was fertile for the development of new hybrid methods. The Japanese fighters were in close contact with each other through training and competition, which led to a conglomeration of techniques, to which the term "shoot wrestling" was applied. SHOOT-STYLE Shoot-style (also known as '''shooting style''', '''strong style''', '''stiff style''' or '''hard style''') was originally inspired by Mixed Martial Art s matches hosted by Antonio Inoki , who also incorporated many of these techniques into the style of his New Japan Pro Wrestling organization. Many wrestlers became interested in promoting an even more realistic style of professional wrestling, and in 1984, Universal Wrestling Federation was formed, which was the first to promote this style of wrestling. The organization even hosted some real mixed martial arts matches, where the wrestlers were able to test their shoot wrestling techniques against other styles. Shoot-style is very popular in Japan and many organizations have featured it, including the Universal Wrestling Federation , UWF International , Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi and Fighting Network RINGS . Some of the matches in these tournaments have also been real mixed martial arts matches (previously referred to as Shootfighting matches), which has led to confusion as to the natures of the competitions. After the breakup of the original Universal Wrestling Federation , the martial artform of shoot wrestling branched into several diciplines. Tiger Mask Sayama's style of shoot wrestling also included Muay Thai kicks and was called Shooto , Akira Maeda's version of shoot wrestling emphasised on submissions and was labelled as RINGS submission fighting, Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki formed Pancrase (which had it's own distinct style) and Yoshiaki Fujiwara 's students, such as Bart Vale , formed Shootfighting . SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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