Pro Pro Wrestling - A New Startup

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After winning 1949 all japan championship Kim yuro was offered the highly prestigious position of judo instructor of the tokyo metropolten police he began working there in april of 1950. The salary was insufficient to support his family now consisting of a wife son and daughter Especially since his wife had contracted tuberculosis medicine was extremely rare and expensive in post-war Japan. Luckily, there's a new startup New startup i'm begging they don't know if they use that term back in the day But there's a professional judo came out in pro judo's first tournamentKimura worked his way through various opponents to reach the finals where he faced six don Yamaguchi toshio

Masahiko Kimura (木村政彦, Kimura Masahiko, September 10, 1917 – April 18, 1993) was a Japanese judoka and professional wrestler who is widely considered one of the greatest judoka of all time.^[1]^[2]^[3] He won the All-Japan Judo Championships three times in a row for the first time in history and had never lost a judo match from 1936 to 1950. An author said," In the history of judo, no one is the strongest before Kimura and no one is the strongest after Kimura."^[4] He has often been described as the strongest judoka in history.^[5] In submission grappling, the reverse ude-garami arm lock is often called the "Kimura",^[6] due to his famous victory over Gracie jiu-jitsu founder Hélio Gracie. In the Japanese professional wrestling world, he is known for the controversial match he had with Rikidōzan.