Wrestler appearances in other video games

at the time, but gone are look-alikes of Gary Albright, Mike Tyson, Masaaki Satake, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, etc...

If you must play a Japanese shoot fighting/wrestling hybrid in 16-bit format, I recommend two of the following:

1 - Masakatsu Funaki Hybrid Wrestler Tougi Denshou
2 - Saikyou Takada Nobuhiko

And, if you want to crank up the difficulty even harder, try Fighting Network Rings on the PS1.

When I started write guides, information for Super Famicom Wrestling games was pretty much non-existent. Even guides for the older Fire Pro games
were basically Wrestler rename references at the most. Thus began my attempt at shedding light on these older titles.

For the most part, I didn't use manuals to write out my FAQ's. Most of my findings were either from trial and error, or feedback from readers, who were kind
enough to send emails with any corrections. It was feedback from other Puro diehards that I discovered that:

- Masaaki Satake was a playable character in Takada Nobuhiko Saikyou The Pro-Wrestling.
- Antonio Inoki was a super-secret character hidden in the PS1 port of Champion Wrestler Jikkyou Raibu.
- Or, just recently, I was informed about the discovery of Howitzer (Big Van Vader) in the PC Engine version of the original Champion Wrestler.

When you stare at Japanese text long enough, you start to memorize certain alphabets. Which is how I began reading Japanese (and the Katakana
alphabet, to be specific).

To know that Wrestling fans and retro gamers alike are still reading these guides after all these years (and appreciating the older Puro titles in 2023) brings a
smile to my face.

Studmuffin seems to be based on Brutus The Barber Beefcake and, appearance-wise, Rick The Model Martel.

Richie B. is based on MJF.