      NJPW 1/4/02 Tokyo Dome COMPLETE Edition
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Title History: None won.
Tournament History:
Inoki's Final Opponent Tournament (1):
Signature Moves:
- Cross armbreaker
Notes: A legitimate tough man with a background in Greco-Roman wrestling, judo and other combat skills ... Made a name for himself in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) ... Won UFC 9 on 2/16/96, defeating Gary Goodridge in the final ... On 12/7/96, he won the big Ultimate Ultimate '96 Tournament, defeating Tank Abbott in the final ... Caught the attention of New Japan and was brought in to compete from August, 1997 ... Had big success in 1997, defeating Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuo Yamazaki, Yuji Nagata and a huge victory over Naoya Ogawa on 1/4/98 ... His second win over Ogawa was on 4/4/98, in the final of a four man tournament to decide who would face Antonio Inoki in Inoki's retirement match ... A tired Frye was defeated by Inoki in only 4:08 ... Although he lost to Ogawa on 2/15/98, he was the only person to ever defeat the UFO star twice ... Made his first challenge for the IWGP Heavyweight Title on the 4/10/99 Tokyo Dome show, losing to Keiji Muto in the main event ... Later that year, he became part of Masahiro Chono's Team 2000 ... Made his second challenge for the IWGP Heavyweight Title on 2/3/00, but again fell short, losing to Kensuke Sasaki ... After teaming with Chono against Muto & Shinjiro Otani on 2/3/01, he turned against Chono ... Officially joined Muto's Bad Ass Translate Trading group on 2/11/01 when he attacked Kensuke Sasaki, then shook hands with Muto ... Scored a huge win on the 2/18/01 PPV, defeating former friend, Masahiro Chono, after viciously assaulting Chono's injured ribs ... Headlined the 7/20/01 Sapporo Dome show, challenging once more for the IWGP Heavyweight Title, but fell to champion, Kazuyuki Fujita ... Won the first ever "G1 Climax for foreigners", named the G1 World Tournament, defeating Scott Norton in the final on New Japan's 9/16/01 PPV ... Having won the tournament, he was due to face G1 Climax winner, Yuji Nagata, on 9/23/01, but promptly quit New Japan to concentrate on PRIDE ... In his first match back with PRIDE on 9/24/01, he defeated Gilbert Yvel by DQ ... A much hated, diabolical rulebreaker, who once caused the Tokyo Dome rampway to fill up with trash, which was thrown at him.
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