Oh yes, he had a great act. The WWWF was my home territory back in the seventies. I was a young kid but used to watch on uhf Spanish language tv.
Not a particularly great wrestler but a great personality and great storyteller in the ring.
I used to write for wrestling magazines in the early 1990s!
Personally I think they got screwed.
RIP. I always got the impression he was copying Harold “Oddjob” Sakata, himself a former wrestler turned actor.
He was a good villain. Always pulling some powder or “foreign object” out of his tights when the ref was distracted and as the “good guy writhed in agony standing there with that “who, me?” look, empty hands raised. As a kid I was outraged, outraged I tell ya!
Yep I sure do remember him..my brother got me hooked on wrestling, back when it was WWF..back when wrestling was wrestling instead of what you see today, more entertainment, less wrestling
Mr. Fuji and Mr. Saito!!
We had the same character for “Championship Wrestling” in the midwest; the incomparable Mitsu Arakawa. My grandfather always watched Championship Wrestling, narrated by Sam Menacker and Chuck Marlowe on Indy’s Channel 4. Grandpa always complained about Mitsu’s doing that “sneaky Jap s***.” But later one of grandpa’s former bartender co-workers wound up teaching Mitsu how to tend bar which was how Mitsu paid the bills while not on the circuit. Grandpa then said he was an OK guy and bartender, but was still a cheat in the ring.
Nobody was better than Yukon Moose Cholak. He was my idol.
He tossed dust in the eyes of opponents a few time, entertaining. Rest In Peace, good wrestler.
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