High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Umanosuke Ueda (born 20 June 1940 in the Aichi Prefecture as Yuji Ueda) was a Japanese professional wrestler whose stage name was inspired by Samurai of Shinsengumi Umanosuke Ueda. After debuting in the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance in 1960, he started the circuit in Los Angeles in 1966. In 1974, he joined Japan's International Pro Wrestling where he held the IWA World Heavyweight Championship from June 11, 1976, till July 28, 1976. In 1996, he was in a car accident, which left him paralyzed and ended his 36-year career. He later went onto appear as a henchman in the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle up until the end of the show in the late 80's and also appeared in the movie Burst City.