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Saku, Kanehara and Tamura weren't really Takada students they were students. Takada trained under Gotch who never really mentioned him when talking about his best students although he did say Suzuki was the toughest guy he trained. The vids are just Saku being kind like a younger brother who is much better then his older bro but lets him win not to hurt his ego. Takada was a popular pro wrestler but a sub bar fighter and not a great coach just took credit.
I don't know why everybody's trying to discredit Nobuhiko Takada who clearly was the best MMA fighter from UWF.
Billy Robinson, so called wrestling coach for UWFi, lived in Japan from 1999-2008 but UWFi existed from 1991-1996. I don't think there were many chances Takada's guys had privates with Robinson. UWFi fighters lived together at Takada's residence and trained together. They shared the same techniques and training regime that Takada designed for them.
Sakuraba, Kanehara and Tamura got really good with real MMA while they were full time employee at UWFi. They might have ruined their career if they had trained elsewhere (I wouldn't mention any names).