Kazuo Yamazaki

[10.0] "Kazuo Yamazaki is my numberone favorate shootstyle worker in history, leathal kicks brilliant submissions and also good at regular new japan style "strong style matches" would watch him wrestle a broomstick ***** stars no notes"

[8.0] "While somewhat undersized and lacking the crispness of a Kiyoshi Tamura, the fury (and bleeding) of a Tatsuo Nakano, or the good looks & steroids of a Takada, what Yamazaki had in spades was an underdog charisma. The last survivor of the UWF in NJPW."

[10.0] "A wrestler that never needed charisma, Kazuo Yamazaki was the last of the shoot kick artists breed from the original UWF in New Japan (as Kido was from the grappling artists breed). Not only helped raising UWF shoot style wrestling, but also was the one who carried his deceased company's banner in NJPW through the 90's, still preserving it to newer generations, like Yuji Nagata. As years went by, having Yamazaki was even more important, as the 1998 G1 shown that by seeing the lineage of wrestlers he defeated to reach the finals against Hashimoto, and since retiring, he kept himself there commentating and sharing experiences along the years. A credit indeed to pro-wrestling!"

[10.0] "One of the best shoot-style wrestlers ever. Yamazaki's work goes back all the way to NJPW in the 80s, where he followed Maeda and Takada to UWF, and eventually UWFi. He perfected his craft and later became a quality wrestler for NJPW in the 1990s, where he would have an epic G1 final match with Shinya Hashimoto. Yamazaki was a brilliant technical wrestler that had the kicks and strikes to back it up."