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| | Encyclopedia: Universal Wrestling Federation (Japan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | It was revived as the Newborn UWF in 1988. |
 | | This, and the general Japanese economic downturn of the era, prompted UWF to close its doors with a farewell card on December 1, 1990, in Matsumoto, Nagano. |
 | | The UWF's wrestling style has made inroads in its root promotion, New Japan, where natives Yuji Nagata, Koji Kanemoto, and Katsuyori Shibata use UWF-style kicks despite having never competed in a shoot-style promotion as their peers Minoru Tanaka, Masayuki Naruse, and Kakihara (who joined New Japan in the early 2000's) have. |
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