Roland Bock

[Grimmas]

Scarlet:

Legendary german catch wrestler and promoter who famously absolutely destroyed Antonio Inoki in front of 8000 german fans, in a match so good it resulted in a run with NJPW. There's not too much footage of him, but luckily there's just enough to nominate! From what ive heard he's incredible and im watching these as I nominate him because I wanna get him in while I still can in case.

Antonio Inoki vs. Roland Bock: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4mlsgv

Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Roland Bock & Michelle Nador: https://archive.org/details/njpw-rare-selection-1977-1984-60fps/1981.08.06-NJPW-Riki+Choshu%2C+Yoshiaki+Fujiwara+VS+Roland+Bock%2C+Michelle+Nador.mp4

Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Stan Hansen & Roland Bock: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9mvrma

[Jetlag]

Incredible character, but pretty much his entire legacy hinges on the Inoki match. When he went on that NJPW tour he was not the same anymore as he's had a pretty debilitating injury plus his mind wasn't into wrestling anymore. The tag with Hansen is good and the rest of the time he was pretty much just doing squash matches with middling results to get over his double arm suplex as deadly. Some Japanese fan has done an incredible job digging up a few archived clips of him wrestling in Germany but it's not much. Once again it's too bad Germany never had regular wrestling TV in the classic era because Bock vs the likes George Gordienko, Horst Hoffmann and even Mil Mascaras sounds incredible just for the entertainment factor. The Inoki match is pretty peak just for watching two notoriously stiff uncooperative motherfuckers go at it for 50 minutes.