Respect The Great Tatsumi (Garouden)

[u/Mr65X]

The Great Tatsumi

“Even if they have to use bats, knives, chairs, dirty tricks, even sand or dirt! Pro wrestlers always win in the end!”

Every fighting manga needs their Antonio Inoki character, Garouden’s is The Great Tatsumi! Champion and legend of the FAW promotion, he rules over the pro wrestling world.

Strength

• Destroys a doorknob and part of a door with his grip strength

• Overpowers Kajiwara in a test of strength, then knocks him out with a kick to the nuts

• Breaks a pro wrestlers leg with a kick

• Knocks out a pro wrestler with a kick

• Knocks out pro wrestler with a flying kick

• Can hold 405 lbs (184 kg) using his neck strength

• Sends Sakura spiraling back bleeding from a headbutt

• Makes Sakura bleed with a kick, then suplexes him

Endurance/Durability

• Sustains a neck injury from a slam from Sakura, gets up and keeps fighting

• Stays conscious while getting his ribs broken with punches

• Despite having a broken arm, he still uses it to get Sakura into a submission

Speed

• Catches a full speed punch from Shozan

• Speeds passed Tanba’s guard

Skill

• Gets pro wrestler into a leg lock and bends himself all the way back

• Takes a pro wrestler to the ground through a leg lock, spins around and knocks him out

• Knocks out a pro wrestler with a headlock

• Runs and jumps around the ring and lets his body fall on the mat, which creates enough noise to block Sakura’s sense of hearing

• Slaps Sakura’s ears to block his hearing

• Gets Sakura into a chokehold that knocks him out

• Kills Sakura with a headlock

• Knocks out Kurama with a headlock

Bonus

• His presence makes Tanba feel as if a sword went through his head

Scaling

• Tanba

• Shozan

• Kurama

[u/fj668]

Reminder that Garouden and Baki share a verse so Tatsumi and Igari somehow both exist at the same time, looking nearly identical to one another.