Also known as Dr Kamikaze
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1960s and 70s star of the independent circuit Eddie Stratton was the real deal as far as the martial arts were concerned. He was a British aikido teacher and the founder of Yoshinkan UK, and the Shudokan Institute of Aikido International.
Edwin William James Stratton was born in Dartford on 17th July, 1936. His first combat sport was boxing and as an amateur he won the Southern Area Lightweight title.
Whilst on National Service in Malaysia he developed an interest in Aikido and Judo. On his return to Britain he introduced introduced Yoshinkan aikido to Britain. This was the early 1960s and Eddie took up professional wrestling. Prior to his wrestling contests he would demonstrate break bricking with his hands and feet. He was the first person on television to smash tiles with a headbutt. In 1998 Eddie received his 9th Dan in aikido. He was known to wrestling fans as Professor Eddie Stratton and the villainous masked man Doctor Kamikaze.
But it was aikido at which he excelled and taught around the world. In 1998 he achieved the received his 9th Dan in aikido.
Eddie Stratton died on 9th March 2000.
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