www.SCIENTIFICWRESTLING.com Bad News Allen: RIP

Coage spent the majority of the 50's 60's as a competitive Judoka. He earned a place on the United States Olympic team in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada; even winning the bronze medal!

Later Coage went to train with Karl Gotch student Antonio Inoki and began working with New Japan Pro Wrestling. He also worked with Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling promotion. Eventually he ended up with the shoot-style pro-wrestling organization, the UWFi. As Phil Lowe of www.wrestlemag.com wrote:

"He continued to wrestle both at home and overseas throughout the 1990's, making appearances with the Japan based UWFi promotion, whose theme was "real wrestling" and was more MMA than WWF. The hard-hitting, strong style promotion shut down in 1996, and Coage retired shortly after, with an ongoing knee problem resulting in Coage calling it a day in 1998."

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Coage's Judo National and World Competitions are as follows:

1965 - National Heavyweight Champion
1966 - National Heavyweight Champion, AAU Champion
1967 - 2nd Place, AAU Heavyweight Championship, Pan American Games heavyweight gold medalist
1968 - AAU Heavyweight Championship; Western Hemispere chapionships heavyweight gold medal
1969 - AAU Heavyweight Championship; Black Belt judo player of the year (best in any weight division)
1970 - AAU Heavyweight Championship; World Grand Champion; Black Belt judo player of the year
1971 - 2nd place, AAU light heavyweight (205 pound weight class) championships, 4th place World championships
1972 - 3rd place, AAU light heavyweight championship
1975 - AAU Heavyweight Championship, Pan American Games heavyweight gold medalist.
1976 - Olympic trials tournament heavyweight champion, Olympic heavyweight bronze medalist; i>Black Belt judo player of the year; U.S. Judo Most Outstanding Male Competitor
1990 - Inducted into the World Judo Hall of Fame

Coage was a major wrestling superstar and successful Olympic combat athlete. We are lucky to be able to watch him ply his craft here at www.UWF-Bushido.com. Rest in peace Mr. Coage.