Character sourced from: Gaming

Zangief

CBUB Wins: 16
CBUB Losses: 10
Win Percentage: 61.54%

Added by: Mullon

Read more about Zangief at: Wikipedia

Official Site: Capcom

is a fictional character in the Street Fighter series of video games. Created by Akira Yasuda for Capcom, Zangief first appeared in Street Fighter II, later appearing in other games, media, and promotions related to the Street Fighter franchise. Zangief is considered to be the first fighting game character whose moveset is centered around grappling.

Designed by Akira Yasuda, Zangief was initially conceived as a character named "Vodka Gobalsky", planned to be strong in all attributes but extremely slow. Early designs of the character closely resembled the character's finalized appearance, but with the addition of a black tanktop and anchor tattoo on his upper arms. Many have theorized it was also based, in part, to animated character Bluto-as well as mannerisms. Later in development, his name was changed to Zangief (alternately spelled throughout the games as "Zangrief"/"Zangiev"), with the initial storyline that he was banned from professional wrestling for breaking the rules, currently engaging in underground wrestling. As the game's development progressed his backstory was changed entirely. One tidbit of history was an apparent friendship with (another Capcom franchise) fellow pro wrestler Mike Haggar.

Zangief is based on the real life freestyle wrestler Viktor Zangiev.

Various actors have voiced the character in his video game appearances: he is voiced by Wataru Takagi in the Street Fighter Alpha series, Tesshō Genda in the Capcom vs. SNK series and Capcom Fighting Evolution, and Kenta Miyake in Japanese and Anthony Landor in English for Street Fighter IV. In anime, he is voiced in Japanese by Tetsuo Kanao and in English by William Johnson. In the live-action Street Fighter film, the character was portrayed by Andrew Bryniarski, who was dubbed over by Ryūzaburō Ōtomo in the Japanese television dub and by Katsuhisa Hōki in the video and DVD dub.

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Fantasy Teams Season 5 Record:

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Result Opponent A Score   B Score
Win Mike Tyson 10 to 4
Win Kato 13 to 2
Win Stipe Miocic 8 to 4
Win King (Tekken) 7 to 3

Regular play Record:

Result Opponent A Score   B Score
Loss Liu Kang 19 to 68
Loss Hulk Hogan 51 to 64
Loss Colossus 14 to 98
Win The Russian 54 to 25
Win Hulk Hogan 73 to 61
Loss King (Tekken) 40 to 43
Loss Duke Nukem 45 to 71
Loss Omega Red 26 to 84
Loss Rock Lee 46 to 67
Win Kuma 65 to 35
Win Noob Saibot 20 to 10
Win Balrog 18 to 8
Loss Bane 6 to 30
Win Mike Haggar 12 to 9
Loss The Hulk 7 to 23
Win Wolf Hawkfield 14 to 4
Win Ryo Sakazaki 11 to 9
Win Jax 9 to 8
Loss Hulk (70's TV Series) 7 to 17
Win Chang Koehan 13 to 2
Win Maxima (KoF) 4 to 0
Win Armor King 5 to 2
Tie Angel (KoF) 2 to 2