Uighur

Uighur the Warden
	; Uighur
Name in Kanji	ウイグル獄長
Name in Romaji	Uiguru Gokuchō
Alternate spelling(s)	Uyghur; Uygle; Wigul
Fighting Style	Taizan-ryu Sojo Ben; Taizan-ryu Senjo Ben; Moko Hakyoku Do
Allegiance(s)	Raoh
Position(s)	Warden of Cassandra
Appearances	Manga (ch. 53-57, 59), Anime (ep. 37-42), Raoh Gaiden, 1986 Movie
Voice actor(s)	Daisuke Gōri; Kenta Miyake (Ten no Haoh, Ten no Haoh PSP); Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (Hokuto Musou, Shin Hokuto Musou); Naomi Kusumi (Hokuto ga Gotoku); Tsuguo Mogami (Legends ReVIVE); Gregory Snegoff (1986 movie dub); Rob Mungle (Ten no Haoh dub); Alan Shearman (Hokuto Musou dub); Paul St. Peter (Hokuto ga Gotoku dub)

Uighur, the Warden (ウイグル獄長, Uiguru Gokuchō, ئۇيغۇر) is a major villain and the warden of the Cassandra prison and an Uyghur whose ancestors lived in ancient Mongolia. He fights using the Taizan-ryu Sojo Ben (泰山流双条鞭, "Taishan Style Twin Streak Whip") style.

Ten no Haoh

In the spin-off prequel, Uighur was originally a prisoner of Cassandra who had survived five separate executions until his meeting with Raoh. Raoh gauges his strength and learns of Uighur's dream to create his own legend. This earns Raoh's approval and Uighur is named the new Warden of Cassandra, at Gion's expense.

Manga & TV Series

Uighur's cruel and bloody reign built a legend of terror at Cassandra, as he reveled in the screams of the tortured souls locked within its walls. Uighur stood before Kenshiro, who had stormed the prison to free the imprisoned Toki. He managed to overwhelm Kenshiro with his true form, Moko Hakyoku Do (蒙古覇極道, "Tao of the Mongolian Champion"), a charging tackle which concentrates all his muscle and strength into one shoulder. However, Kenshiro recovered and countered the move by crushing Uighur's shoulder with Hokuto Koretsu Ha, before finishing him with the Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken. Uighur was sent crashing into an unmarked grave that he had originally dug for Kenshiro, his gargantuan body contorting itself to fit inside before Uighur explodes. Somehow Uighur survives long enough to rise up from his grave and issue a final warning that Kenshiro and Toki mustn't meet, before the rest of his mutilated body finally explodes.

In the anime adaptation, Uighur has an assistant warden, Targel who comes with a plan to pit the prisoner Bella against Kenshiro. Uighur's death scene is changed so ne longer says "UWARABA" instead saying "Lord Ken-oh." Additionally Uighur says "help me" in the anime, whilst Uighur is defiant to Kenshiro in the manga.

Hokuto no Ken (1986 movie)

Uighur appears in the movie version as the second-in-command and public executioner of Ken-Oh's army. He fights with Rei at Cassandra, but his whips are foiled and he is sliced into pieces by Rei's Nanto Suicho Ken.

Video Games

Uighur is a popular boss in the video games for the series and is a playable character on rare occasions.
The Sega Mark III game has Uighur as the first sub boss of level 4 where he is much smaller then the manga. During the level, Uighur's hawk attacks the player. In the Black Belt Localization, Uighur is turned into a ninja in red.
The gameboy fighting game has Uighur as a fighter. The fifth boss in the campaign mode, Uighur is a playable character in the tournament mode. His attacks are his whips and mongolian tackle instead of punches and kicks.
Hokuto No Ken Seikimatsu Kyūseishu Densetsu features Uighur as a one on one boss battle in chapter 4. In the games VS mode, Uighur is unlocked as a playable character if he is beaten in story mode without continues.
Uighur is a playable characters in 2009 fighting game Ten no Haoh.
Uighur is a character in Hokuto Musō, he functions as a boss in legend mode serving his role in the manga. In Challenge mode and Raoh's dream mode, Uighur may function as an ally character.
Uighur plays effectively the same role in Shin Hokuto Muso.
In the 2018 video game, Hokuto ga Gotoku, Uighur makes an appearance as a non-playable boss character. He suffers the same fate as he does in the manga.

Appearance

Uighur is a colossal, incredibly bulky and muscular middle aged man who is largely barechested but wears pieces of armor reminescent of vikings, with a large belt across his lower abdomen, and a helmet with two horns and a noticeable plume, with his legs exposed except for a pair of boots, and a long messy cape.

Personality

Uighur was a noticeably sadistic and cruel individual who ruled Casaandra like a tyrant. Under his management, Cassandra was such an infernal place to be held on, that legends surfaced about the despair and cruelty that awaited its inmates with any glimmer of hope being entirely non-existent. Uighur relished greatly upon the infamy of the prison (which extended to himself) and was very open about demonstrating his inhuman character and his displays of violence and death.

In fact, Uighur had an horrifying practice called the Ritual of Death, in which he would grasp hairs from his beard and bring inmates up to the number of strands pulled, which would then be executed, a practice he engaged during his fight with Kenshito in which he had the inmates' lives literally riding on Kenshiro's fate as a "bet" for his own sick amusement. Uighur repeatedly pretended to not listen to the pleas of his prisoners in a mocking fashion, and delighted immensely upon people's despair.

Uighur was both immensely loyal to Ken-Oh, and a dutiful and competent enforcer, but was also extremely proud and arrogant. As a result of his authority over Cassandra and the legend he created, he believes that nothing can ever destroy the legend of the prison, which by extension means he believes himself invincible. This proves his undoing, as although rightfully confident over his massive build and weight, he underestimated Kenshiro which led to the Hokuto Shinken master to defeat him thoroughly.

Uighur is shown to be extremely persistent, as even after he had exploded, he still retained enough vitality to crawl out of his grave and announce that the legend of Cassandra was not over yet, gloating that Kenshiro would eventually die in the prison, before ultimately succumbing and dying permanently. Upon Uighur's defeat, the bestial howls that plagued Cassandra, ceased to be, all but evidencing that his legacy was finally undone.

Uighur had a particular, very exaggerated form of evil laughter.

Fighting Style

Uighur utilized the Taizan-ryu Sojo Ben style which centered around the use of his whips. Despite his enormous size, he was extremely dexterous and fast in the use of his whips to the extent that his lashes were almost invicible to the naked eye, allowing him to punish Kenshiro for an extended period of time before the later could detect and render the whips useless by tying them together.

Uighur, however has a backup strategy in which the horns inside his helmet hide an innumerable amount of whips which he uses to wrap on his victims. By subsequently burying his horns on the ground, thereby preventing his adversary from escaping, he is capable of utilizing his greatest technique the Supreme Mongolian Dominator (Mōko Hakyokudō, lit Way of the Mongolian Champion) in which he pours all his strength into a single arm, greatly expanding its muscle mass before slamming them with a shoulder tackle so violent, it sent Kenshiro flying and rendering him temporally unconscious while ripping apart the many whips that held Kenshiro. It was also strong enough to leave a deep dent into the enormous metallic gates of Cassandra.

To use this technique, Uighur makes extensive use of both his massive build. Weight estimates vary but put it between 350 kgs or 770 pounds to even over 1000 pounds. He also utilizes devices like his whips or a spiked entrapment to ensure his enemies cannot escape his tackle. Kenshiro was, nonetheless capable of countering this by targeting the nerves of his shoulder. Even then, he has a last resort attack in which the plume of his helmet becomes bladed and attempts to headbutt them, but it's power is never seen as Kenshiro made quick work of Uighur soon after.

Character Rating

From Hokuto no Ken: Kyūkyoku Kaisetsusho: Seikimatsu Haō Retsuden.

Level: B
Power: 5
Speed: 3
Skills: 3
Looks: 2
Charisma: 3

Notes

While there are many giant characters in the series, Uighur's gigantic height is referenced a lot, he is frequently called a giant, is said to weigh 770 pounds and had to be folded in half to fit into a grave built for the 6 feet tall Kenshiro.
The final boss of the Data East game Hippodrome, Pon the Giant closely resembles Uighur and has a similar move to Moko Hakyoku Do. In the sequel Death Brade, Pon becomes one of the main protagonists and is playable.
Uighur is Tetsuo Hara's favorite rogue.
Along with Kaiser and Bolge, Uighur is one of the few people to not be killed instantly after having most of his body exploded.