2018 Carnival Champion

The winner of AJPW Champion Carnival 2018: 

Naomichi Marufuji

1988 Rookie of the Year

Gary Albright

1988 Wrestling Observer Rookie of the Year

WE LOVE ALL JAPAN!

AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Champion

Soma Takao

(won the title August 28th 2016 by defeating Hikaru Sato)

International Match of the Day

April 1975

All Japan PWF Heavyweight Title Match

Shohei "Giant" Baba

(champion)

vs

Dick the Bruiser

WE LOVE PRO WRESTLING!

Dick the Bruiser and The Crusher

NWA International Tag Team Champions

All Japan Pro Wrestling

August 11th 1969

defeated Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki 

WE LOVE PRO WRESTLING!

Two Japanese Wrestling Legends

Antonio Inoki 

and 

Tiger Mask

International Match of the Night (Wajima)

December 9th 1986

City Gymnasium

Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Rick Martel and Tom Zenk

vs

Giant Baba and Hiroshi Wajima

International Match of the Night (Goldberg)

International Match of the Night

August 31st 2002

AJPW

Bill Goldberg

vs

Taiyo Kea

Today In Wrestling History (August 31st)

Title Changes for August 31st

1945 – Ted Cox defeats Nature Boy Buddy Rogers to win the Texas Heavyweight Championship

1950 – Don Eagle defeated Gorgeous George to win the AWA (Ohio) World Heavyweight Championship

1951 – Art Neilson & Jack Steel defeated Farmer Jones & Al Massey to win the NWA Southern (Georgia) Tag Team Championship

1968 – Jose Lothario & Joe Scarpa defeated Professor Boris Malenko & Handsome Johnny Valentine to win the NWA Southern (Florida) Tag Team Championship

1968 – Verne Gagne defeated Dr. X (Dick Beyer) to win the AWA World Heavyweight Championship

1973 – Mr. Wrestling II defeated Cowboy Bill Watts to win the vacant NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship

1979 – Ole Anderson &"The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff defeat Stan "The Lariat" Hansen & "Wildfire" Tommy Rich to win the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship

1983 – Jumbo Tsuruta defeated Bruiser Brody to win the NWA International (Japan) Heavyweight Championship

1986 – Eddie Gilbert & Sting defeated The Fantastics to win the vacant UWF World Tag Team Championship

1987 – Jerry "The King" Lawler defeated Don Bass in a Hair vs.Title Cage match to win the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship for the 51st time

1987 – Ted Arcidi won a Battle Royal to win the vacant WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship

1996 – Jamie Dundee defeated Wolfie D. to win the USWA Television Championship

1997 – PG-13 defeated Steven Dunn & Flash Flanagan to win the USWA World Tag Team Championship. This would be the final reign for the championship before the USWA closed in November 1997

1997 – Kensuke Sasaki defeated Shinya Hashimoto to win the NJPW IWGP Heavyweight Championship

2002 – El Dandy defeated Perro Aguayo, Jr. to win the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship

International Match of the Night

All Japan Television

August 29th 1985

Stan Hansen and Ted Dibiase

vs

Terry Funk and Dory Funk Jr.

International Match of the Day

NWA International Tag Team Championship

All Japan Pro Wrestling

April 3rd 1985

Yamagata,  Japan

(Champions)

Jumbo Tsuruta and Genichiro Tenryu

vs

Stan Hansen and Ron Bass

Match of the Night

December 6 1977

The Sheik and Abdullah the Butcher

vs

The Destroyer and Mr. Wrestling (Red Bastien)

Bastien wrestled as Mr. Wrestling during this 1977 tour of Japan by AWA stars.

WWF/All Japan Show 1990

WWF/All Japan Supershow

April 13th 1990

Tokyo Dome

Andre the Giant(WWF)/Giant Baba(AJPW)

vs

Demolition (WWF)

Match of the Day (Andre vs Stan Hansen)

May 18th 1979

Niigata, Japan

Andre the Giant

vs

Stan Hansen

(with Freddie Blassie)

Today in Wrestling History (05/27/2013)

1988 - Owen Hart defeats Hiroshi Hase in Sendai, Japan to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title. 

1996 - One of the most famous moments in modern wrestling history takes place, as Scott Hall (Razor Ramon), fresh from his stint in WWF, shows up during the first-ever two hour edition of WCW Monday Nitro, entering from the crowd and informing Eric Bischoff that he was there to "declare war" on WCW. This was the beginning of what would become the New World Order. 

Match of the Night (Mil Mascaras/Dos Caras)

Mil Mascaras and Dos Caras

vs

Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta

Tokyo, Japan

1979

This Week in Wrestling History

I missed it yesterday but on March 4th 1995 Stan Hansen defeated Toshiaki Kawada for the All Japan Triple Crown.

News and Notes 01/05/2013

courtesy Wrestling Online Network:


FLAIR TO WRESTLE IN JAPAN
- How do you say Wooooo! in Japanese? Well, probably the same! Fans in the
Land of the Rising Sun will get their Ric Flair fix later this month as
the Nature Boy will be wrestling for All Japan Pro Wrestling in an event
to be held on January 26 in Tokyo. Flair will team up with Keiji Mutoh -
better known to American wrestling fans as the Great Muta - to take on
Tatsumi Fujinami and Seiya Sanada. Mutoh and Flair feuded for a while when
he - under the name of The Great Muta, was brought in the NWA by manager
Gary Hart. Muta went on to feud with Flair, Luger, and even Sting who he
eventually won the NWA TV title from, only to lose it a few months later
to Arn Anderson.

> RAW RATING
- The New Year's Eve Monday Night RAW drew a 2.31 rating with an average
of 3,552,000 viewers, up just slightly from last week's 2.2 rating on
Christmas Eve. Hour one did 3,397,000 viewers, hour two did 3,644,000,
while hour three did 3,614,000. It marked the second time in a row that
hour three gained viewers on hour one in months however the third hour
kept losing viewers over the second as it has been the norm since RAW
moved to 180 minutes. (Ratings compiled by Nielsen Media Research and put
online by PWInsider.com)

> HOGAN REFILES LAWSUIT AGAINST GAWKER
- After dismissing the federal lawsuit against Gawker for the posting of
his sex tape, Hulk Hogan re-filed the lawsuit against the same company in
a Florida state court. TMZ.COM is reporting that Hogan is once again
seeking $100 million from Gawker and has refiled the case to consolidate
his claims against the NY-based media company and Heather Clem, the person
who he had sex with in the tape. Hogan - who already had a lawsuit filed
against Clem in Florida - claims that the former wife of Bubba "The Love
Sponge" played a part in leaking the sex tape to the media. Gawker posted
a one minute video clip of Hulkamania running wild all over Clem a few
months ago and then gave a detailed description of the whole video, almost
blow by blow. His lawsuit against Bubba was dropped after the two reached
an agreement out of court and then Bubba apologized twice to Hogan on his
radio show.

> MIKE KNOX REVEALED AS LATEST ACES & EIGHTS MEMBER
- Former WWE Superstar Mike Knox was unveiled as a member of the Aces &
Eights during yesterday's IMPACT on Spike. Knox was part of a tag team
cage match in the main event of the show which saw the return of Sting and
he was unmasked by Kurt Angle after he ended up alone in the ring against
Samoa Joe, Sting, and Angle himself. Knox wrestled for WWE during the
company's failed attempt at reviving the ECW brand and he played the role
of Kelly Kelly's boyfriend. He then switched to RAW in 2008 and moved to
Smackdown in 2009 but was released a year after following WrestleMania
XXVI.

Tag Team Match of the Day (Road Warriors vs The Funks)

October 19th 1985

Tokyo, Japan

The Road Warriors

vs 

Terry Funk and Dory Funk Jr.

(the Warriors were Gods in Japan at this time)

Match of the Night (Snuka vs Steamboat 1981)

March 6th 1981

All Japan Pro Wrestling

Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka

vs

Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat