Billy Graham

[Torgo]

Did Billy Graham defend his WWWF title against Inoki?
If so where and when.

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Not that I know of. He defended the title against Sakaguchi, though.

More detail here:
http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling/cawthon777/78.htm

[Torgo]

Yes I am familiar with Billys matches against Strong Kobayashi, Riki Choshu, & Seiji Sakaguchi from 1977 And his mathes with Great Kusatsu, Mighty Inoue, Rusher Kimura, & Animal Hamaguchi from 1979

I know Billy had 4 matches with Inoki in August and September of 1976. I am trying to see if he indeed had a match with Inoki in 1977/1978 while being WWWF Champ.

He was also in japan in 1974 when he lost the IWE title to Mighty Inou on his birthday. I am sure he had more than just one match in 74 in japan, but it is the only one i could ever find.

Anyone else have any Billy Graham matches from japan from 74?

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

I believe Graham's only WWF title defense in Japan was against Sakaguchi and Inoki's first WWF title match (at least in Japan) was against Backlund. I guess the non-title matches against Kobayashi and Choshu were to build up to the title match against Sakaguchi.

[AbBY]

Inoki won the wwf championship at some time, but wwf/e doesnt put it in their lists... I wonder why

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

They do now. Please use "Search" so that you can find out Inoki was officially recognized recognized as a former champ around 2000 or 2001. Although they no longer have the WWFTitleHistory.com site, one of their official books had Inoki on the list.

Besides, this is a thread for Graham's title defenses.

[AbBY]

Hisa, you seem to have it against me this days...

[kwilson83]

Hisa really likes having an organized forum, so he gets testy when people start threads with topics already discussed or when people change the subject within a thread. But as long as you use the search before you post a new topic and don't change the subject within a thread, Hisa will be your best friend.

So that I dont go off topic, , I went to all my wrestling resource sites and didn't see anything on it. Since it would have been a pretty big deal, I imagine it would be easier to find then this if it had happened.

[AbBY]

oooohh, then I really apologize if I made you mad. Next time I will do the search thing. sorry