RIP - Kunimatsu Matsunaga & WWWA World Title

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

I'm sure many of you have already read this on other websites, but I'll post it anyway since nobody mentioned it.

Kunimatsu Matsunaga, the last president of All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, committed suicide around 6pm on 2005/08/15 by jumping off from the 7th floor of a building in Tokyo at the age of 63.

Kunimatsu was the fourth of five brothers, whose youngest four were the founders of All Japan Women's. He was also active as a senior referee under the name of "Jimmy Kayama".

Not to be confused with Takashi Matsunaga, who was the chairman and is currently having a health issue.

Also, WWWA world champion Kumiko Maekawa abandoned the title on 2005/08/24 after consulting with the former AJW executives. She said that she could make money out of the title which has been controlled by herself since the closing of AJW, but she'd rather keep it important and prestigeous by abandoning it.

I guess this is the real end of one of the greatest promotions in the history of modern pro-wrestling.

RIP...

[The Great Gouki]

is there any reason he did this?

[Black_Flag_Of_Ulster]

He was the last president of AJW, which closed shop recently. Do your maths.

[Pheonix_Chi25]

To quote Ben Stein: "Wow"

[James Grimes]

That's really horribly sad.