Rusher Kimura has the first steel cage match in Japan against Dr. Death (Moose Morrowski). After this match, TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System) bans the cage matches from television.
Because of the merge of AGWA by WWWA, AGWA International Tag Team champions Jumbo Miyamoto & Aiko Kyo are awarded WWWA World Tag Team Title as the first champions but give up the belts on same day after being unsatisfied with a match against Patty O'Hara & Texas Red.
07/01
Patty O'Hara & Texas Red defeat Jumbo Miyamoto & Aiko Kyo in Tokyo to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Title.
07/06
Jumbo Miyamoto & Maxie Murata defeat Patty O'Hara & Texas Red in Fukuyama to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
Antonio Inoki's New Japan Pro-Wrestling has its first card at Ota Ward Gym in Tokyo. The wrestlers include Tatsumi Fujinami, Kotetsu Yamamoto, and Osamu Kido. Inoki, the promotion's top star and the president, loses to Karl Gotch. Toyonobori also appears
03/09
Jean Antoine defeats Aiko Kyo in Odawara to win WWWA World Title.
03/15
Aiko Kyo defeats Jean Antoine in Nagoya to win WWWA World Title. Masked Lee & Sharon Lee defeat Jumbo Miyamoto & Miyoko Hoshino to win WWWA World Tag Team Title on the same card.
03/21
Jumbo Miyamoto & Miyoko Hoshino defeat Masked Lee & Sharon Lee in Nagasaki to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
04/03
JWA breaks a contract with Nippon TV, letting NET to broadcast a match involving Giant Baba. The contract says NET is not to broadcast any of Baba's match while Nippon TV is not to broadcase Inoki's match.
04/25
Masked Lee & Flower Power defeat Jumbo Miyamoto & Miyoko Hoshino in Hiroshima to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
Masked Lee & Sylvia Hackeny defeat Jumbo Miyamoto & Aiko Kyo in Muroran to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
10/04
Antonio Inoki wins the Real World Heavyweight Title from Karl Gotch. Gotch, however, regains the belt on 10/10/72.
10/11
Jumbo Miyamoto & Mariko Akagi defeat Masked Lee & Sylvia Hackeny in Kumamoto to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
10/16
The Momota Family (Rikidozan's) presents Rikidozan's old NWA International Heavyweight belt to Giant Baba. Baba announces that he creats a World Heavyweight title with the belt(later becomes PWF Heavyweight Title).
10/21
Giant Baba starts his own promotion, All Japan Pro-Wrestling with the support of Nippon TV and has the first card at Machida City Gym in Tokyo.
10/31
Tomomi Tsuruta, member of the Japanese Olympic wrestling team for Munich, joins All Japan.
11/07
Masked Lee & Panama Franco defeat Jumbo Miyamoto & Mariko Akagi in Toyota to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
11/17
Jumbo Miyamoto & Mariko Akagi defeat Masked Lee & Panama Franco in Kawasaki to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
Jumbo Miyamoto & Mariko Akagi defeat Masked Lee & Princess War Star in Okayama to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
02/03
At the NWA Board meeting in St. Louis, MO, All Japan is accepted as a member.
02/08
Antonio Inoki(New Japan) and Seiji Sakaguchi(JWA) have a joint press conference and announce the merge of both promotions. However, Kintaro Ohki, the top star of JWA, refuses the idea.
Giant Baba defeats Bobo Brazil in Tokyo. Baba completes a series of ten matches with the record of 8 wins, no loss, and 2 ties against Bruno Sammartino (twice), Terry Funk, Abdullah the Butcher, the Destroyer, Wilbur Snyder(twice), Don Leo Jonathan, Pat O'Connor, and Brazil to win a world heavyweight title.
Masked Lee & Jackie West defeat Jumbo Miyamoto & Mariko Akagi in Wakayama to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
03/22
Jumbo Miyamoto & Mariko Akagi defeat Masked Lee & Jackie West in Hiroshima to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
03/30
Seiji Sakaguchi, along with his followers Kengo Kimura and Masashi Ozawa (Killer Khan), joins New Japan. NET cancels broadcasting JWA cards and starts with New Japan.
Sandy Parker defeats Miyoko Hoshino in Choshi to win WWWA World Title.
05/26
Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk win NWA International Tag Team Title from Killer Karl Krupp & Karl Von Steiger in Amarillo, TX. Krupp & Von Steiger have kept the title since JWA closed in the previous month.
Dory Funk Jr. & Terry Funk defeat Killer Karl Krupp & Karl Von Steiger in Amarillo, TX to win NWA International Tag Team Title. Krupp has chosen Von Steiger as new partner in 73/04 when Von Erich gives up the title.
06/11
Masked Lee & Sandy Parker defeat Jumbo Miyamoto & Mariko Akagi in Sasebo to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
06/25
Jumbo Miyamoto & Mariko Akagi defeat Masked Lee & Sandy Parker in Ofunato to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
07/09
In the first world title match between two Japanese, Strong Kobayashi defends IWA World Heavyweight Title against Rusher Kimura.
07/10
Miyoko Hoshino defeats Sandy Parker in Kasama to win WWWA World Title.
07/17
Masked Lee & Sandy Parker defeat Jumbo Miyamoto & Mariko Akagi in Yokohama to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
07/24
Jumbo Miyamoto & Mariko Akagi defeat Masked Lee & Sandy Parker in Nagoya to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
Jackie West & Sharon Lee defeat Mariko Akagi & Peggy Kuroda in Niigata to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
01/17
Mariko Akagi & Peggy Kuroda defeat Jackie West & Sharon Lee in Kagoshima to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
01/23
NWA World Heavyweight Champion appears on All Japan card for the first time. In a double title match, NWA World champion Jack Brisco draws with PWF World championGiant Baba. All Japan had joined NWA in previous year, and PWF World Heavyweight Title has been reduced to PWF Heavyweight Title after this match.
Mach Fumiake defeats Jumbo Miyamoto to become the youngest WWWA World champion at the age of 16. Also in the same month, she becomes the first female wrestler to record songs and sang on the ring.
03/21
Jackie West & Paula Niet defeat Mariko Akagi & Junko Sasaki in Higashi Osaka to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
03/22
Mariko Akagi & Junko Sasaki defeat Jackie West & Paula Niet in Wakayama to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
04/01
Jackie West defeats Jumbo Miyamoto in Kobe to win WWWA World Title.
04/06
Jackie West & Paula Niet defeat Mariko Akagi & Junko Sasaki in Toyama to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
04/24
Jumbo Miyamoto defeats Jackie West in Kumamoto to win WWWA World Title. Junko Sasaki & Peggy Kuroda defeat Jackie West & Paula Niet win WWWA World Tag Team Title on the same card.
04/26
The first match between Antonio Inoki and Sakaguchi ends as a 30min time limit draw.
05/16
Sandy Parker & Jean Antoine defeat Junko Sasaki & Peggy Kuroda in Shizuoka to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
05/21
Junko Sasaki & Peggy Kuroda defeat Sandy Parker & Jean Antoine in Kohchi to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
Mach Fumiake defeats Jumbo Miyamoto to become the youngest WWWA World champion at the age of 16. Also in the same month, she becomes the first female wrestler to record songs and sang on the ring.
The Momota Family promotes the 13th Anniversary Card of Rikidozan's Death at Nippon Budokan, using the wrestlers of All Japan, International Wrestling Enterprise, and former JWA. On the same day, New Japan has Antonio Inoki vs. Bill Robinson, which ended as 60min time limit draw.
12/15
Antonio Inoki wrestles at Madison Square Garden for the first time.
Kintaro Ohtki, who hasn't defended the title since 73, defends the All Asia Heavyweight title against Great Kojika in Seoul, South Korea.
05/23
On an International Wrestling Enterprise card, Umanosuke Ueda appears in Japanese ring for the first time in 2 years and 7 months since JWA folded in 73.
05/27
Jackie West & Yukari Lynch defeat Beauty Pair (Jackie Sato & Maki Ueda) in Kawasaki to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
The famous/infamous Antonio Inoki vs. Muhammad Ali match. Under the rule, Inoki was not allowed to use any suplex or submission. 15 rounds time limit draw in the most boring match in the history, probably of the all sports. However, with lots of low kicks
07/17
Beauty Pair (Jackie Sato & Maki Ueda) defeat Jackie West & Cheryl Day in Tokyo to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Title.
After defeating the last title holder Akihisa Takachiho to become the Japanese representative, Jumbo Tsuruta defeats the American representative Jack Brisco in Tokyo to win the vacant NWA United National Heavyweight Title.
Beauty Pair release their first song. More than 400,000 copies of the record are sold, and Beauty Pair becomes even bigger star than Mach Fumiake ever was.
11/30
Mariko Akagi defeats Maki Ueda in Tokyo to win WWWA World Title.
A former sumo wrestler from Tonga, known as Fukunoshima in sumo, joins All Japan. Later, he starts wrestling as Prince Tonga (Haku in WWF and Meng in WCW).
Maki Ueda defeats Mariko Akagi in Tokyo to win WWWA World Title. Jackie Sato & Nancy Kumi defeat Yumi Ikeshita & Shinobu Aso to win WWWA World Tag Team Title on the same card.
Takashi Ishikawa, a former sumo wrestler, leaves for the United States to be a pro-wrestler.
11/01
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling has the first Nippon Budokan card. In main event for WWWA World Title, champion Maki Ueda wrestles her partner Jackie Satoh to a 60 minute time limit. WWWA President Mildred Burke, who is assigned as a special judge, gives the victory to Satoh. Also, Jackie vacates WWWA World Tag Team Title.
11/06
Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi defeat Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma in Tokyo to win All Asia Tag Team Title.
Tatsumi Fujinami defeats Carlos Jose Estrada at Madison Square Garden in New York to win WWF Junior Heavyweight Title. The gloray days of the junior heavyweight divisions in Japan starts.
02/06
Nancy Kumi & Victoria Fujimi defeat Mariko Akagi & Chino Sato in Osaka to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Title.
02/22
Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma defeat Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi in Gifu to win All Asia Tag Team Title.
Antonio Inoki wrestles Roland Bock in West Germany. The match ends 4min 10rounds time limit draw, but Inoki loses by judge.
12/08
In the last match of All Japan's Open Tag Team Championship, The Funk Brothers wrestle against Abdullah the Butcher & The Sheik. This is the beginning of the annual tag team round-robin tournament in All Japan. After this match, the Funk Brothers become
12/18
Because of the achievement in the matches against the fighters of other combat sports including Muhammad Ali, Antonio Inoki is awarded the World Martial Arts Heavyweight Title by World Wide Wrestling Federation.
Monster Ripper defeats Jackie Sato in Tokyo to win WWWA World Title.
08/26
The Dream Card at the Budokan organized by the Tokyo Sports Newspaper with All Japan, New Japan, and International Wrestling Enterprise. Opening card had Riki Choshu(NJ) and Animal Hamaguchi(International Wrestling Enterprise) team for the first time to beat All Japan's heel tag team, Great Kojika & late Motoshi O
09/13
Jackie Sato defeats Monster Ripper in Tokyo to win WWWA World Title.
Bob Backlund pins Inoki in a rematch for WWF Heavyweight Title in Tokyo, but WWF president Hisashi Shinma declares the match to be no-contest because of the interference of Tiger Jeet Singh. Shinma gives the belt back to Inoki, but Inoki is unsatisfied with the decision and does not accept the title. Backlund defeats Bobby Duncum in New York for the vacant title on 79/12/12.
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