In the 3000th memorial match of Baba(without absences since his debut match), Baba puts his PWF Heavyweight title against Verne Gagne, putting his AWA World Heavyweight title. DCOR.
Rimi Jaguar Yokota defeats Jackie Sato to win the WWWA World Title. Nancy Kumi & Ayumi Hori defeat Mami Kumano & Devil Masami to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Title on the same card. Also Mimi Hagiwara defeats Yumi Ikeshita to win All Pacific Title. With Yokota, Hagiwara, and Devil Masami, new generation of women's pro-wrestling begins.
IWA World Tag Team Title is declared vacant when Hamaguchi is unable to wrestle because of liver problems.
04/23
Antonio Inoki defeats Stan Hansen in Tokyo to win the held-up NWF Heavyweight Title. Inoki retires the title immediately after the match to enter the International Wrestling Grand Prix tournament. Also on the same card, the legendary Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama) debuts with a victory over Dynamite Kid.
04/30
Dory Funk Jr. wins tournament for the vacant NWA International Heavyweight Title when Bruiser Brody is injured and unable to wrestle in final. Dory defeats his own brother Terry Funk in Matsudo for his first title defense instead.
Abdullah the Butcher, the top heel of All Japan Pro-Wrestling, appears on New Japan card for the first time. The promotional war between All Japan and New Japan starts.
05/16
Mighty Inoue & Ashura Hara defeat Paul Ellering & Terry Latham in Tokyo to win IWA World Tag Team Title.
05/21
Jackie Satoh retires.
Tiger Jeet Singh abandons NWF North American Heavyweight Title, the New Japan version of Asia Heavyweight Title, and Asia Tag Team Title which he holds with Umanosuke Ueda, in order to enter the International Wrestling Grand Prix tournament.
05/23
Kevin Von Erich & David Von Erich defeat Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma in Tokyo to win All Asia Tag Team Title.
06/11
Takashi Ishikawa & Akio Sato defeat Kevin Von Erich & David Von Erich in Tokyo to win All Asia Tag Team Title.
07/03
Tiger Jeet Singh, the top heel of New Japan, appears on an All Japan card.
After defending the title against Steve Travis, Tatsumi Fujinami vacates the WWF Junior Heavyweight Title in order to move up to the heavyweight division.
Riki Choshu, who came back from Mexico after winning the UWA World Heavyweight title, turns on Fujinami during a 6men tag match. After the match, a former jobber-to-the-star Choshu says to Fujinami, I'm not a dog that lets you bite myself(Japanese expr
Ashura Hara & Mighty Inoue defeat Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma in Takaishi to win the vacant All Asia Tag Team Title.
04/03
Tiger Mask vacates NWA World and WWF junior heavyweight titles after being injured by Dynamite Kid in a tag match on 83/04/01. Dynamite Kid and Kuniaki Kobayashi wrestle for the NWA title in Tokyo but have no winner decided. Riki Choshu defeats Tatsumi Fujinami in Tokyo to win WWF International Heavyweight Title on the same card.
04/04
Dynamite Kid and Kuniaki Kobayashi wrestle for the vacant WWF Junior Heavyweight Title in Niigata but have no winner decided.
The 1st International Wrestling Grand Prix(IWGP) touranment starts. The participants include Antonio Inoki(the last NWF Heavyweight champion who abandoned the title for the IWGP tournament), Killer Khan, Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Big John Studd, Rusher
05/07
In a hair-vs-mask match, La Galactica defeats Jaguar Yokota in Kawasaki to win WWWA World Title. Yokota has her hair shaved after the match.
Tiger Mask retires. NWA World and WWF Junior Heavyweight Titles are vacant.
Riki Choshu cannot get into Canada for scheduled rematch against Tatsumi Fujinami for the vacant/held-up WWF International Heavyweight Title in Calgary, and Fujinami is awarded the title.
08/25
A coup in New Japan office. Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi are forced to resign from their positions as the president and vice-president. They return to the positions on 11/11/83.
The original UWF formed with Akira Maeda, Rusher Kimura, Ryuma Go, Mach Hayato, and Gran Hamada. Later, Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Nobuhiko Takada join the promotion and start the shoot style pro-wrestling which would cause Kimura, Go, and Hamada to leave the
In the match to determine the first PWF world tag team champions, Bruiser Brody & Stan Hansen defeat Giant Baba & Dory Funk Jr. Baba injures his neck and stops his record of appearing 3711 matches continuously.
05/13
Rick Martel defeats Tsuruta in St. Paul, MN to win the AWA World Heavyweight Title.
Antonio Inoki pins Choshu at Kuramae Kokugikan(old Sumo Hall). This was the last puroresu card the at Kuramae Kokugikan that has the history of 30 years. Kuramae Kokugikan is replaced by newly built Ryogoku Kokugikan(today's Sumo Hall).
08/23
The second Tiger Mask (Mitsuharu Misawa) debuts on an All Japan card.
08/25
Crush Gals (Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo) defeat Dynamite Girls (Jumbo Hori & Yukari Ohmori) in Tokyo to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
During a Akira Maeda-Satoru Sayama match, Maeda intentionally throws several kicks into Sayama's low-blow. This becomes Maeda's last match in UWF. Many wrestlers were unhappy with Sayama's selfish leadership.
09/11
UWF has a card at Korakuen Hall. This ends up being the last card of the promotion.
10/11
Sayama leaves UWF.
10/21
On an All Japan card in Tokyo, Ric Flair DCORs with Rick Martel in the only NWA & AWA World Heavyweight Double Title Match ever in history.
Takashi Ishikawa & Mighty Inoue defeat Isamu Teranishi & Norio Honaga in Tsuruoka to win All Asia Tag Team Title. Honaga has replaced the injured Animal Hamaguchi.
11/04
On an All Japan card, Tsuruta wrestles Riki Choshu to the 60min time limit draw in the first singles match between the two.
12/06
Five UWF wrestlers, Akira Maeda, Nobuhiko Takada, Yoshiaki Fujiawara, Osamu Kido, and Kazuo Yamazaki, return to New Japan and appear on New Japan's Ryogoku Kokugikan card.
12/12
Bruiser Brody and Jimmy Snuka no-showed in the final of the tournament for the IWGP Tag Team titles against Inoki and Sakaguchi. The replacements, Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura, won when Fujinami pinned Inoki with Dragon Suplex Hold and became the first
Devil Masami defeats Dump Matsumoto in Tokyo to win the vacant WWWA World Title.
Japan Women's Pro-wrestling starts in Tokyo with former stars such as Jackie Sato and Nancy Kumi, Rumi Kazama(former shootboxer), Shinbu Kandori(former 3times Japanese women's judo champion and bronze medalist of world judo championship), and others.
08/23
Yukari Oomori defeats Devil Masami in Kawasaki to win WWWA World Title. Dump Matsumoto & Bull Nakano defeat Chigusa Nagayo & Kazue Nagahori, subbing for the injured Lioness Asuka, to win WWWA World Tag Team Title on the same card.
Riki Choshu leaves All Japan. Ishin Gundan break up, and Killer Khan goes to the WWF for his last run as a pro-wrestler. Choshu, Kuniaki Kobayashi. Hiro Saito, Hiroshi Hase, Super Strong Machine, and Norio Honaga appear during the main evnet Inoki vs. Mas
Yumiko Hotta & Hisako Uno (Akira Hokuto) defeat Leilani Kai & Judy Martin in Tokyo to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Title.
04/24
Stan Hansen defeats Hiroshi Wajima in Yokohama to win the vacant PWF Heavyweight Title.
04/27
Red Typhoons (Kazue Nagahori & Yumi Ogura) defeat Yumiko Hotta & Hisako Uno (Akira Hokuto) in Tokyo to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
06/12
After winning the final of '87 IWGP Champinship against Masa Saito, Inoki abandones the annual tournament and becomes the first IWGP Heavyweight champion.
07/30
Takashi Ishikawa & Mighty Inoue defeat Isamu Teranishi & Masanobu Kurisu in 3-team round-robin tournament final in Tokyo to win the vacant All Asia Tag Team Title.
08/20
Animal Hamaguchi retires on a New Japan card.
10/04
Antonio Inoki wrestles Masa Saito in Ganryujima Island in a no-audience match. Inoki wins by TKO in 2:05'14.
10/05
Bruiser Brody returns to All Japan.
10/20
Chigusa Nagayo defeats Yukari Oomori in Tokyo to win WWWA World Title. Bull Nakano & Condor Saito defeat Red Typhoons (Kazue Nagahori & Yumi Ogura) in win WWWA World Tag Team Title on the same card.
10/25
Japan Pro closes after Choshu returns to New Japan. Yatsu and those who didn't return to New Japan join All Japan.
11/27
Akira Maeda's infamous kick on Choshu's face. This leads to Maeda to be fired by New Japan.
11/29
OBITUARY: Kazuharu Sonoda a.k.a. Haru Sonoda / Magic Dragon [South Africa - a plane crash]
WWWA World Tag Team Title is declared vacant after a match between the champions Bull Nakano & Condor Saito and Fire Jets (Yumiko Hotta & Mitsuko Nishiwaki).
02/25
Bull Nakano & Grizzly Iwamoto defeat Fire Jets (Yumiko Hotta & Mitsuko Nishiwaki) in Kawasaki to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Title.
Tatsumi Fujinami defends IWGP heavyweight title against Antonio Inoki in a 60-minute time limit draw in Yokohama.
08/25
Lioness Asuka defeats Chigusa Nagayo in Kawasaki to win WWWA World Title, but Asuka refuses the title since Nagayo is injured. Calgary Typhoons (Mika Komatsu & Yumi Ogura) defeat Fire Jets (Yumiko Hotta & Mitsuko Nishiwaki) to win WWWA World Tag Team Title on the same card.
08/29
All Japan holds the first annual Bruiser Brody Memorial Night at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. Gen'ichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara defeat Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu in Tokyo to win World Tag Team Title (All Japan).
Tatsumi Fujinami defeats Kerry Von Erich for the WCWA World Heavyweight Title. Fujinami now holds the three heavyweight titles: IWGP, World Class, and Pacific Northwest. However, he vacates and returns the World Class title to Kerry on next day.
12/16
Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy win the annual Real World Tag Team Championship League in Tokyo and to win the vacant World Tag Team Title (All Japan).
Soviet Wrestlers that Inoki scouted in previous year come to Japan for the first time.
02/15
Gen'ichiro Tenryu team with the Road Warriors in Cleveland, OH to defend their NWA World 6-man Tag Team title.
02/18
OBITUARY: Mildred Burke (73) - the first WWWA world champion
03/04
Crush Gals (Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo) defeat Calgary Typhoons (Mika Komatsu & Yumi Ogura) in Tokyo to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
04/05
Tatsumi Fujinami vacates IWGP Heavyweight Title to raise the authority of the title, for which a one-night tournament at Tokyo Dome on 89/04/24 is held.
04/09
Inoki has a meeting with Akira Maeda. They reach the agreement to let Masaharu(Masakatsu) Funaki and Minoru Suzuki leave New Japan for the UWF.
New Japan has its first card at Tokyo Dome. In the main event, Shota Chochoshivili defeats Antonio Inoki to win World Martial Arts Heavyweight Title. This is Inoki's first loss in the mixed martial arts matches. Also, Big Van Vader defeats Shin'ya Hashimoto in one-night 8-man tournament finalto win the vacant IWGP Heavyweight Title with Lou Thesz as the special referee.
05/06
Lioness Asuka defeats the American representative Madusa Miceli in Yokohama to be recognized as the Unified Global Champion. The belt is presented by Nick Bockwinkel. On the same card, Chigusa Nagayo, one-half of the famous Crush Gals, retires. WWWA World Tag Team Title, held by Crush Gals, is vacated.
Frontier Martial-arts Wrestling has its first card in Nagoya with Atsushi Ohnita as the president and the top star. Their style would eventually emphasize on the death match style, which is totally opposite from the UWF.
Stan Hansen & Gen'ichiro Tenryu win the annual Real World Tag Team Championship League in Tokyo and to win the vacant World Tag Team Title (All Japan).
12/09
Aja Kong & Grizzly Iwamoto defeat Fire Jets (Yumiko Hotta & Mitsuko Nishiwaki) in Tokyo to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
Hulk Hogan defeats 
The original UWF formed with Akira Maeda, 
On an All Japan card in Tokyo, Ric Flair DCORs with Rick Martel in the only 
Five UWF wrestlers, Akira Maeda, Nobuhiko Takada, Yoshiaki Fujiawara, Osamu Kido, and Kazuo Yamazaki, return to New Japan and appear on New Japan's Ryogoku Kokugikan card.
