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Pre-Japanese Championship Series: 1978/11/17 - 12/16: 23 cards
The date & location in bold letters indicate the card has full results (incomplete results otherwise).
Guest foreigners:
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1978/11/17 Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (2,000)
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Umanosuke Ueda def Kotetsu Yamamoto
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Ryuma Go def Haruka Eigen
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Riki Choshu (14:43 pin) Strong Kobayashi
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Tatsumi Fujinami (6:57 rolling clutch hold) Thunder Sugiyama
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Seiji Sakaguchi (15:52 COR) Masa Saito
Hiro Matsuda def Osamu Kido
1978/11/18 Hanno, Saitama - City Farmers' Market (2,700)
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Strong Kobayashi (12:49 canadian backbreaker) Kantaro Hoshino
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Sakaguchi (11:01 pin) Ryuma Go
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Fujinami (13:40 rolling clutch hold) Saito
1978/11/20 Saijo, Hiroshima - City Gym (2,000)
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Fujinami (10:08 pin) Haruka Eigen
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Sakaguchi (11:31 pin) Hoshino
Strong Kobayashi & Choshu (2-1) Hiro Matsuda & Umanosuke Ueda
1: Matsuda (12:46 pin) Kobayashi
2: Kobayashi (5:10 DQ) Ueda
3: Choshu (2:04 DQ) Ueda
1978/11/21 Kure, Hiroshima - City Gym (3,000)
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Strong Kobayashi (12:04 canadian backbreaker) Eigen
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Sakaguchi (11:43 pin) Osamu Kido
Matsuda & Saito (2-1) Fujinami & Choshu
1: Fujinami (13:31 DCOR) Saito
3: Saito (7:53 pin) Choshu
1978/11/22 Obama, Fukui - Civic Gym (2,700)
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Strong Kobayashi (15:41 COR) Saito
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Fujinami (13:04 rolling back clutch) Choshu
Sakaguchi & Eigen (2-1) Matsuda & Sugiyama
1: Sugiyama (13:34 pin) Eigen
2: Sakaguchi (3:05 COR) Sugiyama
3: Sakaguchi (2:58 DQ) Sugiyama
1978/11/24 Katsuta, Ibaraki - General Gym (2,300)
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Fujinami (12:45 COR) Strong Kobayashi
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Sugiyama (5:39 DQ) Sakaguchi
1978/11/25 Gyoda, Saitama - Civic Hall
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Fujinami (8:23 DQ) Ueda
Sakaguchi (9:10 pin) Eigen
1978/11/27 Ichihara, Chiba - Seaside Gym (2,000)
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Strong Kobayashi (12:24 boston crab) Kido
Matsuda & Saito (2-1) Fujinami & Hoshino
1: Saito (12:09 DCOR) Fujinami
3: Matsuda (4:39 pin) Hoshino
1978/11/28 Iwase, Ibaraki - Town Gym
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Fujinami (12:52 pin) Kido
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Strong Kobayashi (9:14 DQ) Ueda
Sakaguchi & Choshu (2-0) Matsuda & Sugiyama
1: Sakaguchi (11:07 boston crab) Sugiyama
2: Sakaguchi (4:06 DQ) Sugiyama
1978/11/30 Hiroshima - Pref. Gym (3,600)
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Strong Kobayashi (14:28 COR) Sakaguchi
WWWF Junior Heavyweight Title: Fujinami* (17:56 german suplex hold) Go
1978/12/02 Naze, Kagoshima - City Gym (6,000)
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Saito def Go
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Ueda def Kido
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Strong Kobayashi (6:47 boston crab) Sugiyama
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Fujinami (11:26 leg roll clutch) Hoshino
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Sakaguchi (12:04 pin) Choshu
Inoki & Fujiwara def Matsuda & Eigen
1978/12/03 Izumi, Kagoshima - Takao Town Gym (3,000)
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Strong Kobayashi (11:17 canadian backbreaker) Go
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Sakaguchi (4:36 COR) Fujinami
1978/12/04 Kashima, Saga - City Gym (2,700)
Strong Kobayashi (8:16 canadian backbreaker) Fujiwara
Pre-Japanese Championship Preliminary League: Fujinami (9:38 backslide) Go
Antonio Inoki & Sakaguchi (2-0) Kido & Matsuda
1: Sakaguchi (14:37 pin) Kido
2: Inoki & Sakaguchi (2:16 DQ)
1978/12/05 Fukuoka - Kyuden Memorial Gym (3,800)
Fujinami (10:45 backslide) Saito
NWA North American Tag Team Title: Sakaguchi & Strong Kobayashi* (2-1) Ueda & Sugiyama
1: Ueda (13:44 pin) Kobayashi
2: Kobayashi (5:28 canadian backbreaker) Ueda
3: Sakaguchi & Strong Kobayashi (0:41 DQ)
Pre-Japan Championship Tournament Round 1: Inoki (10:34 pin) Hoshino
1978/12/06 Nagasaki - International Gym (3,600)
Fujinami (5:02 DQ) Sugiyama
Sakaguchi (9:31 pin) Choshu
Inoki & Strong Kobayashi (2-0) Matsuda & Ueda
1: Inoki (15:15 boston crab) Ueda
2: Inoki (0:36 DQ) Ueda
1978/12/07 Kumamoto - City Gym (3,800)
Matsuda (11:10 pin) Strong Kobayashi
Pre-Japanese Championship Quarter Final: Sakaguchi (10:32 boston crab) Choshu
Inoki & Fujinami (2-0) Ueda & Saito
1: Inoki (14:34 boston crab) Saito
2: Fujinami (4:15 DQ) Ueda
1978/12/08 Tokuyama, Yamaguchi - City Gym (2,200)
Fujinami (11:43 leg roll clutch) Go
Strong Kobayashi (9:05 DQ) Sugiyama
Sakaguchi (9:40 DCOR) Ueda
1978/12/09 Yokkaichi, Mie - City Gym (4,200)
Fujinami (11:50 DQ) Saito
Sugiyama & Ueda (NC) Sakaguchi & Choshu
1: Ueda (14:57 pin) Choshu
2: (3:21 NC)
Pre-Japanese Championship Tournament Quarter Final: Inoki (11:50 ground abdominal stretch) Strong Kobayashi
1978/12/11 Shizuoka - Sunpu Hall (3,000)
Strong Kobayashi (3:31 canadian backbreaker) Yoshiaki Fujiwara
Pre-Japanese Championship Tournament Quarter Final: Matsuda (11:53 pin) Fujinami
Inoki & Sakaguchi (2-0) Saito & Ueda
1: Sakaguchi (12:50 DQ) Ueda
2: Inoki (6:18 abdominal stretch) Ueda
1978/12/12 Sendai, Miyagi - Leisure Center (2,500)
Sakaguchi (9:02 pin) Go
Matsuda & Ueda (2-1) Fujinami & Strong Kobayashi
1: Kobayashi (13:11 DQ) Ueda
2: Ueda (0:54 pin) Kobayashi
3: Ueda (6:04 DQ) Kobayashi
Pre-Japan Championship Tournament Semi-Final: Inoki (12:16 pin) Saito
1978/12/13 Yokohama - Culture Gym (3,300)
Strong Kobayashi (10:12 canadian backbreaker) Go
Pre-Japanese Championship Semi-final: Matsuda (10:00 small package) Sakaguchi
Inoki, Fujinami, & Kido (2-1) Ueda, Saito, & Sugiyama
1: (15:35 DCOR)
3: Inoki (5:53 octopus hold) Saito
1978/12/14 Osaka - Pref. Gym (6,000)
Masanobu Kurisu (arm lock) Akira Maeda
Makoto Arakawa (pin) Shoji Kai
*Kido & George Takano (pin) Eigen & *Kuniaki Kobayashi
Hoshino (DQ) Sugiyama
Matsuda (10:04 thesz press) Strong Kobayashi
Fujinami & Choshu (2-1) Ueda & Go
1: Fujinami (10:46 rolling clutch hold) Go
2: Go (2:19 pin) Choshu
3: Fujinami & Choshu (5:45 DQ)
Pre-Japanese Championship Tournament Third Place Match: Sakaguchi (6:42 DQ) Saito
WWWF Heavyweight Title: Backlund* (21:12 COR) Inoki
1978/12/16 Tokyo - Kuramae Kokugikan (7,000)
Kai (11:24 abdominal stretch) Junji Hirata
Eigen & Kurisu (17:06 pin) Arakawa & Takano
Kido & Choshu drew Isamu Teranishi & Animal Hamaguchi
Hoshino (9:40 backslide) Go
Fujinami (11:54 DCOR) Saito
Strong Kobayashi (9:05 DQ) Sugiyama
Sakaguchi (6:38 DQ) Ueda
Pre-Japan Championship Final: Inoki (23:06 octopus hold) Matsuda
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