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History of Puroresu
pre-1940s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s
1980
1981
| 01/04 | Jaguar Yokota vacates WWWA World Tag Team Title to challenge for WWWA World Singles Title. |
| 01/18 | 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. |
| 01/22 | Jumbo Tsuruta defeats Abdullah the Butcher in Nirasaki to win NWA United National Heavyweight Title. |
| 02/25 | 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. |
| 03/20 | Seiji Sakaguchi abandons WWF International Tag Team Title and NWA North American Tag Team Title, which he holds with Riki Choshu, in order to enter the International Wrestling Grand Prix tournament. |
| 03/26 | Perro Aguayo defeats Gran Hamada in tournament final in Shimizu to become the first WWF Light Heavyweight champion. |
| 04/01 | The International Wrestling Grand Prix Committee is founded. |
| 04/13 | Kintaro Ohki (Ill Kim) is ordered by the NWA Board to vacate his NWA International Heavyweight Title which he has been defending since 72/12. Also, Giant Baba vacates All Asia Heavyweight Title. |
| 04/17 | NWF Heavyweight Title is held up after match between the champion Antonio Inoki and Stan Hansen in Kagoshima ends as no-contest. |
| 04/18 | 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. |
| 05/04 | Paul Ellering & Terry Latham defeat Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue in Sapporo to win the vacant IWA World Tag Team Title. |
| 05/08 | 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. |
| 07/31 | WWF Junior Heavyweight champion Tatsumi Fujinami defeats NWA World champion Les Thornton in Osaka (NWA title not on line). |
| 08/09 | International Wrestling Enterprise has what ends up being the last card of the company in Rausu, Hokkaido. |
| 09/16 | International Wrestling Enterprise wrestlers Mighty Inoue, Goro Tsurumi, Hiromichi Fuyuki, and Nobuyoshi (Apollo) Sugawara join All Japan. |
| 09/30 | International Wrestling Enterprise officially closes. IWA World Heavyweight, Mid-Heavyweight, and Tag Team are all abandoned. |
| 10/02 | After having a match against Gen'ichiro Tenryu, former International Wrestling Enterprise star Ashura Hara also joins All Japan. |
| 10/08 | Former International Wrestling Enterprise wrestlers, Rusher Kimura, Animal Hamaguchi, and Isamu Teranishi, join New Japan on a card billed as New Japan vs International Wrestling Enterprise. |
| 10/09 | Bruiser Brody defeats Dory Funk Jr. in Tokyo to win NWA International Heavyweight Title. |
| 10/16 | After defending the title against Steve Travis, Tatsumi Fujinami vacates the WWF Junior Heavyweight Title in order to move up to the heavyweight division. |
| 11/01 | Dory Funk Jr. defeats Bruiser Brody in Tokyo to win NWA International Heavyweight Title. |
| 11/09 | Yukari Ohmori & Mimi Hagiwara defeat Nancy Kumi & Ayumi Hori in Obuyama to win WWWA World Tag Team Title. |
1982
1983
| 02/11 | Giant Baba defeats Harley Race in St. Louis to win PWF Heavyweight Title. |
| 02/23 | 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. |
| 04/12 | Stan Hansen & Ron Bass defeat Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta in Matsuyama to win NWA International Tag Team Title. |
| 04/15 | Atsushi Onita vacates NWA International Junior Heavyweight Title due to a injury from a match against Hector Guerrero. |
| 04/17 | Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta defeat Stan Hansen & Ron Bass in Nagasaki to win NWA International Tag Team Title. |
| 04/21 | Tiger Mask and Dynamite Kid wrestle for the vacant NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title in Tokyo but have no winner decided. |
| 05/01 | Tatsumi Fujinami defeats Canek in Mexico City to win UWA World Heavyweight Title. |
| 05/06 | 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. |
| 05/26 | Chavo Guerrero defeats Ultra Seven in tournament final in Tenryu to win the vacant NWA International Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| 06/01 | Jaguar Yokota defeats La Galactica in Ohmiya to win WWWA World Title. |
| 06/02 |  Hulk Hogan defeats Antonio Inoki by KO in Tokyo to win the first International Wrestling Grand Prix Championship Tournament. Tiger Mask defeats Kuniaki Kobayashi in Tokyo to win the vacant NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title on the same card. |
| 06/12 | Tiger Mask defeats Fishman in Mexico City to win the vacant WWF Junior Heavyweight Title. Also on the same card, Canek defeats Tatsumi Fujinami in Mexico City to win UWA World Heavyweight Title. |
| 06/17 | Riki Choshu, Hamaguchi, Killer Khan, and Kuniaki Kobayashi form the original Ishin Gundan(Restruction Force) with a support of Masa Saito. |
| Jumbo Tsuruta vacates NWA United National Heavyweight Title while on tour in Dallas to concentrate on winning NWA International Heavyweight Title from Bruiser Brody. |
| Dynamite Girls (Jumbo Hori & Yukari Ohmori) defeat Devil Masami & Talantula in Ashikaga to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Title. |
| 07/26 | Tiger Jeet Singh & Umanosuke Ueda defeat Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta in Fukuoka to win NWA International Tag Team Title. |
| 08/01 | Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta defeat Tiger Jeet Singh & Umanosuke Ueda in Tokyo to win NWA International Tag Team Title. |
| 08/04 | Tatsumi Fujinami defeats Riki Choshu by countout in Tokyo to win WWF International Heavyweight Title but refuses the belt. |
| 08/12 | 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. |
| 08/31 | In his retirement match, Terry Funk teams with Dory Funk Jr. and defeat Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy. Jumbo Tsuruta defeats Bruiser Brody to win NWA International Heavyweight Title on the same card. |
| 09/08 | Stan Hansen defeats Giant Baba in Chiba to win PWF Heavyweight Title. |
| 11/03 | The Cobra defeats Davey Boy Smith in Tokyo to win the vacant NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| 12/15 | OBITUARY: Oki Shikina [Honolulu, HI] - wrestler, referee, Rikidozan's wrestling teacher |
| 12/26 | Bob Backlund loses WWF Heavyweight Title to Iron Sheik after almost 6 years of the title reign. |
1984
| 01/23 | 1983 IWGP winner Hulk Hogan wins WWF Heavyweight Title from Iron Sheik at Madison Square Garden in New York City. |
| 02/03 | David Von Erich defeats Michael Hayes in Dallas to win NWA United National Heavyweight Title. |
| Dynamite Kid defeats Davey Boy Smith in Sappporo during a 3-way round-robin tournament for the vacant WWF Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| 02/05 | OBITUARY: El Santo (66) |
| 02/07 | Dynamite Kid defeats The Cobra in Tokyo to win a 3-way round-robin tournament for the vacant WWF Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| 02/10 | OBITUARY: David Von Erich [Tokyo, night before the first card of an All Japan tour] - reigning NWA United National Heavyweight champion |
| 02/16 | Ashura Hara & Takashi Ishikawa defeat Jerry Morrow & Thomas Ivey in Nagasaki to win the vacant All Asia Tag Team Title. |
| 02/23 | Jumbo Tsuruta pins Nick Bockwinkel in Tokyo to be the first Japanese to win the AWA World Heavyweight Title. Also on the same card, Gen'ichiro Tenryu defeats Rick Steamboat to win the vacant NWA United National Heavyweight Title. |
| 02/26 | Mighty Inoue defeats Chavo Guerrero in Osaka to win NWA International Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| 04/10 |  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 |
| 04/11 | UWF has its first card in Omiya. |
| 04/17 | Gran Hamada defeats Perro Aguayo in Tokyo to win WWF World Light Heavyweight Title. |
| 04/25 | 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. |
| 05/20 | Jumbo Tsuruta & Gen'ichiro Tenryu wrestle Tiger Jeet Singh & Umanosuke Ueda for the vacant NWA International Tag Team Title but the match ends as DDQ. |
| Villano III defeats Gran Hamada in Mexico City to win WWF World Light Heavyweight Title. |
| 05/24 | Ric Flair defeats Kerry Von Erich Yokosuka to win NWA World Heavyweight Title. |
| 05/27 | OBITUARY: Vincent J. McMahon - founder, World Wide Wrestling Federation |
| 06/28 | Satoru Sayama and Kazuo Yamazaki join the UWF. |
| 07/23 | Sayama has his first match in 354days on a UWF card at Korakuen Hall. |
| 07/31 | Giant Baba defeats Stan Hansen in Tokyo to win PWF Heavyweight Title. |
| 08/02 | 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. |
| 08/26 | Strong Kobayashi retires on a New Japan card. |
| 09/03 | Jumbo Tsuruta & Gen'ichiro Tenryu defeat Bruiser Brody & Crusher Blackwell in Hiroshima to win the vacant NWA International Tag Team Title. |
| 09/11 | Osamu Kido, one of New Japan's original wrestlers, jumps to UWF. |
| 09/21 | Riki Choshu and his Ishin Gundan leave New Japan and form Japan Pro-Wrestling. |
| 10/22 | Ashura Hara is stripped of All Asia Tag Team Title. |
| 11/14 | In a shocking news, the British Bulldogs jump from New Japan to All Japan. |
| 12/28 | The Cobra defeats Black Tiger at Madison Square Garden in New York to win the vacant WWF Junior Heavyweight Title. |
1985
| 01/03 | Atsushi Ohnita retires from All Japan for the first time. |
| 01/21 | OBITUARY: Eddie Graham (55) [Tampa, FL - suicide] - former NWA president |
| 02/21 | Japan Pro starts copromoting with All Japan. |
| 02/25 | Dump Matsumoto & Crane Yu defeat Crush Gals (Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo) in Tokyo to win WWWA World Tag Team Title. |
| 03/09 | The Road Warriors have their first Japanese match on the first puroresu card at Ryogoku Kokugikan(Sumo Hall) promoted by All Japan. |
| 03/21 | Bruiser Brody leaves All Japan and jumps to New Japan. |
| 04/15 | Takashi Ishikawa & Akio Sato defeat Animal Hamaguchi & Masanobu Kurisu in Nagasaki to win the vacant All Asia Tag Team Title. |
| 05/16 | Crush Gals (Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo) defeat Dump Matsumoto & Bull Nakano in Ohmiya to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Title. |
| 05/20 | Hiro Saito defeats The Cobra in Hiroshima to win WWF Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| 05/24 | Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura defeat Dick Murdoch & Adrian Adonis in Kobe to win the vacant WWF International Tag Team Title. |
| 06/08 | Dynamite Kid defeats Mighty Inoue in Takamatsu to win NWA International Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| 06/13 | Kuniaki Kobayashi defeats Dynamite Kid in Koga to win NWA International Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| 07/18 | Isamu Teranishi & Animal Hamaguchi defeat Takashi Ishikawa & Akio Sato in Tokyo to win All Asia Tag Team Title. |
| 07/19 | Tatsumi Fujinami gives up WWF International Heavyweight Title after a match against Super Strong Machine in Sapporo ends as a double disqualification. |
| 07/28 | WWF Junior Heavyweight champion Hiro Saito defeats The Cobra in Osaka to win NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title. The Cobra, however, returns later on the same card to challenge Saito and wins both titles. |
| 07/30 | Stan Hansen defeats Giant Baba in Fukuoka to win PWF Heavyweight Title. |
| 08/01 | The Cobra vacates NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| 08/31 | Tiger Mask (2nd, Mitsuharu Misawa) defeats Kuniaki Kobayashi in Tokyo to win NWA International Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| 09/02 | 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. |
| 10/31 | New Japan and WWF end the working agreement. The International Heavyweight, Junior Heavyweight, and International Tag Team are all abandoned. |
| 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. |
1986
| 01/03 | The UWF wrestlers, Maeda, Nobuhiko Takada, Fujiawara, Kido, and Yamazaki start a so-called interpromotional feud againt New Japan. |
| 01/05 | Jumping Bomb Angels (Itsuki Yamzaki & Noriyo Tateno) defeat Bull Nakano & Condor Saito in Tokyo to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Title. |
| 02/05 | Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu defeat Jumbo Tsuruta & Gen'ichiro Tenryu in Sapporo to win NWA International Tag Team Title. |
| 03/20 | Crush Gals (Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo) defeat Jumping Bomb Angels (Itsuki Yamzaki & Noriyo Tateno) in Osaka to win WWWA World Tag Team Title. |
| 04/05 | Riki Choshu defeats Stan Hansen in Yokohama to win PWF Heavyweight Title. |
| 04/06 | OBITUARY: El Solitario [Mexico - heart attack] |
| 04/13 | A former yokozuna Hiroshi Wajima joins All Japan. |
| 04/26 | Gen'ichiro Tenryu defeats Ted DiBiase in Ohmiya to win the vacant NWA United National Heavyweight Title. |
| 07/31 | Stan Hansen defeats Jumbo Tsuruta in Tokyo to win NWA International Heavyweight Title. |
| 08/17 | 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. |
| 10/21 | Jumbo Tsuruta defeats Stan Hansen in Tokyo to win NWA International Heavyweight Title. |
| 10/30 | Ashura Hara & Super Strong Machine defeat Takashi Ishikawa & Mighty Inoue in Aomori to win All Asia Tag Team Title. |
1987
| 02/05 | Jumbo Tsuruta & Gen'ichiro Tenryu defeat Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu in Tokyo to win NWA International Tag Team Title. |
| 02/23 | 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 |
| 03/12 | Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal) defeat Jumbo Tsuruta & Gen'ichiro Tenryu in Sapporo to win NWA International Tag Team Title. |
| 04/15 | 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] |
1988
| 01/05 | 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. |
| 02/01 | New Japan fires Akira Maeda. |
| 03/09 | Footloose (Toshiaki Kawada & Samson Fuyuki) defeat Takashi Ishikawa & Mighty Inoue in Yokohama to win All Asia Tag Team Title. Also on the same card, NWA United National Heavyweight champion Gen'ichiro Tenryu defeats Stan Hansen in Yokohama to win PWF Heavyweight Title. |
| 03/27 | Bruiser Brody defeats Jumbo Tsuruta in Tokyo to win NWA International Heavyweight Title. |
| 04/08 | Akira Maeda, Nobuhiko Takada, Yamazaki, and few others announce that they will start the new UWF. |
| 04/19 | Jumbo Tsuruta defeats Bruiser Brody in Sendai to win NWA International Heavyweight Title. This is the last match between the two. |
| 05/02 | Antonio Inoki vacates IWGP Heavyweight Title due to foot injury. |
| 05/08 | Tatsumi Fujinami defeats Big Van Vader in Tokyo to win the vacant IWGP Heavyweight Title. |
| 05/27 | IWGP Heavyweight Title is held up after a match between the champion Tatsumi Fujinami and Riki Choshu in Sendai ends as a no-contest. |
| 06/10 | PWF World Tag Team champions Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu defeat NWA International Tag Team champions Road Warriors in Tokyo to unify both titles to become the first NWA International Tag Team TitleWorld Tag Team Champions. |
| 06/24 | Tatsumi Fujinami defeats Riki Choshu in Osaka to win the held-up IWGP Heavyweight Title. |
| 07/04 | OBITUARY: Adrian Adonis (34) [Canada - auto accident] |
| 07/16 | OBITUARY: Frank Goodish / Bruiser Brody [Puerto Rico - stab wounds] |
| 07/19 | Fire Jets (Yumiko Hotta & Mitsuko Nishiwaki) defeat Bull Nakano & Grizzly Iwamoto in Tokyo to win WWWA World Tag Team Title. |
| 07/27 | Stan Hansen defeats Gen'ichiro Tenryu in Nagano to win NWA United National and PWF heavyweight titles. |
| 07/29 | Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy defeat Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu in Takasaki to win World Tag Team Title (All Japan). |
| 07/31 | Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu defeat Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy in Hakodate to win World Tag Team Title (All Japan). |
| 08/08 | 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). |
| 08/30 | Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu defeat Gen'ichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara in Osaka to win World Tag Team Title (All Japan). |
| 09/09 | Shunji Takano & Shin'ichi Nakano defeat Footloose (Toshiaki Kawada & Samson Fuyuki) in Chiba to win All Asia Tag Team Title. |
| 09/15 | Footloose (Toshiaki Kawada & Samson Fuyuki) defeat Shunji Takano & Shin'ichi Nakano in Tokyo to win All Asia Tag Team Title. |
| 11/15 | Ryuma Go, Apollo Sugawara, and Masahiko Takasugi announce the foundation of Pioneer Senshi, the first independent promotion in Japan. |
| 11/19 | Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vacate World Tag Team Title (All Japan) for the '88 Real World Tag Team Championship League. |
| 12/09 | 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). |
1989
| 01/07 | Emperor Hirohito dies, and the Showa era ends. All promotions cancel their scheduled cards for two days. |
| 01/29 | Lioness Asuka defeats Chigusa Nagayo in Tokyo to win the vacant WWWA World Title. |
| 02/02 | All Japan holds a card in Kansas City. In the main event, Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu defeat Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy in Kansas City to win World Tag Team Title (All Japan). |
| 02/11 | 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. |
| 04/18 | NWA International Heavyweight champion Jumbo Tsuruta defeats PWF and United National heavyweight champion Stan Hansen, to become the first Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight champion. |
| 04/24 | 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. |
| 05/25 | Antonio Inoki defeats Shota Chochoshivili in Osaka to win World Martial Arts Heavyweight Title. Also on the same card, Salman Hashimikov defeats Big Van Vader to win IWGP Heavyweight Title. |
| 06/05 | Gen'ichiro Tenryu defeats Jumbo Tsuruta in Tokyo to win Triple Crown Heavyweight Title. Also on the same card, Can-Am Express (Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas) defeat Footloose (Toshiaki Kawada & Samson Fuyuki) in Tokyo to win All Asia Tag Team Title. |
| 06/18 | Marine Wolves (Suzuka Minami & Akira Hokuto) defeat Grizzly Iwamoto & Bison Kimura in Tokyo to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Title. |
| 07/11 | Stan Hansen & Gen'ichiro Tenryu defeat Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu in Sapporo to win World Tag Team Title (All Japan). |
| 07/12 | Riki Choshu defeats Salman Hashimikov in Osaka to win IWGP Heavyweight Title. |
| 07/18 | Fire Jets (Yumiko Hotta & Mitsuko Nishiwaki) defeat Marine Wolves (Suzuka Minami & Akira Hokuto) in Tokyo to win WWWA World Tag Team Title. |
| 07/19 | Lioness Asuka vacates WWWA World Title upon retirement. |
| 07/22 | Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu defeat Stan Hansen & Gen'ichiro Tenryu in Ishikawa to win World Tag Team Title (All Japan). |
| 07/24 | Antonio Inoki wins a seat in the House of Council(Japanese equivalent to the US Senate) and becomes the first pro-wrestler to be a congressman. |
| 07/25 | Lioness Asuka retires. |
| 08/10 | Big Van Vader defeats Riki Choshu in Tokyo to win IWGP Heavyweight Title. |
| 10/06 | 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. |
| 10/11 | Jumbo Tsuruta defeats Gen'ichiro Tenryu in Yokohama to win Triple Crown Heavyweight Title. |
| 10/20 | Footloose (Toshiaki Kawada & Samson Fuyuki) defeat Can-Am Express (Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas) in Nagoya to win All Asia Tag Team Title. |
| Stan Hansen & Gen'ichiro Tenryu defeat Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu in Nagoya to win World Tag Team Title (All Japan). |
| 11/29 | Stan Hansen & Gen'ichiro Tenryu vacate World Tag Team Title (All Japan) for the annual Real World Tag Team Championship League. |
| 12/06 | 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. |
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