| date |
location |
opponent(s) & partner(s) |
result |
note |
Strong Kobayashi (I.W.E.) |
| 01/06 | Osaka - Pref. Gym | w/ Great Kusatsu vs Ivan Strogov & Gran Laban (Otto Wanz) | W (2-1)
1: Laban (12:32 pin) Kobayashi
2: Kusatsu (9:13 pin) Strogov
3: Kobayashi (10:47 pin) Laban | |
| 01/07 | Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi - City Gym | w/ Mighty Inoue vs Ivan Strogov & Gran Laban (Otto Wanz) | W (2-1)
1: Strogov (15:10 pin) Inoue
2: Kobayashi (6:41 boston crab) Strogov
3: Inoue (2:06 pin) Strogov | |
| 01/09 | Oita - Pref. Gym | Larry Hennig | W (2-1)
1: Kobayashi (18:15 pin)
2: Hennig (5:12 boston crab)
3: Kobayashi (3:12 boston crab) | |
| 01/11 | Miyazaki - Pref. Gym | Larry Hennig | D (1-1)
1: Kobayashi (6:55 pin)
2: Hennig (2:41 pin)
3: (14:02 DCOR) | |
| 01/13 | Kanoya, Kagoshima - City Gym | Gran Laban (Otto Wanz) | W (12:51 boston crab) | |
| 01/14 | Hayato, Kagoshima - Town Gym | Ivan Strogov | W (19:12 pin) | |
| 01/15 | Buzen, Fukuoka - Hachiya Jr. High School ground | Ken Patera | W (16:47 pin) | |
| 01/16 | Fukuoka - Kyuden Memorial Gym | The Professional (Doug Gilbert) | W (22:50 KO) | cage match; retained IWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 01/18 | Tokuyama, Yamaguchi - City Gym | Mike Paidousis | W (16:10 pin) | |
| 01/20 | Wakayama - City Gym | Gran Laban (Otto Wanz) | W (16:10 pin) | |
| 01/24 | Hamakita, Shizuoka - Civic Gym | The Professional (Doug Gilbert) | W (18:15 COR) | |
| 01/25 | Tokyo - Itabashi Ward Gym | w/ Great Kusatsu [c] vs The Professional (Doug Gilbert) & Larry Hennig | W (2-1)
1: Hennig (11:24 pin) Kobayashi
2: Kobayashi (3:25 pin) Hennig
3: Kusatsu (4:04 pin) Professional | retained IWA World Tag Team Title |
| 01/26 | Yokohama - Culture Gym | Larry Hennig | W (19:50 KO) | cage match |
| 02/24 | Tokyo - Ohta Ward Gym | w/ Mighty Inoue vs Mad Dog Vachon & Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky) | W (2-0)
1: Inoue (14:02 rolling clutch) Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky)
2: Kobayashi & Inoue (6:25 DQ) | |
| 02/25 | Maebashi, Gunma - Sports Center | w/ Isamu Teranishi vs Angelo Mosca & Jose Quintero | W (2-1)
1: Mosca (12:01 pin) Teranishi
2: Teranishi (4:40 pin) Quintero
3: Kobayashi (4:55 pin) Mosca | |
| 02/27 | Nagoya - Aichi Pref. Gym | Angelo Mosca | W (19:40 boston crab) | |
| 03/02 | Ureshino, Saga - Town Gym | w/ Mighty Inoue vs Mad Dog Vachon & Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky) | W (2-1)
1: Kobayashi & Inoue (14:48 DQ)
2: Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky) (3:32 sleeper hold) Inoue
3: Inoue (3:03 pin) Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky) | |
| 03/03 | Kitakyushu, Fukuoka - Wakamatsu Ward Culture Gym | Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky) | W (17:11 pin) | |
| 03/04 | Tagawa, Fukuoka - Traveling Gym | w/ Great Kusatsu vs Mad Dog Vachon & Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky) | W (2-1)
1: Kusatsu (18:43 rolling clutch) Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky)
2: Vachon (7:57 pin) Kobayashi
3: Kobayashi (8:02 pin) Vachon | |
| 03/05 | Yamaguchi - Pref. Gym | w/ Mighty Inoue vs Mad Dog Vachon & Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky) | L (1-2)
1: Vachon & Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky) (12:02 DQ)
2: Kobayashi (4:40 pin) Vachon
3: Vachon (12:03 pin) Kobayashi | |
| 03/06 | Hiroshima - Pref. Gym | Mad Dog Vachon | W (25:55 KO) | cage match |
| 03/07 | Yokkaichi, Mie - City Gym | Horst Hoffman | W (2-1)
1: Hoffman (16:11 pin)
2: Kobayashi (3:37 boston crab)
3: Kobayashi (forfeit) | retained IWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 03/08 | Nagano - City Gym | w/ Great Kusatsu vs Mad Dog Vachon & Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky) | W
1: Vachon (13:15 pin) Kusatsu
2: Kobayashi (9:15 half crab) Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky)
3: Kusatsu (8:11 figure-4 leg lock) Vachon | retained IWA World Tag Team Title |
| 03/09 | Niigata - City Gym | Mad Dog Vachon | W (20:17 KO) | cage match |
| 03/12 | Akita - City Gym | Horst Hoffman D (30min limit) | | |
| 03/14 | Haranomachi, Fukushima - Haranomachi Gym | w/ Great Kusatsu vs Mad Dog Vachon & Rapapapotski (Soldat Gorky) | W (2-1)
1: Kobayashi (13:22 pin) Vachon
2: Vachon (4:57 pin) Kobayashi
3: Kusatsu (3:30 rolling clutch) Vachon | retained IWA World Tag Team Title |
| 03/16 | Machida, Tokyo - City Gym | Mad Dog Vachon | W (20:58 KO) | cage match; retained IWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 04/18 | Tsuchiura, Ibaraki - Sports Center | w/ Great Kusatsu vs Mad Dog Vachon & Ivan Koloff | L (1-2)
1: Vachon (4:30 pin) Kusatsu
2: Kusatsu (2:58 pin) Vachon
3: Koloff (3:15 Canadian backbreaker) Kobayashi | lost IWA World Tag Team Title |
| 04/20 | Hachinohe, Aomori - City Gym | The Canadian (Buster Matthews) | W (2-1)
1: Kobayashi (4:07 pin)
2: Canadian (13:08 pin)
3: Kobayashi (7:18 pin) | |
| 04/22 | Kushiro, Hokkaido - Welfare Gym | Ivan Koloff | D (18:25 DCOR) | |
| 04/24 | Nemuro, Hokkaido - Youth Center | Edouard Carpentier | D (16:10 DCO) | |
| 04/25 | Sapporo - Nakajima Sports Center | Ivan Koloff | W (26:12 KO) | cage match |
| 04/27 | Sendai - Miyagi Pref. Sports Center | Edouard Carpentier | W (2-1)
1: Carpentier (8:58 rolling clutch)
2: Kobayashi (5:56 pin)
3: Kobayashi (4:17 pin) | retained IWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 04/28 | Easashi, Iwate - City Gym | w/ Rusher Kimura vs Mad Dog Vachon & Lars Anderson | W (2-1)
1: Anderson (15:30 pin) Kobayashi
2: Kobayashi & Kimura (6:02 DQ)
3: Kobayashi (3:30 boston crab) Anderson | |
| 04/29 | Fujioka, Gunma - Kabura Mineral Spring square | w/ Great Kusatsu & Isamu Teranishi vs Mad Dog Vachon, Lars Anderson, & Bob Ramstead | W (2-1) | |
| 04/30 | Tokyo - Adacahi Ward Gym | Lars Anderson | W (14:06 boston crab) | |
| 05/01 | Toyohashi, Aichi - City Gym | w/ Great Kusatsu & Isamu Teranishi vs Mad Dog Vachon, Ivan Koloff, & Lars Anderson | D (1-1)
1: Anderson (26:06 pin) Kusatsu
2: Kusatsu (6:05 pin) Anderson
3: (45min limit draw) | |
| 05/05 | Kitakyushu, Fukuoka - Mihagino Gym | Tarzan Tyler | W (18:10 KO) | cage match |
| 05/06 | Okuchi, Kagoshima - Municipal Stadium | w/ Isamu Teranishi vs Ivan Koloff & The Canadian (Buster Matthews) | W (2-1)
1: Koloff (15:59 Canadian backbreaker) Kobayashi
2: Teranishi (7:50 rolling clutch) Canadian
3: Kobayashi (6:50 pin) Canadian | |
| 05/07 | Sendai, Kagoshima - City Gym | w/ Mighty Inoue & Tadaharu Tanaka vs Lars Anderson, Bob Ramstead, & The Canadian (Buster Matthews) | W (2-1)
1: Anderson (20:07 pin) Kobayashi
2: Inoue (6:40 pin) Canadian
3: Kobayashi (5:48 boston crab) Anderson | |
| 05/10 | Yonago, Tottori - City Gym | Bob Ramstead | W (2-1)
1: Ramstead (18:05 pin)
2: Kobayashi (9:11 pin)
3: Kobayashi (11:07 pin) | |
| 05/11 | Izumo, Shimane - City Gym | w/ Mighty Inoue vs Lars Anderson & Bob Ramstead | W (2-1)
1: Anderson (16:30 pin) Kobayashi
2: Inoue (3:15 pin) Ramstead
3: Kobayashi (11:10 boston crab) Anderson | |
| 05/12 | Fukuchiyama, Kyoto - City Gym | w/ Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi vs Mad Dog Vachon, Tarzan Tyler, & Lars Anderson | W (2-1)
1: Anderson (16:11 pin) Inoue
2: Kobayashi (4:34 pin) Vachon
3: Inoue (4:50 rolling clutch) Anderson | |
| 05/13 | Mishima, Shizuoka - Nagabu Park | Tarzan Tyler | W (15:52 pin) | |
| 05/14 | Funabashi, Chiba - Health Center Skate Rink | Lars Anderson | W (23:50 KO) | cage match |
| 05/15 | Ohmiya, Saitama - Skate Center | Ivan Koloff | W (2-1)
1: Koloff (2:14 Canadian backbreaker)
2: Kobayashi (4:13 pin)
3: Kobayashi (2:32 pin) | retained IWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 06/18 | Ichihara, Chiba - Seaside Gym | w/ Rusher Kimura vs Texas Outlaws (Dick Murdoch & Dusty Rhodes) | W (2-1)
1: Murdoch (6:11 pin) Kobayashi
2: Kobayashi (5:46 pin) Murdoch
3: Kobayashi & (2:01 DQ) | |
| 06/19 | Kasama, Ibaraki - City Gym | Dusty Rhodes | W (2-1)
1: Kobayashi (10:07 DQ)
2: Rhodes (0:57 pin)
3: Kobayashi (4:20 pin) | retained IWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 06/20 | Chichibu, Saitama - City Gym | Dick Murdoch | D (1-1)
1: Kobayashi (12:32 boston crab)
2: Murdoch (3:16 abdominal stretch)
3: (3:14 DCOR) | |
| 06/21 | Joetsu, Niigata - Welfare Civic Hall | Dusty Rhodes | L (12:55 pin) | |
| 06/22 | Sakata, Yamagata - City Gym | Buddy Wolff | W (14:55 boston crab) | |
| 06/23 | Yonezawa, Yamagata - City Gym | Dusty Rhodes | W (22:20 KO) | Cage Match |
| 06/26 | Odate, Akita - City Gym | Dick Murdoch | L (15:34 boston crab) | |
| 06/27 | Hanyu, Saitama - Tobu Automobile Factory site | w/ Great Kusatsu vs Dick Murdoch & Buddy Wolff | W (2-1)
1: Murdoch (16:50 pin) Kobayashi
2: Kusatsu (8:23 pin) Wolff
3: Kobayashi (4:35 boston crab) Murdoch | |
| 06/28 | Karasuyama, Tochigi - Town Gym | Skandor Akbar | W (11:20 abdominal stretch) | |
| 06/29 | Handa, Aichi - Civic Hall | Dick Murdoch | W (2-1)
1: Murdoch (12:47 pin)
2: Kobayashi (8:20 DQ)
3: Kobayashi (4:19 boston crab) | retained IWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 06/30 | Gifu - Civic Center | Skandor Akbar | W (20:15 KO) | Cage Match |
| 07/01 | Toyota, Aichi - City Gym | Skandor Akbar | W (10:20 abdominal stretch) | |
| 07/02 | Koshoku, Nagano - City Gym | w/ Great Kusatsu vs Texas Outlaws (Dick Murdoch & Dusty Rhodes) | W (2-1)
1: Kusatsu (28:38 abdominal stretch) Rhodes
2: Murdoch (3:04 pin) Kobayashi
3: Kobayashi (2:17 boston crab) Murdoch | |
| 07/04 | Toyama - City Gym | Dick Murdoch | W (23:50 KO) | Cage Match |
| 07/07 | Nanao, Ishikawa - City Gym | w/ Animal Hamaguchi vs Dusty Rhodes & Buddy Wolff | W (2-1)
1: Kobayashi (12:26 boston crab) Wolff
2: Rhodes (5:01 sleeper hold) Hamaguchi
3: Hamaguchi (3:26 pin) Rhodes | |
| 07/09 | Osaka - Pref. Gym | Rusher Kimura | W (2-1)
1: Kimura (16:12 pin)
2: Kobayashi (2:07 pin)
3: Kobayashi (6:12 pin) | retained IWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 07/10 | Okayama - Okayama Budokan | w/ Rusher Kimura vs Dusty Rhodes & Buddy Wolff | W (2-0)
1: Kobayashi (11:38 boston crab) Wolff
2: Kimura (6:52 boston crab) Rhodes | |
| 07/12 | Takada, Oita - Municipal Stadium | Ric Flair | W (12:12 boston crab) | |
| 07/14 | Hagi, Yamaguchi - Iron Works Center | Dusty Rhodes | D (11:36 DCOR) | |
| 07/15 | Shobara, Hiroshima - Vocational High School Gym | w/ Great Kusatsu & Rusher Kimura vs Dick Murdoch, Dusty Rhodes & Buddy Wolff | W (2-1)
1: Kobayashi, Kusatsu, & Kimura (15:20 DQ)
2: Murdoch (4:30 pin) Kobayashi
3: Kobayashi (3:55 pin) Murdoch | |
| 09/08 | Tokyo - Nippon Univ. Auditorium | w/ Rusher Kimura & Katsuzo Oiyama vs Lars Anderson, Moose Cholak, & Fricky Alberts | W (2-1)
1: Anderson (16:48 pin) Oiyama
2: Kobayashi, Kimura, & Oiyama (2:37 DQ)
3: Kimura (2:43 pin) Alberts | |
| 09/09 | Ohmiya, Saitama - Skate Center | Fricky Alberts | W (4:24 pin) | World Series |
| 09/10 | Utsunomiya - Tochigi Pref. Gym | w/ Great Kusatsu vs Blackjack Mulligan & Lars Anderson | W (2-1)
1: Mulligan (7:40 pin) Kusatsu
2: Kobayashi (17:55 pin) Anderson
3: Kusatsu (7:48 abdominal stretch) Mulligan | |
| 09/11 |
Fukushima - Pref. Gym | w/ Rusher Kimura & Isamu Teranishi vs Moose Cholak & Blackjack Mulligan & Dale Lewis | W (2-1)
1: Kobayashi's team (15:08 DQ)
2: Mulligan (4:20 pin) Kobayashi
3: Kobayashi (4:10 boston crab) Mulligan | |
| 09/12 | Shibata, Niigata - City Gym | Moose Cholak | W (10:20 pin) | World Series |
| 09/13 |
Tohkamachi, Niigata |
Great Kusatsu & Tadaharu Tanaka vs Blackjack Mulligan & Lars Anderson & Willem Hall |
W (2-1)
1: Kobayashi's team (14:02 DQ)
2: Mulligan (14:25 pin) Kobayashi
3: Kobayashi (7:48 boston crab) Mulligan |
|
| 09/18 | Oketo, Hokkaido - Sports Center | w/ Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue vs Blackjack Mulligan, William Hall, & Dale Lewis | W (2-1)
1: Kobayashi, Kimura, & Inoue (18:47 DQ)
2: Mulligan (4:15 pin) Kobayashi
3: Kobayashi (5:55 boston crab) Mulligan | |
| 09/19 | Hidaka, Hokkaido - Youth Hall | w/ Great Kusatsu & Rusher Kimura vs Lars Anderson, Moose Cholak, & Bob Bruggers | W (2-1)
1: Kusatsu (16:18 rolling clutch) Bruggers
2: Anderson (5:39 pin) Kimura
3: Kimura (3:32 pin) Anderson | |
| 09/20 | Asahikawa, Hokkaido - City Gym | w/ Great Kusatsu vs William Hall, Lars Anderson | W (2-1)
1: Kusatsu (16:02 abdominal stretch) Hall
2: Anderson (6:55 pin) Kobayashi
3: Kobayashi (4:20 pin) Anderson | |
| 09/21 |
Kitami, Hokkaido - Training Center | w/ Great Kusatsu & Rusher Kimura vs William Hall & Dale Lewis & Bob Bruggers | W (2-1)
1: Kimura (14:50 boston crab) Bruggers
2: Lewis (9:08 pin) Kusatsu
3: Kusatsu (6:50 figure-4 leg lock) Lewis | |
| 09/24 | Sapporo - Nakajima Sports Center | Verne Gagne | W (34:20 DQ) | Gagene retained AWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 09/26 | Tokyo - Korakuen Hall | Lars Anderson | L (14:36 DQ) | World Series |
| 09/27 | Nagoya - Aichi Pref. Gym | Verne Gagne | L (21:11 pin) | Gagne retained AWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 09/28 | Gifu - Civic Center | Rusher Kimura | W (20:50 pin) | World Series |
| 09/29 | Takayama, Gifu - City Gym | w/ Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue vs Blackjack Mulligan, Lars Anderson, & Greg Gagne | W (2-1)
1: Inoue (12:15 pin) Gagne
2: Anderson (8:58 pin) Kimura
3: Kimura (5:15 boston crab) Anderson | |
| 10/01 | Sakai, Osaka - Kaneoka Gym | Bob Bruggers | W (11:57 pin) | World Series |
| 10/03 | Komatsu, Ishikawa - City Gym | Tadaharu Tanaka | W (16:38 pin) | World Series |
| 10/06 | Takaoka, Toyama - City Gym | Isamu Teranishi | L (19:02 pin) | World Series |
| 10/07 | Okazaki, Aichi - Okazaki Park | w/ Great Kusatsu & Mighty Inoue vs Lars Anderson, Bob Bruggers, & Greg Gagne | W (2-1)
1: Inoue (19:10 pin) Bruggers
2: Anderson (9:30 pin) Kusatsu
3: Kusatsu (2:27 figure-4 leg lock) Anderson | |
| 10/08 | Osaka - Pref. Gym | w/ Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs Lars Anderson, William Hall, & Bob Bruggers | W (2-1)
1: Hamaguchi (14:15 pin) Bruggers
2: Anderson (6:18 pin) Inoue
3: Inoue (3:30 pin) Anderson | |
| 10/09 | Fukuoka - Kyuden Memorial Gym | w/ Mighty Inoue vs Blackjack Mulligan & Lars Anderson | L (1-2)
1: Anderson (20:53 pin) Kobayashi
2: Kobayashi (3:16 pin) Anderson
3: Mulligan (4:45 pin) Inoue | |
| 10/10 | Nagasaki - International Gym | w/ Isamu Teranishi vs Dale Lewis & Bob Bruggers | W (2-0)
1: Teranishi (11:40 german suplex) Bruggers
2: Kobayashi (3:05 boston crab) Lewis | |
| 10/11 | Oita - Pref. Gym | w/ Mighty Inoue vs Blackjack Mulligan & Bob Bruggers | W (2-1)
1: Inoue (14:31 pin) Bruggers
2: Mulligan (5:27 pin) Kobayashi
3: Kobayashi (4:07 boston crab) Mulligan | |
| 10/12 | Hiroshima - Pref. Gym | Blackjack Mulligan | W (25:18 KO) | cage match |
| 10/27 | Ishikari, Hokkaido | Gene Anderson | W | |
| 10/28 | Obihiro, Hokkaido | w/ Great Kusatsu vs Ole Anderson & Red Bastien | W | |
| 10/29 | Samani, Hokkaido | w/ Isamu Teranishi vs Gene Anderson & Ole Anderson | W | |
| 10/30 | Wakkanai, Hokkaido - City Gym | Gene Anderson | W | |
| 10/31 | Tashiro, Akita | Red Bastien | D (DCOR) | |
| 11/02 | Sendai - Miyagi Pref. Sports Center | Red Bastien | W (2-1)
1:Kobayashi (15:11 pin)
2:Bastien (5:54 pin)
3:Kobayashi (5:22 pin) | |
| 11/04 | Kamisu, Ibaragi - Town Gym | w/ Tadaharu Tanaka vs Klondike Bill & Dave Larsen | L | |
| 11/06 | Kashihara, Nara | Bill Howard | W | |
| 11/07 | Hekinan, Aichi | w/ Mighty Inoue vs Red Bastien & Bill Howard | W | |
| 11/09 | Katsuura, Wakayama - Tourism Hall | Wahoo McDaniel | L (1-2)
1:Kobayashi (11:16 pin)
2:McDaniel (2:04 pin)
3:McDaniel (2:46 pin) | lost IWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 11/10 | Himeji, Hyogo | Ole Anderson | W | |
| 11/14 | Nagano - Municipal Gym | Wahoo McDaniel | D (1-1)
1: Kobayashi (14:48 pin)
2: McDaniel (3:58 pin)
3: draw (2:05 DKO) | McDaniel retained IWA World Heavyweight Title |
| 11/15 | Ueda, Nagano - City Gym | w/ Isamu Teranishi vs Ole Anderson & Wahoo McDaniel | W | |
| 11/19 | Nakajo, Niigata | w/ Tadaharu Tanaka vs Gene Anderson & Ole Anderson | W | |
| 11/22 | Fussa, Tokyo - City Gym | Klondyke Bill | W | |
| 11/23 | Yashio, Saitama | w/ & Isamu Teranishi vs Klondyke Bill & Dave Larsen | W | |
| 11/24 | Yamagata - City Gym | Wahoo McDaniel | D (DCOR) | |
| 11/28 | Yokohama - Culture Gym | w/ Rusher Kimura vs Gene Anderson & Ole Anderson | W | |
| 11/29 | Choshi, Chiba | Bill Howard | W | |
| 11/30 | Tokyo - Korakuen Hall | Wahoo McDaniel | W (2-1)
1: McDaniel (12:56 pin)
2: Kobayashi (2:51 DQ)
3: Kobayashi (3:15 boston crab) | won IWA World Heavyweight Title |
