Disk 1
10/29/69 Niigata-shi Taiikukan
Sano Asatarou vs. Tosuke Fujii
Takeshi Oiso vs. Tetunosuke Daigo
Toyonobori & Great Kusatsu & Thunder Sugiyama vs. Buddy Colt & Gordon Nelson & Gorgeous George Jr.
5/2/72 Shibukawa City Gym: Monster Rousimoff (Andre The Giant) & Ivan Buyten & Tito Kopa vs. Rusher Kimura & Isamu Teranishi & Thunder Sugiyama
Highlights from 8mm and 16mm film
Strong Kobayashi debut
12/5/69
Toyonbori & Tadaharu Tanaka vs. Gordon Nelson & Ian Campbell
Sheik El Mansouri & Emil El Mansouri vs. Great Kusatsu & Strong Kobayashi
Strong Kobayashi vs. Bruno Erlington
2/6/70: Strong Kobayashi vs. Verne Gagne
5/14/70: Strong Kobayashi vs. Billy Robinson
7/9/70: Great Kusatsu vs. Edouard Carpentier
4/2/71: Karl Gotch vs. Billy Robinson
Disk 2
11/2/73: Strong Kobayashi vs. Red Bastien
1/1/74: Strong Kobayashi vs. Cowboy Bill Watts
10/10/73 Rusher Kimura vs. Black Jack Mulligan
1/25/74 Mito: Great Kusatsu & Isamu Teranishi vs. Buddy Roberts & Paul Vachon
1/26/74 Tokyo: Strong Kobayashi & Great Kusatsu vs. The Hollywood Blondes Buddy Roberts & Jerry Brown
Disk 3
6/4/72: Shozo Kobayashi vs. Don Leo Jonathon
6/18/72: Shozo Kobayashi vs. Monster Rousimoff
7/9/72: Strong Kobayashi vs. Rusher Kimura
9/8/73: Black Jack Mulligan vs.Animal Hamaguchi
9/8/73: Willem Hall vs Great Kusatsu
9/26/73: Lars Anderson vs. Shozo Kobayashi
Disk 4
Mighty Inoue vs. Animal Hamaguchi
Film Digest
9/24/73: Verne Gagne vs. Strong Kobayashi 12:00 Shown
6/30/73: Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu 5:30 Shown
11/28/73 Steel Cage Indian Strap Match: Great Kustasu vs. Wahoo McDaniel 10:00 Shown
12/5/69: Toyonobori & Tanaka vs. Nelson & Ian Campbell 2:40 Shown
12/5/69: Great Kusatsu & Thunder Sugiyama vs. Shiek El Mansouri & Emil El Mansouri 4:10 Shown
12/5/69: Shozo Kobayashi vs. Bruno Erlington 4:38 Shown
2/6/70: Verne Gagne vs. Shozo Kobayashi 9:00 Shown
5/14/70: Billy Robinson vs. Shozo Kobayashi 5:30 Shown
7/9/70: Edward Carpentier vs. Great Kusatsu 2:20 Shown
4/2/71: Karl Gotch vs. Billy Robinson 3:20 Shown
Disc 1 (3hr 2 min.)
TV Footage 10/29/69 Niigata-shi Taiikukan
Sano Asataro vs. Tosuke Fujii
Takeshi Oiso vs. Tetunosuke Daigo
Toyonobori & Great Kusatsu & Thunder Sugiyama vs. Buddy Colt & Gordon Nelson & Gorgeous George Jr.
5/2/72 Shibukawa City Gym: Monster Roussimoff (Andre The Giant) & Ivan Buyten (Franz Van Buyten) & Tito Kopa vs. Rusher Kimura & Isamu Teranishi & Thunder Sugiyama
Strong Kobayashi feature
Film Digest (highlights from 8mm and 16mm film) 12/5/69
Toyonbori & Tadaharu Tanaka vs. Gordon Nelson & Ian Campbell
Sheik El Mansouri & Emil El Mansouri vs. Great Kusatsu & Strong Kobayashi
Strong Kobayashi vs. Bruno Erlington
2/6/70: Strong Kobayashi vs. Verne Gagne
5/14/70: Strong Kobayashi vs. Billy Robinson
7/9/70: Great Kusatsu vs. Edouard Carpentier
4/2/71: Karl Gotch vs. Billy Robinson
Disc 2 (2 hr 36 min.) TV Footage
6/4/72: Shozo Kobayashi vs. Don Leo Jonathon
6/18/72: Shozo Kobayashi vs. Monster Roussimoff
7/9/72: Strong Kobayashi vs. Rusher Kimura
9/8/73: Black Jack Mulligan vs.Animal Hamaguchi
9/8/73: Willem Hall vs. Great Kusatsu
9/26/73: Lars Anderson vs. Shozo Kobayashi
9/26/73: Mighty Inoue vs. Animal Hamaguchi ***½
Film Digest 9/24/73: Verne Gagne vs. Strong Kobayashi 12:00 Shown
Disc 3 (2 hr 41 min.) TV Footage
10/10/73: Rusher Kimura vs. Black Jack Mulligan
11/2/73: Strong Kobayashi vs. Red Bastien
1/1/74: Strong Kobayashi vs. Cowboy Bill Watts
1/25/74 Mito: Great Kusatsu & Isamu Teranishi vs. Buddy Roberts & Paul Vachon
1/26/74 Tokyo: Strong Kobayashi & Great Kusatsu vs. The Hollywood Blondes Buddy Roberts & Jerry Brown
Film Digest
6/30/73: Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu 5:30 Shown
11/28/73 Steel Cage Indian Strap Match: Great Kustasu vs. Wahoo McDaniel 10:00 Shown
5/26/74
IWA World Heavyweight Title Next Challenger Decision Match, Japan Representative Showdown: Rusher Kimura vs. Great Kusatsu
Cage Death Match: Billy Robinson & Mighty Inoue vs. Rene Goulet & Sailor White 4+ min shown. Something of a brawl, but Robinson still wrestles despite it being a cage match, throwing his usual suplexes.
6/3/74 Korakuen Hall, 2/3 Falls IWA World Heavyweight Title Decision Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Billy Robinson 11+ min shown. Robinson worked miracles here to make this an entertaining match. Kimura isn't athletic & is a really awkward mover who has no idea how to strike properly (he doesn't use his core he just twists at the waist), but as long as he gave Robinson a body part, he was able to twist him in pretzles. They seemingly kept the pace up, & Robinson did his running spots & throws (including the belly to belly to the floor) and took big bumps to mask Rusher as much as possible. It still wasn't good most of the time when Rusher was on offense because, well, one can only do so much to make something that's not well done look less not well done, but overall it appeared to be a success.
9/15/74
Billy Graham vs. Animal Hamaguchi Post-Match Bench Press Contest
Mighty Inoue vs. Baron Von Raschke
9/23/74 IWA World Tag Title Match: Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu vs. Billy Graham & Baron Von Raschke
10/7/74, IWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Billy Graham vs. Mighty Inoue
11/4/74 IWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Mighty Inoue vs. Ray Stevens
11/21/74
Billy Robinson vs. Animal Hamaguchi 2 min.
AWA vs. IWA Double Tag Title Match: Nick Bockwinkle & Ray Stevens vs. Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu
11/20/74 Tokyo Kuramae Kokugikan, 2/3 Falls AWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Verne Gagne vs. Billy Robinson 35:44 [20:48, 5:21, 9:35]. Intense, riveting, first rate no frills title match from two of the best in the world. There's a different dynamic here than in Robinson's later Japan matches because it's much more Gagne's style, & Gagne is often leading & even the one who is inciting the opponent to build the tensions, starting early with petty torments such as putting his hand on Robinson's head. Robinson is still very obviously the better of the two, but it's the match Gagne has been working for two decades with some updates as time goes by rather than the futuristic match Robinson would become known for that had quicker counters & a lot more tumbling. It's a better worked technical match than Robinson vs. Inoki from a classic perspective, & certainly the difference between even an old Verne and a prime Inoki is night & day, but the Inoki match is a lot more modern & certainly more believable from a 21st century perspective because the technical style there is primitive wannabe MMA whereas this relies mainly on all those silly pro wrestling one point of control locks such as the headlock, bear hug, and no body control sleeper that never had any real world application. Robinson dominated the opening fall by getting off first, particularly when it came to immediately attacking the arm when they locked up, clubbing it with a punch or spinning into a hammerlock. Gagne grew increasingly testy, and tried to taunt Robinson into mixing it up through cheap shots while they are moving, little slaps, eye gouges, and paws until Robinson lost his cool enough to get caught off guard by a shoulderblock that briefly turned the tide. Gagne just wasn't hanging with Robinson in the slow technical exchanges though, and couldn't initiate more than the momentary running exchange, but nonetheless managed to win the 1st fall out of nowhere when he ducked behind & took Robinson out with his sleeper. The 2nd was a more active fall for Robinson that featured more of his bumping. Robinson hadn't come close to recovering when the 2nd fall started, and nearly got sleepered right off the bat, but dove for dear life to the safety of the ropes. Gagne's path to victory was even clearer than usual though, and he was always ready to pounce on the sleeper anytime Robinson left an opening, for instance when Robinson got up slowly after missing a dropkick. However, this was obvious to Robinson too, and in an excellent story finish, he was ready next time, turning the sleeper attempt into his backbreaker to take the 2nd fall. As is often the case with Robinson's 3 fall matches, the finish of a fall winds up defining at least the beginning of the next fall. Thus, Robinson was now in control focusing on the back he injured with the backbreaker, pushing to get a quick victory with the bear hug and hitting another backbreaker that would have finished Gagne if Verne wasn't so close to the ropes. Gagne continued to withstand back submissions, and even a backbreaker in the center of the ring that should have been the finish. You felt this was going to have an amazing climax, wondering whether Gagne was going to be really oportunistic or if Robinson would plug away on the back until it busted, but since it's the '70's you should know better, and instead they did a cheesy double KO off a shoulderblock. Ugh. What an unfitting climax to such a scintilating match. ****
11/21/74 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan, 2/3 Falls IWA & AWA World Heavyweight Double Title Match: Verne Gagne (AWA champ) vs. Mighty Inoue (IWA champ) about 7 1/2 min shown. Now in his late 40's, Gagne is the heel trying to slow things down and find the opening for his sleeper going. It's now the opposition who is the athletic babyface that wants to push the pace and seems (in this highly clipped form) to only score with aerial moves. Inoue even takes Gagne out with his rolling senton in the 2nd fall. Gagne still throws a nice dropkick, but in this form, it plays like the established junior against the up and coming junior, with Gagne allowing his fiery young athletic opponent to shine by providing the vast majority of the flashy highspots. Good stuff before the requisite double ring out.
1/6/75
Great Kusatsu vs. Bob Orton Sr.
Danny Lynch & Butcher Lynch vs. Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue
3/9/75 Cage Death Match: Rusher Kimura vs. The Wildman. About 5 min shown. Bloody brawl. Wildman lumbered around like Stan Hansen, but showed no actual skill, mainly using foreign objects. Rusher worked over Wildman's taped left arm and used the object back. Rusher's piledrivers were virtually the only wrestling move of the bout.
3/10/75: Great Kusatsu & Isamu Teranishi vs. Jack Claybourne (Eddie Morrow) & Jiro Inazuma (Gerry Morrow)
4/10/75 2/3 Falls IWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Mad Dog Vachon vs. Mighty Inoue. About 2 1/2 min shown. Double juice brawl with lots of chair shots.
5/26/75 Tokyo Korakuen Hall, 2/3 Falls: Mighty Inoue vs. Geoff Portz. About 2 1/2 min shown. British style technical match. Inoue wins the 1st fall with a Thesz press off the 2nd.
5/26/75 IWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Killer Tor Kamata
6/8/75 Cage Death Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Killer Tor Kamata
6/29/75
IWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Mighty Inoue
Isamu Teranishi & Snake Anami vs. Commando #1 & #2
Great Kusatsu & Animal Hamaguchi vs. John Quinn & Gil Hayes
7/28/75 IWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Rusher Kimura vs. John Quinn
9/8/75: Animal Hamaguchi vs. Snake Anami
12/2/75 IWA World Tag Title Match, Cage Death Match: Mighty Inoue & Great Kusatsu vs. The Combat (Pierre Martel & Frenchy Martin)
12/3/76 IWA World Heavyweight Title Match, Cage Death Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Gypsy Joe
3/15/77: Mad Dog Vachon vs. Gypsy Joe
3/26/77
IWA World Tag Title Match: Great Kusatsu & Animal Hamaguchi vs. John Quinn & Kurt Von Hess
World Series Final: Rusher Kimura vs. Mad Dog Vachon
1/19/78 IWA World Heavyweight Title Match, Cage Death Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Sailor White
2/22/78 International Tag Title Match: Kintaro Oki & Kim Duk vs. Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu
4/27/78
Battle Royal
IWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Mighty Inoue vs. Gypsy Joe
7/28/78 International Heavyweight Title Match: Kintaro Oki vs. Jiro Inazuma
10/4/78
Animal Hamaguchi vs. David Schultz
Chain Death Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Ox Baker
11/25/78 Japan League Decision Tournament: Rusher Kimura vs. Kim Duk
3/24/79 IWA World Tag Title Match: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. The Samoans Afa & Sika
4/9/79: Gypsy Joe vs. Ashura Hara
4/14/79: Rusher Kimura & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Masa Saito & Umanoseke Ueda
4/18/79: Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu vs. Masa Saito & Umanoseke Ueda
4/19/79: Rusher Kimura & Ashura Hara & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Masa Saito & Umanoseke Ueda & Mr. Hito
Billy Graham Arm Wrestling against Mitsu Endo & ?
4/21/79 IWA World Heavyweight Title Match, Cage Death Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Billy Graham
5/6/79
IWA World Tag Title Match: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Gypsy Joe & Killer Brooks
WWU World Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Mile Zrno vs. Ashura Hara 15:35. This was a polished futuristic wrestler against an inexperienced worker who could do his things. Unfortunately, it was in the home country of the green guy, and they wanted him to win rather than to put on a match that would facilitate the action of the more impressive wrestler. Zrno was fascinating because he would mix aspects of shoot wrestling with aspects of junior style. He kept his hands up to defend himself and his entries were thoughtful. He actually showed a real single leg takedown, but he was also happy to run the ropes and do dropkicks and flying headscissors. It felt like if he was going to do something, he was going to do it right rather than in a half assed pro wrestling manner, and he just mixed good technique with flashy (for the time) athletics. I like Fighting Hara as a bruising heavyweight carrying the load for Genichiro Tenryu's team in the mid 80s, but while he's a certainly a better wrestler than Hiro Saito, he's roughly comparable to Saito as a junior heavyweight stylist, which is to say he's a guy who is young and under 250 pounds that they have to do something with. Hara was less than a year into his pro career here. In that respect, he was already quite good, but more in the sense that he could do some suplexes, slams and strikes. He's a strong guy and he had a little judo, but he was very much out of his depth in the technical wrestling, and didn't really have answers. He could roll with the moves for the most part, but his training didn't really prepare him for this opponent. Zrno definitely had to modify his game here because he wasn't getting a lot of help from Hara, especially in and out of the technical wrestling, so this was a lot less of a European style match than I was hoping for. There were impressive flashes, such as a Kimura takedown right into a headscissors, but these were things Zrno was largely doing on his own. In the end, it was mostly a one man show. There was a lot of action for the time period, and Zrno made the technical wrestling interesting even though it wasn't very interactive, as they didn't have much chemistry. Zrno won the first fall with a sunset flip counter to a back body drop. Zrno was trying to fire Hara up in the second fall, but Hara wasn't yet showing the aggressive personality I'm used to. Hara used a couple of rugby shouldertackles followed by a double armed suplex to take the second. Hara caught Zrno's reverse diving body attack and turned it into a Samoan drop to take the title. ***
6/21/79: Alexis Smirnoff vs. Rusher Kimura
7/21/79
Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Andre The Giant & Haystacks Calhoun
IWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff
10/3/79: Lou Thesz vs. Isamu Teranishi
10/4/79: Lou Thesz vs. Goro Tsurumi
10/5/79 NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Nelson Royal vs. Ashura Hara
IWA World Tag Title Match: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Kintaro Oki & Umanoseke Ueda
IWA & AWA World Heavyweight Double Title Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Nick Bowkwinkle. Lou Thesz refs
10/6/79: Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu vs. Lou Thesz & Nick Bockwinkle
11/14/79: Verne Gagne vs. Ashura Hara
1/16/80 Cage Death Match: Ashura Hara vs. Gypsy Joe
3/15/80: Rusher Kimura & Kintaro Oki vs. The Bruiser & Mongolian Stomper
3/20/80: Dick The Bruiser vs. Higo Hamaguchi
11/1/80: Rusher Kimura & Higo Hamaguchi vs. Alexis Smirnoff & Killer Karl Krupp
1/7/81 Lou Thesz Cup League: Mike Jones vs. Jim Starr
1/25/81, IWA World Tag Title Match: Mighty Inoue & Ashura Hara vs. Gypsy Joe & Carl Fergie ()
Billy Robinson interview
Higo Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue vs. Kengo Kimura & Haruka Eigen 3/31/80
Ashura Hara vs. Ryuma Go *WVU Jr Title 3/31/80
Nick Bockwinkle vs. Kintaro Oki *AWA Title 3/31/80
Rusher Kimura vs. Johnny Powers *IWA Title 3/31/80
Kintaro Oki vs. Jos LeDuc 4/13/80
Mach Hayato vs. Jose Arroyo 1/7/81
Bob Sweetan vs. Isamu Teranishi 1/7/81
Rusher Kimura vs. Mighty Inoue 1/7/81
The Invader vs. Goro Tsurumi 1/20/81
Rusher Kimura vs. Leo Lopez 1/20/81
Jose Arroyo vs. Isamu Teranishi 1/20/81
Rusher Kimura vs. The Invader 1/29/81
Jose Arroyo vs. Bob Sweetan 1/26/81
Higo Hamaguchi vs. The Invader 1/26/81
Mike George vs. Rusher Kimura 1/26/81
Herodes & El Cobarde vs. Isamu Teranishi & Mach Hayato 2/28/81
Higo Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue vs. Ray Candy & Red Devil 2/28/81
Rusher Kimura vs. "Crazy" Luke Graham 2/28/81
Mike George vs. Goro Tsurumi 1/31/81
Higo Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue vs. Jose Arroyo & The Invader 1/31/81
Rusher Kimura vs. Bob Sweetan 1/31/81
Bob Sweetan & Ben Alexander vs. Higo Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi 1/30/81
Rusher Kimura vs. Mike George *IWA Title 1/30/81
"Superstar" Billy Graham vs. Mighty Inoue 4/20/79
Rusher Kimura vs. Umanoseke Ueda *IWA Title 4/20/79
Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue vs. Paul Ellering & Terry Lazan 4/18/81
Ashura Hara vs. Steve O 4/18/81
Kintaro Oki vs. Alexis Smirnoff 10/11/80
Rusher Kimura vs. Ron Bass *IWA Title 10/11/80
Higo Hamaguchi & Goro Tsurumi vs. Umanoseke Ueda & Yasu Fuji 11/13/79
Mighty Inoue vs. Mongolian Stomper 11/13/79
Rusher Kimura vs. Verne Gagne *IWA Title 11/13/79
Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff 11/14/79
Mongolian Stomper vs. Isamu Teranishi 11/14/79
Verne Gagne vs. Ashura Hara 11/14/79
Higo Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue vs. Umanoseke Ueda & Yasu Fuji *IWA Tag Title / CAGE Match 11/14/79
Mongolian Stomper & Umanoseke Ueda & Goro Tsurumi vs. Alexis Smirnoff & Gypsy Joe & Cuban Assasin 11/16/79
Verne Gagne vs. Rusher Kimura *IWA Title 11/16/79
Rusher Kimura & Kintaro Oki vs. The Bruiser & Mongolian Stomper 3/15/80
Higo Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue vs. Mongolian Stomper & Tom Stanton 3/21/80
Kintaro Oki vs. Dick the Bruiser 3/21/80
Rusher Kimura vs. Steve O *IWA Title 5/16/81
Mighty Inoue & Ashura Hara vs. Paul Ellering & Terry Lazan 5/16/81 *IWA Tag Title / CAGE Match
Rusher Kimura vs. Jos LeDuc *IWA Title 10/3/79
Rusher Kimura vs. Nick Bockwinkle *IWA & AWA Titles 10/5/79
Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi vs. Shozo Kobayashi & Haruka Eigen *IWA Tag Title 6/29/80
Rusher Kimura vs. Spike Huber *IWA Title 7/15/80
Shozo Kobayashi & Haruka Eigen vs. Higo Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue *IWA Tag Title 7/15/80
Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue vs. Andre the Giant & Alexis Smirnoff 7/17/79
Andre the Giant vs. Mighty Inoue 7/19/79
Battle Royal 7/21/79
Ashura Hara vs. Dynamite Kid *WVU Jr Title 7/21/79
Carlos Plata & El Doberman vs. Mighty Inoue & Mach Hayato 11/1/80
Kintaro Oki vs. Great Malumba 11/1/80
Higo Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue vs. Akihisa Takachio & Samson Kutsuwada *IWA Tag Title 11/30/77
Higo Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue vs. Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma *IWA Tag Title 1/2/78
Gypsy Joe vs. Katsumi Oiyama *CAGE Match 4/26/79
Mighty Inoue & Jerry Morrow vs. Mr Hito & Bob Markus 4/26/78
Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu vs. Kurt Von Hess & The Mongolian 4/26/78
Great Kusatsu vs. Kurt Von Hess 4/27/78
Salvatore Bolomo vs. Goro Tsurumi 6/26/78
Ashura Hara vs. Isamu Teranishi 6/26/78
Higo Hamaguchi & Great Kusatsu vs. Mr Hito & Alexis Smirnoff *IWA Tag Title 7/18/78
Mighty Inoue & Great Kusatsu vs. The Red Devils 10/4/78
Higo Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue vs. Masa Saito & Umanoseke Ueda *IWA Tag Title 4/21/79
Rusher Kimura vs. "Superstar" Billy Graham *IWA Title / CAGE Match 4/21/79
Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mighty Inoue 11/25/78
Ashura Hara vs. Chief Black Eagle 1/28/79
Rusher Kimura vs. The Atomic 1/29/79
Higo Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue vs. Kotetsu Yamamoto & Kantaro Hoshino *IWA Tag Title 2/23/79
Mighty Inoue vs. Killer Karl Krupp 1/16/80
Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu vs. Kevin Hughes & Chief White Feather 1/16/80
Higo Hamaguchi vs. Sweet Daddy Banks 11/21/77
Rusher Kimura & Ryuma Go vs. Cuban Assasin & Roger Hamby 11/21/77
Killer Brooks vs. Mighty Inoue 11/21/77
Great Kusatsu & Ashura Hara vs. Kim Ko Shoku & Ryo Sho Ki 3/26/79
Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi vs. The Samoans Afa & Sika 3/26/79
Rusher Kimura vs. John Tolos *IWA Title 3/26/79
Billy Graham vs. Great Kusatsu 4/19/79
Ashura Hara vs. Big Daddy Ritter JYD 4/18/79
Gypsy Joe & Killer Brooks vs. Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi 4/18/79
Billy Graham vs. Higo Hamaguchi 4/18/79
Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi vs. Joe Ventura & Bob Dellaserra 1/19/78
Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi vs. Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma 2/22/78
Ryo Sho Ki vs. Mr Hito 7/28/78
Mighty Inoue vs. Go Tai Kin 7/28/78
Kintaro Oki & Kim Ko Shoku vs. Rusher Kimura & Isamu Teranishi 7/28/78
Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi vs. Go Tai Kin & Kim Ko Shoku 8/2/78
Rusher Kimura vs. Ryo Sho Ki *IWA Title 8/2/78
Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi vs. Mr Sakurada & Motoshi Okuma 11/28/78
Prof Tanaka vs. Jumbo Tsuruta *International League Semifinal 11/28/78
Rusher Kimura vs. Dean Ho *International League Semifinal 11/28/78
Rusher Kimura vs. Prof Tanaka *International League FINAL 11/30/78
Shozo Kobayashi vs. Mr Hito 11/25/78
Isamu Teranishi vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi 11/25/78
Kotetsu Yamamoto & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi *IWA Tag Title 1/29/79
Higo Hamaguchi vs. Takashi Ishikawa 11/5/78
Ashura Hara vs. Gypsy Joe *WVU Jr Title / Cage Match 11/7/79
Verne Gagne vs. Mighty Inoue 11/15/79
Rusher Kimura vs. Don Bass 9/20/80
Kintaro Oki vs. Bill Dromo *NWA International Title 9/20/80
Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi vs. Alexis Smirnoff & The USSR Charlie Fulton *IWA Tag Title 10/4/80
Kintaro Oki vs. Umanoseke Ueda *NWA International Title 10/4/80
Rusher Kimura vs. John Quinn *IWA Title 10/4/80
Higo Hamaguchi vs. Randy Rose 10/8/80
Alexis Smirnoff & The USSR vs. Kintaro Oki & Kim Ko Shoku 10/8/80
John Quinn & Ron Bass vs. Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue 10/8/80
John Quinn & Randy Rose vs. Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi 10/11/80
Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi vs. Herodes & El Cobarde *IWA Tag Title 3/12/81
Higo Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi & Mach Hayato vs. Herodes & El Cobarde & Goro Tsurumi 3/24/81
Rusher Kimura vs. Ray Candy *IWA Title 3/24/81
Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu vs. Killer Karl Krupp & Gypsy Joe 1/6/80
Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff *IWA Title 11/22/80
Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi vs. Carlos Plata & El Doberman *IWA Tag 11/27/80
Mighty Inoue vs. Randy Rose 9/15/80 Title
Bill Dromo & Norvell Austin vs. Kintaro Oki & Kim Ko Shoku 9/15/80
Alexis Smirnoff & Ox Baker vs. Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu *Cage Match 7/9/79
Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi vs. Jake Roberts & Mike Boyette 3/8/80
Rusher Kimura vs. Mongolian Stomper *IWA Title 3/8/80
Kintaro Oki & Kim Duk vs. Higo Hamaguchi & Great Kusatsu 11/28/78
Mighty Inoue vs. Kim Duk 11/30/78
Kintaro Oki vs. Higo Hamaguchi 11/30/78
Ashura Hara vs. Mark Rocco *WVU Jr Title 10/4/79
Rusher Kimura vs. Tierra & Vient y Fuego 6/25/81
Rusher Kimura vs. Kevin Hughes 1/26/80
Rusher Kimura vs. Killer Karl Krupp *IWA Title 1/28/80
Kintaro Oki vs. Jos LeDuc *NWA International Title 5/15/80
Rusher Kimura vs. Mike George *IWA Title 5/10/80
Kintaro Oki vs. Randy Tyler 7/25/80
Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi vs. Spike Huber & Rocky Brewer *IWA Tag Title / Cage Match 7/25/80
Rusher Kimura vs. Randy Tyler *IWA Title 7/13/80
Carlos Plata & El Doberman & Goro Tsurumi vs. Higo Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi & Mach Hayato 11/12/80
Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue vs. Alexis Smirnoff & Killer Karl Krupp 11/12/80
Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi vs. Carlos Plata & El Doberman 11/22/80
Kintaro Oki vs. Mike George 4/26/80
1974- 1975 Digest
Nick Carter & Sweet Williams vs. Kimura & Kusatsu intros only 9/15/74
Sandy 400 10/7/74
Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu & Isamu Teranishi vs. Baron Von Rashke & Nick Carter & Sweet Williams 10/7/74
Vicki Williams & Donna Christanello vs. Chiyo Obata & Sakura Terumi 11/4/74
Cuban Assassins 1 & 2 vs. Kusatsu & Teranishi 11/4/74
Rusher Kimura vs. Nick Bockwinkel 1:20 shown 11/4/74
Vicki Williams vs. Chiyo Obata 11/20/74
Mighty Inoue vs. Bockwinkel 11/20/74
Chiyo Obata & Sakura Terumi vs. Donna Christanello & Vicki Williams 11/21/74
Chiyo Obata & Kyoko Chigusa vs. Peggy Patterson & Susan Green 1/6/75
Animal Hamaguchi vs. Bobby Slaughter 1/6/75
Peggy Patterson vs. Chiyo Obata 1/7/75
Bob Orton vs. Isamu Teranishi 1/7/75
Mighty Inoue vs. Bobby Slaughter 1/7/75
Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu vs. Danny Lynch & Lynch Butcher 1/7/75
Kusatsu vs. Bobby Slaughter 2/2/75
Kimura vs. Butcher Lynch 2/2/75
Inoue vs. Danny Lynch 2/2/75
Tadaharu Tanaka & Isamu Teranishi vs. Jiro Inazuma & Tatsuo Oiyama 2/2/75
Chiyo Obata & Sakura Terumi vs. Susan Green & Peggy Patterson 2/2/75
Chiyo Obata & Kyoko Chigusa vs. Vicki Williams & Joyce Grable 3/9/75
Tadaharu Tanaka & Isamu Teranishi vs. Jiro Inazuma & Tatsuo Oiyama 3/9/75
Interns 1 & 2 vs. Hamaguchi & Kusatsu 3/9/75
Mighty Inoue vs. Jack Clayborn 3/9/75
Chiyo Obata & Chigusa Kyoko vs. Vicki Williams & Joyce Grable 3/10/75
Tsutomu Yonemura vs. Tadaharu Tanaka 3/10/75
Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue vs. Interns 1/3/10/75
Inoue vs. Mad Dog Vachon 3/10/75
Joyce Grable vs. Kiyouko Chigusa 4/9/75
Chiyo Obata vs. Vicki Williams 4/9/75
Animal Hamaguchi vs. Lightning Jiro 4/9/75
Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi vs. Interns 1/4/9/75
Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu vs. Mad Dog Vachon & Jack Claybourn 4/9/75
Chiyo Obata & Sakura Terumi vs. Vicki Williams & Joyce Grable 4/10/75
Rusher Kimura & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Lightning Jiro & Jack Claybourn 4/10/75
Chiyo Obata & Terumi Sakura vs. Donna Christanello & Daisy Mae 5/26/75
Great Kusatsu & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Butcher Brannigan & Doc Savage 5/26/75
Chiyo Obata & Kiyoko Chigusa vs. Donna Christanello & Daisy Mae 6/8/75
Great Kusatsu & Mighty Inoue vs. Geoff Portz & Butcher Brannigan 6/8/75
Rusher Kimura & Isamu Teranishi vs. Killer Tor Kamata & Doc Savage 6/8/75
Chiyo Obata vs. Dotty Dawns 6/29/75
Kimura vs. Commando 6/30/75
Great Kusatsu & Mighty Inoue vs. Big John Quin & Gil Hayes 6/30/75
Chiyo Obata & Kyoko Chigusa vs. Tony Rose & Shepherd Shurifa 9/7/75
Great Kusatsu & Isamu Teranishi vs. Jose Rivera & Isaac Rosario 9/7/75
Inoue vs. Gypsy Joe 9/7/75
Highlights of the collection of scenes knee drop Gypsy Joe 9/10/75
Sakura Terumi & Chiyo Obata vs. Shepherd Shurifa & Tony Rose 10/6/75
Gypsy Joe vs. Rusher Kimura 10/6/75
Baba in IWE ring 11/3/75
Higo Hazime vs. Snake Amami 11/3/75
Animal Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi vs. Akihisa Takachio (Great Kabuki) & Samson Kutsuwada 11/3/75
Disc 1
12/11/75 Budokan, NWA Junior Heavyweight Title: Hiro Matsuda vs. Mighty Inoue
9/6/76 Korakuen: Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue vs. Wild Angus & Pete Stewart
3/1/77 Koshigaya City
Isamu Teranishi vs. Mad Dog Vachon
Mighty Inoue vs. Jiro Inazuma
3/10/77 Mito City
Great Kusatsu vs. Big John Quinn
Rusher Kimura vs. Kurt Von Hess
3/15/77 Toyohashi City
Mad Dog Vachon vs. Gypsy Joe
Rusher Kimura vs. Jack Clayborn
Mighty Inoue vs. Isamu Teranishi
3/25/77 Yokohama
Mighty Inoue vs. Mad Dog Vachon
Rusher Kimura vs. Great Kusatsu
3/26/77 Kuramae Kokugikan
Mighty Inoue vs. Gypsy Joe
Rusher Kimura vs. Mad Dog Vachon
2/27/77 Korakuen: Great Kusatsu & Mighty Inoue vs. Mad Dog Vachon & Gypsy Joe
3/1/77 Koshigaya City: Rusher Kimura & Katsuzo Oiyama vs. Big John Quinn & Kurt Von Hess
3/10/77 Mito City: Animal Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi vs. Mad Dog Vachon & Gypsy Joe
3/15/77 Toyohashi City: Thunder Sugiyama & Ryuma Go vs. Big John Quinn & Kurt Von Hess
3/25/77 Yokohama: Animal Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi vs. Big John Quinn & Kurt Von Hess
7/21/79 Murakami City, IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff
Disc 2
4/20/79 Toyama City, IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Umanoseke Ueda
9/29/79 Yokohama, IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Umanoseke Ueda
3/15/80 Koshigaya City: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi vs. Eddie Sullivan & Tom Stanton & Goro Tsurumi
11/11/80 Yokkaichi City
Rusher Kimura vs. Great Malumba
Mighty Inoue vs. Alexis Smirnoff
11/21/80 Sakai City: Rusher Kimura vs. Killer Karl Krupp
10/3/79 Kuroishi City: Ashura Hara vs. Nick Bockwinkle
11/12/78 Hagiwara Town
Rusher Kimura vs. Takashi Ishikawa
Great Kusatsu vs. Mighty Inoue
Isamu Teranishi vs. Great Kojika
Disc 3
3/4/79 Toyoake City
Isamu Teranishi vs. John Tolos
Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu
3/6/79 Gifu City
Rusher Kimura vs. John Tolos
IWA Tag Title: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. The Samoans
3/24/79 Sakai Town
Ashura Hara vs. Jiro Inazuma
Rusher Kimura & Goro Tsurumi vs. John Tolos & Crazy Arab
11/7/79 Hirosaki City: Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi vs. Alexis Smirnoff & Mongolian Stomper
11/20/74 Kuramae Kokugikan, AWA World Heavyweight Title: Verne Gagne vs. Billy Robinson
Disc 4
7/19/79 Kikonai Town: Isamu Teranishi vs. Dynamite Kid
1/30/80 Chichibu City, IWA Tag Title: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Killer Karl Krupp & Gypsy Joe
2/23/80 Tateyama City: Animal Hamaguchi vs. Mongolian Stomper
2/24/80 Korakuen: Rusher Kimura & Ashura Hara vs. Mongolian Stomper & Tom Stanton
5/7/79 Fuji City
WWU Junior Heavyweight Title: Ashura Hara vs. Mile Zrno
IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Gypsy Joe
Disc 5
5/7/79 Fuji City: Mighty Inoue vs. Killer Brooks
7/9/79 Miyagi: Ashura Hara vs. THE TEXAS OUTLAW
9/9/79 Korakuen
Animal Hamaguchi & Ashura Hara vs. Kelly Twins
Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue vs. Umanoseke Ueda & Jos LeDuc
4/28/80 Ohunato City: Mighty Inoue vs. Mike George
5/11/80 Ninohe City: Rusher Kimura & Kintaro Oki vs. Mike George & Jos LeDuc
3/12/81 Fuchu City: Rusher Kimura vs. Red Devil
Disc 6
3/12/81 Fuchu City: Rusher Kimura vs. Red Devil
3/8/81 Wakayama: Rusher Kimura & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Ray Candy & Luke Graham
7/24/80 Chitose City
Animal Hamaguchi vs. Spike Huber
Battle Royal
9/12/78 Fukaya City: Mighty Inoue vs. Rip Tyler
9/13/79 Aichi: Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu vs. Umanoseke Ueda & Thunder Sugiyama
1/4/81 Korakuen
Mighty Inoue vs. Leo Lopez
Animal Hamaguchi vs. Ben Alexander
Monster Rousimoff & Tito Kopa & Ivan Buyten vs. Thunder Sugiyama & Rusher Kimura & Isamu Teranishi
World Series 1972 Semifinal: Don Leo Jonathon vs. Strong Kobayashi 23:41
2/3 Falls: Strong Kobayashi vs. Monster Rousimoff (Andre the Giant) 37:00
7/9/73: Rusher Kimura vs. Strong Kobayashi
9/8/73: Blackjack Mulligan vs. Animal Hamaguchi
6/21/79 Mito
The Great Kusatsu vs. Ox Baker 7:04
Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff 7:27
6/23/79 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Rusher Kimura vs. Ox Baker 11:07
Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Mongolian I & Mongolian II (w/ Percy Pringle) 13:09
7/9/79 Sendai
Chain Match: Ashura Hara vs. The Texas Outlaw (Bobby Bass) 6:28 of 8:34
Cage Match: Rusher Kimura & The Great Kusatsu vs. Alexis Smirnoff & Ox Baker 12:36
7/10/79 Wakuya
Chain Match: Alex Smirnoff vs. Ox Baker 11:12
Footage of Andre the Giant and Haystacks Calhoun arriving in Japan
IWA World Tag Team Title: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Mongolian I & Mongolian II 18:28
7/17/79 Nakagawa: Mighty Inoue & Rusher Kimura vs. Andre the Giant & Alexis Smirnoff 10:31
7/19/79 Kikonai: Dynamite Kid vs. Isamu Teranishi 9:28 of 30:00 (footage cut off) **¾
7/13/80 Toyooka, IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Randy Tyler 12:07
7/15/80 Fuji
Rusher Kimura vs. Spike Huber 10:42
IWA World Tag Team Title: Strong Kobayashi & Haruka Eigen vs. Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi 18:42
7/24/80 Chitose
Animal Hamaguchi vs. Spike Huber 10:15 of 12:01
13-Man Battle Royal: Jake Roberts, Isamu Teranishi, Goro Tsurumi, Mighty Inoue, Animal Hamaguchi, Rusher Kimura, Katsuzo Oiyama, Kintaro Oki, Kim Kwang Sik, Spike Huber, Rocky Brewer, Gypsy Joe, Randy Tyler 9:23
7/25/80 Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center
Kintaro Oki vs. Randy Tyler 8:00 of 12:27
IWA World Tag Team Title Cage Match: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Spike Huber & Rocky Brewer 27:49
9/14/80 Tokyo Korakuen Hall Kintaro Oki & Kim Kwang Sik vs. Bill Dromo & Norvell Austin 12:30 of 14:00 (end cut off)
7/19/79
Alexis Smirnoff vs. Higo Hamaguchi
Rusher Kimura & Ashura Hara vs. Ox Baker & Haystacks Calhoun
Andre The Giant vs. Mighty Inoue
10/22/84
Osamu Kido & Super Tiger vs. Phil Lafleur & The Cuban Assassin 19:16
Akira Maeda vs. Kazuo Yamazaki 17:23
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Nobuhiko Takada 17:27
1/21/81
Lou Thesz Cup League: Jose Aroyo vs. Bob Sweetan JIP 15 min in
Lou Thesz Cup League: Higo Hamaguchi vs. The Invader
Lou Thesz Cup League: Mike George vs. Rusher Kimura
1/29/81, Lou Thesz Cup League: Rusher Kimura vs. The Invader
1/30/81 2/3 Falls IWA Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Mike George
1/31/81
Mike George vs. Goro Tsurumi
Lou Thesz Cup League: Rusher Kimura vs. Bob Sweetan
2/28/81 Korakuen Hall
El Cobarde & Herodes vs. Isamu Teranishi & Mach Hayato
Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi vs. Ray Candy & The Red Devil
Lou Thesz Cup League: Rusher Kimura vs. Luke Graham
Note: All matches are heavily clipped.
1/5/78 Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium: Mighty Inoue vs. Sailor White 4:18 shown
9/10/78 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: The Great Kusatsu vs. David Schultz 5:02 shown
9/12/78 Fukaya: Mighty Inoue vs. Rip Tyler 4:37 shown
9/25/78 Takaoka, Cage Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Ox Baker 7:06 of 19:59
10/4/78 Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center
Animal Hamaguchi vs. David Schultz 4:00 shown
Chain Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Ox Baker 7:55 of 14:51
10/13/78 Hitachi: Mighty Inoue vs. David Schultz 4:56 shown
11/28/78 Tsuruoka: Animal Hamaguchi & The Great Kusatsu vs. Kintaro Oki & Kim Duk 6:43 of 18:09 shown. Two out of three falls match.
11/30/78 Chiba
Mighty Inoue vs. Kim Duk 6:49 of 20:08. Two out of three falls match.
Animal Hamaguchi vs. Kintaro Oki 5:27 of 16:01
1/6/79 Fukuoka
Animal Hamaguchi vs. Alexis Smirnoff 3:42 shown
Ashura Hara vs. The Cuban Assassin (Angel Acevedo) 4:17 of 9:00
1/8/79 Oita, IWA World Tag Team Title: Animal Hamaguchi & The Great Kusatsu vs. Alexis Smirnoff & The Atomic (Leo Burke) 4:32 of 16:26. Two out of three falls match.
1/21/79 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Ashura Hara vs. Alexis Smirnoff 5:26 shown
IWA World Tag Team Title: Animal Hamaguchi & The Great Kusatsu vs. Kotetsu Yamamoto & Kantaro Hoshino 7:00 of 26:27. Two out of three falls. ***
1/29/79 Katsuta: Ashura Hara vs. Jake Roberts 3:23 of 6:43
1/5/79 Takachiho: Rusher Kimura & The Great Kusatsu vs. Alexis Smirnoff & The Atomic 5:48 shown
1/28/79 Yamato, IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff 7:43 of 17:49
1/29/79 Katsuta: Rusher Kimura vs. The Atomic 3:22 shown
NJPW 2/23/79 Chiba, 2/3 Falls IWA World Tag Team Title: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Kotetsu Yamamoto & Kantaro Hoshino 5:27 of 18:21
10/5/79 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
NWA Junior Heavyweight Title: Nelson Royal vs. Ashura Hara
IWA Tag Title: Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi vs. Kintaro Oki & Umanoseke Ueda
IWA Heavyweight & AWA Heavyweight Double Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Nick Bockwinkle
10/79 WWU World Jr title: Ashura Hara vs. Mark Rocco
10/79
Lou Thesz vs. Isamu Teranishi
Lou Thesz vs. Goro Tsurumi
10/6/79: Lou Thesz & Nick Bockwinkle vs. Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu
10/79
Mark Rocco vs. Isamu Teranishi
Mighty Inoue & Higo Hamaguchi & Jos LeDuc & Umanoseke Ueda
10/79 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Mighty Inoue vs. Yasu Fuji
The Stomper vs. Great Kusatsu
Rusher Kimura & Ashura Hara & Jerry Morrow vs. Alexis Smirnoff & Gypsy Joe & Umanoseke Ueda
Note: All matches are heavily clipped.
1/19/78 Mito, IWA World Heavyweight Title Cage Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Sailor White 6:10 of 14:52
1/22/78 Mibu: Rusher Kimura & The Great Kusatsu vs. Afa & Sika 2:55 shown
AJPW/IWE/Kim Il Supporters Association 2/18/78 Tokyo Kuramae Kokugikan
Isamu Teranishi & The Great Kusatsu vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Akihisa Takachio 4:04 of 30:00
2/3 Falls Asia Tag Team Title: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Oh Tae Kyun & Yang Seung-Hi 3:08 of 8:21
AJPW/IWE/Kim Il Supporters Association 2/22/78 Gifu
2/3 Falls Asia Tag Team Title: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma 3:41 of 29:36
2/3 Falls NWA International Tag Team Title: Kintaro Oki (Kim Il) & Kim Duk vs. Rusher Kimura & The Great Kusatsu 5:56 of 24:12
2/26/78 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Mighty Inoue & Rusher Kimura vs. Killer Brooks & Kasavubu 4:05 shown
3/16/78 Yamato
Rusher Kimura vs. Kasavubu 3:00 shown
The Great Kusatsu vs. Killer Brooks 3:30 shown
3/24/78 Yokohama
The Great Kusatsu vs. Kasavubu 2:45 shown
2/3 Falls IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Killer Brooks 5:00 of 18:27
3/19/78 Mooka: Rusher Kimura & The Great Kusatsu vs. Killer Brooks & Kasavubu 2:50 shown
4/11/78 Takasaki
Mighty Inoue vs. Gypsy Joe 5:50 shown
Rusher Kimura vs. Kurt Von Hess 3:07 shown
4/26/78 Okayama, Cage Death Match: Gypsy Joe vs. Katsuzo Oiyama 3:30 shown.
4/27/78 Tsuyama
The Great Kusatsu vs. Kurt Von Hess 1:41 shown
Mighty Inoue vs. Gypsy Joe 5:00 shown
5/1/78 Fuji, 2/3 Falls IWA Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Mighty Inoue 5:30 of 18:21
5/2/78 Mishima: Rusher Kimura vs. Gypsy Joe 4:52 shown
6/18/78 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Rusher Kimura & The Great Kusatsu vs. Alexis Smirnoff & Kasavubu 3:52 of 12:27
6/26/78 Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium
Susumu Hara (Ashura Hara) vs. Isamu Teranishi 5:00 shown
Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff 3:40 shown
7/18/78 Iwate, 2/3 Falls IWA Tag Title: Animal Hamaguchi & The Great Kusatsu vs. Mr. Hito (Katsuji Adachi) & Alexis Smirnoff 4:12 of 21:58
7/19/78 Akita, IWA Title Cage Death Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Kasavubu 4:44 of 14:34
7/26/78 Koshigaya, 2/3 Falls IWA Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff 5:00 of 17:42
7/17/79 Nakagawa: Mighty Inoue & Rusher Kimura vs. Andre the Giant & Alexis Smirnoff 10:31
7/19/79 Kikonai
Animal Hamaguchi vs. Alexis Smirnoff 8:33
Ashura Hara & Rusher Kimura vs. Ox Baker & Haystacks Calhoun 10:47
Mighty Inoue vs. Andre the Giant 5:04 **½
7/21/79 Murakami
Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Andre the Giant & Haystacks Calhoun 6:18
IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff 14:54. Two out of three falls match.
13-Man Battle Royal: Andre the Giant, Mighty Inoue, Isamu Teranishi, Animal Hamaguchi, The Great Kusatsu, Rusher Kimura, Snake Amami, Goro Tsurumi, Alexis Smirnoff, Ox Baker, Ed Moretti, The Texas Outlaw (Bobby Bass), Haystacks Calhoun 5:55
WWU Junior Heavyweight Title vs. Stampede British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight Title, 7x4-min Rounds: Ashura Hara vs. Dynamite Kid 27:30 of 28:00. Dynamite Kid’s third match in Japan. ****
10/5/79 Tokyo Korakuen Hall, NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title: Nelson Royal vs. Ashura Hara 14:16 **½
6/27/77 Shizuoka, IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Tor Kamata 5:48 of 18:58. Two out of three falls match.
7/30/77 Sapporo, IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Tor Kamata 5:26 shown
9/7/77 Osaka, IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Mighty Inoue 2:23 of 27:53. Third fall only.
9/23/77 Ichikai: Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff 5:23 of 15:13
9/28/77 Numazu: Mighty Inoue vs. Alexis Smirnoff 4:50 shown
9/29/77 Kawasaki
The Great Kusatsu vs. Alexis Smirnoff 2:00 shown
IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Cowboy Bob Ellis 4:16 of 11:44
10/10/77 Numata
Mighty Inoue vs. Cowboy Bob Ellis 1:10 shown
Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff 5:45 shown
11/6/77 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
All Asia Tag Team Title: Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma vs. Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi 6:00 of 37:36. Two out of three falls match.
Rusher Kimura vs. Killer Brooks 5:52 of 11:43
11/17/77 Ichinomiya: Rusher Kimura vs. Bulldozer Big Ben 2:50 of 7:49
AJPW/IWE 11/30/77 Shizuoka, All Asia Tag Team Title: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Akihisa Takachio & Samson Katsuwada 5:28 of 32:49. Two out of three falls match.
11/21/77 Fujioka: Mighty Inoue vs. Killer Brooks 4:00 of 15:24
11/24/77 Koshigaya, IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Killer Brooks 5:05 of 18:15.
AJPW 1/2/78 Tokyo Korakuen Hall, All Asia Tag Team Title: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. The Great Kusatsu & Motoshi Okuma 5:00 of 60:00. Two out of three falls match.
1/4/78 Fukaya
Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Afa & Sika 4:43 shown
Rusher Kimura vs. Sailor White 5:25 shown
1/5/78 Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium, IWA World Tag Team Title: Animal Hamaguchi & The Great Kusatsu vs. The Samoans 4:55 of 19:00. Two out of three falls match.
Extras
A 10-minute feature on former NWA International Heavyweight Champions Rikidozan and Giant Baba with some match highlights
An 8-minute feature on Terry Funk’s success in Japan with some match highlights
3/80 Koshigaya
Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Goro Tsurumi & Eddie Sullivan & Tom Stanton 20:14
Rusher Kimura & Kintaro Oki vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Stomper (Archie Gouldie) 17:23
7/14/80 Kyoto
Isamu Teranishi vs. Spike Huber 9:00 of 16:27
Rusher Kimura & Kintaro Oki & Kim Kwang Sik vs. Gypsy Joe & Jake Roberts & Randy Tyler 23:30
Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Goro Tsurumi & Rocky Brewer 2:36 shown
7/15/80 Fuji
Kintaro Oki & Kim Kwang Sik & Kim Gi Gon vs. Gypsy Joe & Goro Tsurumi & Katsuzo Oiyama 3:23 of 14:00. Poor/Fair VQ.
Rusher Kimura vs. Spike Huber 10:17 of 10:42. Poor/Fair VQ.
11/7/79 WWU Junior Title, Cage Match: Ashura Hara vs. Gypsy Joe
11/13/79 Niigata Welfare Hall
The Stomper vs. Mighty Inoue
IWA Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Verne Gagne
11/14/79
Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff
Verne Gagne vs. Ashura Hara
11/15/79: Verne Gagne vs. Mighty Inoue
1/6/80 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Rusher Kimura & Great Kusatsu vs. Gypsy Joe & Killer Karl Krupp
1/16/80: Mighty Inoue vs. Killer Karl Krupp
4/30/80 Hirosaki, 2/3 Falls IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Jos LeDuc 15:00 of 16:06
5/11/80 Ninohe Rusher Kimura & Kintaro Oki vs. Jos LeDuc & Mike George 21:42 of 21:51
5/15/80 Omiya: Ashura Hara vs. Jiro Inazuma (Gerry Morrow) 11:45 of 30:00
6/28/80 Ogoe: Kintaro Oki vs. Randy Tyler 10:49
6/29/80 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
IWA World Tag Team Title Decision: Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi vs. Shozo Kobayashi & Haruka Eigen 21:08
Rusher Kimura & Kintaro Oki vs. Gypsy Joe & Randy Tyler 8:03 of 12:29
7/1/80 Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium: Rusher Kimura vs. Randy Tyler 5:00 of 30:00
7/13/80 Toyooka: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Spike Huber & Rocky Brewer 15:13 shown
3/2/81 Wakayama: Rusher Kimura & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Luke Graham & Ray Candy 15:46
3/12/81 Fuchu
Lou Thesz Cup Block A: Isamu Teranishi vs. Goro Tsurumi 6:20 of 12:20
Lou Thesz Cup Block B: Rusher Kimura vs. Red Devil II (Bill White) 7:17
IWA World Tag Team Title: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. El Cobarde & Herodes 22:08 ***½
3/24/81 Izumi
Isamu Teranishi & Mach Hayato & Animal Hamaguchi vs. El Cobarde & Herodes & Goro Tsurumi 25:00 of 25:51 **½
IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Ray Candy 13:08
10/11/80 Koshigaya
Kintaro Oki vs. Alexis Smirnoff 6:00 shown. Referee: Lou Thesz.
IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Ron Bass 10:45. Referee: Lou Thesz.
11/1/80 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Mighty Inoue & Mach Hayato vs. El Doberman & Carlos Plata 12:15 ***½
11/12/80 Gifu
Isamu Teranishi & Mach Hayato & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Carlos Plata & El Doberman & Goro Tsurumi 17:13
Mighty Inoue & Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff & Killer Karl Krupp 12:35
11/22/80 Shingu
2/3 Falls: Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi vs. El Doberman & Carlos Plata 13:40 shown.
IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff 17:16
11/27/80, 2/3 Falls IWA World Tag Team Title: Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. El Doberman & Carlos Plata 14:16
Comm 8mm footage
11/20/74 AWA Heavyweight Title: Verne Gagne vs. Billy Robinson
74: Mad Dog Vachon & Gypsy Joe vs. Great Kusatsu & Mighty Inoue
Karl Gotch vs. Billy Robinson. Digest
TV Korakuen Hall Rounds Style (Gd VQ): Dynamite Kid vs. Isamu Teranishi
10/5/79 Tokyo Korakuen Hall, NWA Junior Heavyweight Title: Nelson Royal vs. Ashura Hara. End cut off
Comm
Cage Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Gypsy Joe
/72: Monster Rousimoff (Andre The Giant) & Ivan Vaiten & Tito Kopa vs. Isamu Teranishi & Rusher Kimura & Thunder Sugiyama
TV & film footage, most or all digested.
12/3/76: Rusher Kimura vs. Gypsy Joe
IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Killer Tor Kamata
Rusher Kimura vs. Killer Tor Kamata
IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimuravs Mighty Inoue
Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff
Mighty Inoue vs. Alexis Smirnoff
Great Kusatsu vs. Alexis Smirnoff
IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Cowboy Bob Ellis
Mighty Inoue vs. Cowboy Bob Ellis
Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff
Bonus G+ Classics (Ex VQ)
6/1/78: Giant Baba vs. Killer Tor Kamata
6/12/78: Killer Tor Kamata vs. Billy Robinson
10/18/78: Billy Robinson vs. Abdullah The Butcher. No finish
11/5/78 Tokyo Korakuen Hall 2/3 Falls: Mr. Hito (Katsuji Adachi) & Mr. Sakurada (Kazuo Sakurada) vs. Rusher Kimura & The Great Kusatsu 7:25 of 23:14. Second and third falls only.
11/12/78 Hagiwara: Animal Hamaguchi & Dean Ho & Professor Tanaka vs. Mr. Sakurada & Rocky Hata & Motoshi Okuma 1:55 shown
11/5/78 Tokyo Korakuen Hall, Japan League Block B: Animal Hamaguchi vs. Takashi Ishikawa 8:40 of 30:00
11/12/78 Hagiwara
Japan League Block A: Mighty Inoue vs. The Great Kusatsu 12:15 of 13:58
Japan League Block B: Isamu Teranishi vs. Great Kojika 5:00 of 30:00
Japan League Block B: Rusher Kimura vs. Takashi Ishikawa 10:45 of 11:13
11/25/78 Tokyo Kuramae Kokugikan
Japan League Quarter Final: Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mighty Inoue 4:40 of 16:38
Japan League Quarter Final: Rusher Kimura vs. Kim Duk 7:40 of 12:33
11/28/78 Tsuruoka
Japan League Semi Final: Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Professor Tanaka 3:12 of 6:26
Japan League Semi Final: Rusher Kimura vs. Dean Ho 7:56
11/30/78 Chiba, Japan League Final: Rusher Kimura vs. Professor Tanaka 11:05
11/25/78 Tokyo Kuramae Kokugikan, Japan League Quarter Final: Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mighty Inoue 11:40 of 16:38
4/11/78 Takasaki
Mighty Inoue vs. Gypsy Joe 6:14 shown
Rusher Kimura vs. Kurt Von Hess 3:07 shown
4/26/78 Okayama, Cage Death Match: Gypsy Joe vs. Katsuzo Oiyama 3:30 shown.
4/27/78 Tsuyama
The Great Kusatsu vs. Kurt Von Hess 1:41 shown
Mighty Inoue vs. Gypsy Joe 5:00 shown
5/1/78 Fuji, 2/3 Falls IWA Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Mighty Inoue 5:30 of 18:21
5/2/78 Mishima: Rusher Kimura vs. Gypsy Joe 4:52 shown
6/18/78 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Rusher Kimura & The Great Kusatsu vs. Alexis Smirnoff & Kasavubu 3:52 of 12:27
6/26/78 Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium
Susumu Hara (Ashura Hara) vs. Isamu Teranishi 5:00 of 15:00 shown. Susumu Hara debut.
Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff 3:40 shown
7/18/78 Iwate, 2/3 Falls IWA Tag Title: Animal Hamaguchi & The Great Kusatsu vs. Mr. Hito (Katsuji Adachi) & Alexis Smirnoff 4:12 of 21:58
7/19/78 Akita, IWA Title Cage Death Match: Rusher Kimura vs. Kasavubu 4:44 of 14:34
7/26/78 Koshigaya, 2/3 Falls IWA Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Alexis Smirnoff 5:00 of 17:42
NJPW Tadakai no Wonderland ~Showa Hen~ #132
6/2/83 Tokyo Kuramae Kokugikan, NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title Decision: Tiger Mask vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi 18:03 ****¼
5/30/83 Chiba
Akira Maeda vs. Hulk Hogan 10:37
Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi & Kengo Kimura vs. Andre the Giant & El Canek & Big John Studd 9:45
IWE/KPWA/Kim Il Supporters Association 7/28/78 Seoul, South Korea
Mr. Hito vs. Yang Sun-Hi 1:27 shown
Mighty Inoue vs. Oh Tae Kyun 9:25
Isamu Teranishi & Rusher Kimura vs. Kim Il (Kintaro Oki) & Kim Kwang Sik 27:15
IWE/KPWA/Kim Il Supporters Association 8/2/78 Seoul, South Korea
Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Kim Kwang Sik & Oh Tae Kyun 12:09
IWA World Heavyweight Title: Rusher Kimura vs. Yang Sun-Hi 7:57
NWA International Heavyweight Title: Kim Il (Kintaro Oki) vs. Jiro Inazuma (Gerry Morrow) 11:36