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New Japan Pro-Wrestling ... NJPW and TV Asahi announced NJPW World, ... The Greatest 18 Club was New Japan's first hall of fame, being established in september 30th ...
Independent Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame — 2005– Yes: Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Cutting Room: 2022- Manhattan: No George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame: Mike Chapman — 1999– Waterloo, Iowa: No Became part of the Dan Gable International Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in 2007. [13] Women's Wrestling Hall of ...
Known to consistently feature AJPW talents and 1980s era WWE Hall of Famers on TV, where they wrestled on a regular basis. International Wrestling Enterprise: Tokyo: Isao Yoshiwara 1966–1981 Associated with the American Wrestling Association from 1970, and the Japan Pro-Wrestling Commission with New Japan Pro Wrestling until 1981. [56]
The New Beginning in Osaka was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on February 11, 2025, in Osaka at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. [2] It was the forty-first event under the New Beginning name and the ninth to take place in Osaka.
George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. Class of 2005; International Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. Class of 2021 [116] Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance. NWA International Tag Team Championship – with Shohei Baba; All Asia Tag Team Championship – with Michiaki Yoshimura (3) and Kintarō Ōki (1) 11th World Big League
The first Japanese person to involve themselves in catch wrestling (the basis of traditional professional wrestling) was former sumo wrestler Sorakichi Matsuda. [1] There were subsequent attempts before and after World War II to popularize the sport in Japan, but these generally failed until the advent of its first big star, Rikidōzan , in ...
On December 5, 2010, Pro Wrestling Noah held the "Joe Higuchi Memorial Show" in Tokyo, Japan in Higuchi's honour. [10] He was posthumously given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Tokyo Sports Puroresu Awards [ 12 ] and was inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum as a member of the Class of 2018 [ 5 ] and the ...
When Tanahashi was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame in 2013, Dave Meltzer stated that "you could make a strong case for him as the best in-ring performer in the business today", adding that he was "the leading star in New Japan Pro-Wrestling's comeback from being in terrible shape a few years back to being the No. 2 pro ...