All Japan Pro Wrestling

All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) (全日本プロレス, Zen nihon puroresu) is a great federation of professional wrestling with the Japan, founded in 1972. It is one of the more poupulaire federation of Puroresu .

History

The federation was founded in 1972 by Shohei " Giant" Baba and the brothers Momota , wire of Rikidozan. Baba, a former professional player of baseball, joined the JWA in 1960. In October 1972, it left the JWA to form its own organization, All Japan which is always in activity with very a weekly show televised on the Japanese Television since 2000. Their first show was on October 21st, 1972, in Machida City Gym of Tokyo to the Japan.

Baba founded the Pacific Wrestling Federation (PWF) as body controlling for all the titles of All Japan. At the beginning, the PWF recognized a championship of the World and some titles " régionaux" given the abroads depending on the area of which they came, but after the AJPW joined NWA, the world title of the PWF was put on side at the profit of a regional title. The president of the PWF (similar to a commission agent in an American promotion, whose main role is of " présenter" the belts with the winners during the matches of championship) was Lord James Blears of the beginning at the year 2000 and thereafter Stan Hansen.

As a member of the NWA, All Japan could accommodate foreign all-in wrestlers and even NWA World Heavyweight Champion at the time of frequent rounds. Whereas the NWA crumbled in the years 1980, Baba decided to take its distances with other promotions, and launched its clean roster (which included/understood jponais but also foreigners) with talents which thus catchaient only for its federation. With the unification of the titles in All Japan as a AJPW Triples Crown Championship and AJPW Unified World Tag TEAM Championship , but also with a list of talented all-in wrestlers like Jumbo Tsuruta, Genichiro Tenryu, Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada and Kenta Kobashi, the federation was able to make its hole among the large ones and at the fans in the years 1990. The interpromotionnaux matches were however rather rare; the all-in wrestlers who unloaded other federations, like Hiroshi Hase, Shigeo Okumura and Yoshihiro Takayama, were not proposed enough.

Baba would die in January 1999, leaving promotion to the hands of the signal star, Misawa. This last, discouraged by the proposal of the voeuve, Motoko Baba, to direct the company, left the organization the May 28th 2000 to form of it a news, the Pro Wrestling NOAH. Misawa carried with him the majority of the large all-in wrestlers of the AJPW. Motoko Baba inherited the blow of the orders of the federation, and it counteracted while bringing back Genichiro Tenryu which had left 10 years before the company under similar conditions with Misawa, to form SWS , although the roster was not decimated as much than it was it in 2000. In addition to that, Stan Hansen, one of the pillars of All Japan, was obliged to take its retirement because of a Lombalgie, removing a great talent in addition to the roster. Its last match eétait a semi-final in a tournament for the title Triple Crown then vacant vis-a-vis Tenryu. Mrs. Baba then appointed it commission agent of the PWF.

In 2002, at the end of a long year of promotional exchange with the New Japan Pro Wrestling, three of the signal stars of New Japan, Keiji Mutoh, Satoshi Kojima and Kendo Kashin (Kashin since is turned over to New Japan), from went away for All Japan.

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the official site of All Japan in Japanese

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