January 4, 1965 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [first night]
Roy “Ripper” Collins, Soldat Gorky (John “Wolfman” Smith) and Ivan Kameroff (Boris Volkoff)
beat Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato … Don Duffy drew Giant Baba …
Kokichi Endo beat Kumagoro Okuma … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Umanosuke Ueda …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Suzuki … Gantetsu Matsuoka drew Kakutaro Koma … Raizo
Kojika beat Akihisa Mera … Sarukichi Takasakiyama beat Kazuo Honma

January 5, 1965 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [second night]
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat Soldat Gorky and Ivan Kameroff (Giant Baba and
Toyonobori retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Don Duffy drew Michiaki Yoshimura …
Ripper Collins beat Kokichi Endo … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Umanosuke
Ueda beat Kumagoro Okuma … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Kakutaro Koma

January 8, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ripper Collins, Don Duffy and Soldat
Gorky … Ivan Kameroff beat Yoshinosato … Kantaro Hoshino beat Umanosuke Ueda …
Kakutaro Koma beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Tadaharu Tanaka …
Iwakichi Hirano beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Mr. Suzuki beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …
Masayuki Fujii drew Akihisa Mera … Raizo Kojika beat Kazuo Honma

January 9, 1965 … Nagoya
Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ripper Collins and Ivan Kameroff … Soldat Gorky
drew Giant Baba … Don Duffy and Yoshinosato both COR … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Hishakaku Otsubo … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Umanosuke Ueda beat
Kakutaro Koma … Iwakichi Hirano beat Raizo Kojika … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Masayuki Fujii drew Kazuo Honma … Mr. Suzuki drew Sarukichi Takasakiyama

January 10, 1965 … Shizuoka
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat Ripper Collins, Soldat Gorky and Ivan
Kameroff … Don Duffy drew Michiaki Yoshimura … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kumagoro Okuma beat
Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Kakutaro Koma beat Raizo Kojika … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Tadaharu Tanaka … Mr. Suzuki beat Akihisa Mera … Iwakichi Hirano drew Kazuo Honma …
Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal pinning Mr. Suzuki in the finals.

January 11, 1965 … Tokyo (Adachi)
Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat Don Duffy, Soldat Gorky and Ivan
Kameroff … Giant Baba beat Ripper Collins … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kakutaro Koma …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Umanosuke Ueda beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …
Raizo Kojika beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama

January 15, 1965 … Mito
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat Ripper Collins and Don Duffy … Soldat Gorky beat Michiaki
Yoshimura … Ivan Kameroff beat Yoshinosato … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kakutaro Koma …
Hishakaku Otsubo beat Mr. Suzuki … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Kantaro
Hoshino drew Gantetsu Matsuoka … Raizo Kojika drew Iwakichi Hirano … Kazuo Honma beat
Sarukichi Takasakiyama

January 16, 1965 … Tokyo (Taito)
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat Soldat Gorky and Ivan Kameroff (COR) (Giant Baba and
Toyonobori retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ripper Collins …
Don Duffy beat Yoshinosato (DQ) … Kokichi Endo beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Tadaharu
Tanaka drew Umanosuke Ueda … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama …
Kakutaro Koma beat Kumagoro Okuma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Raizo
Kojika drew Mr. Suzuki … Iwakichi Hirano drew Gantetsu Matsuoka

January 22, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Don Duffy and Soldat Gorky drew Giant Baba and Yoshimura (both COR) … Toyonobori
beat Ripper Collins … Ivan Kameroff drew Yoshinosato … Kokichi Endo beat Kumagoro
Okuma … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Kakutaro
Koma … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kantaro Hoshino beat Raizo Kojika
… Kazuo Honma drew Akihisa Mera … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki

January 29, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba beat Soldat Gorky … Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat Ripper Collins
and Don Duffy … Kokichi Endo beat Ivan Kameroff … Umanosuke Ueda beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro Okuma … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Kakutaro
Koma … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Raizo Kojika … Sarukichi Takasakiyama beat Mr. Suzuki
NOTE: Toyonobori left Japan to do some training in Hawaii and Giant Baba spent two months
working in Southern California and Hawaii.

February 5, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Ripper Collins and Don Duffy beat Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato (DQ) … Ivan
Kameroff beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kokichi Endo beat Soldat Gorky (DQ) … Umanosuke
Ueda beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Kakutaro Koma drew Gantetsu Matsuoka … Sarukichi
Takasakiyama beat Raizo Kojika … Kumagoro Okuma beat Hishakaku Otsubo
NOTES: JWA had some difficulty securing public facilities to run its show because the
National Police decided to drive underworld people out of show business and pro-wrestling.
Newspapers reported that JWA had to hand over Riki Sports Palace to a lactic acid drink
company for a financial reason.

February 12, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat Don Duffy, Soldat Gorky and Ivan
Kameroff … Kokichi Endo beat Ripper Collins (DQ) … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kakutaro Koma … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kumagoro
Okuma … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Iwakichi Hirano … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Hishakaku
Otsubo … Kazuo Honma beat Mr. Suzuki (DQ) … Ushinosuke Hayashi drew Raizo Kojika

February 19, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat Ripper Collins and Boris “The Great” Malenko … Don
Duffy drew Michiaki Yoshimura … Kokichi Endo beat Umanosuke Ueda … Kakutaro Koma
drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Iwakichi
Hirano drew Kazuo Honma … Raizo Kojika drew Mr. Suzuki

February 26, 1965 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium)
Toyonobori drew The Destroyer (Dick Beyer) (Toyonobori retained the WWA World
Heavyweight Title though Toyonobori’s WWA Title was recognized only in Japan) … Michiaki
Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat Don Duffy and Boris Malenko … Kokichi Endo beat Ripper
Collins (COR) … Umanosuke Ueda beat Mr. Suzuki … Kumagoro Okuma beat Ushinosuke
Hayashi … Kotetsu Yamamoto drew Tadaharu Tanaka … Iwakichi Hirano drew Akihisa Mera
… Raizo Kojika drew Sarukichi Takasakiyama

March 5, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat Ripper Collins and Don Duffy … Luke Graham
beat Kokichi Endo … Boris Malenko beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Iwakichi Hirano … Hishakaku Otsubo beat
Raizo Kojika … Kumagoro Okuma drew Tadaharu Tanaka … Sarukichi Takasakiyama beat
Akihisa Mera

March 12, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat Don Duffy, Luke Graham and Boris
Malenko … Ripper Collins beat Umanosuke Ueda … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kakutaro Koma
… Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Mr. Suzuki …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Raizo Kojika drew Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro Okuma

March 19, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ripper Collins and Luke Graham … Yoshinosato
beat Don Duffy … Boris Malenko beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kantaro Hoshino beat Iwakichi
Hirano … Umanosuke Ueda beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Mr. Suzuki drew Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Masayuki Fujii drew Raizo Kojika …
Gantetsu Matsuoka drew Kumagoro Okuma

March 26, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba won an 8-man battle royal pinning Don Duffy in the finals.  The other participants
were Ripper Collins, Boris Malenko, Luke Graham, Michiaki Yoshimura, Yoshinosato, and
Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Tadaharu Tanaka beat
Kakutaro Koma … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Kumagoro Okuma … Umanosuke Ueda beat Mr.
Suzuki … Ushinosuke Hayashi drew Raizo Kojika … Iwakichi Hirano drew Gantetsu Matsuoka
NOTE: Giant Baba came back to Japan after working five weeks in Southern California.

April 2, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat Luke Graham and Boris Malenko … Kantaro Hoshino drew
Tadaharu Tanaka … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Kotetsu Yamamoto

[The Seventh World League]
April 8, 1965 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium)
Don Manoukian and Sweet Daddy Siki beat Mr. Moto and Toyonobori …Fred Blassie drew
Giant Baba … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Luke Graham … Baron Gattoni beat Kokichi Endo …
Jack Pesek beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Yoshinosato beat Al Greene (DQ) … Kumagoro
Okuma beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Tadaharu
Tanaka drew Umanosuke Ueda … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Raizo Kojika

April 10, 1965 … Urawa (present-day Saitama)
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat Fred Blassie, Luke Graham and Jack Pesek
… Sweet Daddy Siki beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Mr. Moto beat Al Greene (DQ) … Don
Manoukian beat Kokichi Endo (COR) … Baron Gattoni beat Kumagoro Okuma and
Umanosuke Ueda (Handicap Match) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Mr. Suzuki … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kakutaro Koma drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Hishakaku
Otsubo beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama

April 11, 1965 … Hiratsuka
Fred Blassie and Don Manoukian beat Toyonobori and Yoshinosato … Giant Baba beat
Luke Graham … Sweet Daddy Siki beat Mr. Moto … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Jack Pesek …
Kokichi Endo beat Al Greene (COR) … Baron Gattoni beat Hideyuki Nagasawa and
Umanosuke Ueda (Handicap Match) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Mr. Suzuki … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kakutaro
Koma won a batte royal pinning Raizo Kojika in the finals.

April 12, 1965 … Matsudo
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Baron Gattoni, Al Greene and Sweet
Daddy Siki … Fred Blassie beat Yoshinosato … Kokichi Endo beat Luke Graham … Mr. Moto
beat Jack Pesek (DQ) … Don Manoukian beat Umanosuke Ueda … Hishakaku Otsubo beat
Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Kakutaro Koma … Kumagoro Okuma
beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Raizo Kojika drew Mr. Suzuki … Ushinosuke Hayashi won a
battle royal pinning Sarukichi Takasakiyama in the finals.

April 13, 1965 … Shizuoka
Fred Blassie and Sweet Daddy Siki beat Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura … Toyonobori
beat Luke Graham … Jack Pesek beat Kokichi Endo … Don Manoukian beat Mr. Moto … Al
Greene beat Umanosuke Ueda … Baron Gattoni beat Kantaro Hoshino and Kumagoro
Okuma (Handicap Match) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …Tadaharu
Tanaka won a battle royal pinning Raizo Kojika in the finals.

April 14, 1965 … Hamamatsu
Giant Baba, Mr. Moto and Toyonobori beat Fred Blassie, Al Greene and Don Manoukian …
Sweet Daddy Siki beat Kokichi Endo … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Jack Pesek … Baron Gattoni
beat Luke Graham … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Umanosuke Ueda beat
Tadaharu Tanaka … Raizo Kojika beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Kumagoro Okuma beat
Hishakaku Otsubo … Kakutaro Koma drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Masayuki Fujii beat Akihisa
Mera … Sarukichi Takasakiyama won a battle royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

April 15, 1965 … Toyohashi
Giant Baba, Kokichi Endo and Toyonobori beat Fred Blassie, Jack Pesek and Sweet Daddy
Siki … Don Manoukian drew Yoshinosato … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Al Greene (DQ) … Mr.
Moto beat Luke Graham (DQ) … Baron Gattoni beat Hideyuki Nagasawa and Kumagoro
Okuma (Handicap Match) … Kantaro Hoshino drew Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kakutaro Koma drew Tadaharu Tanaka … Raizo
Kojika drew Mr. Suzuki … Mr. Suzuki won a battle royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the
finals.

April 16, 1965 … Nagoya
Fred Blassie, Baron Gattoni and Sweet Daddy Siki beat Mr. Moto, Toyonobori and
Yoshinosato … Giant Baba beat Al Greene … Don Manoukian drew Michiaki Yoshimura …
Jack Pesek beat Umanosuke Ueda … Kokichi Endo beat Luke Graham … Tadaharu Tanaka
drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Kumagoro Okuma … Hishakaku Otsubo
beat Mr. Suzuki … Akihisa Mera beat Raizo Kojika … Gantetsu Matsuoka won a battle royal
pinning Mr. Suzuki in the finals.

April 18, 1965 … Fukuchiyama
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Fred Blassie, Luke Graham and Al
Greene … Sweet Daddy Siki beat Yoshinosato … Kokichi Endo beat Jack Pesek … Don
Manoukian beat Mr. Moto … Baron Gattoni beat Kantaro Hoshino and Hideyuki Nagasawa
(Handicap Match) … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Kakutaro Koma … Kumagoro Okuma beat
Tadaharu Tanaka … Raizo Kojika drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Umanosuke Ueda beat
Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kotetsu Yamamoto won a battle royal pinning Kumagoro Okuma in the
finals.

April 19, 1965 … Tokushima
Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Al Greene and Sweet Daddy Siki … Giant Baba
beat Jack Pesek … Fred Blassie beat Kokichi Endo … Don Manoukian beat Yoshinosato …
Mr. Moto beat Luke Graham … Baron Gattoni beat Kumagoro Okuma and Tadaharu Tanaka
(Handicap Match) … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kakutaro Koma … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Akihisa Mera … Kantaro Hoshino beat Raizo Kojika … Kotetsu Yamamoto won a battle royal
pinning Sarukichi Takasakiyama in the finals.

April 20, 1965 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [first night]
Fred Blassie beat Toyonobori (DQ) … Graham and Sweet Daddy Siki beat Michiaki
Yoshimura and Yoshinosato (COR) … Don Manoukian drew Giant Baba … Luke Graham
and Sweet Daddy Siki beat Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato (COR) … Baron Gattoni
beat Kantaro Hoshino and Umanosuke Ueda (Handicap Match) … Mr. Moto beat Jack Pesek
(DQ) … Kokichi Endo beat Al Greene …Tadaharu Tanaka drew Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Sarukichi Takasakiyama beat Akihisa Mera

April 21, 1965 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [second night]
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat Fred Blassie and Don Manoukian … Sweet Daddy Siki drew
Michiaki Yoshimura … Yoshinosato beat Luke Graham … Baron Gattoni beat Mr. Moto …
Jack Pesek beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Al Greene beat Umanosuke Ueda … Kumagoro
Okuma beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Raizo Kojika
and Sarukichi Takasakiyama both COR … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Kakutaro Koma

April 22, 1965 … Kobe
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Fred Blassie, Don Manoukian and Jack
Pesek … Sweet Daddy Siki beat Yoshinosato … Baron Gattoni beat Hideyuki Nagasawa and
Kumagoro Okuma (Handicap Match) … Mr. Moto beat Al Greene (DQ) …Tadaharu Tanaka
beat Umanosuke Ueda … Kantaro Hoshino beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Hishakaku
Otsubo beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Raizo Kojika drew Kakutaro Koma … Akihisa Mera beat
Masami (Masao) Kimura

April 23, 1965 … Takamatsu
Fred Blassie, Don Manoukian and Sweet Daddy Siki beat Giant Baba, Mr. Moto and Michiaki
Yoshimura … Toyonobori beat Al Greene … Baron Gattoni beat Yoshinosato … Jack Pesek
beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kantaro Hoshino beat Umanosuke Ueda … Kakutaro Koma drew
Tadaharu Tanaka … Kumagoro Okuma beat Akihisa Mera … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Hishakaku Otsubo … Sarukichi Takasakiyama beat Masami Kimura

April 24, 1965 … Himeji
Mr. Moto and Toyonobori beat Baron Gattoni and Sweet Daddy Siki … Giant Baba beat Al
Greene … Fred Blassie and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Yoshinosato beat Don
Manoukian (DQ) … Jack Pesek beat Umanosuke Ueda … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro
Okuma … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Tadaharu Tanaka

April 25, 1965 … Okayama
Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat Fred Blassie and Al Greene … Giant Baba beat Sweet
Daddy Siki (DQ) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Jack Pesek … Baron Gattoni beat Kantaro
Hoshino and Kumagoro Okuma (Handicap Match) … Don Manoukian beat Mr. Moto (COR) …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Hideyuki Nagasawa …Tadaharu Tanaka beat Raizo Kojika … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Kakutaro Koma beat Masami Kimura … Raizo
Kojika won a battle royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

April 26, 1965 … Fukuyama
The show was rained out and postponed until May 9.

April 28, 1965 … Sasebo
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat Don Manoukian and Sweet Daddy Siki … Fred Blassie beat
Mr. Moto … Baron Gattoni beat Hideyuki Nagasawa and Umanosuke Ueda (Handicap Match)
… Michiaki Yoshimura beat Al Greene … Yoshinosato beat Jack Pesek … Kotetsu Yamamoto
beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kakutaro Koma drew
Kumagoro Okuma … Sarukichi Takasakiyama beat Raizo Kojika … Kumagoro Okuma won a
battle royal pinning Sarukichi Takasakiyama in the finals.

May 1, 1965 … Kumamoto
Mr. Moto and Toyonobori beat Fred Blassie and Al Greene … Giant Baba beat Jack Pesek
… Michiaki Yoshimura drew Don Manoukian … Sweet Daddy Siki beat Hideyuki Nagasawa …
Baron Gattoni beat Yoshinosato … Kakutaro Koma beat Raizo Kojika …Tadaharu Tanaka
beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mr. Suzuki
beat Akihisa Mera … Iwakichi Hirano beat Masami Kimura

May 2, 1965 … Kagoshima
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Fred Blassie and Sweet Daddy Siki … Toyonobori
beat Don Manoukian … Mr. Moto beat Jack Pesek … Baron Gattoni beat Tadaharu Tanaka
and Kotetsu Yamamoto (Handicap Match) … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Raizo Kojika …
Kakutaro Koma beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Mr. Suzuki beat Masami Kimura … Takasakiyama
beat Akihisa Mera … Raizo Kojika won a battle royal pinning Mr. Suzuki in the finals.

May 3, 1965 … Naze (present-day Amami)
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Fred Blassie, Baron Gattoni and Al
Greene … Yoshinosato beat Jack Pesek … Manoukian beat Umanosuke Ueda … Sweet
Daddy Siki beat Mr. Moto … Kumagoro Okuma beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino
beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Raizo Kojika beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Kakutaro Koma beat
Hishakaku Otsubo

May 6, 1965 … Shimonoseki
Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat Jack Pesek and Sweet Daddy Siki … Giant Baba beat Don
Manoukian … Fred Blassie beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Mr. Moto beat Al Greene … Baron
Gattoni beat Kumagoro Okuma and Umanosuke Ueda (Handicap Match) … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Hishakaku Otsubo …
Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Raizo Kojika … Kakutaro Koma beat Akihisa Mera … Mr. Suzuki
beat Masami Kimura

May 7, 1965 … Nagasaki
Toyonobori beat Baron Gattoni … Giant Baba beat Sweet Daddy Siki (DQ) … Mr. Moto beat
Jack Pesek … Fred Blassie beat Yoshinosato … Don Manoukian and Michiaki Yoshimura
both COR … Al Greene beat Umanosuke Ueda … Kakutaro Koma drew Tadaharu Tanaka …
Sarukichi Takasakiyama beat Masami Kimura … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Hishakaku Otsubo
… Mr. Suzuki beat Akihisa Mera

May 8, 1965 … Fukuoka
Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Fred Blassie and Don Manoukian … Giant Baba
beat Al Greene … Baron Gattoni beat Mr. Moto … Jack Pesek beat Kantaro Hoshino …
Sweet Daddy Siki beat Yoshinosato (COR) …Tadaharu Tanaka beat Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Kumagoro Okuma beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kakutaro Koma beat Akihisa Mera …
Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Mr. Suzuki won a battle royal pinning
Raizo Kojika in the finals.

May 9, 1965 … Fukuyama
Giant Baba, Mr. Moto and Toyonobori beat Fred Blassie, Jack Pesek and Sweet Daddy Siki
… Michiaki Yoshimura beat Al Greene … Don Manoukian beat Yoshinosato (DQ) … Baron
Gattoni beat Hideyuki Nagasawa and Kumagoro Okuma (Handicap Match) … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Raizo Kojika … Umanosuke Ueda beat Hishakaku Otsubo …Tadaharu Tanaka
beat Akihisa Mera … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Mr. Suzuki … Tadaharu Tanaka also won a
battle royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.
NOTE: Referee, Oki Shikina was arrested by the police for illegal possession of a pistol on
May 10 in Fukuyama.

May 11, 1965 … Hiroshima
Don Manoukian and Sweet Daddy Siki beat Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura …
Toyonobori beat Jack Pesek … Yoshinosato beat Al Greene … Fred Blassie beat Mr. Moto
… Baron Gattoni beat Kumagoro Okuma and Umanosuke Ueda (Handicap Match) … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Iwakichi Hirano beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Raizo Kojika
drew Mr. Suzuki … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Masami Kimura drew
Akihisa Mera

May 13, 1965 … Ise
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat Fred Blassie and Sweet Daddy Siki … Don Manoukian drew
Michiaki Yoshimura … Yoshinosato beat Al Greene … Mr. Moto beat Jack Pesek … Baron
Gattoni beat Hideyuki Nagaswa and Umanosuke Ueda (Handicap Match) … Kumagoro
Okuma beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kotaro Hirano drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mr. Suzuki beat
Akihisa Takachiho (Mera) … Kotetsu Yamamoto won a battle royal pinning Raizo Kojika and
Mr. Suzuki in the finals.

May 15, 1965 … Toyama
Fred Blassie and Giant Baba both COR … Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Don
Manoukian and Sweet Daddy Siki … Baron Gattoni beat Kantaro Hoshino and Hideyuki
Nagasawa (Handicap Match) … Umanosuke Ueda beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama

May 17, 1965 … Komatsu
Mr. Moto and Toyonobori beat Fred Blassie and Al Greene … Giant Baba beat Baron Gattoni
(COR) … Jack Pesek beat Kantaro Hoshino … Don Manoukian and Yoshinosato both COR
… Sweet Daddy Siki beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Kumagoro Okuma beat Tadaharu Tanaka
… Umanosuke Ueda beat Hideyuki Nagasawa

May 19, 1965 … Yokohama
Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat Don Manoukian and Sweet Daddy Siki … Fred Blassie
beat Giant Baba … Mr. Moto beat Jack Pesek (DQ) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Al Greene …
Baron Gattoni beat Hideyuki Nagasawa and Kumagoro Okuma (Handicap Match) …
Hishakaku Otsubo beat Raizo Kojika … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama
…Tadaharu Tanaka beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino drew Umanosuke Ueda …
Mr. Suzuki beat Masami Kimura

May 20, 1965 … Utsunomiya
Giant Baba, Mr. Moto and Toyonobori beat Al Greene, Don Manoukian and Sweet Daddy Siki
… Michiaki Yoshimura beat Baron Gattoni (DQ) … Fred Blassie beat Yoshinosato … Jack
Pesek beat Umanosuke Ueda … Kumagoro Okuma beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kakutaro
Koma beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Kantaro Hoshino … Iwakichi
Hirano drew Raizo Kojika … Mr. Suzuki drew Tadaharu Tanaka … Sarukichi Takasakiyama
beat Masayuki Fujii

May 21, 1965 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium)
Toyonobori beat Fred Blassie (Toyonobori became the winner of the Seventh World League)
… Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Don Manoukian and Sweet Daddy Siki …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Jack Pesek (DQ) … Yoshinosato beat Al Greene … Baron Gattoni
beat Tadaharu Tanaka and Umanosuke Ueda (Handicap Match) … Kumagoro Okuma beat
Raizo Kojika … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Kakutaro Koma beat
Iwakichi Hirano … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho

[Golden Series]
May 24, 1965 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [first night]
The Destroyer and Billy Red Lyons beat Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura … Toyonobori
beat Don Manoukian (DQ) … Sweet Daddy Siki beat Umanosuke Ueda … Yoshinosato beat
Baron Gattoni (DQ) … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Kantaro Hoshino
beat Kumagoro Okuma … Iwakichi Hirano drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Hishakaku Otsubo beat
Mr. Suzuki … Raizo Kojika drew Akihisa Takachiho
NOTE: Dick Beyer visited Japan with his wife, Wilma, whose sister was married to Billy Red
Lyons.

May 25, 1965 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [second night]
The Destroyer beat Toyonobori (DQ) (Toyonobori retained the WWA World Heavyweight
Title) … Billy Red Lyons beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Don Manoukian and Sweet Daddy Siki
drew Giant Baba and Yoshinosato … Baron Gattoni beat Umanosuke Ueda … Hishakaku
Otsubo beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Tadaharu Tanaka drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Raizo
Kojika beat Kantaro Hoshino … Iwakichi Hirano beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kumagoro Okuma
beat Mr. Suzuki

May 27, 1965 … Gifu
The Destroyer beat Giant Baba … Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat
Baron Gattoni, Billy Red Lyons and Don Manoukian … Sweet Daddy Siki beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Raizo Kojika … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kumagoro Okuma … Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle
royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

May 30, 1965 … Odawara
Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat The Destroyer, Baron Gattoni and
Sweet Daddy Siki … Billy Red Lyons drew Giant Baba … Don Manoukian beat Umanosuke
Ueda … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Raizo Kojika beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Iwakichi Hirano beat Akihisa
Takachiho … Kumagoro Okuma beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Mr. Suzuki beat Masayuki Fujii …
Kotetsu Yamamoto won a battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

June 1, 1965 … Ojiya
The Destroyer and Don Manoukian beat Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura … Toyonobori
beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Billy Red Lyons beat Yoshinosato … Baron Gattoni beat Kantaro
Hoshino and Kumagoro Okuma (Handicap Match) … Umanosuke Ueda beat Hishakaku
Otsubo … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Mr. Suzuki … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Akihisa Takachiho
… Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Raizo Kojika beat Masayuki Fujii …
Sarukichi Takasakiyama won a battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

June 3, 1965 … Sapporo [first night]
The Destroyer and Billy Red Lyons beat Giant Baba and Toyonobori (The Destroyer and
Billy Red Lyons captured the Asian Tag Team Title) … Sweet Daddy Siki drew Michiaki
Yoshimura … Yoshinosato beat Don Manoukian (DQ) … Baron Gattoni beat Kumagoro
Okuma … Umanosuke Ueda beat Raizo Kojika … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Kotetsu Yamamoto
… Sarukichi Takasakiyama beat Masanori Saito … Kantaro Hoshino beat Mr. Suzuki …
Masami Kimura drew Akihisa Takachiho

June 4, 1965 … Sapporo [second night]
The Destroyer and Giant Baba both COR … Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat Don
Manoukian and Sweet Daddy Siki … Billy Red Lyons beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Baron
Gattoni beat Tadaharu Tanaka and Umanosuke Ueda (Handicap Match) … Hishakaku
Otsubo beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro Okuma … Mr.
Suzuki beat Masanori Saito … Raizo Kojika beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Masayuki Fujii drew
Akihisa Takachiho

June 5, 1965 … Otaru
Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat The Destroyer, Baron Gattoni and
Don Manoukian … Giant Baba beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Billy Red Lyons beat Umanosuke
Ueda … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Kumagoro Okuma beat Akihisa Takachiho … Raizo Kojika beat Sarukichi
Takasakiyama … Mr. Suzuki beat Masayuki Fujii … Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal
pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

June 6, 1965 … Kitami
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat The Destroyer, Baron Gattoni and Sweet
Daddy Siki … Don Manoukian beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Billy Red Lyons beat Kumagoro
Okuma … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Iwakichi Hirano … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sarukichi
Takasakiyama … Raizo Kojika beat Masami Kimura … Kantaro Hoshino won a battle royal
pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

June 8, 1965 … Kushiro
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Destroyer and Sweet Daddy Siki … Toyonobori
beat Don Manoukian … Billy Red Lyons beat Yoshinosato … Baron Gattoni beat Kantaro
Hoshino and Umanosuke Ueda (Handicap Match) … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Iwakichi Hirano
… Kumagoro Okuma beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Masami Kimura drew Sarukichi
Takasakiyama … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Akihisa Takachiho … Raizo Kojika beat Masayuki
Fujii … Raizo Kojika won a battle royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

June 11, 1965 … Hachinohe
Giant Baba and Yoshimura beat The Destroyer and Don Manoukian … Sweet Daddy Siki
drew Yoshinosato … Toyonobori beat Baron Gattoni … Billy Red Lyons beat Hideyuki
Nagasawa … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Tadaharu
Tanaka … Iwakichi Hirano drew Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Raizo Kojika drew Kumagoro
Okuma … Masami Kimura drew Akihisa Takachiho … Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal
pinning Raizo Kojika in the finals.

June 12, 1965 … Towada
The Destroyer, Baron Gattoni and Don Manoukian beat Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and
Yoshinosato … Giant Baba beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Billy Red Lyons beat Umanosuke Ueda
… Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Raizo Kojika beat Masami Kimura …
Hishakaku Otsubo beat Akihisa Takachiho … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sarukichi
Takasakiyama … Masayuki Fujii drew Mr. Suzuki … Sarukichi Takasakiyama won a battle
royal pinning Raizo Kojika in the finals.

June 13, 1965 … Goshogawara
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat The Destroyer and Don Manoukian … Sweet Daddy Siki
drew Michiaki Yoshimura … Billy Red Lyons beat Yoshinosato (DQ) … Baron Gattoni beat
Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kumagoro Okuma beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Umanosuke Ueda beat
Tadaharu Tanaka … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Raizo Kojika beat Masayuki Fujii … Tadaharu Tanaka won a
battle royal pinning Raizo Kojika in the finals.

June 14, 1965 … Odate
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Destroyer, Billy Red Lyons and
Sweet Daddy Siki … Don Manoukian beat Yoshinosato … Baron Gattoni beat Umanosuke
Ueda … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro Okuma … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Raizo Kojika …
Sarukichi Takasakiyama beat Masami Kimura … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Iwakichi Hirano …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki … Masayuki Fujii drew Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu
Yamamoto won a battle royal pinning Tadaharu Tanaka in the finals.

June 16, 1965 … Akita
The Destroyer and Don Manoukian drew Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura … Toyonobori
beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Billy Red Lyons beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Yoshinosato beat
Baron Gattoni (DQ) … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Umanosuke Ueda beat
Kumagoro Okuma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Raizo Kojika … Mr. Suzuki beat Sarukichi
Takasakiyama … Iwakichi Hirano drew Akihisa Takachiho … Mr. Suzuki also won a battle
royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

June 18, 1965 … Yamagata
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat Baron Gattoni and Sweet Daddy Siki … The Destroyer and
Billy Red Lyons beat Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato … Don Manoukian beat
Umanosuke Ueda … Kantaro Hoshino beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Hideyuki Nagasawa … Mr. Suzuki beat Raizo Kojika … Kotaro Hirano drew Kumagoro Okuma
… Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Masami Kimura drew Akihisa
Takachiho … Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

June 19, 1965 … Yokote
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat The Destroyer, Baron Gattoni and Don
Manoukian … Billy Red Lyons beat Kokichi Endo … Sweet Daddy Siki beat Hideyuki
Nagasawa … Kumagoro Okuma beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hishakaku
Otsubo … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Sarukichi Takasakiyama beat
Masami Kimura … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masanori Saito … Ushinosuke Hayashi drew Raizo
Kojika … Mr. Suzuki beat Masayuki Fujii

June 20, 1965 … Hanamaki
The Destroyer and Billy Red Lyons beat Giant Baba and Yoshinosato … Toyonobori beat
Don Manoukian … Sweet Daddy Siki beat Umanosuke Ueda … Baron Gattoni beat
Kumagoro Okuma and Tadaharu Tanaka (Handicap Match) … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Mr.
Suzuki … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kantaro Hoshino beat Sarukichi
Takasakiyama … Iwakichi Hirano drew Raizo Kojika … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Masami
Kimura … Sarukichi Takasakiyama won a battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

June 22, 1965 … Sendai, Miyagi
The Destroyer and Billy Red Lyons drew Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura  (The Destroyer
and Billy Red Lyons retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Yoshinosato beat Don Manoukian
… Sweet Daddy Siki beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Baron Gattoni beat Kantaro Hoshino and
Umanosuke Ueda (Handicap Match) … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama …
Raizo Kojika beat Mr. Suzuki … Kumagoro Okuma beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Iwakichi Hirano
drew Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto won a battle royal pinning Mr. Suzuki in the
finals.

June 23, 1965 … Kesennuma
Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat The Destroyer, Baron Gattoni and
Don Manoukian … Giant Baba beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Billy Red Lyons beat Umanosuke
Ueda … Kumagoro Okuma beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Ushinosuke Hayashi drew Mr. Suzuki … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Masami Kimura
… Raizo Kojika drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Masayuki Fujii drew Iwakichi Hirano

June 24, 1965 ... Uchigo (present-day Iwaki)
The Destroyer, Billy Red Lyons and Don Manoukian beat Giant Baba, Toyonobori and
Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Yoshinosato beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Baron Gattoni beat
Hideyuki Nagasawa and Kumagoro Okuma (Handicap Match) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Raizo
Kojika … Umanosuke Ueda beat Iwakichi Hirano … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masami Kimura
… Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Hishakaku
Otsubo … Mr. Suzuki beat Masayuki Fujii … Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal pinning
Raizo Kojika in the finals.

June 25, 1965 … Takasaki
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat The Destroyer, Baron Gattoni and Billy Red
Lyons … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Don Manoukian … Sweet Daddy Siki beat Umanosuke
Ueda … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Raizo Kojika … Kumagoro Okuma beat Hideyuki Nagasawa
… Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Iwakichi Hirano … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki … Masayuki
Fujii drew Kazuo Honma … Mr. Suzuki won a battle royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the
finals.

June 26, 1965 … Fuchu, Tokyo
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Destroyer and Sweet Daddy Siki … Billy Red
Lyons beat Yoshinosato … Don Manoukian beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Toyonobori beat
Baron Gattoni … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kumagoro Okuma … Hishakaku Otsubo beat
Masami Kimura … Iwakichi Hirano beat Mr. Suzuki … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Tadaharu
Tanaka … Raizo Kojika beat Masayuki Fujii … Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal pinning
Raizo Kojika in the finals.

June 27, 1965 … Numazu
The Destroyer, Billy Red Lyons and Sweet Daddy Siki beat Giant Baba, Michiaki Yoshimura
and Yoshinosato … Toyonobori beat Don Manoukian … Baron Gattoni beat Hideyuki
Nagasawa and Kumagoro Okuma (Handicap Match) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Hishakaku Otsubo beat
Masayuki Fujii … Mr. Suzuki beat Masami Kimura … Raizo Kojika beat Sarukichi
Takasakiyama … Iwakichi Hirano drew Kazuo Honma … Kotetsu Yamamoto won a battle royal
pinning Mr. Suzuki in the finals.

June 28, 1965 … Kamata, Tokyo
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat The Destroyer and Don Manoukian ... Sweet Daddy Siki
drew Michiaki Yoshimura … Baron Gattoni beat Kokichi Endo … Billy Red Lyons beat
Umanosuke Ueda … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama

June 29, 1965 … Fukushima
The Destroyer and Sweet Daddy Siki beat Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura … Billy Red
Lyons beat Kokichi Endo … Toyonobori beat Don Manoukian (DQ) … Baron Gattoni beat
Hideyuki Nagasawa … Sarukichi Takasakiyama drew Tadaharu Tanaka … Kantaro Hoshino
beat Umanosuke Ueda … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kumagoro Okuma
beat Iwakichi Hirano … Mr. Suzuki beat Kazuo Honma

July 2, 1965 … Matsumoto
The Destroyer and Don Manoukian beat Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Giant
Baba beat Billy Red Lyons … Sweet Daddy Siki and Yoshinosato both COR … Kokichi Endo
beat Baron Gattoni (DQ) … Umanosuke Ueda beat Iwakichi Hirano … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Hideyuki Nagasawa … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Mr. Suzuki … Kumagoro Okuma beat
Tadaharu Tanaka … Kazuo Honma drew Masami Kimura … Kotetsu Yamamoto won a battle
royal pinning Raizo Kojika in the finals.

July 3, 1965 … Nagaoka
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat The Destroyer and Sweet Daddy Siki … Don Manoukian
beat Kokichi Endo … Billy Red Lyons beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Baron Gattoni beat
Yoshinosato … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Suzuki … Mr. Suzuki won an 8-man battle royal
pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

July 4, 1965 … Nagano
The Destroyer, Billy Red Lyons and Don Manoukian beat Giant Baba, Michiaki Yoshimura
and Yoshinosato … Toyonobori beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Baron Gattoni beat Kokichi Endo
… Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro Okuma … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Umanosuke Ueda …
Mr. Suzuki beat Masami Kimura … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Tadaharu
Tanaka beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Iwakichi Hirano beat Masayuki Fujii

July 6, 1965 … Iida
Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat The Destroyer, Don Manoukian and
Sweet Daddy Siki … Giant Baba beat Baron Gattoni … Billy Red Lyons beat Hideyuki
Nagasawa … Kumagoro Okuma beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Suzuki … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Hishakaku
Otsubo … Kantaro Hoshino beat Raizo Kojika … Masayuki Fujii drew Masami Kimura …
Raizo Kojika won a battle royal pinning Kazuo Honma in the finals.

July 7, 1965 … Fuse (present-day Higashiosaka)
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat The Destroyer and Don Manoukian … Michiaki Yoshimura
beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Yoshinosato beat Baron Gattoni … Billy Red Lyons beat
Umanosuke Ueda … Kumagoro Okuma beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Tadaharu Tanaka … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masami Kimura … Raizo Kojika drew
Hishakaku Otsubo … Masayuki Fujii drew Kazuo Honma

July 8, 1965 … Izumo
The Destroyer and Billy Red Lyons beat Giant Baba and Yoshinosato … Toyonobori beat
Don Manoukian … Sweet Daddy Siki beat Umanosuke Ueda … Michiaki Yoshimura beat
Baron Gattoni … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat
Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Mr. Suzuki … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Kumagoro
Okuma … Kazuo Honma drew Masami Kimura … Kumagoro Okuma won a battle royal
pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

July 9, 1965 … Tottori
The Destroyer and Don Manoukian beat Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura … Toyonobori
beat Baron Gattoni … Billy Red Lyons beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Sweet Daddy Siki beat
Yoshinosato (DQ) … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Hishakaku Otsubo
beat Kumagoro Okuma … Raizo Kojika drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Gantetsu Matsuoka … Mr. Suzuki beat Kazuo Honma … Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal
pinning Raizo Kojika in the finals.

July 10, 1965 … Wakayama
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Destroyer, Baron Gattoni and
Sweet Daddy Siki … Don Manoukian beat Yoshinosato … Billy Red Lyons beat Umanosuke
Ueda … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kumagoro Okuma beat Hideyuki
Nagasawa … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Akihisa Takachiho … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Mr.
Suzuki … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Raizo Kojika (DQ) … Masayuki Fujii drew Kazuo Honma

July 11, 1965 … Suzu
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat The Destroyer, Baron Gattoni and Don
Manoukian … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Billy Red Lyons beat Kumagoro
Okuma … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kantaro Hoshino and Umanosuke
Ueda both COR … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Kazuo Honma … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat
Hishakaku Otsubo … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki … Masayuki Fujii drew Akihisa
Takachiho

July 12, 1965 … Fukui
The Destroyer and Don Manoukian beat Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura … Toyonobori
beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Baron Gattoni beat Umanosuke Ueda … Billy Red Lyons beat
Yoshinosato (COR) … Kantaro Hoshino bea Tadaharu Tanaka … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat
Kumagoro Okuma … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Hishakaku Otsubo beat
Raizo Kojika … Mr. Suzuki beat Akihisa Takachiho … Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal
pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

July 14, 1965 … Hikone
Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat The Destroyer, Baron Gattoni and
Billy Red Lyons … Giant Baba beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Don Manoukian beat Hideyuki
Nagasawa … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Umanosuke Ueda beat Raizo
Kojika … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Akihisa Takachiho … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Kumagoro
Okuma … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sankichi (Sarukichi) Takasakiyama … Mr. Suzuki beat
Kazuo Honma … Sarukichi Takasakiyama won a battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the
finals.

July 15, 1965 … Shizuoka
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat The Destroyer and Billy Red Lyons (Giant Baba and
Toyonobori regained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Don Manoukian
… Sweet Daddy Siki beat Yoshinosato (DQ) … Baron Gattoni beat Umanosuke Ueda …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Sarukichi Takasakiyama … Kumagoro Okuma beat Tadaharu Tanaka
… Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Hishakaku Otsubo
… Mr. Suzuki beat Masami Kimura ... Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal pinning Akihisa
Takachiho in the finals.

July 16, 1965 … Tokyo (Taito)
Giant Baba beat The Destroyer … Toyonobori beat Baron Gattoni … Michiaki Yoshimura
beat Sweet Daddy Siki … Yoshinosato beat Don Manoukian … Umanosuke Ueda beat
Hishakaku Otsubo … Billy Red Lyons beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Tadaharu Tanaka drew
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro Okuma … Mr. Suzuki drew Sankichi
Takasakiyama

[Summer Series]
July 30, 1965 ... Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Paul Diamond (Paul Lehman), Johnny Kace and Duke Howard(Don Savage)beat Giant
Baba, Michiaki Yoshimura and Toyonobori (DQ) … Kantaro Hoshino drew Umanosuke Ueda
... Hishakaku Otsubo beat Gantetsu Matsuoka ... Tadaharu Tanaka w Hideyuki Nagasawa ...
Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Masayuki Fujii … Masami Kimura beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Raizo Kojika drew Kakutaro Koma … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Suzuki … Kumagoro
Okuma beat Kotetsu Yamamoto
NOTE: Paul Lehman wrestled as Mr. Diamond in Japan.

August 6, 1965 ... Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba beat Paul Diamond (DQ) ... Duke Howard and Johnny Kace w Kokichi Endo and
Toyonobori … Kakutaro Koma drew Gantetsu Matsuoka … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr.
Suzuki ... Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro Okuma ... Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Akihisa
Takachiho … Iwakichi Hirano drew Raizo Kojika … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Masami
Kimura
NOTE: On August 11, 1965 in Seoul, South Korea, Kim IL (Kintaro Oki) beat Yoshinosato
(DQ) and became the first Far East Heavyweight Champion.

August 13, 1965 ... Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Toyonobori beat Paul Diamond, Duke Howard and Johnny Kace
… Umanosuke Ueda beat Hideyuki Nagasawa ... Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sankichi
Takasakiyama ... Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka
NOTE: Mitsu (Mitsuaki) Hirai came back to Japan after a year’s stay in Tennessee.

August 15, 1965 ... Atsugi
Giant Baba, Kokichi Endo and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Paul Diamond, Duke Howard and
Johnny Kace … Kumagoro Okuma beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Umanosuke Ueda beat
Kakutaro Koma … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Iwakichi Hirano … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Akihisa Takachiho … Gantetsu Matsuoka
beat Masami Kimura … Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the
finals.
NOTE: Toyonobori, accompanied by Yoshinosato, went to Southern California for the
unification of the two versions of the WWA World Heavyweight Championship.  One title was
held by Luke Graham and recognized in Los Angeles and the other held by Toyonobori and
recognized only in Japan.

August 20, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Paul Diamond and Duke Howard beat Giant Baba and Kokichi Endo … Michiaki Yoshimura
beat Johnny Kace … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Kumagoro Okuma … Umanosuke Ueda beat
Raizo Kojika … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Iwakichi Hirano … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Ushinosuke Hayashi … Kantaro Hoshino beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Kakutaro Koma
beat Akihisa Takachiho … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kazuo Honma drew
Masami Kimura

August 26, 1965 … Ohtawara
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Duke Howard and Johnny Kace … Paul Diamond
beat Kokichi Endo … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hishakaku
Otsubo … Umanosuke Ueda beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Raizo Kojika beat Masami Kimura …
Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Iwakichi Hirano drew Sankichi Takasakiyama
… Kakutaro Koma beat Kumagoro Okuma … Masayuki Fujii drew Kazuo Honma

August 27, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Paul Diamond and Johnny Kace beat Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Duke
Howard beat Umanosuke Ueda … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kakutaro
Koma drew Tadaharu Tanaka … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Masami Kimura … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Iwakichi Hirano … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Raizo
Kojika drew Kumagoro Okuma … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Mr. Suzuki … Masayuki Fujii drew
Akihisa Takachiho

August 28, 1965 ... Tokyo (Denen Coliseum)
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Paul Diamond and Johnny Kace … Duke Howard
beat Hideyuki Nagasawa ... Kantaro Hoshino beat Kakutaro Koma … Kumagoro Okuma beat
Mr. Suzuki … Raizo Kojika beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki
Fujii … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sankichi
Takasakiyama … Iwakichi Hirano beat Masami Kimura

August 29, 1965 … Shimodate
Giant Baba, Kokichi Endo and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Paul Diamond, Duke Howard and
Johnny Kace … Umanosuke Ueda beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Sankichi Takasakiyama ... Kakutaro Koma beat Mr. Suzuki … Kotetsu Yamamoto w
Hishakaku Otsubo … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Kazuo Honma … Raio Kojika beat Akihisa
Takachiho … Kumagoro Okuma beat Iwakichi Hirano … Masayuki Fujii beat Masami Kimura

September 5, 1965 ... Chichibu
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Paul Diamond and Johnny Kace … Kokichi Endo
beat
Hideyuki Nagasawa ... Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Iwakichi Hirano ... Tadaharu Tanaka beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto ... Umanosuke Ueda beat Kakutaro Koma … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat
Mr. Suzuki … Kumagoro Okuma beat Akihisa Takachiho … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sankichi
Takasakiyama … Kazuo Honma drew Masami Kimura … Raizo Kojika won a battle royal
pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

September 10, 1965 ... Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba beat Paul Diamond ... Johnny Kace beat Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) ... Kokichi
Endo beat Umanosuke Ueda ... Kumagoro Okuma drew Tadaharu Tanaka ... Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Hideyuki Nagasawa ... Mr. Suzuki beat Akihisa Takachiho … Sankichi
Takasakiyama beat Raizo Kojika … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Iwakichi Hirano … Kazuo Honma
drew Masanori Saito

September 17, 1965 ... Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Paul Diamond and Johnny Kace ... Umanosuke
Ueda beat Kumagoro Okuma … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki … Masami Kimura w
Ushinosuke Hayashi ... Hishakaku Otsubo beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Raizo Kojika beat
Iwakichi Hirano … Kazuo Honma drew Akihisa Takachiho

[Hurricane Series]
September 24, 1965 ... Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba and Toyonobori drew The Assassin #1 (Joe Hamilton) and The Assassin #2 (Tom
Renesto) ... Michiaki Yoshimura drew Viking Hansen (Eric the Red, Eric the Animal) ... The
Butcher (Don Jardine) beat Kokichi Endo ... Karl Karlsson beat Mr.Moto (COR) ...
Umanosuke Ueda beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sankichi Takasakiyama
… Kantaro Hoshino beat Mr. Suzuki … Raizo Kojika beat Masami Kimura … Masayuki Fujii
drew Masanori Saito
NOTE: Toyonobori came back to Japan after losing the unification match of the WWA World
Heavyweight Title against Luke Graham on September 20 in Los Angeles.

September 26, 1965 ... Hirosaki
The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2 and Karl Karlsson beat Giant Baba,Michiaki Yoshimura
and Yoshinosato … Toyonobori beat Viking Hansen … The Butcher beat Mitsu Hirai …
Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Umanosuke Ueda … Mr. Suzuki beat Masami Kimura … Kumagoro
Okuma beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat Iwakichi Hirano … Sankichi
Takasakiyama beat Masayuki Fujii

September 27, 1965 ... Aomori
The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 beat Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura … Giant
Baba beat Karl Karlsson … Viking Hansen beat Mitsu Hirai … The Butcher beat Yoshinosato
… Kantaro Hoshino beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kumagoro
Okuma … Iwakichi Hirano beat Akihisa Takachiho … Mr. Suzuki beat Raizo Kojika …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Masayuki Fujii beat Masami Kimura …
Tadaharu Tanaka also won a battle royal pinning Raizo Kojika in the finals.

September 29, 1965 ... Sapporo [first night]
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 (COR) (Giant Baba
and Toyonobori retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … The Butcher beat Michiaki Yoshimura
… Karl Karlsson beat Mitsu Hirai … Viking Hansen beat Yoshinosato (DQ) … Umanosuke
Ueda beat Raizo Kojika … Kantaro Hoshino beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Masami Kimura beat
Sankichi Takasakiyama … Mr. Suzuki beat Iwakichi Hirano … Kumagoro Okuma beat
Hishakaku Otsubo … Masanori Saito drew Akihisa Takachiho

September 30, 1965 … Sapporo [second night]
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Butcher and Karl Karlsson (DQ) … Toyonobori
beat Viking Hansen …The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 beat Mr. Moto and Yoshinosato
… Mitsu Hirai beat Kumagoro Okuma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hideyuki Nagasawa …
Masami Kimura beat Akihisa Takachiho … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Mr. Suzuki … Iwakichi
Hirano drew Masayuki Fujii

October 2, 1965 … Tomakomai
Giant Baba,Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2
and Viking Hansen … Karl Karlsson beat Yoshinosato … The Butcher beat Umanosuke Ueda
… Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Mitsu Hirai beat Kantaro Hoshino …
Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Masami Kimura … Matsuoka beat Raizo Kojika … Hishakaku
Otsubo beat Mr. Suzuki … Iwakichi Hirano drew Masanori Saito … Raizo Kojika won a battle
royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

October 3, 1965 … Hakodate
The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2 and The Butcher beat Mr. Moto, Toyonobori and
Yoshinosato … Giant Baba beat Karl Karlsson … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Viking Hansen …
Kumagoro Okuma beat Matsuoka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Iwakichi Hirano … Umanosuke
Ueda beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Tadaharu
Tanaka beat Masami Kimura … Raizo Kojika beat Mr. Suzuki … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat
Masanori Saito

October 5, 1965 … Noshiro
The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 beat Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura …
Toyonobori beat Karl Karlsson … Yoshinosato beat Viking Hansen … The Butcher beat Mr.
Moto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro Okuma … Umanosuke Ueda beat Matsuoka …
Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masanori Saito … Sankichi
Takasakiyama beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Iwakichi Hirano …
Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal pinning Raizo Kojika in the finals.

October 6, 1965 … Morioka
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat The Butcher and Karl Karlsson … The Assassin #1 beat
Yoshinosato … Mr. Moto beat Viking Hansen … The Assassin #2 beat Michiaki Yoshimura
Kantaro Hoshino beat Raizo Raizo Kojika … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Matsuoka …
Ushinosuke Hayashi drew Kumagoro Okuma … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masami Kimura … Raizo Kojika won a battle royal pinning Tadaharu
Tanaka in the finals.

October 7, 1965 … Kamaishi
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat The Butcher and Viking Hansen … Karl Karlsson beat
Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) …The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 beat Mitsu Hirai and
Yoshinosato … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Umanosuke Ueda beat Tadaharu
Tanaka … Masami Kimura drew Masanori Saito … Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Kumagoro Okuma beat Raizo Kojika … Kazuo
Honma drew Kiyomasa (Masatake) Kusatsu … Sankichi Takasakiyama won a battle royal
pinning Raizo Kojika in the finals

October 8, 1965 … Sendai, Miyagi
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat Viking Hansen and Karl Karlsson …The Assassin #1 and
The Assassin #2 beat Mr. Moto and Michiaki Yoshimura … The Butcher beat Yoshinosato …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Raizo Kojika … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Masanori Saito … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Masami Kimura … Kumagoro
Okuma beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Mr. Suzuki
beat Masayuki Fujii

October 9, 1965 … Furukawa
Giant Baba,Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Assassin #1 and The Assassin
#2 and Karl Karlsson … The Butcher beat Mr.Moto … Viking Hansen beat Yoshinosato
(DQ) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Raizo
Kojika … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masami Kimura … Kumagoro Okuma beat Iwakichi Hirano
… Hishakaku Otsubo beat Masayuki Fujii … Mr. Suzuki won a battle royal pinning Kotetsu
Yamamoto in the finals.

October 10, 1965 … Sakata
Giant Baba,Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat The Assassin #2, The Butcher and Viking
Hansen … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Karl Karlsson (DQ) … The Assassin #1 beat Mitsu Hirai
… Tadaharu Tanaka beat Iwakichi Hirano … Kantaro Hoshino beat Mr. Suzuki … Umanosuke
Ueda beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Masanori Saito … Hishakaku
Otsubo beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kumagoro Okuma beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Masami
Kimura beat Raizo Kojika … Kotetsu Yamamoto won a battle royal pinning Tadaharu Tanaka
in the finals.

October 13, 1965 … Tsuchiura
Giant Baba,Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Butcher, Viking Hansen and Karl
KarIsson … The Assassin #2 beat Yoshinosato … The Assassin #1 beat Mr.Moto …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kumagoro Okuma
… Kantaro Hoshino beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masayuki Fujii …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Iwakichi Hirano … Hisahakaku Otsubo beat Mr. Suzuki … Masami
Kimura drew Masanori Saito

October 14, 1965 … Kisarazu
The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2 and The Butcher beat Mr.Moto, Toyonobori and
Yoshinosato … Giant Baba beat Karl Karlsson … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Viking Hansen …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Hideyuki Nagasawa …
Masami Kimura drew Sankichi Takasakiyama … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Iwakichi Hirano …
Mr. Suzuki beat Kazuo Honma

October 15, 1965 … Chiba
Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Butcher and Karl Karlsson … Giant Baba beat
The Assassin #2 … Yoshinosato beat Viking Hansen … The Assassin #1 beat Mr. Moto …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Umanosuke Ueda beat Sankichi Takasakiyama
… Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Suzuki … Kumagoro Okuma beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Hishakaku Otsubo beat Raizo Kojika … Masami Kimura drew Masanori Saito

October 16, 1965 … Koriyama
The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2 and Karl Karlsson beat Giant Baba, Mr.Moto and
Michiaki Yoshimura … Toyonobori beat Viking Hansen … The Butcher beat Yoshinosato …
Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Kantaro Hoshino …Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Raizo Kojika …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Mr. Suzuki … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masanori Saito … Hishakaku
Otsubo beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kumagoro Okuma beat Masami Kimura … Iwakichi Hirano
beat Masayuki Fujii … Kantaro Hoshino won a battle royal pinning Iwakichi Hirano in the finals.

October 17, 1965 … Mobara
The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 beat Giant Baba and Toyonobori (DQ) (Giant Baba
and Toyonobori retained the Asian Tag Team Title because of a disqualification loss) …
Yoshinosato beat Karl Karlsson … Mr.Moto beat Viking Hansen … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Iwakichi Hirano … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kumagoro Okuma … Mr. Suzuki won a battle royal
pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

October 19, 1965 … Maizuru
Giant Baba,Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat The Assassin #2, Karl Karlsson and Viking
Hansen … The Assassin #1 beat Mr. Moto … The Butcher beat Mitsu Hirai … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Raizo Kojika … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro Okuma … Umanosuke Ueda
beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Iwakichi Hirano drew Masanori Saito … Mr. Suzuki beat Sankichi
Takasakiyama … Raizo Kojika won a battle royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

October 21, 1965 … Komatsu
The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 drew Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura (both COR)
… Toyonobori beat Karl Karlsson … Yoshinosato beat Viking Hansen … The Butcher beat
Mr. Moto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Raizo Kojika … Iwakichi Hirano beat Tsuneharu Sugiyama
… Masanori Saito drew Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masami Kimura

October 22, 1965 … Toyama
The Butcher drew Giant Baba …The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 beat Toyonobori and
Yoshinosato (DQ) … Viking Hansen beat Mitsu Hirai … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Karl
Karlsson … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki
… Akihisa Takachiho beat Tsuneharu Sugiyama … Raizo Kojika won a battle royal pinning
Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

October 23, 1965 … Saku
Giant Baba,Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Assassin #1 and The Assassin
#2 and Viking Hansen … The Butcher beat Yoshinosato … Karl Karlsson beat Umanosuke
Ueda …Masanori Saito beat Kazuo Honma … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Hishakaku Otsubo …
Kantaro Hoshino won a 10-man battle royal pinning Mr. Suzuki in the finals.

October 24, 1965 … Takada (present-day Joetsu)
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura drew The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 (both COR)
… Toyonobori beat Karl Karlsson (DQ) … Yoshinosato beat Viking Hansen … The Btucher
beat Umanosuke Ueda … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Raizo Kojika … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Gantetsu Matsuoka … Mr. Suzuki beat Masanori Saito … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Iwakichi
Hirano … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Masami Kimura beat Tsuneharu
Sugiyama … Mr. Suzuki won a battle royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.
NOTE: The Butcher (Don Jardine) got injured in the vertebra when a taxi dropped into the
gutter on a country road. They were on their way back to Tokyo after the afternoon show in
Takada. He was hospitalized in Tokyo and had to give up continuing his tour. Alberto Torres
came to Japan to substitute for him.

October 28, 1965 … Yokohama
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 and
Alberto Torres … Michiaki Yoshimura and Karl Karlsson both COR … Viking Hansen beat
Mitsu Hirai … Kantaro Hoshino beat Raizo Kojika,Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Kumagoro
Okuma ... Umanosuke Ueda beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Mr. Suzuki beat Masami Kimura …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Akihisa Takachiho … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sankichi Takasakiyama
… Masanori Saito drew Tsuneharu Sugiyama

October 29, 1965 … Shizuoka
Karl Karlsson and Alberto Torres beat Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura …Toyonobori
beat The Assassin #2 … The Assassin #1 beat Mitsu Hirai … Yoshinosato beat Viking
Hansen … Akihisa Takachiho beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Mr. Suzuki …
Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masami Kimura … Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal pinning
Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

October 30, 1965 … Akishima
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2 and Karl
Karlsson … Alberto Torres beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Viking Hansen beat Mr. Moto (DQ) …
Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Umanosuke Ueda … Kumagoro Okuma beat Hishakaku Otsubo …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Masanori Saito … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masami Kimura … Raizo Kojika
beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Kotetsu Yamamoto won a battle royal pinning Raizo Kojika in
the finals.

November 1, 1965 … Gifu
The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 beat Giant Baba and Mr. Moto … Alberto Torres beat
Kokichi Endo … Toyonobori beat Viking Hansen … Karl Karlsson beat Yoshinosato (DQ) …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Kumagoro Okuma … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Kantaro Hoshino … Masami Kimura drew Akihisa Takachiho … Raizo
Kojika beat Masanori Saito … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Mr. Suzuki … Kotetsu Yamamoto won
a battle royal pinning Tadaharu Tanaka in the finals.

November 2, 1965 … Tokyo (Kuramae)
Giant Baba beat Alberto Torres … Toyonobori and Yoshinosato beat The Assassin #1 and
The Assassin #2 (DQ) … Karl Karlsson beat Kokichi Endo … Viking Hansen beat Mitsu Hirai
… Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro
Okuma … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masanori Saito … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Raizo Kojika
… Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Mr. Suzuki

November 3, 1965 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Giant Baba beat The Assassin #1 … Karl Karlsson and AIberto Torres beat Toyonobori and
Yoshinosato … Kokichi Endo beat Viking Hansen … The Assassin #2 beat Mr. Moto (COR)
… Tadaharu Tanaka beat Akihisa Takachiho … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Suzuki …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Raizo Kojika … Masayuki Fujii drew Masanori Saito … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Masami Kimura … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sankichi Takasakiyama

November 4, 1965 … Okayama
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat Karl Karlsson and Alberto Torres (Giant Baba and
Toyonobori retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Yoshinosato beat The Assassin #1 (DQ)
… Viking Hansen beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) … The Assassin #2 beat Kokichi Endo … Tadaharu
Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masami Kimura … Kumagoro Okuma beat
Hideyuki Nagasawa … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Raizo Kojika … Hishakaku Otsubo beat
Gantetsu Matsuoka … Masanori Saito drew Akihisa Takachiho

November 7, 1965 … Kochi
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2 and
Viking Hansen … Yoshinosato and Karl Karlsson both COR … Alberto Torres beat Mitsu Hirai
… Tadaharu Tanaka beat Raizo Kojika … Kantaro Hoshino beat Mr. Suzuki … Umanosuke
Ueda beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Masami Kimura … Hishakaku
Otsubo beat Akihisa Takachiho … Ushinosuke Hayashi drew Kumagoro Okuma … Masanori
Saito beat Kazuo Honma

November 9, 1965 … Matsuyama
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat Karl Karlsson and Alberto Torres … Yoshinosato beat The
Assassin #2 (DQ) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Viking Hansen …The Assassin #1 beat Mr.
Moto … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Kumagoro Okuma beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Mr. Suzuki beat Masami Kimura … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Raizo Kojika …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho … Masanori Saito drew Sankichi Takasakiyama …
Tadaharu Tanaka won a battle royal pinning Raizo Kojika in the finals.

November 10, 1965 … Kure
Giant Baba,Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Assassin #1,KarI Karlsson and
Alberto Torres … The Assassin #2 beat Mr. Moto … Yoshinosato beat Viking Hansen …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Kumagoro Okuma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hideyuki Nagasawa …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Hishakaku
Otsubo … Raizo Kojika beat Mr. Suzuki … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masami Kimura …
Masanori Saito drew Akihisa Takachiho … Mr. Suzuki won a battle royal pinning Kotetsu
Yamamoto in the finals.

November 11, 1965 … Mihara
The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2 and Karl Karlsson beat Giant Baba,Michiaki Yoshimura
and Yoshinosato (DQ) … Toyonobori beat Viking Hansen … Alberto Torres beat Mr. Moto …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro Okuma …
Masami Kimura beat Masanori Saito … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Hishakaku Otsubo … Mr. Suzuki beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Raizo
Kojika beat Kazuo Honma

November 13, 1965 … Sanda
Giant Baba, Mr. Moto and Toyonobori beat The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2 and Viking
Hansen … Alberto Torres and Yoshinosato both COR … Karl Karlsson beat Michiaki
Yoshimura (DQ) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Kumagoro Okuma beat
Sankichi Takasakiyama … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Mr. Suzuki … Raizo Kojika drew Masami
Kimura … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Masanori Saito … Kantaro Hoshino drew Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Akihisa Takachiho beat Kazuo Honma … Kantaro Hoshino won a battle royal
pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

November 15, 1965 … Tsu
The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2 and Alberto Torres beat Mr. Moto, Toyonobori and
Yoshinosato … Giant Baba beat Karl Karlsson … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Viking Hansen …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki … Kantaro Hoshino beat Sankichi Takasakiyama …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masami Kimura …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Akihisa Takachiho … Raizo Kojika beat Hishakaku Otsubo …
Masayuki Fujii drew Masanori Saito … Akihisa Takachiho won a battle royal pinning Kotetsu
Yamamoto in the finals.

November 17, 1965 … Nagoya
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 … Karl Karlsson and
Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Alberto Torres beat Mr. Moto … Viking Hansen beat
Yoshinosato (DQ) … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Iwakichi Hirano beat
Hishakaku Otsubo … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masanori Saito … Raizo Kojika beat Masayuki
Fujii

November 18, 1965 … Hamamatsu
The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2 and Alberto Torres beat Giant Baba, Mr. Moto and
Yoshinosato … Toyonobori beat Karl Karlsson … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Viking Hansen …
Hishakaku Otsubo beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Umanosuke Ueda beat Sankichi
Takasakiyama … Kumagoro Okuma beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Mr. Suzuki beat Akihisa
Takachiho … Raizo Kojika beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masami Kimura
… Kotetsu Yamamoto won a battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

November 19, 1965 … Tokyo (Ota)
Giant Baba beat The Assassin #1 … The Assassin #2 and Alberto Torres drew Michiaki
Yoshimura and Yoshinosato … Toyonobori beat Viking Hansen … Karl Karlsson beat
Umanosuke Ueda … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Akihisa Takachiho

November 20, 1965 … Sano
Giant Baba, Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Assassin #1, Viking Hansen and
Alberto Torres … Yoshinosato beat Karl Karlsson … The Assassin #2 beat Mitsu Hirai …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Iwakichi Hirano … Umanosuke Ueda beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Raizo
Kojika beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Kumagoro Okuma beat Akihisa Takachiho … Tadaharu
Tanaka beat Masami Kimura … Kiyomasa Kusatsu drew Masanori Saito … Kotetsu
Yamamoto won a battle royal pinning Kumagoro Okuma in the finals.

November 21, 1965 … Higashimurayama
Giant Baba and Toyonobori beat The Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 … Michiaki
Yoshimura beat Alberto Torres … Mr. Moto beat Karl Karlsson … Yoshinosato beat Hideyuki
Nagasawa … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kumagoro Okuma beat Raizo
Kojika … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sankichi
Takasakiyama … Mr. Suzuki beat Iwakichi Hirano … Kotetsu Yamamoto won a battle royal
pinning Mr. Suzuki in the finals.

November 23, 1965 … Funabashi
Giant Baba,Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat The Assassins and Alberto Torres …
Toyonobori beat Karl Karlsson … Mr. Moto beat Viking Hansen … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Raizo Kojika … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kumagoro Okuma … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Mr.
Suzuki … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masanori Saito … Iwakichi Hirano beat Masami Kimura …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Akihisa Takachiho … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Tsuneharu
Sugiyama … Raizo Kojika won a battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

[International Championship Series]
November 24, 1965 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Giant Baba beat Dick the Bruiser Afflis (DQ) (Giant Baba captured the International
Heavyweight Title. The title had been vacant for two years since Rikidozan’s death.) …The
Assassin #1 and The Assassin #2 beat Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura … Johnny
Kostas beat Umanosuke Ueda … Alberto Torres beat Yoshinosato … Hishakaku Otsubo beat
Iwakichi Hirano … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki … Kantaro Hoshino beat Sankichi
Takasakiyama … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Raizo Kojika drew Akihisa
Takachiho … Masami Kimura drew Masanori Saito
NOTE: Karl Karlsson, Viking Hansen and Mr. Moto went to South Korea to work for Kim IL’s
group. Kim IL beat Karlsson in Seoul on November 27.

November 27, 1965 … Tokyo (Kuramae)
Giant Baba and Dick the Bruiser both COR (Giant Baba retained the International
Heavyweight Title.) …The Assassin #1, The Assassin #2 and Johnny Kostas beat
Toyonobori, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato … Alberto Torres beat Umanosuke Ueda
… Tadaharu Tanaka beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Iwakichi Hirano beat Masami Kimura …
Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Mr. Suzuki beat Masanori Saito … Kazuo
Honma beat Tsuneharu Sugiyama

[Winter Series]
December 3, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Stan Pulaski,Johnny Kostas and Alberto Torres beat Giant Baba, Kokichi Endo and Michiaki
Yoshimura … Toyonobori beat Karl Karlsson … Pepper Martin beat Umanosuke Ueda …
Ushinosuke Ueda beat Masayuki Fujii … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sankichi Takasakiyama …
Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Raizo Kojika … Mr. Suzuki beat Masami Kimura … Hishakaku
Otsubo beat Akihisa Takachiho … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Iwakichi Hirano … Kazuo Honma
drew Masanori Saito

December 10, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura drew Pepper Martin and Alberto Torres ... Stan Pulaski
beat Toyonobori (DQ) … Johnny Kostas beat Yoshinosato … Tadaharu Tanaka beat
Masanori Saito … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Umanosuke Ueda beat
Raizo Kojika … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Masayuki Fujii … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masami
Kimura … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Mr. Suzuki … Iwakichi Hirano drew Tsuneharu
Sugiyama

December 17, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba beat Pepper Martin … Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Johnny Kostas
and Stan PuIaski … Alberto Torres and Yoshinosato both COR … Mitsu Hirai beat Kumagoro
Okuma … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Masami Kimura … Masanori Saito beat Raizo Kojika
… Tadaharu Tanaka beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat Mr. Suzuki …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Kazuo Honma …
Iwakichi Hirano drew Kiyomasa Kusatsu … Masayuki Fujii drew Tsuneharu Sugiyama
NOTE: Roy “Ripper” Collins visited South Korea to work for Kim IL. He lost to Kim IL in Seoul
on December 17 only to fail to capture his Far East Heavyweight Title.

December 24, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Pepper Martin, Stan Pulaski and Alberto Torres beat Giant Baba,Michiaki Yoshimura and
Yoshinosato (DQ) … Johnny Kostas beat Mitsu Hirai … Raizo Kojika beat Masanori Saito …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki …
Kumagoro Okuma beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Kiyomasa Kusatsu
… Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Masayuki Fujii drew Kazuo Honma

December 31, 1965 … Tokyo (Riki Sports Palace)
Giant Baba, Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat Pepper Martin, Stan Pulaski and
Alberto Torres … Johnny Kostas beat Umanosuke Ueda … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Masanori
Saito … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kumagoro Okuma … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Hideyuki
Nagasawa … Hishakaku Otsubo beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Akihisa Takachiho … Raizo Kojika drew Mr. Suzuki … Kiyomasa Kusatsu drew Kazuo Honma
… Tadaharu Tanaka also won a battle royal pinning Mr. Suzuki in the finals.


Research by Haruo Yamaguchi
Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance (JWA) Results - 1965
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