[Opening Big Match Series]
October 12, 1966 … Tokyo (Kuramae)
Antonio Inoki beat Johnny Valentine (COR) … Dean Higuchi and Toyonobori beat Sonny
Myers and Johnny Powers (DQ) … The Hercules (Bobby Graham) beat Masanori Saito …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Sankichi Takasakiyama (Motoyuki Kitazawa) … Iwao Takeshita beat
Isamu Teranishi … Masao Kimura beat Masaru Eigen … Hiroshi Nakagawa beat Katsuhisa
Shibata … Mammoth (Yukio) Suzuki beat Takeshi Oiso
NOTE: In spite of the obstruction of business by JWA, Toyonobori and Inoki finally managed
to start the first tour of their new group.

October 15, 1966 … Aomori
Antonio Inoki and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers and Johnny Valentine … Dean Higuchi beat
The Hercules (DQ) … Johnny Powers beat Masanori Saito … Tadaharu Tanaka beat
Takeshi Oiso … Masaru Eigen beat Iwao Takeshita … Mammoth Suzuki beat Tsuyoshi
Sendai … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Teruo Kaneda … Katsuhisa Shibata drew Isamu
Teranishi … Iwao Takeshita won an 8-man battle royal pinning Tadaharu Tanaka in the finals.

October 16, 1966 … Aizuwakamatsu (Canceled)

October 18, 1966 … Taira (present-day Iwaki)
Antonio Inoki, Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat The Hercules, Sonny Myers and Johnny
Powers … Johnny Valentine beat Dean Higuchi … Lucky Simunovich beat Tadaharu Tanaka
… Iwao Takeshita beat Takeshi Oiso … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Masaru Eigen …
Mammoth Suzuki beat Teruo Kaneda … Hiroshi Nakagawa beat Isamu Teranishi … Tsuyoshi
Sendai drew Katsuhisa Shibata … Masaru Eigen won a 9-man battle royal pinning Sankichi
Takasakiyama in the finals.
NOTE: This new group often had to cancel its show due to a poor attendance. The Hercules
(Bobby Graham) seems to have thought it would not afford to pay him and went back to the
States.

October 19, 1966 … Koriyama (Canceled)

October 22, 1966 … Mizusawa (Canceled)

October 23, 1966 … Kesennuma (Canceled)

October 24, 1966 … Morioka (Canceled)

October 25, 1966 … Sendai, Miyagi
Johnny Valentine and Antionio Inoki both COR (Johnny Valentine retained the United States
Heavyweight Title) … Dean Higuchi and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers and Johnny Powers
… Masanori Saito beat Lucky Simunovich … Mammoth Suzuki beat Takeshi Oiso … Masaru
Eigen drew Tadaharu Tanaka … Iwao Takeshita beat Hiroshi Nakagawa … Tsuyoshi Sendai
beat Isamu Teranishi … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Teruo Kaneda … Tadaharu Tanaka
won a 10-man battle royal pinning Sankichi Takasakiyama in the finals.

October 28, 1966 … Tokyo (Itabashi)
Antonio Inoki beat Johnny Powers … Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers and
Lucky Simunovich … Johnny Valentine beat Dean Higuchi … Tadahasu Tanaka beat Teruo
Kaneda … Masao Kimura beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Mammoth Suzuki beat Masaru
Eigen … Takeshi Oiso beat Tsuyoshi Sendai … Isamu Teranishi beat Katsuhisa Shibata …
Tadaharu Tanaka also won a battle royal pinning Masaru Eigen in the finals.

October 29, 1966 … Atsugi
Antonio Inoki, Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers, Johnny Powers and Johnny
Valentine … Dean Higuchi beat Lucky Simunovich … Masao Kimura beat Teruo Kaneda …
Mammoth Suzuki beat Hiroshi Nakagawa … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Tsuyoshi Sendai …
Masaru Eigen beat Isamu Teranishi … Takeshi Oiso beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Mammoth
Suzuki also won a battle royal pinning Takeshi Oiso in the finals.

October 31, 1966 … Niigata
Antonio Inoki, Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers, Lucky Simunovich and
Johnny Valentine … Johnny Powers beat Masao Kimura … Dean Higuchi beat Mammoth
Suzuki … Tsuyoshi Sendai beat Hiroshi Nakagawa … Iwao Takeshita beat Isamu Teranishi …
Tadaharu Tanaka beat Masaru Eigen … Takeshi Oiso beat Teruo Kaneda … Tadaharu
Tanaka won a battle royal pinning Masaru Eigen in the finals.

November 1, 1966 … Tokamachi (Canceled)

November 2, 1966 … Matsumoto
Antonio Inoki and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers and Johnny Valentine … Johnny Powers
beat Masanori Saito … Lucky Simunovich beat Mammoth Suzuki … Dean Higuchi beat Masao
Kimura … Masaru Eigen beat Tsuyoshi Sendai … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Katsuhisa
Shibata … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Takeshi Oiso … Teruo Kaneda drew Hiroshi Nakagawa …
Sankichi Takasakiyama won a battle royal pinning Masaru Eigen in the finals.

November 3, 1966 … Iida (Canceled)

November 4, 1966 … Tsu
Antonio Inoki, Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers, Lucky Simunovich and
Johnny Valentine (DQ) … Johnny Powers beat Masao Kimura … Dean Higuchi beat
Tadaharu Tanaka … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Masaru Eigen … Mammoth Suzuki beat Iwao
Takeshita … Hiroshi Nakagawa beat Tsuyoshi Sendai … Takeshi Oiso beat Teruo Kaneda …
Mammoth Suzuki won a 7-man battle royal pinning Takeshi Oiso in the finals.

November 5, 1966 … Wakayama (Canceled)

November 6, 1966 … Nishinomiya
Anotnio Inoki, Masao Kimura and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers, Lucky Simunovich and
Johnny Valentine … Johnny Powers beat Masanori Saito … Dean Higuchi beat Mammoth
Suzuki … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Isamu Teranishi … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Takeshi
Oiso … Tsuyoshi Sendai beat Hiroshi Nakagawa … Teruo Kaneda beat Masaru Eigen …
Tadaharu Tanaka also won an 8-man battle royal pinning Sankichi Takasakiyama in the
finals.

November 7, 1966 … Osaka (Tennoji)
Johnny Valentine and Antonio Inoki both COR … Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat Sonny
Myers and Johnny Powers … Lucky Simunovich beat Masao Kimura … Dean Higuchi beat
Tadaharu Tanaka … Mammoth Suzuki beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Masaru Eigen beat
Takeshi Oiso … Tsuyoshi Sendai beat Teruo Kaneda … Hiroshi Nakagawa beat Katsuhisa
Shibata

November 8, 1966 … Nishiwaki
Antonio Inoki, Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers, Lucky Simunovich and
Johnny Valentine … Johnny Powers beat Masao Kimura … Dean Higuchi beat Mammoth
Suzuki … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Takeshi Oiso … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Masaru
Eigen … Teruo Kaneda beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Isamu Teranishi beat Hiroshi Nakagawa …
Masaru Eigen won an 8-man battle royal pinning Hiroshi Nakagawa in the finals.

November 9, 1966 … Tsuruoka (Canceled)

November 10, 1966 … Fukushima (Canceled)

November 11, 1966 … Shizuoka (Canceled)

November 12, 1966 … Yokosuka (Canceled)

November 13, 1966 … Tokyo (Edogawa)
Antonio Inoki, Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers, Lucky Simunovich and
Johnny Valentine … Johnny Powers beat Masao Kimura … Dean Higuchi beat Tadaharu
Tanaka … Mammoth Suzuki beat Masaru Eigen … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Teruo Kaneda …
Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Takeshi Oiso … Tsuyoshi Sendai beat Isamu Teranishi …
Masaru Eigen won a battle royal pinning Isamu Teranishi in the finals.

November 14, 1966 … Sapporo [first night]
Johnny Powers and Johnny Valentine drew Antonio Inoki and Toyonobori (both COR) …
Masanori Saito beat Sonny Myers … Lucky Simunovich beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Dean
Higuchi beat Masao Kimura … Iwao Takeshita beat Hiroshi Nakagawa … Mammoth Suzuki
beat Takeshi Oiso … Tsuyoshi Sendai beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Masaru Eigen beat Isamu
Teranishi … Mammoth Suzuki won a 9-man battle royal pinning Isamu Teranishi in the finals.

November 15, 1966 … Sapporo [second night]
Antonio Inoki, Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers, Lucky Simunovich and
Johnny Valentine … Johnny Powers beat Masao Kimura … Dean Higuchi beat Tadaharu
Tanaka … Tsuyoshi Sendai beat Hiroshi Nakagawa … Mammoth Suzuki beat Masaru Eigen
… Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Takeshi Oiso … Iwao Takeshita beat Teruo Kaneda …
Katsuhisa Shibata beat Isamu Teranishi … Isamu Teranishi won a battle royal pinning
Katsuhisa Shibata in the finals.

November 16, 1966 … Kushiro
Antonio Inoki and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers and Johnny Valentine … Johnny Powers
beat Masanori Saito … Dean Higuchi beat Mammoth Suzuki … Lucky Simunovich beat Masao
Kimura … Tadaharu Tanaka won an 8-man battle royal pinning Sankichi Takasakiyama in
the finals.

November 17, 1966 … Asahikawa
Antonio Inoki, Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers, Lucky Simunovich and
Johnny Valentine … Johnny Powers beat Masao Kimura … Dean Higuchi beat Tadaharu
Tanaka … Mammoth Suzuki beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Takeshi
Oiso … Masaru Eigen beat Teruo Kaneda … Isamu Teranishi beat Tsuyoshi Sendai …
Mammoth Suzuki also won a 9-man battle royal pinning Isamu Teranishi in the finals.

November 19, 1966 … Osaka (Osaka Baseball Stadium)
Antonio Inoki beat Johnny Valentine (Antonio Inoki captured the United States Heavyweight
Title) … Masao Kimura and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers and Lucky Simunovich … Johnny
Powers drew Masanori Saito … Dean Higuchi beat Mammoth Suzuki … Tadaharu Tanaka
beat Haruka Eigen … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Isamu Teranishi … Tsuyoshi Sendai beat
Teruo Kaneda … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Hiroshi Nakagawa … Haruka Eigen won an 8-man
battle royal pinning Sankichi Takasakiyama in the finals.

November 20, 1966 … Tokyo (Katsushika)
Antonio Inoki, Maso Kimura and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers, Johnny Powers and Lucky
Simunovich … Johnny Valentine beat Masanori Saito … Dean Higuchi beat Tadaharu
Tanaka … Mammoth Suzuki beat Masaru Eigen … Sankichi Takasakiyama beat Teruo
Kaneda … Takeshi Oiso beat Tsuyoshi Sendai … Hiroshi Nakagawa beat Isamu Teranishi …
Teruo Kaneda won a battle royal pinning Isamu Teranishi in the finals.

November 21, 1966 … Tokyo (Itabashi) (Canceled)
NOTE: In cold weather about 2,000 fans were kept waiting long. When the local promoter told
them that the outdoor show would be called off “because there was a traffic jam and the
wrestlers could not come,” some 20 fans became enraged and started to destroy the
wrestling ring. It was beyond the control of the local policemen and 200 riot squad officers
were called in to restore order. Almost all the shows of this group had drawn a small
attendance, and the wrestlers who remained unpaid refused to work for the promoter.

November 22, 1966 … Tokyo (Ota)
Antonio Inoki beat Johnny Valentine (Antonio Inoki retained the United States Heavyweight
Title) … Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat Sonny Myers and Lucky Simunovich … Johnny
Powers beat Masao Kimura … Dean Higuchi beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Sankichi
Takasakiyama beat Masaru Eigen … Mammoth Suzuki beat Takeshi Oiso … Tsuyoshi
Sendai beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Teruo Kaneda beat Isamu Teranishi

December 14, 1966 … Sendai, Miyagi
Antonio Inoki and Stan Stasiak both COR (Antonio Inoki retained the United States
Heavyweight Title) … Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat The Mysterious Medico (Lou
Newman) and Steve Stanlee … Masao Kimura beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Mammoth
(Yukio) Suzuki beat Masaru Eigen … Tadaharu Tanaka beat Mr. (Katsuyoshi) Suzuki …
Takeshi Oiso beat Teruo Kaneda … Tsuyoshi Sendai beat Isamu Teranishi … Tadaharu
Tanaka also won an 8-man battle royal pinning Isamu Teranishi in the finals.

December 15, 1966 … Hiroshima
Antonio Inoki beat Steve Stanlee (Antonio Inoki retained the United States Heavyweight Title)
… Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat The Mysterious Medico and Stan Stasiak (DQ) …
Masao Kimura beat Mr. Suzuki … Mammoth Suzuki beat Tsuyoshi Sendai … Tadaharu
Tanaka beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Masaru Eigen beat Isamu Teranishi … Takeshi Oiso
beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Tadaharu Tanaka also won a battle royal pinning Katsuhisa
Shibata in the finals.

December 16, 1966 … Nagoya
Antonio Inoki and Stan Stasiak both COR … Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat The
Mysterious Medico and Steve Stanlee … Masao Kimura beat Tadaharu Tanaka … Takeshi
Oiso beat Tsuyoshi Sendai … Mr. Suzuki beat Masaru Eigen … Mammoth Suzuki beat Iwao
Takeshita … Isamu Teranishi beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Haruka Eigen won an 8-man battle
royal pinning Isamu Teranishi in the finals.

December 18, 1966 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Antonio Inoki beat The Mysterious Medico (Antonio Inoki retained the United States
Heavyweight Title) … Steve Stanlee and Stan Stasiak beat Masanori Saito and Toyonobori
… Masao Kimura beat Mammoth Suzuki … Mr. Suzuki beat Isamu Teranishi … Tadaharu
Tanaka drew Sankichi Takasakiyama ... Masaru Eigen beat Takeshi Oiso … Tsuyoshi Sendai
beat Teruo Kaneda … Sankichi Takasakiyama won an 8-man battle royal pinning Isamu
Teranishi in the finals.

December 19, 1966 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium)
Antonio Inoki beat Stan Stasiak (Antonio Inoki retained the United States Heavyweight Title)
… Masanori Saito and Toyonobori beat The Mysterious Medico and Steve Stanlee … Masao
Kimura beat Sankichi Takasakiyama … Mammoth Suzuki beat Takeshi Oiso … Tadaharu
Tanaka beat Mr. Suzuki (DQ) … Tsuyoshi Sendai beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Teruo Kaneda
beat Masaru Eigen … Tadaharu Tanaka won an 8-man battle royal pinning Takeshi Oiso in
the finals.
NOTE: Tokyo Pro Wrestling was short-lived. It was reported that before it went bankrupt, its
business was in the red too often. (Only 3 shows out of 25 were in the black.) Inoki split with
Toyonobori and decided to work with Hiro Matsuda, who was going to start his own group,
IWE.


Research by Haruo Yamaguchi
Japan Wrestling Results - 1966 - Tokyo Pro Wrestling
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