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Promoter

Address

All Japan Pro-Wrestling / 7-3-12 Roppongi
Minato-ku, Tokyo 106 / 3-3403-7344 / 7345

GENERAL ROSTER
Keiji Muto
Satoshi Kojima
Taiyo Kea
Yoji Anjo
Kendo Kashin
Masanobu Fuchi
Shigeo Okumura
Tomoaki Honma
Gran Hamada
Yuto Aijima

GENERAL ROSTER
Toshiaki Kawada
Arashi
Hideki Hosaka
Gran Naniwa
Ryuji Hijikata
Kazushi Miyamoto
Taichi Ishikari
Nobutaka Araya
Nobukazu Hirai

JR HEAVYWEIGHT
Kaz Hayashi
Jimmy Yang
Airwalk Spriggan
Super Dragon
Jinsei Shinzaki
The Extreme Blade

FORIGNERS
Giant Bernard
George Hines

October 1972: Giant Baba left the JWA and formed his own promotion and called it All Japan Pro Wrestling..
October 21, 1972: Machida City Gym in Tokyo, Japan was the sight of the very first All Japan event..
Baba was helped by the Funk brothers, who were able to book American wrestlers in Japan for AJPW..
Baba & All Japan was strong member of National Wrestling Alliance between 1973 and 1986..
Baba continued to work closely with Jim Crockett Promotion/WCW until 1990..
AJPW was affiliated with American Wrestling Association between 1980 and 1988..
January 31, 1999: Shohei "Giant" Baba passed away due to liver problems at age 61..
May 1999: Mitsuharu Misawa became the 2nd President of All Japan Pro-Wrestling..
June 2000: Motoko Baba (Shohei's wife) took control of the company..
Late 2002: Keiji Muto was appointed the new All Japan Pro Wrestling President..
May 2003: Motoko Baba transferred all her stock in All Japan Pro Wrestling over to Keiji Muto..
All Japan Wrestling is shown on Nippon TV in Japan..
Keiki Muto is rumored to be talking to Shinya Hashimoto and Nakamura about merging AJPW & Zero-One..