The Most Obscure and Forgotten Champions in All Japan Pro Wrestling History

The Most Obscure and Forgotten Champions in All Japan Pro Wrestling History
November 13, 2022

By Ryan Porzl

Anybody who's been following this far knows what's next. As we continue to look back as All Japan champions, we'll now take a look at the champions you probably never heard of. Again, not every champ can be a legend and some are forgotten outside of history books and title histories on wikipedia. This article will cover those champions.

Note: I don't own any pictures as I got them off Google and Puroresusystems.com. Credit to All Japan and Puroresusystems.com

Wrestlers Who You Likely Didn't Know or Forgot Held A Title In A Promotion (All Japan Pro Wrestling)

Wrestlers Who You Likely Didn't Know or Forgot Held A Title In A Promotion (All Japan Pro Wrestling)
October 27, 2022

By Ryan Porzl

As I've shown in previous articles, 2022 is a milestone year for many promotions and one of the biggest is the Japanese based All Japan Pro Wrestling. Beginning in 1972, the promotion is best known for it's magical period of the 1980s and 1990s which featured talent and matches that are spoken in great awe. While it hasn't been as big as it was over the past 20 years, it provides another great product with great talent and matches that are actually on par with the top promotions. Over the decades, the promotion has had a who's who as champions including natives like Giant Baba, Jumbo Tsuruta, Genichiro Tenryu, The Four Pillars of Heaven, Keiji "the Great Muta" Mutoh, Satoshi Kojima, and Kensuke Sasaki along with foreigners or gaijins like Stan Hansen, Bruiser Brody, Terry Gordy, and Steve Williams. However, there's plenty more where that came from as they are not only some notable champions but many you may have forgotten or had no idea they held a championship. We'll conclude our look back on milestone anniversaries this year by looking at All Japan with this article looking at wrestlers you probably didn't know or forgot held a champion.

Note: I don't own any of the pictures as I found them on Google and Puroresusystem.fandom.com.

A Look at the 2022 All Japan Champion Carnival and the Participants

A Look at the 2022 All Japan Champion Carnival and the Participants
April 7, 2022
By Ryan Porzl

April 2022 is fast approaching which means the return of All Japan's top tournament which is the Champion Carnival. This year, twelve wrestlers in two blocks will battle it out to become this year's Champion Carnival winner and etch their name in history while possibly being the next in line for the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship. We'll take a look at the participants and their chances of winning.

Note: I don't own the pictures. I got them off google.

A Look at AJPW's Champion's Night ~ From The Land Of Triple Crown Unification Flight To The 50th Anniversary

A Look at AJPW's Champion's Night ~ From The Land Of Triple Crown Unification Flight To The 50th Anniversary

June 24, 2021

By Ryan Porzl

On June 26th, All Japan Pro Wrestling will present their Champion's Night event at Ota City General Gymnasium, a venue where they previously unified the NWA International Heavyweight Championship, the NWA United National Championship, and the PWF World Heavyweight Championship into the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, All Japan's current top prize back on April 18, 1989. The event will feature four title matches, a different style fight, a memorial match paying tribute to one of All Japan and wrestling's all time greats, and more. Being an All Japan fan and with not enough people talking about it, I figure I go through all the matches, their background, and my thoughts on them along with who I think will win. By the way, if anyone is interested in this show or current All Japan, AJPW.tv offers current shows at around 900 yen and about ten dollars after taxes. It doesn't have the classic 80s and 90s stuff but still has some gems going back to the early 2000s.

A Look at the 2021 All Japan Champion Carnival and the Participants

A Look at the 2021 All Japan Champion Carnival and the Participants

April 7, 2021 

By Ryan Porzl

After 2020 Champion Carnival was moved to the fall for the first time due to the pandemic, the 2021 Carnival returns to it's usual position in the spring. This year, All Japan decided to run a smaller Carnival as this will be the first since 2001 to be a single block consisting of ten wrestlers mostly from All Japan with others either being freelance or coming from other organizations. Here, we'll take a look at the participants and their chances of winning.

Looking at Puroresu for August 2013