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The Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance (日本プロレス協会, Nihon Puroresu Kyōkai), also known as the Japan Pro Wrestling Association and the Japanese Wrestling Association (JWA), was the first professional wrestling promotion to be based in Japan. It operated from 1953 to 1973.
All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling, as well as others, have also sent wrestlers to compete in the likes of the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Puerto Rico and so on. Usually, these talent exchanges are chances for puroresu stars to learn other styles to add to their own strengths, a tradition that started with ...
Also known as World Japan Pro Wrestling or Fighting of World Japan. [1] [59] [60] Smash: Tokyo: Yoshihiro Tajiri Akira Shoji: 2010–2012 Continuation of Hustle. [61] Super World of Sports: Tokyo: Hachiro Tanaka 1990–1992 Associated with the World Wrestling Federation. [62] Tokyo Pro Wrestling: Tokyo: Toyonobori: 1966–1967 Union Pro ...
United Japan Pro-Wrestling (Japanese: 日本プロレスリング連盟, Hepburn: Nihon Puroresuringu Renmei) (also stylised as United Japan Pro-wrestling; UJPW), officially the General Incorporated Association United Japan Pro-Wrestling (一般社団法人日本プロレスリング連盟, Ippan shadan hōjin Nihon Puroresuringu Renmei), [3] is an association of several professional wrestling ...
Co-produced with All Japan Pro Wrestling, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, Fighting Network Rings, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, Go Gundan, International Wrestling Association of Japan, JWP Joshi Puroresu, Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling, Michinoku Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi, and UWF International: April 28–29 Collision in Korea
All Japan Pro Wrestling (全日本プロレス, Zen Nihon Puroresu, doing business as オールジャパン・プロレスリング株式会社, Ōru Japan Puroresuringu Kabushiki-gaisha) (AJPW/AJP) or simply All Japan is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established on October 21, 1972, when Giant Baba split away from the Japanese Wrestling Association and created his own promotion.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (新日本プロレスリング株式会社, Shin Nihon Puroresuringu Kabushiki-gaisha) (NJPW) [2] is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded on January 13, 1972, by Antonio Inoki, and based in Nakano, Tokyo.
The Asia-Pacific Federation of Wrestling (Japanese: アジア太平洋プロレス連盟, Hepburn: Ajia Taiheiyō Puroresu Renmei, APFW) is an association of several professional wrestling promotions in the Asia–Pacific, acting as a governing body and industry group with the goal of promoting professional wrestling across Asia.