After working in Hawaii and North California for two years, Rikidozan invited Ben and Mike
Sharpe to make his first tour in Japan with them, which turned out to be a huge success.

February 19, 1954 … Tokyo (Kuramae Sumo Arena) [first night]
Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe drew Rikidozan and Masahiko Kimura (referee: Oki Shikina) …
Bobby Bruns beat Toshio Yamaguchi … Kokichi Endo beat Bob Mumphrey … Surugaumi
beat Kaichi Nagasawa … Kiyomigawa drew Harold (Terufusa) Toki

February 20, 1954 … Tokyo (Kuramae Sumo Arena) [second night]
Rikidozan beat Ben Sharpe … Mike Sharpe beat Toshio Yamaguchi … Bobby Bruns drew
Masahiko Kimura … Kokichi Endo beat Kiyomigawa … Surugaumi beat Bob Mumphrey (dq)
… Kaichi Nagasawa beat Harold Toki

February 21, 1954 … Tokyo (Kuramae Sumo Arena) [third night]
Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe drew Rikidozan and Masahiko Kimura (The Sharpe Brothers
retained the World Tag Team Title) … Bobby Bruns beat Kokichi Endo … Toshio Yamaguchi
beat Bob Mumphrey … Kiyomigawa drew Kaichi Nagasawa … Surugaumi beat Harold Toki

February 23, 1954 … Kumamoto
Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe beat Rikidozan and Masahiko Kimura … Bobby Bruns beat
Kokichi Endo … Toshio Yamaguchi beat Surugaumi … Kiyomigawa beat Kaichi Nagasawa

February 24, 1954 … Kokura [present-day Kitakyushu]
Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe beat Rikidozan and Masahiko Kimura (dq) … Bobby Bruns
beat Kokichi Endo … Toshio Yamaguchi beat Kiyomigawa … Surugaumi beat Kaichi
Nagasawa

February 26, 1954 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Rikidozan and Toshio Yamaguchi beat Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe … Bobby Bruns drew
Masahiko Kimura … Kiyomigawa beat Bob Munphrey … Kokichi Endo beat Surugaumi …
Kaichi Nagasawa beat Harold Toki

February 27, 1954 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe beat Rikidozan and Masahiko Kimura (The Sharpe Brothers
retained the World Tag Team Title) … Bobby Bruns drew Toshio Yamaguchi … Kokichi Endo
beat Kiyomigawa … Kaichi Nagasawa beat Bob Munphrey (dq) … Surugaumi beat Harold Toki

February 28, 1954 … Kobe
Rikidozan, Masahiko Kimura and Toshio Yamaguchi beat Ben Sharpe, Mike Sharpe and
Bobby Bruns … Kokichi Endo beat Bob Mumphrey … Kiyomigawa drew Surugaumi … Kokichi
Endo beat Kaichi Nagawasa

March 1, 1954 … Gifu
Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe beat Kokichi Endo and Masahiko Kimura … Rikidozan beat
Bobby Bruns … Toshio Yamaguchi beat Kiyomigawa … Surugaumi beat Kaichi Nagasawa

March 2, 1954 … Nagoya (Kanayama Gymnasium)
Rikidozan and Bobby Bruns drew Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe … Masahiko Kimura beat
Kokichi Endo … Toshio Yamaguchi beat Surugaumi … Kiyomigawa beat Kaichi Nagasawa

March 3, 1954 … Shizuoka
Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe beat Rikidozan and Bobby Bruns … Toshio Yamaguchi beat
Kaichi Nagasawa … Masahiko Kimura beat Kiyomigawa … Surugaumi beat Kokichi Endo

March 4, 1954 … Utsunomiya
Rikidozan and Toshio Yamaguchi drew Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe (ddq) … Bobby Bruns
beat Kokichi Endo … Masahiko Kimura beat Surugaumi … Kiyomigawa beat Kaichi Nagasawa

March 6, 1954 … Tokyo (Kuramae Sumo Arena)
Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe beat Rikidozan and Masahiko Kimura (The Sharpe Brothers
retained the World Tag Team Title) … Bobby Bruns drew Kokichi Endo … Bob Mumphrey
drew Surugaumi … Toshio Yamaguchi beat Kaichi Nagasawa … Harold Toki beat
Kiyomigawa (dq)

March 7, 1954 … Yokohama (Fryar Gym)
Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Bobby Bruns beat Toshio
Yamaguchi … Masahiko Kimura beat Bob Mumphrey … Kiyomigawa beat Kaichi Nagasawa

March 9, 1954 … Tokyo (Kuramae Sumo Arena) (charity show)
Rikidozan and Bobby Bruns drew Ben Sharpe and Mike Sharpe … Oki Shikina beat Kokichi
Endo (exhibition match) … Masahiko Kimura beat Bob Mumphrey … Kokichi Endo beat
Surugaumi … Harold Toki beat Jimmy Gragg

August 6, 1954 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium) [first night]
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Surugaumi … Kokichi Endo beat Bob
Mumphrey … Yusuf Turk beat Tomio Miyajima … Harold Toki beat Jimmy Gragg … Zhuo
Yíyue (Rashomon) beat Osamu Abe … Teizo Watanabe beat Yonetaro Tanaka

August 7, 1954 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium) [second night]
Rikidozan beat Hans Schnabel … Lou Newman beat Kokichi Endo … Bob Mumphrey and
Yusuf Turk drew Surugaumi and Harold Toki … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Jimmy Gragg …
Tomio Miyajima beat Osamu Abe … Zhuo Yíyue beat Takeo Kaneko

August 8, 1954 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium) [third night]
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Surugaumi beat Bob
Mumphrey … Yusuf Turk beat Zhuo Yiyue … Jimmy Gragg beat Teizo Watanabe … Harold
Toki beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Tomio Miyajima beat Takeo Kaneko
NOTE: Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman were billed as the Pacific Coast Tag Team
Champions. When Schnabel pinned Endo in the third fall using foul tactics and retained their
title, a lot of fans got angry and started a riot.

August 10, 1954 … Sapporo [first night]
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman drew Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Surugaumi beat Teizo
Watanabe … Zhuo Yiyue beat Yusuf Turk … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Jimmy Gragg … Tomio
Miyajima beat Harold Toki … Osamu Abe beat Takeo Kaneko

August 11, 1954 … Sapporo [second night]
Rikidozan beat Lou Newman … Hans Schnabel beat Kokichi Endo … Surugaumi and Harold
Toki beat Jimmy Gragg and Yusuf Turk … Tomio Miyajima beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Teizo
Watanabe beat Osamu Abe … Zhuo Yiyue beat Takeo Kaneko

August 12, 1954 … Sapporo [third night]
Rikidozan, Kokichi Endo and Surugaumi beat Hans Schnabel, Lou Newman and Jimmy Gragg
… Yusuf Turk beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Osamu Abe beat Harold Toki … Zhuo Yiyue beat
Teizo Watanabe … Tomio Miyajima beat Takeo Tanaka

August 13, 1954 … Asahikawa
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat Teizo
Watanabe … Osamu Abe beat Yusuf Turk … Zhuo Yiyue beat Jimmy Gragg … Yonetaro
Tanaka beat Harold Toki … Takeo Kaneko beat Tomio Miyajima

August 15, 1954 … Hirosaki
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat Teizo
Watanabe … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Yusuf Turk … Zhuo Yiyue beat Takeo Kaneko …
Osamu Abe beat Tomio Miyajima

August 16, 1954 … Akita
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Surugaumi beat Tomio
Miyajima … Yusuf Turk beat Osamu Abe … Teizo Watanabe beat Zhuo Yiyue … Takeo
Kaneko beat Yonetaro Tanaka

August 17, 1954 … Yamagata
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat
Yonetaro Tanaka … Yusuf Turk beat Zhuo Yiyue … Tomio Miyajima beat Osamu Abe …
Takeo Kaneko beat Teizo Watanabe

August 19, 1954 … Fukushima
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat Zhuo
Yiyue … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Yusuf Turk … Osamu Abe beat Teizo Watanabe … Tomio
Miyajima beat Takeo Kaneko

August 20, 1954 … Sendai, Miyagi
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Surugaumi beat Teizo
Watanabe … Yusuf Turk beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Zhuo Yiyue beat Tomio Miyajima… Takeo
Kaneko beat Osamu Abe

August 21, 1954 … Mito
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat
Osamu Abe … Yusuf Turk beat Teizo Watanabe … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Tomio Miyajima …
Zhuo Yiyue beat Takeo Kaneko

August 22, 1954 … Utsunomiya
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Surugaumi beat Zhuo
Yiyue … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Yusuf Turk … Teizo Watanabe beat Osamu Abe … Tomio
Miyajima beat Takeo Kaneko

August 23, 1954 … Takasaki
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo drew Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat
Yonetaro Tanaka … Teizo Watanabe beat Yusuf Turk … Takeo Kaneko beat Zhuo Yiyue …
Tomio Miyajima beat Osamu Abe

August 25, 1954 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium)
Rikidozan, Kokichi Endo and Oki Shikina beat Hans Schnabel, Lou Newman and Dr. Olson …
Surugaumi beat Yusuf Turk … Jimmy Gragg beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Teizo Watanabe beat
Bob Mumphrey … Osamu Abe beat Zhuo Yiyue … Takeo Kaneko beat Tomio Miyajima

August 27, 1954 … Okayama
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Surugaumi beat
Yonetaro Tanaka … Yusuf Turk beat Teizo Watanabe … Osamu Abe beat Tomio Miyajima …
Zhuo Yiyue beat Takeo Kaneko

August 29, 1954 … Fukuoka
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat Zhuo
Yiyue … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Yusuf Turk … Teizo Watanabe beat Osamu Abe … Tomio
Miyajima beat Takeo Kaneko

August 30, 1954 … Sasebo
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Surugaumi beat
Yonetaro Tanaka … Osamu Abe beat Yusuf Turk … Teizo Watanabe vs. Zhuo Yiyue …
Yonetaro Tanaka vs. Takeo Kaneko

August 31, 1954 … Nagasaki
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat Zhuo
Yiyue … Yusuf Turk beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Tomio Miyajima beat Teizo Watanabe …
Osamu Abe beat Takeo Kaneko

September 1, 1954 … Oita
Rikidozan, Kokichi Endo and Surugaumi beat Hans Schnabel, Lou Newman and Yusuf Turk
… Teizo Watanabe beat Zhuo Yiyue … Osamu Abe beat Harold Toki … Tomio Miyajima beat
Takeo Kaneko

September 3, 1954 … Kokura [present-day Kitakyushu]
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Surugaumi beat Teizo
Watanabe … Osamu Abe beat Yusuf Turk … Harold Toki beat Tomio Miyajima … Zhuo Yiyue
beat Takeo Kaneko

September 4, 1954 … Hiroshima
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat Zhuo
Yuyue and Teizo Watanabe (handicap match) … Takeo Kaneko beat Yusuf Turk … Osamu
Abe beat Tomio Miyajima … Harold Toki beat Teizo Watanabe

September 5, 1954 … Matsuyama
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat Teizo
Watanabe … Osamu Abe beat Yusuf Turk … Tomio Miyajima beat Harold Toki … Takeo
Kaneko beat Zhuo Yiyue

September 6, 1954 … Takamatsu
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat
Osamu Abe … Tomio Miyajima beat Yusuf Turk … Zhuo Yiyue beat Harold Toki … Teizo
Watanabe beat Takeo Kaneko

September 8, 1954 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Surugaumi … Kokichi Endo beat Dr.
Olson … Teizo Watanabe beat Bob Mumphrey … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Jimmy Gragg …
Yusuf Turk beat Osamu Abe … Tomio Miyajima beat Takeo Kaneko … Zhuo Yiyue beat
Harold Toki

September 9, 1954 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Rikidozan, Kokichi Endo and Surugaumi drew Hans Schnabel, Lou Newman and Dr. Olson …
Bob Mumphrey beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Teizo Watanabe beat Jimmy Gragg … Zhuo Yiyue
beat Yusuf Turk … Harold Toki beat Tomio Miyajima

September 10, 1954 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman (Rikidozan and Kokichi
Endo won the Pacific Coast Tag Team Title) … Surugaumi beat Dr. Olson (dq) … Yusuf Turk
beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Zhuo Yiyue beat Jimmy Gragg … Harold Toki beat Bob Mumphrey
… Teizo Watanabe beat Yoshinosato (Junzo Hasegawa).

September 11, 1954 … Kobe
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Teizo Watanabe beat
Yonetaro Tanaka … Zhuo Yiyue beat Yusuf Turk … Harold Toki beat Jimmy Gragg … Tomio
Miyajima beat Yoshinosato

September 12, 1954 … Kyoto
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Tomio Miyajima beat
Yusuf Turk … Teizo Watanabe beat Yoshinosato … Jimmy Gragg beat Harold Toki … Zhuo
Yiyue beat Yonetaro Tanaka

September 14, 1954 … Nagoya (Kanayama Gymnasium)
Rikidozan, Kokichi Endo and Oki Shikina beat Hans Schnabel, Lou Newman and Dr. Olson …
Yonetaro Tanaka beat Yusuf Turk … Jimmy Gragg beat Teizo Watanabe … Tomio Miyajima
drew Yoshinosato … Harold Toki beat Zhuo Yiyue

September 15, 1954 … Toyohashi
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Yusuf Turk beat Tomio
Miyajima … Teizo Watanabe drew Yoshinosato … Surugaumi beat Harold Toki … Yonetaro
Tanaka beat Zhuo Yiyue

September 16, 1954 … Hamamatsu
Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo … Teizo Watanabe beat
Yusuf Turk … Yoshinosato beat Tomio Miyajima … Jimmy Gragg beat Harold Toki … Zhuo
Yiyue beat Yonetaro Tanaka

September 18, 1954 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium)
The show was postponed until September 21 because of a typhoon.

September 19, 1954 … Yokohama
Hans Schnabel, Lou Newman and Dr. Olson beat Rikidozan, Kokichi Endo and Surugaumi …
Tomio Miyajima beat Bob Mumphrey … Yusuf Turk beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Teizo
Watanabe drew Yoshinosato … Takeo Kaneko beat Osamu Abe … Jimmy Gragg beat Harold
Toki

September 20, 1954 … Kisarazu
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Yonetaro Tanaka beat
Yusuf Turk … Yoshinosato beat Tomio Miyajima … Teizo Watanabe beat Takeo Kaneko …
Harold Toki beat Osamu Abe

September 21, 1954 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium)
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman (Rikidozan and Kokichi
Endo retained the Pacific Coast Tag Team Title) … Surugaumi beat Dr. Olson … Bob
Mumphrey and Yusuf Turk drew Yonetaro Tanaka and Yoshinosato … Teizo Watanabe beat
Jimmy Gragg … Osamu Abe beat Takeo Kaneko … Harold Toki beat Tomio Miyajima

September 22, 1954 … Fukui
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat
Yonetaro Tanaka … Teizo Watanabe beat Yusuf Turk … Yoshinosato beat Osamu Abe …
Tomio Miyajima beat Takeo Kaneko

September 23, 1954 … Kanazawa
Rikidozan, Kokichi Endo and Surugaumi beat Hans Schnabel, Lou Newman and Yusuf Turk
… Teizo Watanabe drew Yoshinosato … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Takeo Kaneko … Tomio
Miyajima beat Osamu Abe … Yoshinosato beat Harold Toki

September 24, 1954 … Toyama
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat Teizo
Watanabe … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Yusuf Turk … Yoshinosato beat Osamu Abe … Takeo
Kaneko beat Tomio Miyajima

September 26, 1954 … Niigata
The show was postponed until the next day because of a typhoon.

September 27, 1954 … Niigata
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat Tomio
Miyajima … Yoshinosato beat Yusuf Turk … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Osamu Abe … Teizo
Watanabe beat Takeo Kaneko

September 28, 1954 … Tachikawa
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat Dr.
Olson (dq) … Yusuf Turk beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Yoshinosato beat Teizo Watanabe …
Osamu Abe beat Harold Toki … Tomio Miyajima beat Takeo Kaneko

September 29, 1954 … Kofu
Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Hans Schnabel and Lou Newman … Surugaumi beat Dr.
Olson (dq) … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Yusuf Turk … Yoshinosato beat Teizo Watanabe …
Harold Toki beat Osamu Abe … Takeo Kaneko drew Tomio Miyajima

October 1, 1954 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium) (charity tournament for Tokyo
Governor’s Cup)
Rikidozan beat Yoshinosato … Rikidozan beat Surugaumi … Rikidozan beat Kokichi Endo …
Kokichi Endo and Surugaumi beat Jimmy Gragg and Bob Mumphrey … Yoshinosato beat
Yusuf Turk … Yusuf Turk beat Harold Toki … Yoshinosato beat Tomio Miyajima

December 22, 1954 … Tokyo (Kuramae Sumo Arena)
Rikidozan beat Masahiko Kimura (Rikidozan became the first Japanese Heavyweight
Champion) … Kokichi Endo beat Tatsunoumi (Matsuki Morita) … Yusuf Turk (sub for
Toyonobori) beat Takeo Toda … Kiyotaka Otsubo drew Surugaumi … Yoshinosato beat
Noboru Ichikawa … Teizo Watanabe beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Osamu Abe beat Tomio
Miyajima … Zhuo Yiyue beat Takeo Kaneko


Research by Haruo Yamaguchi - Updated December 17, 2018
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