January 9, 1959 … Tokyo (Korakuen Gymnasium) Rikidozan beat Tiny Mills (Rikidozan retained the Asian Heavyweight Title) … Toyonobori beat Stanley Kowalski … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Jiro Yamazaki … Tamanokawa (Masayuki Era) beat Kanji (Joe) Higuchi … Yusuf Turk beat Isao Yoshihara … Masaaki Takemura beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Kiyotaka Otsubo beat Mr. Chin (Hajime Deguchi) January 10, 1959 … Utsunomiya Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Stanley Kowalski and Tiny Mills (Rikidozan and Toyonobori won the Hawaiian Tag Team Title) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Takeo Kaneko … Masaaki Takemura beat Jiro Yamazaki … Kaichi Nagasawa beat Kanji Higuchi … Yusuf Turk beat Kiyotaka Otsubo … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Mr. Chin January 21, 1959 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Tiny Mills and Lucky Simunovich (Rikidozan and Toyonobori retained the Hawaiian Tag Team Title) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Masaaki Takemura … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Jiro Yamazaki … Tamanokawa beat Kanji Higuchi … Takeo Kaneko beat Isao Yoshihara … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Yukio Suzuki … Kiyotaka Otsubo beat Mr. Chin January 22, 1959 … Nagoya Rikidozan beat Lucky Simunovich (Rikidozan retained the Asian Heavyweight Title) January 23, 1959 … Tokyo (Korakuen Gymnasium) Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Tiny Mills and Lucky Simunovich … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Takeo Kaneko … Masaaki Takemura beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Tamanokawa beat Kanji Higuchi … Jiro Yamazaki beat Yukio Suzuki … Kiyotaka Otsubo drew Isao Yoshihara … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Mr. Chin February 6, 1959 … Tokyo (Korakuen Gymnasium) Rikidozan beat Lucky Simunovich … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Yusuf Turk … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Tamanokawa … Masaaki Takemura beat Takeo Kaneko … Jiro Yamazaki beat Isao Yoshihara … Kanji Higuchi drew Yukio Suzuki … Kiyotaka Otsubo beat Mr. Chin … Mitsuaki Hirai drew Yonetaro Tanaka March 6, 1959 … Tokyo (Korakuen Gymnasium) Takeo Kaneko, Harold Toki and Yoshinosato beat Hideyuki Nagasawa, Yusuf Turk and Michiaki Yoshimura (referee: Rikidozan) … Masaaki Takemura beat Kanji Higuchi March 20, 1959 … Tokyo (Nihonbashi) Mr. Chin, Takeo Kaneko and Yonetaro Tanaka vs. Kanji Higuchi, Tamanokawa and Isao Yoshihara April 3, 1959 … Tokyo (Nihonbashi) Mr. Atomic (Clyde Steeves) beat Yoshinosato … Takeo Kaneko beat Tamanokawa … Masaaki Takemura beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Yukio Suzuki … Kiyotaka Otsubo beat Mitsuaki Hirai April 17, 1959 … Tokyo (Korakuen Gymnasium) Mr. Atomic beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Mr. Chin and Yoshinosato beat Takeo Kaneko and Hideyuki Nagasawa … Masaaki Takemura beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Yukio Suzuki drew Tamanokawa … Kanji Higuchi drew Kiyotaka Otsubo May 1, 1959 … Tokyo (Korakuen Gymnasium) Kokichi Endo beat Mr. Atomic … Michiaki Yoshimura and Yoshinosato beat Hideyuki Nagasawa and Masaaki Takemura … Takeo Kaneko beat Yukio Suzuki … Isao Yoshihara beat Kiyotaka Otsubo … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Mr. Chin … Mitsuaki Hirai drew Katsuyoshi Suzuki (Suzuki made his debut) May 8, 1959 … Muroran Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Danny Plechas (dq) … Kokichi Endo beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Yoshinosato beat Masaaki Takemura … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Takeo Kaneko … Tamanokawa beat Yukio Suzuki … Isao Yoshihara beat Mr. Chin … Kanji Higuchi beat Kiyotaka Otsubo May 10, 1959 … Asahikawa Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Mr. Atomic and Danny Plechas May 11, 1959 … Obihiro Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Danny Plechas (dq) May 13, 1959 … Kushiro Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Mr. Atomic and Danny Plechas May 15, 1959 … Sapporo [first night] Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Danny Plechas May 16, 1959 … Sapporo [second night] Rikidozan beat Danny Plechas [The First World League] May 21, 1959 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium) [first night] Rikidozan drew Jess Ortega … King Kong (Emile Czaja) beat Danny Plechas … Mr. Atomic beat Lord James Blears … Tarlock Singh and Enrique Torres drew Kokichi Endo and Toyonobori … Isao Yoshihara beat Yukio Suzuki … Yoshinosato beat Hideyuki (Kaichi) Nagasawa … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Masaaki Takemura … Tamanokawa beat Takeo Kaneko May 22, 1959 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium) [second night] Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat King Kong and Jess Ortega … Enrique Torres drew Lord James Blears … Danny Plechas drew Kokichi Endo … Tarlock Singh beat Mr. Atomic (dq) … Michiaki Yoshimura drew Yoshinosato … Masaaki Takemura beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Takeo Kaneko beat Mr. Chin … Yukio Suzuki beat Tamanokawa May 24, 1959 … Gifu Rikidozan beat Tarlock Singh … Jess Ortega drew Toyonobori (both cor) … King Kong beat Kokichi Endo … Mr. Atomic and Danny Plechas beat Lord James Blears and Enrique Torres May 25, 1959 … Nagoya (Kanayama Gymnasium) Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo drew Lord James Blears and Enrique Torres … Jess Ortega drew Danny Plechas … King Kong beat Tarlock Singh … Mr. Atomic drew Toyonobori May 26, 1959 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [first night] Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Lord James Blears and Danny Plechas … Jess Ortega beat Kokichi Endo … Enrique Torres beat Tarlock Singh … Mr. Atomic beat King Kong … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Takeo Kaneko … Yoshinosato beat Tamanokawa … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Yukio Suzuki May 27, 1959 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [second night] Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo drew Mr. Atomic and Lord James Blears … Jess Ortega drew King Kong (both cor) … Enrique Torres beat Danny Plechas … Toyonobori beat Tarlock Singh … Michiaki Yoshimura drew Yoshinosato … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Yukio Suzuki … Tamanokawa beat Takeo Kaneko … Masaaki Takemura beat Hideyuki Nagasawa May 28, 1959 …Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [third night] Rikidozan beat King Kong … Jess Ortega beat Tarlock Singh … Enrique Torres drew Kokichi Endo … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Tamanokawa … Yoshinosato beat Takeo Kaneko … Masaaki Takemura beat Yukio Suzuki … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Mr. Chin … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Kanji Higuchi May 29, 1959 … Kobe Rikidozan drew Mr. Atomic … Enrique Torres drew Danny Plechas (both cor) … Lord James Blears beat Tarlock Singh … Kokichi Endo and Toyonobori beat King Kong and Jess Ortega (dq) … Yoshinosato beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Masaaki Takemura … Tamanokawa beat Yukio Suzuki … Takeo Kaneko beat Mr. Chin May 31, 1959 … Kumamoto Rikidozan and Enrique Torres beat Lord James Blears and Danny Plechas … Kokichi Endo beat Mr. Atomic (dq) … Toyonobori beat Jess Ortega June 1, 1959 … Kagoshima Rikidozan beat Danny Plechas (cor) … Kokichi Endo drew Tarlock Singh … Enrique Torres and Toyonobori beat King Kong and Jess Ortega … Mr. Atomic beat Yoshinosato … Lord James Blears beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Tamanokawa beat Yukio Suzuki … Masaaki Takemura beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Kanji Higuchi June 4, 1959 … Oita Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Mr. Atomic and Danny Plechas … Toyonobori beat King Kong … Jess Ortega beat Lord James Blears … Enrique Torres beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Mr. Chin beat Yoshinosato … Tamanokawa beat Hideyuki Nagasawa June 5, 1959 … Fukuoka Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Lord James Blears and Danny Plechas … Mr. Atomic beat Jess Ortega … Enrique Torres beat King Kong … Kokichi Endo beat Tarlock Singh … Michiaki Yoshimura drew Yoshinosato … Masaaki Takemura beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Takeo Kaneko beat Mr. Chin … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Kiyotaka Otsubo June 6, 1959 … Kokura [present-day Kitakyushu] Rikidozan beat Lord James Blears … Jess Ortega beat Enrique Torres … Mr. Atomic beat Tarlock Singh … Kokichi Endo and Toyonobori beat King Kong and Danny Plechas June 7, 1959 … Kure Rikidozan and Enrique Torres beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega … Kokichi Endo beat Lord James Blears … Danny Plechas beat Tarlock Singh … King Kong beat Yoshinosato … Toyonobori beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Yukio Suzuki beat Kanji Higuchi … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Masaaki Takemura … Takeo Kaneko beat Mr. Chin June 9, 1959 … Okayama Rikidozan drew Enrique Torres … Jess Ortega beat Lord James Blears … Kokichi Endo beat Mr. Atomic … Tarlock Singh beat Yoshinosato … King Kong beat Masaaki Takemura … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Yukio Suzuki … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Takeo Kaneko … Isao Yoshihara beat Mr. Chin June 11, 1959 … Matsusaka Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat King Kong and Jess Ortega … Mr. Atomic beat Danny Plechas (dq) … Lord James Blears beat Toyonobori … Tarlock Singh beat Masaaki Takemura … Enrique Torres beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Yukio Suzuki beat Kiyotaka Otsubo … Yoshinosato beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Isao Yoshihara June 12, 1959 … Kyoto Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Jess Ortega and Danny Plechas … Lord James Blears beat King Kong … Enrique Torres drew Mr. Atomic June 13, 1959 … Toyama Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega … Enrique Torres beat Toyonobori … Danny Plechas beat Lord James Blears … King Kong beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Tarlock Singh beat Yoshinosato June 15, 1959 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium) Rikidozan beat Jess Ortega (Rikidozan subbed for Mr. Atomic who got injured in the semi- final and became the winner of the first World League) … Enrique Torres drew Jess Ortega in the semi-final but Ortega won by flipping a coin to meet Rikidozan in the finals … Mr. Atomic beat Rikidozan (dq: Rikidozan unmasked him) … Kokichi Endo and Toyonobori beat Lord James Blears and Danny Plechas … King Kong beat Yoshinosato … Tarlock Singh beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Tamanokawa … Yukio Suzuki beat Mr. Chin … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Kiyotaka Otsubo June 16, 1959 … Kofu Rikidozan, Toyonobori and Enrique Torres drew Mr. Atomic, Jess Ortega and Danny Plechas June 17, 1959 … Kamisuwa (no results known) June 19, 1959 … Kanazawa Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Jess Ortega and Danny Plechas … Enrique Torres beat Michiaki Yoshimura June 21, 1959 … Nagano Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega June 23, 1959 … Nagaoka Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega June 24, 1959 … Akita Rikidozan and Enrique Torres beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega June 26, 1959 … Sendai, Miyagi Rikidozan and Enrique Torres beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega … Toyonobori beat Danny Plechas … Kokichi Endo beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Yoshinosato beat Masaaki Takemura … Takeo Kaneko beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Yukio Suzuki beat Kanji Higuchi … Isao Yoshihara beat Mr. Chin … Yonetaro Tanaka beat Kiyotaka Otsubo June 27, 1959 … Yamagata Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega June 28, 1959 … Utsunomiya Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega June 30, 1959 … Aomori Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega July 2, 1959 … Sapporo [first night] Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega … Enrique Torres beat Danny Plechas … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Kokichi Endo … Yoshinosato beat Kaichi Nagasawa … Takeo Kaneko beat Yukio Suzuki … Kanji Higuchi drew Tatsunoumi (Matsuyoshi Morita) … Isao Yoshihara beat Mr. Chin July 3, 1959 … Sapporo [second night] Rikidozan drew Enrique Torres July 7, 1959 … Niigata (no results known) June 8, 1959 … Takada (no results known) July 10, 1959 … Hiratsuka Rikidozan, Toyonobori and Enrique Torres drew Mr. Atomic, Jess Ortega and Danny Plechas July 11, 1959 … Mito Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega … Enrique Torres beat Kokichi Endo July 12, 1959 … Tagajo (no results known) June 13, 1959 … Haramachi [present-day Minamisoma] (no results known) July 15, 1959 … Tachikawa Rikidozan, Kokichi Endo and Toyonobori drew Mr. Atomic, Jess Ortega and Enrique Torres July 16, 1959 … Kumagaya (no results known) July 18, 1959 … Shizuoka Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega July 20, 1959 … Himeji (no results known) July 21, 1959 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) Rikidozan drew Enrique Torres (both cor) (Rikidozan retained the International Heavyweight Title) … Kokichi Endo and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Oretega July 24, 1959 … Tokushima Rikidozan beat Jess Ortega July 25, 1959 … Marugame Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega July 26, 1959 … Niihama Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega July 27, 1959 … Kochi Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega July 29, 1959 … Uwajima Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega August 1, 1959 … Tokuyama (no results known) August 2, 1959 … Ube (no results known) August 3, 1959 … Hiroshima Rikidozan and Toyonobori beat Mr. Atomic and Jess Ortega August 4, 1959 … Tokyo (Nihonbashi) Larry Jackson and Mike Paidousis beat Kokichi Endo and Michiaki Yoshimura … Yoshinosato beat Hideyuki Nagasawa … Masaaki Takemura beat Tamanokawa … Yukio Suzuki beat Kanji Higuchi … Isao Yoshihara beat Mr. Chin … Kiyotaka Otsubo beat Yonetaro Tanaka August 5, 1959 … Fukuyama (no results known) August 7, 1959 … Tokyo (Denen Coliseum) Rikidozan beat Mr. Atomic (Rikidozan retained the International Heavyweight Title) … Kokichi Endo and Toyonobori beat Jess Ortega and Enrique Torres … Yoshinosato beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Masaaki Takemura w Hideyuki Nagasawa … Yukio Suzuki beat Yonetaro Tanaka …Takeo Kaneko beat Mr. Chin … Kiyotaka Otsubo drew Isao Yoshihara … Kanji Higuchi beat Masakatsu Tanaka August 8, 1959 … Kawagoe (no results known) September 18, 1959 … Tokyo (Nihonbashi) Mike Paidousis and Great Togo beat Kokichi Endo and Yoshinosato … Takeo Kaneko beat Red Devil … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Larry Jackson (dq) … Masaaki Takemura beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Tamanokawa beat Mr. Chin … Yukio Suzuki beat Kiyotaka Otsubo … Isao Yoshihara beat Mitsuaki Hirai … Kanji Higuchi beat Masakatsu Tanaka October 2, 1959 … Tokyo (Studio of Nippon TV) Rikidozan drew Mike Paidousis … Great Togo and Larry Jackson drew Kokichi Endo and Yoshinosato … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Masaaki Takemura … Yukio Suzuki beat Kanji Higuchi … Isao Yoshihara beat Mr. Chin October 6, 1959 … Tokyo (Taito Gymnasium) Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo drew Mike Paidousis and Great Togo … Masaaki Takemura beat Hideyuki Nagasawa October 16, 1959 … Tokyo (Studio of Nippon TV) Rikidozan, Kokichi Endo and Yoshinosato beat Larry Jackson, Jim Sorensen and Great Togo October 23, 1959 … Katsuura Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo drew Larry Jackson and Great Togo … Yukio Suzuki vs. Tamanokawa October 30, 1959 … Tokyo (Nihonbashi) Rikidozan drew Great Togo … Kokichi Endo, Takeo Kaneko and Yoshinosato beat Jim Sorensen, Larry Jackson and Yusuf Turk … Yukio Suzuki beat Hideyuki Nagasawa November 8, 1959 … Nagoya Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Larry Jackson and Great Togo … Yoshinosato beat Red Miller … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Jim Sorensen … Masaaki Takemura beat Tamanokawa … Takeo Kaneko beat Mr. Chin … Yukio Suzuki beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Yusuf Turk beat Isao Yoshihara … Kiyotaka Otsubo beat Kanji Higuchi … Mitsuaki Hirai drew Masakatsu Tanaka November 13, 1959 … Tokyo (Nihonbashi) Jim Wright beat Kokichi Endo … Red Devil, Red Miller and Great Togo vs. Hideyuki Nagasawa, Masaaki Takemura and Yoshinosato … Kanji Higuchi vs. Kintaro Oki November 21, 1959 … Tokyo (Taito Gymnasium) Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Great Togo and Jim Wright November 27, 1959 … Takamatsu Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Great Togo and Jim Wright November 28, 1959 … Okayama Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Great Togo and Jim Wright November 30, 1959 … Kobe Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Great Togo and Jim Wright December 5, 1959 … Toyama Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Great Togo and Jim Wright December 9, 1959 … Osaka Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Great Togo and Jim Wright December 11, 1959 … Ichinomiya Great Togo and Jim Wright beat Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo December 12, 1959 … Kyoto Rikidozan and Kokichi Endo beat Great Togo and Jim Wright December 25, 1959 … Tokyo (Nihonbashi) Kokichi Endo, Yoshinosato and Masaaki Takemura beat Jim Wright, Alex Iakovidis and Bulldog Butcher (dq) (referee: Rikidozan) … Yusuf Turk beat Isao Yoshihara … Tamanokawa beat Red Miller (dq) … Hideyuki Nagasawa beat Takeo Kaneko … Yukio Suzuki beat Mr. Chin … Kanji Higuchi beat Yonetaro Tanaka … Kiyotaka Otsubo beat Masaaki Takemura … Kintaro Oki drew Mitsuaki Hirai Research by Haruo Yamaguchi - Updated December 17, 2018 |
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