[New Year Champion Series]
January 3, 1968 ... Tokyo (Kuramae)
Giant Baba beat Reggie “the Crusher” Lisowski (Giant Baba retained the International
Heavyweight Title) … Kim IL (Kintaro Oki) and Michiaki Yoshimura drew Ricky Hunter and Dr.
Bill Miller (both COR) (Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura retained the Asian Tag Team Title) …
Antonio Inoki beat Ken Hollis … Karl Gotch beat Jerry London … Prince (Curtis) Iaukea beat
Umanosuke Ueda … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masayuki Fujii … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa
Takachiho … Atsuhide Koma beat Haruka Eigen … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin
NOTE: A promotional war occurred again between JWA and IWE, or more exactly, a war
between Nippon Television Network Corporation supporting JWA and Tokyo Broadcasting
System which started taping IWE matches. JWA gave a show in the afternoon at Kuramae
Sumo Hall and IWE in the evening at Nihon University Hall in Ryogoku, on the other side of
the Sumida River. JWA attracted twice as many fans as IWE.

January 4, 1968 … Okayama
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Prince Iaukea and Crusher Lisowski (DQ) … Bill Miller (under a
mask) drew Antonio Inoki … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ken Hollis (COR) … Jerry London beat
Kantaro Hoshino … Ricky Hunter beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii
… Akihisa Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen …
Katsuhisa Shibata beat Mr. Chin

January 5, 1968 … Himeji
Prince Iaukea, Crusher Lisowski and Bill Miller beat Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki
Yoshimura … Kim IL beat Jerry London … Ken Hollis beat Kantaro Hoshino … Ricky Hunter
beat Mitsu Hirai … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Haruka Engen … Atsuhide Koma beat Mr. Chin

January 6, 1968 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [first night]
Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ricky Hunter and Bill Miller (Kim IL and Michiaki
Yoshimura retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Crusher Lisowski beat Giant Baba (DQ) …
Karl Gotch beat Ken Hollis … Prince Iaukea beat Antonio Inoki (COR) … Jerry London beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masayuki Fujii … Mitsu Hirai beat Haruka Eigen
… Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin

January 7, 1968 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [second night]
Giant Baba beat Prince Iaukea (Giant Baba retained the International Heavyweight Title) …
Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ken Hollis and Crusher Lisowski … Bill Miller beat
Kim IL (COR) … Ricky Hunter drew Kantaro Hoshino … Jerry London beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) …
Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Atsuhide Koma … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen …
Masayuki Fujii beat Mr. Chin

January 8, 1968 … Hiroshima
Crusher Lisowski and Bill Miller drew Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura … Kim IL beat
Prince Iaukea (COR) … Ricky Hunter beat Mitsu Hirai … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Ken Hollis
(DQ) … Jerry London drew Kantaro Hoshino … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Atsuhide Koma …
Masayuki Fujii beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Haruka Eigen beat Mr. Chin … Atsuhide Koma won
an 8-man battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the finals.
NOTE: Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki were to defend their International Tag Team Title, but
Inoki alone had gone to Tokyo on private business and was held up at Haneda Airport
because of heavy snow. Inoki missed the title match in Hiroshima and the title became vacant.

January 9, 1968 … Matsuyama
Crusher Lisowski and Bill Miller drew Giant Baba and Kim IL (both COR) … Prince Iaukea
beat Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Antonio Inoki beat Jerry London … Ricky Hunter beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Ken Hollis (DQ) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Atsuhide
Koma … Haruka Eigen drew Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin

January 11, 1968 … Kochi
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ricky Hunter, Prince Iaukea and
Crusher Lisowski … Kim IL beat Bill Miller (DQ) … Ken Hollis beat Kantaro Hoshino … Jerry
London drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii … Akihisa Takachiho beat
Haruka Eigen … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Mr. Chin … Atsuhide Koma drew Gantetsu Matsuoka

January 12, 1968 … Tokushima
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Prince Iaukea and Crusher Lisowski … Bill Miller beat
Michiaki Yoshimura … Kim IL beat Ricky Hunter … Jerry London drew Mitsu Hirai … Ken
Hollis beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Haruka Eigen beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Atsuhide Koma
beat Mr. Chin

January 15, 1968 … Kawagoe
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Ken Hollis, Crusher Lisowski and Bill Miller …
Curits Iaukea beat Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Ricky Hunter (DQ) …
Jerry London beat Akihisa Takachiho … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Atsuhide Koma … Masayuki Fujii beat Haruka Eigen … Katsuhisa Shibata
beat Mr. Chin

January 16, 1968 … Shimizu
Ricky Hunter, Prince Iaukea and Crusher Lisowski beat Giant Baba, Michiaki Yoshimura and
Kotetsu Kotetsu Yamamoto … Antonio Inoki beat Bill Biller (DQ) … Mitsu Hirai beat Ken Hollis
… Jerry London beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Atsuhide Koma and Masayuki Fujii both COR … Haruka Eigen beat Mr. Chin … Akihisa
Takachiho won a 7-man battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the finals.

January 17, 1968 … Kumagaya
Giant Baba beat Bill Miller (DQ) … Prince Iaukea and Crusher Lisowski drew Antonio Inoki
and Michiaki Yoshimura (both COR) … Ricky Hutner beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Jerry London … Ken Hollis drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Akihisa Takachiho beat
Atsuhide Koma … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen … Masayuki Fujii beat Mr. Chin …
Atsuhide Koma won a battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the finals.

January 19, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Prince Iaukea and Bill Miller … Crusher Lisowski
and Antonio Inoki both COR … Mitsu Hirai beat Jerry London … Ricky Hunter beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Ken Hollis drew Kantaro Hoshino … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin … Atsuhide Koma beat Haruka Eigen

January 25, 1968 … Fukuoka
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ken Hollis, Crusher Lisowski and Bill Miller
… Antonio Inoki and Prince Iaukea both COR … Ricky Hunter and Mitsu Hirai both COR …
Jerry London beat Kantaro Hoshino (DQ) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Atsuhide Koma drew Gantetsu Matsuoka … Masayuki Fujii beat Haruka Eigen … Motoyuki
Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin

January 26, 1968 … Nagasaki
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Prince Iaukea, Bill Miller and Crusher Lisowski
(DQ) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ricky Hunter … Ken Hollis beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Jerry London … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin

January 27, 1968 … Kumamoto
Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ken Hollis and Prince Iaukea (Kim IL and Michiaki
Yoshimura retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Giant Baba beat Crusher Lisowski (DQ) …
Bill Miller and Antonio Inoki both COR … Ricky Hunter drew Kantaro Hoshino … Mitsu Hirai
beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Motoyuki Kitazawa
beat Katsuji Adachi … Atsuhide Koma beat Haruka Eigen … Masayuki Fujii beat Mr. Chin

January 29, 1968 … Kagoshima
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Kim IL beat Ricky Hunter, Crusher Lisowski and Bill Miller …
Prince Iaukea and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Antonio Inoki beat Ken Hollis … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Atsuhide Koma beat Mr. Chin … Haruka Eigen won a 9-
man battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

January 30, 1968 … Oita
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Prince Iaukea, Crusher Lisowski and
Bill Miller … Kim IL beat Ken Hollis … Ricky Hunter beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masayuki Fujii … Mitsu Hirai beat
Gantetsu Matsuoka … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi … Haruka Eigen beat Mr. Chin
… Motoyuki Kitazawa also won a 9-man battle royal pinning Mr. Chin in the finals.

February 2, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Ricky Hunter, Crusher Lisowski and Bill Miller beat Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kantaro
Hoshino … Kim IL beat Prince Iaukea … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Ken Hollis … Mitsu Hirai
beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Motoyuki Kitazawa
beat Katsuji Adachi … Atsuhide Koma beat Haruka Eigen … Masayuki Fujii beat Mr. Chin …
Haruka Eigen won a battle royal pinning Atsuhide Koma in the finals.

February 3, 1968 … Tokyo (Ota)
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Crusher Lisowski and Bill Miller (Giant Baba and Antonio
Inoki captured the International Tag Team Tile that had been vacant) … Michiaki Yoshimura
beat Prince Iaukea … Ricky Hunter drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki
Fujii … Kantaro Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho … Haruka Eigen beat Katsuji Adachi …
Atsuhide Koma beat Motoyuki Kitazawa (DQ) … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin

February 16, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Kantaro Hoshino and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Mitsu
Hirai and Akihisa Takachiho … Masayuki Fujii beat Haruka Eigen … Atsuhide Koma beat
Katsuji Adachi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Katsuhisa Shibata
NOTE: Because of an air accident, American wrestlers failed to arrive at the airport in Tokyo
and the matches were fought only by Japanese wrestlers.

[Dynamic Series]
February 23, 1968 … Maebashi
Buddy “Killer” Austin and Dick the Bruiser beat Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki … Michiaki
Yoshimura beat Harley Race (DQ) … Tennessee Rebel (Mike Paidousis under the mask) and
Kim IL both COR … Baron Scicluna beat Mitsu Hirai … Dick Murdoch beat Kotetsu Yamamoto
… Akihisa Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …
Haruka Eigen drew Motoyuki Kitazawa … Mr. Chin drew Masayuki Fujii

February 24, 1968 … Sendai, Miyagi
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Dick the Bruiser and Dick Murdoch … Baron Scicluna drew
Antonio Inoki … Buddy Austin beat Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Haruka Eigen … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin … Kotetsu Yamamoto also won a battle royal pinning
Gantetsu Matsuoka in the finals.

February 25, 1968 … Gifu
Buddy Austin, Dick the Bruiser and Harley Race drew Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki
Yoshimura (both COR) … Kim IL beat Baron Scicluna (COR) … Tennessee Rebel beat Mitsu
Hirai … Dick Murdoch beat Kantaro Hoshino … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen …
Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Masayuki Fujii beat Katsuhisa Shibata …
Atsuhide Koma beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Haruka Eigen won a battle royal pinning Gantetsu
Matsuoka in the finals.

February 26, 1968 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Dick the Bruiser and Harley Race (Giant Baba and
Antonio Inoki retained the International Tag Team Title) … Tennessee Rebel beat Michiaki
Yoshimura (DQ) … Baron Scicluna beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Buddy Austin beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Kim IL beat Dick Murdoch … Kantaro Hoshino beat Atsuhide Koma … Mitsu
Hirai beat Haruka Eigen … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat
Mr. Chin (DQ)

February 27, 1968 … Shizuoka
Dick the Bruiser beat Giant Baba (COR) … Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Harley
Race and Baron Scicluna … Tennessee Rebel beat Kantaro Hoshino … Dick Murdoch beat
Mitsu Hirai … Buddy Austin and Kim IL both COR … Atsuhide Koma drew Gantetsu Matsuoka
… Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masayuki Fujii … Haruka Eigen beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Akihisa Takachiho also won a battle royal pinning
Haruka Eigen in the finals.

February 28, 1968 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium)
Giant Baba beat Dick the Bruiser (Giant Baba retained the International Heavyweight Title) …
Buddy Austin and Harley Race drew Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura (both COR) … Dick
Murdoch beat Kantaro Hoshino … Antonio Inoki beat Tennessee Rebel (COR) … Baron
Scicluna beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Haruka Eigen … Mitsu Hirai beat
Gantetsu Matsuoka … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Masayuki Fujii beat Mr. Chin

March 1, 1968 … Nagoya
Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Dick Murdoch and Tennessee Rebel (Kim IL and Michiaki
Yoshimura retained the Asian Tag Team Title) ... Giant Baba beat Buddy Austin (COR) …
Antonio Inoki beat Baron Scicluna … Harley Race beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Mitsu Hirai
beat Atsuhide Koma … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Katsuji Adachi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr.
Chin (DQ)

March 8, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Buddy Austin and Baron Scicluna … Kim IL beat
Dick Murdoch … Antonio Inoki beat Tennessee Rebel … Harley Race beat Kantaro Hoshino
… Masayuki Fujii beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …
Haruka Eigen beat Katsuji Adachi … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin … Akihisa Takachiho
beat Atsuhide Koma

March 15, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Buddy Austin, Dick Murdoch and Harley
Race (DQ) … Mitsu Hirai beat Tennessee Rebel … Baron Scicluna beat Kotetsu Yamamoto
… Masayuki Fujii beat Haruka Eigen … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Atsuhide
Koma beat Katsuji Adachi

March 16, 1968 … Ashikaga
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Dick Murdoch and Baron Scicluna … Harley Race and Michiaki
Yoshimura both COR … Buddy Austin beat Mitsu Hirai … Kantaro Hoshino beat Tennessee
Rebel (DQ) … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Haruka
Eigen … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi … Ushinosuke Hayashi drew Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Mr. Chin beat Atsuhide Koma

March 22, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Buddy Austin and Harley Race … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Dick
Murdoch … Baron Scicluna beat Kantaro Hoshino … Tennessee Rebel and Kotetsu
Yamamoto both COR … Atsuhide Koma beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Haruka Eigen … Akihisa Takachiho beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Masayuki Fujii beat Mr. Chin
… Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Katsuhisa Shibata

March 23, 1968 … Yokosuka
Giant Baba beat Baron Scicluna … Kim IL and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Buddy Austin and
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Harley Race and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Kantaro Hoshino
beat Tennessee Rebel … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka drew Akihisa
Takachiho … Haruka Eigen beat Mr. Chin … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi … Motoyuki
Kitazawa beat Katsuhisa Shibata

[The Tenth World League]
April 5, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba beat Don DeNucci ... Fred Blassie and Tarzan Tyler beat Antonio Inoki and
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Pat Patterson drew Michiaki Yoshimura … Akihisa Takachiho beat
Haruka Eigen … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Masayuki Fujii and
Ushinosuke Hayashi both COR … Atsuhide Koma beat Mr. Chin … Katsuji Adachi beat
Katsuhisa Shibata

April 6, 1968 … Tokyo (Kuramae)
Fred Blassie and Tarzan Tyler beat Antonio Inoki and Kim IL … Killer Kowalski drew Giant
Baba … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Angelo Poffo … Len Rossi drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Don
DeNucci beat Kantaro Hoshino … Pat Patterson beat Mitsu Hirai … Jesus Ortega beat Duke
Keomuka … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii

April 7, 1968 … Nagaoka
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Jesus Ortega and Pat Patterson … Kim IL beat Angelo
Poffo … Fred Blassie beat Duke Keomuka … Tarzan Tyler beat Kantaro Hoshino … Len
Rossi drew Mitsu Hirai … Don DeNucci beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Killer Kowalski beat
Michiaki Yoshimura … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi … Akihisa Takachiho beat
Gantetsu Matsuoka … Gantetsu Matsuoka won a battle royal pinning Masayuki Fujii in the
finals.

April 8, 1968 … Utsunomiya
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Don DeNucci and Killer Kowalski … Antonio Inoki beat Tarzan
Tyler (COR) … Jesus Ortega beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Pat Patterson beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Angelo Poffo beat Kantaro Hoshino … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Len Rossi …
Fred Blassie beat Mitsu Hirai … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin … Masayuki Fujii beat
Haruka Eigen

April 9, 1968 … Sendai, Miyagi
Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Fred Blassie and Tarzan Tyler … Giant Baba beat
Don DeNucci … Kim IL beat Len Rossi … Killer Kowalski beat Mitsu Hirai … Angelo Poffo
drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Jesus Ortega drew Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Pat Patterson (DQ) … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr.
Chin

April 10, 1968 … Hachinohe
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Killer Kowalski, Jesus Ortega and Pat
Patterson … Antonio Inoki beat Angelo Poffo … Tarzan Tyler beat Duke Keomuka ... Fred
Blassie beat Kantaro Hoshino … Mitsu Hirai beat Don DeNucci (DQ) … Len Rossi beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto (DQ) … Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat
Mr. Chin … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Karl Gotch vs. Katsuji Adachi,
Ushinosuke Hayashi and Atsuhide Koma (Workout)

April 12, 1968 … Sapporo [first night]
Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Killer Kowalski and Pat Patterson … Giant Baba beat
Fred Blassie (COR) … Tarzan Tyler beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Antonio Inoki beat Don
DeNucci … Jesus Ortega beat Kantaro Hoshino … Mitsu Hirai beat Angelo Poffo … Len
Rossi beat Akihisa Takachiho … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin … Atsuhide Koma drew
Gantetsu Matsuoka … Karl Gotch vs. Haruka Eigen, Iwakichi Hirano and Motoyuki Kitazawa
(Workout)

April 13, 1968 … Sapporo [second night]
Giant Baba beat Jesus Ortega (Giant Baba retained the International Heavyweight Title) …
Pat Patterson and Tarzan Tyler drew Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura … Kim IL beat
Don DeNucci … Killer Kowalski beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Fred Blassie beat Mitsu Hirai …
Len Rossi beat Kantaro Hoshino … Angelo Poffo beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin … Karl Gotch vs. Katsuji
Adachi, Masayuki Fujii and Katsuhisa Shibata (Workout)

April 14, 1968 … Kushiro
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Don DeNucci and Jesus Ortega … Kim IL beat Angelo
Poffo … Killer Kowalski beat Kantaro Hoshino … Tarzan Tyler drew Michiaki Yoshimura …
Fred Blassie beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Pat Patterson beat Mitsu Hirai … Len Rossi beat
Haruka Eigen … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin
… Karl Gotch vs. Ushinosuke Hayashi, Iwakichi Hirano and Atsuhide Koma (Workout)

April 15, 1968 … Asahikawa
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Don DeNucci, Killer Kowalski and Jesus Ortega …
Pat Patterson beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Fred Blassie beat Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) …
Tarzan Tyler beat Mitsu Hirai … Duke Keomuka beat Len Rossi … Angelo Poffo drew
Kantaro Hoshino … Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Atsuhide Koma beat Mr. Chin …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii

April 16, 1968 … Tomakomai
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Jesus Ortega and Tarzan Tyler … Antonio Inoki beat Len Rossi
… Don DeNucci beat Mitsu Hirai (COR) … Killer Kowalski beat Duke Keomuka … Pat
Patterson drew Michiaki Yoshimura … Fred Blassie beat Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Angelo Poffo … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi … Ushinosuke
Hayashi beat Mr. Chin … Gantetsu Matsuoka drew Akihisa Takachiho … Akihisa Takachiho
won a battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the finals.
NOTE: On April 17, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Shire arrived in Japan and attended a card. They made
a sightseeing tour about a week and left for Southeast Asia.

April 18, 1968 … Akita
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Don DeNucci and Killer Kowalski … Fred Blassie beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Tarzan Tyler beat Kantaro Hoshino … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Len
Rossi … Jesus Ortega and Kim IL both COR … Angelo Poffo beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Pat
Patterson drew Mitsu Hirai … Atsuhide Koma beat Akihisa Takachiho … Iwakichi Hirano beat
Katsuhisa Shibata … Masayuki Fujii beat Haruka Eigen (DQ) … Katsuji Adachi won a battle
royal pinning Masayuki Fujii in the finals … Karl Gotch vs. Katsuji Adachi, Haruka Eigen and
Motoyuki Kitazawa (Workout)

April 19, 1968 … Yamagata
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Killer Kowalski, Jesus Ortega and Pat
Patterson … Don DeNucci beat Kantaro Hoshino … Mitsu Hirai beat Len Rossi … Fred
Blassie beat Duke Keomuka … Tarzan Tyler beat Kim IL (DQ) … Angelo Poffo and Kotetsu
Yamamoto both COR … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin … Haruka Eigen beat Katsuji
Adachi … Atsuhide Koma drew Gantetsu Matsuoka … Karl Gotch vs. Masayuki Fujii, Iwakichi
Hirano and Motoyuki Kitazawa (Workout)

April 20, 1968 … Fukushima
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Fred Blassie and Tarzan Tyler … Killer Kowalski
drew Antonio Inoki … Pat Patterson beat Duke Keomuka … Kim IL beat Don DeNucci … Len
Rossi beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Angelo Poffo … Jesus Ortega beat
Mitsu Hirai … Motoyuki Kitazawa drew Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin …
Karl Gotch vs. Katsuji Adachi, Ushinosuke Hayashi and Atsuhide Koma (Workout)

April 21, 1968 … Choshi
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Killer Kowalski and Pat Patterson … Antonio Inoki beat Don
DeNucci … Jesus Ortega beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Duke Keomuka beat Len Rossi …
Angelo Poffo drew Mitsu Hirai … Tarzan Tyler beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Fred Blassie beat
Kantaro Hoshino … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Atsuhide Koma beat
Ushinosuke Hayashi … Ushinosuke Hayashi won a battle royal pinning Gantetsu Matsuoka in
the finals … Karl Gotch vs. Iwakichi Hirano, Motoyuki Kitazawa and Katsuhisa Shibata
(Workout)

April 22, 1968 … Matsumoto
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Killer Kowalski, Jesus Ortega and Len
Rossi … Fred Blassie beat Mitsu Hirai … Tarzan Tyler drew Michiaki Yoshimura … Kim IL
beat Angelo Poffo … Pat Patterson beat Kantaro Hoshino … Don DeNucci beat Duke
Keomuka (DQ) … Akihisa Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma … Iwakichi Hirano drew Katsuhisa
Shibata … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Akihisa Takachiho also won a
battle royal pinning Masayuki Fujii in the finals … Karl Gotch vs. Katsuji Adachi, Masayuki
Fujii and Katsuhisa Shibata (Workout)

April 23, 1968 … Yokohama
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Killer Kowalski and Jesus Ortega … Kim IL beat Fred
Blassie … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Angelo Poffo … Tarzan Tyler beat Mitsu Hirai … Pat
Patterson beat Akihisa Takachiho … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Don DeNucci … Ushinosuke
Hayashi beat Iwakichi Hirano … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Karl Gotch vs.
Katsuji Adachi, Atsuhide Koma and Motoyuki Kitazawa (Workout)

April 24, 1968 … Tokyo (Ota)
Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Killer Kowalski and Pat Patterson … Giant Baba beat
Tarzan Tyler … Jesus Ortega beat Kantaro Hoshino … Fred Blassie and Antonio Inoki both
COR … Don DeNucci beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Duke Keomuka beat Angelo Poffo … Len
Rossi drew Mitsu Hirai … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Atsuhide Koma drew
Gantetsu Matsuoka … Karl Gotch vs. Ushinosuke Hayashi, Iwakichi Hirano and Katsuhisa
Shibata (Workout)

April 25, 1968 … Shizuoka
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Don DeNucci and Killer Kowalski … Jesus Ortega beat
Duke Keomuka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Angelo Poffo … Fred Blassie and Michiaki
Yoshimura both COR … Kim IL beat Len Rossi … Tarzan Tyler beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Pat Patterson beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen … Atsuhide
Koma beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Masayuki Fujii won a battle royal pinning Gantetsu
Matsuoka in the finals … Karl Gotch vs. Katsuji Adachi, Masayuki Fujii and Motoyuki Kitazawa
(Workout)

April 26, 1968 … Nagoya
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Jesus Ortega and Pat Patterson … Tarzan Tyler beat Michiaki
Yoshimura (DQ) … Antonio Inoki beat Don DeNucci … Killer Kowalski beat Kantaro Hoshino
… Len Rossi and Kotetsu Yamamoto both COR … Fred Blassie beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Angelo Poffo beat Haruka Eigen … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Iwakichi Hirano
won a battle royal pinning Masayuki Fujii in the finals … Karl Gotch vs. Mitsu Hirai, Atsuhide
Koma and Masanori Toguchi (Workout)

April 27, 1968 … Ise
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Fred Blassie, Killer Kowalski and Tarzan Tyler …
Don DeNucci beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Duke Keomuka beat Len Rossi … Jesus Ortega
and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Angelo Poffo beat Kantaro Hoshino (DQ) … Pat
Patterson beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Atsuhide Koma beat Mr. Chin … Akihisa Takachiho
beat Haruka Eigen … Ushinosuke Hayashi won a battle royal pinning Katsuji Adachi in the
finals.

April 29, 1968 … Komatsu
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Fred Blassie and Tarzan Tyler (COR) … Antonio
Inoki and Jesus Ortega both COR … Pat Patterson beat Kantaro Hoshino … Len Rossi beat
Akihisa Takachiho … Duke Keomuka beat Angelo Poffo … Killer Kowalski beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Kim IL beat Don DeNucci … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin (DQ) …
Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi … Karl Gotch vs. Haruka Eigen, Ushinosuke Hayashi and
Iwakichi Hirano (Workout)

April 30, 1968 … Toyama
Killer Kowalski, Jesus Ortega and Pat Patterson beat Kantaro Hoshino, Antonio Inoki and
Michiaki Yoshimura … Giant Baba beat Don DeNucci … Angelo Poffo beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Len Rossi … Kim IL beat Tarzan Tyler … Fred Blassie
beat Duke Keomuka … Akihisa Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma … Iwakichi Hirano beat Mr.
Chin (DQ) … Karl Gotch vs. Katsuji Adachi, Masayuki Fujii and Motoyuki Kitazawa (Workout)

May 1, 1968 … Himeji
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Killer Kowalski and Tarzan Tyler … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Len Rossi … Jesus Ortega and Kim IL both COR … Antonio Inoki beat Pat
Patterson … Fred Blassie beat Akihisa Takachiho … Don DeNucci beat Duke Keomuka …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Angelo Poffo … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Motoyuki
Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin … Gantetsu Matsuoka won a battle royal pinning Katsuji Adachi in the
finals … Karl Gotch vs. Ushinosuke Hayashi, Iwakichi Hirano and Atsuhide Koma (Workout)

May 3, 1968 … Kitakyushu
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Jesus Ortega and Tarzan Tyler … Killer Kowalski
beat Duke Keomuka … Fred Blassie beat Antonio Inoki (DQ) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Angelo Poffo … Don DeNucci beat Kantaro Hoshino … Kim IL beat Pat Patterson …
Gantetsu Matsuoka drew Akihisa Takachiho … Atsuhide Koma beat Mr. Chin … Karl Gotch
vs. Masayuki Fujii, Motoyuki Kitazawa and Katsuhisa Shibata (Workout)

May 4, 1968 … Beppu
Antonio Inokii and Kim IL beat Don DeNucci and Killer Kowalski … Giant Baba beat Jesus
Ortega … Tarzan Tyler beat Kantaro Hoshino … Fred Blassie beat Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Michiaki Yoshimura beat Pat Patterson … Angelo Poffo drew Akihisa Takachiho … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Ushinosuke Hayashi won a battle royal pinning Gantetsu
Matsuoka in the finals … Karl Gotch vs. Katsuji Adachi, Ushinosuke Hayashi and Iwakichi
Hirano (Workout)

May 5, 1968 … Miyazaki
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Pat Patterson and Tarzan Tyler … Killer Kowalski beat
Michiaki Yoshimura … Duke Keomuka beat Angelo Poffo … Fred Blassie and Kim IL both
COR … Jesus Ortega beat Kantaro Hoshino … Don DeNucci beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Len
Rossi drew Gantetsu Matsuoka … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Atsuhide Koma
beat Mr. Chin … Karl Gotch vs. Katsuji Adachi, Iwakichi Hirano and Motoyuki Kitazawa
(Workout)

May 6, 1968 … Kagoshima
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Killer Kowalski and Tarzan Tyler … Fred Blassie beat Michiaki
Yoshimura (DQ) … Antonio Inoki beat Pat Patterson … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Angelo Poffo
… Don DeNucci beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat Len Rossi … Jesus Ortega
beat Duke Keomuka … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Motoyuki Kitazawa … Gantetsu Matsuoka also won a battle royal pinning Motoyuki Kitazawa
in the finals … Karl Gotch vs. Masayuki Fujii, Ushinosuke Hayashi and Katsuhisa Shibata
(Workout)

May 7, 1968 … Kumamoto
Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Don DeNucci and Jesus Ortega (Kim IL and Michiaki
Yoshimura retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Giant Baba beat Angelo Poffo … Killer
Kowalski drew Antonio Inoki … Fred Blassie beat Kantaro Hoshino … Tarzan Tyler beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Don DeNucci beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Len Rossi drew Akihisa
Takachiho … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Atsuhide Koma beat Haruka Eigen …
Karl Gotch vs. Katsuji Adachi, Iwakichi Hirano and Katsuhisa Shibata (Workout)

May 8, 1968 … Fukuoka
Killer Kowalski and Jesus Ortega drew Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki (both COR) … Michiaki
Yoshimura beat Don DeNucci … Tarzan Tyler and Kim IL both COR … Fred Blassie beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Pat Patterson beat Kantaro Hoshino (DQ) … Len Rossi beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Duke Keomuka beat Angelo Poffo … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Katsuji Adachi
… Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Ushinosuke Hayashi also won a battle royal
pinning Haruka Eigen in the finals … Karl Gotch vs. Masayuki Fujii, Atsuhide Koma and
Motoyuki Kitazawa (Workout)

May 9, 1968 … Sasebo
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Killer Kowalski and Pat Patterson … Antonio Inoki beat Tarzan
Tyler … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Len Rossi … Fred Blassie beat Duke Keomuka … Jesus
Ortega beat Kantaro Hoshino … Don DeNucci beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto
beat Angelo Poffo … Haruka Eigen drew Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Atsuhide
Koma … Atsuhide Koma won a battle royal pinning Katsuji Adachi in the finals … Karl Gotch
vs. Katsuji Adachi, Iwakichi Hirano and Motoyuki Kitazawa (Workout)

May 10, 1968 … Nagasaki
Fred Blassie and Tarzan Tyler beat Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki … Killer Kowalski beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kim IL beat Pat Patterson … Jesus Ortega and Michiaki Yoshimura
both COR … Don DeNucci beat Masayuki Fujii … Len Rossi drew Akihisa Takachiho …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Angelo Poffo … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Iwakichi Hirano … Karl Gotch vs. Haruka Eigen, Ushinosuke Hayashi and
Atsuhide Koma (Workout)

May 11, 1968 … Yamaguchi
Fred Blassie and Jesus Ortega beat Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Giant
Baba beat Angelo Poffo … Killer Kowalski beat Kim IL … Mitsu Hirai beat Angelo Poffo … Don
DeNucci beat Duke Keomuka … Pat Patterson drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Tarzan Tyler beat
Kantaro Hoshino … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen … Akihisa Takachiho beat
Atsuhide Koma … Haruka Eigen won a battle royal pinning Katsuji Adachi in the finals … Karl
Gotch vs. Katsuji Adachi, Masayuki Fujii and Motoyuki Kitazawa (Workout)

May 12, 1968 … Fukuyama
Antonio Inoki, Kim IL and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Don DeNucci, Killer Kowalski and Len
Rossi … Giant Baba beat Pat Patterson … Fred Blassie and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR
… Jesus Ortega beat Mitsu Hirai … Kantaro Hoshino beat Angelo Poffo … Tarzan Tyler beat
Akihisa Takachiho … Haruka Eigen beat Masayuki Fujii (DQ) … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Atsuhide Koma … Gantetsu Matsuoka also won a battle royal pinning Katsuhisa Shibata in
the finals … Karl Gotch vs. Ushinosuke Hayashi, Iwakichi Hirano and Katsuhisa Shibata
(Workout)

May 13, 1968 … Hiroshima
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Don DeNucci and Killer Kowalski … Antonio Inoki beat Jesus
Ortega … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Pat Patterson … Fred Blassie and Kantaro Hoshino both
COR … Tarzan Tyler beat Mitsu Hirai … Angelo Poffo drew Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Len Rossi … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Katsuji Adachi … Atsuhide Koma
drew Akihisa Takachiho … Akihisa Takachiho won a battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the
finals … Karl Gotch vs. Haruka Eigen, Masayuki Fujii and Motoyuki Kitazawa (Workout)

May 15, 1968 … Yonago
Fred Blassie, Killer Kowalski and Tarzan Tyler drew Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki
Yoshimura (both COR) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Len Rossi … Pat Patterson beat Mitsu Hirai
(DQ) … Don DeNucci beat Duke Keomuka … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Angelo Poffo … Kim IL
beat Jesus Ortega (COR) … Atsuhide Koma beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Haruka Eigen and
Akihisa Takachiho both COR … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu
Matusoka also won a battle royal pinning Ushinosuke Hayashi in the finals.

May 16, 1968 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [first night]
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Fred Blassie and Tarzan Tyler (Giant Baba and Antonio
Inoki retained the International Tag Team Title) … Jesus Ortega beat Michiaki Yoshimura
(DQ) … Kim IL beat Don DeNucci … Akihisa Takachiho beat Angelo Poffo … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Len Rossi … Pat Patterson beat Kantaro Hoshino (DQ) … Killer Kowalski
beat Mitsu Hirai … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat
Masayuki Fujii … Karl Gotch vs. Katsuji Adachi, Haruka Eigen and Ushinosuke Hayashi
(Workout)

May 17, 1968 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium) [second night]
Giant Baba beat Killer Kowalski (Giant Baba became the winner of the Tenth World League)
… Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Pat Patterson and Tarzan Tyler … Fred Blassie beat
Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Jesus Ortega beat Duke Keomuka … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Angelo Poffo … Don DeNucci and Kotetsu Yamamoto both COR … Mitsu Hirai beat Len
Rossi … Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen

[Golden Series]
May 18, 1968 … Tokushima
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Caripus Hurricane (Ciclon Negro under the mask) and
Mario Milano (COR) … Kim IL beat John Tolos (DQ) … Jesus Ortega and Michiaki Yoshimura
both COR … Tony Marino beat Mitsu Hirai … Rocky Montero drew Kantaro Hoshino …
Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen …
Atsuhide Koma beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Haruka Eigen won a battle royal pinning Atsuhide
Koma in the finals.

May 19, 1968 … Kanonji
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Caripus Hurricane and John Tolos … Mario Milano drew Antonio
Inoki … Rocky Montero and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Jesus Ortega beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Tony Marino beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …
Haruka Eigen drew Atsuhide Koma

May 21, 1968 … Kochi
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus Hurricane and Rocky Montero … Antonio
Inoki beat John Tolos … Kim IL beat Jesus Ortega … Tony Marino beat Kantaro Hoshino …
Mario Milano beat Mitsu Hirai … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Haruka Eigen … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Iwakichi Hirano … Atsuhide
Koma beat Katsuji Adachi … Kotetsu Yamamoto won a 7-man battle royal pinning Atsuhide
Koma in the finals.

May 22, 1968 … Matsuyama
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Caripus Hurricane and Tony Marino … Antonio Inoki beat Jesus
Ortega … Mario Milano and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … John Tolos beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Rocky Montero (DQ) … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi
… Iwakichi Hirano beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ) … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen
… Atsuhide Koma won a 7-man battle royal pinning Motoyuki Kitazawa in the finals.

May 24, 1968 … Shimonoseki
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Caripus Hurricane and Mario Milano (DQ) … Michiaki
Yoshimura beat Tony Marino …Jesus Ortega and Kim IL both COR … John Tolos drew
Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Rocky Montero (DQ) … Mitsu Hirai beat Haruka
Eigen … Atsuhide Koma beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Iwakichi Hirano

May 25, 1968 … Izumo
Caripus Hurricane, Rocky Montero and Jesus Ortega beat Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and
Michiaki Yoshimura … Antonio Inoki and Tony Marino both COR … Kim IL beat John Tolos …
Mario Milano beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …
Iwakichi Hirano beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Haruka Eigen beat Atsuhide Koma (DQ) …
Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Katsuji Adachi … Iwakichi Hirano won a 7-man battle royal pinning
Katsuji Adachi in the finals.

May 26, 1968 … Kurashiki
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Caripus Hurricane, Tony Marino and John
Tolos … Antonio Inoki beat Rocky Montero … Jesus Ortega and Michiaki Yoshimura both
COR … Mario Milano beat Kantaro Hoshino … Mitsu Hirai beat Atsuhide Koma … Motoyuki
Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi … Haruka Eigen beat Iwakichi Hirano … Gantetsu Matsuoka
beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Haruka Eigen won a 7-man battle royal pinning Atsuhide Koma
in the finals.

May 28, 1968 … Takefu (present-day Echizen)
Giant Baba, Kantaro Hoshino and Antonio Inoki beat Caripus Hurricane, Mario Milano and
Jesus Ortega … Tony Marino beat Kim IL (DQ) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat John Tolos …
Rocky Montero beat Mitsu Hirai … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Motoyuki
Kitazawa beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Atsuhide Koma beat Iwakichi Hirano … Haruka Eigen
beat Katsuji Adachi

May 30, 1968 … Kashihara
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Mario Milano and Rocky Montero … Caripus Hurricane drew
Antonio Inoki … Tony Marino beat Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … John Tolos drew Mitsu Hirai …
Jesus Ortega beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen … Atsuhide
Koma beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Iwakichi Hirano … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Katsuji Adachi

May 31, 1968 … Toyohashi
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus Hurricane, Rocky Montero
and John Tolos … Mario Milano and Kim IL both COR … Mitsu Hirai beat Tony Marino (DQ)
… Jesus Ortega beat Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Atsuhide Koma … Iwakichi
Hirano beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Kotetsu Yamamoto also won an 8-man battle royal pinning
Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

June 1, 1968 … Gifu
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus Hurricane and Rocky Montero … Jesus
Ortega beat Antonio Inoki (DQ) … Kim IL beat John Tolos … Tony Marino beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Mario Milano beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Atsuhide Koma drew Gantetsu Matsuoka … Haruka Eigen beat Motoyuki Kitazawa …
Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Katsuji Adachi … Mitsu Hirai and Haruka Eigen were both COR in
the finals of a 9-man battle royal

June 2, 1968 … Ina
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Caripus Hurricane, Rocky Montero and Jesus
Ortega … John Tolos and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Tony
Marino (DQ) … Mario Milano beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Iwakichi Hirano … Haruka Eigen drew Ushinosuke
Hayashi … Akihisa Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma … Akihisa Takachiho won an 8-man battle
royal pinning Motoyuki Kitazawa in the finals.

June 3, 1968 … Hamamatsu
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Caripus Hurricane and John Tolos … Rocky Montero and
Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Kim IL beat Tony Marino … Jesus Ortega beat Mitsu Hirai
… Mario Milano beat Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Atsuhide Koma beat Haruka Eigen …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Iwakichi Hirano … Kotetsu Yamamoto won an 8-man battle royal
pinning Gantetsu Matsuoka in the finals.

June 4, 1968 … Numazu
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Kim IL beat Caripus Hurricane, Mario Milano and Rocky Montero
… Antonio Inoki beat Tony Marino … Jesus Ortega beat Michiaki Yoshimura (COR) … John
Tolos beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Atsuhide Koma … Haruka Eigen beat
Iwakichi Hirano … Akihisa Takachiho beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Ushinosuke Hayashi … Atsuhide Koma won an 8-man battle royal pinning Ushinosuke
Hayashi in the finals.

June 5, 1968 … Yokohama
Caripus Hurricane, Jesus Ortega and John Tolos beat Giant Baba, Kotetsu Yamamoto and
Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Antonio Inoki beat Mario Milano … Kim IL beat Rocky Montero
(COR) … Tony Marino beat Mitsu Hirai … Kantaro Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Haruka Eigen beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ) … Atsuhide Koma beat Iwakichi Hirano …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Kantaro Hoshino won an 8-man battle royal
pinning Motoyuki Kitazawa in the finals.

June 6, 1968 … Takasaki
Giant Baba, Kantaro Hoshino and Kim IL beat Tony Marino, Mario Milano and Rocky Montero
… Caripus Hurricane drew Antonio Inoki … Michiaki Yoshimura beat John Tolos … Jesus
Ortega beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Akihisa Takachiho
beat Haruka Eigen … Atsuhide Koma beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat
Iwakichi Hirano … Gantetsu Matsuoka won a 9-man battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the
finals.

June 8, 1968 … Chichibu
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Caripus Hurricane and Tony Marino … Mario Milano beat
Michiaki Yoshimura … Kim IL beat Jesus Ortega … John Tolos beat Kantaro Hoshino …
Rocky Montero drew Mitsu Hirai … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Iwakichi
Hirano beat Motoyuki Kitazawa (DQ) … Haruka Eigen beat Masayuki Fujii … Akihisa
Takachiho  beat Atsuhide Koma

June 9, 1968 … Hachioji
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus Hurricane, Rocky Montero and John
Tolos … Antonio Inoki beat Jesus Ortega … Mario Milano beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Tony
Marino drew Kantaro Hoshino … Mitsu Hirai beat Atsuhide Koma … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat
Ushinosuke Hayashi … Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Masayuki Fujii … Haruka Eigen won a 10-man battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the
finals.

June 11, 1968 … Noshiro
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus Hurricane and John Tolos … Antonio Inoki
beat Rocky Montero … Kim IL beat Tony Marino … Mario Milano beat Mitsu Hirai … Jesus
Ortega beat Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masayuki Fujii … Haruka Eigen
beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ) … Atsuhide Koma beat Iwakichi Hirano … Gantetsu Matsuoka
drew Akihisa Takachiho … Atsuhide Koma also won a battle royal pinning both Akihisa
Takachiho and Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

June 12, 1968 … Goshogawara
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus Hurricane, Rocky Montero
and Jesus Ortega … John Tolos beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) … Mario Milano drew Kim IL …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Tony Marino (DQ) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Iwakichi Hirano … Atsuhide Koma beat Masayuki Fujii …
Ushinosuke Hayashi won an 8-man battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the finals.

June 14, 1968 … Aomori
Giant Baba beat Mario Milano … Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus
Hurricane and Rocky Montero … Kim IL beat John Tolos … Jesus Ortega beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Tony Marino beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Atsuhide Koma … Masayuki Fujii beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ) …
Iwakichi Hirano won an 8-man battle royal pinning Motoyuki Kitazawa in the finals.

June 16, 1968 … Senmaya (present-day Ichinoseki)
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Kim IL beat Caripus Hurricane, Tony Marino and Rocky Montero
… Antonio Inoki beat John Tolos … Jesus Ortega and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Mario
Milano beat Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Ushinosuke
Hayashi beat Iwakichi Hirano … Masayuki Fujii beat Haruka Eigen … Akihisa Takachiho beat
Atsuhide Koma … Akihisa Takachiho also won an 8-man battle royal pinning Kotetsu
Yamamoto in the finals.

June 17, 1968 … Sendai, Miyagi
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Caripus Hurricane and Mario Milano (Giant Baba and
Antonio Inoki retained the International Tag Team Title) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat John
Tolos … Jesus Ortega and Kim IL both COR … Tony Marino beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) … Rocky
Montero beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Atsuhide Koma … Masayuki Fujii
beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Akihisa
Takachiho  beat Haruka Eigen … Ushinosuke Hayashi also won a 9-man battle royal pinning
Motoyuki Kitazawa in the finals.

June 18, 1968 … Shirakawa
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus Hurricane, Mario Milano and Jesus
Ortega … Antonio Inoki beat Tony Marino … John Tolos and Kotetsu Yamamoto both COR
… Rocky Montero beat Kantaro Hoshino … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii … Ushinosuke
Hayashi beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Akihisa Takachiho (DQ) …
Atsuhide Koma beat Haruka Eigen … Ushinosuke Hayashi won a 9-man battle royal pinning
Iwakichi Hirano in the finals.

June 20, 1968 … Kofu
Giant Baba beat Jesus Ortega … Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Caripus Hurricane and Tony
Marino … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Rocky Montero … John Tolos drew Mitsu Hirai … Mario
Milano beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masayuki Fujii … Akihisa Takachiho
beat Atsuhide Koma … Iwakichi Hirano beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ) … Gantetsu Matsuoka
beat Haruka Eigen … Akihisa Takachiho also won a 9-man battle royal pinning Ushinosuke
Hayashi in the finals.

June 21, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Caripus Hurricane and Jesus Ortega … Antonio Inoki beat Mario
Milano … Michiaki Yoshimura beat John Tolos … Tony Marino and Kantaro Hoshino both
COR … Mitsu Hirai beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Haruka Eigen …
Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Atsuhide Koma (DQ)

June 22, 1968 … Kawasaki
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Caripus Hurricane and Mario Milano … John Tolos beat
Kim IL (DQ) … Tony Marino and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR …Jesus Ortega beat Mitsu
Hirai … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Atsuhide Koma beat Masayuki Fujii … Haruka Eigen beat Ushinosuke Hayashi
(DQ) … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Iwakichi Hirano … Akihisa Takachiho won a 13-man battle
royal pinning Kantaro Hoshino in the finals.

June 23, 1968 … Odawara
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus Hurricane, Mario Milano and
John Tolos … Kim IL beat Jesus Ortega … Tony Marino drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu
Hirai beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho … Haruka Eigen
beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Atsuhide Koma beat Iwakichi Hirano … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat
Masayuki Fujii … Kantaro Hoshino also won a 10-man battle royal when Ushinosuke Hayashi
was COR.

June 25, 1968 … Nagoya
Bobo Brazil beat Giant Baba (Bobo Brazil captured the International Heavyweight Title) …
Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus Hurricane and John Tolos … Mario Milano
beat Kantaro Hoshino … Kim IL beat Tony Marino … Rocky Montero beat Mitsu Hirai …
Jesus Ortega beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Iwakichi
Hirano beat Atsuhide Koma … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ)

June 26, 1968 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus Hurricane and Rocky Montero (Kim IL and
Michiaki Yoshimura retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat
Bobo Brazil and Jesus Ortega … John Tolos beat Kantaro Hoshino (DQ) … Mario Milano
beat Mitsu Hirai … Tony Marino drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Masayuki Fujii … Haruka Eigen drew Motoyuki Kitazawa … Akihisa Takachiho beat Atsuhide
Koma

June 27, 1968 … Tokyo (Kuramae)
Giant Baba beat Bobo Brazil (COR) (Giant Baba regained the International Heavyweight
Title) … Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Caripus Hurricane and Mario Milano …
Rocky Montero beat Kotetsu Yamamoto (DQ) … Kim IL beat John Tolos … Jesus Ortega
beat Kantaro Hoshino … Tony Marino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Mitsu Hirai beat Haruka
Eigen … Atsuhide Koma beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ) … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki
Fujii

[Summer Series Part 1]
July 5, 1968 … Tokyo (Krakuen Hall)
Klondike Bill (Soloweyko), Skull Murphy and Ray Stevens beat Giant Baba, Kim IL and
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Antonio Inoki beat Mike Loren (COR) … Gino Brito beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Mitsu Hirai beat Haruka Eigen … Akihisa Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi …
Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Masayuki Fujii

July 7, 1968 … Aizuwakamatsu
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Mike Loren, Skull Murphy and Ray
Stevens … Kim IL beat Klondike Bill (COR) … Gino Brito beat Mitsu Hirai … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ) … Atsuhide Koma beat Iwakichi Hirano … Masayuki
Fujii beat Mr. Chin (DQ)

July 8, 1968 … Tokyo (Tokyo Stadium)
Klondike Bill and Skull Murphy beat Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura (COR) (Klondike Bill and
Skull Murphy captured the Asian Tag Team Title) … Giant Baba beat Mike Loren … Ray
Stevens beat Antonio Inoki (DQ) … Gino Brito beat Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto
beat Masayuki Fujii … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat
Katsuji Adachi … Atsuhide Koma beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka
Eigen … Kotetsu Yamamoto also won a 12-man battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the
finals.

July 9, 1968 … Tsuchiura
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Antonio Inoki beat Gino Brito, Klondike Bill and Skull Murphy …
Kim IL beat Mike Loren … Ray Stevens beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Akihisa Takachiho beat
Atsuhide Koma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Haruka Eigen beat Motoyuki
Kitazawa … Masayuki Fujii beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Mr. Chin drew Iwakichi Hirano …
Haruka Eigen also won a 10-man battle royal pinning Ushinosuke Hayashi in the finals.

July 10, 1968 … Ome
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Gino Brito, Skull Murphy and Ray Stevens … Mike
Loren beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) … Klondike Bill beat Kantaro Hoshino … Akihisa Takachiho beat
Masayuki Fujii … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Atsuhide Koma … Haruka Eigen beat Katsuji
Adachi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Iwakichi Hirano …
Ushinosuke Hayashi won a 10-man battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals

July 12, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Klondike Bill and Skull Murphy … Ray Stevens drew
Michiaki Yoshimura … Kim IL beat Mike Loren … Gino Brito beat Kotetsu Yamamoto (COR)
… Mitsu Hirai beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen … Atsuhide
Koma drew U Gi Hwan … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin

July 13, 1968 … Kisarazu
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Mike Loren, Skull Murphy and Ray Stevens
… Antonio Inoki beat Gino Brito … Klondike Bill beat Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto
beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii … Motoyuki Kitazawa drew Jo
Gyeong Su … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Haruka Eigen … Akihisa Takachiho beat Atsuhide
Koma … Haruka Eigen won an 11-man battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

July 14, 1968 … Koriyama
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Klondike Bill and Ray Stevens … Skull Murphy and Antonio Inoki
both COR … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Gino Brito … Mike Loren beat Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Mitsu Hirai beat Atsuhide Koma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen … U Gi Hwan beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Akihisa Takachiho beat
Motoyuki Kitazawa … Ushinosuke Hayashi won a 10-man battle royal pinning Gantetsu
Matsuoka in the finals.

July 17, 1968 … Mutsu
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Klondike Bill, Mike Loren and Skull
Murphy … Ray Stevens beat Mitsu Hirai … Kim IL beat Gino Brito … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino beat Atsuhide Koma … Gantetsu Matsuoka drew Akihisa
Takachiho … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Jo Gyeong Su (DQ) … Iwakichi Hirano beat Mr. Chin
… Akihisa Takachiho won a 10-man battle royal pinning Katsuji Adachi in the finals.

July 19, 1968 … Muroran
Giant Baba, Kantaro Hoshino and Kim IL beat Gino Brito, Skull Murphy and Ray Stevens …
Antonio Inoki beat Klondike Bill (COR) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Mike Loren … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Atsuhide
Koma beat Haruka Eigen … Iwakichi Hirano beat U Gi Hwan … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr.
Chin … Kotetsu Yamamoto also won a 13-man battle royal pinning Gantetsu Matsuoka in the
finals.

July 21, 1968 … Obihiro
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura drew Klondike Bill and Skull Murphy (both COR) …
Antonio Inoki beat Ray Stevens … Gino Brito beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) … Kim IL beat Mike Loren
… Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …
Atsuhide Koma beat Jo Gyeong Su … Haruka Eigen beat Katsuji Adachi … Mr. Chin drew
Iwakichi Hirano … Atsuhide Koma also won a 12-man battle royal pinning Katsuji Adachi in
the finals.

July 23, 1968 … Kitami
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Klondike Bill, Skull Murphy and Ray
Stevens … Kim IL beat Gino Brito … Mike Loren beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Mitsu Hirai beat Atsuhide Koma … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Iwakichi Hirano … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Katsuji Adachi beat Masayuki
Fujii … Ushinosuke Hayashi drew U Gi Hwan … Gantetsu Matsuoka also won an 11-man
battle royal pinning Iwakichi Hirano in the finals.

July 24, 1968 … Monbetsu
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Mike Loren, Skull Murphy and Ray Stevens …
Klondike Bill and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Gino Brito beat Kantaro Hoshino …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masayuki Fujii … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Iwakichi Hirano
beat Katsuji Adachi … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Jo Gyeong Su (DQ) … Akihisa Takachiho also
won a 12-man battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the finals.

July 26, 1968 … Asahikawa
Skull Murphy and Ray Stevens beat Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Klondike
Bill beat Giant Baba (an upset) … Kim IL beat Gino Brito … Mitsu Hirai beat Mike Loren (DQ)
… Kantaro Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Atsuhide Koma …
Haruka Eigen and Masayuki Fujii both COR … Iwakichi Hirano beat Mr. Chin

July 27, 1968 … Bibai
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Kim IL beat Gino Brito, Skull Murphy and Ray Stevens … Antonio
Inoki beat Mike Loren … Klondike Bill beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Akihisa Takachiho beat
Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin
… Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi … Iwakichi Hirano beat Jo Gyeong Su

July 28, 1968 … Yubari
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Mike Loren, Skull Murphy and Ray
Stevens … Gino Brito beat Kantaro Hoshino … Klondike Bill and Kim IL both COR … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Katsuhisa Shibata
beat U Gi Hwan … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Atsuhide Koma beat Haruka
Eigen … Ushinosuke Hayashi also won a 10-man battle royal pinning Iwakichi Hirano in the
finals.

July 29, 1968 … Sapporo [first night]
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Skull Murphy and Ray Stevens (Giant Baba and Antonio
Inoki retained the International Tag Team Title) … Kim IL beat Mike Loren … Michiaki
Yoshimura beat Gino Brito … Klondike Bill beat Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Atsuhide Koma … Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Iwakichi
Hirano … Jo Gyeong Su beat Mr. Chin … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii

July 30, 1969 … Sapporo [second night]
Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Klondike Bill and Skull Murphy (Kim IL and Michiaki
Yoshimura regained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Giant Baba beat Ray Stevens … Antonio
Inoki beat Gino Brito … Mike Loren drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Haruka Eigen … Mitsu Hirai beat Akihisa Takachiho … U Gi Hwan drew Ushinosuke Hayashi
… Iwakichi Hirano beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Atsuhide Koma beat Masayuki Fujii

August 2, 1968 … Sendai, Miyagi
Bruno Sammartino and Giant Baba both COR … Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Skull
Murphy and Ray Stevens (DQ) … Antonio Inoki beat Klondike Bill … Mitsu Hirai beat Gino
Brito … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Jo Gyeong
Su … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Akihisa Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma

August 3, 1968 … Yokohama
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Skull Murphy and Bruno Sammartino … Ray Stevens beat
Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Kim IL beat Mike Loren … Klondike Bill beat Mitsu Hirai …
Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gino Brito … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Akihisa Takachiho (DQ) …
Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi … Motoyuki Kitazawa drew U Gi Hwan … Iwakichi Hirano
beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Atsuhide Koma won an 8-man battle royal pinning Katsuji Adachi in the
finals.

August 4, 1968 … Utsunomiya
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Klondike Bill, Bruno Sammartino and Ray Stevens
… Skull Murphy beat Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Mike Loren (DQ) …
Gino Brito beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Katsuji Adachi beat Jo Gyeong Su … Motoyuki
Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin (DQ)

August 7, 1968 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Giant Baba beat Bruno Sammartino (COR) (Giant Baba retained the International
Heavyweight Title) … Skull Murphy and Ray Stevens drew Antonio Inoki and Michiaki
Yoshimura (both COR) … Kim IL beat Gino Brito … Mike Loren beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) …
Klondike Bill beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Akihisa Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma … Motoyuki
Kitazawa drew U Gi Hwan … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Gantetsu Matsuoka
beat Ushinosuke Hayashi

August 8, 1968 … Shizuoka
Skull Murphy, Bruno Sammartino and Ray Stevens drew Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki
Yoshimura (both COR) … Antonio Inoki beat Klondike Bill … Mitsu Hirai beat Gino Brito …
Mike Loren beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Atsuhide
Koma beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuhisa Shibata … U Gi Hwan
beat Iwakichi Hirano …Jo Gyeong Su beat Mr. Chin (DQ)

August 9, 1968 … Tokyo (Denen Coliseum)
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Bruno Sammartino and Ray Stevens (Giant Baba and
Antonio Inoki retained the International Tag Team Title) … Skull Murphy beat Michiaki
Yoshimura … Kim IL beat Klondike Bill … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gino Brito … Mike Loren
beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Mitsu Hirai beat Atsuhide Koma … Katsuji Adachi beat Jo
Gyeong Su … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Iwakichi Hirano … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin

August 11, 1968 … Kanazawa
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Klondike Bill, Skull Murphy and Bruno Sammartino
… Michiaki Yoshimura beat Gino Brito … Ray Stevens beat Mitsu Hirai … Kotetsu Yamamoto
beat Mike Loren (DQ) … Akihisa Takachiho beat Atsuhide Koma … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat
Iwakichi Hirano … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi … Katsuhisa Shibata beat U Gi
Hwan … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin

August 12, 1968 … Takayama
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Gino Brito, Bruno Sammartino and Ray
Stevens … Skull Murphy and Antonio Inoki both COR … Klondike Bill beat Kotetsu Yamamoto
… Mike Loren drew Mitsu Hirai … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin … Akihisa Takachiho
beat Jo Gyeong Su … Atsuhide Koma beat Iwakichi Hirano … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat
Katsuji Adachi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuhisa Shibata

August 14, 1968 … Nagoya
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Klondike Bill and Skull Murphy … Ray Stevens drew
Michiaki Yoshimura … Kim IL beat Mike Loren … Gino Brito beat Akihisa Takachiho … Mitsu
Hirai beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Atsuhide Koma … Iwakichi Hirano
beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Katsuji Adachi drew U
Gi Hwan

[Summer Series Part 2]
August 16, 1968 … Toyohashi
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Haystacks Calhoun, Man Mountain Cannon and
Pampero Firpo … Luke Graham beat Kantaro Hoshino … Bob Armstrong beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ) … Mitsu Hirai beat Akihisa
Takachiho … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi … Motoyuki Kitazawa drew Jo Gyeong Su
… Mr. Chin drew Katsuhisa Shibata

August 17, 1968 … Iwata
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Bob Armstrong, Haystacks Calhoun and
Luke Graham (DQ) … Man Mountain Cannon and Antonio Inoki both COR … Pampero Firpo
beat Mitsu Hirai … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Iwakichi Hirano … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Gantetsu Matsuoka … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi … Atsuhide Koma drew Akihisa
Takachiho … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin … Motoyuki Kitazawa also won an 8-man
battle royal pinning Ushinosuke Hayashi in the finals.

August 18, 1968 … Ito
Bob Armstrong, Haystacks Calhoun and Man Mountain Cannon beat Giant Baba, Antonio
Inoki and Kotetsu Yamamoto … Luke Graham and Kim IL both COR … Michiaki Yoshimura
beat Pampero Firpo … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii … Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen
… Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Atsuhide Koma … Akihisa Takachiho beat Mr. Chin … Katsuhisa
Shibata drew Jo Gyeong Su … Ushinosuke Hayashi drew Motoyuki Kitazawa

August 20, 1968 … Komoro
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Haystacks Calhoun, Man Mountain Cannon
and Luke Graham (COR) … Antonio Inoki beat Pampero Firpo … Bob Armstrong beat
Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masayuki Fujii … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin
(DQ) … Atsuhide Koma beat Haruka Eigen … Akihisa Takachiho beat Iwakichi Hirano …
Haruka Eigen won a 10-man battle royal pinning Motoyuki Kitazawa in the finals.

August 21, 1968 … Shiojiri
Haystacks Calhoun, Pampero Firpo and Luke Graham beat Giant Baba, Kantaro Hoshino
and Michiaki Yoshimura … Antonio Inoki beat Bob Armstrong … Kim IL beat Man Mountain
Cannon (DQ) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Mitsu Hirai beat Haruka Eigen
… Iwakichi Hirano beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Katsuji Adachi …
Atsuhide Koma beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin … Akihisa
Takachiho won a 10-man battle royal pinning Masayuki Fujii in the finals.

August 22, 1968 … Fukaya
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Bob Armstrong, Haystacks Calhoun and Man
Mountain Cannon … Luke Graham beat Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Pampero Firpo beat
Mitsu Hirai … Kantaro Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Haruka
Eigen … Masayuki Fujii beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin (DQ)
… Kotetsu Yamamoto won a 9-man battle royal pinning Gantetsu Matsuoka in the finals.

August 23, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Haystacks Calhoun, Man Mountain Cannon and Luke Graham beat Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki
and Michiaki Yoshimura … Kim IL beat Bob Armstrong … Pampero Firpo beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Katsuji Adachi beat Katsuhisa
Shibata … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Masayuki Fujii beat Mr. Chin (DQ)
… Akihisa Takachiho beat Iwakichi Hirano … Kotetsu Yamamoto won a 9-man battle royal
pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

August 24, 1968 … Tateyama
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Haystacks Calhoun, Man Mountain Cannon
and Pampero Firpo … Antonio Inoki beat Luke Graham (COR) … Bob Armstrong beat Mitsu
Hirai … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Mr. Chin … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masayuki Fujii …
Gantetsu Matsuoka drew Akihisa Takachiho … Katsuji Adachi beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ)
… Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Iwakichi Hirano … Katsuji Adachi also won a 10-man battle royal
pinning Gantetsu Matsuoka in the finals.

August 25, 1968 … Narita
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Antonio Inoki beat Bob Armstrong, Haystacks Calhoun and Luke
Graham … Pampero Firpo beat Kim IL (DQ) … Man Mountain Cannon beat Michiaki
Yoshimura … Kantaro Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Iwakichi
Hirano … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin …
Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Masayuki Fujii … Akihisa Takachiho won a 10-man battle royal
pinning Masayuki Fujii in the finals.

August 26, 1968 … Chiba
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Bob Armstrong and Haystacks Calhoun … Antonio Inoki beat
Pampero Firpo … Luke Graham beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Man Mountain Cannon beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Akihisa Takachiho beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Iwakichi Hirano beat Mr. Chin …
Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Katsuji Adachi

August 28, 1968 … Hatano
The show was postponed till September 11 due to heavy rain.

August 30, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Michiaki Yoshimura won a 10-man battle royal pinning Pampero Firpo in the finals (The other
participants were Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki, Kim IL, Gantetsu Matsuoka, Haystacks Calhoun,
Bob Armstrong, Luke Graham, Man Mountain Cannon) … Mitsu Hirai and Akihisa Takachiho
beat Kantaro Hoshino and Kotetsu Yamamoto … Masayuki Fujii and Ushinosuke Hayashi
both COR … Iwakichi Hirano beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin …
Katsuji Adachi beat Tomotsugu Kutsuwada … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Masanori Toguchi

August 31, 1968 … Shiogama
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Haystacks Calhoun, Pampero Firpo
and Luke Graham … Kim IL beat Man Mountain Cannon … Bob Armstrong beat Kantaro
Hoshino (DQ) … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Tomotsugu Kutsuwada … Iwakichi Hirano beat Katsuji
Adachi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin (COR) … Iwakichi Hirano won an 8-man battle
royal pinning Mitsu Hirai in the finals.

September 1, 1968 … Ofunato
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Bob Armstrong, Haystacks Calhoun and Man
Mountain Cannon … Luke Graham beat Kantaro Hoshino … Pampero Firpo beat Mitsu Hirai
(DQ) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Iwakichi Hirano
… Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Tomotsugu Kutsuwada … Katsuji Adachi beat Ushinosuke Hayashi
(DQ) … Akihisa Takachiho beat Mr. Chin … Kotetsu Yamamoto also won a 9-man battle royal
pinning Gantetsu Matsuoka in the finals.

September 2, 1968 … Tsukidate (present-day Kurihara)
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Kim IL beat Haystacks Calhoun, Pampero Firpo and Luke
Graham … Antonio Inoki beat Bob Armstrong … Man Mountain Cannon beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Iwakichi
Hirano … Katsuji Adachi beat Tomotsugu Kutsuwada … Masayuki Fujii beat Motoyuki
Kitazawa … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin … Gantetsu Matsuoka also won a 9-man
battle royal pinning Iwakichi Hirano in the finals.

September 4, 1968 … Ichikawa
Giant Baba, Kantaro Hoshino and Antonio Inoki beat Haystacks Calhoun, Man Mountain
Cannon and Pampero Firpo … Kim IL beat Bob Armstrong … Luke Graham beat Mitsu Hirai
… Iwakichi Hirano beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Katsuhisa Shibata …
Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi … Ushinosuke Hayashi also won an 8-man battle royal
pinning Iwakichi Hirano in the finals.

September 5, 1968 … Kawasaki
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Haystacks Calhoun, Man Mountain Cannon and
Luke Graham … Mitsu Hirai beat Bob Armstrong (DQ) … Pampero Firpo beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin … Akihisa Takachiho beat Motoyuki
Kitazawa … Katsuji Adachi beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Iwakichi
Hirano … Ushinosuke Hayashi also won a 10-man battle royal pinning Mr. Chin in the finals.

September 6, 1968 … Omiya (present-day Saitama)
Giant Baba beat Luke Graham … Antonio Inoki and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Bob Armstrong
and Haystacks Calhoun … Man Mountain Cannon beat Mitsu Hirai … Kim IL beat Pampero
Firpo … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Ushinosuke Hayashi …
Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Iwakichi Hirano beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Masayuki
Fujii bea Katsuji Adachi … Gantetsu Matsuoka also won a 9-man battle royal pinning Iwakichi
Hirano in the finals.

September 7, 1968 … Fujinomiya
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Kim IL beat Haystacks Calhoun, Pampero Firpo and Luke
Graham … Antonio Inoki beat Bob Armstrong … Man Mountain Cannon beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka and Akihisa
Takachiho both COR … Haruka Eigen beat Mr. Chin … Katsuji Adachi beat Katsuhisa
Shibata … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Iwakichi Hirano … Akihisa Takachiho won an 11-man
battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the finals.

September 8, 1968 … Shimada
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Haystacks Calhoun, Man Mountain Cannon and
Luke Graham … Pampero Firpo beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Bob Armstrong beat Akihisa
Takachiho … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Masayuki Fujii … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Iwakichi
Hirano … Mitsu Hirai beat Haruka Eigen … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Tomotsugu Kutsuwada
… Katsuji Adachi beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Haruka Eigen won an 8-man battle royal pinning
Motoyuki Kitazawa in the finals.

September 10, 1968 … Konosu
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Haystacks Calhoun, Man Mountain Cannon
and Pampero Firpo … Luke Graham and Antonio Inoki both COR … Bob Armstrong beat
Mitsu Hirai (DQ) … Katsuji Adachi beat Mr. Chin … Akihisa Takachiho beat Motoyuki
Kitazawa … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Tomotsugu
Kutsuwada … Haruka Eigen beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ) … Mr. Chin won an 11-man
battle royal pinning Iwakichi Hirano in the finals.

September 11, 1968 … Hatano
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Antonio Inoki beat Bob Armstrong, Haystacks Calhoun and Luke
Graham … Pampero Firpo beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kim IL beat Man Mountain Cannon …
Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Iwakichi Hirano … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi … Katsuhisa
Shibata beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Haruka Eigen won an 11-man battle royal pinning Gantetsu
Matsuoka in the finals.

September 13, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Haystacks Calhoun and Luke Graham … Antonio Inoki beat Man
Mountain Cannon … Pampero Firpo beat Motoshi Okuma (DQ) … Bob Armstrong beat
Akihisa Takachiho … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Masayuki Fujii … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Iwakichi Hirano … Haruka Eigen beat Katsuji
Adachi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin
NOTE: Bob Armstrong and Luke Graham went to Seoul, South Korea to work for Kim IL’s
group.

[Diamond Series]
September 20, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Red Bastien and Maurice “Mad Dog” Vachon beat Mitsu Hirai and Antonio Inoki … Giant
Baba beat Karl Karlsson (DQ) … Killer Karl Kox beat Motoshi Okuma … El Medico #1 (Pedro
Godoy) beat Kantaro Hoshino … Buddy Moreno (Omar Atlas) beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …
Masayuki Fujii beat Haruka Eigen (DQ) … Iwakichi Hirano beat Katsuhisa Shibata …
Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin (DQ)

September 21, 1968 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Karl Karlsson and Killer Karl Kox (Giant Baba and Antonio
Inoki retained the International Tag Team Title) … Kim IL beat Buddy Moreno … Mad Dog
Vachon beat Kantaro Hoshino … Red Bastien drew Mitsu Hirai … El Medico #1 beat Motoshi
Okuma (DQ) … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka Eigen … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat
Katsuhisa Shibata … Iwakichi Hirano beat Mr. Chin (DQ)

September 23, 1968 … Mizusawa
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Karl Karlsson and Mad Dog Vachon … Antonio Inoki beat Red
Bastien (COR) … Killer Karl Kox beat Kantaro Hoshino … El Medico #1 beat Mitsu Hirai …
moredo drew Motoshi Okuma … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin … Ushinosuke Hayashi
beat Iwakichi Hirano … Haruka Eigen beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Ushinosuke Hayashi also
won a 7-man battle royal pinning Iwakichi Hirano in the finals.

September 24, 1968 … Morioka
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Killer Karl Kox and Buddy Moreno … El Medico #1 beat
Kim IL … Red Bastien beat Kantaro Hoshino … Mad Dog Vachon beat Motoshi Okuma …
Mitsu Hirai beat Karl Karlsson (DQ) … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Ushinosuke Hayashi …
Iwakichi Hirano beat Haruka Eigen … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Mr. Chin … Haruka Eigen won a
7-man battle royal pinning Gantetsu Matsuoka in the finals.

September 25, 1968 … Sannohe
Red Bastien and Mad Dog Vachon beat Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura … Giant Baba
beat Karl Karlsson … Killer Karl Kox beat Mitsu Hirai … Kim IL beat Buddy Moreno … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Iwakichi Hirano … El Medico #1 beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Ushinosuke
Hayashi beat Mr. Chin … Motoshi Okuma beat Haruka Eigen … Ushinosuke Hayashi also
won an 8-man battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the finals.

September 27, 1968 … Sapporo [first night]
Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat El Medico #1 and Mad Dog Vachon (Kim IL and Michiaki
Yoshimura retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Giant Baba beat Red Bastien … Antonio
Inoki beat Buddy Moreno … Killer Karl Kox beat Kantaro Hoshino … Karl Karlsson beat
Motoshi Okuma … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Mr. Chin drew Iwakichi Hirano …
Haruka Eigen drew Ushinosuke Hayashi

September 28, 1968 … Sapporo [second night]
Giant Baba drew Killer Karl Kox (Giant Baba retained the International Heavyweight Title) …
Kantaro Hoshino and Antonio Inoki beat Red Bastien and Buddy Moreno … Kim IL beat Karl
Karlsson … Mad Dog Vachon beat Mitsu Hirai … El Medico #1 beat Haruka Eigen … Motoshi
Okuma beat Iwakichi Hirano … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin

October 1, 1968 … Akita
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Red Bastien, Killer Karl Kox and El
Medico #1 … Mad Dog Vachon and Kim IL both COR … Buddy Moreno beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Karl Karlsson beat Mitsu Hirai (DQ) … Kantaro Hoshino drew Motoshi Okuma
… Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Mr. Chin drew Ushinosuke Hayashi … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Iwakichi Hirano … Ushinosuke Hayashi won an 8-man battle royal pinning Mr.
Chin in the finals.

October 2, 1968 … Yamamgata
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Killer Karl Kox and Buddy Moreno … Mad Dog Vachon beat
Antonio Inoki (COR) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Karl Karlsson … Red Bastien beat Kantaro
Hoshino … El Medico #1 drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Akihisa Takachiho …
Motoshi Okuma beat Haruka Eigen … Mr. Chin beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Gantetsu Matsuoka won a 7-man battle royal pinning
Iwakichi Hirano in the finals.

October 3, 1968 … Haramachi (present-day Minamisoma)
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Red Bastien, El Medico #1 and Mad
Dog Vachon … Antonio Inoki beat Buddy Moreno … Killer Karl Kox beat Kim IL … Karl
Karlsson drew Motoshi Okuma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Iwakichi Hirano … Haruka Eigen beat Mr. Chin … Akihisa Takachiho beat
Ushinosuke Hayashi … Akihisa Takachiho also won an 8-man battle royal pinning Haruka
Eigen in the finals.

October 4, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Killer Karl Kox and Mad Dog Vachon beat Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki … Red Bastien and
Michiaki Yoshimura both COR …Kim IL beat Karl Karlsson … Buddy Moreno beat Kantaro
Hoshino … El Medico #1 beat Kotetsu Yamamoto (DQ) … Mitsu Hirai beat Haruka Eigen …
Motoshi Okuma beat Akihisa Takachiho … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Iwakichi Hirano …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Katsuhisa Shibata

October 5, 1968 … Tokyo (Ota)
Giant Baba, Kantaro Hoshino and Kim IL beat Killer Karl Kox, El Medico #1 and Buddy
Moreno … Antonio Inoki beat Karl Karlsson … Mad Dog Vachon beat Kotetsu Yamamoto
(COR) … Red Bastien beat Motoshi Okuma … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Iwakichi Hirano beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Ushinosuke
Hayashi beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Iwakichi Hirano won a 10-man battle royal defeating Gantetsu
Matsuoka (COR) in the finals.

October 6, 1968 … Numata
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Red Bastien and Mad Dog Vachon … Kim IL beat El
Medico #1 … Killer Karl Kox beat Mitsu Hirai … Buddy Moreno beat Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Karl Karlsson (DQ) … Motoshi Okuma beat Iwakichi Hirano … Haruka
Eigen beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Akihisa Takachiho beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Gantetsu
Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin … Katsuhisa Shibata won an 8-man battle royal pinning Motoyuki
Kitazawa in the finals.

October 7, 1968 … Yokohama
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Karl Karlsson, Killer Karl Kox and Buddy
Moreno … Red Bastien beat Antonio Inoki (DQ) … Mad Dog Vachon beat Motoshi Okuma …
Kotetsu Yamamoto beat El Medico #1 … Mitsu Hirai and Kantaro Hoshino both COR …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Ushinosuke Hayashi … Haruka Eigen beat Mr. Chin … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Iwakichi Hirano … Katsuji Adachi won an 8-man battle royal pinning Iwakichi
Hirano in the finals.

October 8, 1968 … Akishima
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Killer Karl Kox, El Medico #1 and Mad
Dog Vachon … Kim IL beat Buddy Moreno … Karl Karlsson beat Kantaro Hoshino … Mitsu
Hirai beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Motoshi
Okuma beat Masayuki Fujii … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Atsuhide Koma
beat Haruka Eigen … Haruka Eigen won a 10-man battle royal pinning Iwakichi Hirano in the
finals.

October 10, 1968 … Fukuyama
Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Red Bastien and Buddy Moreno (Kim IL and Michiaki
Yoshimura retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Giant Baba beat Karl Karlsson … Killer Karl
Kox beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Antonio Inoki beat El Medico #1 … Mad Dog Vachon beat
Mitsu Hirai … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masayuki Fujii …Motoshi Okuma beat Akihisa Takachiho
… Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin … Atsuhide Koma beat Motoyuki Kitazawa

October 11, 1968 … Shimonoseki
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat El Medico #1 and Mad Dog Vachon … Red Bastien beat Mitsu
Hirai … Killer Karl Kox beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Antonio Inoki beat Buddy Moreno … Karl
Karlsson and Kantaro Hoshino both COR … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …
Motoshi Okuma beat Masayuki Fujii … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin (DQ) … Atsuhide
Koma drew Akihisa Takachiho

October 12, 1968 … Kitakyushu
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Red Bastien, Buddy Moreno and Mad
Dog Vachon … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Karl Karlsson … El Meico #1 and Kim IL both COR
… Killer Karl Kox beat Kantaro Hoshino … Motoshi Okuma beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …
Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi … Akihisa Takachiho beat Mr. Chin … Katsuji Adachi
won an 8-man battle royal pinning Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

October 14, 1968 … Fukuoka
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Buddy Moreno and Mad Dog Vachon … Kim IL beat Red
Bastien … Michiaki Yoshimura beat El Medico #1 … Killer Karl Kox beat Mitsu Hirai … Karl
Karlsson beat Motoshi Okuma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Masayuki Fujii beat Katsuji Adachi … Motoyuki
Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin … Akihisa Takachiho won a 7-man battle royal pinning Mr. Chin in the
finals.

October 16, 1968 … Fukue (present-day Goto)
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Red Bastien, Killer Karl Kox and El Medico
#1 … Antonio Inoki beat Karl Karlsson … Mad Dog Vachon beat Kantaro Hoshino … Buddy
Moreno drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii … Motoshi Okuma beat
Motoyuki Kitazawa … Akihisa Takachiho beat Katsuji Adachi … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr.
Chin … Mr. Chin won an 8-man battle royal pinning Mitsu Hirai in the finals.

October 18, 1968 … Nagasaki
Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Killer Karl Kox and Buddy Moreno … Giant Baba
beat Mad Dog Vachon (DQ) … Kim IL beat El Medico #1 … Mitsu Hirai beat Karl Karlsson …
Red Bastien beat Motoshi Okuma … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masayuki Fujii … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Mr. Chin drew Motoyuki Kitazawa

October 19, 1968 … Kumamoto
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Red Bastien and Mad Dog Vachon … Antonio Inoki beat Killer
Karl Kox (DQ) … El Medico #1 beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Karl Karlsson beat Kantaro
Hoshino (DQ) … Buddy Moreno drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu
Matsuoka … Motoshi Okuma beat Katsuji Adachi … Masayuki Fujii beat Mr. Chin

October 20, 1968 … Hitoyoshi
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Karl Karlsson and Killer Karl Kox … Mad Dog Vachon beat
Michiaki Yoshimura … Kim IL beat Buddy Moreno … Red Bastien beat Mitsu Hirai … El
Medico #1 drew Motoshi Okuma … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Masayuki Fujii … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin … Motoyuki Kitazawa won
an 8-man battle royal pinning Mr. Chin in the finals.

October 21, 1968 … Kagoshima
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Killer Karl Kox and El Medico #1 … Mad Dog
Vachon and Antonio Inoki both COR … Kim IL beat Karl Karlsson … Buddy Moreno drew
Kantaro Hoshino … Red Bastien beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Motoshi Okuma beat Masayuki
Fujii … Mitsu Hirai beat Haruka Eigen … Katsuji Adachi beat Mr. Chin … Gantetsu Matsuoka
beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Mr. Chin won a 7-man battle royal pinning Masayuki Fujii in the
finals.

October 22, 1968 … Hondo (present-day Amakusa)
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Red Bastien, Killer Karl Kox and
Buddy Moreno … Kim IL beat El Medico #1 … Mad Dog Vachon beat Motoshi Okuma … Karl
Karlsson beat Kotetsu Yamamoto (DQ) … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Katsuji Adachi … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr.
Chin … Katsuji Adachi won a 9-man battle royal pinning Haruka Eigen in the finals.

October 24, 1968 … Hiroshima
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Killer Karl Kox and Mad Dog Vachon … Buddy Moreno
and Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Kim IL beat Karl Karlsson … Red Bastien beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … El Medico #1 drew Kantaro Hoshino … Motoshi Okuma beat Masayuki Fujii …
Haruka Eigen beat Katsuji Adachi … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Motoyuki Kitazawa

October 25, 1968 … Himeji
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Red Bastien and Killer Karl Kox … Antonio Inoki
beat Karl Karlsson … Mad Dog Vachon beat Kim IL (COR) … Kantaro Hoshino and Kotetsu
Yamamoto drew El Medico #1 and Buddy Moreno (both COR) … Motoshi Okuma beat Katsuji
Adachi … Mitsu Hirai beat Haruka Eigen … Masayuki Fujii beat Motoyuki Kitazawa …
Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Mr. Chin … Motoyuki Kitazawa won an 8-man battle royal pinning
Katsuji Adachi in the finals.

October 26, 1968 …Toyama
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Red Bastien and Mad Dog Vachon … Antonio Inoki beat Buddy
Moreno … Killer Karl Kox beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Karl Karlsson
… El Medico #1 drew Mitsu Hirai … Kantaro Hoshino beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Motoshi
Okuma beat Haruka Eigen … Masayuki Fujii beat Mr. Chin … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji
Adachi

October 27, 1968 … Nagahama
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Killer Karl Kox and El Medico #1 … Red Bastien and
Michiaki Yoshimura both COR … Kim IL beat Karl Karlsson … Mad Dog Vachon beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Buddy Moreno beat Motoshi Okuma … Mitsu Hirai beat Atsuhide Koma … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Mr. Chin drew Gantetsu Matsuoka … Haruka Eigen
beat Katsuji Adachi

October 29, 1968 … Nagoya
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Killer Karl Kox and Mad Dog Vachon (Giant Baba and
Antonio Inoki retained the International Heavyweight Title) … Red Bastien and Kim IL both
COR … Michiaki Yoshimura beat El Medico #1 … Karl Karlsson beat Mitsu Hirai … Buddy
Moreno drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen … Motoshi Okuma
beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Atsuhide Koma beat
Katsuji Adachi

October 30, 1968 … Hamamatsu
Giant Baba and Kim IL beat Killer Karl Kox and Buddy Moreno … Mad Dog Vachon and
Antonio Inoki both COR … Red Bastien beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Karl Karlsson beat
Motoshi Okuma … Kantaro Hoshino beat El Medico #1 (DQ) … Mitsu Hirai beat Motoyuki
Kitazawa … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Atsuhide Koma … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Haruka
Eigen … Masayuki Fujii beat Mr. Chin

October 31, 1968 … Gifu
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Red Bastien, Killer Karl Kox and El
Medico #1 … Buddy Moreno beat Kim IL … Mad Dog Vachon beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Karl
Karlsson beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Kantaro Hoshino beat Atsuhide Koma … Motoshi
Okuma beat Masayuki Fujii … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin

November 1, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Red Bastien, Killer Karl Kox and Mad Dog Vachon
… Buddy Moreno drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … El Medico #1 and Motoshi Okuma both COR …
Karl Karlsson beat Kantaro Hoshino (DQ) … Mitsu Hirai beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Haruka
Eigen and Masayuki Fujii both COR … Atsuhide Koma beat Mr. Chin … Motoyuki Kitazawa
beat Katsuji Adachi

November 2, 1968 … Tokyo (Kuramae)
Giant Baba beat Killer Karl Kox (Giant Baba retained the International Heavyweight Title)
…Red Bastien and Mad Dog Vachon beat Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Kim
IL beat El Medico #1 … Karl Karlsson and Kotetsu Yamamoto both COR … Buddy Moreno
drew Mitsu Hirai … Kantaro Hoshino beat Atsuhide Koma … Motoshi Okuma beat Katsuji
Adachi … Haruka Eigen beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Masayuki Fujii beat Mr. Chin

November 3, 1968 … Sagamihara
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Killer Karl Kox and Buddy Moreno … Michiaki Yoshimura
beat El Medico #1 … Kim IL beat Karl Karlsson … Mad Dog Vachon beat Motoshi Okuma …
Red Bastien beat Kantaro Hoshino … Mitsu Hirai beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Gantetsu Matsuoka … Atsuhide Koma beat Mr. Chin … Haruka Eigen beat
Katsuji Adachi

November 4, 1968 … Naoetsu
Giant Baba, Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Red Bastien, Killer Karl Kox and El Medico
#1 … Karl Karlsson beat Antonio Inoki (DQ) … Mad Dog Vachon beat Mitsu Hirai … Buddy
Moreno beat Motoshi Okuma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat Haruka Eigen … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi … Gantetsu Matsuoka
beat Masayuki Fujii

November 5, 1968 … Tsuruga
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Red Bastien and Killer Karl Kox … Buddy Moreno beat
Michiaki Yoshimura (DQ) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Mad Dog Vachon … Kantaro Hoshino
beat El Medico #1 … Karl Karlsson and Mitsu Hirai both COR … Motoshi Okuma beat
Motoyuki Kitazawa … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Atsuhide Koma … Masayuki Fujii beat Mr.
Chin … Haruka Eigen beat Katsuji Adachi … Gantetsu Matsuoka also won an 8-man battle
royal pinning Mr. Chin in the finals.

November 6, 1968 … Hiratsuka
Giant Baba, Mitsu Hirai and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Red Bastien, Killer Karl Kox and Buddy
Moreno … Antonio Inoki beat Mad Dog Vachon … Karl Karlsson beat Gantetsu Matsuoka …
El Medico #1 drew Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen … Motoshi
Okuma beat Katsuji Adachi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin … Atsuhide Koma beat
Masayuki Fujii

[NWA Champion Series]
November 8, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Jim “Brute” Bernard and Joe Scarpa beat Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki (COR) … Paul
DeMarco beat Mitsu Hirai … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Lonnie Mayne (DQ) … Steve Bolus
drew Kantaro Hoshino … Motoshi Okuma beat Haruka Eigen … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji
Adachi … Gantetsu Matsuoka beat Masayuki Fujii … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Mr. Chin …
Iwakichi Hirano beat Katsuhisa Shibata
NOTE: Buddy Austin and Buddy Moreno visited South Korea to work for Kim IL’s group. In
Seoul on November 9, 1968 Kim IL beat Buddy Austin and captured the Asian Heavyweight
Title that had been vacant since Rikidozan’s reign.

November 15, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Antonio Inoki beat Brute Bernard (DQ) … Paul DeMarco and Lonnie Mayne beat Kantaro
Hoshino and Kotetsu Yamamoto … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Steve Bolus … Joe Scarpa beat
Motoshi Okuma … Atsuhide Koma beat Masayuki Fujii … Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka
Eigen … Katsuhisa Shibata beat Mr. Chin … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Masanori Toguchi …
Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Katsuji Adachi

November 22, 1968 … Tokyo (No. 10 Studio of Nihon TV)
Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Brute Bernard and Lonnie Mayne … Joe Scarpa
beat Kantaro Hoshino … Steve Bolus beat Haruka Eigen … Paul DeMarco beat Akihisa
Takachiho … Mr. Chin drew Masayuki Fujii … Atsuhide Koma beat Ushinosuke Hayashi

November 29, 1968 … Muroran
Gene Kiniski beat Antonio Inoki … Brute Bernard beat Giant Baba (DQ) … Kim IL and
Michiaki Yoshimura beat Lonnie Mayne and Joe Scarpa … Paul DeMarco beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Steve Bolus beat Kantaro Hoshino (DQ) … Mitsu Hirai beat Akihisa Takachiho
… Motoshi Okuma beat Masayuki Fujii … Atsuhide Koma beat Katsuji Adachi
NOTE: NWA World Heavyweight Champion Gene Kiniski came to Japan, but his title was
never at stake during his one-week stay.

November 30, 1968 … Sapporo
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Paul DeMarco and Gene Kiniski (Giant Baba and Antonio
Inoki retained the International Heavyweight Title) … Joe Scarpa beat Michiaki Yoshimura
(DQ) … Kim IL beat Steve Bolus … Brute Bernard beat Motoshi Okuma … Lonnie Mayne
drew Mitsu Hirai … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Atsuhide Koma … Kantaro Hoshino beat Akihisa
Takachiho … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Masayuki Fujii

December 1, 1968 … Sendai, Miyagi
Giant Baba drew Gene Kiniski (Giant Baba retained the International Heavyweight Title) …
Antonio Inoki and Kim IL beat Brute Bernard and Lonnie Mayne … Michiaki Yoshimura beat
Steve Bolus … Paul DeMarco beat Kantaro Hoshino … Joe Scarpa beat Kotetsu Yamamoto
… Motoshi Okuma beat Akihisa Takachiho … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii … Atsuhide
Koma beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Motoyuki Kitazawa won an 8-man battle royal pinning
Akihisa Takachiho in the finals.

December 2, 1968 … Yokohama
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Gene Kiniski and Joe Scarpa … Michiaki Yoshimura beat
Lonnie Mayne … Brute Bernard beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Paul DeMarco beat Motoshi
Okuma … Mitsu Hirai beat Steve Bolus … Kantaro Hoshino beat Atsuhide Koma … Akihisa
Takachiho beat Katsuji Adachi … Motoyuki Kitazawa beat Masanori Toguchi … Haruka Eigen
won a 9-man battle royal pinning Katsuji Adachi in the finals.

December 3, 1968 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Brute Bernard and Gene Kiniski (Giant Baba and Antonio
Inoki retained the International Tag Team Title) … Michiaki Yoshimura beat Joe Scarpa …
Paul DeMarco beat Mitsu Hirai … Lonnie Mayne and Kotetsu Yamamoto both COR …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Steve Bolus … Motoshi Okuma beat Ushinosuke Hayashi (DQ) … Mr.
Chin drew Katsuhisa Shibata … Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen

December 4, 1968 … Shizuoka
Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Gene Kiniski and Lonnie Mayne … Antonio Inoki
beat Paul DeMarco … Brute Bernard beat Kantaro Hoshino … Joe Scarpa beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Steve Bolus beat Akihisa Takachiho … Mitsu Hirai beat Ushinosuke Hayashi …
Motoshi Okuma beat Masayuki Fujii … Haruka Eigen beat Katsuhisa Shibata … Motoshi
Okuma won an 8-man battle royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the finals.

December 5, 1968 … Nagoya
Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Gene Kiniski, Lonnie Mayne and Joe
Scarpa … Paul DeMarco and Kotetsu Yamamoto both COR … Brute Bernard beat Motoshi
Okuma … Haruka Eigen beat Steve Bolus … Mitsu Hirai beat Masayuki Fujii … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Akihisa Takachiho … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Mr. Chin … Mr. Chin won an 8-
man battle royal pinning Masayuki Fujii in the finals.

December 6, 1968 … Tokyo (Kuramae)
Giant Baba beat Gene Kiniski (DQ) (Giant Baba retained the International Heavyweight Title)
… Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Lonnie Mayne and Joe Scarpa … Brute
Bernard beat Mitsu Hirai … Paul DeMarco and Kantaro Hoshino both COR … Motoshi Okuma
beat Steve Bolus … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akihisa Takachiho … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat
Masayuki Fujii … Haruka Eigen beat Katsuji Adachi

December 7, 1968 … Utsunomiya
Kim IL and Michiaki Yoshimura beat Brute Bernard and Lonnie Mayne (Kim IL and Michiaki
Yoshimura retained the Asian Tag Team Title) … Gene Kiniski drew Giant Baba … Antonio
Inoki beat Joe Scarpa … Paul DeMarco beat Motoshi Okuma (DQ) … Kotetsu Yamamoto
beat Steve Bolus … Mitsu Hirai beat Haruka Eigen … Masayuki Fujii beat Masanori Toguchi
… Akihisa Takachiho beat Motoyuki Kitazawa

December 8, 1968 … Niigata
Giant Baba beat Brute Bernard … Kantaro Hoshino and Antonio Inoki beat Paul DeMarco
and Lonnie Mayne … Joe Scarpa beat Michiaki Yoshimura … Steve Bolus beat Mitsu Hirai
(DQ) … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Haruka Eigen … Akihisa Takachiho beat Masayuki Fujii …
Kotetsu Yamamoto won an 8-man battle royal pinning Motoshi Okuma in the finals.

December 13, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Brute Bernard and Lonnie Mayne … Michiaki Yoshimura
beat Joe Scarpa … Paul DeMarco beat Kotetsu Yamamoto (DQ) … Steve Bolus drew
Kantaro Hoshino … Mitsu Hirai beat Atsuhide Koma … Motoshi Okuma beat Masayuki Fujii …
Akihisa Takachiho beat Haruka Eigen … Ushinosuke Hayashi beat Motoyuki Kitazawa

[New Year Champion Series]
December 27, 1968 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Giant Baba beat Tom Jones … Danny Hodge drew Michiaki Yoshimura … Wilbur Snyder
drew Antonio Inoki … Bob Boyer beat Mitsu Hirai … Buster Lloyd (Rufus R. Jones) beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Motoshi Okuma beat Akihisa Takachiho … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Masayuki Fujii … Haruka Eigen beat Motoyuki Kitazawa … Atsuhide Koma drew Gantetsu
Matsuoka


Research by Haruo Yamaguchi
Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance (JWA) Results - 1968
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