[New Year Golden Series]
January 6, 1978 … Kawasaki
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Buddy Roberts and Tiger Jeet Singh (DQ) … McGuire
Twins (Benny and Billy) beat Riki Choshu and Osamu Kido … Strong Kobayashi beat Silent
Brian Mackney … Jerry Brown beat Kantaro Hoshino … Buffalo Allen (Coage) beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Haruka Eigen beat Makoto Arakawa … Kengo Kimura beat Masanobu Kurisu …
Shoji Kai beat Daigoro Oshiro … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Satoru Sayama

January 7, 1978 … Kazo
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Jerry Brown and Tiger Jeet Singh … Seiji Sakaguchi
beat Buddy Roberts … McGuire Twins beat Haruka Eigen and Strong Kobayashi … Riki
Choshu beat Silent Mackney … Buffalo Allen beat Makoto Arakawa … Osamu Kido beat
Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Daigoro Oshiro beat Masanobu Kurisu … Kengo Kimura beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Shoji Kai beat Satoru Sayama

January 8, 1978 … Maebashi
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Jerry Brown and Buddy Roberts (The Hollywood Blonds)
… Tiger Jeet Singh beat Seiji Sakaguchi … Strong Kobayashi beat Silent Mackney …
McGuire Twins beat Makoto Arakawa and Kotetsu Yamamoto … Riki Choshu beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Buffalo Allen beat Kengo Kimura … Haruka Eigen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Shoji
Kai beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Masanobu Kurisu beat Satoru Sayama

January 9, 1978 … Hitachi
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Silent Mackney and Tiger Jeet Singh (DQ) … Strong
Kobayashi beat Buddy Roberts … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Jerry Brown (DQ) … McGuire Twins
beat Haruka Eigen and Kotetsu Yamamoto … Riki Choshu beat Osamu Kido … Buffalo Allen
beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Masanobu Kurisu beat Kengo Kimura … Daigoro Oshiro beat
Makoto Arakawa … Satoru Sayama drew Kuniaki Kobayashi

January 11, 1978 … Yokohama
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Jerry Brown and Buddy Roberts … Tiger Jeet Singh beat
Strong Kobayashi … McGuire Twins beat Kantaro Hoshino and Seiji Sakaguchi … Osamu
Kido beat Silent Mackney … Haruka Eigen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Buffalo Allen beat
Makoto Arakawa … Masanobu Kurisu beat Daigoro Oshiro … Shoji Kai beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Kengo Kimura beat Satoru Sayama

January 12, 1978 … Handa
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Jerry Brown and Tiger Jeet Singh … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Buddy Roberts … McGuire Twins beat Riki Choshu and Kotetsu Yamamoto
… Kantaro Hoshino beat Silent Mackney … Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Buffalo
Allen beat Kengo Kimura … Masanobu Kurisu beat Makoto Arakawa … Daigoro Oshiro beat
Kuniaki Kobayashi … Shoji Kai drew Satoru Sayama

January 13, 1978 … Okayama
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda … McGuire Twins
beat Kantaro Hoshino and Kotetsu Yamamoto … Strong Kobayashi beat Buddy Roberts …
Seiji Sakaguchi beat Jerry Brown (DQ) … Buffalo Allen beat Osamu Kido … Haruka Eigen
beat Silent Mackney … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Kengo Kimura … Makoto Arakawa beat
Kuniaki Kobayashi

January 15, 1978 … Sakai, Osaka
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Jerry Brown and Buddy Roberts … Tiger Jeet Singh
beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … McGuire Twins beat Osamu Kido and Strong Kobayashi …
Haruka Eigen beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Silent Mackney …
Buffalo Allen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Kengo Kimura beat Masanobu Kurisu … Makoto
Arakawa beat Daigoro Oshiro … Shoji Kai drew Kuniaki Kobayashi

January 16, 1978 … Fukuyama
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Jerry Brown and Tiger Jeet Singh … Umanosuke Ueda
and Strong Kobayashi both COR … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Buddy Roberts … McGuire Twins
beat Riki Choshu and Kantaro Hoshino … Kengo Kimura beat Silent Mackney … Haruka
Eigen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Buffalo Allen beat Makoto Arakawa … Masanobu Kurisu beat
Kuniaki Kobayashi … Shoji Kai beat Satoru Sayama

January 17, 1978 … Ureshino
Antonio Inoki beat Jerry Brown … Buddy Roberts and Tiger Jeet Singh beat Kantaro Hoshino
and Seiji Sakaguchi … Umanosuke Ueda beat Riki Choshu … Strong Kobayashi beat Silent
Mackney … McGuire Twins beat Haruka Eigen and Kotetsu Yamamoto … Buffalo Allen beat
Kengo Kimura … Makoto Arakawa drew Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Daigoro Oshiro beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Satoru Sayama beat Masanobu Kurisu

January 18, 1978 … Hondo (present-day Amakusa)
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Jerry Brown and Umanosuke Ueda … Tiger Jeet Singh
beat Seiji Sakaguchi … Strong Kobayashi beat Buddy Roberts … McGuire Twins beat
Makoto Arakawa and Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino beat Silent Mackney … Buffalo Allen
beat Osamu Kido … Kengo Kimura beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Daigoro Oshiro beat Masanobu
Kurisu … Kuniaki Kobayashi drew Satoru Sayama

January 19, 1978 … Kumamoto
Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda beat Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi (DQ) …
Seiji Sakaguchi beat Jerry Brown … McGuire Twins beat Riki Choshu and Osamu Kido …
Buddy Roberts beat Kantaro Hoshino … Haruka Eigen bea Silent Mackney … Buffalo Allen
beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Kengo Kimura beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi drew
Masanobu Kurisu … Shoji Kai beat Satoru Sayama

January 20, 1978 … Kagoshima
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Jerry Brown and Buddy Roberts … Tiger Jeet Singh drew
Seiji Sakaguchi (NC) … Umanosuke Ueda beat Strong Kobayashi (DQ) … McGuire Twins
beat Riki Choshu and Kantaro Hoshino … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Silent Mackney … Buffalo
Allen beat Makoto Arakawa … Kengo Kimura beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Masanobu Kurisu
beat Shoji Kai … Daigoro Oshiro beat Satoru Sayama

January 21, 1978 … Makurazaki
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Buddy Roberts and Umanosuke Ueda … Tiger Jeet
Singh beat Strong Kobayashi … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Jerry Brown … McGuire Twins beat
Haruka Eigen and Kotetsu Yamamoto … Buffalo Allen beat Silent Mackney … Riki Choshu
beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Osamu Kido beat Kengo Kimura … Masanobu Kurisu beat Makoto
Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Satoru Sayama

January 22, 1978 … Kanoya
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Jerry Brown and Tiger Jeet Singh (DQ) … Umanosuke
Ueda beat Riki Choshu … Strong Kobayashi beat Buddy Roberts … McGuire Twins beat
Kantaro Hoshino and Osamu Kido … Haruka Eigen beat Silent Mackney … Buffalo Allen beat
Kengo Kimura … Makoto Arakawa drew Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Daigoro Oshiro beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi

January 23, 1978 … Oita
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Buddy Roberts and Tiger Jeet Singh … Seiji
Sakaguchi and Umanosuke Ueda both COR … McGuire Twins beat Riki Choshu and Haruka
Eigen … Jerry Brown beat Osamu Kido … Kantaro Hoshino beat Silent Mackney … Buffalo
Allen beat Makoto Arakawa … Kengo Kimura beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Shoji Kai beat
Daigoro Oshiro … Kuniaki Kobayashi drew Satoru Sayama

January 25, 1978 … Kudamatsu
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Jerry Brown and Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Tiger Jeet
Singh beat Seiji Sakaguchi … Strong Kobayashi beat Buddy Roberts … McGuire Twins beat
Makoto Arakawa and Kotetsu Yamamoto … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Silent Mackney … Buffalo
Allen beat Osamu Kido … Haruka Eigen beat Kengo Kimura … Daigoro Oshiro beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Masanobu Kurisu beat Satoru Sayama

January 26, 1978 … Himeji
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Buddy Roberts and Tiger Jeet Singh … Strong
Kobayashi and Umanosuke Ueda both COR … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Jerry Brown … McGuire
Twins beat Riki Choshu and Kantaro Hoshino … Kengo Kimura beat Silent Mackney …
Buffalo Allen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Daigoro Oshiro beat Makoto Arakawa … Masanobu
Kurisu beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Shoji Kai beat Satoru Sayama

January 27, 1978 … Nagoya
Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi drew Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda (both
COR) (Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi retained the North American Tag Team Title)
… Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Jerry Brown and Buddy Roberts … McGuire Twins
beat Kantaro Hoshino and Osamu Kido … Buffalo Allen beat Silent Mackney … Haruka Eigen
beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Masanobu Kurisu … Daigoro Oshiro beat
Kengo Kimura … Kuniaki Kobayashi drew Satoru Sayama

January 28, 1978 … Nishio
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Buddy Roberts and Tiger Jeet Singh … Seiji
Sakaguchi and Umanosuke Ueda both COR … Riki Choshu beat Jerry Brown … McGuire
Twins beat Osamu Kido and Strong Kobayashi … Haruka Eigen beat Silent Mackney …
Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Makoto Arakawa … Daigoro Oshiro beat Kuniaki Kobayashi …
Masanobu Kurisu beat Satoru Sayama

January 29, 1978 … Toyohashi
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Jerry Brown and Umanosuke Ueda … Tiger Jeet Singh
beat Strong Kobayashi … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Buddy Roberts … McGuire Twins beat Riki
Choshu and Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino beat Silent Mackney … Buffalo Allen beat
Makoto Arakawa … Kengo Kimura beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Masanobu Kurisu beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Shoji Kai beat Satoru Sayama

January 30, 1978 … Owase
Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda beat Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Jerry Brown … Strong Kobayashi beat Buddy Roberts … McGuire Twins beat
Kantaro Hoshino and Osamu Kido … Haruka Eigen beat Silent Mackney … Buffalo Allen beat
Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Kengo Kimura … Shoji Kai beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Daigoro Oshiro beat Satoru Sayama

January 31, 1978 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Antonio Inoki beat Tiger Jeet Singh … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) …
Kantaro Hoshino and Strong Kobayashi beat Jerry Brown and Buddy Roberts … Haruka
Eigen and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat McGuire Twins … Riki Choshu drew Osamu Kido …
Buffalo Allen beat Kengo Kimura … Makoto Arakawa drew Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Kuniaki
Kobayashi drew Satoru Sayama

February 2, 1978 … Sapporo [first night]
Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda (DQ)
(Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi retained the North American Tag Team Title) …
Antonio Inoki beat Jerry Brown … McGuire Twins beat Riki Choshu and Kantaro Hoshino …
Buddy Roberts beat Osamu Kido … Buffalo Allen beat Silent Mackney … Haruka Eigen beat
Makoto Arakawa … Kengo Kimura beat Daigoro Oshiro … Masanobu Kurisu beat Satoru
Sayama

February 3, 1978 … Sapporo [second night]
Antonio Inoki beat Tiger Jeet Singh (COR) (Antonio Inoki retained the NWF Heavyweight
Title) … Umanosuke Ueda beat Strong Kobayashi … Kantaro Hoshino and Seiji Sakaguchi
beat Jerry Brown and Buddy Roberts … Haruka Eigen, Daigoro Oshiro and Kotetsu
Yamamoto beat McGuire Twins … Riki Choshu beat Silent Mackney … Buffalo Allen beat
Makoto Arakawa … Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Kengo Kimura beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi

February 4, 1978 … Hakodate
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Jerry Brown and Umanosuke Ueda … Tiger Jeet
Singh beat Riki Choshu … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Buddy Roberts … Strong Kobayashi beat
Silent Mackney … McGuire Twins beat Makoto Arakawa and Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen
beat Osamu Kido … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Kengo Kimura … Masanobu Kurisu beat Daigoro
Oshiro … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Satoru Sayama

February 6, 1978 … Morioka
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) …
Superstar Billy Graham beat Strong Kobayashi … Riki Choshu beat Jerry Brown … Osamu
Kido beat Buddy Roberts (DQ) … McGuire Twins beat Haruka Eigen and Masanobu Kurisu
… Kengo Kimura beat Makoto Arakawa … Buffalo Allen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Daigoro
Oshiro beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Shoji Kai drew Satoru Sayama

February 7, 1978 … Otawara
Buddy Roberts and Tiger Jeet Singh beat Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido (DQ) … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Superstar Billy Graham beat Riki Choshu …
Strong Kobayashi beat Jerry Brown … McGuire Twins beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Kantaro
Hoshino … Buffalo Allen beat Haruka Eigen … Makoto Arakawa beat Masanobu Kurisu …
Kengo Kimura beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Daigoro Oshiro beat Satoru Sayama

February 8, 1978 … Tokyo (Nippon Budokan)
Superstar Billy Graham beat Seiji Sakaguchi (COR) (Superstar Billy Graham retained the
WWWF Heavyweight Title) … Antonio Inoki beat Umanosuke Ueda (nail death match) …
Tiger Jeet Singh beat Strong Kobayashi … Riki Choshu and Osamu Kido beat Jerry Brown
and Buddy Roberts … Haruka Eigen, Kantaro Hoshino and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat McGuire
Twins … Buffalo Allen beat Makoto Arakawa … Yoshiaki Fujiwara drew Kengo Kimura …
Kuniaki Kobayashi drew Satoru Sayama

February 9, 1978 … Tokyo (Metropolitan Gymnasium) [TV attraction]
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Jerry Brown and Buddy Roberts … Daigoro Oshiro
won a 14-man battle royal pinning Kotetsu Yamamoto in the final … the other entrants were
Buffalo Allen, Strong Kobayashi, Riki Choshu, Kuniaki Kobayashi, Kengo Kimura, Makoto
Arakawa, Masanobu Kurisu, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Satoru Sayama, Osamu Kido, Haruka Eigen
and Shoji Kai

[Big Fight Series]
March 3, 1978 … Takasaki
Antonio Inoki beat Masked Superstar (Bill Eadie / Bolo Mongol) (Masked Superstar got
disqualified as his manager Great Malenko interfered) … El Canek and Ivan Koloff beat Riki
Choshu and Osamu Kido … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Masked Canadian (Roddy Piper) …
Roberto Soto beat Kantaro Hoshino … Strong Kobayashi beat Ron Starr … Buffalo Allen
beat Haruka Eigen … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Satoru Sayama … Kengo Kimura beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Makoto Arakawa beat Shoji Kai

March 4, 1978 … Chiba
Masked Superstar and Ron Starr beat Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Roberto Soto … Ivan Koloff beat Strong Kobayashi … El Canek beat Kengo Kimura …
Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Buffalo Allen and Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen
and Satoru Sayama … Shoji Kai beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Makoto Arakawa beat Masanobu
Kurisu

March 5, 1978 … Ashikaga
Antonio Inoki beat Roberto Soto … El Canek and Masked Superstar beat Riki Choshu and
Strong Kobayashi … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Ron Starr … Ivan Koloff beat Haruka Eigen …
Buffalo Allen and Kantaro Hoshino beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Osamu Kido … Kengo Kimura
beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Satoru Sayama … Shoji Kai beat Masanobu
Kurisu

March 6, 1978 … Koshigaya
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Ivan Koloff and Ron Starr … Tatsumi Fujinami beat
Kotetsu Yamamoto … Masked Superstar beat Osamu Kido … El Canek beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Roberto Soto beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Riki Choshu beat Haruka Eigen … Kengo
Kimura beat Satoru Sayama … Shoji Kai drew Kuniaki Kobayashi

March 7, 1978 … Koshoku (present-day Chikuma)
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Ron Starr and Masked Superstar … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Masked Canadian … Ivan Koloff beat Osamu Kido … El Canek beat Riki
Choshu … Roberto Soto beat Satoru Sayama … Buffalo Allen and Kantaro Hoshino beat
Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Kuniaki Kobayashi … Haruka Eigen beat Masanobu Kurisu … Shoji
Kai beat Makoto Arakawa

March 9, 1978 … Shiroishi
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Ivan Koloff and Roberto Soto … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Ron Starr … Masked Superstar beat Kengo Kimura … Strong Kobayashi beat Masked
Canadian … El Canek beat Osamu Kido … Satoru Sayama beat Masanobu Kurisu … Buffalo
Allen and Haruka Eigen bea Makoto Arakawa and Riki Choshu … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat
Shoji Kai

March 10, 1978 … Koriyama
Roberto Soto and Masked Superstar beat Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Ron Starr … Ivan Koloff beat Haruka Eigen … Strong Kobayashi beat El Canek …
Masked Canadian beat Kantaro Hoshino … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Kengo Kimura … Riki
Choshu beat Makoto Arakawa … Buffalo Allen beat Masanobu Kurisu … Satoru Sayama beat
Kuniaki Kobayashi

March 11, 1978 … Akiruno
Antonio Inoki beat Ivan Koloff … Haruka Eigen and Strong Kobayashi beat Masked Canadian
and Masked Superstar … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Roberto Soto … El Canek beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Riki Choshu beat Kengo Kimura … Buffalo Allen and Kantaro Hoshino beat
Osamu Kido and Satoru Sayama … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masanobu Kurisu … Makoto
Arakawa beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

March 14, 1978 … Choshi
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Masked Canadian and Ivan Koloff … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat El Canek (COR) … Masked Superstar beat Riki Choshu … Osamu Kido beat
Roberto Soto … Ron Starr beat Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Kengo Kimura and Kuniaki Kobayashi … Kantaro Hoshino beat Makoto Arakawa … Yoshiaki
Fujiwara beat Satoru Sayama

March 15, 1978 … Kashihara
Antonio Inoki beat Ivan Koloff … Riki Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Masked Canadian
and Roberto Soto … Masked Superstar beat Strong Kobayashi … El Canek beat Haruka
Eigen … Ron Starr beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Buffalo Allen and Kantaro Hoshino beat Osamu
Kido and Masanobu Kurisu … Kengo Kimura beat Makoto Arakawa … Satoru Sayama beat
Shoji Kai

March 17, 1978 … Ogaki
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi drew Roberto Soto and Masked Superstar (NC) … El
Canek drew Tatsumi Fujinami (both KO’d) … Ivan Koloff beat Riki Choshu … Osamu Kido
beat Masked Canadian … Ron Starr beat Kengo Kimura … Buffalo Allen and Kantaro
Hoshino beat Makoto Arakawa and Haruka Eigen … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Masanobu Kurisu
… Satoru Sayama beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

March 18, 1978 … Toyoake
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Ivan Koloff and Ron Starr … Masked Superstar beat Riki
Choshu … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Masked Canadian … Kantaro Hoshino beat Roberto Soto
… El Canek beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Buffalo Allen and Haruka Eigen beat Kengo Kimura
and Satoru Sayama … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Makoto Arakawa … Masanobu Kurisu beat
Shoji Kai

March 19, 1978 … Toyokawa
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Masked Canadian and Masked Superstar (DQ) …
El Canek beat Osamu Kido … Riki Choshu beat Ron Starr … Ivan Koloff beat Haruka Eigen
… Roberto Soto beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Buffalo Allen and Kantaro Hoshino beat Kengo
Kimura and Masanobu Kurisu … Satoru Sayama beat Makoto Arakawa … Shoji Kai beat
Kuniaki Kobayashi

March 21, 1978 … Tsu
Antonio Inoki beat Masked Superstar (DQ) … Masked Canadian and Ivan Koloff beat Kantaro
Hoshino and Strong Kobayashi … El Canek beat Kengo Kimura … Riki Choshu beat Roberto
Soto … Ron Starr beat Masanobu Kurisu … Buffalo Allen and Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara and Shoji Kai … Haruka Eigen beat Makoto Arakawa … Satoru Sayama beat
Kuniaki Kobayashi

March 22, 1978 … Otsu
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Roberto Soto and Masked Superstar … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Ivan Koloff … Strong Kobayashi beat Masked Canadian … Ron Starr beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Kengo Kimura beat Makoto Arakawa … Satoru Sayama and Kotetsu Yamamoto
beat Buffalo Allen and Shoji Kai … Haruka Eigen beat Masanobu Kurisu … Yoshiaki Fujiwara
beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

March 24, 1978 … Wakayama
Antonio Inoki beat Great Malenko … Tatsumi Fujinami and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Masked
Canadian and Ivan Koloff … Strong Kobayashi beat Masked Superstar (DQ) … Osamu Kido
beat Ron Starr … Roberto Soto beat Kengo Kimura … Riki Choshu and Haruka Eigen beat
Buffalo Allen and Kantaro Hoshino … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Makoto Arakawa … Shoji Kai
beat Masanobu Kurisu … Satoru Sayama beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

March 25, 1978 … Higashiosaka
Antonio Inoki beat Ivan Koloff … Tatsumi Fujinami and Strong Kobayashi beat Roberto Soto
and Ron Starr … Masked Superstar beat Haruka Eigen … Riki Choshu beat Masked
Canadian … Buffalo Allen and Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Masanobu Kurisu …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Kengo Kimura … Shoji Kai beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Makoto Arakawa
beat Satoru Sayama

March 27, 1978 … Fukaya
Antonio Inoki and Buffalo Allen beat Ron Starr and Masked Superstar … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Roberto Soto … Strong Kobayashi beat Masked Canadian … El Canek beat Osamu
Kido … Ivan Koloff beat Kantaro Hoshino … Riki Choshu beat Haruka Eigen … Kengo Kimura
beat Satoru Sayama … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Masanobu Kurisu … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat
Makoto Arakawa

March 28, 1978 … Koga, Ibaraki
Antonio Inoki and Buffalo Allen beat Ivan Koloff and Roberto Soto … Strong Kobayashi beat
Great Malenko … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Masked Canadian … Masked Superstar beat Riki
Choshu … Ron Starr beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Osamu Kido beat Kengo Kimura … Satoru
Sayama beat Masanobu Kurisu … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Makoto
Arakawa beat Shoji Kai

March 29, 1978 … Fuji
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Ron Starr and Masked Superstar (DQ) … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Ivan Koloff … Roberto Soto and Osamu Kido both COR … Kantaro Hoshino
beat Masked Canadian … Riki Choshu beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Haruka Eigen beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Buffalo Allen beat Makoto Arakawa … Kengo Kimura beat Masanobu Kurisu …
Satoru Sayama beat Shoji Kai

March 30, 1978 … Tokyo (Kuramae)
Antonio Inoki beat Masked Superstar (Antonio Inoki retained the NWF Heavyweight Title) …
Tatsumi Fujinami beat Ivan Koloff … Strong Kobayashi beat Kantaro Hoshino … Masked
Canadian and Ivan Koloff beat Riki Choshu and Haruka Eigen … Kengo Kimura beat Ron
Starr … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Roberto Soto … Osamu Kido and Satoru Sayama beat
Buffalo Allen and Kuniaki Kobayashi … Makoto Arakawa beat Shoji Kai
NOTE: El Canek was to wrestle Tatsumi Fujinami for his WWWF Junior Heavyweight Title, but
he suddenly disappeared from the dressing room and did not show up in the ring. Ivan Koloff
had to substitute for him after winning a tag team match ... It was reported that El Canek was
unwilling to unmask himself after losing the bout … Antonio Inoki unmasked Masked
Superstar, who turned out to be Bill Eadie (Bolo Mongol).

[The First Madison Square Garden Series]
April 21, 1978 … Tokyo (Kuramae)
Antonio Inoki beat Seiji Sakaguchi … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Bugsy
McGraw beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Tony Garea, Baron Mikel Scicluna and Chief Jay
Strongbow beat Buffalo Allen, Kantaro Hoshino and Osamu Kido … Nicolai Volkoff beat Riki
Choshu … Willem Ruska beat Pete Reeves … Colosso Colossetti beat Kengo Kimura …
Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Makoto Arakawa

April 22, 1978 … Shimodate (present-day Chikusei)
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami and Kantaro Hoshino beat Colosso Colossetti, Chief Jay
Strongbow and Nicolai Volkoff … Bugsy McGraw and Seiji Sakaguchi both COR … Tony
Garea beat Pete Reeves … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Marty Jones … Umanosuke Ueda beat
Buffalo Allen … Willem Ruska beat Haruka Eigen … Baron Scicluna beat Riki Choshu …
Kengo Kimura beat Ray Steel … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Jo Baek San

April 23, 1978 … Tsuchiura
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Tony Garea and Bugsy McGraw … Nicolai Volkoff and
Seiji Sakaguchi both COR … Chief Jay Strongbow beat Baron Scicluna … Colosso Colossetti
beat Haruka Eigen … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Marty Jones … Willem Ruska and Umanosuke
Ueda beat Buffalo Allen and Kotetsu Yamamoto … Riki Choshu beat Pete Reeves … Ray
Steel beat Makoto Arakawa … Kengo Kimura beat Satoru Sayama

April 24, 1978 … Nagoya
Tatsumi Fujinami beat Colosso Colossetti (Tatsumi Fujinami retained the WWWF Junior
Heavyweight Title) … Antonio Inoki beat Chief Jay Strongbow … Tony Garea and Bugsy
McGraw beat Kantaro Hoshino and Seiji Sakaguchi … Osamu Kido beat Kengo Kimura …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Riki Choshu … Willem Ruska and Baron Scicluna beat Buffalo Allen
and Haruka Eigen … Nicolai Volkoff beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Marty Jones beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Makoto Arakawa beat Jo Baek San

April 25, 1978 … Tokyo (Ota)
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Tony Garea and Bugsy McGraw … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Colosso Colossetti … Nicolai Volkoff beat Kantaro Hoshino … Umanosuke Ueda beat
Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen and Riki Choshu beat Baron Scicluna and Chief Jay Strongbow
… Willem Ruska beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Osamu Kido beat Marty Jones … Kengo Kimura
beat Pete Reeves … Kuniaki Kobayashi drew Satoru Sayama

April 26, 1978 … Sanjo
Riki Choshu, Tatsumi Fujinami and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Marty Jones, Nicolai Volkoff and
Umanosuke Ueda … Antonio Inoki beat Osamu Kido … Bugsy McGraw beat Tony Garea …
Chief Jay Strongbow beat Kengo Kimura … Willem Ruska and Baron Scicluna beat Buffalo
Allen and Haruka Eigen … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Ray Steel … Satoru Sayama beat Pete
Reeves … Shoji Kai beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Jo Baek San

April 28, 1978 … Tokushima
Tony Garea and Chief Jay Strongbow beat Antonio Inoki and Kengo Kimura (DQ) … Riki
Choshu beat Ray Steel … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Marty Jones … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Baron
Scicluna … Bugsy McGraw and Umanosuke Ueda beat Buffalo Allen and Osamu Kido …
Willem Ruska beat Makoto Arakawa … Nicolai Volkoff beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Haruka
Eigen beat Pete Reeves … Kuniaki Kobayashi drew Satoru Sayama

April 29, 1978 … Ukiha
Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Marty Jones, Nicolai Volkoff and
Umanosuke Ueda … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Tony Garea … Chief Jay Strongbow beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Bugsy McGraw beat Haruka Eigen … Willem Ruska and Baron Scicluna beat
Buffalo Allen and Kotetsu Yamamoto … Colosso Colossetti beat Osamu Kido … Ray Steel
beat Satoru Sayama … Makoto Arakawa beat Jo Baek San

May 1, 1978 … Ushibuka (present-day Amakusa)
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Tony Garea and Bugsy McGraw … Seiji Sakaguchi beat
Chief Jay Strongbow … Riki Choshu beat Nicolai Volkoff … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Baron
Scicluna … Willem Ruska and Umanosuke Ueda beat Buffalo Allen and Haruka Eigen …
Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Ray Steel … Colosso Colossetti beat Makoto Arakawa … Marty Jones
beat Satoru Sayama … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Jo Baek San

May 2, 1978 … Nejime (present-day Minamiosumi)
Antonio Inoki, Buffalo Allen and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Marty Jones, Nicolai Volkoff and
Umanosuke Ueda … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Baron Scicluna … Bugsy McGraw beat Riki
Choshu … Chief Jay Strongbow beat Haruka Eigen … Willem Ruska beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara
… Tony Garea beat Osamu Kido … Colosso Colossetti beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Makoto
Arakawa beat Pete Reeves … Satoru Sayama beat Jo Baek San

May 4, 1978 … Naha
Andre the Giant and Nicolai Volkoff beat Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Tony Garea … Umanosuke Ueda beat Haruka Eigen … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Pete
Reeves … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Chief Jay Strongbow … Bugsy McGraw and Baron Scicluna
beat Buffalo Allen and Osamu Kido … Colosso Colossetti beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Willem
Ruska beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Jo Baek San

May 5, 1978 … Nago
Antonio Inoki, Osamu Kido and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Andre the Giant, Marty Jones and Bugsy
McGraw … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Nicolai Volkoff … Tony Garea beat Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Umanosuke Uedas beat Makoto Arakawa … Buffalo Allen beat Baron Scicluna (DQ) …
Haruka Eigen beat Colosso Colossetti … Willem Ruska beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Chief Jay
Strongbow beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Shoji Kai beat Jo Baek San

May 6, 1978 … Okinawa
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami and Osamu Kido beat Colosso Colossetti, Tony Garea and
Umanosuke Ueda … Andre the Giant beat Seiji Sakaguchi … Baron Scicluna beat Marty
Jones … Buffalo Allen and Riki Choshu beat Willem Ruska and Chief Jay Strongbow …
Nicolai Volkoff beat Haruka Eigen … Bugsy McGraw beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto
Arakawa beat Pete Reeves … Ray Steel beat Satoru Sayama … Shoji Kai drew Kuniaki
Kobayashi

May 8, 1978 … Kagami (present-day Yatsushiro)
Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu and Osamu Kido beat Andre the Giant, Tony Garea and Marty
Jones … Nicolai Volkoff and Seiji Sakaguchi both COR … Baron Scicluna beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Colosso Colossetti … Willem Ruska and Umanosuke Ueda
beat Buffalo Allen and Haruka Eigen … Bugsy McGraw beat Makoto Arakawa … Kengo
Kimura beat Pete Reeves … Ray Steel beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Satoru Sayama beat Jo
Baek San

May 9, 1978 … Kokubu (present-day Kirishima)
Andre the Giant, Marty Jones and Nicolai Volkoff beat Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu and Tatsumi
Fujinami … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Osamu Kido … Umanosuke Ueda beat Colosso Colossetti
… Tony Garea beat Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Willem
Ruska and Baron Scicluna … Bugsy McGraw beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Chief Jay Strongbow
beat Makoto Arakawa … Shoji Kai drew Satoru Sayama … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Jo Baek
San

May 10, 1978 … Kumamoto
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Andre the Giant and Colosso Colossetti … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Tony Garea … Umanosuke Ueda beat Baron Scicluna … Riki Choshu beat
Ray Steel … Buffalo Allen and Osamu Kido beat Willem Ruska and Chief Jay Strongbow …
Bugsy McGraw beat Haruka Eigen … Nicolai Volkoff beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Marty Jones
beat Satoru Sayama … Shoji Kai drew Kuniaki Kobayashi

May 11, 1978 … Fukuoka
Andre the Giant beat Antonio Inoki (COR) … Seiji Sakaguchi and Umanosuke Ueda went to a
no contest … Riki Choshu and Osamu Kido beat Colosso Colossetti and Tony Garea …
Tatsumi Fujinami beat Marty Jones … Willem Ruska beat Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen beat
Baron Scicluna (DQ) … Nicolai Volkoff beat Makoto Arakawa … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Ray
Steel … Shoji Kai drew Kuniaki Kobayashi

May 12, 1978 … Ube
Antonio Inoki, Osamu Kido and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Andre the Giant, Tony Garea and
Umanosuke Ueda … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Ray Steel … Nicolai Volkoff beat Riki Choshu …
Bugsy McGraw beat Chief Jay Strongbow … Willem Ruska beat Makoto Arakawa … Baron
Scicluna beat Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen beat Marty Jones … Shoji Kai beat Satoru
Sayama … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Jo Baek San

May 13, 1978 … Numazu
Antonio Inoki beat Nicolai Volkoff … Andre the Giant beat Riki Choshu … Seiji Sakaguchi
beat Bugsy McGraw … Tatsumi Fujinami and Osamu Kido bea Baron Scicluna and
Umanosuke Ueda … Willem Ruska beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Buffalo Allen beat Tony Garea
… Chief Jay Strongbow beat Haruka Eigen … Marty Jones beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Makoto
Arakawa beat Satoru Sayama

May 15, 1978 … Matsumoto
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Andre the Giant and Umanosuke Ueda … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Bugsy McGraw … Tony Garea beat Osamu Kido … Willem Ruska beat Riki
Choshu … Nicolai Volkoff beat Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen beat Baron Scicluna (DQ) …
Marty Jones beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Ray Steel … Satoru Sayama
drew Jo Baek San

May 16, 1978 … Chichibu
Antonio Inoki, Buffalo Allen and Osamu Kido beat Andre the Giant, Tony Garea and Marty
Jones … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Nicolai Volkoff … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Chief Jay Strongbow
… Riki Choshu beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Bugsy McGraw beat Haruka Eigen … Willem
Ruska beat Makoto Arakawa … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Baron Scicluna … Ray Steel beat
Satoru Sayama … Shoji Kai drew Kuniaki Kobayashi

May 17, 1978 … Utsunomiya
Tatsumi Fujinami, Osamu Kido and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Andre the Giant, Tony Garea and
Marty Jones … Antonio Inoki beat Riki Choshu … Umanosuke Ueda beat Bugsy McGraw …
Buffalo Allen beat Nicolai Volkoff … Willem Ruska beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Haruka Eigen
beat Ray Steel … Baron Scicluna beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Satoru
Sayama … Shoji Kai beat Jo Baek San

May 18, 1978 … Sakata
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Andre the Giant and Baron Scicluna … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Riki Choshu … Bugsy McGraw beat Nicolai Volkoff … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Tony Garea
… Umanosuke Ueda beat Buffalo Allen … Willem Ruska beat Haruka Eigen … Chief Jay
Strongbow beat Makoto Arakawa … Marty Jones beat Satoru Sayama … Kuniaki Kobayashi
beat Jo Baek San

May 19, 1978 … Sendai, Miyagi
Antonio Inoki beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Nicolai Volkoff … Riki
Choshu beat Chief Jay Strongbow … Andre the Giant and Marty Jones beat Osamu Kido and
Seiji Sakaguchi … Buffalo Allen and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Tony Garea and Baron Scicluna
… Willem Ruska beat Makoto Arakawa … Bugsy McGraw beat Haruka Eigen … Kuniaki
Kobayashi beat Shoji Kai … Satoru Sayama beat Jo Baek San

May 20, 1978 … Akita
Antonio Inoki beat Tatsumi Fujinami … Andre the Giant beat Bugsy McGraw … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Chief Jay Strongbow … Riki Choshu and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Nicolai
Volkoff and Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Buffalo Allen beat Tony Garea … Willem Ruska beat
Osamu Kido … Baron Scicluna beat Haruka Eigen … Marty Jones beat Kuniaki Kobayashi …
Makoto Arakawa beat Jo Baek San

May 21, 1978 … Hachinohe
Antonio Inoki beat Bugsy McGraw … Andre the Giant beat Nicolai Volkoff … Tatsumi Fujinami
and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Baron Scicluna and Umanosuke Ueda … Willem Ruska beat Haruka
Eigen … Buffalo Allen beat Chief Jay Strongbow … Osamu Kido beat Ray Steel … Marty
Jones beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Jo Baek San

May 22, 1978 … Fukushima
Tatsumi Fujinami, Buffalo Allen and Osamu Kido beat Andre the Giant, Marty Jones and
Baron Scicluna … Antonio Inoki beat Chief Jay Strongbow … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Riki
Choshu … Nicolai Volkoff beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Willem Ruska beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Tony Garea beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Bugsy McGraw beat Makoto Arakawa …
Ray Steel beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Shoji Kai beat Jo Baek San

May 23, 1978 … Hamamatsu
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Tony Garea and Nicolai Volkoff … Seiji Sakaguchi beat
Tatsumi Fujinami (COR) … Andre the Giant beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Osamu Kido beat
Marty Jones … Willem Ruska beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Buffalo Allen beat Bugsy McGraw
(DQ) … Baron Scicluna beat Makoto Arakawa … Shoji Kai beat Ray Steel … Kuniaki
Kobayashi beat Jo Baek San

May 25, 1978 … Matsuyama
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi went to a no contest … Umanosuke Ueda beat Chief Jay
Strongbow … Andre the Giant and Marty Jones beat Riki Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami …
Osamu Kido beat Tony Garea … Buffalo Allen beat Nicolai Volkoff (DQ) … Willem Ruska
beat Makoto Arakawa … Bugsy McGraw beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Kengo Kimura beat Ray
Steel … Shoji Kai drew Kuniaki Kobayashi

May 26, 1978 … Takamatsu
Bob Backlund and Tony Garea beat Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido … Andre the Giant beat
Seiji Sakaguchi (COR) … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Umanosuke Ueda … Bugsy McGraw beat
Riki Choshu … Kotetsu Yamamoto and Buffalo Allen beat Willem Ruska and Baron Scicluna
… Nicolai Volkoff beat Makoto Arakawa … Kengo Kimura beat Chief Jay Strongbow …
Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Ray Steel … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Jo Baek San
NOTE: Accompanied by Arnold Skaaland, WWWF Heavyweight Champion Bob Backlund
came to work for New Japan group for the first time.

May 28, 1978 … Uwajima
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Andre the Giant and Tony Garea … Nicolai Volkoff
beat Chief Jay Strongbow … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Baron Scicluna … Bob Backlund beat
Osamu Kido … Riki Choshu beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Willem Ruska beat Kotetsu
Yamamoto … Bugsy McGraw beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Kengo Kimura beat Ray Steel …
Makoto Arakawa beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Shoji Kai beat Jo Baek San

May 29, 1978 … Okayama
Bob Backlund and Baron Scicluna beat Riki Choshu and Antonio Inoki … Seiji Sakaguchi
beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Andre the Giant beat Tatsumi Fujinami … Osamu Kido beat
Tony Garea … Willem Ruska beat Kengo Kimura … Buffalo Allen beat Chief Jay Strongbow
… Nicolai Volkoff beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Bugsy McGraw beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki
Kobayashi beat Ray Steel

May 30, 1978 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Antonio Inoki beat Andre the Giant (COR) (Antonio Inoki became the winner of the round-
robin tournament) … Bob Backlund and Tony Garea beat Riki Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami
… Seiji Sakaguchi and Umanosuke Ueda both COR … Willem Ruska beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara
… Buffalo Allen beat Nicolai Volkoff (DQ) … Osamu Kido beat Bugsy McGraw … Ray Steel
beat Makoto Arakawa … Kengo Kimura beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

May 31, 1978 … Gifu
Andre the Giant and Bob Backlund beat Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Tony Garea … Umanosuke Ueda beat Riki Choshu … Nicolai Volkoff beat
Osamu Kido … Buffalo Allen beat Baron Scicluna … Willem Ruska beat Makoto Arakawa …
Chief Jay Strongbow beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Ray Steel … Shoji Kai
beat Jo Baek San

June 1, 1978 … Tokyo (Nippon Budokan)
Antonio Inoki beat Bob Backlund (referee: Johnny “Red Shoes” Dugan) (Antonio Inoki won
only the first fall by COR, which was not enough to win the WWWF Heavyweight Title … Inoki
retained NWF Heavyweight Title) … Andre the Giant and Seiji Sakaguchi both COR … Riki
Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Tony Garea and Nicolai Volkoff … Buffalo Allen beat
Bugsy McGraw … Willem Ruska beat Osamu Kido … Baron Scicluna beat Makoto Arakawa
… Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Ray Steel … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Jo Baek San

June 7, 1978 … Fukuoka
Antonio Inoki beat Everett “Monster Man” Eddy in a mixed martial arts bout … Seiji Sakaguchi
beat Lumberjack Johnny Lee in a mixed martial arts bout … Willem Ruska beat Buffalo Allen
in a judo jacket match … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Haruka Eigen … Riki Choshu beat Osamu
Kido

[Super Fight Series]
June 23, 1978 … Omiya (present-day Saitama)
Peter Maivia and Pedro Morales beat Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi … Chavo Guerrero
and Tatsumi Fujinami both COR … Strong Kobayashi beat Larry Zbyszko … Haystacks
Calhoun beat Kantaro Hoshino … Buffalo Allen beat Osamu Kido … Riki Choshu beat Haruka
Eigen … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa drew Shoji Kai …
Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Masanobu Kurisu
NOTE: Fred Blassie accompanied Peter Maivia and Haystacks Calhoun as their manager.

June 26, 1978 … Tsu
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Chavo Guerrero and Peter Maivia … Pedro Morales beat
Strong Kobayashi … Haystacks Calhoun and Seiji Sakaguchi both COR … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Hahn Lee … Larry Zbyszko beat Osamu Kido … Buffalo Allen beat Haruka Eigen …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Masanobu Kurisu … Shoji
Kai drew Kuniaki Kobayashi

June 27, 1978 … Kure
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Haystacks Calhoun and Pedro Morales … Peter
Maivia and Seiji Sakaguchi both COR … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Larry Zbyszko … Chavo
Guerrero beat Osamu Kido … Haruka Eigen beat Hahn Lee … Buffalo Allen beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Riki Choshu beat Kantaro Hoshino … Makoto Arakawa beat Kuniaki Kobayashi
… Shoji Kai beat Masanobu Kurisu

June 28, 1978 … Fukuchiyama
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Hahn Lee and Pedro Morales … Haystacks Calhoun
beat Strong Kobayashi (COR) … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Larry Zbyszko … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Peter Maivia (DQ) … Chavo Guerrero beat Riki Choshu … Buffalo Allen beat Osamu
Kido … Haruka Eigen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Shoji Kai … Masanobu
Kurisu beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

June 29, 1978 … Hakone
Peter Maivia and Larry Zbyszko drew Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido (both COR) … Pedro
Morales beat Seiji Sakaguchi … Haystacks Calhoun beat Riki Choshu … Strong Kobayashi
beat Buffalo Allen … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Hahn Lee … Chavo Guerrero beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Haruka Eigen beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Makoto Arakawa drew Yoshiaki Fujiwara
… Shoji Kai beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

June 30, 1978 … Funabashi
Antonio Inoki beat Peter Maivia … Tatsumi Fujinami and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Haystacks
Calhoun and Larry Zbyszko … Pedro Morales and Strong Kobayashi both COR … Chavo
Guerrero beat Osamu Kido … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hahn Lee … Buffalo Allen beat Haruka
Eigen … Riki Choshu beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Kuniaki Kobayashi …
Shoji Kai beat Masanobu Kurisu

July 1, 1978 … Minokamo
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Chavo Guerrero and Pedro Morales … Peter Maivia and
Strong Kobayashi both COR … Haystacks Calhoun beat Seiji Sakaguchi … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Larry Zbyszko … Osamu Kido beat Hahn Lee … Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen …
Buffalo Allen beat Makoto Arakawa … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Shoji Kai
drew Masanobu Kurisu

July 2, 1978 … Tachikawa
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Haystacks Calhoun and Larry Zbyszko … Pedro
Morales beat Tatsumi Fujinami (COR) … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Peter Maivia (COR) … Strong
Kobayashi beat Hahn Lee … Chavo Guerrero beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Buffalo Allen beat
Riki Choshu … Osamu Kido beat Haruka Eigen … Makoto Arakawa beat Masanobu Kurisu …
Shoji Kai drew Kuniaki Kobayashi

July 3, 1978 … Tatebayashi
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Hahn Lee and Pedro Morales … Haystacks Calhoun and
Strong Kobayashi both COR … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Larry Zbyszko … Tatsumi Fujinami beat
Peter Maivia (DQ) … Chavo Guerrero beat Kantaro Hoshino … Buffalo Allen beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Shoji Kai … Masanobu Kurisu beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

July 5, 1978 … Ishinomaki
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Haystacks Calhoun and Pedro Morales … Peter
Maivia beat Strong Kobayashi … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Chavo Guerrero … Larry Zbyszko
beat Osamu Kido … Buffalo Allen beat Kantaro Hoshino … Haruka Eigen beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Shoji Kai drew Masanobu Kurisu

July 6, 1978 … Namie
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Chavo Guerrero and Pedro Morales … Peter
Maivia beat Seiji Sakaguchi (COR) … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Haystacks Calhoun (DQ) …
Larry Zbyszko beat Kantaro Hoshino … Buffalo Allen beat Haruka Eigen … Osamu Kido beat
Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa drew Masanobu Kurisu … Shoji Kai beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi

July 7, 1978 … Ishikawa, Fukushima
Antonio Inoki beat Larry Zbyszko … Chavo Guerrero and Peter Maivia beat Tatsumi Fujinami
and Kantaro Hoshino … Pedro Morales beat Strong Kobayashi … Seiji Sakaguchi beat
Haystacks Calhoun (DQ) … Buffalo Allen beat Osamu Kido … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Haruka Eigen … Makoto Arakawa drew Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Masanobu Kurisu beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi

July 9, 1978 … Towada
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Chavo Guerrero and Pedro Morales … Haystacks
Calhoun beat Strong Kobayashi … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Larry Zbyszko … Peter Maivia and
Tatsumi Fujinami both COR … Buffalo Allen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Kantaro Hoshino drew
Haruka Eigen … Osamu Kido beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Makoto Arakawa drew Masanobu
Kurisu

July 11, 1978 … Iwanai
Antonio Inoki beat Peter Maivia … Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Pedro Morales
and Larry Zbyszko … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Chavo Guerrero … Haystacks Calhoun beat Riki
Choshu … Osamu Kido beat Hahn Lee … Buffalo Allen beat Kantaro Hoshino … Yoshiaki
Fujiwara beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Haruka Eigen beat Makoto Arakawa … Shoji Kai beat
Masanobu Kurisu

July 12, 1978 … Tomakomai
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Haystacks Calhoun and Pedro Morales … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Larry Zbyszko … Strong Kobayashi beat Chavo Guerrero … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Hahn Lee … Peter Maivia beat Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen and Riki Choshu
both COR … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Masanobu Kurisu … Makoto Arakawa drew Shoji Kai

July 13, 1978 … Muroran
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Chavo Guerrero and Pedro Morales … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Peter Maivia … Strong Kobayashi beat Haystacks Calhoun … Larry Zbyszko
beat Osamu Kido … Riki Choshu beat Hahn Lee … Buffalo Allen beat Haruka Eigen …
Makoto Arakawa drew Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Shoji Kai beat Masanobu Kurisu

July 14, 1978 … Obihiro
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Haystacks Calhoun and Larry Zbyszko … Pedro Morales
beat Seiji Sakaguchi … Strong Kobayashi beat Peter Maivia … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Hahn
Lee … Chavo Guerrero beat Osamu Kido … Buffalo Allen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Haruka
Eigen beat Masanobu Kurisu … Makoto Arakawa drew Shoji Kai

July 15, 1978 … Nemuro
Antonio Inoki beat Haystacks Calhoun … Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Pedro
Morales and Larry Zbyszko … Peter Maivia and Tatsumi Fujinami both COR … Chavo
Guerrero beat Riki Choshu … Kantaro Hoshino beat Hahn Lee … Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Buffalo Allen beat Makoto Arakawa … Shoji Kai drew Masanobu Kurisu

July 17, 1978 … Iwamizawa
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Peter Maivia and Pedro Morales … Seiji Sakaguchi beat
Larry Zbyszko … Haystacks Calhoun and Strong Kobayashi both COR … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Chavo Guerrero … Hahn Lee beat Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen beat Kantaro Hoshino
… Riki Choshu beat Makoto Arakawa … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Masanobu Kurisu

July 18, 1978 … Kushiro
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Haystacks Calhoun and Pedro Morales … Strong
Kobayashi beat Larry Zbyszko … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Peter Maivia (COR) … Chavo
Guerrero beat Kantaro Hoshino … Osamu Kido beat Hahn Lee … Buffalo Allen beat Riki
Choshu … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Haruka Eigen … Makoto Arakawa beat Masanobu Kurisu

July 19, 1978 … Kitami
Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Pedro Morales and Larry Zbyszko … Antonio
Inoki beat Peter Maivia … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Hahn Lee … Haystacks Calhoun beat Riki
Choshu … Chavo Guerrero beat Osamu Kido … Buffalo Allen beat Haruka Eigen … Yoshiaki
Fujiwara beat Makoto Arakawa … Shoji Kai drew Masanobu Kurisu

July 21, 1978 … Aomori
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Chavo Guerrero and Pedro Morales (DQ) … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Haystacks Calhoun (DQ) … Riki Choshu beat Larry Zbyszko … Strong
Kobayashi beat Buffalo Allen … Peter Maivia beat Haruka Eigen … Osamu Kido beat Hahn
Lee … Kantaro Hoshino beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Masanobu Kurisu …
Shoji Kai beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

July 23, 1978 … Himeji
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Pedro Morales and Larry Zbyszko … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Peter Maivia (COR) … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Haystacks Calhoun (DQ) …
Riki Choshu beat Hahn Lee … Chavo Guerrero beat Kantaro Hoshino … Kotetsu Yamamoto
beat Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen beat Osamu Kido … Makoto Arakawa drew Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Masanobu Kurisu beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

July 24, 1978 … Hiroshima
Antonio Inoki beat Pedro Morales (Antonio Inoki retained the NWF Heavyweight Title) …
Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Haystacks Calhoun and Peter Maivia (Strong
Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi retained the North American Tat Team Title) … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Larry Zbyszko … Chavo Guerrero beat Osamu Kido … Kotetsu Yamamoto
beat Hahn Lee … Riki Choshu and Buffalo Allen both COR … Haruka Eigen beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

July 25, 1978 … Takaishi
Tatsumi Fujinami and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Haystacks Calhoun and Larry Zbyszko … Antonio
Inoki beat Hahn Lee … Pedro Morales and Strong Kobayashi both COR … Chavo Guerrero
beat Riki Choshu … Peter Maivia beat Haruka Eigen … Osamu Kido beat Kotetsu Yamamoto
… Buffalo Allen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Masanobu Kurisu … Shoji
Kai drew Kuniaki Kobayashi

July 26, 1978 … Kushimoto
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Chavo Guerrero and Pedro Morales … Seiji Sakaguchi
beat Haystacks Calhoun (DQ) … Strong Kobayashi beat Peter Maivia … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Hahn Lee … Larry Zbyszko beat Kantaro Hoshino … Buffalo Allen beat Makoto Arakawa
… Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Shoji Kai beat Kuniaki Kobayashi

July 27, 1978 … Tokyo (Nippon Budokan)
Bob Backlund drew Antonio Inoki (Bob Backlund retained the WWWF Heavyweight Title) …
Tatsumi Fujinami beat Ryuma Go (Tatsumi Fujinami retained the WWWF Junior Heavyweight
Title) … Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Pedro Morales and Larry Zbyszko … Riki
Choshu beat Haystacks Calhoun (DQ) … Chavo Guerrero beat Kantaro Hoshino … Osamu
Kido beat Peter Maivia … Buffalo Allen beat Haruka Eigen … Makoto Arakawa drew Yoshiaki
Fujiwara

[Golden Fight Series]
August 25, 1978 … Nagaoka
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) …
Tatsumi Fujinami beat Johnny Mantell … Riki Choshu beat Zimba Khan (Vince Bright) (DQ)
… Strong Kobayashi beat Joey Rossi … Osamu Kido beat Pete Roberts … Buffalo Allen beat
Kuniaki Kobayashi … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masanobu Kurisu … Haruka Eigen beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Shoji Kai beat George Takano … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Akira Maeda …
Makoto Arakawa beat Yoshiyuki Harazono

August 26, 1978 … Iiyama
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Zimba Khan and Umanosuke Ueda … Tiger Jeet Singh
beat Riki Choshu … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Joey Rossi … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Buffalo Allen
… Strong Kobayashi beat Pete Roberts … Johnny Mantell beat Haruka Eigen … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Masanobu Kurisu beat Makoto Arakawa … Yoshiaki
Fujiwara beat Junji Hirata … Shoji Kai beat Hiroyuki Saito

August 27, 1978 … Yachiyo
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Johnny Mantell and Tiger Jeet Singh … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Zimba Khan … Riki Choshu
beat Buffalo Allen … Joey Rossi beat Haruka Eigen … Pete Roberts beat Makoto Arakawa …
Osamu Kido beat Kantaro Hoshino … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Masanobu Kurisu … Kuniaki
Kobayashi beat George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

August 28, 1978 … Haibara (present-day Makinohara)
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami and Osamu Kido beat Johnny Mantell, Pete Roberts and
Umanosuke Ueda … Tiger Jeet Singh beat Strong Kobayashi … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Joey
Rossi … Zimba Khan beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Buffalo Allen beat Kantaro Hoshino … Riki
Choshu beat Haruka Eigen … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Shoji Kai … Makoto Arakawaa beat
George Takano … Masanobu Kurisu beat Yoshiyuki Harazono

August 29, 1978 … Kasugai
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Pete Roberts and Tiger Jeet Singh … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Johnny Mantell … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Zimba Khan … Umanosuke Ueda
beat Osamu Kido … Strong Kobayashi beat Buffalo Allen … Joey Rossi beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Riki Choshu beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Haruka Eigen beat Makoto Arakawa …
Shoji Kai beat George Takano … Masanobu Kurisu beat Junji Hirata

August 30, 1978 … Misato
Antonio Inoki, Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Zimba Khan, Johnny Mantell and
Tiger Jeet Singh … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Pete Roberts … Riki Choshu beat Umanosuke
Ueda (DQ) … Buffalo Allen beat Osamu Kido … Joey Rossi beat Masanobu Kurisu …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Shoji Kai
beat Yoshiyuki Harazono … Makoto Arakawa beat Junji Hirata

August 31, 1978 … Koshigaya
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Pete Roberts and Tiger Jeet Singh … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Strong Kobayashi beat Osamu Kido … Johnny
Mantell beat Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino beat Joey Rossi … Buffalo Allen beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Zimba Khan beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Makoto Arakawa beat George Takano …
Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata

September 1, 1978 … Aizuwakamatsu
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami and Strong Kobayashi beat Zimba Khan, Tiger Jeet Singh
and Umanosuke Ueda … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Johnny Mantell … Pete Roberts beat Osamu
Kido … Buffalo Allen beat Haruka Eigen … Joey Rossi beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Shoji Kai
beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Junji Hirata … Masanobu Kurisu beat
George Takano

September 2, 1978 … Kawamata
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Joey Rossi and Tiger Jeet Singh … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Buffalo Allen … Johnny Mantell
beat Haruka Eigen … Pete Roberts beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Zimba Khan beat Kantaro
Hoshino (DQ) … Osamu Kido beat Masanobu Kurisu … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George
Takano … Shoji Kai beat Yoshiyuki Harazono

September 3, 1978 … Fukushima
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Johnny Mantell and Tiger Jeet Singh … Strong
Kobayashi beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Pete Roberts … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Zimba Khan … Buffalo Allen beat Masanobu Kurisu … Joey Rossi beat
Kuniaki Kobayashi … Osamu Kido beat Haruka Eigen … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat George
Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

September 4, 1978 … Haramachi (present-day Minamisoma)
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Pete Roberts and Umanosuke Ueda … Tiger Jeet
Singh beat Strong Kobayashi … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Johnny Mantell … Osamu Kido beat
Joey Rossi … Zimba Khan beat Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen beat Kantaro Hoshino …
Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Shoji Kai beat George Takano … Masanobu
Kurisu beat Junji Hirata

September 5, 1978 … Misawa
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami and Osamu Kido beat Zimba Khan, Pete Roberts and Tiger
Jeet Singh … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Joey Rossi … Strong Kobayashi beat Johnny Mantell …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Haruka Eigen … Buffalo Allen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Kuniaki
Kobayashi beat George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata … Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira
Maeda

September 6, 1978 … Hirosaki
Antonio Inoki and Umanosuke Ueda went to a no contest … Zimba Khan and Tiger Jeet Singh
beat Tatsumi Fujinami and Strong Kobayashi … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Pete Roberts … Buffalo
Allen beat Osamu Kido … Johnny Mantell beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Haruka Eigen beat Joey
Rossi … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Masanobu Kurisu beat George Takano
… Shoji Kai beat Yoshiyuki Harazono

September 7, 1978 … Odate
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Johnny Mantell and Tiger Jeet Singh … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Zimba Khan … Pete Roberts
beat Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino and Osamu Kido beat Buffalo Allen and Joey Rossi …
Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Junji Hirata … Shoji Kai beat George Takano … Kuniaki Kobayashi
beat Akira Maeda

September 8, 1978 … Ebina
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Pete Roberts and Umanosuke Ueda … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Tiger Jeet Singh (DQ) … Strong Kobayashi beat Buffalo Allen … Kantaro
Hoshino and Osamu Kido beat Zimba Khan and Johnny Mantell … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat
Joey Rossi … Haruka Eigen beat Junji Hirata … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano …
Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

September 9, 1978 … Shiogama
Antonio Inoki, Kantaro Hoshino and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Johnny Mantell, Pete Roberts and
Umanosuke Ueda … Tiger Jeet Singh beat Strong Kobayashi … Tatsumi Fujinami beat
Buffalo Allen … Zimba Khan beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Joey Rossi beat Masanobu Kurisu …
Osamu Kido beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Haruka Eigen beat George Takano … Shoji Kai beat
Junji Hirata

September 11, 1978 … Kagoshima
Antonio Inoki beat Umanosuke Ueda … Tatsumi Fujinami and Strong Kobayashi beat Pete
Roberts and Tiger Jeet Singh … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Johnny Mantell … Zimba Khan beat
Riki Choshu … Osamu Kido beat Joey Rossi … Kantaro Hoshino beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara …
Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Junji Hirata … Makoto Arakawa beat George Takano … Masanobu
Kurisu beat Yoshiyuki Harazono

September 12, 1978 … Kumamoto [first night]
Antonio Inoki beat Tiger Jeet Singh (DQ) … Tatsumi Fujinami and Osamu Kido beat Johnny
Mantell and Pete Roberts … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Strong
Kobayashi beat Zimba Khan (DQ) … Riki Choshu beat Joey Rossi … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Haruka Eigen … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Junji Hirata … Shoji Kai beat George Takano …
Makoto Arakawa beat Akira Maeda

September 13, 1978 … Kumamoto [second night]
Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Zimba Khan and Tiger Jeet Singh (Strong
Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi retained the North American Tag Team Title) … Antonio Inoki
beat Umanosuke Ueda … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Pete Roberts … Riki Choshu and Kantaro
Hoshino beat Johnny Mantell and Joey Rossi … Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara …
Haruka Eigen beat Masanobu Kurisu … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano … Shoji Kai
beat Junji Hirata

September 14, 1978 … Saga
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Pete Roberts and Tiger Jeet Singh … Seiji
Sakaguchi and Umanosuke Ueda both COR … Strong Kobayashi beat Johnny Mantell …
Osamu Kido beat Kantaro Hoshino … Riki Choshu beat Zimba Khan … Joey Rossi beat
Kuniaki Kobayashi … Haruka Eigen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Junji
Hirata … Masanobu Kurisu beat George Takano

September 15, 1978 … Kurashiki
Antonio Inoki beat Tiger Jeet Singh (COR) … Riki Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Johnny
Mantell and Pete Roberts … Umanosuke Ueda beat Zimba Khan … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Joey
Rossi … Strong Kobayashi beat Kantaro Hoshino … Osamu Kido beat Haruka Eigen …
Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano …
Masanobu Kurisu beat Junji Hirata … Shoji Kai beat Yoshiyuki Harazono

September 16, 1978 … Gifu
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Pete Roberts and Umanosuke Ueda … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Tiger Jeet Singh (DQ) … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Zimba Khan … Kantaro Hoshino
beat Joey Rossi … Johnny Mantell beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat George
Takano … Makoto Arakawa beat Junji Hirata … Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

September 17, 1978 … Ama
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Pete Roberts and Umanosuke Ueda … Tiger Jeet
Singh beat Strong Kobayashi … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Johnny Mantell … Kantaro Hoshino
beat Zimba Khan … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Joey Rossi … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Junji Hirata
… Shoji Kai beat George Takano … Masanobu Kurisu beat Yoshiyuki Harazono

September 18, 1978 … Okazaki
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Johnny Mantell and Tiger Jeet Singh … Strong
Kobayashi beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Joey Rossi … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Zimba Khan … Pete Roberts beat Haruka Eigen … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat
Kuniaki Kobayashi … Kotetsu Yamamoto beat George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata
… Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

September 19, 1978 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Umanosuke Ueda beat Tiger Jeet Singh (DQ) (referee: Antonio Inoki) … Strong Kobayashi
and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Tatsumi Fujinami and Osamu Kido … Pete Roberts beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Haruka Eigen beat Joey Rossi … Kantaro Hoshino and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat
Zimba Khan and Johnny Mantell … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano … Makoto
Arakawa beat Junji Hirata … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda
NOTE: There was a split in the ferocious combo of Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda.
Their match attracted the largest crowd in more than twenty years. Its ending, however, was
very disappointing because Singh attacked the referee Inoki and got disqualified.

September 20, 1978 … Matsusaka
Antonio Inoki beat Umanosuke Ueda … Pete Roberts and Tiger Jeet Singh beat Tatsumi
Fujinami and Kantaro Hoshino … Strong Kobayashi beat Haruka Eigen … Seiji Sakaguchi
beat Joey Rossi … Osamu Kido beat Johnny Mantell … Zimba Khan beat Masanobu Kurisu
… Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Junji Hirata … Masanobu Kurisu beat George Takano … Shoji Kai
beat Yoshiyuki Harazono

September 21, 1978 … Tokyo (Shinagawa Prince Hotel)
Antonio Inoki beat Tiger Jeet Singh (Antonio Inoki retained the NWF Heavyweight Title) …
Tatsumi Fujinami and Osamu Kido beat Johnny Mantell and Umanosuke Ueda … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Pete Roberts … Strong Kobayashi beat Kantaro Hoshino … Haruka Eigen
beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Zimba Khan beat Masanobu Kurisu … Joey Rossi beat Makoto
Arakawa … Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano

September 22, 1978 … Odawara
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Pete Roberts and Umanosuke Ueda … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Tiger Jeet Singh (DQ) … Strong Kobayashi beat Johnny Mantell … Zimba
Khan beat Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Makoto Arakawa
and Osamu Kido … Shoji Kai beat George Takano … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Akira Maeda
… Masanobu Kurisu beat Junji Hirata

September 23, 1978 … Ishioka
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami and Strong Kobayashi beat Zimba Khan, Pete Roberts and
Tiger Jeet Singh … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Osamu Kido … Umanosuke Ueda beat Haruka
Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino beat Joey Rossi … Johnny Mantell beat Kotetsu Yamamoto …
Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata … Masanobu Kurisu
beat Yoshiyuki Harazono

September 24, 1978 … Atsugi
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Johnny Mantell and Umanosuke Ueda … Tiger Jeet
Singh and Seiji Sakaguchi both COR … Strong Kobayashi beat Joey Rossi … Pete Roberts
beat Kantaro Hoshino … Osamu Kido beat Zimba Khan … Haruka Eigen beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Masanobu Kurisu beat George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Yoshiyuki Harazono

September 25, 1978 … Sakai-machi, Ibaraki
Antonio Inoki beat Umanosuke Ueda … Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Johnny
Mantell and Tiger Jeet Singh … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Pete Roberts … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Zimba Khan … Joey Rossi beat Masanobu Kurisu … Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara …
Haruka Eigen beat Junji Hirata … Shoji Kai beat George Takano … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat
Akira Maeda

[Fighting Spirit Series]
October 6, 1978 … Niigata
Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Brute Bernard, The Executioner (Curtis
Smith) and Killer Karl Krupp … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Tony Rocco … Chris Markoff beat
Osamu Kido … Strong Kobayashi beat Haruka Eigen … Chavo Guerrero beat Kantaro
Hoshino … Makoto Arakawa beat Shoji Kai … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano …
Masanobu Kurisu beat Junji Hirata

October 7, 1978 … Sakai-machi, Gunma (present-day Isesaki)
Chavo Guerrero and Killer Karl Krupp beat Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi (DQ) …
Tatsumi Fujinami beat The Executioner … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Brute Bernard (DQ) … Chris
Markoff beat Kantaro Hoshino … Tony Rocco beat Osamu Kido … Riki Choshu beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Haruka Eigen beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Junji Hirata …
Masanobu Kurisu beat George Takano

October 8, 1978 … Numata
Antonio Inoki and Kantaro Hoshino beat Brute Bernard and Tony Rocco … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Killer Karl Krupp (DQ) … Chris Markoff beat Haruka Eigen … Seiji Sakaguchi beat
Osamu Kido … Strong Kobayashi beat Chavo Guerrero (DQ) … Riki Choshu beat The
Executioner … Yoshiaki Fujiwara and George Takano beat Kuniaki Kobayashi and
Masanobu Kurisu … Makoto Arakawa beat Junji Hirata … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

October 9, 1978 … Tateyama
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami and Strong Kobayashi beat Chavo Guerrero, Killer Karl
Krupp and Tony Rocco … Seiji Sakaguchi beat The Executioner … Chris Markoff beat Riki
Choshu … Brute Bernard beat Kantaro Hoshino … Osamu Kido beat Kuniaki Kobayashi …
Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Makoto Arakawa … Haruka Eigen beat Junji Hirata … Masanobu
Kurisu beat Akira Maeda … Shoji Kai beat George Takano

October 10, 1978 … Machida
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu beat Brute Bernard and The Executioner … Killer Karl Krupp
and Seiji Sakaguchi both COR … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Tony Rocco … Chris Markoff beat
Strong Kobayashi … Chavo Guerrero beat Haruka Eigen … Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Osamu
Kido beat Makoto Arakawa and Kantaro Hoshino … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano
… Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata

October 11, 1978 … Niiza
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Killer Karl Krupp and Tony Rocco … Chris Markoff
beat Seiji Sakaguchi … Strong Kobayashi beat The Executioner … Brute Bernard beat Riki
Choshu … Chavo Guerrero beat Osamu Kido … Haruka Eigen beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara …
Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Masanobu Kurisu … Makoto Arakawa beat George Takano … Junji
Hirata drew Akira Maeda

October 12, 1978 … Fukuroi
Antonio Inoki, Kantaro Hoshino and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Brute Bernard, The Executioner and
Chavo Guerrero … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Chris Markoff (DQ) … Killer Karl Krupp beat
Strong Kobayashi … Tony Rocco beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Riki Choshu beat Haruka Eigen
… Osamu Kido beat Junji Hirata … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Makoto Arakawa … Masanobu
Kurisu beat George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

October 13, 1978 … Hanamaki
Antonio Inoki beat Brute Bernard … Tatsumi Fujinami and Osamu Kido beat Chavo Guerrero
and Tony Rocco … Killer Karl Krupp beat Riki Choshu … Seiji Sakaguchi beat The
Executioner … Chris Markoff beat Kantaro Hoshino … Strong Kobayashi beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa beat Masanobu Kurisu … George Takano beat Junji Hirata …
Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Akira Maeda

October 14, 1978 … Kurikoma (present-day Kurihara)
Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido beat Chris Markoff and Tony Rocco … Tatsumi Fujinami beat
The Executioner … Strong Kobayashi beat Brute Bernard (DQ) … Killer Karl Krupp beat
Haruka Eigen … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Riki Choshu … Chavo Guerrero beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara
… Kantaro Hoshino beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Makoto Arakawa and Junji Hirata beat
Masanobu Kurisu and George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

October 15, 1978 … Inawashiro
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat The Executioner and Killer Karl Krupp … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Brute Bernard … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Tony Rocco … Chris Markoff beat Riki
Choshu … Chavo Guerrero beat Kantaro Hoshino … Haruka Eigen beat Makoto Arakawa …
Yoshiaki Fujiwara w George Takano … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Akira Maeda

October 16, 1978 … Tajima (present-day Minamiaizu)
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Brute Bernard and Killer Karl Krupp … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Tony Rocco … Strong Kobayashi beat The Executioner … Chris Markoff beat
Osamu Kido … Chavo Guerrero beat Haruka Eigen … Riki Choshu beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara …
Kantaro Hoshino beat Masanobu Kurisu … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano

October 17, 1978 … Daigo
Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Chavo Guerrero, Chris Markoff and
Tony Rocco … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Brute Bernard … Killer Karl Krupp beat Strong
Kobayashi … Osamu Kido beat The Executioner … Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen …
Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Masanobu Kurisu … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Shoji Kai … George
Takano beat Akira Maeda

October 19, 1978 … Nagaoka
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Killer Karl Krupp and Tony Rocco … Brute Bernard
beat Seiji Sakaguchi (COR) … Chris Markoff beat Strong Kobayashi … Chavo Guerrero beat
Riki Choshu … Kantaro Hoshino beat The Executioner … Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara
… Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Junji Hirata … Makoto Arakawa beat George Takano …
Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

October 20, 1978 … Neyagawa
Tatsumi Fujinami beat Chavo Guerrero (Tatsumi Fujinami retained the WWWF Junior
Heavyweight Title) … Antonio Inoki beat The Executioner … Chris Markoff beat Riki Choshu
… Brute Bernard and Killer Karl Krupp beat Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi … Tony
Rocco beat Osamu Kido … Kantaro Hoshino beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Haruka Eigen beat
Masanobu Kurisu … Junji Hirata and Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Makoto Arakawa and George
Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

October 22, 1978 … Hagi
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat The Executioner and Chris Markoff … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Killer Karl Krupp (DQ) … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Tony Rocco … Riki Choshu beat
Brute Bernard (DQ) … Chavo Guerrero beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Osamu Kido … Haruka Eigen and Junji Hirata beat Makoto Arakawa and Masanobu Kurisu …
Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

October 23, 1978 … Shinnanyo (present-day Shunan)
Antonio Inoki beat Killer Karl Krupp … Riki Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami beat The
Executioner and Tony Rocco … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Chris Markoff (DQ) … Brute Bernard
beat Strong Kobayashi … Chavo Guerrero beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Osamu Kido beat
Makoto Arakawa … Haruka Eigen beat Junji Hirata … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat George Takano
… Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

October 25, 1978 … Sakai, Osaka
Antonio Inoki beat Killer Karl Krupp … Brute Bernard and Chris Markoff beat Riki Choshu and
Seiji Sakaguchi … Tatsumi Fujinami beat The Executioner … Strong Kobayashi beat Tony
Rocco … Chavo Guerrero beat Osamu Kido … Kantaro Hoshino beat Junji Hirata … Yoshiaki
Fujiwara beat Makoto Arakawa beat Haruka Eigen and Kuniaki Kobayashi … Shoji Kai beat
George Takano … Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

October 27, 1978 … Fukuyama
Antonio Inoki and Chris Markoff both COR … Brute Bernard and Killer Karl Krupp beat Strong
Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi (DQ) … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Tony Rocco … Riki Choshu
beat The Executioner … Chavo Guerrero beat Kantaro Hoshino … Osamu Kido beat
Masanobu Kurisu … Haruka Eigen and George Takano beat Makoto Arakawa and Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Junji Hirata

October 28, 1978 … Sumoto
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami and Seiji Sakaguchi beat The Executioner, Chavo Guerrero
and Chris Markoff … Killer Karl Krupp beat Strong Kobayashi … Brute Bernard beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Kantaro Hoshino beat Tony Rocco … Osamu Kido beat Riki Choshu … Haruka
Eigen beat Masanobu Kurisu … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Shoji Kai … George Takano beat
Junji Hirata … Makoto Arakawa beat Akira Maeda

October 29, 1978 … Koda (present-day Akitakata)
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Killer Karl Krupp and Tony Rocco … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Chris Markoff (DQ) … Seiji Sakaguchi beat The Executioner … Chavo
Guerrero beat Osamu Kido … Brute Bernard beat Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino beat
Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Riki Choshu beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George
Takano … Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata

October 30, 1978 … Okayama
Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Brute Bernard and Killer Karl Krupp (Strong
Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi retained the North American Tag Team Title) … Antonio Inoki
beat The Executioner … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Tony Rocco … Chris Markoff beat Osamu
Kido … Chavo Guerrero Guerrero beat Haruka Eigen … Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Kantaro
Hoshino beat Riki Choshu and Masanobu Kurisu … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Junji Hirata …
Makoto Arakawa beat George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

October 31, 1978 … Mihara
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami and Osamu Kido beat The Executioner, Chavo Guerrero and
Killer Karl Krupp … Chris Markoff beat Strong Kobayashi (COR) … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Tony
Rocco … Brute Bernard beat Masanobu Kurisu … Kantaro Hoshino and Kotetsu Yamamoto
beat Makoto Arakawa and Kuniaki Kobayashi … Riki Choshu beat Haruka Eigen … Yoshiaki
Fujiwara beat George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

November 1, 1978 … Nagoya
Antonio Inoki beat Chris Markoff (Antonio Inoki retained the NWF Heavyweight Title) … Riki
Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Killer Karl Krupp and Tony Rocco … Kantaro Hoshino
and Kotetsu Yamamoto beat Haruka Eigen and Strong Kobayashi … Seiji Sakaguchi beat
The Executioner … Chavo Guerrero beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … Brute Bernard beat Osamu
Kido … Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Makoto Arakawa … Masanobu Kurisu beat George Takano …
Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

[Pre Japan Championship Series]
November 17, 1978 … Tokyo (Korakuen Hall)
Hiro Matsuda beat Osamu Kido … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Masa Saito (COR) … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Thunder Sugiyama … Ryuma Go beat Haruka Eigen … Riki Choshu beat
Strong Kobayashi … Umanosuke Ueda beat Kotetsu Yamamoto … Kantaro Hoshino and Junji
Hirata beat Makoto Arakawa and Masanobu Kurisu … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George
Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda
NOTE: Antonio Inoki went to Europe to work for a 3-week tour organized by Roland Bock.

November 18, 1978 … Hanno
Hiro Matsuda beat Thunder Sugiyama … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Masa Saito … Riki Choshu
beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Ryuma Go … Strong Kobayashi beat
Kantaro Hoshino … Osamu Kido beat Haruka Eigen … Makoto Arakawa and George Takano
beat Junji Hirata and Kuniaki Kobayashi … Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

November 20, 1978 … Saijo
Riki Choshu and Strong Kobayashi beat Hiro Matsuda and Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Kantaro Hoshino … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Haruka Eigen … Masa Saito beat
Osamu Kido … Ryuma Go beat Thunder Sugiyama … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George
Takano … Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata … Makoto Arakawa beat Akira Maeda

November 21, 1978 … Kure
Hiro Matsuda and Masa Saito beat Riki Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami … Seiji Sakaguchi beat
Osamu Kido … Strong Kobayashi beat Haruka Eigen … Ryuma Go beat Umanosuke Ueda
(DQ) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Makoto Arakawa … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Masanobu Kurisu
… Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata … George Takano beat Akira Maeda

November 22, 1978 … Obama
Seiji Sakaguchi and Haruka Eigen beat Hiro Matsuda and Thunder Sugiyama … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Riki Choshu … Strong Kobayashi beat Masa Saito (COR) … Umanosuke Ueda
beat Kantaro Hoshino … Ryuma Go beat Osamu Kido … Makoto Arakawa beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Junji Hirata beat George Takano … Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

November 24, 1978 … Katsuta (present-day Hitachinaka)
Hiro Matsuda beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Strong Kobayashi (COR)
… Osamu Kido beat Riki Choshu … Thunder Sugiyama beat Seiji Sakaguchi (DQ) … Masa
Saito beat Kantaro Hoshino … Ryuma Go beat Haruka Eigen … Makoto Arakawa and Kuniaki
Kobayashi beat Junji Hirata and Masanobu Kurisu … Shoji Kai beat George Takano

November 25, 1978 … Gyoda
Hiro Matsuda beat Ryuma Go … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Haruka Eigen … Riki Choshu beat Kantaro Hoshino … Thunder Sugiyama
beat Osamu Kido … Masa Saito beat Masanobu Kurisu … Makoto Arakawa beat George
Takano … Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata

November 27, 1978 … Ichihara
Hiro Matsuda and Masa Saito beat Tatsumi Fujinami and Kantaro Hoshino … Umanosuke
Ueda beat Seiji Sakaguchi (DQ) … Ryuma Go beat Riki Choshu (COR) … Strong Kobayashi
beat Osamu Kido … Thunder Sugiyama beat Haruka Eigen … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Junji
Hirata … Masanobu Kurisu beat George Takano … Makoto Arakawa beat Akira Maeda

November 28, 1978 … Iwase (present-day Sakuragawa)
Riki Choshu and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Hiro Matsuda and Thunder Sugiyama (DQ) … Strong
Kobayashi beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Osamu Kido … Masa Saito
beat Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino beat Ryuma Go … Masanobu Kurisu beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Makoto Arakawa beat Junji Hirata … Shoji Kai beat George Takano

November 30, 1978 … Hiroshima
Tatsumi Fujinami beat Ryuma Go (Tatsumi Fujinami retained the WWWF Junior Heavyweight
Title) … Hiro Matsuda beat Osamu Kido … Strong Kobayashi beat Seiji Sakaguchi (COR) …
Umanosuke Ueda beat Haruka Eigen … Masa Saito beat Riki Choshu (DQ) … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Thunder Sugiyama (DQ) … Junji Hirata and Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Masanobu
Kurisu and George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

December 2, 1978 … Naze (present-day Amami)
Antonio Inoki and Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Haruka Eigen and Hiro Matsuda … Seiji Sakaguchi
beat Riki Choshu … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Kantaro Hoshino … Strong Kobayashi beat
Thunder Sugiyama … Umanosuke Ueda beat Osamu Kido … Masa Saito beat Ryuma Go …
Shoji Kai and Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Masanobu Kurisu and George Takano … Junji Hirata
drew Akira Maeda

December 3, 1978 … Izumi, Kagoshima
Antonio Inoki and Masa Saito drew Thunder Sugiyama and Umanosuke Ueda (no contest) …
Hiro Matsuda beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Tatsumi Fujinami (COR) …
Strong Kobayashi beat Ryuma Go … Kantaro Hoshino beat Osamu Kido … Riki Choshu beat
Haruka Eigen … Makoto Arakawa and George Takano beat Kuniaki Kobayashi and
Masanobu Kurisu … Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata

December 4, 1978 … Kanoya
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Osamu Kido and Hiro Matsuda … Tatsumi Fujinami
beat Ryuma Go … Umanosuke Ueda beat Masa Saito (DQ) … Riki Choshu beat Thunder
Sugiyama (DQ) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Haruka Eigen … Strong Kobayashi beat Yoshiaki
Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa and Masanobu Kurisu beat Kuniaki Kobayashi and George
Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

December 5, 1978 … Fukuoka
Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Thunder Sugiyama and Umanosuke Ueda (DQ)
(Strong Kobayashi and Seiji Sakaguchi retained the North American Tag Team Title) … Hiro
Matsuda beat Riki Choshu … Antonio Inoki beat Kantaro Hoshino … Haruka Eigen and
Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Ryuma Go … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Masa Saito …
Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano … Makoto Arakawa beat Shoji Kai … Masanobu
Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

December 6, 1978 … Nagasaki
Antonio Inoki and Strong Kobayashi beat Hiro Matsuda and Umanosuke Ueda … Tatsumi
Fujinami beat Thunder Sugiyama (DQ) … Masa Saito beat Ryuma Go … Seiji Sakaguchi
beat Riki Choshu … Osamu Kido beat Kantaro Hoshino … Haruka Eigen beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Makoto Arakawa beat George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

December 7, 1978 … Kumamoto
Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Masa Saito and Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Riki Choshu … Hiro Matsuda beat Strong Kobayashi … Osamu Kido beat
Thunder Sugiyama (DQ) … Ryuma Go beat Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino beat Kuniaki
Kobayashi … Makoto Arakawa beat Shoji Kai … George Takano beat Akira Maeda

December 8, 1978 … Tokuyama
Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu drew Hiro Matsuda and Masa Saito (no contest) … Seiji
Sakaguchi and Umanosuke Ueda both COR … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Ryuma Go … Strong
Kobayashi beat Thunder Sugiyama (DQ) … Kantaro Hoshino beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara …
Haruka Eigen and Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Makoto Arakawa and Osamu Kido … Shoji Kai
beat George Takano … Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

December 9, 1978 … Yokkaichi
Antonio Inoki beat Strong Kobayashi … Thunder Sugiyama and Umanosuke Ueda drew Riki
Choshu and Seiji Sakaguchi (no contest) … Tatsumi Fujinami beat Masa Saito (DQ) … Hiro
Matsuda beat Osamu Kido … Ryuma Go beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Makoto Arakawa and
Haruka Eigen beat Kantaro Hoshino and Kuniaki Kobayashi … Masanobu Kurisu beat
George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

December 11, 1978 … Shizuoka
Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi beat Masa Saito and Umanosuke Ueda … Hiro Matsuda
beat Tatsumi Fujinami … Riki Choshu beat Thunder Sugiyama (DQ) … Ryuma Go beat
Kantaro Hoshino … Strong Kobayashi beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara … Osamu Kido beat Haruka
Eigen … Kuniaki Kobayashi beat Masanobu Kurisu … Shoji Kai beat Akira Maeda

December 12, 1978 … Sendai, Miyagi
Hiro Matsuda and Umanosuke Ueda beat Tatsumi Fujinami and Strong Kobayashi (DQ) …
Antonio Inoki beat Masa Saito … Seiji Sakaguchi beat Ryuma Go … Thunder Sugiyama beat
Osamu Kido … Riki Choshu beat Kantaro Hoshino … Haruka Eigen beat Makoto Arakawa …
Kuniaki Kobayashi beat George Takano … Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

December 13, 1978 … Yokohama
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami and Osamu Kido beat Masa Saito, Thunder Sugiyama and
Umanosuke Ueda … Hiro Matsuda beat Seiji Sakaguchi … Strong Kobayashi beat Ryuma Go
… Riki Choshu beat Haruka Eigen … Kantaro Hoshino beat Masanobu Kurisu … Makoto
Arakawa beat Kuniaki Kobayashi … George Takano beat Junji Hirata … Shoji Kai beat Akira
Maeda

December 14, 1978 … Osaka (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Antonio Inoki beat Bob Backlund (COR) (Bob Backlund retained the WWWF Heavyweight
Title) … Riki Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami beat Ryuma Go and Umanosuke Ueda … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Masa Saito (DQ) … Hiro Matsuda beat Strong Kobayashi … Kantaro Hoshino
beat Thunder Sugiyama (DQ) … Osamu Kido and George Takano beat Haruka Eigen and
Kuniaki Kobayashi … Makoto Arakawa beat Shoji Kai … Masanobu Kurisu beat Akira Maeda

December 16, 1978 … Tokyo (Kuramae)
Antonio Inoki beat Hiro Matsuda (Antonio Inoki became the winner of the tournament) … Seiji
Sakaguchi beat Umanosuke Ueda (DQ) … Riki Choshu and Osamu Kido drew Animal
Hamaguchi and Isamu Teranishi … Tatsumi Fujinami and Masa Saito both COR … Kantaro
Hoshino beat Ryuma Go … Haruka Eigen and Masanobu Kurisu beat Makoto Arakawa and
George Takano … Shoji Kai beat Junji Hirata
NOTE: When this tour was over, Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami flew to New York. Inoki
was awarded the WWWF Martial Arts Title by Vince McMahon Sr. due to his accomplishments
in matches against fighters in other combat sports such as when he faced Muhammad Ali on
June 26, 1976.



Research by Haruo Yamaguchi
Japan Wrestling Results - 1978 - New Japan Pro Wrestling
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