The Story of The Great All Japan Pro Wrestling Exodus
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Remember when Scott Hall and Kevin Nash defected to WCW in 1996? Well imagine the same thing but about 10 times bigger and you have the great All Japan Pro Wrestling exodus.
Let me explain.
It was the year 2000 and AJPW had been on top of the pro wrestling world in Japan for a very long time. But all was not well behind the scenes.
Their biggest star Mitsuharu Misawa was disgruntled, fed up and at war with the company’s leader, a woman named Motoko Baba. See, Motoko was the widow of the late great Shohei "Giant" Baba, the founder of AJPW and the glue that held it all together. When he died in 1999, a power struggle for control ensued.
The result was a mass exodus - 24 of the 26 AJPW wrestlers all left together in the summer of 2000 to join Misawa in his new promotion, NOAH. It was a disaster for AJPW and the company nearly went under.
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Noah is fire. As much as I loved ajpw, Noah gave me one of my favorite matches. Kobashi finally beating Misawa for the strap at spring navigation 2003.
@jdthegreatone2757
9 ай бұрын
They always had amazing matches, I don't think I can find a bad misawa match, but their final match for the strap was next level it was everything you want a passing of the torch match to be and then some.
noah didn't just slip in to all Japan's spot. Noah enjoyed an initial boost, while all Japan diminished, but over the long-haul Noah diminished too. all Japan was giant baba essentially.
@zemox2534
Жыл бұрын
NOAH bounced back and has become more prominent once again.
@MrStupidarmy
10 ай бұрын
Noah was bought by Cyberfight
@bluemajiic1979
9 ай бұрын
Noah is alive and well
@murdock94
9 ай бұрын
NOAH is a farm league.
@vibeofthee80s_
9 ай бұрын
NOAH is doing so -so 10/4/23
Erich Bishoff has stated that he used Hall and Nash's signing to create a " WWF invasion " angle of WCW . lt wasn't a " defection " angle. What Mizawa did was a real defection.
@albertausprey
8 ай бұрын
True. Although storyline wise, the “WWF invaded” WCW, the fact is that two of WWF’s biggest stars left to go work for the opposite team. The big difference here is that them two didn’t bring 95% of the roster with them.
I worked for NOAH. One of my greatest life experiences ever
@IHATETHETRANSCOM
9 ай бұрын
No you did not s t f u😂 youre just some out of shape dad that does wrestling one weekend a month
@claudejohnson7405
9 ай бұрын
Oh shi Dirty Andy Dalton
@TheAndyDalton
9 ай бұрын
@@claudejohnson7405 hi
Dude. You should have long format versions of these. Love your work! Thanks for all the great shorts so far!
@WrestlingColin
9 ай бұрын
Definitely going to do so moving forward.
@paulwatson5531
9 ай бұрын
@@WrestlingColinhe right with what he said
Man im so happy theres a channel covering this stuff
I remember reading about this on Wikipedia years ago. This was a very gripping story about how AJPW fell and the rise of Noah.
Diehard lifelong wrestling fan here, so happy I came across this dude's page. I can't scroll past a single video without watching cuz I'm always learn something. Great page, easiest subscribe ever lol
@WrestlingColin
9 ай бұрын
You're too kind man, I really appreciate the love. Makes all the difference to hear that wrestling fans love the content.
10X better?? Misawa took all but two of Baba’s home grown stars. Took their tv slot and their advertisers. This was a pillaging we probably won’t ever see again in wrestling
@RAINMAKEEER
7 ай бұрын
10x bigger is what he said
@angkhoanguyen6114
3 ай бұрын
Giant Baba is dead at that time.
How All Japan didn't die was a mystery to me.
AJPW needs to work with NJPW so they can become popular again. The reason i still watch AJPW is because of Kento Kiyomiya, Suwana, Taru and the Voodoo Murders. Having Yuji Nagata becoming Triple Crown Champion, the rating rised up.
@SaltoftheEarth-dk4de
Жыл бұрын
*Kento Miyahara Kaito Kiyomiya is from NOAH *Suwama
@AngellishV
Жыл бұрын
You really watch AJPW bro? 🤨
I love wrestling knowledge 💯 was right now years old when I found out about this s***. Hey you got a whole crew tell you "that's not going to work for me brother"
Hey I just wanted to say that I do really enjoy your videos, it's great to see someone who knows about Puroresu as well haha Keep up the good work! You got this!
@WrestlingColin
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! That's really kind of you and I appreciate it a lot. Have you checked out my tiktok yet? Majority of my content lives there right now :)
It kind of picked up again once the Great Muta took over around a year later.
the outsiders left stamford on good terms with vinman very different from what happened to misawa at all japan.
similar to CMLL and AAA
"Moooore! More!" - Kylo Ren
Love the wrestling histpry shorts fun stpries not told by every other wrestling channel really intetesting work
More ppl doesn’t make it bigger lol. Star power equals drawing power.
All Japan Pro Wrestling is good
Too bad Noah didn't really have a big star other than Kobashi and Misawa. They tried with Shiozaki, but they were already on the decline by then. Morishima meanwhile had his injuries. There's KENTA and Marufuji, but they're no where near how big Kobashi and Misawa were (and they got stuck in the Jr. division for a long time).
I learn new things from this
Eyyy, didnt know you covered wrestling too! I've seen your gaming coverage :)
cool content
just sad because i wouldn't want the owner of a promotion to just fold to the talent even if it's the biggest star, but damn
Then, in 2002, a rebranded Great Muta then jumped ship from NJPW and Mutoh become the president of AJPW and there was peace across the land.
Giant Baba is the Mark Calawey of Japan
Song name please?
When the n.w.o happen in 1996
hey that guy looks like a character from Baki lol
Who's the last two still staying??
Who were the two that stayed?
@femprotagmods7516
4 ай бұрын
Toshiaki Kawada and Masanobu Fuchi, from what I recall.
The boys need to do this to both Tony and Vince. They don't deserve to be promoters. Vince is over the hill and he's booking the WWE the way he likes things, and not the way the fans like things. Tony is simply a child who's trapped in a grown man's body, and he's incapable of leading grown men anywhere because nobody respects him. If you would've told me back in 98 when I was about 20 years old that professional wrestling would devolve from where it was to not being able to fill a small arena, then I would've said that you were crazy. EVERYONE was watching wrestling back then. Now, nobody cares. It's sad.
@mr.iiconic
9 ай бұрын
Wrestling is objectively in a boom currently. I don't know why you people hate numbers, because they weren't lying. Biggest it's been financially since 2001, records broken every week. Is it the BEST it's ever been since 2001? Not even close lmfao, but it is successful
Damn
Didn’t happen 3 more times in AJPW history
But nobody really cared when then went to WCW
10 times bigger? Absolutely not lol
@Nottherealnowinsky
7 ай бұрын
I mean it kinda was wwe only lost two wrestlers those two being one upper carder a former maineventer the other being a midcarder(rip scott) but ajpw literally lost half the roster most of them being main eventers one of them being the world champ, and ajpw lost their sponsors and tv deals because of it wwf didn't almost die because nash and hall left so scott and nash are more famous for us but the damage they did to wwf by jumping ship compared to the ajpw mass exodus is very small
10x? naaah
Why people keep on saying Donald Trump you're doing wrong when he done this country right
@jayceegenocide4402
9 ай бұрын
Get that Trump CRAP Outta Here MAGAt
Of course a woman ruined it 😂😂😂
@jayceegenocide4402
9 ай бұрын
Once again. A Man ruined it. Got greedy & named a wrestling federation after a Fictional Character then died taking a simple backdrop bump half a decade later.
@bigusdickus4679
9 ай бұрын
@@jayceegenocide4402 nah. It was a woman.