International Wrestling Association of Japan

who might or might not be gorilla monsoon's son we don't know um it

was uh it was the uh Yeah, the erstwhile son of Gorilla Monsoon, the future owner of IWA Japan, Puerto Rico wrestling freak.

Yeah.

Freak.

He, Heroes and Legends Wrestling Midwestern Champion.

Danny Hodge Trophy 2016, Imperial Wrestling Revolution, International Wrestling Association of Japan, IWA World's Heavyweight Champion, International Wrestling Cartel Tag Team Champion with Scotty Gashe.

PWA Southern Tag Team Champion once with Nigel Sharrod in Pro Wrestling Alabama.

Pro Wrestling Illustrated, PWA ranked him 66th top 500 single wrestler of PWA 500 in 1983.

Yeah, for sure.

Honky Tonk Man debuts for IWA Japan on 10/13 at Korakuen Hall.

This sounds fucking insane.

They probably blew him up.

All right.

And then they blew him up.

Honky Tonk Man without Jimmy Hart, get the fuck out of IWA Japan.

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We get a note from the 6/17 Observer that the 5/10 Arena Coliseo show, which included the return of Vampiro and Kanak, drew a sellout of 5,500 fans.

Vampiro then does a tour of IWA Japan in June.

I don't know why.

I don't know how that came about.

He was like a failed Sergeant Slaughter replacement from the AWA guy, and he worked WING, which was like a FMW breakaway promotion.

Uh, and when they broke away, they brought Victor Quinonez, and he, when WING was dying, formed IWA Japan and took like all the WING guys there.

So Leatherface, Corporal Kirchner ends up in IWA Japan.

He, at some point early in his run in IWA Japan, got arrested for like a real life like fight- I don't know if it was a fan-

How awesome

... or in public, but he, he punched a guy so hard he, like, broke a bunch of bones in his face.

It's...

I don't...

I wrestled in Asia.

I've wrestled for IWA Japan.

I've been in a music video.

I've wrestled or I've, I've performed for, um, what's that fucking kid's name? The YouTuber Charlie with the fucking long hair and the tattoos and, Moist Wrestling League, which is like big for nerds, I guess.

Yeah, right.

So that one, um, that was '95 IWA Japan Kawasaki Dream.

Um, I think most people that know that one or have heard...

You've probably at least heard of that match.

The next match here is Cactus Jack and Crypt Keeper versus Leatherface and Shoji Nakamaki.

Oh.

That is also IWA Japan.

That is a no-rope barbed wire and barbed wire brick death match.

Did other tournaments influence Tournament of Death? What

was the seed of that idea? What influenced me was IWA Japan, if anybody knows that.

Did a lot of tape trading.

We know that, Gary, man.

I worked for a year and decided to go to Mexico to save money.

And after a few months of running, I was able to form an organization called IWA Japan.

This is a company created by two people, a Japanese and an American named Victor Quinones.

Victor Quinones.

Because he really wanted to be a Mexican wrestler because he did not go into pro-wrestling right then and there.

He couldn't make it.

So he did you know, he wanted to go to Mexico, but they formed, in Japan, they formed this new promotion, IWA Japan, and that was run by Victor Quinones, and he had a very good connection with WWE, ECW, and, you know, areas in Mexico, Mexican promotions.

So he was going to just put his himself the paperwork to IWA Japan because they didn't have a they didn't have a height restriction for him.