Super World Sports – Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan 06/07/91
Tokyo, Japan
Ryogoku Kokugikan
Attendance: 8,691
The one with Tenryu getting his revenge on Haku!
SWS Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan 06/07/91
Yoshiaki Yatsu
SWS The Battle Hall III 05/23/91
Super World Sports – The Battle Hall III 05/23/91
Tokyo, Japan
Korakuen Hall
Attendance: 2,179
The one with Macho Man headlining the Korakuen Hall!
SWS Region Plaza Joetsu 04/23/91
Super World Sports Region Plaza Joetsu 04/23/91
Region Plaza Joetsu
Attendance: 2,769
Aired on WOWOW Cable TV
SWS Wrestle Dream In Kobe 04/01/91
Straight And Strong Wrestle Dream In Kobe 04/01/91
Kobe World Hall
Attendance: 5,877
Aired on WOWOW Cable TV
SWS Wrestlefest In Tokyo Dome 03/30/91
SWS Wrestlefest In Tokyo Dome 03/30/91
Tokyo Dome
Attendance: 64,618 (yeah right)
Aired on WOWOW Cable TV
SWS Declaration Of War 02/22/91
SWS Declaration Of War 02/22/91
Tokyo, Japan
Korakuen Hall
Attendance 2,309
SWS Osaka Fighting Party Begins 12/07/90
SWS – Beginning of Hamamatsu Fighting Party 11/22/90
SWS – Commencement of War ’90
When we previously left SWS, their first show ended with Isao Takagi getting his head kicked into pâté so it was probably just as well it was unofficial. This week we’re looking at their first proper show and VHS release: Commencement of War ’90.
Yokohama Arena
Attendance: 14,800
SWS – Echizen Fighting Party Beginning Charity Preview Event 09/29/90
Prologue To The Prologue
In 2020 I was faced with the triple threat of lockdown, COVID and WWE’s Thunderdome so I decided I needed to sink my teeth into a big sanity-sandwich and started looking at the history of the fascinatingly big little Japanese wrestling company Super World Sports. These were going to lead to a series of articles for WrestleJoy because at the time I needed some positivity in my life and I wanted to think a company with JOY in it’s title would be a good way to get it. Sadly, I got two articles in before the owners of the site completely derailed their reputation by supporting former AEW Shenna wrestler’s tweets declaring all Muslims should be banned from France. This caused several of their writers to immediately quit and made the owner of the site have a boo-hoo-why-me-why-me meltdown on twitter rather than apologise or admit fault like a normal person. Once I realised their brand was simply a graft to get AEW press passes, I left them to wallow in their self-made pool of misery and stayed positive by playing hours of Hades instead.
The Blog Of Doom is generally more genuine (at least whenever Scott’s not posting the e-mails he gets) so I might as well carry it on over here so Manjiimortal can correct me on the parts I’ve copy-pasted from the Observer Archive.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Wrestling Challenge – February 18, 1990
Tony Schiavone and Gorilla Monsoon are doing commentary and they are taped from Fort Myers, Florida.