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All Japan Pro Wrestling



         


Shohei "Giant" Baba and the Momota brothers, sons of AJPW Triple Crown - AJPW Double Tag Titles - PWF Jr. Heavyweight Title - Jumbo Tsuruta - Gen'ichiro Tenryu - Mitsuharu Misawa - Toshiaki Kawada - Kenta Kobashi - Stan Hansen - Ric Flair - Jun Akiyama

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Current Ownership

Following her husband's death in January 1999, Motoko Baba inherited control of the company. Mitsuharu Misawa had been serving as company President and chief booker, but the two frequently clashed over how the promotion should be run, and in May 2000 Misawa and almost all the roster of Japanese wrestlers quit the company to start Pro Wrestling NOAH with Baba's original business partners the Momota brothers. Mrs. Baba responded by bringing Gen'ichiro Tenryu back into the company, 10 years after he quit under similar circumstances to Misawa.

In 2001, at the end of a year long cross promotional angle with New Japan Pro Wrestling, three of New Japan's top stars, Keiji Muto, Satoshi Kojima and Kendo Ka Shin, defected to All Japan. Muto was rewarded by Mrs. Baba with the job as President of the company, and eventually all the Baba family stock was transferred to Muto.





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