This is my dear book, The Introduction to Pro-wrestling. It explains the wrestling-world to children, and I bought it in 1975 when I was a elementary school student. This is the fifth edition, and the first edition was published in 1971. At that time Baba and Inoki were belonging to JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING. At the end of that year Inoki was banished from the company. And in the next year Baba became independent, and JAPAN PRO failed. Because of it, descriptions about Japanese wrestlers are confusing a little.
Basically this book is written about Baba and his party, but in photograph pages Inoki, Sakaguchi, and the other wrestlers of NEW JAPAN are also introduced. However, KOKUSAI (a small party) is perfectly disregarded. (ha-ha)
In these pages the world affairs of wrestling are explained. The NWA champion is Dory Funk Jr., the AWA title holder is Verne Gagne, and the emperor of WWWF Pedro Morales is in there, too !!
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