All Japan Pro Wrestling - Records & Stats - 2000 to 2013 - Analysis by Chris Harrington
I pulled the AJPW results from Purolove. I know this is really the dying days of All Japan, but it's an interesting tale none the less.
This includes 1,408 AJPW events (and a little more than a dozen joint promotion shows they ran with NJPW and NOSAWA and NOAH).
2000: 110 events / 61 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 3,129 fans (7 shows with 10k+ fans, 5 additional shows with 5k+ fans) 2001: 89 events / 46 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 3,241 fans (one giant show - 1/28/01 King's Road claiming 58k+, 6 other shows with 10k+ fans) 2002: 100 events / 45 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 3,312 fans (7 shows with 10k+ fans including Royal Road and Wrestle-1, 4 other shows with 5k+ fans) 2003: 96 events / 50 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 3,271 fans (1 giant show - 1/19/03 Wrestle-1 claiming 45k+, 6 shows with 10k+ fans, 2 additional shows with 5k+ fans) 2004: 92 events / 44 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 2,185 fans (3 shows with 10k+ fans, 3 additional shows with 5k+ fans) 2005: 88 events / 36 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 1,865 fans (4 shows with 5k+ fans) 2006: 105 events / 35 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 1,621 fans (1 show with 5k+ fans- AJPW "PRO-WRESTLING LOVE IN RYOGOKU", 8/27/06) 2007: 94 events / 43 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 1,684 fans (2 shows with 5k+ fans - 2/17/07 and 8/26/07 PPVs) 2008: 107 events / 39 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 1,667 fans (3 shows with 5k+ fans) 2009: 104 events / 33 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 1,545 fans (1 show with 10k+ fans, 1 additional show with 5k+ fans) 2010: 108 events / 41 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 1,362 fans (1 show with 5k+ fans) 2011: 115 events / 45 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 1,505 fans ("All Together" NOAH/NJPW/AJPW show with 17k, 3 shows with 5k+ fans) 2012: 113 events / 40 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 1,263 fans (NJPW/AJPW 40th Anniversary with 11k, 1 additional show with 5k+ fans) 2013: 87 events (YTD) / 36 wrestlers with 10+ matches / average attendance: 1,020 fans (2 shows with 5k+ fans) 2000-2013: 1,408 events / 228 wrestlers with 10+ matches (average attendance over this time was 2,045 fans)
More than a thousand matches Taiyo Kea: 1085 matches [633-419-33 = 60% win] Kaz Hayashi: 1080 matches [621-442-17 = 58% win]
Highest Tag Win Percentage Akebono: 352 tag matches [250-102-0 = 71% win] Buchanan: 214 tag matches [158-55-1 = 74% win] Mike Rotundo: 152 tag matches [111-40-1 = 74% win] Jamal: 134 tag matches [97-34-3 = 74% win] Abdullah The Butcher: 123 tag matches [95-26-2 = 79% win] Gigantes: 71 tag matches [52-19-0 = 73% win] The Gladiator: 64 tag matches [46-18-0 = 72% win] Haruka Eigen: 63 tag matches [46-16-1 = 74% win] Silver King: 58 tag matches [45-12-1 = 79% win]
Lowest Tag Win Percentage Ebessan: 186 tag matches [46-140-0 = 25% win] Yasufumi Nakanoue: 177 tag matches [15-162-0 = 8% win] Taichi Ishikari: 134 tag matches [37-96-1 = 28% win] Gran Naniwa: 110 tag matches [29-81-0 = 26% win] Yuto Aijima: 94 tag matches [22-72-0 = 23% win] Mitsuo Momota: 63 tag matches [16-46-1 = 26% win] Rusher Kimura: 63 tag matches [16-46-1 = 26% win]
I did some average match length stats, but basically everyone is around 14 minutes +/- 3 minutes with Taiyo Kea, Kaz Hayashi, Suwama, Keiji Muto, Satoshi Kojima, Manabu Soya, Minoru Suzuki, Toshiaki Kawada on the longer end of the scale and Nobukazu Hirai, Ryuji Hijikatam, Nobutaka Araya, MAZADA, Masayuki Kono, Minoru and Joe Doering on the shorter end.
As always, if you spot any name dups, please let me know so I can update the records. (Thanks Eivion!!)
"Main Event" is always a tricky term because it implies an understanding of the landscape of a company (which feuds were the attractions; who was being pushed; which belts meant the most, etc). Since I'm not too familiar with AJPW, I'm going to offer a different statistic which may be similar enough to get to the heart of the question - records for wrestlers who were last on the card.
Wrestler(s) on the last match on the card - All Japan Pro Wrestling 2000-2013[Image]
Records of Wrestlers in AJPW Last Match on the Card (2000-2013)
Keiji Muto: 43 singles matches (26-13-4 = 67% win) and 475 tag matches (302-168-5 = 64% win) and won two rumbles
Suwama: 44 singles matches (27-14-3 = 66% win) and 368 tag matches (183-182-3 = 50% win) and won a rumble
Satoshi Kojima: 37 singles matches (23-12-2 = 66% win) and 308 tag matches (174-128-6 = 58% win) and won a rumble
Taiyo Kea: 20 singles matches (5-13-2 = 28% win) and 304 tag matches (165-135-4 = 55% win) and won two rumbles
Kaz Hayashi: 9 singles matches (4-5 = 44% win) and 270 tag matches (157-112-1 = 58% win) and won a rumble
Toshiaki Kawada: 36 singles matches (22-12-2 = 65% win) and 186 tag matches (93-89-4 = 51% win)
Shuji Kondo: 7 singles matches (2-5 = 29% win) and 200 tag matches (84-115-1 = 42% win)
TARU: 1 singles match (loss) and 186 tag matches (48-138 = 26% win)
Masakatsu Funaki: 12 singles matches (7-5 = 58% win) and 152 tag matches (98-53-1 = 65% win) and won a rumble
Seiya Sanada: 8 singles matches (4-4 = 50% win) and 143 tag matches (77-65-1 = 54% win)
Minoru Suzuki: 20 singles matches (13-6-1 = 68% win) and 115 tag matches (48-65-2 = 42% win)
Arashi: 4 singles matches (1-3 = 25% win) and 125 tag matches (64-58-3 = 52% win) and won a rumble
Masayuki Kono: 6 singles matches (2-4 = 33% win) and 115 tag matches (50-64-1 = 44% win)
Genichiro Tenryu: 18 singles matches (13-5 = 72% win) and 100 tag matches (61-39 = 61% win)
Manabu Soya: 1 singles match (loss) and 114 tag matches (60-53-1 = 53% win) and won a rumble
Kensuke Sasaki: 16 singles matches (8-6-2 = 57% win) and 89 tag matches (50-37-2 = 57% win) and won a rumble
Joe Doering: 4 singles matches (1-3 = 25% win) and 100 tag matches (51-49 = 51% win)
Nobutaka Araya: 3 singles matches (0-3 = 0% win) and 97 tag matches (33-62-2 = 35% win)
"brother" YASSHI: 1 singles match (loss) and 96 tag matches (21-75 = 22% win) and won a rumble
KAI: 10 singles matches (4-6 = 40% win) and 86 tag matches (47-38-1 = 55% win)
Ryota Hama: 7 singles matches (2-5 = 29% win) and 76 tag matches (42-33-1 = 56% win) and won two rumbles
Tomoaki Honma: 82 tag matches (26-56 = 32% win)
Hiroshi Yamato: 3 singles matches (2-1 = 67% win) and 77 tag matches (31-45-1 = 41% win) and won a rumble
TAKA Michinoku: 1 singles match (loss) and 79 tag matches (44-35 = 56% win)
Ryuji Hijikata: 79 tag matches (38-41 = 48% win)
Akebono: 5 singles matches (4-1 = 80% win) and 72 tag matches (46-26 = 64% win) and won two rumbles
Minoru: 1 singles match (win) and 75 tag matches (28-47 = 37% win)
Steve Williams: 6 singles matches (3-3 = 50% win) and 64 tag matches (31-33 = 48% win) and won a rumble
Katsuhiko Nakajima: 1 singles match (loss) and 67 tag matches (38-29 = 57% win)
Masanobu Fuchi: 2 singles matches (0-2 = 0% win) and 66 tag matches (27-38-1 = 42% win)
Nobukazu Hirai: 65 tag matches (13-52 = 20% win)
Osamu Nishimura: 4 singles matches (0-4 = 0% win) and 60 tag matches (41-18-1 = 69% win) and won a rumble
Johnny Smith: 63 tag matches (31-31-1 = 50% win)
Nosawa: 2 singles matches (1-1 = 50% win) and 59 tag matches (15-43-1 = 26% win)
Takao Omori: 8 singles matches (1-6-1 = 14% win) and 53 tag matches (28-25 = 53% win)
Jamal: 6 singles matches (1-5 = 17% win) and 54 tag matches (37-17 = 69% win) and won a rumble
George Hines: 59 tag matches (24-35 = 41% win) and won a rumble
Buchanan: 1 singles match (loss) and 57 tag matches (36-20-1 = 64% win)
Mike Barton: 4 singles matches (1-3 = 25% win) and 49 tag matches (19-30 = 39% win) and won a rumble
MAZADA: 1 singles match (loss) and 52 tag matches (12-40 = 23% win)
D-Lo Brown: 52 tag matches (33-18-1 = 65% win)
AKIRA: 49 tag matches (24-25 = 49% win)
Mitsuya Nagai: 2 singles matches (0-2 = 0% win) and 46 tag matches (16-29-1 = 36% win) and won a rumble
Jun Akiyama: 11 singles matches (6-5 = 55% win) and 31 tag matches (18-13 = 58% win)
Shigeo Okumura: 41 tag matches (9-32 = 22% win)
Koji Kanemoto: 1 singles match (loss) and 40 tag matches (20-20 = 50% win)
Go Shiozaki: 5 singles matches (2-2-1 = 50% win) and 33 tag matches (18-15 = 55% win)
Akira Raijin: 2 singles matches (0-2 = 0% win) and 35 tag matches (14-21 = 40% win)
Jim Steele: 33 tag matches (15-18 = 45% win)
Jinsei Shinzaki: 1 singles match (loss) and 31 tag matches (24-7 = 77% win)
Zodiac: 32 tag matches (9-23 = 28% win) and won a rumble
Mitsuharu Misawa: 4 singles matches (3-1 = 75% win) and 25 tag matches (16-9 = 64% win)
Hiroshi Hase: 1 singles match (loss) and 27 tag matches (15-11-1 = 58% win)
Yoshihiro Takayama: 6 singles matches (3-3 = 50% win) and 20 tag matches (4-16 = 20% win)
Akira Taue: 1 singles match (loss) and 24 tag matches (13-11 = 54% win)
René Duprée: 24 tag matches (1-23 = 4% win)
KENSO: 2 singles matches (0-2 = 0% win) and 21 tag matches (5-16 = 24% win) and won 11 rumbles
Yoshinari Ogawa: 22 tag matches (13-9 = 59% win)
Mike Rotundo: 1 singles match (loss) and 19 tag matches (11-8 = 58% win)
Vader: 4 singles matches (2-2 = 50% win) and 16 tag matches (11-5 = 69% win)
Rosey: 1 singles match (loss) and 19 tag matches (6-12-1 = 33% win)
Jimmy Yang: 1 singles match (win) and 18 tag matches (6-12 = 33% win)
Gigantes: 1 singles match (loss) and 18 tag matches (15-3 = 83% win)
Kenta Kobashi: 5 singles matches (5-0 = 100% win) and 13 tag matches (6-7 = 46% win)
Yoji Anjo: 1 singles match (loss) and 17 tag matches (5-12 = 29% win)
Hiroyoshi Tenzan: 1 singles match (loss) and 17 tag matches (10-4-3 = 71% win)
Hideki Hosaka: 1 singles match (loss) and 16 tag matches (6-10 = 38% win)
BUSHI: 17 tag matches (11-6 = 65% win) and won 2 rumbles
Atsushi Aoki: 17 tag matches (9-8 = 53% win)
Ebessan: 15 tag matches (5-10 = 33% win)
Yoshinobu Kanemaru: 2 singles matches (2-0 = 100% win) and 13 tag matches (7-6 = 54% win)
Brute Issei: 15 tag matches (8-7 = 53% win)
Hikaru Sato: 14 tag matches (7-7 = 50% win)
Stan Hansen: 14 tag matches (9-5 = 64% win)
Yuto Aijima: 14 tag matches (5-9 = 36% win)
Zach Gowen: 14 tag matches (4-10 = 29% win)
The Gladiator: 1 singles match (loss) and 13 tag matches (9-4 = 69% win)
Koki Kitahara: 13 tag matches (11-2 = 85% win)
Giant Bernard: 1 singles match (loss) and 10 tag matches (8-2 = 80% win)
Takumi Soya: 11 tag matches (5-6 = 45% win)
Kendo Kashin: 10 tag matches (6-4 = 60% win)
Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 2 singles matches (0-2 = 0% win) and 8 tag matches (3-5 = 38% win)
Yuji Nagata: 7 singles matches (4-2-1 = 67% win) and 3 tag matches (1-2 = 33% win)
Masato Tanaka: 1 singles match (loss) and 9 tag matches (5-4 = 56% win)
Vampiro: 10 tag matches (7-3 = 70% win)
Katsushi Takemura: 10 tag matches (5-5 = 50% win)
Miguel Hayashi Jr: 10 tag matches (5-5 = 50% win)
Masao Inoue: 10 tag matches (3-7 = 30% win)
Singles Wrestlers (with 10+ singles matches) - descending win percentage
Genichiro Tenryu: 18 singles matches (13-5-0 = 72% win)
Minoru Suzuki: 20 singles matches (13-6-1 = 68% win)
Keiji Muto: 43 singles matches (26-13-4 = 67% win)
Suwama: 44 singles matches (27-14-3 = 66% win)
Satoshi Kojima: 37 singles matches (23-12-2 = 66% win)
Toshiaki Kawada: 36 singles matches (22-12-2 = 65% win)
Masakatsu Funaki: 12 singles matches (7-5-0 = 58% win)
Kensuke Sasaki: 16 singles matches (8-6-2 = 57% win)
Jun Akiyama: 11 singles matches (6-5-0 = 55% win)
KAI: 10 singles matches (4-6-0 = 40% win)
Taiyo Kea: 20 singles matches (5-13-2 = 28% win)
Tag Wrestlers (with 50+ tag matches) - descending win percentage
Osamu Nishimura: 60 tag matches (41-18-1 = 69% win)
Jamal: 54 tag matches (37-17-0 = 69% win)
Masakatsu Funaki: 152 tag matches (98-53-1 = 65% win)
D-Lo Brown: 52 tag matches (33-18-1 = 65% win)
Buchanan: 57 tag matches (36-20-1 = 64% win)
Keiji Muto: 475 tag matches (302-168-5 = 64% win)
Akebono: 72 tag matches (46-26-0 = 64% win)
Genichiro Tenryu: 100 tag matches (61-39-0 = 61% win)
Kaz Hayashi: 270 tag matches (157-112-1 = 58% win)
Satoshi Kojima: 308 tag matches (174-128-6 = 58% win)
Kensuke Sasaki: 89 tag matches (50-37-2 = 57% win)
Katsuhiko Nakajima: 67 tag matches (38-29-0 = 57% win)
Ryota Hama: 76 tag matches (42-33-1 = 56% win)
TAKA Michinoku: 79 tag matches (44-35-0 = 56% win)
KAI: 86 tag matches (47-38-1 = 55% win)
Taiyo Kea: 304 tag matches (165-135-4 = 55% win)
Seiya Sanada: 143 tag matches (77-65-1 = 54% win)
Manabu Soya: 114 tag matches (60-53-1 = 53% win)
Takao Omori: 53 tag matches (28-25-0 = 53% win)
Arashi: 125 tag matches (64-58-3 = 52% win)
Toshiaki Kawada: 186 tag matches (93-89-4 = 51% win)
Joe Doering: 100 tag matches (51-49-0 = 51% win)
Suwama: 368 tag matches (183-182-3 = 50% win)
Johnny Smith: 63 tag matches (31-31-1 = 50% win)
Steve Williams: 64 tag matches (31-33-0 = 48% win)
Ryuji Hijikata: 79 tag matches (38-41-0 = 48% win)
Masayuki Kono: 115 tag matches (50-64-1 = 44% win)
Minoru Suzuki: 115 tag matches (48-65-2 = 42% win)
Shuji Kondo: 200 tag matches (84-115-1 = 42% win)
Masanobu Fuchi: 66 tag matches (27-38-1 = 42% win)
Hiroshi Yamato: 77 tag matches (31-45-1 = 41% win)
George Hines: 59 tag matches (24-35-0 = 41% win)
Minoru: 75 tag matches (28-47-0 = 37% win)
Nobutaka Araya: 97 tag matches (33-62-2 = 35% win)
Tomoaki Honma: 82 tag matches (26-56-0 = 32% win)
Nosawa: 59 tag matches (15-43-1 = 26% win)
TARU: 186 tag matches (48-138-0 = 26% win)
MAZADA: 52 tag matches (12-40-0 = 23% win)
"brother" YASSHI: 96 tag matches (21-75-0 = 22% win)
Nobukazu Hirai: 65 tag matches (13-52-0 = 20% win)
As for attendance draws, it's a screwy metric. You've got a few big shows that really distort things, and the rest of the time after AJPW really began it's decline, it's almost more location driven than person driven as for what the attendance is.
But for the sake of investigation, I did look at wrestlers who had 5+ "main events" (last match on the card) in a given year among at least four different years. That analysis provided this list:
Genichiro Tenryu: 3,146 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
Toshiaki Kawada: 2,776 avg attendance on shows = 7 years (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007)
Takao Omori: 2,490 avg attendance on shows = 4 years (2000, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Keiji Muto: 2,487 avg attendance on shows = 12 years (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
George Hines: 2,080 avg attendance on shows = 4 years (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)
Kensuke Sasaki: 2,070 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Arashi: 1,880 avg attendance on shows = 6 years (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
Nobutaka Araya: 1,854 avg attendance on shows = 6 years (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
Satoshi Kojima: 1,844 avg attendance on shows = 9 years (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Masanobu Fuchi: 1,826 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2012)
Minoru Suzuki: 1,720 avg attendance on shows = 6 years (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Tomoaki Honma: 1,681 avg attendance on shows = 4 years (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
Taiyo Kea: 1,669 avg attendance on shows = 12 years (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
Nobukazu Hirai: 1,555 avg attendance on shows = 4 years (2002, 2003, 2009, 2010)
Katsuhiko Nakajima: 1,485 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Ryuji Hijikata: 1,449 avg attendance on shows = 7 years (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Suwama: 1,428 avg attendance on shows = 9 years (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
TAKA Michinoku: 1,423 avg attendance on shows = 6 years (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010)
Buchanan: 1,420 avg attendance on shows = 4 years (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
Kaz Hayashi: 1,386 avg attendance on shows = 11 years (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Osamu Nishimura: 1,385 avg attendance on shows = 4 years (2004, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Masakatsu Funaki: 1,337 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Akebono: 1,313 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
"brother" YASSHI: 1,306 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
TARU: 1,298 avg attendance on shows = 6 years (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Masayuki Kono: 1,222 avg attendance on shows = 7 years (2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Shuji Kondo: 1,194 avg attendance on shows = 9 years (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Seiya Sanada: 1,175 avg attendance on shows = 6 years (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
MAZADA: 1,169 avg attendance on shows = 4 years (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
KAI: 1,151 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
Joe Doering: 1,132 avg attendance on shows = 6 years (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Nosawa: 1,129 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Manabu Soya: 1,125 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
Minoru: 1,085 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Akira Raijin: 1,044 avg attendance on shows = 4 years (2005, 2006, 2008, 2013)
Hiroshi Yamato: 1,033 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Ryota Hama: 1,018 avg attendance on shows = 5 years (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
posted by Indeed Wrestling at 3:23 PM on Oct 10, 2013
"All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) 2000-2013 - Records & Other Statistics"
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