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January 7, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan
Korakuen Hall drawing 3,200
  1. Bernard Wright pinned Masami Soranaka (20:26).

  2. David Finlay pinned Terry Rogue (19:29).

  3. Wayne Bridges pinned Mach Hayato (14:03).

  4. Osamu Kido & Nobuhiko Takada beat Johnny Londos & Mike Branum (13:36) when Kido beat Branum.

  5. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Kazuo Yamazaki (18:59) via submission.

  6. Super Tiger beat Akira Maeda (22:18) via submission.
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January 8, 1985 in Matsudo, Japan
City Gym drawing 2,000
  1. Masami Soranaka drew Mike Branun (Red Roberts).

  2. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Bernard Wright (Athol Foley).

  3. Akira Maeda beat Wayne Bridges.

  4. Osamu Kido beat Mach Hayato.

  5. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Nobuhiko Takada beat Johnny Londos.

  6. Super Tiger beat Dave Finlay (18:26).
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January 10, 1985 in Ichihara, Japan
??? drawing 1,600
  1. Mach Hayato pinned Mike Branun.

  2. Nobuhiko Takada pinned Bernard Wright.

  3. Kazuo Yamazaki drew Fit Finlay.

  4. Osamu Kido beat Masami Soranaka (16:43).

  5. Super Tiger beat Terry Rogue via submission.

  6. Akira Maeda & Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Wayne Bridges & Johnny Londos (24:04) when Fujiwara beat Londos.
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January 11, 1985 in Fussa, Japan
??? drawing 2,300
  1. Mach Hayato beat Bernard Wright.

  2. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Mike Branun.

  3. Akira Maeda beat Terry Rogue.

  4. Nobuhiko Takada beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Johnny Londos.

  6. Super Tiger & Osamu Kido beat Wayne Bridges & Fit Finlay.
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January 13, 1985 in Toyokawa, Japan
??? drawing 3,200
  1. Fit Finlay beat Mach Hayato.

  2. Nobuhiko Takada beat Terry Rogue (18:25).

  3. Osamu Kido beat Bernard Wright (16:00) via submission.

  4. Akira Maeda beat Masami Soranaka (14:32) via submission.

  5. Super Tiger beat Wayne Bridges (16:09) via submission.

  6. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki beat Johnny Londos & Mike Branun (16:02) when Fujiwara forced Branun to submit.
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January 15, 1985 in Iida, Japan
??? drawing 1,600
  1. Kazuo Yamazaki drew Wayne Bridges.

  2. Johnny Londos beat Mach Hayato.

  3. Osamu Kido beat Mike Branun.

  4. Super Tiger beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Terry Rogue.

  6. Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada beat Fit Finlay & Bernard Wright.
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January 16, 1985 in Takaishi, Japan
??? drawing 4,000
  1. Mike Branum beta Bernard Wright.

  2. Wayne Bridges & David Finlay beat Johnny Londos & Terry Rogue (24:10).

  3. Masami Soranaka pinned Mach Hayato (16:46).

  4. Osamu Kido beat Nobuhiko Takada (23:20) via submission.

  5. Akira Maeda pinned Kazuo Yamazaki (19:09).

  6. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Super Tiger (22:40) in a "death" match.
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January 17, 1985 in Kainan, Japan
??? drawing 2,000
  1. Mach Hayato beat Mike Branun.

  2. Osamu Kido drew Johnny Londos.

  3. Akira Maeda beat Fit Finlay.

  4. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Terry Rogue beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara via forfeit.

  6. Super Tiger & Nobuhiko Takada beat Wayne Bridges & Bernard Wright.
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January 20, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan
Korakuen Hall drawing 3,200
  1. Wayne Bridges beat Mike Branan.

  2. Johnny Londos beat Terry Rogue (19:25) via submission.

  3. Mach Hayato pinned Bernard Wright (19:04).

  4. Kazuo Yamazaki pinned David Finlay (21:34).

  5. Masami Soranaka beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara via forfeit.

  6. Nobuhiko Takada TKO Super Tiger (13:07).

  7. Osamu Kido beat Akira Maeda (25:46) via submission.
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February 18, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan
Korakuen Hall drawing 2,018
  1. Miles Zrno pinned Dean Sarcoff (Malenko).

  2. Raul Mata pinned Masami Soranaka.

  3. Nobuhiko Takada beat Marty Jones via submission.

  4. Satoru Sayama beat Mach Hayato (16:08) via submission. This is the first UWF match where Sayama wrestled under his own name without the mask.

  5. Akira Maeda beat Kazuo Yamazaki (22:12) via submission.

  6. Osamu Kido beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara (26:35) via submission.
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February 20, 1985 in Yokosuka, Japan
??? drawing 1,549
  1. Johnny South beat Masami Soranaka.

  2. Satoru Sayama & Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Miles Zrno & Marty Jones.

  3. Nobuhiko Takada beat Raul Mata.

  4. Akira Maeda beat Mach Hayato.

  5. Osamu Kido beat Dean Sarcoff.
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February 22, 1985 in Matsuzaka, Japan
??? drawing 1,276
  1. Nobuhiko Takada beat Dean Sarcoff.

  2. Akira Maeda beat Raul Mata.

  3. Kazuo Yamazaki pinned Mach Hayato (18:09).

  4. Osamu Kido beat Masami Soranaka (17:09) via submission.

  5. Satoru Sayama & Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Marty Jones & Johnny South (20:06) when Fujiwara beat South.
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February 23, 1985 in Izumisano, Japan
??? drawing 2,021
  1. Masami Soranaka beat Raul Mata.

  2. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Dean Sarcoff.

  3. Osamu Kido beat Marty Jones via submission.

  4. Satoru Sayama beat Miles Zrno via submission.

  5. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Mach Hayato (9:41).

  6. Akira Maeda pinned Nobuhiko Takada (23:30).
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February 24, 1985 in Hakata, Japan
??? drawing 2,303
  1. Mach Hayato beat Raul Mata.

  2. Nobuhiko Takada beat Johnny South.

  3. Akira Maeda beat Marty Jones.

  4. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Dean Sarcoff.

  5. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Masami Soranaka.

  6. Satoru Sayama KO Osamu Kido (21:42).
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February 26, 1985 in Kitakyushu, Japan
Exhibition Hall drawing 1,083
  1. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Johnny South.

  2. Akira Maeda beat Miles Zrno.

  3. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Osamu Kido drew Mart Jones & Raul Mata.

  4. Satoru Sayama beat Dean Sarcoff (16:31).

  5. Nobuhiko Takada beat Mach Hayato.
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February 28, 1985 in Kumagaya, Japan
??? drawing 1,326
  1. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Raul Mata.

  2. Nobuhiko Takada drew Dean Sarcoff.

  3. Satoru Sayama beat Masami Soranaka.

  4. Akira Maeda & Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Miles Zrno & Johnny South.

  5. Osamu Kido beat Marty Jones.
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March 2, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan
Korakuen Hall drawing 2,500
  1. Dean Sarcoff beat Mach Hayato.

  2. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Johnny South.

  3. Osamu Kido beat Raul Mata.

  4. Satoru Sayama pinned Marty Jones.

  5. Nobuhiko Takada beat Masami Soranaka.

  6. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Akira Maeda.
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March 3, 1985 in Toda, Japan
??? drawing 1.380
  1. Masami Soranaka beat Johnny South.

  2. Nobuhiko Takada beat Raul Mata.

  3. Akira Maeda beat Dean Sarcoff.

  4. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Marty Jones.

  5. Kazuo Yamazaki & Osamu Kido beat Satoru Sayama & Mach Hayato.
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April 6, 1985 in Kisarazu, Japan
??? drawing 1,123
  1. Satoru Hiromatsu drew Hidenori Kanda.

  2. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Omar Atlas.

  3. Nobuhiko Takada beat Ray Steele.

  4. Satoru Sayama & Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Dalibar Singh & Coswell Martin.

  5. Osamu Kido beat Masami Soranaka.

  6. Akira Maeda beat Mach Hayato.
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April 8, 1985 in Koshigaya, Japan
??? drawing 1,645
  1. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Ray Steele.

  2. Nobuhiko Takada beat Masami Soranaka.

  3. Akira Maeda & Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Coswell Martin & Omar Atlas.

  4. Satoru Sayama beat Dalibar Singh.

  5. Osamu Kido beat Mach Hayato.
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April 12, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan
??? drawing 2,105
  1. Dalibar Singh beat Mach Hayato.

  2. Nobuhiko Takada beat Omar Atlas.

  3. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Ray Steele drew Osamu Kido & Coswell Martin.

  4. Akira Maeda beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Satoru Sayama KO Kazuo Yamazaki.
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April 14, 1985 in Osaka, Japan
??? drawing 3,837
  1. Dalibar Singh beat Omar Atlas.

  2. Ray Steele beat Masami Soranaka.

  3. Coswell Martin beat Mach Hayato.

  4. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Osamu Kido beat Satoru Sayama & Akira Maeda when Fujiwara forced Sayama to submit.

  5. Nobuhiko Takada beat Kazuo Yamazaki (24:00).
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April 16, 1985 in Sagamihara, Japan
??? drawing 1,745
  1. Satoru Hiromatsu drew Hiroki Mori.

  2. Ray Steele beat Omar Atlas.

  3. Mach Hayato beat Dalibar Singh.

  4. Osamu Kido beat Coswell Martin.

  5. Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki.

  6. Satoru Sayama beat Masami Soranaka.
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April 17, 1985 in Matsumoto, Japan
??? drawing 1,611
  1. Tatsuo Nakano drew Hidenori Kanda.

  2. Nobuhiko Takada beat Dalibar Singh.

  3. Akira Maeda beat Ray Steele.

  4. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Osamu Kido beat Mach Hayato.

  6. Satoru Sayama & Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Coswell Martin & Omar Atlas.
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April 18, 1985 in Suwa, Japan
??? drawing 1,279
  1. Tatsuo Nakano drew Hiroki Mori.

  2. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Coswell Martin.

  3. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Dalibar Singh.

  4. Osamu Kido beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Akira Maeda beat Mach Hayato.

  6. Satoru Sayama & Nobuhiko Takada beat Ray Steele & Omar Atlas.
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April 20, 1985 in Nagano, Japan
??? drawing 2,850
  1. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Ray Steele.

  2. Osamu Kido beat Omar Atlas.

  3. Akira Maeda & Satoru Sayama beat Dalibar Singh & Coswell Martin.

  4. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Nobuhiko Takada beat Mach Hayato.
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April 23, 1985 in Amori, Japan
??? drawing 2,139
  1. Satoru Hiromatsu drew Tatsuo Nakano.

  2. Nobuhiko Takada beat Coswell Martin.

  3. Osamu Kido beat Ray Steele.

  4. Satoru Sayama beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Akira Maeda beat Dalibar Singh & Omar Atlas.

  6. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Mach Hayato.
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April 24, 1985 in Goshogawara, Japan
??? drawing 1,871
  1. Hidenori Kanda drew Hiroki Mori.

  2. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Ray Steele.

  3. Akira Maeda beat Dalibar Singh.

  4. Nobuhiko Takada beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Mach Hayato.

  6. Satoru Sayama & Osamu Kido beat Omar Atlas & Coswell Martin.
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April 26, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan
??? drawing 2,065
  1. Satoru Hiromatsu drew Hiroki Mori.

  2. Masami Soranaka beat Ray Steele.

  3. Akira Maeda beat Omar Atlas.

  4. Satoru Sayama & Mach Hayato beat Dalibar Singh & Coswell Martin.

  5. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Nobuhiko Takada.

  6. Osamu Kido beat Kazuo Yamazaki.
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TV Taping


May 18, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan
??? drawing 3,800
  1. Hiroki Mori beat Hidenobu Kanda.

  2. Tatsuo Nakano beat Satoru Hiromatsu.

  3. Tom Tyrone beat Larry Hamilton.

  4. Pete Roberts beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Michael Schneider beat Kazuo Yamazaki.

  6. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Osamu Kido beat Satoru Sayama & Joe Sarcoff (Malenko) when Fujiwara forced Sayama to submit.

  7. Akira Maeda beat Nobuhiko Takada via submission.
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May 20, 1985 in Nagasaki, Japan
??? drawing 2,235
  1. Satoru Hiromatsu beat Osamu Hoshina.

  2. Tatsuo Nakano beat Hiroki Mori.

  3. Kazuo Yamazaki drew Joe Sarcoff.

  4. Nobuhiko Takada beat Tom Tyrone.

  5. Osamu Kido beat Larry Hamilton.

  6. Satoru Sayama & Pete Roberts beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Michael Schneider.
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May 21, 1985 in Yatsushiro, Japan
??? drawing 2,047
  1. Satoru Hiromatsu beat Hiroki Mori.

  2. Tatsuo Nakano beat Osamu Hoshina.

  3. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Tom Tyrone.

  4. Nobuhiko Takada drew Pete Roberts.

  5. Osamu Kido beat Masami Soranaka.

  6. Satoru Sayama & Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Joe Sarcoff & Michael Schneider.
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May 23, 1985 in Hakata, Japan
??? drawing 2,855
  1. Hiroki Mori beat Osamu Hoshina.

  2. Satoru Hiromatsu beat Tatsuo Nakano.

  3. Pete Roberts beat Tom Tyrone.

  4. Michael Schneider beat Nobuhiko Takada.

  5. Osamu Kido & Kazuo Yamazaki beat Satoru Sayama & Masami Soranaka.

  6. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Joe Sarcoff.
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May 27, 1985 in ???, Japan
??? drawing 3,130
  1. Satoru Hiromatsu beat Osamu Hoshina.

  2. Hiroki Mori beat Tatsuo Nakano.

  3. Pete Roberts beat Larry Hamilton.

  4. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Michael Schneider.

  6. Satoru Sayama & Osamu Kido beat Nobuhiko Takada & Joe Sarcoff.
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May 28, 1985 in Tokushima, Japan
??? drawing 2,982
  1. Satoru Hiromatsu beat Hiroki Mori.

  2. Tatsuo Nakano beat Osamu Hoshina.

  3. Michael Schneider beat Masami Soranaka.

  4. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Larry Hamilton.

  5. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Osamu Kido beat Nobuhiko Takada & Joe Sarcoff.

  6. Satoru Sayama beat Pete Roberts.
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May 30, 1985 in Omiya, Japan
??? drawing 2,371
  1. Hiroki Mori beat Osamu Hoshina.

  2. Satoru Hiromatsu drew Tatsuo Nakano.

  3. Nobuhiko Takada beat Larry Hamilton.

  4. Osamu Kido beat Tom Tyrone.

  5. Satoru Sayama beat Michael Schneider.

  6. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Joe Sarcoff beat Kazuo Yamazaki & Pete Roberts.
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May 31, 1985 in ???, Japan
??? drawing 2,368
  1. Tatsuo Nakano beat Hiroki Mori.

  2. Satoru Hiromatsu beat Osamu Hoshina.

  3. Masami Soranaka beat Tom Tyrone.

  4. Osamu Kido beat Michael Schneider.

  5. Nobuhiko Takada & Pete Roberts beat Kazuo Yamazaki & Joe Sarcoff.

  6. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Satoru Sayama.
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July 8, 1985 in Hiroshima, Japan
??? drawing 2,849
  1. Osamu Hoshina beat Yoji Anjoh.

  2. Tatsuo Nakano beat Hiroki Mori.

  3. John Wilson beat Mike Bennett.

  4. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Ben Alexander.

  5. Akira Maeda beat Keith Hayward (16:03).

  6. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Nobuhiko Takada (14:04).

  7. Satoru Sayama beat Osamu Kido (11:52).
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July 13, 1985 in Shizuoka, Japan
??? drawing 2,255
  1. Hidenobu Kanda beat Osamu Hoshina.

  2. Hiroki Mori beat Satoru Hiromatsu.

  3. Tatsuo Nakano beat Yoji Anjoh.

  4. Mike Bennett beat Ben Alexander.

  5. Kazuo Yamazaki beat John Wilson.

  6. Satoru Sayama beat Keith Hayward.

  7. Nobuhiko Takada beat Osamu Kido.

  8. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Akira Maeda.
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July 17, 1985 in Osaka, Japan
??? drawing 2,821
  1. Hiroki Mori beat Yoji Anjoh.

  2. Satoru Hiromatsu beat Hidenobu Kanda.

  3. Tatsuo Nakano beat Osamu Hoshina.

  4. Ben Alexander beat John Wilson.

  5. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Mike Bennett.

  6. Osamu Kido beat Keith Hayward.

  7. Akira Maeda beat Nobuhiko Takada.

  8. Satoru Sayama beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara.
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July 19, 1985 in Osaka, Japan

  1. Osamu Kido beat Keith Hayward via submission.

  2. Akira Maeda pinned Nobuhiko Takada.

  3. Satoru Sayama KO Yoshiaki Fujiwara.
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July 21, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan
Korakuen Hall drawing 2,36
  1. Osamu Hoshina beat Yoji Anjoh.

  2. Hiroki Mori beat Hidenobu Kando.

  3. Bull Nakano drew Satoru Hiromatsu.

  4. Mike Bennett beat John Wilson.

  5. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Ben Alexander.

  6. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Keith Hayward.

  7. Satoru Sayama beat Nobuhiko Takada.

  8. Osamu Kido beat Akira Maeda.
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July 25, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan
Ota Ward Gym drawing 4,457
  1. Osamu Hoshina beat Hidenobu Kando.

  2. Satoru Hiromatsu beat Yoji Anjoh.

  3. Hiroki Mori beat Tatsuo Nakano.

  4. Ben Alexander beat John Wilson.

  5. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Mike Bennett.

  6. Nobuhiko Takada beat Keith Hayward (6:05) via submission.

  7. Akira Maeda beat Satoru Sayama (16:01) via submission.

  8. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Osamu Kido (16:30).
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August 25, 1985 in Gifu, Japan
??? drawing 2,230
  1. Satoru Hiromitsu beat Tsuyoshi Okamoto.

  2. Hiroki Mori beat Yoji Anjoh.

  3. Tatsuo Nakano beat Osamu Hoshina.

  4. Scott Magee beat Masami Soranaka.

  5. Osamu Kido beat Nobuhiko Takada (18:43).

  6. Satoru Sayama beat Kazuo Yamazaki (14:47).

  7. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Akira Maeda (20:33).
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August 29, 1985 in Omiya, Japan
??? drawing 2,156
  1. Yoji Anjoh beat Tsuyoshi Okamoto.

  2. Hiroki Mori beat Osamu Hoshina.

  3. Scott Magee beat Satoru Hiromatsu.

  4. Masami Soranaka beat Tatsuo Nakano.

  5. Akira Maeda beat Nobuhiko Takada (13:54).

  6. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Kazuo Yamazaki (14:09).

  7. Satoru Sayama beat Osamu Kido (14:41).
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September 2, 1985 in Osaka, Japan
??? drawing 2,056
  1. Tatsuo Nakano beat Tsuyoshi Okamoto.

  2. Satoru Hiromatsu beat Yoji Anjoh.

  3. Scott Magee beat Hiroki Mori.

  4. Masami Soranaka beat Osamu Hoshina.

  5. Osamu Kido beat Kazuo Yamazaki (11:55).

  6. Satoru Sayama beat Akira Maeda (18:57) via DQ. This is the match where Maeda intentionally kicked Sayama several times in the groin.

  7. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Nobuhiko Takada (18:22).
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September 6, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan
??? drawing 2,177
  1. Osamu Hoshina drew Yuko Miyato.

  2. Satoru Hiromatsu beat Tsuyoshi Okamoto.

  3. Tatsuo Nakano beat Hiroki Mori.

  4. Scott Magee beat Yoji Anjoh.

  5. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Masami Soranaka.

  6. Kazuo Yamazaki beat Akira Maeda via forfeit.

  7. Satoru Sayama beat Nobuhiko Takada (13:44).

  8. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Osamu Kido (17:42).
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Cancelled: September 9, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan







September 11, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan
Korakuen Hall drawing 2,349
  1. Hidenobu Kando beat Hiroki Mori via DQ.

  2. Osamu Hoshina beat Yoji Anjoh.

  3. Satoru Hiromatsu drew Tatsuo Nakano.

  4. Scott Magee beat Tsuyoshi Okamoto.

  5. Osamu Kido beat Masami Soranaka.

  6. Osamu Kido beat Akira Maeda via forfeit.

  7. Nobuhiko Takada beat Kazuo Yamazaki.

  8. Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Satoru Sayama via submission.
Note: This was the final UWF show.

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Cancelled: September 20, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan