Japanese professional wrestling promotions

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Chapters: Toryumon, List of professional wrestling promotions in Japan, Pancrase, Ice Ribbon, Dragon Gate, Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Hustle, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Noah, Dramatic Dream Team, Fighting Network Rings, Inoki Genome Federation, Pro Wrestling Zero1, Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance, Universal Wrestling Federation, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, UWF International, International Wrestling Association of Japan, El Dorado Wrestling, Super World of Sports, Fighting World of Japan Pro Wrestling, International Pro Wrestling, Gaea Japan, Kaientai Dojo, WAR, Michinoku Pro Wrestling, Zero1 Truth Century Creation, JDStar, Universal Lucha Libre, Battlarts, Global Professional Wrestling Alliance, NOAH Junior League, Dragondoor, Tokyo Pro Wrestling, Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling, Kingdom, IWA World Heavyweight Championship, Pro Wrestling WAVE, Zero1 Miracle Rocket : 2nd Impact, Pioneer Senshi, Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi, Zero1 10th Anniversary, Osaka Pro Wrestling, Big Mouth Loud. Excerpt: Toryumon Toryumon) is a professional wrestling promotion that operates both in Japan and in Mexico, where it's called Toryumon Mexico. The promotion is owned and operated by Yoshihiro Asai, who is best known under the name Último Dragón. Toryumon is a coined word that means Fighting Dragon Gate. The word is coined after the homonym ¿¿¿ ) that literally means climbing up dragon gate and means gateway to success. The promotion was originally created to give graduates of the Último Dragón Gym a promotion to gain their initial in-ring experience in. In 2004 Último Dragón left the promotion and took the name and trademarks with him. The wrestlers and officials decided to adopt the name Dragon Gate and continue in the traditions of Toryumon. Since then Último Dragón has promoted Toryumon mainly in Mexico but also holds occasional shows in Japan. During his time working for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the United States Japanese wrestler Último Dragón decided to open up a wrestling school in Naucalpan, Mexico to give Japanese hopefuls the chance to learn the Mexican lucha libre style like Dragón had. The wrestling school operated after the same principles of a university, divided into classes with several terms where wrestlers would "graduate" (debut) at the same time. the Ultimo Dragon Gym's first graduating term consistede of CIMA, Don Fujii, Dragon Kid, Magnum Tokyo and SUWA who collectively became known as Toryumon Japan (a name that would be used for the first four terms). Toryumon promoted their first show on May 11, 1997 in Naucalpan, Mexico on a show that was co-promoted with International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG). Toryumon and IWRG would co-promote shows in Japan from 1997 until 2001, allowing the Ultimo Dragon Gym graduates to work on IWRG shows and even saw several graduates wrestlers win IWRG Championship. Through his contacts with WCW Último Dragón also arranged for some of his first term graduates to wrestle on World Championship Wrestling s