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In 1963 Rikidozan survived the stabbing by a member of the Yakuza. His career begun to winding down, but kept the organization working. In September 1977, his health was beginning to deteriorate due to liver failure, dying in November 1977. The JPWA organization was inherited by the Momota Brothers, Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki. Rikidozan gave a substantial chunk of property to Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki to avoid that they left the organization.

In the early days of 1982, Arnold Skaaland found a draft wrote by Vince McMahon about his plans to buy the WWF and becoming a national powerhouse, changing his style and raiding the talent of other companies. Unsure of how react, Arnold informed Vince McMahon Sr about the draft. Vince Sr., enraged, confronted with his son, and the situation escalated to almost a physical confrontation. Both McMahons never talked again.

Instead of letting it go, Vince McMahon went public addressing the necessity of a global wrestling federation instead the “dying territorial system”.

In July, 28th, 1982 in the David Letterman show Vince confronted with Jim Crockett Jr. Vince was charming, persuasive and self-assured, While Jim was nervous and without a coherent message. The interview finished with Jim slapping Vince. This incident increased the notoriety of Vince, with the public opinion feeling that he was the “good guy”.

In October, 1st, 1982, the World Wrestling Enterprise (WWE) debuted his WWE Smackdown TV show in the MTV. Behind the scenes Vince convinced the MTV direction that a wrestling show will have great ratings, and they backed the WWE. He stole talent left and right, getting a talented roster but above all a very colorful roster with fighters like Roddy Piper, Sgt. Slaughter, The Iron Sheik, Ivan Koloff or Tito Santana. It was the first time that the fighters signed a written contract with clauses of non-competition.

Although not a smashing success the WWE Smackdown ratings are pretty good, making both (MTV and WWE) pretty happy. Specially, Roddy Piper is the star of the show, with his fire and charisma.

Even inside the NWA there are discording voices, Jim Crocket and Sam Muchnick enforce a politic of ignoring WWE, thinking that it will fall by itself. Instead it continued his growth, culminating in the WWE Starrcade (November, 24th, 1983) were Roddy Piper retained the WWE World Heavyweight against The Hulkster, Terry Boulder. This match is the starting point of the feud between The Hulkster and the Celtic Piper, a feud that will be a standard of the industry for years.

In February, 9th, 1984 David Von Erich suffered a stroke (some said it was a drug overdose, others it was an enteritis). He was personally drove to the hospital by Giant Baba who took care of all the situation. David was dry-dock for 9 months. This has two big results, the first is a strong bond between the Von Erichs and the JPWA. The second is that, counting that David was bound to win the NWA World HW, Fritz asked the NWA brass to pass the chance to Kerry. It was denied as they considered he was not ready. In response, the WCCW left the NWA.

Vince McMahon Sr died May 24, 1984. He left the WWF to his son Rod McMahon.

The Black Saturday-The July 14, 1984 the Brisco brothers sold their stock in GCW to Jim Crockett Jr for $900,000. In return Jim Crockett Jr received GCW's television time slots on WTBS, which he claimed for the JCP, very shortly following the purchase the decision was made to utilize the familiar "World Championship Wrestling" television show name, as the brand name for this new promotion. There is still controversial if the JCP left the NWA or it was expelled but anyway the NWA lost one of its biggest members.

In Agust, 1984 Riki Choshu leaded an exodus from JPWA, citing the lack of opportunities to the new generations. The initial members of the NJPW were Riki Choshu, Genichiro Tenryu, Nobuhiko Takada, Yoshiaki Yatsu, Kuniaki Kobayashi, Hiro Saito and Atsushi Onita. The WCCW talent helped the JPWA to fill the gaps. Anyway, the JPWA still was loaded with talent Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Maeda, Hiroshi Hase, Tatsuji Fujinami or Vader. In exchange of the help of WCCW the JPWA quit the NWA, also feeling that this organization was in his last legs.




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