(Rikidozan) Banzai!
Rikidozan and Kimura just after their one-hour draw with Mike and Ben Sharpe in Tokyo Wrestling World July 1954 Article by Al Mayer Bobby Bruns Sets New Mat Attendance Records in His Sensational Tour of Japan This is a story as up-to-date and modern as the H-Bomb itself. It is the story of a project now accomplished, which a short decade ago could only have been visualized as a dream. The master mind behind it was Bobby Bruns, a former world wrestling champion, one time captain of the U. S. Olympic water polo team, a graduate of Illinois University, and intimate friend of the martyred Mayor Cermac of Chicago, who gave his life in saving that of the late President Roosevelt from attemped assassination in Miami, Florida. Bruns conceived the idea of bringing Japan into the orbit of big time wrestling through the medium of Inter-national Professional Wrestling, which will bring at regular intervals American wrestlers to Japan to compete in championship contests, and vice versa. ...
