Puro promotions question

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I wanted to check if this was right, because I'm still a little confused.

But there were two big promotions in the 90's. All Japan Pro Wrestling, owned by Giant Baba and New Japan Pro Wrestling, owned by Inoki.

AJPW's stars were Misawa, Kobashi and Kawada.

NJPW had Chono, Muta and Hashimoto.

Giant Baba died, his wife took over. Nobody liked the direction she was going and Misawa quit and took about 23 wrestlers with him. He started NOAH with most of the investors of AJPW and Kenta Kobashi.

And here comes the part that keeps confusing me.

Baba's wife hired Mutoh, who went from NJPW to AJPW and took a couple of his students with him. One of them was Kojima.

NJPW was then left with pretty much no big stars since Hashimoto died, Mutoh left and Chono was the only big name who stayed.

However what confuses me and perhaps I just got that wrong. But I saw Tenzan wrestle in NJPW and I thought he left for AJPW too.

So my question is. Who wrestles where? And are they allowed to wrestle in different feds, because I remeber reading that Mutoh still does some matches for NJPW.

Anyway, here is a short list of wrestlers I'm sure off. And please correct me if I'm wrong.

NOAH: Misawa, Kobashi, Akiyama, KENTA, Marifuji.

NJPW: Chono, Lyger, Nakamura, Tanahashi.

AJPW: Mutoh, Kojima, Tenzan...


Now I'm writing this, I guess my question really is, who works for AJPW?

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Promotion divisions are looser in Japan, and a lot of guys are more or less strictly freelance (like Kensuke Sasaki) but have enough marketing clout to go over when they're booked. Hence why Kawada (a big name for AJPW you didn't mention) had one match in NOAH, why some DG guys have been showing up in NOAH, why the Voodoo Murders pretty much just went on tour in various promotions (as I understand it), and why NJPW and AJPW recently held a joint show.

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hardcorehick said:

Promotion divisions are looser in Japan, and a lot of guys are more or less strictly freelance (like Kensuke Sasaki) but have enough marketing clout to go over when they're booked. Hence why Kawada (a big name for AJPW you didn't mention) had one match in NOAH, why some DG guys have been showing up in NOAH, why the Voodoo Murders pretty much just went on tour in various promotions (as I understand it), and why NJPW and AJPW recently held a joint show.

I named Kawada in my first list, because I thought he only wrestled for HUSTLE now.

But Kawada is still in AJPW?

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Ouch, shows my level of knowledge. I'll let someone like PKS come in and correct any errors I made.

[samachine]

Most rosters have a good relationship, but it's not between companies, its between friends. Like Chono is friends with some of the NOAH guys still so that's how he's showed up there, Tenzan, Kojima are also in that element, Tenzan is NJPW though I believe, where as Kojima is NJPW/AJPW

[Harmonica]

I have a question also

was Tsuruta given "ownership" of AJPW than he died then it was given to Misawa?