International Wrestling Enterprise: Difference between revisions

On September 11, 1967, the TBS Television deal was signed, and a signing ceremony was attended by Isao Yoshihara, TBS Sports Director Masao Tsuruta and TBS Sports Vice Director Tadahiro Mori.{{sfn|''NPJ vol. 2''|2014|p=47}} In order to raise funds, IWE, through the intermediary of Mori, who was a friend of Yoshihara from their days at Waseda University, transferred its shares to Hiroshi Iwata, the president of a dairy company in [[Hiroshima]], and asked him for a loan. Iwata thus became the new owner of IWE, and the company was restructured with the backing of TBS.{{sfn|''G Spirits Vol. 19''|2011|pp=84-85}} Around the same time, Hiro Matsuda left IWE after a dispute with Yoshihara over how to handle debts.{{sfn|NPJ vol. 8|2015|pp=34,40}} [[Kazuo Okamura|The Great Togo]], whose contract with JWA ended four years ago, was brought in to replace Matsuda as the booker for the foreign wrestlers.{{sfn|''G Spirits Vol. 19''|2011|p=84}}