in the beginning jpw promoted their own shows, but soon these began to be on-and-off. by the end of 1985, the entire active roster (excluding trainees and wrestlers on foreign circuits) were essentially ajpw wrestlers working on a separate contract, that of their promotion. while new japan suffered from the lack of strong japanese vs. japanese feuds due to the loss of choshu and akira maeda who led the japanese uwf, all japan enjoyed banner years as choshu feuded with its luminaries jumbo tsuruta and genichiro tenryu, and kobayashi feuded with the new version of tiger mask, mitsuharu misawa.