Mr. Okuma and Masio Koma were both big in Japan. certainly bigger there than in the USA . Unlike Tor Kamata, Kenji Shibuya, Tojo Yamamoto and others in America at the same time, these two were true Japanese.
Both are now deceased. Koma died in 1976 while only in his 30s from liver failure. Okuma continued for a long career and retired, but eventually passed also.
For their American run, the pair had a push in Amarillo in the early 1970s. Here, on tv and in live house shows, they were a heel tag team facing varied baby face combos. Sometimes they won and sometimes they lost, butt hey were greatly hated by the crowd, which was the point.
The Arizona stint for the pair was very limited. Rod Fenton out of Tucson, utilized varied Amarillo wrestlers when promoting in the 1970s, as did Kurt Von Steiger.
In Arizona, the two were usually mid card and were used as an added attraction, but were never pushed too heavily.
Still, they deserve a spot in the history of Arizona wrestling and mention here.
What a pity the offices did not sue them to their full paucity.
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