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Finished. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Japan_Championship_(pool)#Men

Butera ran 150 and out in 19 minutes against Lassiter, I believe it was in the late 60s. I think this was the fastest recorded time for a 150 ball run, hard to beat!

I suppose the events that were pre 1990 could be added but at that point it's subjective to which ones qualify as "World Championship" events. You decide If you think you can, because I certainly don't have the stuff to figure that one out and don't know who can make those kind of decisions...

Good point, but what would the sanctioning body be for the 1988 and 1989 events?

I think the 9-Ball Goat Is Earl without a doubt, because he is holds the record in the two longest and most prestigious 9-Ball tournaments to date.

Sorry Typo, it was $8,000 in 1986. I do trust you, although I looked through the National Billiards Archives, very few but still a few players from other countries.

True, but someone's got to do it. Other that Charles Ursitti no one even tried to keep a track of pool's history and document it, Snooker is light years ahead of pool when it come to this.

Yes I didn't add Earl's titles in 84 and 88 to his wiki as being World 9-Ball Championships, because many people like yourself, kind of, feel that these were not true world championship events (like Johnston City). I know the events their referring to here, the tournaments held at Caesars...

You've said multiple times Sigel is a world 9-Ball champion could you tell me specifically which events these were, that were pre 1990 (WPA sanctioning body), so I can add this to his wiki page. Because In the past you've also said that there were no World Championship events before the WPA, so...

I didn't mention anything about Europe, not sure why you added that. There was some international participation in the events, a couple of Japanese players turned up for in the event in the 70s and Parica in 1978, as well as some European players in the early 80s.

Lowest first place price money for the PPPA World 14.1 Championship was £8,000 in 1986 won by Varner.

Yep "winning 63 of his first 68 finals entered" I added this to Sigel's wiki, when I found it in an article of the National Billiard News, it does sound good but once again like I said before, 50-60% of those tournament were $500 tournament with lots of the top players not in them, I also wrote...

If it's sustained excellence and mass-produced major titles over a length of a career, surely it would be SVB. Like Sigel, Shane has won over 100 professional titles but Shane's only 39 and Sigel achieved this when he was 41 and Shane probably won't retire in the next couple of years and will go...

Do you now any of the The PPPA World Open first place prize pay-outs from 1976-1983? The National Billiard News doesn't go in to much about the pay of the events. these are the only one's I could find- 1977- $15,000 to Hopkins. 1986- $8,000 to Varner.

Efren did win the Tokyo 9-Ball Open in 2001 which was the largest pay-out of any tournament at the time, he also won the World Pool Championship in 1999, which I believe was the largest pay-out of any tournament at the time, I'll double check that one. 👍 If this is true he would have won the...

Just looked at Vivian Villarreal's tournament record, she's in no doubt Hall of Fame worthy, in the future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Villarreal#Titles_won

Sigel did win over 100 tournaments, but a common misconception, they weren't all $10,000 tournaments, 60% of them were $500-$1000 tournaments, still impressive. But yes if the tournament results were recorded in the 70s, 80s and 90s (which there not) Sigel, Varner, Earl and Buddy would be close...

They call it "All Time Money List" but this is grossly incorrect, the results of tournaments have only been fairly consistent since the early 2000s, prior to 1999 the ONLY tournament that was recorded for money earnings was the U.S Open 9-Ball, so there are thousands of tournaments that haven't...

Zheng Xiaohui was the 2019 All Japan Championship winner.

Good point, Sang Lee's average was almost about world championship level if not above average some years, during his prime, while he was playing nationally in America, hence why he was undefeated for over a decade.