Toho has changed their position many times over the years


That's why I'm not a fan of revisionist history. What matters to me is what is said when the films are made, not what people (including directors) say years after the fact trying to back pedal or change outcomes.

If Toho states that Kong won in 1962/63 than that trumps what is said 15-20 years later in that Godzilla magazine, because what you have is revisionist history and backpedaling. 

The fight ending in a draw doesn't make sense because then Kong doesn't win any fights, which is silly considering he was the star and hero of the film. Considering that the guys at Toho were big fans of Kong and paid alot of money to use him, not having him win one fight seems very unlikely. Having him lose the first fight and then coming back to win the big rematch is far more logical.
If Toho truly wanted the fight to end in a draw then they wouldn't have any of the monsters surface at the end (like in the King Kong vs Prometheus script which became this film) with both monsters believed to have perished.

Honda told me in the late 1980s that the battle was a tie.


Talk is cheap. Is there any Japanese book or periodicals that has a quote from Honda confirming this (particularly from the time frame the film was made, and NOT decades later)
Anyone can say "I talked to so and so and they told me so and so".


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