Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News

[Scottie Drippin]

breh njpw had the biggest crowds in the history of pro wrestling back to fukking back

Collision in Korea was the largest professional wrestling pay-per-view event ever that was jointly produced by World Championship Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling. It took place over a period of two days on April 28th and 29th, 1995, but did not air in North America until August 4, 1995,when WCW broadcast a selection of matches from the show on pay-per-view. The event was the first PPV from a North American wrestling promotion to be held in North Korea, and holds the current record for the largest attendance for a wrestling event with a total of 340,000 people in attendance over the two days.

NJPW's Hidekazu Tanaka was the ring announcer for the show, while Masao Tayama and Tiger Hattori refereed the matches. Commentary for the WCW pay-per-view presentation of the event was provided by Eric Bischoff, Mike Tenay and Kazuo Ishikawa.
Results


Pyongyang Sports Festival

Pyongyang, North Korea at Pyongyang Stadium

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April 28, 1995 drawing 150,000 ($7,500,000)

Yuji Nagata beat Tokimitsu Ishizawa (4:28).

Bull Nakano & Akira Hokuto beat Manami Toyota & Mariko Yoshida (8:34) when Nakano pinned Yoshida.

Hiro Hase pinned Wild Pegasus (10:10).

Masa Chono & Hiro Saito beat El Samurai & Tadao Yasuda (8:06) when Chono pinned Samurai.

Too Cold Scorpio beat Shinjiro Ohtani (2:37) when the referee stopped the match due to Ohtani's excessive bleeding.

Kensuke Sasaki pinned Masa Saito (8:34).

IWGP Champ Shinya Hashimoto drew Scott Norton (20:00).

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April 29, 1995 drawing 170,000 ($8,500,000)

Hiro Saito pinned Yuji Nagata (5:29).

Black Cat pinned El Samurai (4:56).

Wild Pegasus pinned Too Cold Scorpio (6:22).

Scott Norton & Masa Chono beat Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka (8:40) when Norton pinned Nogami.

Road Warrior Hawk pinned Tadao Yasuda (2:21).

Rick & Scott Steiner beat Hiro Hase & Kensuke Sasaki (11:51) when Scott pinned Hase.

CMLL Women's Champ Akira Hokuto pinned Bull Nakano (8:04).

Antonio Inoki pinned Ric Flair (14:52).


i aint see hide nor hair of tanahashi doing anything even remotely close to them numbers

1. Mawfukkas ain't wrestling in North Korea anymore

2. The industry down the world over.

Ultimate Warrior is a bigger star than Chris Jericho, doesn't mean he wasn't trash

 

[Black Thunder]

1. Mawfukkas ain't wrestling in North Korea anymore

2. The industry down the world over.

Ultimate Warrior is a bigger star than Chris Jericho, doesn't mean he wasn't trash

then what is tanahashis biggest crowd?, see all i know is he had some rpg final fantasy gimmick last i checked and he got pieced up by his old lady

then they putting this nikka over mutoh like hes that nikka

i hope hes a heel, because i couldnt imagine him being a babyface with that pretty boy faq shyt look he got

 

[Scottie Drippin]

then what is tanahashis biggest crowd?, see all i know is he had some rpg final fantasy gimmick last i checked and he got pieced up by his ol lady

then they putting this nikka over mutoh like hes that nikka

fukk if I know/care. What I do know is that for about 6-7 years now every main event the dude has is B+ and above (especially in the run where he beat Nagata's defense record) and he's the biggest current star in all of Japan. Ace of the Universe putting that work in.

 

[Black Thunder]

fukk if I know/care. What I do know is that for about 6-7 years now every main event the dude has is B+ and above (especially in the run where he beat Nagata's defense record) and he's the biggest current star in all of Japan. Ace of the Universe putting that work in.

kobashi and mutoh are still active

and i'm sure even with the limited news i read, they're both still bigger stars over there than him

 

[Miracle Violence]

breh njpw had the biggest crowds in the history of pro wrestling back to fukking back

Collision in Korea was the largest professional wrestling pay-per-view event ever that was jointly produced by World Championship Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling. It took place over a period of two days on April 28th and 29th, 1995, but did not air in North America until August 4, 1995,when WCW broadcast a selection of matches from the show on pay-per-view. The event was the first PPV from a North American wrestling promotion to be held in North Korea, and holds the current record for the largest attendance for a wrestling event with a total of 340,000 people in attendance over the two days.

Those people were forced to attend those shows, that's why the turnout was so huge.

 

[Black Thunder]

Those people were forced to attend those shows, that's why the turnout was so huge.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

kobashi and mutoh are still active

and i'm sure even with the limited news i read, they're both still bigger stars over there than him

Have you seen the numbers NOAH has been doing these last couple of years? Kobashi is barely active, and when he is no one gives a fukk. Dude is broken. Mutoh is of course still popular, but Tanashi is easily the number one guy for easily the number one company. He's just that dude. There's really no hating angle applicable. Dope matches, the biggest draw around, makes opponents look good (people were going apeshyt over Okada winning the belt saying it was a bad move, until they saw the match and how Tana made him look like a complete star), and the live crowds love him.

Wait.......you really think 150k+ people in North fukking Korea twenty years ago just went to a wrestling show because they felt like it?

 

[Black Thunder]

Have you seen the numbers NOAH has been doing these last couple of years? Kobashi is barely active, and when he is no one gives a fukk. Dude is broken. Mutoh is of course still popular, but Tanashi is easily the number one guy for easily the number one company. He's just that dude. There's really no hating angle applicable. Dope matches, the biggest draw around, makes opponents look good (people were going apeshyt over Okada winning the belt saying it was a bad move, until they saw the match and how Tana made him look like a complete star), and the live crowds love him.

so he's a babyface then??

and didnt mutoh/kobashi do some unity tour or some shyt and draw big crowds as well, i saw some youtube video with them both doing mooonsaults and posing as a team

okada?? you mean somalia joe's sidekick who got pulp fiction'd by pope in tna?? that's their champion?? oh my god

and yes considering how popular antonio inoki is globally i can believe it, people talk about how big a draw hogan is, but outside the states and maybe canada, hogan isnt a huge draw like inoki was

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

Thread took off in my absence

First off im gonna go ahead and five star this thread and rep everyone in it. puroresu brehs tend to just get it that much more than the average cat.

Went ahead and gave you full bars

The Ibushi match I posted goes out of sync, can't complain when it turns up the next day I guess, halfway through, had to mess around for a while in VLC to get it close to right, and I still don't know what I did, pretty insane match. I get the people hating on it but I'm not going into a match like this expecting Misawa/Kawada level selling, storytelling etc. It's a bunch of crazy and dangerous spots, and it was fun to watch

 

[Jmare007]

Black Thunder

So much wrong information in 3 posts


If you want to talk about New Japan's big shows of the 90's, talk about them Fukuoka, Osaka and Tokyo Dome shows. Not that Korean bullshyt were half the people there were forced to go

so from what i've gathered, tanahashi has supposedly either tied or gotten the most iwgp title runs of all time (6), so njpw is saying that tanahashi is better than mutoh/muta, chono, inoki, fat ass hashimoto, vader, hansen, hogan, fujinami, kensuke, choshu??

the fukk

 

[Miracle Violence]

No one in that audience had ever even seen pro wrestling before. They didn't show up out of genuine interest, they showed up because their government told them they had to.

Check the 5 minute mark of this interview:

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

Naito is out for six months with a knee injury

AJPW "40TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR SUMMER IMPACT 2012", 26.08.2012 (GAORA TV)
Ota Ward Gymnasium
3,800 Fans - Super No Vacancy

Spoiler

1. All Japan 40th Anniversary Battle Royal: Great Kabuki besiegt Ryota Hama mit einem Thrust Kick (13:24). Reihenfolge des Ausscheidens: KENSO, Andy Wu, SUSHI, MAZADA, Yasufumi Nakanoue, Shuji Kondo, Masao Inoue, Masanobu Fuchi & Ryota Hama.
2. Shiryu 20th Anniversary Special Six Man Tag Match: Great Sasuke , MEN'S Teioh & Shiryu besiegen Jinsei Shinzaki , TAKA Michinoku & Yone Genjin (8:20) als Sasuke Genjin pinnte.
3. Joe Doering besiegt Seiya Sanada (8:02) mit einer Revolution Bomb.
4. Suwama besiegt KAI (11:52) mit einem Wild Bomber.
5. AJPW World Tag Team Title: Takao Omori & Manabu Soya (c) besiegen Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi (20:43) nach einem Wild Bomber von Soya gegen Okabayashi (2nd defense).
6. AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Title: Hiroshi Yamato (c) besiegt Minoru Tanaka (21:48) mit einem Cross-Arm Suplex Hold (1st defense).
7. Kaz Hayashi 20th Anniversary Special Tag Match: Satoshi Kojima & Kaz Hayashi besiegen Keiji Muto & Jimmy Yang (20:02) nach dem Power Plant von Hayashi gegen Yang.
8. Triple Crown: Masakatsu Funaki besiegt Jun Akiyama (c) (4:37) mit einem Hybrid Blaster - Titelwechsel.

at the main event

Pretty great match between Ishii and Goto, have to love when Japanese crowds get behind an underdog:

[ame=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsv2rg_06-hirooki-goto-c-vs-tomohiro-ishii-njpw-05-20-12_sport?search_algo=1]06. Hirooki Goto (c) vs Tomohiro Ishii - (NJPW 05/20/12) - Video Dailymotion[/ame]

 

[TrueEpic08]

Naito is out for six months with a knee injury

AJPW "40TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR SUMMER IMPACT 2012", 26.08.2012 (GAORA TV)
Ota Ward Gymnasium
3,800 Fans - Super No Vacancy

Spoiler

1. All Japan 40th Anniversary Battle Royal: Great Kabuki besiegt Ryota Hama mit einem Thrust Kick (13:24). Reihenfolge des Ausscheidens: KENSO, Andy Wu, SUSHI, MAZADA, Yasufumi Nakanoue, Shuji Kondo, Masao Inoue, Masanobu Fuchi & Ryota Hama.
2. Shiryu 20th Anniversary Special Six Man Tag Match: Great Sasuke , MEN'S Teioh & Shiryu besiegen Jinsei Shinzaki , TAKA Michinoku & Yone Genjin (8:20) als Sasuke Genjin pinnte.
3. Joe Doering besiegt Seiya Sanada (8:02) mit einer Revolution Bomb.
4. Suwama besiegt KAI (11:52) mit einem Wild Bomber.
5. AJPW World Tag Team Title: Takao Omori & Manabu Soya (c) besiegen Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi (20:43) nach einem Wild Bomber von Soya gegen Okabayashi (2nd defense).
6. AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Title: Hiroshi Yamato (c) besiegt Minoru Tanaka (21:48) mit einem Cross-Arm Suplex Hold (1st defense).
7. Kaz Hayashi 20th Anniversary Special Tag Match: Satoshi Kojima & Kaz Hayashi besiegen Keiji Muto & Jimmy Yang (20:02) nach dem Power Plant von Hayashi gegen Yang.
8. Triple Crown: Masakatsu Funaki besiegt Jun Akiyama (c) (4:37) mit einem Hybrid Blaster - Titelwechsel.

at the main event

Pretty great match between Ishii and Goto, have to love when Japanese crowds get behind an underdog:

06. Hirooki Goto (c) vs Tomohiro Ishii - (NJPW 05/20/12) - Video Dailymotion

Well, that main event is a must see. Shame about Naito though. Hopefully he can come back and get some better booking in February-March.

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

8. Triple Crown: Masakatsu Funaki besiegt Jun Akiyama (c) (4:37) mit einem Hybrid Blaster

That 4:37 cant be right... can it?

 

[TrueEpic08]

That 4:37 cant be right... can it?

It's legit. Those types of short matches are actually staples of matches including MMA or ex-MMA guys. They're usually fast, frenetic and really fukking stiff.

Case in point: Possibly the best 6-7 minute match ever (Mysterio/Punk is second, BTW...):