Essential Japanese Wrestling Discussion/News

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Zero-Two

 

[The Rainmaker]

Fukk the G1, it's Dragon Gate's Kobe Festival day

 

[3Rivers]

Fukk the G1, it's Dragon Gate's Kobe Festival day

So much puro piff right now between G1/DDT/DG/BJW

It's hard as fukk to keep up

 

[Jmare007]

So much puro piff right now between G1/DDT/DG/BJW

It's hard as fukk to keep up

July to August is puro's busiest couple of months. Then it slows down a little bit until New Year's season.


Unsurprisingly, Big Japan couldn't even get 4k into Sumo Hall. Here are the results.

BJW "RYOGOKUTAN", 24.07.2016 (Samurai! TV LIVE)
Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
3,293 Fans

1. Atsushi Maruyama & Daichi Hashimoto besiegen Tatsuhiko Yoshino

& Kazumi Kikuta (9:43) nach einem Triangle Choke von Hashimoto gegen Kikuta.
2. ~ Team Mexico vs. SOS ~: Tsutomu Oosugi & Hercules Senga besiegen Billy Ken Kid & Tsubasa (8:20) nach einer Victory Roll von Oosugi gegen Tsubasa.
3. ~ Musu No Wakusei vs. Mu No Taiyo ~: The Great Sasuke

, Brahman Shu & Brahman Kei besiegen Great Kojika, Shinobu & Toshiyuki Sakuda (9:29) als Sasuke Sakuda nach dem Messiah Kourin pinnte.
4. Hideki Suzuki & Takuya Nomura besiegen Yasufumi Nakanoue & Yoshihisa Uto (9:30) nach einem Double-Arm Suplex Hold von Suzuki gegen Uto.
5. Yokohama Shopping Street Six Man Tag Team Title Death Match Iron Maiden ~ run to the hell ~, Decision Match: Abdullah Kobayashi, Takayuki Ueki & Masaya Takahashi besiegen "Black Angel" Jaki Numazawa, Masashi Takeda & Takumi Tsukamoto

(11:38) nach einem Diving Bakachinga Elbow Drop von einem Iron Cage von Kobayashi gegen Numazawa - Titelwechsel.
6. Ryuichi Kawakami Return Match: Daisuke Sekimoto besiegt Ryuichi Kawakami (11:18) mit einem Roll-Through German Suplex Hold.
7. All Asia Tag Team Title: Hikaru Sato & Atsushi Aoki

besiegen Yuko Miyamoto & Isami Kodaka

(c) (18:24) nach dem Trap Over von Aoki gegen Kodaka - Titelwechsel.
8. BJW Tag Team Title: Shuji Ishikawa & Kohei Sato

(c) besiegen Ryota Hama & Akebono (12:37) nach einer Running Knee Attack von Ishikawa gegen Hama (1st defense).
9. BJW Strong World Heavyweight Title: Hideyoshi Kamitani besiegt Yuji Okabayashi (c) (26:53) mit eiem Backdrop - Titelwechsel.
10. BJW Death Match Heavyweight Title ~ Scaffold & G Shock Death Match: Kankuro Hoshino besiegt Ryuji Ito (c) (20:31) mit einem Diving Senton vom Scaffold - Titelwechsel


When is Kazuki coming back brehs I thought he was a given as Daichi's partner

 

[TrueEpic08]

BJW "RYOGOKUTAN", 24.07.2016 (Samurai! TV LIVE)
Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
3,293 Fans

That's the reported number too. Can't imagine what they actually drew...

 

[Jmare007]

That's the reported number too. Can't imagine what they actually drew...

Kamitani probably made his family pay for them tickets to make sure SOMEONE paid for them

 

[mrfortune]

where to watch this stuff please ?

 

[Jmare007]

where to watch this stuff please ?

The RealHero Archive

 

[Jmare007]

By the way, Yuji vs Kamitani is already up




Gonna watch it tomorrow

 

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AJPW: After Exodus

A collection looking at AJPW in the immediate aftermath of the NOAH exodus, leaving Kawada and Fuchi as the last men standing and looking to rebuild the company.

Toshiaki Kawada vs Masanobu Fuchi 7/1/00
Toshiaki Kawada/Genichiro Tenryu vs Stan Hansen/Maunnakea Mossman 7/23/00
Masahiro Chono vs Masanobu Fuchi 9/2/00
Toshiaki Kawada vs Keiji Mutoh 4/14/01
Arashi/Kendo Kashin/Nobutaka Araya/Satoshi Kojima vs Kazuhiko Ogasawara/Masato Tanaka/Ryouji Sai/Shinjiro Otani 2/23/03
Keiji Mutoh/Kaz Hayashi vs Satoshi Kojima/Jimmy Yang 3/22/03
Toshiaki Kawada vs Shinya Hashimoto Triple Crown Championship 2/22/04
Satoshi Kojima vs Giant Bernard Triple Crown Championship 10/18/05

Full matches at the link. The Revolution reunion tag and Chono/Fuchi are must sees. Kawada/Hashimoto is pretty good. Mutoh/Kawada didn't mesh at all. Kawada/Fuchi is like a snuff film. Zero-1 tag is very hateful and a lot of fun.

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

I had that Kawada/Hash match very high on my best of 04 Ditch list years back, remember thinking it was a classic with incredible selling and drama. Hash Kawada has another run in him yet

 

[stro]

I dunno, Hashimoto was always hit and miss in giant main events. Sometimes he would just get something weird in his head and the match wouldn't kick into the gear it needed to. And by the time Kawada/Hash happened, I think both were just outside of their primes. It was good, certainly much better than the Kawada/Mutoh match, but it just seems like something that would have been signifcantly better even 2 years earlier, imo.

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

I recall liking that both seemed to be on the downswing, like Hash was falling apart and I thought it added to the story. Bravery, the whole Japanese thing etc. That's just me adding a story probably. Haven't watched it in ages.

Hash was a little unfortunate that he didn't have the Misawa, Kawada levels during his run. He'd get Norton and Sasaki and Muto. He usually delivered from my perspective though, the Takada match was what it should've been, classic with Hase, fun stuff with Liger and bunch of very good matches. And of course the Ogawa thing which was pretty awesome. He had the whole Ace aura down too.

I really liked the whole ''wandering around kicking ass'' thing he did when the NJPW relationship soured. Poor Tanaka

 

[stro]

Hashimoto's body falling apart was a part of the story, as he had been injured a few weeks prior at a Z1 show and that played heavily into the finish of the Kawada match.

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

Ah there you go, I remember matches from 04 that I watched in 08 pretty well, can't really remember Battleground though