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Just reading the Observer obit of Jumbo (can post if anyone wants), never knew this little tidbit


Mr Pogo

I've read it before but would love to read it again.

 

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Tomomi Tsuruta, who started out as an instant sensation and went on to be one of the most enduring stars in pro wrestling history, passed away at 4 p.m. on 5/13, from complications after undergoing a kidney transplant operation in the Philippines. He was 49.

Tsuruta was an undisputable Hall of Fame calibre performer. He was a major star in pro wrestling literally from the first week of his career in Japan. He was the country's first truly elite level world class worker and was still arguably the best worker in the business at the time he first took ill, which largely sealed his career two decades later. In wrestling, he was known for nearly three decades by one word, "Jumbo." It was a nickname chosen for him in a contest sponsored by NTV in Japan a few weeks after his debut in the country after being a celebrated amateur wrestler. He was the first wrestler to hold the Triple Crown, the first native Japanese wrestler to capture the AWA world heavyweight title, and in the late 70s was under somewhat serious consideration to hold the NWA world heavyweight title, which at the time was the major belt in the wrestling world.

Press coverage in Japan on 5/16, when the story broke, called Tsuruta the strongest wrestler in the history of Japanese wrestling. In polls for both the decade of the 80s and 90s, fans voted Tsuruta as the strongest native wrestler. Every newspaper, radio station and television station covered the death strongly as he was something of a household name in his culture, with it being the lead story in virtually every sports section. Funeral services were pending at press time as his wife and three children were scheduled to return to Japan on 5/17.

During the 70s, Tsuruta was considered right at the top of any list of the best workers of the decade, alongside the likes of The Funks, Harley Race and Jack Brisco with a believable high spot athletic style that was ahead of its time in that he was one of the few wrestlers of that era whose matches still hold up well under today's standards. He was the first Japanese wrestler to be a world-class worker at a mixture of both American and Japanese styles, having trained under Dory Funk Jr. and having classic matches with the top scientific wrestlers of the era like Brisco, Dory Funk Jr., Billy Robinson, Race, Nick Bockwinkel, Mil Mascaras and Verne Gagne which aired on prime time network television every Saturday night making him a sports celebrity who was a household cultural name. With the exception of Giant Baba, Rikidozan and Antonio Inoki, and possibly Riki Choshu, he was as famous a cultural name as any native pro wrestler in Japanese history. He remained a main eventer throughout the 80s. The emergence of a new faster-paced style culminating in multiple near falls that came in, combined with him getting older and bigger, and toning down his impressive high flying for such a big man of his youth, left him somewhat behind the top few guys in the business although he was still considered one of the most important Japanese wrestlers and was virtually always in the main events. By the late 80s and early 90s, he modernized his style to keep up with the pack, and his matches against the likes of Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada, Genichiro Tenryu and Kenta Kobashi, were the state-of-the-art for in-ring world title matches at the time. By that point in time, he was considered with the likes of Jushin Liger and Ric Flair as the best in-ring performer in the business as the dominant player in the hottest promotion in the world.

Then, just as suddenly, his career, at least as a serious performer, was over. He became ill in the summer of 1992. It was said to have been an ankle injury, but when he came back to the ring six weeks later, he had lost a lot of weight, mainly muscle mass, and clearly was not the same. His stamina was no longer there and tag team partner Akira Taue had to carry the action in his matches, which were still headlining the shows. A few months later, he disappeared again. His illness was never explained to the public, which started rumors flying everywhere. He didn't return to the ring until 11 months later, at which time it was said he had been out of action from contracting Hepatitis B, but from that point on his wrestling was limited to appearing in mid-card six-man tag team matches where he'd only been in for a minute or less at a time. While he wrestled five to ten matches per year over the next five years, the Jumbo Tsuruta that every wrestling fan in Japan knew really was finished in 1992. He earned his teaching credential in 1994 and went back to college in 1995. He became a professor of sports physiology in 1996, and went back to his alma mater, Chuo College, to teach in 1997, where he'd earned his law degree some 25 years earlier. He left Japan in the fallout of the death of Shohei Baba early last year, being pressured out of his front office position, began teaching physical education at the University of Portland. He was contemplating switching to UCLA, but apparently he took a turn for the worst toward the end of the year, due to cancer, which was kept secret.

He quietly returned to Japan, unbeknownst to all but his closest friends, for treatment in Gifu, Japan, at the most famous hospital in the country for treatment of liver problems, as the cancer had spread from his kidneys to his liver. He left the hospital for Australia on 4/11. He had an operation to try and remove the cancer in Brisbane, Australia and was recuperating there, but still needed a kidney transplant and was awaiting a donor. Internal organ transplant laws in Japan are very complicated, which is why he had left Japan for treatment and was recuperating in Australia. He also wanted treatment outside of the United States or Japan so it would be done without any fanfare. He received word last week that a donor had been found, a 17-year-old in the Philippines who had been murdered. He flew to Manila and underwent transplant surgery on 5/13 at the National Kidney Hospital in Manila, but passed away following the surgery from heavy internal bleeding.

Rumors of his death spread quickly on 5/14 in Japan, but because nobody could confirm it, they weren't reported anywhere until 5/16 in Japan (the evening of 5/15 in the United States). Even as late as 5/16, his older brother wasn't aware that he had left Australia for the transplant or that he had passed away. A few hours later, All Japan held a press conference. He was survived by his wife, Yasuko, a former stewardess he had married in 1984, and three sons.

Tomomi Tsuruta was born March 25, 1951 in the small town of Makioka in the Yamanishi Prefecture of Japan. Because his first name sounded so much like Tomoko, a popular first name for girls, he was teased greatly, but grew up to be an excellent athlete. At Hikawa High School, he was a star on the swimming team, was the star player on his high school basketball team which won the Japanese high school national championship during his senior year in 1970, and placed third in his prefecture as a senior in sumo wrestling that same year.

He went to Chuo College in Tokyo as a basketball player and studied law. While he had done sumo, he did no amateur wrestling before reading a magazine article in early 1971 about the 1968 Olympics, in particular the Japanese wrestling team. The article inspired him to try amateur wrestling as his quest to participate in the 1976 Olympics, and he ended up reaching his goal four years early. He wasn't of Olympic team calibre in basketball, and sumo wasn't in the Olympics, which led him to amateur wrestling. He actually quit the basketball team to go out for wrestling, a decision that everyone at his college thought was nuts since he was tall and thin, built like a basketball player and had potential in that sport. The wrestlers on the didn't want him and wouldn't let him join the team. He was ribbed about his name and his slight physique, and Chuo College already had a star heavyweight (Tetsuo Sekigawa, who was the ring leader of those who teased Tsuruta and blocked him from joining the team, and who later became a famous pro wrestler under the name Mr. Pogo). Tsuruta, pressured away from joining the college team, instead took up wrestling with an outside club, the Ground Self Defense Force, and picked up the amateur sport, as he later did the pro sport, with miraculous speed. He whipped on people left and right in local tournaments to where the college team changed its tune and quickly were begging him to join. He picked it up so quickly he won the Japanese collegiate heavyweight championship in both freestyle and Greco-roman in both 1971 and 1972.

He qualified for the Olympic team, and in late August of 1972, went to Munich after only 18 months in the sport, which was totally unheard of. He won his first two matches and then lost via decision in the third round to place seventh overall.

At 6-foot-4 and about 225 pounds at the time, very large for a Japanese athlete in those days, he came out of the Olympics like a No. 1 draft choice in football as it pertained to the pro wrestling world, which came after him with lucrative offers. All four wrestling promotions at the time, the old JWA, which was in bad financial condition and needed a savior, the IWE, which was affiliated with the AWA in the United States and the two new groups which had just formed but had most of the major stars, Shohei Baba's All Japan Pro Wrestling and Antonio Inoki's New Japan Pro Wrestling. On October 31, 1972, ten days after Baba formed All Japan, a press conference with Baba, the biggest wrestling star in the country at the time, Ichiro Hatta, the President of the Japanese amateur wrestling federation, and Tsuruta, the heavyweight star of the Olympic team together to announce the first major signee of the new promotion.

He was predestined for stardom before ever having a match. Four days after signing, the media was invited to his first day in wrestling camp under Akio Sato and the late Masio Koma at the new All Japan dojo where he demonstrated four different types of suplexes. After four months of training in Japan, he was sent to Amarillo, TX, to train under then NWA world heavyweight champion Dory Funk Jr., and make his pro debut.

He arrived on March 23, 1973. The Funks knew of his Olympic background, but due to miscommunication and the language barrier at the time, had no idea he had never actually had a pro wrestling match when they put him in the ring for a television taping match the next day against veteran El Gran Tapia.

Tommy Tsuruta, as he was known at the time, became the first Japanese wrestler, and perhaps only one, to get over as a major draw as a babyface without playing the stereotypical Japanese gimmick in an American territory. His suplexes were so impressive that he became the first wrestler ever in the Amarillo territory to have his moves replayed in slow-motion. His three big suplexes, including what is now known in pro wrestling as a german suplex, which was a new move for that territory and rarely seen in the United States up to that point in time, would be taped onto 16mm film, and transferred back on slow-mo mode on the videotape, as they actually didn't have slow-mo equipment in those days.

 

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Tsuruta became largely a Japanese incarnation of Dory Jr., his trainer, because of his unique ability to see almost any maneuver in the ring and ability to duplicate it almost instinctively. He almost instantly mastered the European uppercut forearm and the spinning toe hold, as well as the double-arm suplex, as well as copying Jack Brisco, considered by many as the best athlete in wrestling in those days with the high flying moves including being the originator of the missile dropkick and specializing in a high knee called the jumping knee pat, and later, they had him train under Lou Thesz and he used Thesz' trademark Greco-roman backdrop as a regular finisher. Besides the missile dropkick, a move which in the 70s became his domain, he also on occasion did the plancha, a move largely exclusive to very small high flyers in Mexico. He got over so quickly that he was a main eventer only a few weeks after his first match. Just eight weeks after his first pro match, on March 20, 1973 in Albuquerque, NM, he challenged Dory to a world title match, losing in 56:00 of a two of three fall match to the spinning toe hold, four days before the famous match where Dory dropped the title to Race in Kansas City after a four-year plus reign. No other Japanese native had ever gotten over playing the role of scientific babyface to that degree in American wrestling (Keiji Muto could have nearly two decades later, but was miscast due to the belief among those in charge of WCW at the time as that American fans would never cheer a Japanese wrestler).

"He was a fun kid to be around and wrestle," remembered Dory Funk Jr. "He liked Texas. I'd take him out to work the cattle and brand the steers. He could do pretty much of everything. We wanted to keep him here in Amarillo. He was able to draw money for us, but they called him back."

Tsuruta got preferential treatment when he returned to Japan. He had signed a big money, by the standards of the era, contract, and didn't have to pay the dues a typical Japanese wrestler had to. It would have caused problems within the hierarchy in the Japanese traditional wrestling culture, but Tsuruta was such an impressive athlete that nobody could complain his monster push wasn't deserved. When he debuted in Japan to much fanfare on October 6, 1973 at Korakuen Hall, he was a magnet for resentment from veterans. In his first match, he beat large foreign mid-carder Moose Morowski. His third match in Japan, on October 9, 1973 at Tokyo Sumo Hall, saw he and Baba wrestle to a 60:00 draw when challenging Dory & Terry Funk for the International tag team titles, held on live television, by the end of which, he had shut up all the complainers. The Chuo College band, and tons of college students who weren't wrestling fans, packed the building to create a unique atmosphere for the television audience. He was an instant celebrity and the hottest new star in Japanese pro wrestling since Baba and Inoki had gotten over. A contest was held on NTV to give him a nickname, and on October 27, 1973, Jumbo Tsuruta became a household name. He was kept unbeaten in Japan until January 30, 1974, when he lost when challenging for Brisco's NWA title and was named by the Japanese press as the best technical wrestler in the world in 1974.

Baba & Tsuruta had replaced Baba & The Destroyer as the top babyface tag team in Japan, and they finally captured the International tag team titles from the Funks on February 5, 1975 in San Antonio in Tsuruta's first title win. The two teams had numerous main events during that period and for the next eight years. Besides wins over the Funks, the Baba & Tsuruta team became recognized as the top tag team in Japan retaining the belts against teams like Killer Kowalski & Gene Kiniski, Kowalski & Bruno Sammartino and two wins over dikk the Bruiser & The Crusher. In late 1975, after a loss in a singles match to Baba, Baba announced what everyone had figured, that Tsuruta would some day be his successor, and to groom him, the next year would be his learning year as they would bring the top wrestlers in the world in to face him in singles matches.

His opponents over the next year included Gagne, Rusher Kimura (the top star of the rival IWE in what at the time was a major interpromotional match which was voted match of the year--the first of five consecutive years where a Tsuruta match won Match of the Year in Japan), Kintaro Oki (the biggest wrestling star in Korea), Billy Robinson (considered Europe's best wrestler at the time, and the two wrestled a 70:00 draw which may have been the longest in-ring match in Japanese history before the Royce Gracie vs. Kazushi Sakuraba match), Jack Brisco, Bobo Brazil, Abdullah the Butcher, Chris Taylor (who also competed in the 1972 Munich Olympics, and finished behind Tsuruta, although they never wrestled, in Greco-roman although captured a bronze medal in freestyle), Terry Funk, Race and Fritz Von Erich.

They also revived the old United National title, the belt that the old JWA had given to Inoki to be a slightly lesser but arguably equal version of the International title that Baba dominated. The idea is the International title was the king belt, but the real great technical wrestlers would wrestle for the UN belt, which Tsuruta dominated from 1976-83 after for the first time finally beating Jack Brisco and defended against the likes of Robinson (who he lost and regained the belt from), Mascaras, Wahoo McDaniel, Ric Flair, Tommy Rich, Ted DiBiase, dikk Slater, Jimmy Snuka and dikk Murdoch. During that period, besides headlining against every major star of the era, he also put out three record albums as a singer and guitar player on the Sony label to capitalize on his mainstream fame.

He was also pushed at NWA board meetings as a possible world heavyweight champion during the period when Race was kingpin, but it never happened. He also had several matches against AWA champion Nick Bockwinkel, the first headlining in Honolulu on February 14, 1979.

All Japan in the late 70s and early 80s was built around Baba & Tsuruta as the top stars, feuding with all the top foreigners of the era. By the early 80s, since Tsuruta was younger, the better worker and far more believable as an athlete, there was a lot of pressure for Baba to step down from NTV, which at that point owned the majority interest in the company (over time, the Baba family bought back to where they owned 85% of the stock). When Ric Flair came to Japan as NWA world champion on October 9, 1981 for the first time, it was Tsuruta and not Baba that he worked his program with since Baba was past the point of having the kind of world title match that would have worked to Flair's strengths. They had a famous rematches in Japan, a 60:00 match on June 8, 1983 with Tsuruta taking one fall in a best of three fall match and thus not winning the title. Baba's feud with Stan Hansen kept him as the top draw in 1982, but without any major fanfare, in 1983, when Tsuruta beat Bruiser Brody to win the International heavyweight title, he had kind of quietly taken the top dog spot, particularly in 1984 when Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu captured the Real World Tag League.

On February 23, 1984 at Sumo Hall in Tokyo, he pinned Bockwinkel in 32:00 to win the AWA world heavyweight title in a match with the NWA International title also at stake with Terry Funk as referee. He toured the United States during a period when AWA business was very strong, headlining shows against the top names in the promotion including Bockwinkel, Blackjack Lanza, Robinson, Jim Brunzell, Greg Gagne and Baron Von Raschke before dropping it to Rick Martel on May 13, 1984 at the St. Paul Civic Center. Nine days later at the Denen Coliseum in Tokyo, he had a tremendous match against then NWA champion Kerry Von Erich, which went to a double count out. He publicly announced his engagement to the former Yasuko Aramaki on July 10, 1984 at the Hotel Okura in Tokyo, and was married on September 23 of that year.

All Japan was on fire from 1985-1987 when Riki Choshu and his army jumped from New Japan. This was the period where Tsuruta was almost caught napping. They introduced a faster-paced style, and Tsuruta, content to do the old "big man" heavyweight style, seemed to be passed by Tenryu as the hottest All Japan regular in the top program with Choshu while Tsuruta worked programs with less interest against the big foreigners. But by 1987, Tsuruta upped his game, Choshu and company had gone back to New Japan, and Tenryu was turned heel and their singles feud started, with Tenryu scoring a win on August 11, 1987 at Budokan Hall, which that year became the home base for All Japan major shows. Tsuruta vs. Tenryu on top started a trend that has lasted until the present where All Japan presented the best singles main events held anywhere in the world. Tsuruta was the catalyst in Baba cutting down to two major titles, a singles Triple Crown and the Double tag team (combining the PWF World tag team titles with the long-existing NWA International belts). The tag belts were unified in 1988 when Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu (who represented Japan in the 1980 Olympics), known as "The Olympics," beat Tenryu & Ashura Hara on June 4 in Sapporo for the PWF belts and then on June 10 at Budokan Hall beat The Road Warriors for the International belts, and began a feud with Hansen & Terry Gordy. The Triple Crown unification came on April 18, 1989 at the Tokyo Ota Ward Gymnasium. Tsuruta won the International title from Bruiser Brody on April 19, 1988, then defeated Hansen, who held both the United National and PWF belts in the unification match, and then feuded with Tenryu, Hansen, Gordy, Williams and Misawa over it until his career as a headliner was over. He had his only major singles match with Kobashi on January 27, 1990, and his famous singles match with Kawada was on January 21, 1992.

When Tenryu left the promotion in 1990 to form Super World Sports, and took a lot of the mid-card wrestlers with him, All Japan had to reinvent itself, and Tsuruta ushered in the modern era on June 8, 1990 when he was pinned by Misawa before 14,800 fans at Budokan Hall. The win made Misawa the hottest wrestler in the country and All Japan caught fire for the next few years with Tsuruta and Misawa on top, both in key singles matches, which Tsuruta usually won, and in numerous forms of tag matches, in particular six-mans. The Misawa win over Tsuruta, which came a few hundred tickets shy of capacity, was the last All Japan show not to sellout in Tokyo for the next several years. Tsuruta chose Akira Taue as his tag team partner for classics with Misawa & Kawada, before the illness that ended his career. His last important main event was on October 21, 1982, at the All Japan company's 20th anniversary show at Budokan Hall, where he teamed with Gordy & Andre the Giant to beat Baba & Hansen & Dory when he finally pinned his teacher. His final pro match was on September 11, 1998 at Budokan Hall in a mid-card comedy match teaming with Baba & Kimura against Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen.

In the wake of the death of Baba, Tsuruta was pressured out of the company just three weeks later. He had his retirement ceremony on March 6, 1999 at Budokan Hall, and four days later, took his family to start a new life in the United States.

Misawa, whose career was made when Tsuruta put him over in the 1990 Budokan match, said when hearing the news on television that it has become more important than ever to keep the company and style of pro wrestling alive because if the style is lost, people like Baba and Tsuruta's history would be lost.

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5/17 ALL JAPAN: This was a Jumbo Tsuruta special combined with a shot designed showing training and other footage to build up the Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshihiro Takayama Triple Crown title match. It was really sad at the beginning as they went from footage showing Mitsuharu Misawa seeing Tsuruta and his family off at the airport when they moved to the United States last year, and then jumped to just over one year later with Misawa at the airport and seeing his wife and three young children come back from the Philippines. It's very sad because Tsuruta's youngest boy looked to be about 3 and was clearly far too young to understand the situation. They had a lot of career match clips of Tsuruta, concentrating on a 1977 match with Billy Robinson (the famous 70:00 draw and even though Robinson was probably a few years past his peak by then, you can see he was something really special in the ring), a 1980 Champion Carnival final where he won the tournament for the first time over dikk Slater (a good match, shown more for it being Jumbo's first Carnival win, Slater at that point can be described as a less charismatic version of Terry Funk) and a 1989 match with Genichiro Tenryu. This match blew away, and I mean totally blew away, any match in pro wrestling this year. It was also interesting to see Tatsumi Fujinami and Tenryu on the All Japan TV show for the Tsuruta tribute. It would be the equivalent of during the Owen Hart tribute show on Raw, airing clips of Chris Benoit doing an interview when he worked for WCW. With Tenryu, it's even worse, because he left All Japan on the worst terms possible, taking a lot of the talent with him, and if it wasn't for the fact that Kobashi and Toshiaki Kawada were really able to step up to the plate and become superstars when thrust into the position many years earlier then would have been done (and in hindsight, it was the greatest thing ever for the promotion), the company could have been in real trouble. Fujinami and Tsuruta, even though they never wrestled each other and only teamed together once, are in most fans from the early 80s linked together since Fujinami was the better wrestler than Inoki but Inoki was the top star in the company, just as Tsuruta was the better wrestler than Baba, although of the two, Tsuruta was more successful when put in the position to carry the company after the big star stepped down. They showed a brief clip of the 1979 match where Tsuruta & Fujinami & Mil Mascaras teamed, with a lot of double dropkick spots. They also showed All Japan's first house show after Tsuruta's death, with the wrestlers in every match, bowing respectfully to a photo of Tsuruta after their match and particularly highlighting Jun Akiyama when he did the jumping knee, a move popularized in Japan by Tsuruta. They then replayed a lot of the Tsuruta special that aired last year with Tsuruta himself talking about some of his famous matches.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

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what match was this

 

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I need a backstory on this

 

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I need a backstory on this

Its MiSu. Thats your backstory

 

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AXS just started showing G1 27 last night. Naito/Ibushi was first

First off, I gotta say that it has solidified as 5 stars for me and Barnett/JR did a solid job commentating

But I wanted to note that they showed a slow motion side angle of the 2nd rope DDT that I didnt remember seeing on the original broadcast. The side angle actually exposed how safely Ibushi performed the move. I think that only a little bit of Naito's hair touched the ground, nothing else. The rear camera angle used in real-time was perfect....I actually wish I never saw the side angle becsause it takes away from the spot

 

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Surprising results for DDT's Peter Pan show

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DDT "RYOGOKU PETER PAN 2017 ~ EVEN IF PETER PAN IS TWENTY YEARS OLD HE IS PETER PAN ~", 20.08.2017 (DDT UNIVERSE)
Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
5,900 Fans - Super No Vacancy

0. Burari Street Pro-Wrestling Extra Edition!:
- King of Dark Title: Gota Ihashi (c) besiegt Dai Suzuki mit einer Body Press (0:36) - Titelwechsel.
- Gota Ihashi besiegt Gorgeous Matsuno mit einer Body Press (3:31).
- Mad Paulie besiegt Gota Ihashi mit einer Thesz Prss (4:35).
- Rocky Kawamura besiegt Gota Ihashi mit einem Balboa Blow (1:23).
- Lingerie Muto besiegt Gota Ihashi mit einem Shining Wizard (1:36).
0. Mizuki Watase, Diego, Rekka & Daiki Shimomura besiegen Hoshytango, Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Nobuhiro Shimatani & Masato Kamino (6:23) nach einem Backdrop von Watase gegen Kamino.
0. Tokyi Joshi Pro Offer Match ~ Iron Man Heavy Metal Title Battle Royal: Yuu besiegt Maho Kurone, Cherry, Tetsuya Koda, Miyu Yamashyta, Shoko Nakajima, Yuka Sakazaki, Nonoko, Rika Tatsumi, Azusa Takigawa, Nodoka-Oneesan, Marika Kobashi, Yuna Manase & Mizuki (16:46) - Titelwechsel.
* Titelwechsel in diesem Match: Tetsuya Koda -> Nodoka-Oneesan -> Mizuki -> Yuu.
1. Yuki Iino Debut Match: Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ueno besiegen Kouki Iwasaki & Yuki Iino (10:49) nach dem Shonenba von Yoshimura gegen Iino.
2. KO-D 10 Man Tag Team Title, Decision Match: Ken Ohka, Super Sasadango Machine, Makoto Oishi, Lady Beard & LiLiCo besiegen Toru Owashi, Saki Akai, Yoshihiko, Kazuki Hirata & Joey Ryan (10:23) nach dem Hono no Spear von Ohka gegen Hirata - Titelwechsel.
3. Ikemen vs. Idol!: Jiro "Ikemen" Kuroshio

besiegt Shunma Katsumata (12:00) mit dem Ikemen Clutch.
4. Special 4 Way Tag Match: Soma Takao & Kotaro Suzuki besiegen Isami Kodaka

& Yuko Miyamoto und Mike Bailey & MAO und Kotaro Suzuki & Soma Takao (10:30) nach einem Endles Waltz von Takao gegen MAO.
5. KO-D 6 Man Tag Team Title: KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masahiro Takanashi (c) besiegen dikk Togo & Yasu Urano & Antonio Honda (13:52) nach einem Diving Double Kneedrop von KUDO gegen Honda (1st defense).
6. DDT 20th Anniversary Special Singles Match ~ All Rights contra Marriage Weapon Rumble: Danshoku Dino besiegt Sanshiro Takagi (17:16) mit einem Gotch-Style Danshoku Driver.
* Danshoku Dino ist damit der neue General Manager von DDT, Amon Tsurumi wurde abgesetzt.
-. Weapon Match: Kendo Kashin vs. Mitsuo Momota w/ Momota Family - No Contest [/B](2:36)[/B].
7. DDT EXTREME Title ~ Cabellera contra Cabellera: Daisuke Sasaki (c) besiegt Akito (21:14) mit einem Chair-assisted La Mistica-Style Gargano Escape (5th defense).
8. KO-D Tag Team Title: HARASHIMA & Naomichi Marufuji

besiegen Shigehiro Irie & Kazusada Higuchi (c) (16:14) nach dem Somato von HARASHIMA gegen Irie - Titelwechsel.
9. KO-D Openweight Title: Konosuke Takeshyta (c) besiegt Tetsuya Endo (29:02) mit einem Cross-Arm German Suplex Hold (7th defense).

6k for that card is pretty good all things considered. 10k+ in Saitama and 6k in Sumo Hall...I'd call it a good year for the promotion @Don Ibiza Ibrahimovic

They better book Ibushi next !!