In Zero One on August 1st Kohei Sato won the Fire Festival tournement… He pinned Takao Omori in just over 22 minutes with a German Suplex hold….
Hashimoto also announced that in mid September he will go to the US for surgery on some of his numerous injuries that froced him to vacate the Triple Crown and that still haven’t healed up… Due to the time he’s taken top have them corrected it only has a 50% chance of success… Other details are slightly shadow at the mo.
NOAH are planning to healine the 9/10 Nippon Budokan with a Double Tag match between Misawa/Ogawa and Takayama/MiSuzuki (IWGP V GHC) and also Kobashi v Taue for the GHC title… still think Akiyama should have won…
In their 8/1 show Ikeda dropped the WLW title to Rick Steiner in around 14 minutes due to a Steiner Driver (DVD) and Akiyama held on to his Hardcore Openweight gold by beating Saito by KO.
In NJPW its been quiet as the G-1 Climax is about to begin…
Nagata provoked Chono and said he would beat him easily and it seems that Murakami is out and that Makabe will take his place if he beats Mura’s fellow Makai club member Nagai in the opening show. Yasuda has already withdrawn and seeded his place to Yoshie as he is undergoing spiritual rebuildment in a temple…
Tenzan says he will win undefeated and become only the second person to win back to back G-1’s like former mentor Chono and Blue Wolf says he wishes to go to Sumo Hall and make his brother (a sumo wrestler) proud and take the gold and the number 1 contendership.