The youngest New Japan IWGP Heavyweight champion ever was crowned on 9/12, when challenger Shinsuke Nakamura went over title holder Hiroyoshi Tenzan for the title. Tenzan’s title reign lasted less than a month.
Author: Matt Singh
New Japan Pro Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment have a lot in common; both are the focal point of their respective regions, both are multi million-money companies, both have a great talent base with great ability to match and both are headed by lager than life characters and astute businessmen. However both have something working against them, themselves…
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Pride 31/12 main event
Pride Fighting Championships, the world’s No.1 mixed martial arts promotion, announced yesterday Hidehiko Yoshida versus Royce Gracie for their New Years eve show at the Saitama Super Arena. New Years eve in Japan will be the biggest ever day for MMA as K-1 (world’s No.1 sports entertainment company) and Antonio Inoki will run shows all […]
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Pride New Years eve show update
Pride is expected to announce Ricardo Arona versus Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson for their New Years eve show. The talked about Kazushi Sakauraba versus Wanderlei Silva match won’t happen as Silva recently underwent surgery on his elbow as a result of the latest Grand Prix tournament.
Yuji Nagata and Hiroshi Tanahashi, who work for New Japan, captured Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Global Honoured Championship tag team titles from NOAH’s Kenta Kobashi and Tamon Honda on 30/11. As well as the newly won NOAH titles, Honda currently holds the New Japan IWGP tag titles (with Yutaka Yoshie), and thus makes history as the […]
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UFC in T.V deal talks
The Ultimate Fighting Champion and it’s parent company Zuffa, are in talks with Spike T.V and Fox Sports Net in view of signing a deal to air television. Vince McMahon is said to have given his blessing for Spike to sign a deal with the UFC. UFC president Dana White recently comfirmed that the company […]
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UFC 45 results
‘Pedro Rizzo b Ricco Rodriguez via a unanimous decision in what was apparently the boring match the company both expected and was afraid of when they put it as a dark match. I doubt we’ll be seeing anything more than highlights on the PPV. Robbie Lawler vs. Chris Lytle is opening the show. Strong first […]
Mitsuharu Misawa’s Pro Wrestling NOAH will be running a Rikidozan memorial show on December 11th. Rikidozan’s son, Mitsuo Momota, will work the show in a tag match with Tsuyoshi Kikuchi against KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji for the Global Honoured Champions tag titles.
It looks set that Yuji Nagata versus Genichiro Tenryu will happen at the promotion’s annual March 1st Tokyo Dome show.
Osaka Pro Wrestling will stage a J-Cup tournament on February 21st, 2004. Names expected to be announced for the show include Jushin Lyger, El Samurai, Kendo Kashin, CIMA and lots more from All Japan, New Japan, Zero-One, Toryumon, Michinoku Pro and a few more Indies.