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Japan: Wrestling News Roundup – 4th February 2008

NJPW El Samurai is the first casualty of the annual contract talks in the company. Tanahashi has yet to sign following his IWGP Title loss to Nakamura and has been sent several requests from Muto, his former mentor, to join All Japan. Tenzan is set to return and has seemingly put pen to paper as […]

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Japan: Festive Wrestling News Roundup 2007

The holiday period in Japan is also coming to a close after the big celebration that surrounds New Year over in the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’ although most of the wrestlers over there didn’t have much of a holiday anyhow… New Japan ran a couple of shows over the Christmas period on the 23rd […]

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Japan: November 2007 Wrestling News Roundup 2

New Japan In NJPW the G1 Tag League finally came to a conclusion as Tanahashi and Kanemoto once more made it to the final as they did last year and this time came across the IWGP Tag champions Bernard and Tomko. Both teams had previously taken part in a semi final match and the toll […]

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Japan: November Wrestling News Roundup 1

NJPW TNA started it’s friendly war with NJPW today but not in the exact way that was planned… Senshi, Daniels and Rhino all made their flight to Japan and appeared at todays event… Ron Killings however didn’t and Tiger Mask won by forfeit. Instead Akebono relived his comedy Tiger Bono gimmick and took on Ishii […]

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Japan: October Wrestling News Roundup

Pro-Wrestling NOAH The Autumn Navigation ’07 went on for the past two weeks building to the final event of the tour at the Tokyo Nippon Budokan however before that the GHC Tag Title Tournament reached its conclusion as D’Lo Brown and Bull Buchanan became the 15th champions winning the four man league last defeating Go […]

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Japan: Wrestling News Roundup

Pro Wrestling NOAH Samoa Joe as I mentioned before is coming to NOAH and the match to decide who will face him took place about one day before my last update, Marufuji v Misawa for the GHC Title. It was a bit of a back and forth match but in the end Misawa botched a […]

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NJPW: Jan 8th Tokyo Results

NJPW “2006 FAN THANKSGIVING DAY”, 1/8/06 (SXW)Tokyo Korakuen Hall1,391 Fans – No Vacancy1. Ryushi Yanagisawa beat Hiroshi Nagao (6:45) with a right kick.2. El Samurai beat Katsushi Takemura (10:18) with an avalanche-style reverse DDT.3. Takashi Iizuka beat Masayuki Naruse (13:43) with a uranage.4. Osamu Nishimura & Naofumi Yamamoto beat Togi Makabe & Toru Yano (10:50) […]

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WXW-Germany: Carot Gold Tournament ft. Doug Williams

WXW posted the following statement on the UKFF… Westside Xtreme WrestlingTurock, Essen, GermanyJanuary 27th-January 29th“16 Carat Gold Tournament”wXw will run their first 3 day tournament which is supposed to get the same prestige as other big international tournaments all over the world. 16 wrestlers will compete in four rounds to determinate the winner! A truly […]

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WWE Withdraw Lesnar Order, Akebono Set For New Japan

(Taken directly from Dave Meltzers WrestlingObserver.com) –Due to a poor advance (less than 10,000 tickets sold so far), New Japan has gotten desperate once again for the 1/4 Dome show. They made a deal with K-1 to get Akebono to make his New Japan debut, teaming with Yutaka Yoshie as a pair of blimps against […]

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CSAC Letter Concerning MMA In California

The following statement was made by Armando Garcia of the California State Athletic Commission. Dear Mixed Martial Arts Community:It is with great enthusiasm that I am proud to announce that sanctioned Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) competitions are coming to California!This is an exciting moment for MMA. It is also a challenging one for the California […]