New Japan ran their December 8th rally in Ehime at Imabari Text Port, claiming 1,300 paid. Results: 1. Toru Yano defeated Naofumi Yamamoto in 7 minutes, 32 seconds with the onigoroshi. 2. Osamu Nishimura defeated El Samurai in 9 minutes, 43 seconds with the Figure-4 Leg Lock. 3. Ryusuke Taguchi defeated Hirooki Goto in 8 […]
Category: International Wrestling Scene News – Puroresu
New Japan ran their December 7th rally in Yamaguchi at Shunan City Sports Center, claiming 1,500 paid. Results: 1. Hiroshi Nagao defeated Naofumi Yamamoto in 8 minutes, 43 seconds with a chokeslam. 2. Sangre Azteca & Safari defeated Akiya Anzawa & Koji Kanemoto in 8 minutes, 23 seconds when Sangre used the Azteca Special on […]
New Japan ran their Toukon Matsuri (Fighting Spirit Festival) on December 6th in Hiroshima Prefectural at the Fukuyama Interchange Building (“Big Rose”), claiming 2,500 paid. Results: 1. Naofumi Yamamoto defeated Masayuki Naruse in 9 minutes, 18 seconds with a back-drop. 2. El Samurai defeated Akiya Anzawa in 7 minutes, 27 seconds with a chicken-wing arm […]
Results from Nagaoka City Welfare Hall, in Niigata (Att: 2,400):– AKIRA def. Ryuji Hijikata– Kohei Suwama & Akira Raijin def. Nobutaka Araya & Nobukazu Hirai– Bull Buchanan & D-Lo Brown def TARU & Giant Bernard (A-Train) by DQ– Tag League B Block: Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima def. Satoshi Kojima & Kaz Hayashi– Tag League B Block: Team […]
The wall that is the third generation today held up strong against the new generation, both Tanahashi and Nakamura losing in tags. More card changes due to Machine’s ongoing absence, but that meant a treat for fans, who got a big tag main event that is also set for 12/6. Chono & Tenzan remain unstoppable, […]
Zero One held the finals of the entire AWA title tournement today with two three way matches to decide the US representive and the Japanese rep as well… The US where represented by Tanaka (he claims he American now), Simon Diamond and Steve Corino… The Japanese where represented by Takao Omari, Kohei Sato and Kensuke […]
NOAH’s first tour of 2005 today came to a close in Kobe in a card that saw Britian’s own Doug Williams team up with American highflyer Scorpio to take on Misawa and Ogawa for the GHC tag team titles…. Also on the card Go Shiosaki looked to try and upset Kenta Koibashi to gain a […]
NJPW got its post Tokyo Dome tour programming under way today at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall. Today saw the debut of Harry Smith (Davey ‘British Bulldog’ Smith’s son) and also Naruse and Nagai defending their All Asian Tag Titles against Yano and Blue Wolf….NJPW, 1/23/05Tokyo Korakuen Hall1,554 Fans – Super No Vacancy1. Naofumi Yamamoto beat Yujiro […]
AJPW ran a huge show in Osaka today with the Triple Crown on the line and also the vacant AJPW World Tagf titles being decided in an inter-promotional match between TanaYoshie of NJPW and Jamal and Kea of AJPW who won the Real World Tag League… Here are the full results…. AJPW, 1/16/05Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium1. Masanobu […]
In todays tour closer NJPW went to Aichi to decide the fate of the IWGP Heavyweight title and also the bearer of the IWGP Jr Heavyweight champion…Here are the results…NJPW, 12/12/04Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium9,000 Fans – Super No Vacancy1. Naofumi Yamamoto beat Yujiro (8:06) with a crab hold.2. El Samurai & Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Ryusuke Taguchi […]