Guide to Japanese Wrestling 2010

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RICKY FUJI PRODUCE on COMM - November 14, 2004, Tokyo - (2 1/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 14, 2004, Tokyo

 

 

1. Tsubo Genjin -vs- Naoshi Sano [1/2*]

--- Tsubo comedy with low-life Sano. And the right guy won in the washed-up caveman.....

7:22 - Genjin made Sano submit to a cross-armbreaker

 

 

 

2. Asian Cougar & Tomoya Adachi -vs- Mr.Gannosuke & Junji [* 1/4]

--- Gannosuke was doing the Riki Choshu gimmick and Junji was being Animal Hamaguchi. And as low-rent versions of the old stars they were looking more credible then their normal self almost. Gannosuke was really in Choshu mode with with stomps and lariats. He could almost pass as the original had he not had his blond hair. But no matter how much the fake Choshu gundan domianted, the indy guys got their comeback and Cougar locked in the legs for a scorpion ankle hold to make "Animal" Junji submit.

12:48 - Cougar made Junji submit to a modified Scorpion

 

 

 

3. Mr.Rock n'Roll -vs- Masamune [1/2*]

--- This was a rather bad match. Uninteresting and sloppy. Rock n'Roll did some cool flying moves, as did Masamune, but the match was dead most of the time and they fucked up a Frankensteiner off the apron falling the wrong way and stuff like that and never got the match going. And then the shittiest guy won too.....

12:05 - Rock n'Roll pinned Masamune with a modified roll-up

 

 

 

4. Mad Man Pondo -vs- Gosaku - (Weapons Death Match) [*]

--- Garbage wrestling with Pondo and Gosaku. Raw violence, that's all. It was all Pondo style fighting crushing weapons over each other bleeding for the fans. Ugly fight for sure. My favourite moment was the thumbtacks bat which got smashed over Pondo's head. But Pondo was always going to beat the trashy Japanese guy and did so with the stop sign roll.

8:43 - Pondo pinned Gosaku after a second rope rolling senton through a chair and a stop sign

 

 

 

5. Mens Teioh & Macho Pump -vs- Nobutaka Moribe & Seiji Ikeda [*]

--- Long serious tag. It was executed professional enough, but this was plain boring to me. I never connected with the action and therefore it felt like forever without any reason to care. And with these two teams it was clear who was boss too so one was just waiting for the result that came.....

20:15 - Teioh pinned Moribe after the Miracle Ecstasy

 

 

 

6. Ricky Fuji © -vs- Koji Nakagawa - (Junior Title) [* 1/4]

--- North American wrestling with Fuji in his Shawn Michaels persona defending some junior title against Nakagawa in a Bret "the Hitman" Hart costume. And it was another boring match with some good Stampede wrestling mixed in. Never trully exciting and it was kind of embarrassing how fanboyish they looked immitating their WWF favourites. But technically it was done solid, but they didn't do enough to really get much out of it. This was like the 60-min WrestleMania draw except these guys had the sense of not going that far and gave us a winner within 20-minutes as Fuji had Nakagawa trapped good in a STF.

18:33 - Fuji defeated Nakagawa by Referee Stop with a STF to retain the Junior Title.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Boring indy show produced by Ricky Fuji.

 

 

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RICKY FUJI PRODUCE on COMM - March 19, 2005, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

March 19, 2005, Tokyo

 

 

1. Tsubo Genjin & Ricky Genjin -vs- Naoshi Sano [1/4*]

--- Double cavemen against Sano in a terribly dull comedy bout with Sano losing as each caveman was pulling an arm hoping Sano with get ripped in two.

5:11 - Genjins made Sano submit to a double arm streach

 

 

 

2. 7-Man Royal Rumble [1/2*]

--- Indy rumble! And one guy clapped for Mr.Rock n'Roll and nobody clapped for Isami as those started the match out. And who the fuck is ZU?! He almost won the thing slipping a little trying to beat mr.sexy Ekiben, but Ekiben showed he's much more classy then UZ.... God, this was boring low-rent indy wrestling rumble!

14:20 - Ekiben win the 7-Man Royal Rumble

 

 

 

3. Gosaku -vs- Bio Monster DNA - (Street Fight Death Match) [1/4*]

--- Oh, my! God aweful. Watch as Bio Monster does the worst powerbomb attempt in history! Fucking it up wonderfully! And after a really terrible brawl the match ended screwjob way when Mr.Pogo came in and bloodied up Gosaku.....

6:29 - Gosaku wrestled Bio Monster to a No-Contest

 

 

 

4. Mens Teioh & Macho Pump & Hayate -vs- Dick Togo & Tomoya Adachi & Nobutaka Moribe [*]

--- Indy action. Some nice, but mostly standard wrestling from these guys. Hayate as the glamorized flyer gets to win it over Moribe.

13:55 - Hayate pinned Moribe with a swinging front cradle

 

 

 

5. Koji Nakagawa -vs- Ricky Fuji - (Canadien Death Match) [3/4*]

--- The Hart/Michaels saga continues with ex-FMW wrestlers Ricky Fuji amd Koji Nakagawa. And God, how lifeless. I guess the story was fine, but they put absolutely no passion into their work and it kept on dragging and dragging. It was a Canadien Death Match which means it was a No-DQ bout where the Canadian flag had to be layed over the opponent before the ref would start the KO count. Lots of counts so they had to do as little as possible to fill the match. And in the end it was Nakagawa getting the win back after losing the title match to Fuji a few months earlier.

19:38 - Nakagawa defeated Fuji by KO

 

 

 

COMMENTS: A real boring one.

 

 

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NEO on COMM - August 19, 2006, Tokyo - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

August 19, 2006, Tokyo - Itabashi Green Hall (128 fans)

 

 

1. Yuka Shiina -vs- Aya Watanabe [1/2*]

--- Shiina showing young Aya Yuki how to wrestle about one month into her career. Aya didn't look too terrible, but that might be Shiina's honor in controling this to the fullest. Then again this was hardly anything more then a rookie getting beat type bout and Shiina won with a cross-armbreaker.

8:29 of 8:29 - Shiina made Watanabe submit to a cross-armbreaker

 

 

 

2. Yuki Miyazaki & Rebecca Knox -vs- Kyoko Kimura & Amapola [* 1/4]

--- Irish Rebecca Knox making her 2nd tour of Japan just a month before getting an serious head injury and headed out of the business. And she beats Kyoko Kimura! A little lucky with a huracanrana with Kimura nearly kicking out. Knox looked ok even doing a plancha dive. Amapola's dive was probable the match highlight. Otherwise it was a decent action bout without bringing something too special.

13:33 of 13:33 - Knox pinned Kimura with a huracanrana

 

 

 

3. Kyoko Inoue & Genki Misae & MsChif -vs- Etsuko Mita & Tanny Mouse & Vanessa the Mountain [* 1/2]

--- More foreigners in MsChif and Vanessa and this was a very heavyweight girls fight with Tanny being kind of out of place, but someones got to job and who's better deserving then her. The match wasn't exactly a speedy and spectacular event, but it was still kind of interesting too see all these big ladies clash. But once the climax portion came it was all about Tanny and Kyoko with Kyoko taking care of the rat with the Niagra Driver.

17:20 of 17:27 - Inoue pinned Tanny with the Niagra Driver

 

 

 

4. Yoshiko Tamura & Haruka Matsuo -vs- Chikayo Nagashima & Carlos Amano - (Mid-Summer Tag Tournament '06 - Final) [**]

--- The final of the annual Mid-Summer Tag Tournament with Oz Academy's Nagashima & Amano against NEO's own Tamura & Matsuo. And while it lacked anything outside the ordinary joshi formula, it was done good enough for it to slowly climb in interest especially with Matsuo as the underdog who managed to fight back. Not only that, the pretty girl managed to win the tournament for her team countering Amano's leeping headbutt with a inside cradle to beat her for the happy hometeam win!

20:37 of 20:36 - Matsuo pinned Amano with a small package. Tamura & Matsuo win the Mid-Summer Tag Tournament '06.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Rare glimts of Rebecca Knox, MsChif and Vanessa the Mountain in Japan and the Mid-Summer tag Tournament Final. Very few of NEO's smaller shows became available to us in 2006, so it was interesting to see a young Aya "Yuki" Watanabe at such an early stage of her career and more what NEO had to offer back then.

 

 

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MAD PURORESU on Hand-Held - November 18, 2006 - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 18, 2006

 

 

1. Kenshin -vs- Kankuro Hoshino [1/2*]

--- ....at least they kept it serious as Kenshin was doing his Kensuke Sasaki gimmick and Hoshino was being pre-hardcore Hoshino losing to the Northern Light Bomb.

6:28 - Kenshin pinned Hoshino after a Northern Light Bomb

 

 

 

2. Yato Kid -vs- Kenichi Kondo [1/4*]

--- Kitten match with him getting in a fight with referee Matsui aswell....waste of time naturally.....

8:25 - Yato Kid made Kondo submit to a Texas Cloverleaf

 

 

 

3. Shiningami -vs- Kaji Yamato [1/4*]

--- Death match zombie Shiningami having a wrestling match with annoying little K-Dojo Yamato. Not pretty. Not good. And only interesting for the freakshow effect.....

8:17 - Shiningami made Yamato submit to a face claw

 

 

 

4. Daigoro Kashiwa -vs- Kamui [* 1/4]

--- After that dreadful undercard it was refreshing to see this one with Kamui landing a few nice moves and Daigoro beating the masked guy down in his stubborn way. They kept the wrestling focused and gave as good a match they could for such a small show with Daigoro winning bending Kamui back by the chin.

12:35 - Kashiwa made Kamui submit to a modified Camel Clutch

 

 

 

5. HARASHIMA & Yasu Urano & Guts Ishijima -vs- SYU & Kengo Takai & Hiroshi Toyama [*]

--- This bout might have featured better guys, but they didn't really offer more then the previous match. Decent action, but all very random and not too much to offer of anything apart from very forgettable wrestling until DDT's HARASHIMA had it won over the nobody.

17:59 - HARASHIMA pinned Toyama after the Somato double-knee attack

 

 

 

COMMENTS: These kinds of shows are unneccessary, are they not?

 

 

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RING SOUL on COMM - July 12, 2007, Tokyo - (1 3/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

July 12, 2007, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (300 fans)

 

 

1. Munenori Sawa -vs- Masahiro Takanashi [3/4*]

--- Simple and quite unspectacular fight which Sawa showed Takanashi how to wrestle. Just a quickie with Sawa using the Octopus Hold to make the DDT wrestler tap.

6:55 of 6:43 - Sawa made Takanashi submit to a Octopus Hold

 

 

 

2. Pepe Michinoku & El NOSAWA Mendoza -vs- Antonio Honda & Kikutaro [*]

--- The super comedy team of Honda & Kikutaro against Taka and Rongai doing their Mexican gimmicks that they did in All Japan at this time. Mostly comedy of their usual kind. Yet they made it an 'epic' of lucha libre comedy and puroresu comedy going a long time until Honda was unable to get out of Taka's Octopus Hold even if Kikutaro thought that he'd helped his partner out of the hold focusing on keeping Mendoza away as Honda was tapping.

17:30 of 17:25 - Michinoku made Honda submit to a grounded Octopus Hold

 

 

 

3. Aja Kong & "brother" Yasshi -vs- Ayako Hamada & TARU [*]

--- Mixed gender with the cool dudes teaming with Ayako and the all-mighty Aja! Can't say the match was very interesting. The early stages was lifeless and slow. Got slightly better as they progressed until TARU got to feel Hamada's boobs and got slapped setting up the backfist from Aja.....

18:25 of 16:57 - Kong pinned TARU after a uraken

 

 

 

4. Toru Owashi & Kagetora -vs- Minoru Fujita & Takuya Sugawara -vs- Shuji Kondo & Naoki Tanizaki - (3-Way) [* 1/4]

--- Many wrestlers and hardly anyone taking the lead or having much fire at all except for a few spots. They were just going through motions and having a random match. At times it looked real bad with them waiting for someone to come in and break up the attempted moves hoping someone would understand the cue. It had it's moments too, but considering it was the main event they showed very little fire or any interest in making this one special. Owashi was the star and also got to be the star winning with a La Magistral of all things.

19:08 of 19:12 - Owashi pinned Tanizaki with a La Magistral

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Not a impressive show. You could sense the wrestlers wasn't payed to show off in any great manner. It was a very c-level effort and the show never trully took off.

 

 

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RING SOUL on COMM - September 13, 2007, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

September 13, 2007, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE

 

 

1. Yuji Hino & MIYAWAKI & Makoto Oishi -vs- Kagetora & Chango & Bear Fukuda [* 1/2]

--- A fun energetic opener mixing the Kaientai Dojo guys and the El Dorado wrestlers up against each other. The match had spirit even if it never felt important. At least the guys gave us something to enjoy. The K-Dojo side was much stronger and showed it, but the Toryumon guys tried it their best and looked better then usual, but Hino bombed Chango out.....

14:35 of 13:55 - Hino pinned Chango after a powerbomb

 

 

 

2. Shuji Kondo & Naoki Tanizaki -vs- Katsuhiko Nakajima & Munenori Sawa [* 3/4]

--- A solid fight. How could it not be with energetic fighters like this. Nakajima and Kondo bringing the impact wrestling and the other two the more speedy work. And while it wasn't a super climax fight it did grow in interest and became a wurthwild affair. Not that I was buying Sawa beating Kondo with the triangle hold. Nah, I was beliving in Kondo throwing and clubbing the little guy around!

14:37 of 14:36 - Kondo pinned Sawa after a lariat

 

 

 

3. Minoru Suzuki & Toru Owashi -vs- Daisuke Sekimoto & "brother" Yasshi [* 1/2]

--- Suzuki and Sekimoto pretended to have heat, but that was more so they could ignore the brotherman who so wanted to prove he deserved to be in the ring with these power guys. Naturally he wasn't even remotely in their league and was only used for laughs. Like using his dreads to connect him with the turnbuckle post and general bullying. And in there with Suzuki was Yasshi even going to survive? No, no, no.....

16:47 of 16:48 - Suzuki made Yasshi submit to a cross-armbreaker

 

 

 

4. Kensuke Sasaki & Dick Togo -vs- Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuya Sugawara [* 3/4]

--- Randon teams but the Ring Soul promotors put up the money to bring in both Kensuke Sasaki and Yoshihiro Takayama for this match even pairing them with Dick Togo and Takuya Sugawara. Some fun action for sure, but it kind of lack the the ring soul to make it come alive. But naturally watching Sasaki and Takayama battle it out brought some qualities. Weak link was of course Sugawara, he usually is in the matches he's involved, but it was satisfying seeing him get accuainted with Sasaki's lariat.

17:22 of 17:21 - Sasaki pinned Sugawara after a lariat

 

 

 

COMMENTS: A ok show bringing in all kinds of indy guys for a half-motivated experience. Not that there was too much sticking out or someone stealing the show. An even effort by almost everyone.

 

 

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RING SOUL on COMM - October 22, 2007, Tokyo - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

October 22, 2007, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (300 fans)

 

 

1. HARASHIMA & Kagetora -vs- Munenori Sawa & Masahiro Takanashi [* 1/4]

--- Sawa & Takanashi were on the darkside for this match which might have been what kept it back. But it wouldn't have been more then just a standard indy affair anyway and thats what it was too. Fine basic action and little of importance. Takanashi gets beat with the modified Emerald Frosion of Kagetora.

10:37 of 10:24 - Kagetora pinned Takanashi after the Ikkitousen

 

 

 

2. Dump Matsumoto -vs- Kikutaro [1/2*]

--- This couldn't go well could it?! Watching Kikutaro rub Dump's boobs for 10 seconds was surreal. Naturally he got a trashing after that....

6:57 of 6:48 - Matsumoto pinned Kikurato with a bodypress

 

 

 

3. Yuji Hino & Makoto Oishi -vs- Toru Owashi & Hercules Senga [* 3/4]

--- Loved how Oishi kept holding on to Owashi's waist only to get dragged around and thrown out of the ring. And then it was time to finish off Senga with a authority powerbomb. The bout was ok. Decent action as usual, but nothing too amazing.

14:54 of 14:47 - Hino pinned Senga after a powerbomb

 

 

 

4. TARU & Shuji Kondo & "brother" Yasshi -vs- GAINA & Zeus & Zero [* 1/2]

--- El Dorado vs Osaka Pro heels. And ok wrestling for sure, but with a bad result when everybody got chairs and the referee was roughed around causing a no-contest. Kondo and GAINA especially made this match watchable while it lasted, but I really wished they'd done a real finish.

13:32 of 13:34 - TARU & Kondo & Yasshi wrestled GAINA & Zero & Zeus to a No-Contest

 

 

 

5. Abdullah the Butcher -vs- TARU [*]

--- So TARU gets a special challenge and faces the legendary Abdullah the Butcher! And not surprisingly it a arena brawl with the fork and stuff. Typical Abby fighting going a little too long before we had the second straight no-contest. But in a Abby match thats expected and accepted.

10:16 of 10:30 - Abdullah wrestled TARU to a No-Contest

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Mixed results for these special matches. Sure interesting seeing Kikutaro vs Dump and TARU meet Abby. And the tag matches included the indy-solid action.

 

 

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RING SOUL on COMM - November 22 & December 26, 2007 & Janaury 18 & February 16, 2008, Tokyo - (3 1/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 22, 2007, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (320 fans)

 

 

1. Mitsuya Nagai -vs- "brother" Yasshi [1/2*]

--- Yasshi in shooter mode coming out to Thai boxing sounds to face a special challenger X. And the X is former RINGS figther Nagai! Yasshi didn't stand a chance.....

5:18 of 5:18 - Nagai made Yasshi submit to a modified cross-kneelock

 

 

 

2. Shuji Kondo & Naoki Tanizaki -vs- Koji Kanemoto & Munenori Sawa [* 3/4]

--- Cool seeing New Japan's Kanemoto mix with Kondo. A little too much auto-pilot to really make this good. But still Kanemoto was the king of the ring slumming in Shinuku FACE, but couldn't save Sawa from getting ramed down by Kondo and his powerful lariat which bulldized Sawa down.

14:28 of 14:28 - Kondo pinned Sawa after a lariat

 

 

 

 

 

December 26, 2007, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (350 fans)

 

 

3. TARU & Shuji Kondo -vs- Minoru Suzuki & Zeus [*]

--- The best fight here was between Suzuki and tag partner Zeus! They just couldn't get along and it was clear Suzuki hated him from the beginning. A little bit a team fighting aswell, but that fight eneded in a double count out which set up the next match....

8:46 of 8:51 - TARU & Kondo wrestled Suzuki & Zeus to a Double Count Out

 

 

 

4. Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama & TARU's Older Brother -vs- TARU & Shuji Kondo & "brother" Yasshi [*]

--- And out comes TARU's brother. Not exactly a wrestler and TARU didn't exactly know what to think of the situation of facing his smaller big brother. The match on a whole wasn't very interesting or good. It was just there and they didn't do much with the brother situation. Unless you count the other "brother" in the match because he lost as usual when Takayama out of nowhere rolled him up in a small package!

15:07 of 15:05 - Takayama pinned Yasshi with a small package

 

 

 

 

 

Janaury 18, 2008, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (350 fans)

 

 

5. Shuji Kondo -vs- Kikutaro [1/2*]

--- A Kikutaro match with Kondo following before winning out of nowhere after almost going Kikutaro himself.

13:41 of 13:05 - Kondo pinned Kikutaro with the Kido Clutch

 

 

 

6. Yoshihiro Takayama -vs- "brother" Yasshi [*]

--- Yasshi against Takayama. Singles match?! Oh poor Yasshi. He never learns. Though he did do surprisingly well even landing the Big Head diving headbutt to trouble the big guy. But did anyone think he'd actually have a chance?! No.... and in less then 7 minutes it was over with a kneelift.

6:46 of 6:33 - Takayama pinned Yasshi after a kneelift

 

 

 

 

 

February 16, 2008, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (800 fans)

 

 

7. Shuji Kondo & Kagetora -vs- Danshoku Dino & Kikutaro [1/2*]

--- Kondo & Kagetora getting mixed into Dino's perverted style including a 3-way kiss with Dino. Thats all you need to know....

14:34 of 14:34 - Kondo pinned Kikutaro after a lariat

 

 

 

8. TARU & Tomohiro Ishii -vs- Takuya Sugawara & Munenori Sawa [* 1/2]

--- Solid basics. Nobody did any more then what they needed, but seeing Ishii there mixing with Sawa was good. Well, not good for Sawa because he was beat up with a chairshot and a lariat.

13:23 of 13:23 - Ishii pinned Sawa after a lariat

 

 

 

9. Riki Choshu -vs- "brother" Yasshi [1/2*]

--- Yasshi's X is Riki Choshu and Riki treated him like he was too..... real bitchy.

2:48 of 2:28 - Choshu pinned Yasshi after a lariat

 

 

 

10. Toru Owashi & Nobutaka Araya -vs- Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu & Ken45 & Go Sato [1/4*]

--- Over in no time with the Hell Demons taping Araya & Owashi together.... they made the sides more even for the re-start....

1:45 of 1:45 - Owashi & Araya wrestled Kei & Shu & Ken45 & Go to a No-Contest

 

 

 

11. Toru Owashi & Nobutaka Araya & Dick Togo & Kaz Hayashi -vs- Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu & Ken45 & Go Sato [* 1/4]

--- Decent match, but not nearly as interesting as it should have been considering the guys involved. The All Japan wrestlers brought very little, so it was mainly the others that seemed half-interested in doing something with this and it was kind of just their standard rutine until Ken was the loser.

15:58 of 15:58 - Togo pinned Ken after a top rope senton

 

 

 

12. TARU -vs- Koji Fujinaga [1/2*]

--- About the only match Ring Soul tried to make extra special without bringing in a bunch of freelancers. That's because it was the Ring Soul promotor making his debut getting tips from Kotetsu Yamamoto and with several wrestlers in his corner cheering for him. But the wrestling was super basic. And only a glamorized squash with TARU giving the promotor some time to show himself. But of course with limited qualities the match never got good or interesting and was as simple as a rookie bout gets.

9:05 of 9:05 - TARU defeated Fujinaga with a Boston Crab

 

 

 

COMMENTS: The end of Ring Soul and it will hardly be missed even if they did bring a lot of fresh match-ups. Sadly it didn't create all that many memories.

 

 

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WMF on COMM - January 13, 2007, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

January 13, 2007, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (200 fans)

 

 

1. Isami Kodaka -vs- Kankuro Hoshino [1/2*]

--- This singles bout never became interesting with two guys who'd later establish themselfs stronger as hardcore workers in Big Japan. This was more straight wrestling which isn't their strong side. Isami gets the victory with a cross-armbreaker Hoshino couldn't get out of.

9:13 of 9:15 - Kodaka made Hoshino submit to a cross-armbreaker

 

 

 

2. Mineo Fujita & Kitten Kid -vs- Goemon & Kenichi Kono - (Marvelous Future Tag Tournament - Round 1) [*]

--- Fujita was the star of the bout, but the rookie and the cat brought it down to normality and the match was kind of just there with the normal stuff until Fujita took care of the kid.

16:00 of 15:58 - Fujita pinned Kono after a modified side buster

 

 

 

3. Hideki Hosaka & Tomoya Adachi -vs- Ricky Fuji & Yuhi Morimori - (Marvelous Future Tag Tournament - Round 1) [3/4*]

--- While the previous bout was held down by a kitten, this one was held down by a cow. Strange choice for a partner for Ricky Fuji. Wasn't surprised that the cow was slaughtered by Adachi and his modified driver move. The action was kind of just there which is the way it usually is with WMF.

16:45 of 16:44 - Asachi pinned Morimori after the SOD

 

 

 

4. Gosaku & Kamui -vs- Shinobu & Kyoko Kimura - (Marvelous Future Tag Tournament - Round 1) [*]

--- Rough and bloody, but without any steam to it to get anywhere. Kimura got in on the blood and was stabbing Gosaku's forehead which was probable my favourite moment of the match. Kamui tried his flying, but missed most of his Phoenix Splash while Shinobu struggled to get the advantage over the WMF guys and was taken care of by Gosaku.

21:49 of 21:49 - Gosaku made Shinobu submit to a Cobra Clutch Camel Clutch

 

 

 

5. Mr.Gannosuke & Soldier -vs- Onryo & Yuko Miyamoto - (Marvelous Future Tag Tournament - Round 1) [* 1/4]

--- Then for the main attraction with booker Gannosuke and pushed Soldier getting the boost with a victory over a more interesting side of Miyamoto & Onryo as Soldier dropped Miyamoto down hard off the second rope with a shoulder press. The wrestling was similarly done to just about every other match on this show. Simple stuff in an quiet atmosphere. But no kittens or cows to drag this all the way down.

14:50 of 14:48 - Soldier pinned Miyamoto after a second rope kamikaze roll

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Easy show for the WMF crew as they start the Marvelous Future Tag Tournament.

 

 

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WMF on COMM - February 17, 2007, Tokyo - (2 1/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

February 17, 2007, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (200 fans)

 

 

1. Kengo Takai -vs- Kenichi Kono [1/2*]

--- Yeah, simply Takai giving Kono a lesson. No chance for Kono at all to make an good impression as he was knocked and kept down by the power worker. Kono did get a nice Northern Light Suplex in, but soon after he was suplexed himself for the finish.

10:42 of 10:42 - Takai pinned Kono with a German Suplex

 

 

2. Goemon & Kikujiro Umezawa & Kyoko Kimura -vs- Ricky Fuji & Kankuro Hoshino & Brave G Valion [*]

--- Filler fighting. Extremely average fighting. Some fine moves and such, but overall nothing to remember with Goemon stealing the win with a cradle on a dazed Hoshino who'd just knocked heads with Kimura.

13:17 of 13:15 - Goemon pinned Hoshino with a schoolboy

 

 

 

3. Gosaku & Kamui -vs- Hideki Hosaka & Tomoya Adachi - (Marvelous Future Tag Tournament - Semi-Final) [* 1/4]

--- Very indy action. Mostly just there as they did their thing having a competitive bout landing moves until Gosaku got going and won with his modified chokeslam move to beat Adachi.

13:43 of 13:43 - Gosaku pinned Adachi after the Gosaku Drop

 

 

 

4. Mineo Fujita & Kitten Kid -vs- Mr.Gannosuke & Soldier - (Marvelous Future Tag Tournament - Semi-Final) [3/4*]

--- Lucky us. We get to see the Kitten Kid in the tag tournament final after he managed to counter Solider's finisher into a cradle of his own to get the upset! Not much to note about the actual wrestling.

12:59 of 12:59 - Kitten pinned Soldier with a counter cradle

 

 

 

5. Onryo -vs- Yuko Miyamoto [3/4*]

--- They really didn't try very hard here..... Onryo steals the win with an almost rolling Onryo Clutch.

13:33 of 13:33 - Onryo pinned Miyamoto with a modified Onryo Clutch

 

 

 

6. Mineo Fujita & Kitten Kid -vs- Gosaku & Kamui - (Marvelous Future Tag Tournament - Final) [*]

--- Final time and like just about every WMF match in history it's just dead action done roughly. The top spots was Kamui's Phoenix Splash and Fujita's Firebird Splash and both looked rather reckless. Otherwise there wasn't much standing out of this dull bout with Fujita & Kitten Kid winning the tournament. Yeah, WMF had a Marvelous Future......

16:28 of 16:29 - Fujita pinned Kamui after a Firebiord Splash. Fujita & Kitten win the Marvelous Future Tag Tournament.

 

 

COMMENTS: Another boring WMF show.

 

 

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WMF on COMM - October 26, 2007, Tokyo - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

October 26, 2007, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (160 fans)

 

 

1. Daisaku Shimoda -vs- Yuta Yoshikawa [* 1/4]

--- A little to slow and lifeless to truly work to the fullest, but it was a fairly solid strong style bout with focus on KO's early on and then more ground work before Shimoda understod that suplexes was the best thing to put the Battlarts wrestler away.

9:08 of 9:08 - Shimoda pinned Yoshikawa with a Dragon Suplex

 

 

 

2. Yuko Miyamoto -vs- Konaka Pale One [*]

--- 666 in the house! And we get a very special match where Konaka shows us how to use those zombie legs as weapons blocking Miyamoto coming off the turnbuckle, doing running knee-attacks and what not with those legs crossed. Hell, even Miyamoto joined in when winning the match with a top rope senton Konaka style with the legs in cross!

9:19 of 9:18 - Miyamoto pinned Konaka after a top rope senton

 

 

 

3. Macho Pump & Masamune -vs- Ricky Fuji & Chou-un Shiryu [*]

--- A weird mix of indy characters in this one. Osaka Pro's Masamune, pornstar Macho Pump, "Mr.Michaels" Ricky Fuji and "chinaman" Shiryu. Not a supercaptivating match but it did feature Fuji's valet showing her ass for Pump to lose his cool. Masamune was the one to get the win using his version of the reverse DDT to take care of the DDT guy.

14:44 of 14:43 - Masamune pinned Shiryu after the Kaminari Setsu

 

 

 

4. Asian Cougar -vs- Kyoko Kimura [*]

--- Man against woman and Kimura leeped off the wall and Cougar used chairs every way he knew how to beat the bitch down. Sort of interesting, but can't say it was an all that good a match. Once it was over, it was like "was that it....?"

8:49 of 8:49 - Cougar pinned Kimura after a modified facebuster

 

 

 

5. Mr.Gannosuke & Mineo Fujita & Hideki Hosaka & Leatherface -vs- Soldier & Kamui & SYU & Kankuro Hoshino - (Elimination) [* 1/4]

--- This had to be the best bout on the show. 8 guys, elimination rules and the main WMF stars. But I can't say it was a very exciting experience. The wrestling was very average and there was very few highlights. Probable the best bits came from Fujita blowing mist in Hoshino's face resulting in him getting eliminated and Fujita's face-drop angled Emerald Frosion on Kamui. Also cool seeing Kamui take care of the Gannosuke by Frankensteining him over the ropes. In the end Fujita managed trick Soldier in a cradle for the pin after Gannosuke had interfered.

6:35 - SYU eliminated Leatherface via Over The Top Rope

7:28 - Gannosuke pinned SYU after a Fire Thunder piledriver

8:20 - Kamui eliminated Gannosuke via Over The Top Rope

11:52 - Hosaka pinned Hoshino after a lariat

13:33 - Fujita pinned Kamui after a KHM-Style Downburst

14:29 - Soldier eliminated Hosaka via Over The Top Rope

15:14 of 14:55 - Fujita pinned Soldier with a modified vertical cradle

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Not much fanfare on this show and they got wrestling to match that attitude.

 

 

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WMF on COMM - November 24, 2007, Tokyo - (2 1/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 24, 2007, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (210 fans)

 

 

1. Yasu Urano -vs- Kyoko Kimura [*]

--- Funny how Kimura worked so much stiffer then Urano. Where are the men in this business when the girls are more strong minded then the boys. And Kimura should have won too. She looks much more credible then Urano and also had the three on a big boot here with the referee being very nice to Urano who kicked out very late. Instead the guy won using a Tombstone.

12:30 of 12:31 - Urano pinned Kimura after a Tombstone piledriver

 

 

 

2. Daisaku Shimoda & Yuta Yoshikawa -vs- Ricky Fuji & Hideo Toba [3/4*]

--- Not enough fire! Some of it wasn't bad, but they never got much emotion in to it as Shimoda kicked Toba's head in.

10:26 of 10:26 - Shimoda pinned Toba after a headkick

 

 

 

3. Onryo & Kengo Takai -vs- Yuko Miyamoto & Shinobu [*]

--- Decent 666 style wrestling of the action kind and not their nonsense kind as they also had Perro without the costume there to bring some impact wrestling. Only a tag match to fill the time with Onryo and Shinobu fighting for the finish and Onryo using a special submission hold to get the win.

13:41 of 13:40 - Onryo made Shinobu submit to the 66 Lock

 

 

 

4. Mr.Gannosuke & Mineo Fujita & Hideki Hosaka & Leatherface -vs- Soldier & Kamui & SYU & Kankuro Hoshino - (KHM v. WMF 4 v 4 Singles Elimination Match) [* 3/4]

--- Mineo Fujita vs Kankuro Hishino started off this Gauntlet match and they had a regular singles match starting off slow and focused as Fujita wanted to take that arm off, mixed with the usual action stuff and that Hoshino eventually tapped made this the best bout of the show already. Mineo Fujita vs Kamui had more flying with Makui landing moonsaults and even a Firebird Splash which did not give him the victory because Urano distracted the referee. Instead Fujita stole the win with a cradle reversal. Mineo Fujita vs Soldier was a quickie with a few cradles before Soldier beat the tired Fujita with a neckbreaker style drop off the turnbuckle. Soldier vs Leatherface was another quickie. Not a pretty match at all, but thankfully over in 83 seconds. Soldier vs Hideki Hosaka was a real quicky, but that was because Hosaka & Leatherface beat up Soldier a while behind the referees back and once the referee was loose Hosaka was already well on his way to winning. Official time 8 seconds! Hideki Hosaka vs SYU was a slow destruction as Hosaka bloodied the kid up and kept him down. Got to love Hosaka's slow powerbomb not even borthering adding impact to it executing it in a very cocky way. I bet he wish he hadn't done that because soon after SYU managed to roll the veteran up for the pin with a huracanrana! SYU vs Mr.Gannosuke was more of the same except no win for SYU. He was destroyed most of the way and got about a minute worth of comeback offence before Gannosuke put the final nail in his coffin by belly-to-belly piledriving the bloody kid!

13:03 of 13:02 - Fujita made Hoshino submit to a cross-armbreaker

8:48 of 8:47 - Fujita pinned Kamui with a cradle reversal

1:07 of 0:41 - Soldier pinned Fujita after a second rope Ace Crusher

(1:23) - Soldier pinned Leatherface after a lariat

0:08 of 0:08 - Hosaka pinned Soldier after a Death Valley Bomb

10:58 of 10:52 - SYU pinned Hosaka with a huracanrana

11:20 of 11:15 - Gannosuke pinned SYU after a Fire Thunder piledriver

 

 

 

COMMENTS: The main event was the focus and was kind of cool in it's small-time in ways. Nothing that'll blow your brains out, but for a WMF match it was ok.

 

 

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WMF on COMM - January 14, 2008, Osaka - (1 3/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

January 14, 2008, Osaka World Hall (240 fans)

 

 

1. Yuko Miyamoto -vs- Kankuro Hoshino [*]

--- Decent opener. Easy action and not draging too much. Hoshino showed some aggression but Miyamoto showed more skills and made the fatso submit.

10:37 of 10:37 - Miyamoto made Hoshino submit to a Crippler Crossface

 

 

 

2. Masamune & Dragon Yuki -vs- Onryo & Kabuki Kid [*]

--- More of the same. Easy half-fun action, but little standing out or to make you care about the action. Just there with Osaka's own winning beating the mini Kabuki.

10:39 of 10:39 - Masamune pinned Kabuki after a modified Ace Crusher

 

 

 

3. Kitten Kid -vs- Bull Armor Takuya -vs- Kanjyouro Matsuyama - (3-Way) [1/4*]

--- Silly 3-way to waste our time.....

8:30 of 8:29 - Kitten pinned Takuya with a backslide

 

 

 

4. Asian Cougar -vs- Shinobu [* 1/4]

--- This was better. Some good action and not streached out too long. Nothing important either, but a acceptable midcard bout considering it's the dying year of WMF. Cougar locks in his own lock to make Shinobu submit.

8:12 of 8:18 - Cougar made Shinobu submit to the Cougar Lock #2

 

 

 

5. Mineo Fujita & Yasu Urano -vs- Ricky Fuji & Kyoko Kimura [* 1/4]

--- Decent action again. Rough match with little or no structure and them just doing their thing with Fujita & Urano enjoying their time with the girl in a professional manner of course. Little else with Fujita dropping the girl down hard for the pin.

16:05 of 16:03 - Fujita pinned Kimura after a KHM-Style Downburst

 

 

 

6. Soldier & Kamui & Kengo Takai -vs- Mr.Gannosuke & Hideki Hosaka & Leatherface [* 1/2]

--- Solid fun with Kamui taking the main stage kicking out of a bunch of finishers and trying to land his own. The Phoenix Splash was off as usual and kind of slided off Leatherfaces's face, so Kamui had to end it with a much better looking Firebird Splash.

18:04 of 18:01 - Kamui pinned Leatherface after a Firebird Splash

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Standard WMF show. Very average indy action offering very little apart from a few moves and old indy guys.

 

 

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MR.GANNOSUKE on COMM - May 1, 2008, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

May 1, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (280 fans)

 

 

1. Yuki Ayako -vs- Jom Taro - (Kickboxing)

--- Worthless kickboxing wannabes.....

3:25 - Ayako defeated Taro by KO after a kick (0:24) of the 2nd Round

 

 

 

2. Yuko Miyamoto -vs- Kamui [* 1/4]

--- Ok singles bout where Miyamoto kept going for the ankle hold until he had the masked guy tapping. They filled it with some fine action in between even if what they did wasn't amazing of any sort.

14:29 of 14:41 - Miyamoto made Kamui submit to a ankle hold

 

 

 

3. Kyoko Kimura -vs- Makoto [1/2*]

--- Kimura trashing the hopeless using a little too much time to complete te job.

10:11 of 10:10 - Kimura pinned Makoto after a vertical suplex

 

 

 

4. King Pogo -vs- Survival Tobita - (Street Fight) [1/2*]

--- Terrible garbage fighting, but it's Mr.Pogo we're talking about so there was some wacko stuff to make it half-entertaining too. Like him just punting Tobita with sharp objects and throwing knifes into the crowds! And then the crappy bastard won by hanging Tobita....

8:08 of 8:04 - Pogo defeated Tobita by TKO by Chain Hanging

 

 

 

5. Gran Hamada -vs- Mineo Fujita [3/4*]

--- Long singles bout with old Gran Hamada. He looked better then usual managing to stay on his feet without falling too much, but kind of strange him winning in the end. Sure Hamada's is a lucha legend among the Japanese wrestlers, but Fujita is a lot better then Hamada at this current age yet he didn't get the win.

14:56 of 14:55 - Hamada made Fujita submit to a wakigatame armbar

 

 

 

6. Takashi Sasaki & Mammoth Sasaki -vs- Mr.Gannosuke & Yasu Urano [**]

--- Double Sasaki with Takashi working hard and Mammoth bringing the brutal highlights as they try and trash the cunning side of Gannosuke & Urano. They had their troubles because those two have a lot of tricks up their sleeve and got their offence that way using the referee as distraction quite a few times. But Mammoth's wrecklessness was the difference with Urano on the receiving end of the stiffness including getting Thunder Fire powerbombed and lariated hard by Sasaki before the damn brainbuster ended it at the 20-min mark.

20:11 of 20:10 - Mammoth pinned Urano after a brainbuster

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Fairly lousy undercard, but the main event had the flair and saved some of the impression.

 

 

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MR.GANNOSUKE on COMM - November 22, 2008, Kumamoto - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

DRADITION - September 21, 2008, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,100 Fans)

 

 

1. Tatsumi Fujinami -vs- Mr.Gannosuke [* 1/4]

--- The DVD starts off with a bonus match with rare footage from Fujinami's DRADITION promotion with Gannosuke facing the legendary Fujinami in a singles match at the Korakuen Hall! Of course neighter guy is remotely near their prime. Fujinami nearly 20 years past his best, but they bring a cool little match where Gannosuke survived the figure-four and Fujinami kicked out of the Gannosuke Clutch before Fujinami went more Inoki on him and locked in the Octopus Hold for the win!

7:56 of 7:59 - Fujinami made Gannosuke submit to a Octopus Hold

 

 

 

 

November 22, 2008, Kumamoto Circulation Information Hall (350 fans)

 

 

2. Takayuki Nakazato -vs- Takuya Iwai [3/4*]

--- Basic young guys fighting. Serious and basic with Nakazato winning with the crab hold.

8:22 of 8:26 - Nakazato made Iwai submit to a single leg crab

 

 

 

3. Vinni -vs- Yasuhiro Yamagami [1/2*]

--- Fairly bad and dull heavyweight fighting with Vinni winning with a low blow and small package.

8:33 of 8:35 - Vinni pinned Yamagami with a small package

 

 

 

4. KING -vs- Skull Reaper A-ji [1/2*]

--- Very basic wrestling and with a screwjob to back it up as A-ji pulled off KING's mask.....

9:28 of 9:35 - KING defeated A-ji by DQ

 

 

 

5. KAZE & Yukimura -vs- Koji Nizumi & Kuma Hikoichi Kawa [3/4*]

--- First a quick comedy win as Yukimura pretended that comedy character Hikoichi choked him for the 5-count DQ. But they re-started and had a full match after that. And the comedy with Hikoichi continued along with a little more serious approach from the others without too much making an impact compered to the silly stuff. Yukimura was the man of the bout and made Nizumi submit making sure he'd defeated both opponents in the match.

0:20 - KAZE & Yukimura defeated Nizumi & Hikoichi by DQ

14:50 of 15:06 - Yukimura made Nizumi submit to a modified head-scissor

 

 

 

6. Gran Hamada & Yumeji Fugofugo -vs- Azteca & Kamui [* 1/2]

--- Fugofugo brought the headbutts and a wonderful smile while Kamui brought the spectacular stuff landing his flying better then usual. But he wasn't repayed for the effort at old Hamada Ace Crushed him to beat him. At least the match was more interesting then the rest of the undercard.

15:11 of 15:15 - Hamada pinned Kamui after a Hama-chan Cutter

 

 

 

7. Mr.Gannosuke -vs- Mammoth Sasaki [* 1/2]

--- Aw...this could have been so much more. Sure you got the chops and some of their bigger moves, but it could have been a real battle of brutality had they wanted it too. Instead it was kind of just a single bout where Gannosuke was the sly one and rolled Mammoth up with a Gannosuke Clutch before it got too exciting.

12:03 of 12:04 - Gannosuke pinned Sasaki with a Gannosuke Clutch

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Very typical indy wrestling not delivering anything great.

 

 

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