Guide to Japanese Wrestling 2010

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MR.GANNOSUKE PRODUCE on COMM - September 5, 2009, Tokyo - (2 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

September 5, 2009, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (350 fans)

 

 

1. Yuki -vs- Shota - (MMA)

--- Just a wannabe MMA match where Shota was heavily out-matched.

4:15 of 4:12 - Yuki defeated Shota by TKO 1:12 of the 2nd Round

 

 

 

2. Masashi Takeda -vs- Chou-un Shiryu - (No-Rules) [*]

--- Garbage wrestling. Littarary with litter. Good sleezy fun match more then a hardcore match in way ending with Takeda dropping Shiryu on a frying pan a few times before having him beat. They didn't waste any time and went on to entertain the fans and it also included an embarrassing moment when Takeda was trying to tape a beer can on his foot, but the tape didn't work for him and he had to give up throwing it in anger! Oh, and Soldier tried to attack Takeda with a knife after the bout, but Mr.Gannosuke made the save.

8:57 of 8:56 - Takeda pinned Shiryu after a E Crash on a frying pan

 

 

 

3. Fuka -vs- Makoto [* 1/2]

--- Then for some joshi spirit with Ice Ribbons Makoto and Fuka Matsuri's Fuka. And they were motivated to show off some skills. Straight wrestling with submissions and some fancy moves along the way. It's Fuka and Makoto so quality wasn't of world class, but they did put some hard work into this and things looked ok before Fuka had it won with her swinging slam.

10:13 of 10:12 - Fuka pinned Makoto after the F Crash slam

 

 

 

4. Yasu Urano -vs- Madoka [* 1/4]

--- Decent and more enegetic then usual for a Urano bout, but it was never going to be spectacular as thats not part of Urano's style. Just basic wits until Urano shows he's smarter then Madoka rolling him up in a inside cradle.

11:05 of 11:05 - Urano pinned Madoka with a small package

 

 

 

5. GENTARO -vs- Munenori Sawa [** 1/2]

--- GENTARO and Sawa are able to create some magic when fighting! They filled this draw with enough quality wrestling so it never felt dull. There was always something buzzing undernieth what they were doing even if it rarely really exploded. But they kept it interesting with always some kind of deal keeping the fans watching. Be it submissions, genious or technical wrestling. It was a even battle on all levels. And the heart was there too. Sadly no winner as it went to a half-hour draw, but a real nice lead-in for the hour match they'd have on the December '09 show!

25:02 of 30:00 - GENTARO wrestled Sawa to a 30:00 Time Limit Draw

 

 

 

6. Yuko Miyamoto & Kenny Omega -vs- Masato Tanaka & Mineo Fujita [** 1/4]

--- The main event they collected Gannosuke loyals Miyamoto and Fujita and teamed them with Zero-One's Tanaka and DDT's Omega. And naturally there was a lot of good action coming with all those guys brought together! Tanaka landed a nice hard Sliding D with the help of Fujita setting the move up, but it was Omega who got the spotlight in this bout showing off his flamboyant style and grabbing the victory with his special German Suplex on Fujita.

20:39 of 20:39 - Omega pinned Fujita with the Croyt's Wrath suplex

 

 

 

COMMENTS: This Gannosuke shows brought quality indy wrestling.

 

 

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DRAGON GATE on COMM: BUYUDEN SELECTION 1 - 2007-2008 - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

January 25, 2007, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (2,280 fans)

 

 

-Prelim Highlights.

 

 

1. Masaaki Mochizuki & Minoru Tanaka -vs- Minoru Fujita & Ikuto Hidaka [** 3/4]

--- While Mochizuki and Fujita's careers tallent wise are on their way down, the other two are still very much up for it and brough the match it's quality. Since this was Mochizuki's own show he was obviously the main focus of the match doing ok job I guess, but the spontanity in his work is gone and looks a bit too set-up which was especially evident on that kick to the post spot they did. Nevertheless the match had a lot of qualities with quite a few referances to old BattleArts where these guys first made their careers. Loads of counters and technical stuff with especially Minoru against the two Zero-One wrestlers was fun to watch as they were re-living the good old days. But it was Mochizuki's show so he had the honors of ending it landing kicks at Fujita to knock him out for the pin.

17:10 of 22:41 - Mochizuki pinned Fujita after a high head kick

 

 

 

 

 

February 10, 2008, Tokyo (Aft) - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (444 fans)

 

 

2. m.c.KZ & Super Shenlong II -vs- Mineo Fujita & Battender - (Buyuden Tag Tournament - Round 1)

--- The end and Fujita really dropped Shenlong in a nasty way on that Emeriald Frosion before KZ took over the show and beat the other masked guy including doing his Canadian Destroyer.

1:20 of 8:21 - KZ pinned Battender after a top rope bodypress

 

 

 

3. Masahiro Takanashi & Yukihiro Abe -vs- Super Shisa & Shisa Boy - (Buyuden Tag Tournament - Round 1)

--- ....and here Takanashi wins with a cradle version of the Canadian Destroyer.

1:05 of 8:00 - Takanashi pinned Boy with the Takatonic

 

 

 

 

 

February 10, 2008, Tokyo (Eve) - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (444 fans)

 

 

4. m.c.KZ & Super Shenlong II -vs- Masahiro Takanashi & Yukihiro Abe - (Buyuden Tag Tournament - Semi-Final) [3/4*]

--- Hardly a big match-up. A lot of light workers with one of the lightest of them all winning as the gangstah KZ gets another win!

7:18 of 7:18 - KZ pinned Abe after a top rope bodypress

 

 

 

 

 

February 10, 2008, Tokyo (Aft) - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (444 fans)

 

 

5. YAMATO & Shinobu -vs- GENTARO & Yusaku Obata - (Buyuden Tag Tournament - Round 1)

--- Ouch! The finisher......

1:01 of 7:45 - YAMATO pinned Obata after the Gallaria

 

 

 

6. Fujita Jr Hayato & Munenori Sawa -vs- Akira Tozawa & Koji Shisedo - (Buyuden Tag Tournament - Round 1)

--- Shisedo getting one hell of a beating he was not able to take.....

1:43 of 6:16 - Sawa pinned Shisedo after a punch

 

 

 

 

February 10, 2008, Tokyo (Eve) - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (444 fans)

 

7. Fujita Jr Hayato & Munenori Sawa -vs- YAMATO & Shinobu - (Buyuden Tag Tournament - Semi-Final) [** 1/4]

--- This fight got quite exciting as these are a bunch of energetic workers and the fans were into them. And with the strikes coming fast and furious the match had plenty to offer. And Shinobu ended up getting the worst of it getting knocked to the ground several times until the referee had to stop it. Sadly referee Matsui didn't seem to understand what was going on with the finish and has to ask Sawa before calling for the bell.

13:43 of 13:44 - Sawa defeated Shinobu by Referee Stop after a headkick

 

 

 

 

May 10, 2008, Osaka - Matsushita IMP Hall (700 fans)

 

 

8. Yutaka Yoshie -vs- Akira Tozawa [* 1/2]

--- The battle of FAT~ with one of the ultimate displayers of the good FAT~ against Dragon Gate's comedy FAT~ guy. Wouldn't exactly call it a battle because Yoshie was more or less cruising through the little fatso. He was surperior in every heavy way possible except Tozawa did land once nice Koshinaka butt-butt to the face which actually looked to hurt Yoshie a little. But that was about all the damage Tozawa could do before Yoshie kept using his heavyweight body to crush Tozawa bad....

5:38 of 10:46 - Yoshie pinned Tozawa after a top rope bodypress

 

 

 

 

February 10, 2008, Tokyo (Eve) - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (444 fans)

 

 

9. Fujita Jr Hayato & Munenori Sawa -vs- m.c.KZ & Super Shenlong II - (Buyuden Tag Tournament - Final) [** 1/4]

--- Hell no! You little gangstah! No way are you going to stand up to the wilder eyed Hayato & Sawa! And Shenlong never wins so he's not going to help you excpet help you lose the bout. Which was what happend when he was trapped in the K.I.D hold of Hayato. The match varied in excitement, but when it was on it was good and better then expected cosidering it had such a weak team in the final as KZ & Shenlong.

15:53 of 15:51 - Hayato made Shenlong submit to the K.I.D. front necklock. Hayato & Sawa win the Buyuden Tag Tournament.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: A few matches that never made TV from Masaaki Mochizuki's Buyuden project. The February 10th 2008 matches are exclusive.

 

 

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DRAGON GATE on COMM: BUYUDEN SELECTION 3 - March-August 2008 - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

July 5, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st Ring (444 fans)

 

 

1. Daisuke Sekimoto & Shingo Takagi -vs- Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda [***]

--- One of the top Dragon Gate wrestlers and one of Big Japan's top wrestlers teaming together as Shingo & Sekimoto join forces after a short feud to take on Sekimoto's main nemesis Tanaka and his longtime running-buddy from the early days of FMW, Kuroda. We know Sekimoto and Tanaka can bring the goods as they've had one of the best matches of '08 when they faced on April 28th and they delivered more of the same here. Sekimoto is the master of dead-lift moves and had some cool ones here. More interesting maybe was Tanaka squaring off against powerhouse Shingo with the Dragon Gate wrestler mixing well with his big moves style wrestling. As this had a short 20-min time limit you kind of knew the result beforehand, but that didn't stop them from giving the fans what they wanted with the near falls end before the bell called it a draw.

20:02 of 20:00 - Sekimoto & Takagi wrestled Tanaka & Kuroda to a 20:00 Time Limit Draw

 

 

 

 

 

March 21, 2008, Tokyo - Shinjuku FACE (400 fans)

 

2. Jackson Florida -vs- Lingerie Muto [1/2*]

--- Comedy time with both guys having very bad knees. Jackson so bad that he had to wrestle with a crutch the entire match. And because of their bad knees they were having major difficulties standing on the top rope and targeting their aim. And because of that it ended with a double KO when they'd fell off the top rope missing their opponent one too many times. Really. That's what happend.

5:11 of 9:00 - Florida wrestled Muto to a Double KO

 

 

 

 

 

June 14, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st Ring (444 fans)

 

 

3. Jackson Florida -vs- Kikutaro [3/4*]

--- Same deal here with the two missing spectacular moves in spectacular ways until they were counted out as a figure-four was locked in out on the rampway with no indication of ever returning back to the ring.

8:37 of 8:37 - Florida wrestled Kikutaro to a Double Count-Out

 

 

 

 

 

August 2, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (435 fans)

 

 

4. Gran Hamada -vs- Kikutaro [1/2*]

--- ....at least old Hamada managed to execute his moves without looking too old. It's not everytime me manages that anymore. A easy match with Kikutaro tapping to the wakigatame.

6:04 of 6:23 - Hamada made Kikutaro submit to a wakigatame armbar

 

 

 

 

 

July 5, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st Ring (444 fans)

 

 

5. Dick Togo -vs- Don Fujii [** 1/2]

--- Now here's an interesting little match. Two veterans now with their own special cool. Togo is the surperious wrestler of the two and they played that out with Fujii playing tough getting some solid stuff in while other times looking hopelessly in danger as Dick Pedigreed him off the turnbuckle and went for sentons. The first one was blocked when Fujii lifted up his knees to drive them into Togo's back as he came down. The second one landed, but Fujii was close to the ropes and got his feet on the ropes. And as it looked like the former Open the Dream Gate Champion was going to make his big comeback Togo countered his chokeslam with a huracanrana for the win! Not bad for a small show effort!

14:32 of 14:38 - Togo pinned Fujii with a huracanrana

 

 

 

 

 

February 10, 2008, Tokyo (Aft) - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (444 fans)

 

 

6. Don Fujii & Tetsuhiro Kuroda -vs- Muscle Sakai & Hoshitango [1/4*]

--- Just some sumo shit between Don and Hoshitango....at the pro-wrestling stuff it was Fujii who was the man.

2:39 of 7:52 - Fujii pinned Hoshitango with a La Magistral

 

 

 

 

 

February 10, 2008, Tokyo (Eve) - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (444 fans)

 

 

7. Kenichiro Arai -vs- Goemon [1/2*]

--- Clipped action so it looked like Arai was totally dominating and squashing the former FMW'er! But while Arai landed a few nice moves it didn't look like a very good match.

2:53 of 10:34 - Arai pinned Goemon after a Firebird Splash

 

 

 

 

 

April 18, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (432 fans)

 

 

8. BxB Hulk & El Blazer -vs- Fujita Jr Hayato & Yuki Sato [*]

--- The final moment and a good sprint with Hayato landing some kickin' and Hulk landing deadly moves before he had the little rat beat with a high spinkick.

3:27 of 12:01 - Hulk pinned Sato after a spinkick

 

 

 

9. GENTARO & Yusaku Obata -vs- K-ness & Shisa Boy [1/2*]

--- The end with some decent but not very revolutionary action with GENTARO landing the diving elbow drop for the kill.

2:32 of 11:03 - GENTARO pinned Shisa after a top rope elbow drop

 

 

 

 

 

June 14, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st Ring (444 fans)

 

 

10. GENTARO & K-ness -vs- Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson [1/2*]

--- Fancy light stuff from before K-ness rolled one of the Jacksons up for the pin out of nowhere.

2:19 of 10:31 - K-ness pinned Nick with a rolling cradle

 

 

 

 

 

July 5, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st Ring (444 fans)

 

 

11. Kenichiro Arai & Nohashi Shinjitsu -vs- Super Shisa & Shisa Boy [3/4*]

--- Some cool clips as Nohashi and Arai were twins doing mirror/copied style to beat the Shisas!

2:58 of 11:24 - Nohashi pinned Boy with the Sakauchi

 

 

 

 

 

August 2, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (435 fans)

 

 

12. Masaaki Mochizuki -vs- Kamikaze - (Fire Festival '08 - Block A) [** 1/4]

--- A solid bout cosidering Kamikaze was there, but he was really focused for this Fire Festival match and kept on locking in Cobra Twists whenever he had the oppertunity. Then Mochizuki changed those into his favour and tired a grounded pinfall one and nearly had him. Then it got more moves and near falls based with Kamikaze's big moment being the beautiful moonsault he landed. No pin and Mochizuki kicked out of a lot before getting back and kicking the big man down for the win.

11:17 of 11:17 - Mochizuki pinned Kamikaze after a high headkick

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Mostly clipped action for the matches that didn't air on TV. Mochizuki vs Kamikaze bout was fairly good. Better then expected thats for sure.

 

 

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WAVE on COMM - KANA SPECIAL VOL 1 - 2008 - (1 1/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

January 16, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (61 fans)

 

 

1. Kyoko Kimura -vs- Kana [* 3/4]

--- The match these two had on August 16, 2008 was a brutal bout and probable one of the most crucial matches WAVE has put on. This bout I guess would be one of the matches leading up to that one as they play it out stiff and fairly unco-operative here too. Not nearly as brutal, but still you get the idea they don't like each other one bit as Kimura kept bullying Kana a lot making life a misery for her. And in the end gave her a strong enough beating to end it with a sleeper.

8:49 of 8:52 - Kimura defeated Kana with a sleeper

 

 

 

 

February 2, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (109 fans)

 

 

2. Kana & Yumi Ohka & Shuu Shibutani -vs- Kaoru & Gami & Kyoko Kimura [3/4*]

--- Some decent action in this tag, but we only got to see a tiny bit of it before Gami had Kana taked care of with her modified brainbuster.

4:05 of 22:50 - Gami pinned Kana after the Adios Amiga

 

 

 

 

February 23, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (115 fans)

 

 

3. Yumi Ohka -vs- Kana [* 1/2]

--- A slow starter, but it ended up being a ok match in the end with Kana giving Ohka something to work with making it a equal battle as they are more or less the same generation wrestlers. It long looked like Kana was going to take this one home, especially when landing that DDT, but instead Ohka got a rare singles win over someones who is nearly someone.

15:10 of 15:09 - Ohka pinned Kana after a neck-hanging bomb

 

 

 

 

March 1, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (91 fans)

 

 

4. Kana & Yumiko Hotta -vs- Ran Yu Yu & Shuu Shibutani [1/2*]

--- Hotta was more clowning around then helping it seemed. Not exactly sure what was going on between those two partners, but Kana looked kind of surprised when Hotta tagged herself in and won the match for them.

5:05 of 21:00 - Hotta pinned Shibutani with a Pyramid Driver

 

 

 

 

March 12, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (129 fans)

 

 

5. Kana & Yumi Ohka -vs- Hiroyo Matsumoto & Shuu Shibutani [**]

--- Good action match. Difficult to get a vibe in a small arena like Shin-kiba, but at least they tried to make it a entertaining match for the few fans that showed up. The match was especially good when Shibutani and Ohka faced with the DDT's and boots. And then a wonderful way to end it off with a running Kana ass attack to take care of Shibutani after she'd been neck bombed by Ohka.

19:31 of 19:31 - Kana pinned Shibutani after a hip attack

 

 

 

 

March 20, 2008, Osaka World Building (152 fans)

 

 

6. Kana & Shuu Shibutani -vs- Misako Ohata & Hanako Kobayashi [*]

--- Tyical joshi action match with no structure at all and a lot of weak wrestling, mostly thanks to Kobayashi. Sure some minor excitement with the near falls and all that, but not nearly good enough to get much praise. Shibutani lands the senton to win.

18:48 of 18:50 - Shibutani pinned Ohata after a top rope senton

 

 

 

COMMENTS: A collection of Kana matches between January and March 2008 for the WAVE promotion. Neither of these bouts made it on any of the available WAVE DVD's and for WAVE matches they were fairly good.

 

 

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ICE RIBBON on COMM - May 2, 2008, Tokyo - (1 hr)

 

 

 

 

May 2, 2008, Tokyo

 

 

1. Hamuko Hoshi -vs- Haruna Akagi - (Exhibition) [1/4*]

--- Just a short 3-min exhibition match were nothing looked good and Hoshi beat Akagi 2-0 in pins.

3:00 of 3:00 - Hoshi defeated Akagi 2-0

 

 

 

2. Emi Sakura & Masahiro Takanashi -vs- Yuta Yoshikawa & Yuki Sato [1/2*]

--- Fun for them. But not a good match per say. It's difficult to get a tag match going with no ring at all, but it gave Sakura a happy win with a little help from Takanashi rolling the two up with a schoolboy.

10:52 of 10:52 - Sakura & Takanashi pinned Sato with a schoolboy

 

 

 

3. Vanessa the Mountain -vs- Makoto [1/4*]

--- The size difference was enormous and Vanessa was almost too big for the room they wrestled in. And of course this was a squash!

2:54 of 2:54 - Vanessa pinned Makoto after a neck-hanging slam

 

 

 

4. Mai Ichii & Riho -vs- Arisa Nakajima & Tomoko Morii [3/4*]

--- Silly with a little bit of charming action with Nakajima laying in the shots hard and not getting along with her partner Morii. And then there was little Riho. She's really become a big girl the last couple of years reaching puberty. Here she was super tiny. Anyway, after a lot of screaming Ichii had this match won with a leeping kick off the window frame in the little room.

13:49 of 13:49 - Ichii pinned Morii after a headkick off the window frame

 

 

 

COMMENTS: This was back when Ice Ribbon shows happend in a small room with no ring and stuff. Probable the most amusing thing about this one was Mad Man Pondo being a spectator being forced to join Sakura's song.

 

 

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YASU URANO PRODUCE on COMM - July 18, 2008, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

July 18, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING

 

 

1. Daisuke Sasaki -vs- Yuki Sato [*]

--- Technical basic fight between young-uns. Nothing more then a little bout with Sasaki winning suplexing the little guy.

9:24 of 9:25 - Sasaki pinned Sato with a German Suplex

 

 

 

2. Mineo Fujita -vs- Keita Yano [1/2*]

--- Dull technical wrestling with Yano looking bad as usual, but with some light as Fujita was the one to win it countering one of Yano's stretches for the pin.

10:51 of 10:54 - Fujita pinned Yano with a counter cradle

 

 

 

3. Antonio Honda -vs- Pedro Takashi [1/4*]

--- Difficult to take this one seriously even if they were mainly in serious mode. It's just that Pedro is an ultimate parody and Honda usually is too even if he can bring life to it sometimes. He wins this one Jerry Lawler style!

7:59 of 7:59 - Honda pinned Takashi after a second rope fistdrop

 

 

 

4. GENTARO & HARASHIMA & KUDO -vs- Shinobu & Yuko Miyamoto & Onryo [* 1/4]

--- Random and standard indy action with no other purpose then to entertain for a few minutes with moves and near falls with DDT's star HARASHIMA raming down 666's Shinobu for the pin with the Somato.

13:05 of 13:08 - HARASHIMA pinned Shinobu after the Somato double knee attack

 

 

 

5. Soldier & Yuji Hino -vs- Kankuro Hoshino & Mammoth Sasaki [* 1/2]

--- What this match lived for was Kaientai-Dojo's Hino beating the crap out of Union Pro's Hoshino with authority and arrogance. Expressed lovely with the way it ended with Hino bombing the dump and covering Hoshino with one palm on top of him!

14:28 of 14:28 - Hino pinned Hoshino after a Thuder Fire powerbomb

 

 

 

6. Mr.Gannosuke -vs- Yasu Urano [* 3/4]

--- On paper kind of interesting as it's two sly characters meeting. Execution was ok at times, but no way did they carry the whole thing to the level one could have hoped for. A nearly 35 minute epic styled bout with a lot of ground work with hurting lims and pouring sweat. With the right workers it might have worked out nicely. But since it's an aging for the most part washed-up indy veteran in Mr.Gannosuke and a Urano, who is good at the little tricks, but not neccessary a belivable wrestler. He comes across too much as a phoney, so he doesn't breed enough life into the holds to drag you in. And when thats most of the match it wasn't going to any super hights. But it had it's moments of submissions and killers as Gannosuke was on charge taking care of the shows producer with a nasty Fire Thunder to end it.

34:11 of 34:13 - Gannosuke pinned Urano after a Fire Thunder piledriver

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Typical indy with a main event which tried to be special.

 

 

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ISHIKURA DOJO on COMM - September 13, 2008, Osaka - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

September 13, 2008, Osaka - Delfin Arena Dotonbori

 

 

1. Kabuki Kid -vs- Kazuki Mihara [*]

--- Osaka Pro rookie Mihara had more then enough with keeping alive in there because Kabuki Kid totally ran the show. Not exactly a exciting bout, but it did feature Kabuki doing some nice armwork with Mihara having to struggle himself to the ropes. And the more disguisting stuff happend at the end with Kabuki landing a brutal headbutt and kicked Mihara's head in before locking in the Dragon Sleeper for the win.

8:50 of 8:50 - Kabuki made Mihara submit to a modified Dragon Sleeper

 

 

 

2. Takaku Fuke -vs- Yuki Tanaka [* 3/4]

--- Didn't think much of this at the start. Felt like an ordinary lazy Fuka shoot style effort where he didn't want to do all that much with this rookie guy. But after a while the fire came! Fuke was in complete control and started bending Tanaka's heel real good and Tanaka HAD to fight back and this brought the adrenaline to him too as he started answering back with the same medicine, but Fuke became a mean bastard and only hightend his own game and eventually locked in Tanaka's neck for a submission.

15:24 of 15:25 - Fuka made Tanaka submit to a front necklock

 

 

 

3. Keita Yano -vs- Robert Tanaka [* 1/2]

--- Bacame a fairly exciting little fight toward the end after a fairly unhappening start. Tanaka looked the better of the two early on, but would fall for Yano's tricks and soon found himself in enough trouble to get pinned.

11:48 of 11:50 - Yano pinned Tanaka with a modified crucifix cradle

 

 

 

4. Daisuke Harada -vs- Shigehiro Irie [* 1/2]

--- Kind of stubborn fight with quite a few hard blows and overall a ok fight without taking too far off. Irie ended up getting the worst of the beating and was slapped down and German'ed for the three.

12:47 of 12:35 - Harada pinned Irie with a German Suplex

 

 

 

5. Billy Ken Kid -vs- Masanori Ishikura [* 1/2]

--- About the same quality as the other matches which is a shame because this being a Ishikura Dojo show, a match with Ishikura should have more to offer. But the guy isn't too flamboyant in his style and while he's a decent worked shooter he was always a level below Osaka Pro star Billy in this one with Billy giving him the works. Ishikura's hottest moments was kicking out of the two Air Raid Crash'es that Billy planted him down in, but once the Vertigo came there was no kick-out.

14:01 of 14:02 - Billy pinned Ishikura with the Vertigo

 

 

 

6. Billy Ken Kid & Masanori Ishikura & Kazuki Mihara & Kabuki Kid & Takaku Fuke -vs- Keita Yano & Daisuke Harada & Robert Tanaka & Shigehiro Irie & Yuki Tanaka [* 3/4]

--- Here everybody was having a lot of fun. A super sprint bout where everybody was chipping in with loads of glow. Sadly it was just a short extra number for the fans there, but it was realy entertaining while it lasted and Ishikura got to win on the show beating the lowest ranked of all Yuki Tanaka with a Tiger Suplex.

7:32 of 6:25 - Ishikura pinned Yuki with a Tiger Suplex

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Solid wrestling, but didn't include the massive climax bout a show should rely on.

 

 

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BJPW on COMM - September 20, 2008, Tokyo - (1 3/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

September 20, 2008, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (215 fans)

 

 

1. Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi -vs- Katsumasa Inoue & Shinya Ishikawa [* 1/2]

--- Solid basic fighting with the wrestling boys of Big Japan. Ishikawa managed to show some real spirit laying in the elbows at Sekimoto, but guess who's the rookie and who'd lose of the two. Yes, Sekimoto beat Ishikawa up for his efforts, but not with the German. No, Sekimoto used the Scorpion Death Lock instead.

13:34 of 13:32 - Sekimoto made Ishikawa submit to a Scorpion Death Lock

 

 

 

2. Daikokubo Benkei & Yuichi Taniguchi -vs- Kankuro Hoshino & Atsushi Ohashi [1/2*]

--- Lazy bout with the comedy pair. Not as horrible as most of the matches featuring Benkei and Taniguchi are, but it didn't really have anything to offer either way. And it didn't really help that Taniguchi was the one that won.

13:27 of 13:25 - Taniguchi pinned Ohashi with a Northern Light Suplex

 

 

 

3. Mens Teioh & Tsutomu Oosugi & Hercules Senga -vs- Jun Kasai & Bear Fukuda & Chango [* 1/4]

--- Men's Club action. Easy fun with some flying and Jun Kasai being the odd one out in this bout doing a tiny bit of hardcore with a beer can. It ended up being mostly the SOS dudes that brought the main highlights, but even that wasn't of the highest quality before Teioh took care of Chango rather easy with that chokeslam of his.

11:31 of 11:30 - Teioh pinned Chango with the Miracle Ecstasy

 

 

 

4. Naoki Numazawa & Yuko Miyamoto -vs- Ryuji Ito & Isami Kodaka [*]

--- A standard where not that much happend. Liked Isami's facekick with Numazawa upside-down. But of course Isami was the one jobbing and Numazawa used his new small package variation to get his win.

16:02 of 16:02 - Numazawa pinned Isami with the suplex small package

 

 

 

5. Shadow WX & Abdullah Kobayashi & The Winger -vs- Takashi Sasaki & Ryuji Yamakawa & Katsumi Usuda [* 1/2]

--- Old Big Japan hardcore star Ryuji Yamakawa is back for another weak comeback. He just doesn't have the fire in him and looks totally washed up as the Big Japan boys help him though the match. He didn't look as bad as he did on his last comeback though. This match also feature old Winger and Big Mouth Loud fighter Usuda, but this was really all about Yamakawa and his oldmans fighting. The best part from him was his enterance where he did some horrid disco dancing in a white cowboy costume. Why they felt they had to drag this out over 20 minutes I've no idea, but at least they finally pinned Yamakawa by then as the Death Match Champion Shadow WX beat him with brainbusters.

21:23 of 21:21 - Shadow pinned Yamakawa after a brainbuster

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Simple show from Big Japan. Nothing special apart from Yamakawa getting the spotlight return.

 

 

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[PUNQ]

KISHIWADA on COMM - February 3, 2008, Osaka - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

February 3, 2008, Osaka Azalea Hall

 

 

1. Magnitude Kishiwada -vs- Shoichi Uchida [*]

--- Kishiwada showing Uchida who is the boss on a Kishiwada Produced show. Not much of a fight. One-sided beat-down with Uchida getting in some glamorized offence without really looking impressive before it was over with a Last Ride and a bunch of other impact blows before that.

9:47 of 9:47 - Kishiwada pinned Uchida after a Last Ride powerbomb

 

 

　

2. Diablo & Kurokage -vs- Kabuki Kid & Tadanobu Fujisawa [3/4*]

--- Captivating wrestling....?....Hardly.....slow'n'stiff....for sure. With the lame Kabuki Kid getting trashed in a heavyweight manner.

8:19 of 8:21 - Kurogaki pinned Kabuki after a chokeslam

 

 

　

3. Keizo Matsuda -vs- Kengo Takai [* 1/4]

--- Kind of an interesting lumps of meat match with two guys who don't get too much exposure apart from obscure DVD's like this in IWA's Matsuda battling Osaka's Takai in a serious style. But you kind of see why they don't get too much publicity, as they were not able to get the crowd to care much for their work and struggled to get much interest out of a competitive fight. In the end IWA's top guy ended up the winner after a series of knock-downs getting the pinfall with one of his lariats.

14:56 of 14:54 - Matsuda pinned Takai after a lariat

 

　

 

4. Hayate & Komachi -vs- TGV 2 & Eurostar [1/2*]

--- Masked superheroes, mostly known form those Fukumen Mania shows, having lucharesu match for display. Very exhibition style and weak getting a total dead reaction from the crowd. Not impressive at all even if they did a few dives to try and lighten up the place.

8:00 of 8:43 - Hayate & Komachi pinned Eurostar with a La Magistral/jack knife cradle combination

 

 

　

5. Magnitude Kishiwada 1 & Magnitude Kishiwada 2 & Magnitude Kishiwada 3 & Kana -vs- Kikutaro & Masahiko Kochi & Osamu Tachihikari & Aripon [1/2*]

--- No less then 7 Magnitude Kishiwada's came out, including Kana who also weared the mask coming out! Only 4 of them fought for the official fight, but you knew the others were going to get in on the action at some point aswell. And as you can guess with Kikutaro there.....not a very serious main event. More a tribute style fight collecting Kishiwada and some of his old friends for a gathering with special guest Tachihikari making a rare appearence. Friends getting together for a easy day in the ring for a match that was only there to put a smile on their own faces.

17:45 of 17:49 - Kishiwada pinned Kikuchi with a small package reversal

　

 

 

COMMENTS: A nice easy day for them all..... except for the viewer who has to struggle a little to get through watching this shit.

 

 

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[PUNQ]

KISHIWADA on COMM: MAGNITUDE 1.0 - August 10, 2008, Osaka - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

August 10, 2008, Osaka

 

 

1. Yuki Tanaka -vs- Jun Kasagi [1/2*]

--- Very basic and very dull draw. At least they didn't fuck up a lot.

9:58 of 10:00 - Tanaka wrestled Kasagi to a 10:00 Time Limit Draw

 

 

 

2. Masanori Ishikura -vs- Shigehiro Irie [*]

--- Started out uninteresting, but gradually turned into a decent standard with Ishikura ending the match with a wonderful backdrop suplex to take care of Irie.

8:10 - Ishikura pinned Irie after a backdrop suplex

 

 

 

3. Kengo Takai(dressed as Gamma) -vs- Naoshi Sano [3/4*]

--- Funny as Takai was totally being Gamma with drawn up muscles and obnoxious behaviour. He was going to do the food in the face deal, but decided against it and enjoyed his banana instead. The ring got filled with powder giving Sano some hope, but "Gamma" used the Gamma Special to beat him anyway.

7:26 - Takai pinned Sano after the Gamma Special

 

 

 

4. Diablo & Super Uchu Power -vs- Kabuki Kid & Masahiko [*]

--- Decent stubborn indy fighting. Masahiko and Diablo added the stiffness while Uchu made sure the match was moving along. Kabuki wrestled with one arm in a sling and ended up being limited to being the jobber....

8:56 - Power pinned Kabuki after a STO

 

 

 

5. Apple Miyuki -vs- Kikutaro -vs- Masked Icon? - (3-Way) [1/2*]

--- Kikutaro pervert stuff with Apple. Funny end as Kikutaro had this masked dude beat, Apple came along and locked in a crab hold on Kikutaro who was on his way to pinning the unknown, and then just before the three Kikutaro tapped.

9:50 - Miyuki made Kikutaro submit to a single leg crab

 

 

 

6. Jushin Liger & El Samurai -vs- Magnitude Kishiwada & NOSAWA Rongai [* 1/2]

--- New Japan veterans are brought in to main event Kishiwada's Magnitude 1.0 show and he himself is stuck with NOSAWA. Which was a bummer as that guaranteed a opening card style tag bout. And that exactly what we got. Liger & Sammy did their usual early card New Japan stuff and little more. Kishiwada tried to make up for it, but wasn't able to make this anything special, so it was fitting that NOSAWA made the night complete for Kishiwada by losing for their team to Samurai and his Samurai Clutch.

16:48 - Samurai pinned NOSAWA with the Samurai Clutch

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Not exactly a super show promoted by Magnitude Kishiwada.

 

 

--PUNQ--

[PUNQ]

KISHIWADA on COMM: MAGNITUDE 2.0 - January 11, 2009, Osaka - (1 3/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

January 11, 2009, Osaka Azalea Taisho (368 fans)

 

 

1. Shigehiro Irie & Jun Kasagi -vs- Hiroki Tanaka & Masanori Ishikura [*]

--- Fairly technical bout based around a lot of long submissions. Kasagi got locked in quite a few toward the end, but luckily for him his tag partner Irie knows a few submissions himself and made Tanaka submit to a modified ankle hold. Not too exciting.

15:03 of 15:03 - Irie made Tanaka submit to a scorpion ankle hold

 

 

 

2. Magnitude Kishiwada -vs- Naoshi Sano [1/2*]

--- Kishiwada slow-squshing Sano......

6:39 of 6:34 - Kishiwada pinned Sano after a Last Ride powerbomb

 

 

 

3. Shoichi Uchida -vs- Kazuhiro Tamura [* 1/4]

--- This was long. Not nearly enough fire to really carry it, but some decent submission periods and a ok ending from Uchida as he finally woke up. So after mostly submissions the bout ends with impact. Same flawed indy submission mentality.

19:43 of 19:42 - Uchida pinned Tamura after a top rope diving headbutt

 

 

 

4. Diablo & Super Uchu Power -vs- Masahiko & Kataya Shibamaya - (Street Fight) [3/4*]

--- Street fight which never really got interesting and it only got more and more boring the longer it went. Was very glad when it finally was over.

17:04 of 17:03 - Power pinned Shibamaya after a STO

 

 

 

5. Apple Miyuki -vs- Kikutaro -vs- Ultraman Robin - (3-Way) [1/4*]

--- Nearly the same match as on the previous Magnitude show and exactly the same finish.

7:30 of 7:30 -Miyuki made Kikutaro submit to a single leg crab

 

 

 

6. Magnitude Kishiwada & Daisuke Sekimoto -vs- Masato Tanaka & Munenori Sawa [**]

--- The fight had some ok fire fighting and in a match against two power workers like Kishiwada & Sekimoto, it's really good to have a little prick like Sawa that they can have and throw around! And Sawa was involved in almost all the good, but sadly for him it was all on the receiving end getting powered down the hard way by the impact fighters to the point where he couldn't kick out no more.....

19:03 of 19:03 - Kishiwada pinned Sawa after a Last Ride powerbomb

 

 

 

COMMENTS: The main event saved the show. Otherwise the show draged a bit.

 

 

--PUNQ--

[PUNQ]

KISHIWADA on COMM - November 15, 2009, Osaka - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 15, 2009, Osaka

 

 

1. Naoshi Sano -vs- Konaka Pale One [1/4*]

--- Interesting with the anti-violence period where Konaka didn't want to fight and kept moving away signaling he was going to fight passively. But this was a strange and awkward bout which Sano surprisingly won.

9:32 of 9:30 - Sano pinned Konaka after a brainbuster

 

 

 

2. Shoichi Uchida & Yuta -vs- Daisuke Masaoka & Kataya Shibamaya [*]

--- Rather weak indy action bout to be honest. Nothing terrible apart from Shibamaya's haircut, but it just wasn't executed professionally enough to make a difference. But they filled the time in a decent way regardless and Uchida got his win Styles Clash way.

14:28 of 14:36 - Uchida pinned Masaoka after a Styles Clash

 

 

 

3. Kikutaro -vs- Lingerie Muto -vs- Great Gaiza - (3-Way) [1/4*]

--- The comedy three-way with a lot of Lingerie Muto stuff with his knees always being his downfall.

9:32 of 9:23 - Kikutaro made Muto submit to a figure-four leglock reversal

 

 

 

4. Takaku Fuke & Tadanobu Fujisawa -vs- Diablo & Super Uchu Power [3/4*]

--- A match that rarely got interesting at all. Just very random and not so motivated fighting until it ended with a lame DQ as the heels blew mist and threw down the referee.

15:40 of 15:59 - Fuke & Fujisawa defeated Diablo & Uchu by DQ

 

 

 

5. Masahiko -vs- Shigehiro Irie [3/4*]

--- Again not much to offer. Only a basic fight with not too much personality. Irie hit the backdrop suplex without getting the win, so Masahiko got the three-count instead with a German.

9:13 of 9:13 - Masahiko pinned Irie with a German Suplex

 

 

 

6. Azumi Hyuga & Commando Bolshoi -vs- Gami & Yumi Ohka [*]

--- JWP vs WAVE.....and it's a joshi standard. Nothing speical at all. Only random action with Hyuga bringing the good stuff beating Ohka laying in the finishers until she got her with the flying knee off the turnbuckle.

13:25 of 13:23 - Hyuga pinned Ohka after a Destiny Hammer

 

 

 

7. Magnitude Kishiwada & Kengo Takai -vs- Masato Tanaka & Rikiya Fudo [* 3/4]

--- Lumps of meat struggle. Didn't quite get interesting until the final minutes when they started busting out the finishers like the Sliding D, powerbombs, splashes and finally the Last Ride which put Fudo away. At least the show ended in a ok manner.

20:18 of 20:15 - Kishiwada pinned Fudo after a Last Ride powerbomb

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Magnitude Kishiwada isn't getting the best results out of his self-produced shows.

 

 

--PUNQ--

[lightningxlock]

PUNQ, I really do salute you for seeing this project through. I cant even keep up with my favourite feds, let alone a bunch of indy sleaze or 'nothing shows'. You deserve way more credit than you get but I can assure you I (and plenty of others, im sure) enjoy these write ups.

 

My question now is, what do you plan on doing after this? I'd love to see you review some older shows like you've said in the past

[PUNQ]

This 5 year project has had it's rough points watching thousands of pointless matches, but it's been cool in a way. Not sure what to do next. Going back in time and catch up with all the 90's stuff I've not yet seen would be the best bet if I continue doing this. Right now I'm taking a Christmas rest. I'm kind of at a turning-point in life, so I'm not sure where wrestling fits into everything now. Might do something completely different with my time.

 

 

I got about 30 more shows to post and next up is a bunch of VKF shows.....

 

 

 

 

VKF WRESTLE NANIWA on COMM - January 14, 2008, Osaka - (2 1/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

January 14, 2008, Osaka

 

 

1. Kengo Takai -vs- VKF Machine [1/2*]

--- Wasn't getting super excited, but this wasn't bad. Just didn't have too much to offer. Liked how Tagai threw the masked guy sideways on crucifix bomb finish. Nice detail.

6:28 - Takai pinned Machine after a crucifix bomb

 

 

 

2. Magnitude Kishiwada -vs- Tadanobu Fujisawa [3/4*]

--- Kind of had the same deal as the opener. Not too much going on, but what they did was decent. But it was always Kishiwada in control going slowly straight for a win....

9:19 - Kishiwada pinned Fujisawa after a top rope bodypress

 

 

 

3. Antonio Honda & Apple Miyuki -vs- Kikutaro & Milk [1/4*]

--- Best thing about this was the poor gong ringing for the start of the match. It was so bad that they let the bell ringer do it again. The actual "match" was Kikutaro pervert stuff filming the two girls in the match in private places and stuff like that until there had been enough low blows and Apple could take care of the sexy schoolgirl.

13:50 - Miyuki pinned Milk with a cross-arm cradle

 

 

 

4. Ran Yu Yu & Carlos Amano -vs- Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato [* 3/4]

--- Oz Academy guests VKF with a solid standard. Action was good, but not refreshing compared to what they usually do home in Oz Academy. However it was a breath of fresh air to this show which was not very interesting. Yu Yu was locking very sharp here and also got the win with that elbow of hers.

16:11 - Yu Yu pinned Kato after a elbow smash

 

 

 

5. Shinobu -vs- Shoichi Uchida [* 1/4]

--- Uchido got in his locomotion Samoan Drop and the Styles Clash, but he couldn't put the 666'er away and instead Shinobu landed the SSP to beat him instead. It was a decent bout, but the fans didn't care too much.

11:27 - Shinobu pinned Uchida after a Shooting Star Press

 

 

 

6. MIYAWAKI & KAZMA & Yoshiaki Yago -vs- NOSAWA Rongai & Katsushi Takemura & 2 Tuff Tony [*]

--- Dull and colorless. When 2 Tuff Tony is one of the most entertaining guys in a match, that tells you most of what you need to know. It really was a long and flat match with some minor highlights to keep it at least floating until MIYAWAKI won with his Death Penalty.

18:23 - MIYAWAKI pinned Tony after a reversed DDT

 

 

 

7. KUDO & Masada -vs- Crowzer & Masked Voltage [1/2*]

--- And if the semi-main event was dull, this this was amazingly boring. Helps to have a freskshow gimmick like Crowzer in there to not take it seriously at all, but there wasn't really anything to make you care about anything that went on in the ring and KUDO won in a very flat manner over the masked foreigner.

12:46 - KUDO pinned Voltage after a double-knee attack in the corner

 

 

 

COMMENTS: VKF Wrestle Naniwa is a company that tries to add storylines to be interesting, but they're shows are really dead boring. It was the same with the VKF shows from 2007 too.

 

 

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[PUNQ]

VKF WRESTLE NANIWA on COMM - February 29, 2008, Osaka - (1 3/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

February 29, 2008, Osaka Azalea Hall

 

 

1. Kengo Takai & Shoichi Uchida & Tadanobu Fujisawa -vs- Kabuki Kid & Yuji Sato & Daisuke Sasaki [*]

--- Mildly executed indy action to start the VKF show with everyone sharing the workload without looking to out-shine the others. As it's Osaka Kengo's homeside team did look much more likely to win and did so taking care of the little one Sato.

10:31 - Takai pinned Sato with a Dragon Suplex

 

 

　

2. Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato -vs- Kikutaro & Antonio Honda -vs- Apple Miyuki & Milk - (3-Way) [3/4*]

--- A comedy pair (Anton & Kiku), a low-rent joshi side (Apple & Milk) and a high-end joshi team (Naga & Kato) for a lame comic 3-way which was clearly not the best use of the Oz Academy team. Not totally absurd, but naturally weakly executed. Especially around Milk. But it was fun watching Nagashima bitchslap Honda to near tears and there wasn't any misses even if Milk was slow on a few spots, which I guess is the best thing I can say. At least the Milk shit lost to a real pro.

14:18 - Kato pinned Milk after a top rope legdrop

 

 

　

3. NOSAWA Rongai & Mazada & Katsushi Takemura -vs- KAZMA & Yoshiaki Yago & Crowzer [1/2*]

--- Who to get excited about in this one? KAZMA maybe? Hardly a heart-warming match....or effort. NOSAWA's crew beat up KAZMA a lot in a non-captivating manner. A thing they are masters of. Then KAZMA and Yago started arguing like girls setting up the team for a loss. Didn't help that the finishing move looked dreadful.

14:24 - Takemura pinned Yago after the Verdict

 

 

　

4. GENTARO -vs- Masked Voltage [3/4*]

--- Nah, no wrestling classic. Looked too much like low-rent indy wrestling with Masked Voltage in there even if GENTARO did his best with old school legwork and doing it effectively with Voltage selling it at his best ability....without possessing much tallent for it. Total GENTARO bout and I guess we should be glad since I don't think Voltage would have added much good to the game regardless looking at his super weak indy style. He got his comeback in the end, but then GENTARO got him with a lucky flash cradle.

16:56 - GENTARO pinned Voltage with a small package

 

 

　

5. Magnitude Kishiwada & Gamma -vs- HARASHIMA & Shinobu [*]

--- Fairly light-hearted indy standard. The kind of action you get in midcard matches on small meaningless shows. At least all the guys here are known from the more established indy promotions in Japan and gave this some more colorful wrestling. But the match didn't have any special purpose or felt like anything more then just a random tag to end the show on a professional manner. The brainbuster Kishiwada gave Shinobu looked brutal though. And this wasn't Shinobu's night as he got his face filled with white powder and rolled up for the pin.

15:08 - Gamma pinned Shinobu with a schoolboy

　

　

 

COMMENTS: I'm never going to be a fan of VKF. It's not a big priority for the wrestlers themselfs and the VKF's own gimmick wrestlers are really lame. And not in a good way.

　

　

--PUNQ--