Control Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) The AJPW Budokan card is looking pretty underwhelming (spoilered in case you aren’t caught up on the Oudou tournament): Spoiler AJPW "ALL JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING 50TH ANNIVERSARY", 18.09.2022 Tokyo Nippon Budokan - All Japan 50th Anniversary Special Six Man Tag Match: Masanobu Fuchi, Atsushi Onita & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Great Kojika , Yoshiaki Yatsu & Masao Inoue - Yuma Anzai Debut Match: - Saito Brothers Triumphant Match: Shuji Ishikawa, Kohei Sato & Ren Ayabe vs. Jun Saito, Rei Saito & Cyrus - Special Singles Match: Hokuto Omori vs. Minoru Suzuki - Special Singles Match: Yuma Aoyagi vs. Christopher Daniels - AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Title: Tiger Mask (c) vs. Atsuki Aoyagi - Triple Crown: Suwama (c) vs. Kento Miyahara And thoughts: Spoiler Real wtf booking with Minoru Suzuki. Yuma can Suzuki is something I could have gotten behind. Jake is still without a match: wonder if they’re waiting for Naoya Nomura to recover, and book a singles? Also, no Nagata? Surprised there isn’t a low-stakes, big(ger) name tag. Like maybe they’d do Jake and Nagata against Strong BJ or something. No Koji Doi, Kuma Arashi, or Shigehiro Irie. Hope they aren’t done with the company. I guess Ashino’s crew (“Gungnir of Anarchy”) isn’t booked yet. Maybe them vs STRONGHEARTS? Edited August 20, 2022 by Control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 The Maniax card had the other names. Spoiler I guess Kento will get his primary Ace role back. My stream crapped out at some point at the finals. Ashino's unit is named Gungnir of Anarchy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) The other matches for the AJPW budokan show: Rookie Yuma Anzai will face Nagata at the budokan Jake Lee will face Joe Doering Edited August 20, 2022 by Blue Dragon 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Ok, updated Budokan card: Spoiler - All Japan 50th Anniversary Special Six Man Tag Match: Masanobu Fuchi, Atsushi Onita & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Great Kojika , Yoshiaki Yatsu & Masao Inoue -SUSHI, Black Menso-re, Andy Wu & Izanagi vs TAJIRI, Yoshi Tatsu, ATM & Mitsuya Nagai - Yuma Anzai Debut Match: Yuji Nagata vs Yuma Anzai - Saito Brothers Triumphant Match: Shuji Ishikawa, Kohei Sato & Ren Ayabe vs. Jun Saito, Rei Saito & Cyrus - Special Singles Match: Hokuto Omori vs. Minoru Suzuki - Special Singles Match: Yuma Aoyagi vs. Christopher Daniels -Jake Lee vs Joe Doering - AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Title: Tiger Mask (c) vs. Atsuki Aoyagi - Triple Crown: Suwama (c) vs. Kento Miyahara So, I’m guessing there’s still a tag title match to be made, and maybe more VDM involvement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 Theyre building up world tag match with T.Omori trying to find a partner. I'm not sure if that match will happen at the Budokan show but maybe instead at the smaller show after the Budokan show, named AJPW MANIAX. Or during one of the 3 The Road to Nippon Budokan shows. Dunno.. it wasn't memtioned what show or date that match will be for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 One more match for the budokan show http://www.all-japan.co.jp/wp-new/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/LINE_ALBUM_武道館_220820_5.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) Sorry for the mutliple posts but... The Total Eclipse unit seems to be further finished at this point, remains just some logo and term for Lee. He's still playing the anti hero. They removed the TE logo of the roster page of AJPW and H.Omori left for AJPW Army. (Oddly they haven't removed the disbanded Yoshitastu Kingdom logo off on the page) Nagata is teaming up with the remaining Evo boys at future shows. So the AJPW Army, VooDoo Murders, GOA, Evolution, Nextream. Edited August 20, 2022 by Blue Dragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel Moneghetti Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Has Voodoo Murders been going for 17 years straight? I had no idea they were still around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 2 hours ago, Tarheel Moneghetti said: Has Voodoo Murders been going for 17 years straight? I had no idea they were still around. Not quite. They were gone for all of 2012 after the incident with Hirai got them broken up and TARU fired from AJPW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorfus malorfus Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 On 8/20/2022 at 1:55 PM, Blue Dragon said: Theyre building up world tag match with T.Omori trying to find a partner. I will never say no to another run of Get Wild so hopefully that's the direction here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kropotkin's Beard Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 The Budokan show definitely isn't totally stacked. I wonder how it'll do business wise. Though they do say on the website there is still matches to be added. That said, I love the idea of debuting Anzai at Budokan, & against Nagata at that. They have big hopes for him. And Atsuki Aoyagi will do his upmost to have an exciting match even if Tiger Mask won't, hoping to god that this is where they crown him. I'm quite excited for Hokuto Omori vs Minoru Suzuki, Yuma Aoyagi vs Christopher Daniels could be great but I did hope Yuma would have something bigger for this show. Aoyagi & Lee vs Gungir of Anarchy could've been fun. Nice to see Doering back though. Could've done without the old man match, or at least without Great Kojika but I suppose it's tradition. Surprised & bummed at the lack of Nomura on the card, & of no Stronghearts & no Takuya Nomura either. Thrilled by the absence of Voodoo Murders at least. That is a group with go-away heat with me on a level with House of Torture. I'm surprised they kept Rikidozan's kid & grandson off the old man match actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 Stan Hansen will be the special observer for the Triple crown budokan match. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 (edited) DDT GM Hisaya Imabayashi will retire at the end of this year Edited August 22, 2022 by Blue Dragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 NJPW BATTLE AUTUMN is another old tour name to be revived. From 14.10.2022 to 05.11.2022. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 The 10/9 Tenryu Project show will have a sort of WAR reunion match of Tomohiro Ishii/Ultimo Dragon vs Don Fujii/Masaaki Mochizuki with special referee Red Shoes Unno. https://proresu-today.com/archives/197187 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kropotkin's Beard Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 GLEAT have a show live on YouTube tomorrow where the first tag champs will be crowned,and DOUKI challenges Lindaman for the G-REX which should rule. 6:30pm Japan time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 23, 2022 Author Share Posted August 23, 2022 AJPW stuff Supposed to be Women's Evolution match at the AJPW Budokan show. The evolution brand probably will get their own PWF recognized title later on. Kento is on his quest to be known the primary ace. So Jake Lee would be moved down to 2nd for good. New 3D scanned Suwama VooDoo Murders figure New figure shop link below https://st-ajpw.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kropotkin's Beard Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 GLEAT announced that Bandito & Komander are coming in from Mexico next month so that's pretty dang exciting. Also they are doing GLEAT Ver.4 on 30th December & those shows are always essential viewing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 24, 2022 Author Share Posted August 24, 2022 Riki vs Kensuke 2005 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 I think this Kento Miyahara calling out El Lindaman. THAT would be good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 26, 2022 Author Share Posted August 26, 2022 IGF is coming back as new company with Inoki. Inoki Genki Factory. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kropotkin's Beard Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 DDT have announced the first 3 matches for the Jun Akiyama 30th Anniversary show on the 18th September & there's a couple interesting things. Main event has Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo & none other than Yoshinobu Kanemaru facing off against Konosuke Takeshita, Shunma Katsumata & Yuji Nagata. Jun has also setup a co-main of Naomi Yoshimura against the heavily touted DDT rookie Takeshi Masada, with Jun saying that as his debut was a singles co-main he wants Masada to get the same opportunity. The opener will also have Akiyama disciple Yusuke Okada against another DDT's promising young guys, Yuya Koroku. Cara Noir is also booked for the show, not sure if that's their DDT debut or if they are booked on earlier shows in September, will be their Japanese debut whenever they go over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Goro Tsurumi has passed away. He was 71. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/18594aab3c8bef5d9fc1152f652daf998e14e6f3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted August 27, 2022 Author Share Posted August 27, 2022 From PuroLove AJPW "ALL JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING 50TH ANNIVERSARY", 18.09.2022 Tokyo Nippon Budokan - All Japan 50th Anniversary Special Six Man Tag Match: Masanobu Fuchi, Atsushi Onita & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Great Kojika , Yoshiaki Yatsu & Masao Inoue - Saito Brothers Triumphant Match: Shuji Ishikawa, Kohei Sato & Ren Ayabe vs. Jun Saito, Rei Saito & Cyrus - Rising HAYATO & Ryo Inoue vs. Yusuke Kodama & Oji Shiiba - Yoshitatsu, TAJIRI, Mitsuya Nagai & ATM vs. Izanagi, Black Menso~re, SUSHI & Andy Wu - All Asia Tag Team Title: Minoru & Toshizu/Soma Watanabe & Yu Iizuka (Sieger vom 10.09.) (c) vs. Hikaru Sato Dan Tamura - Special Singles Match: Hokuto Omori vs. Minoru Suzuki - Special Singles Match: Yuma Aoyagi vs. Christopher Daniels - Yuma Anzai Debut Match: Yuji Nagata vs. Yuma Anzai - AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Title: Tiger Mask (c) vs. Atsuki Aoyagi - Special Singles Match: Jake Lee vs. Joe Doering - Triple Crown: Suwama (c) vs. Kento Miyahara 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Still no tag title match? Also, really wish they could flip Yuma and Hokuto’s opponents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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