Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Suwama, Triple Crown Championship Match, from August 30, 2009 at the Ryogoku Kokugikan.
高山善廣vs諏訪魔 三冠ヘビー級選手権試合 2009年8月30日 両国国技館
Hiroshi Yamato vs. Hikaru Sato from February 11, 2012 in Osaka, Japan.
大和ヒロシvs佐藤光留 2012年2月11日 大阪大会
[All Japan News] Following this last weekends big show, All Japan has officially announced four upcoming title matches.
The first will take place on February 10th as the newly crowned Asia Tag Champions team of Hiroshi Yamato & Hikaru Sato, better known as “Baka Hentai”, will be facing off against the team they beat of Minoru Tanaka & Koji Kanemoto, the Junior Stars. Baka Hentai pulled out a huge win over the champions, but it should be interesting to see if they can work together and prove they are the rightful champions.
Following the main event from the show on January 26th, Masakatsu Funaki successfully defended the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship against Akebono. It didn’t take long for a new challenger to step forward in, a former Triple Crown Champion, Suwama, and the title match will be taking place on March 17th in Ryogoku. Suwama recently formed a union with Masahiro Chono, along with Joe Doering, and with that has come a new drive in Suwama to reclaim the Triple Crown. This will mark Funaki’s 5th defense of the Triple Crown, and the second shot for Suwama during Funaki’s current reign, with 9/23 being the date for their recent encounter.
The last title match announced over the weekend is “GET WILD”, Takao Omori and Manabu Soya, defending the World Tag Belts against the team of Jun Akiyama & Go Shiozaki on the March 17th show. Akiyama, Shiozaki, as well as the other 3 wrestlers appeared at the January 26th show to announce their intentions of competing in All Japan.The President of All Japan, Masayuki Uchida, took no time in announcing big matches to add even more hype for the guys coming in.
Then lastly, Uchida announced that Shuji Kondo will be defending the World Junior belt against Yoshinobu Kanemaru on February 23rd. These two are far from strangers between one another with their last title match seeing Kondo beat Kanemaru for the GHC Junior belt on September 29th. Kanemaru debuted in All Japan back on July of 1996 and will be looking to claim the belt that eluded him during the early years of his career.
Below are the upcoming title matches that are scheduled at this time.
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All Japan Pro-Wrestling “2013 Excite Series”, 2/10/2013 [Sun] 18:00 @ Hakata Starlanes in Fukuoka
(-) Asia Tag Championship Match: [90th Champions] “Baka Hentai” Hiroshi Yamato & Hikaru Sato vs. [Challengers] “Junior Stars” Minoru Tanaka & Koji Kanemoto
~ 1st Defense.
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All Japan Pro-Wrestling “2013 Excite Series”, 2/23/2013 [Sat] 18:00 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo
(-) All Japan Pro-Wrestling vs Burning 5 Big Singles Match Series ~ World Junior Heavy Championship Match: [34th Champion] Shuji Kondo vs. [Challenger] Yoshinobu Kanemaru
~ 1st Defense.
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All Japan Pro-Wrestling “2013 Pro Wrestling LOVE in Ryogoku ~BASIC & DYNAMIC~”, 3/17/2013 [Sun] 17:00 @ Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo
(-) World Tag Championship Match: [64th Champions] “GET WILD” Takao Omori & Manabu Soya vs. [Challengers] “BURNING” Jun Akiyama & Go Shiozaki
~ 3rd Defense.
(-) Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship Match: [45th Champion] Masakatsu Funaki vs. [Challenger] Suwama
~ 5th Defense.
www.puroresuspirit.com/2012/12/24/all-japan-event-cards-for-january-february-2013/
[All Japan News] Hiroshi Yamato and Hikaru Sato held a joint public practice at the All Japan Dojo in Yokohama.
Team “Jonetsu Hentai Baka” (Passion Perverted Fool) will be facing Junior Stars (Minoru & Kanemoto) for the Asia Tag belts on January 26th and they held the public practice to show off what they aim to be bringing against the reigning champions. Both spent the time practicing in strength, striking, and grappling style exercises. To close out the practice the two showed their dedication as a team further by shaving their heads as a clean start.
They have definitely shown a commitment as a tag team, but they will need every bit of that and some more to take on the veteran Junior Stars in a little over 2 weeks from now.
Below is the early announced card for the upcoming show.
All Japan Pro-Wrestling “2013 New Year Shining Series”, 1/26/2013 [Sat] 17:00 @ Ota City General Gymnasium
(-) Special 6 Man Tag Match: Takao Omori, Ryota Hama & Yasufumi Nakanoueno vs. Masahiro Chono, Suwama & Joe Doering
(-) Asia Tag Championship Match: [89th Champions] “Junior Stars” Minoru Tanaka & Koji Kanemoto vs. [Challengers] “Jonetsu Hentai Baka” Hiroshi Yamato & Hikaru Sato
~ 3rd Defense.
(-) BJW World Strong Heavy Championship Match: [2nd Champion] Manabu Soya vs. [Challenger] Yoshihito Sasaki
~ 1st Defense.
(-) Special Tag Match: Keiji Mutoh & Ric Flair vs. Tatsumi Fujinami [DRADITION] & Seiya Sanada
(-) Triple Crown Championship Match: [45th Champion] Masakatsu Funaki vs. [Challenger] Akebono
~ 4th Defense.
www.puroresuspirit.com/2012/12/24/all-japan-event-cards-for-january-february-2013/
[DDT News] All the card of “NEVER MIND 2012” have been set. With two big title matches to headline the show.
2012 is such a great year for DDT. With the successful Budokan show, DDT begin to head for the next chapter and now they will end this year with another big show.
The main event will see El Generico make his 3rd KO-D title defend against Kenny Omega. Everyone knows that Omega just headlined the main event in Budokan show this year and have epic battle with his best friend Kota Ibushi for this title. But fail to capture it and begin to taking his time off from DDT. Then El Generico shock the world by pinned Ibushi for the champ. Not just one time, but two. He then make his 2nd defend by beat MIKAMI, who won 7 way battle royal to get this match. After the match, Omega who just come back from a break make a challenge to Generico, which he accepted. With both of them already have some past matches in PWG. This match should be fun to watch.
The second main event is set as Keisuke Ishii will defend his DDT Extream title against Yasu Urano and Isami Kodaka. After the Budokan show, Ishii has become the most break out star this year by forming Team Dream Future stable with follow young generation like Takao Soma and Shigehiro Irie. They begin to take on veteran wrestler one by one. Ishii then move to next step by challenge Shuji Ishikawa for DDT Extreme title. After some help from his friend and four Kneel Kicks, Ishii finally captured the biggest title of Union pro. This lead Isami Kodaka to come out and challenge Ishii to bring the title back to their home promotion. But things got complicated when Ishii got pin by Yasu Urano. So Urano also have right to challenge for the title too. GM Amon then have no choice but to make this match a 3 Way. This will be once again bis task for Ishii. Will he walk out as a champ with two veteran in his way?
Also, Tenkoji will come to DDT to team with Sanshiro Takagi to take on entire Monster Army. So that makes it a handicap match.
DDT “NEVER MIND 2012” , 12/23/2012 [Sun] 12:00 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo
(0) Dark Match: Tetsuya Endo vs. DJ Nira
(1) Danshoku Dino & Makoto Oishi vs. Takao Soma & Shigehiro Irie
(2) 4 Way Tag: MIKAMI & Gorgeous Matsuno vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Michael Nakazawa vs. Hikaru Sato & Masa Takanashi vs. Yukio Sakaguchi & Akito
(3) Kota Ibushi & Gota Ihashi vs. HARASHIMA & Hiro Tsumaki
(4) 3 vs. 4 Handicap Match: Sanshiro Takagi, Hiroyoshi Tenzan(NJPW) & Satoshi Kojima(NJPW) vs. Antonio Honda, Yuji Hino, Hoshitango & Daisuke Sasaki
(5) DDT Extreme Championship 3 Way Match: [20th Champion] Keisuke Ishii vs. Yasu Urano vs. Isami Kodaka
~ 1st Defense.
(6) KO-D Openweight Championship Match: [43rd Champion] El Generico vs.[Challenger] Kenny Omega
~ 3rd Defense.
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(Source: facebook.com)
(1) Andy Woo vs. Kazushi Miyamoto
(2) Taiyo Kea & Yasufumi Nakanoueno vs. Joe Doering & Zodiac
(6) Triple Crown Prelude, Ishikawa Dental Clinic Presents, 6 Man Tag Match: Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Koji Kanemoto vs. Suwama, Shuji Kondo & Masanobu Fushi
(3) KENSO & SUSHI vs. MAZADA & Aegyptus Aerial
(5) Takao Omori & Manabu Soya vs. Seiya Sanada & Ryota Hama
(4) World Junior Heavy Championship Prelude Match: Hiroshi Yamato & Kaz Hayashi vs. Minoru Tanaka & Hikaru Sato
(Source: facebook.com)
(3) Taiyo Kea & Seiya Sanada vs. KENSO & Yasufumi Nakanoueno
(4) Hiroshi Yamato & Shuji Kondo vs. Koji Kanemoto & Hikaru Sato [Pancrase MISSION]
(5) World Tag Prelude 6 Man Tag Match: Takao Omori, Manabu Soya & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Joe Doering, Zodiac & MAZADA
(1) 3 WAY Match: Ryota Hama vs. SUSHI vs. Aegyptus Aerial
(2) Masayuki Kono & Andy Woo vs. Tomaoki Honma & Kazushi Miyamoto
(6) Triple Crown Prelude Tag Match: Masakatsu Funaki & Minoru Tanaka vs. Suwama & Shuji Kondo
(Source: facebook.com)
[All Japan News] AJP announced the titles matches that will be headlining the shows in the month of September, among the announcement of the next Triple Crown Championship match after the conclusion of Sunday’s event.
Hiroshi Yamato will be
JUNIOR HYPER LEAGUE Day 9 (7/28) Official Digest.
A BLOCK: MAZADA vs. Hikaru Sato
B BLOCK: Shuji Kondo vs. SUSHI
B BLOCK: Kaz Hayashi vs. Hiroshi Yamato
A BLOCK: KAI vs. Minoru Tanaka
(Source: facebook.com)
JUNIOR HYPER LEAGUE Day 8 (7/26) Official Digest.
B BLOCK: Kaz Hayashi vs. Gillette
A BLOCK: Koji Kanemoto vs. Aegyptus Aerial
A BLOCK: Minoru Tanaka vs. Hikaru Sato
(Source: facebook.com)
JUNIOR HYPER LEAGUE Day 7 (7/25) Official Digest.
B BLOCK: Shuji Kondo vs. Andy Woo
A BLOCK: Hikaru Sato vs. Aegyptus Aerial
A BLOCK: Minoru Tanaka vs. MAZADA
(Source: facebook.com)
[Video] JUNIOR HYPER LEAGUE Day 3 (7/18) Official Digest.
B BLOCK: Hiroshi Yamato vs. Andy Woo
A BLOCK: Shuji Kondo vs. Gillette
A BLOCK: Koji Kanemoto vs. Hikaru Sato
(Source: facebook.com)
[Video] JUNIOR HYPER LEAGUE Day 2.
B BLOCK: Kaz Hayashi vs. Andy Woo [China]
A BLOCK: Minoru Tanaka vs. Aegyptus Aerial [Egypt]
A BLOCK: KAI vs. Hikaru Sato [Pancrase MISSION]
(All Japan will be releasing all the events not scheduled for GAORA tv on their youtube channel)
(Source: facebook.com)
Following the big event at the Korakuen Hall today, DDT is now aiming to crown a new #1 contender for the KO-D Openweight Championship for the Budokan show coming up on August 18th.
The newly crowned champion, Kota Ibushi will be headlining the show along with the winner of the KING OF DDT 2012. 18 wrestlers will all be competing in a single elimination tournament. All of the matches have been lined up for the first and second rounds that are scheduled to take place on June 30th. Whoever makes it through the first rounds will then go on to compete in the Semi-Final and Final on July 8th.
(1) Tomomitsu Matsunaga vs. Masa Takanashi
(2) Kenny Omega vs. Daisuke Sasaki
(3) Micheal Nakazawa vs. Hikaru Sato [Pancrase MISSION]
(4) Shigehiro Irie [Team Dera] vs. HARASHIMA
(5) Keisuke Ishii vs. Takao Soma
(6) KUDO vs. Antonio Honda
(7) Yasu Urano vs. Makoto Oishi
(8) Akito [Sportiva] vs. Danshoku Dino
(9) [A] Winner of Match 1 vs. Winner of Match 2
(10) [B] Winner of Match 3 vs. Winner of Match 4
(11) [C] Winner of Match 5 vs. Winner of Match 6
(12) [D] Winner of Match 7 vs. Winner of Match 8
(-) Winner of Match [A] vs. Winner of Match [B]
(-) Winner of Match [C] vs. Winner of Match [D]
(-) Tournament Finals.
http://www.puroresuspirit.com/2012/05/29/ddt-event-cards-for-june-july-august-2012/
On a bit of side news, there will be two wrestlers returning to action fairly soon in Toru Owashi and MIKAMI.
MIKAMI will be returning to the ring on the July 22nd show at the Korakuen Hall after being out of action due to undergoing surgery on his right shoulder.
Toru Owashi, a former sumo wrestler turned pro wrestler, got his start in Toryumon and then went on to compete in DDT, El Dorado, and Dragondoor in the 00’s. Owashi has not been competing as much in the last few years, but it seems he will be coming back (full-time?) at the Budokan Hall show on 8/18.
[All Japan News] All 12 wrestler have been announced for the upcoming Junior Heavyweight League. Among the regulars in NJPW a few others like Koji Kanemoto and Hikaru Sato come back for another year. Then among the newcomers the masked men SUSHI and Gillette make their debuts in the tournament and two unknown wrestlers Andy Wu and Aegyptus Aerial have been announced to be apart of the league.
2012 JUNIOR HYPER LEAGUE
★ KAI (Reigning World Jr. Champion)
★ Kaz Hayashi
★ Shuji Kondo
★ Minoru Tanaka
★ Hiroshi Yamato
★ Koji Kanemoto [NJPW]
★ SUSHI
★ MAZADA
★ Hikaru Sato [Pancrase MISSION]
★ Gillette
★ Andy Wu [China, 171cm/78kg]
★ Aegyptus Aerial [Unknown, but from Egypt]
League Dates:
7/15/2012 [Sun] 17:30 @ KBS Hall in Kyoto
7/15/2012 [Mon] 18:00 @ Kuki City General Gymnasium in Saitama
7/18/2012 [Wed] 18:30 @ Mito City East Town Sports Park Gymnasium in Ibaraki
7/21/2012 [Sat] 18:00 @ Sanjo City Welfare Hall in Nagata
7/22/2012 [Sun] 16:00 @ Ishikawa Industrial Exhibition 3rd Hall (Kanazawa City)
7/24/2012 [Tue] 18:30 @ Nakano Citizens Gymnasium
7/25/2012 [Wed] 18:30 @ Sabae City General Gymnasium in Fukui
7/26/2012 [Thu] 18:30 @ Nunobiki Athletic Park Gymnasium in Shiga (Higashiomi City)
7/28/2012 [Sat] 17:00 @ Yokkaichi Australia Memorial Hall in Mie
7/29/2012 [Sun] 18:00 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo