Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX (original) (raw)

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| | | | "Celebration from the Yasukuni Shrine" Tokyo, Japan - April 7th, 2007 Tokyo Yasukuni Shrine sumo wrestling place4,350 fans | | | | | | | | FIGHT CARD o Shinjiro Otani vs. Ryouji Sai x (21:30 → dragon suplex hold) Takao Omori Kazunari Murakami x Kamikaze vs. Yoshihiro Takayama o Kohei Sato Steve Corino (19:44 → German suplex hold) ZERO1-MAX vs. FEC Tatsuhito Takaiwa Ikuto Hidaka o Minoru Fujita vs. Dick Togo Masao Orihara Macho Pump x (17:32 → Sasuke Segway) Zui Quan vs. Jeet Kune Do "Drunken Fist" vs. "Way of the Intercepting Fist" (3 Rounds - 2 Minutes) x Kensai Oh vs. Dragon Sek o (5:35 → TKO) o Yoshihito Sasaki Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Hidetaka Monma Munenori Sawa x (18:17 → lariat) ZERO1-MAX vs. NOAH x Osamu Namiguchi Shota Takanishi vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (NOAH) o Shuhei Taniguchi (NOAH) (11:46 → German suplex hold) Pro Wrestling SUN match: Nanae Takahashi o Hikaru vs. Natsuki*Taiyo Saki Maemura x (13:00 → Lanakilla-H) x Fuyujiro Kuruma vs. Gha-Cha-Ping o (4:56 → Gha-Cha bomb) | | | | | | | | | | | | Yasukuni Shrine Festival Approaches! April 5th, 2007 | | | | | | | | Only two days remain until ZERO1-MAX makes the annual return to Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine for their "Land of God's Strength Festival." Since 2005 ZERO1-MAX has performed at the shrine as a rededicationto pro wrestling. Previous to ZERO1-MAX running their show two years ago at the sumo area of the shrine, the last pro wrestling event was in 1961 when Rikidozan wrestled in the main event of a show that drew 15,000 people. Also appearing on that card was a young Shohei Baba and Antonio Inoki. Shinjiro Otani's goal was to make Pro Wrestling an annual event at the Yasukuni shrine, and so far he has been successful. The first year All Japan's Keiji Muto and former ZERO-ONE and UFO fighter Naoya Ogawa appeared at the show as spectators. The surprise guest last year was deathmatch wrestling legend and Japanese politician Atsushi Onita appeared in a tag team match. The shrine gets heat from outside sources, most notably from Chine and Korea, as it also serves as a memorial to Japanese soldiers who have died in the service of their country. The shrine is also a great place to see the cherry blossoms bloom, so fans can enjoy the tradition of "hanami," the Japanese pastime of watching cherry blossoms in bloom fall to the ground. The previous shows have seen decent spring weather and a surreal appearance of pro wrestling outside under thousands of blossoms. As of today, the forecast is for 62ºF, and partly cloudy. Otani usually say he remains faithful that the Pro Wrestling Gods will provide nice weather. This year fighters from several promotions will take part on the show, including ZERO1-MAX sister promotion Pro Wrestling SUN, Pro Wrestling NOAH, BIG MOUTH LOAD, BattlArts, and Big Japan. Otani himself, as the leader of ZERO1-MAX, will be in the main event versus Ryouji Sai. Ryouji just lost a big match on March 8th when he dropped the ZERO1-MAX UN Heavyweight title to Daisuke Sekimoto. The semi-main event will be the return of Kohei Sato from injury to once again stand with his ZERO1-MAX Intercontinental Tag Team partner, Yoshihiro Takayama against Takao Omori and Kazunari Murakami. Takayama and Omori have been in a violent hate-fest since Takayama entered ZERO1-MAX to track down his former tag team partner. They were scheduled to face of in a tag match on the final march show but due to Kohei's injury that wasn't able to happen. Now they will meet under the blooming cherry blossoms of the Sumo area of the shrine in what will no doubt be a violent match. Daisuke Sekimoto will be teaming alongside his Big Japan Pro Wrestling tag team champion partner, and ZERO1-MAX wrestler, Yoshihito Sasaki. They face the interesting team of BattlArts' young Munemori Sawa and MMA fighter Hidetaka Monma! Monma fights for Wajyutsu Keisyukai A3 and has a record of 13-6-3. Monma has previously wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling and BIG MOUTH LOUD where he had a good match with Katsuyori Shibata. How will the young hardcore wrestling fighters fare against the shoot-styles of Monma and Sawa? Also on the show will see the reformation of Dick Togo's FAR EAST CONNECTION stable. Originally comprised of Togo, Masao Orihara and current ZERO1-MAX wrestler Ikuto Hidaka, this varient of the FEC stable will be Togo, Orihara and Macho Pump against Hidaka, Minoru Fujita and Tatsuhito Takaiwa in a 6-man "ZERO1-MAX vs. FEC" tag match. Togo alongside Ikuto Hidaka were the first ZERO1-MAX International Lightweight Tag Team champions way back in 2003, winning a tournament final versus Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Naohiro Hoshikawa. Since then Togo's appearances have been here-and-there for the company, though never across from Hidaka. The drunken kung fu fighter Kensai Oh makes his third return to the Yasukuni shrine. Generally positioned in a Japan vs. China match at these shows, this time Oh will take part in a China vs. China showcase match pitting him against Bruce Lee student and motion picture actor - Dragon Sek. It will be kung fu style versus kung fu style of Zui Quan versus Jeet Kune Do or "Drunken Fist" versus "Way of the Intercepting Fist" in a 3 Rounds bout with 2 minutes time limit per round. Dragon Sek has performed in kung-fu movies such as Dragon the Master, Big Boss Untouchable and Dragon In Fury. Young lions Osamu Namiguchi and Shota Takanishi will team earlier on the show in a tag match against Pro Wrestling NOAH wrestlers. Their opponents will be Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Shuhei Taniguchi. And the opening match will be another Pro Wrestling SUN offer match with Nanae Takahashi and Hikaru versus Saki Maemura and Natsuki Taiyo. The entire roster went to the location yesterday for a press conference and to monitor the set-up. The ring, chairs and sound system are all ready to go. | | | | | | | | | | | | "Sakura Celebration" Mie, Japan - April 1st, 2007 Tamashiro Cho Tamashiro junior high school Free Show | | | | | | | | FIGHT CARD Special Match: o Shinjiro Otani Ikuto Hidaka vs. Steve Corino Chad Collyer x (18:52 → Spiral Bomb) o Takao Omori Kamikaze Minoru Fujita vs. Ryouji Sai Yoshihito Sasaki Rikiya Fudo x (17:19 → Axe Bomber) o Nanae Takahashi Saki Maemura vs. Hikaru Nasuki*Head x (16:47 → reverse splash) Gha Cha Ping o Mask THE Tamashiro vs. Fuyujiro Kuruma Shota Takanishi x (5:18 → Dream Catch) | | | | | | | | | | | | Omori Regains AWA Title! Takaiwa Defends! April 1st, 2007 | | | | | | | | Last night in Yokohama City, Japan, Takao Omori one again regained the AWA Heavyweight title over Steve Corino in an almost 20 minute main event. This is the third time Omori has held the title, and he is the 38th champion in the title's almost half-a-century of existence. Tatsuhito Takaiwa defended his AWA World Jr. Heavyweight title agianst American wrestler Chad Collyer. This was Takaiwa's V1 defense since winning the belt in a double titles match including the GHC Jr. Heavyweight title in February. He won in just over 11 seconds with a Death Valley driver. The family tag match didn't work out so well for Kamikaze and his brother-in-law, Pro Wrestling NOAH's Kentaro Shiga. After calling an interview last thursday in front of the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo to discuss some new finishing combo moves, they lost to ZERO1-MAX tag team aces Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita. Yoshihito Sasaki did not fare well in his singles match against Yoshihiro Takayama. The junior Yoshihito could last only 2½ minutes before going down to the massive knee lift strikes of the six-foot-five Takayama. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "MAX Satisfaction" Kanagawa, Japan - March 31st, 2007 Yokohama city Kanazawa industrial promotion center 1,300 fans | | | | | | | | FIGHT CARD AWA World Heavyweight Title: x Steve Corino vs. © Takao Omori o (19:38 → Axe Bomber) Special Match: Ikuto Hidaka o Minoru Fujita vs. Kentaro Shiga (NOAH) Kamikaze x (17:19 → jacknife hold) AWA World Jr. Heavyweight Title: o Tatsuhito Takaiwa © vs. Chad Collyer x (11:13 → Death Valley driver) o Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Yoshihito Sasaki x (2:31 → knee lift) Ryouji Sai x Rikiya Fudo vs. Shinjiro Otani Kazunari Murakami (BML) o (14:28 → STM) o Gha-Cha-Ping vs. Kikutaro x (7:01 → Gha-Cha bomb) o Osamu Namiguchi vs. Shota Takanishi x (6:11 → crab hold) | | | | | | | | | | | | Injury Default - Kohei! March 27th, 2007 | | | | | | | | Koehi Sato has injured his left foot and will be unable to take part on the final show of "MAX Satisfaction" on March 31st in Yokohama. Kohei was originally scheduled to take place in a big 6-man tag match with his current ZERO1-MAX Intercontinental Tag Team Partner Yoshihiro Takayama and ROWDY teamate Hirotaka Yokoi. Their opponents in the match were to be Shinjiro Otani, Kazunari Murakami and Ryouji Sai. The card has been modified accordingly, with Otani and Murakami now facing Ryouji and Rikiya Fudo in a tag match. As for Takayama, he'll be facing off against another ZERO1-MAX fighter who questioned Kohei's choice in current allies - Yoshihito Sasaki. The updated card can be seen on the Upcoming Events page. | | | | | | | | | | | | Family Team Up! Differ Cup III! News & Notes! March 25th, 2007 | | | | | | | | Catching up on ZERO1-MAX news as they head into the final show of the "MAX Satisfaction" tour on March 31st in Yokohama City, with two AWA World title matches, a Special Tag match between brother-in-laws, and current ZERO1-MAX Intercontinental Tag team champions Yoshihiro Takayama and Kohei Sato will team with Kohei's ROWDY partner Hirotaka Yokoi against Otani, Murakami and Kohei's former STONEHENGE partner Ryouji Sai. Since entering ZERO1-MAX, Takayama has been a bane to his former NO FEAR tag team partner, Takao Omori. This has dragged Otani and Murakami into the feud, as a slight rivalry between Murakami and Yokoi has also developed. When Kohei returned form injury and decided to join with Takayama, who had already recruited Yokoi to his cause, Kohei's former tag partner Ryouji Sai felt it was a bad move and said so. Now they will all clash in the main event. Omori however will clash with Steve Corino for the AWA Heavyweight Championship. Omori and Corino met for the original AWA Heavyweight decision match back in January 2005 after the previous champion was stripped of the title. Omori won that match in just under 25 minutes with the Axe Bomber to become the champion. Omori then came to the USA to defend the title against Corino on June 12 in AWA's Michigan territory promotion UCW. With some help from his student, Ricky Landell, Corino managed to win the title. He retained the title for the remainder of 2005, eventually returning to Japan with former champion Nick Bockwinkel and losing the title to Shinjiro Otani. Eventually Omori would regain the title and return to the US only to once again lose the title. Now Corino returns to ZERO1-MAX once again the AWA Heavyweight champion and will battle Omori in the main event of the show. Current GHC Junior Heavyweight champion and AWA World Jr. Heavyweight champion Tatsuhito Takaiwa will take on American wrestler Chad Collyer in defense of the latter mentioned title. Collyer hails from Indiana and was trained by pro wrestler Dean Malenko. Back on the final show of 2006, ZERO1-MAX wrestler Kamikaze and Pro Wrestling NOAH's Kentaro Shiga competed against each other for the GHC Hardcore Openweight title. In that match, Shiga defended his title in just over 18 minutes with a ground cobra hold. Kamikaze and Shiga are brother-in-laws, and now will unite to take on the ZERO1-MAX ace tag team of Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita. The two met at a restaurant to drink sake and strengthen their bond before the match. Both men pledged to do their best to gain victory. After skipping a year, the "Differ Cup" has returned in its third incarnation, this time under the sponsorship of the Global Pro Wrestling Alliance. Alliance companies participating are the following: Pro-Wrestling NOAH Big Mouth Loud ZERO1-MAX DDT El Dorado KAIENTAI-DOJO IWA-JAPAN The tournament will span two nights on May 5 and May 6. Both days will have a special pre-show called "Differ Fiesta 2007" where there will be entertainment, meet-and-greets etc. Day 1 will see the first and semi-final rounds of the tournament, with Day 2 seeing the finals, along with the 3rd place match. Here are the current announced participants: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Ippei Ota (NOAH) Katsumi Usuda & Manabu Hara (BIG MOUTH LOUD) TBA & TBA (ZERO1-MAX) HARASHIMA & Ibushi Kota (DDT) KAGETORA & X (El Dorado) Kengo Mashimo & Madoka (K-DOJO) TBA & TBA (IWA-Japan) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |