New Japan 5/14 Card (Da Wrestling Board)

Title: New Japan 5/14 Card
Description: Kojima/Tenzan II

Mad Dog - April 11, 2005 05:38 PM (GMT)

It's still early but the card is looking promising so far:

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1. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Koji Kanemoto & Wataru Inoue © vs. Minoru & Hirooki Goto
2. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Tiger Mask © vs. Black Tiger
3. Yuji Nagata vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
4. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Satoshi Kojima All Japan © vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan

dynamite kido - April 11, 2005 05:41 PM (GMT)

I was actually reading about this earlier today. It doesn't look too bad for NJ, but still I'm always skeptical. Although I'll be watching the most recent Tenzan/Kojima match this week......I'll tell you if I would like to see it again. Plus, why wouldn't they have him get a few more defenses under his belt before he gets in there with Tenzan again?

Mad Dog - April 11, 2005 05:42 PM (GMT)

I'm not sure. Probably because he's going to end up losing to Nakamura or Tanahashi later in the summer.

dynamite kido - April 11, 2005 05:44 PM (GMT)

I think it would be rather unwise to put it on Nakamura right now. I'm sure you along with myself would be pushing for Tanahashi.

Mad Dog - April 11, 2005 05:55 PM (GMT)

Though I do agree Tenzan was a bad choice for this card. Nagata or Chono would've served just as good as fodder for an early defense.

dynamite kido - April 11, 2005 05:57 PM (GMT)

Except for the fact that they would have had Chono win the fucker. Although I think Yuji would have been a good choice.....except he's like NJPW's bitch or something.

Mad Dog - April 11, 2005 06:03 PM (GMT)

Actually now that I think about it Nagata is probably a bad choice since he just turned heel. He probably shouldn't job so soon.

dynamite kido - April 11, 2005 06:31 PM (GMT)

QUOTE (Mad Dog @ Apr 11 2005, 12:03 PM)

Actually now that I think about it Nagata is probably a bad choice since he just turned heel. He probably shouldn't job so soon.

I would agree, but that never stopped them before.

Real F'n Show - April 12, 2005 09:32 PM (GMT)

TM vs. Romero should be excellent as well. Looks like a decent card so far...

Mad Dog - April 15, 2005 05:33 PM (GMT)

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4. IWGP Tag Team Title: Shinsuke Nakamura & Hiroshi Tanahashi © vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Kendo Kashin

I'm not happy about Kashin being back in NJPW.

dynamite kido - April 15, 2005 05:38 PM (GMT)

QUOTE (Mad Dog @ Apr 15 2005, 11:33 AM)

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4. IWGP Tag Team Title: Shinsuke Nakamura & Hiroshi Tanahashi © vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Kendo Kashin

I'm not happy about Kashin being back in NJPW.

Nor am I.

The last thing NJPW needs is more armdrags.....

Mad Dog - April 28, 2005 02:11 PM (GMT)

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3. Tatsumi Fujinami & Mitsuharu Misawa Pro Wrestling NOAH vs. Masahiro Chono & mystery opponent

The Strong Style Spirit guy thinks the mystery opponent might be Hashimoto.

Mad Dog - May 8, 2005 09:57 PM (GMT)

Here's the full card. Looks promising.

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1. Osamu Nishimura & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano
2. Minoru Suzuki vs. Alexander Otsuka
3. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Koji Kanemoto & Wataru Inoue © vs. Minoru & Hirooki Goto
4. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Tiger Mask © vs. Black Tiger
5. Yuji Nagata vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
6. Keiji Muto All Japan vs. Ron Waterman
7. IWGP Tag Team Title: Shinsuke Nakamura & Hiroshi Tanahashi © vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Kendo Kashin
8. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Satoshi Kojima All Japan © vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
9. Super Dream Tag Match: Tatsumi Fujinami & Mitsuharu Misawa Pro Wrestling NOAH vs. Masahiro Chono & Jushin Thunder Liger

D.A.V.E. - May 8, 2005 10:16 PM (GMT)

1. Looks like a stinker
2. WHO????????? Otsuka anyway, I know who MiSuzuki is.
3. Well, Goto is the new Golden Boy.
4. Who's Black Tiger this time?
5. WHO, again? Is Inoki on crack or something?
6. Yikes
7. Nakanishi jobs, again......
8. Tenzan will get his job back, but sadly, not his credibility
9. Combined age 900

dynamite kido - May 9, 2005 03:26 AM (GMT)

Muto vs. Waterman would be brutal to watch......

dynamite kido - May 15, 2005 09:36 PM (GMT)

Results

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New Japan ran their May 14th Tokyo Dome show, claiming 35,000 paid for the event. Results:

1. Toru Yano & Shin'ya Makabe defeated Osamu Nishimura & Yutaka Yoshie in 5 minutes, 36 seconds when Yano used a brainbuster (called the Night cap) on Nishimura for the win.

2. Minoru Suzuki defeated Alexander Otsuka in 4 minutes, 46 seconds with a Gotch-style Pile Driver.

3. IWGP Jr. Tag Titles Match: Minoru (Tanaka) & Hirooki Goto defeated Koji Kanemoto & Wataru Inoue in 14 minutes, 42 seconds when Goto used the Yoshitaniku finisher (rotating pinning manuever) on Kanemoto for the win.

4. IWGP Jr. Title Match: Tiger Mask IV defeated Black Tiger IV in 9 minutes, 28 seconds with a Tiger Suplex Hold. After the match, BT IV started doing an English promo on the microphone and then a mask-ripping angle was done.

5. Yuji Nagata defeated Tsuyoshi Kohsaka in 8 minutes, 35 seconds with a back-drop suplex hold. Before the match, Katsuyori Shibata along with Kazunari Murakami & Fumihiko Uei (of Big Mouth) came down to ringside to watch the match. Takashi Iizuka saw this and got angry. After the match, Yoshihisa Yamamoto made an appearance and got into a confrontation with Nagata, which led to Masayuki Naruse coming out for an appearance.

6. Keiji Mutoh defeated Ron Waterman in 11 minutes, 16 seconds with a moonsault press. They played it as a straight-up pro-wrestling match. Mutoh was solidly over with the crowd.

7. IWGP Tag titles Match: Shinsuke Nakamura & Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Kendo Ka Shin & Manabu Nakanishi (Team Japan/Wild Soldiers) in 17 minutes, 59 seconds when Nakamura used a cross-arm scissors hold on Ka Shin for the win. Kazuyuki Fujita showed up as Nakanishi's ring second.

8. Mitsuharu Misawa & Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Masa Chono & Jushin Liger in 14 minutes, 49 seconds when Fujinami used a Ground Cobra Twist on Liger for the win. Fujinami worked the match with a lot of babyface energy.

9. IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Satoshi Kojima in 19 minutes, 34 seconds with the TTD (Tenzan Tombstone Driver) for the win.

Wow, glad to see that they are apparently comfortable to change the IWGP every other day.........it's so sad considering how important that title USED to be.

Mad Dog - May 15, 2005 10:53 PM (GMT)

I figured Kojima was going to last until July or August with the belt. But they really need to settle down with the IWGP Title changes. It's horrible that the highest belt changes the most.

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