1/4/93 taped 1/2 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Barry Horowitz/Al Perez 18:49 of 19:13. ***
Steve Williams vs. Jun Akiyama 8:08. *1/2
Akira Taue/Masa Fuchi vs. Terry Gordy/Richard Slinger 14:07. ***
Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada vs. Stan Hansen/Butch Masters 8:59. *3/4
Heavyweight Battle Royal 7:15 of 7:32. DUD
1/10/93 '93 Shinshun Giant Series taped 1/8 Takamatsu Shi Sogo Taiikukan
Stan Hansen/Butch Masters vs. Tommy Rogers/Bobby Fulton 3:37 of 8:03.
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Akira Taue/Jun Akiyama/Masa Fuchi 28:05 of 30:14. ****
1/17/93 taped 1/15 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Jun Akiyama vs. Al Perez 6:04 of 13:39. Fair
Toshiaki Kawada/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Yoshinari Ogawa/Ryukaku Izumida 9:01 of 15:38. ***3/4
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi vs. Akira Taue/Masa Fuchi 17:55. ****1/2
1/24/93 taped 1/21 Yamagata Yonezawa Shi Sogo Taiikukan
Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Bobby Fulton 4:55 shown
Akira Taue/Jun Akiyama vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 9:19 of 18:01. ***1/2
Terry Gordy/Steve Williams vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi 22:57. ***1/2
1/31/93 taped 1/24 Shizuoka Numazu Shimin Taiikukan
Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Jun Akiyama/Yoshinari Ogawa 23:14. ****1/4
Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada vs. Terry Gordy/Johnny Smith 12:18 of 19:29. ***1/4
2/7/93 taped 1/26 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jun Akiyama 8:23 of 14:37. ***1/4
Terry Gordy/Steve Williams vs. Stan Hansen/Johnny Ace 7:07 of 24:19.
Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi 20:11. ****
2/14/1993 taped 1/30 Chiba
Jun Akiyama Shiren Nana-bon Shobu #5: Jun Akiyama vs. Johnny Smith 3:40 of 12:52. Good
Sekai Tag Senshuken: Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Terry Gordy & Steve Williams 27:07. ***3/4
2/21/93 '93 Excite Series taped 2/19 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Akira Taue/Yoshinari Ogawa/Jun Akiyama vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi/Satoru Asako. 22:42. ***3/4
Terry Gordy/Steve Williams vs. The Patriot/The Eagle 3:57 of 18:08.
Toshiaki Kawada/Kenta Kobashi vs. Stan Hansen/Rob Van Dam 10:49 of 14:00. **1/2
2/28/93 taped 2/25 Gifu Sangyokan
The Patriot/The Eagle vs. Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 7:53 of 19:42. ***3/4
Terry Gordy/Steve Williams vs. Jun Akiyama/Dory Funk Jr. 6:48 of 23:11. ***1/2
Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada vs. Akira Taue/Masa Fuchi 20:55. ***1/4
3/7/93 taped 2/28 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Kenta Kobashi vs. Dan Spivey 11:36 of 24:02. ***1/2
Sankan Heavykyu Senshuken: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue 22:33 ****
3/14/93 taped 2/28 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Terry Gordy vs. Jun Akiyama 3:28 of 10:23.
Sekai Junior Heavykyu Senshuken: Masa Fuchi vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 11:01 of 11:03. ****1/4
Stan Hansen vs. Toshiaki Kawada 24:02. ****3/4
3/21/93 taped 3/3 Hiratsuka Sogo Taiikukan
Terry Gordy/Steve Williams vs. Stan Hansen/Dan Spivey 12:50. ***
Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Akira Taue/Yoshinari Ogawa/Jun Akiyama 25:39. ****
3/28/93 '93 Champion Carnival taped 3/25 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
'93 Champion Carnival: Kenta Kobashi vs. Doug Furnas 6:04 of 13:50. Very good.
'93 Champion Carnival: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Steve Williams 13:39 of 30:00. Excellent
Mitsuharu Misawa/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Akira Taue/Yoshinari Ogawa 14:14. ***3/4
4/4/93 taped 3/27 Kyoto Furitsu Taiikukan
'93 Champion Carnival: Steve Williams vs. Stan Hansen 11:00 of 21:22. ***1/2
'93 Champion Carnival: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada 22:00. ****1/2
4/11/93 taped 3/30 Toyama Shi Taiikukan
'93 Champion Carnival: Akira Taue vs. Johnny Ace 11:43. **
'93 Champion Carnival: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen 20:24. ***
4/18/93 taped 4/12 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukan
'93 Champion Carnival: Terry Gordy vs. Steve Williams 12:36 of 24:14. ***
'93 Champion Carnival: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Akira Taue 15:01 of 30:00. ****1/2
'93 Champion Carnival: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi 9:34 of 21:16. Excellent
4/25/93 taped 4/14 Nagoya Shi Taiikukan
'93 Champion Carnival: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi 10:26 of 23:44. Great
'93 Champion Carnival: Stan Hansen vs. Akira Taue 9:30 of 18:38. Very good
'93 Champion Carnival: Terry Gordy vs. Mitsuharu Misawa 12:44 of 20:29. ***1/2
5/2/93 taped 4/21 Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan
Shoehi Baba/Rusher Kimura/Mitsuo Momota vs. Joel Deaton/Haruka Eigen/Ryukaku Izumida 11:18 of 15:41.
'93 Champion Carnival Yushosen: Stan Hansen vs. Mitsuharu Misawa 20:26. ***
5/9/93 taped 4/21 Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan
3/25 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Jun Akiyama/Takao Omori vs. Satoru Asako & Masao Inoue 7:57.
Toshiaki Kawada leaves Misawa's team, Kawada highlights from '90 to present
Toshiaki Kawada/Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi & Yoshinari Ogawa 11:27. ***1/2
AJ TV 5/2/93
Baba & Kimura & Momota vs. Deaton & Eigen & Izumida. Izumida was the "hot" worker of the match, so that says it all.
’93 Champion Carnival Final: Misawa vs. Hansen. After all the great matches in the Carny, the final turns out to be just good. The big spot was Hansen trying his lariat at the same time as Misawa tried his elbow, so they cracked arms. Stan’s performance was mediocre, at best. Hansen wins Champion Carnival.
NJ 5/1/94
Yuji Nagata vs. Satoshi Kojima. Basic work with tons of submissions. Nagata looked sharp with big league transition and crispness.
Kido & Nogami & Iizuka vs. Akitoshi Saito & Ohara & Tatsu Goto. Bad and boring with way too much kicking and punching
Tadao Yasuda vs. El Gigante. No redeeming factors. The worst incarnation of crap. Yasuda was totally dwarfed.
Dream Open Match: Liger vs. Satoru Sayama. Dream match turned DUD as Sayama didn’t want to do anything. So uneventful that they edited it down to 1:22 of 10:00 draw, showing just the "action." Probably Liger’s worst match of the 1990's.
WCW International Heavyweight Title: Sting vs. Rude. It was risky to throw two outsiders out there working American style for 22+ but it worked, and Sting was quite over. Good match with both men making a good showing. The runway was well utilized. Rude wins WCW International title.
Ryukaku Izumida vs. Curt Beyer
Mighty Inoue vs. Mitsuo Momota
Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Takao Omori
Giant Baba & Rusher Kimura vs. Joel Deaton & Haruka Eigen
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Satoru Asako vs. Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi & Masao Inoue
5/16/93 '93 Super Power Series taped 5/14 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Stan Hansen vs. Barry Horowitz 2:00.
Steve Williams/Terry Gordy vs. The Patriot/The Eagle 4:00 of 15:55.
Mitsuhara Misawa vs. Al Perez 8:35. **
Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 13:00 of 18:38. ****1/4
5/23/93 taped 5/20 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi vs. Stan Hansen/Dan Spivey 3:12
Sekai Tag Senshuken: Steve Williams/Terry Gordy vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue 28:07. ***1/4
AJ Pro Wrestling 5/30/93 '93 Super Power Series taped 5/21 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Masa Fuchi vs. Danny Kroffat. Looked like a hot match, but only 2 ½ minutes shown. Kroffat wins title.
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Steve Williams. Brutal match. Looked excellent, but only 6 ½ minutes shown.
Triple Crown: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen. Excellent match. Hansen wrestled a really smart. He is old and doesn't have great stamina, but he used his brawling spots to injure Misawa's arm. Then, he was able to rest by doing submissions to the arm that weren't seen as resting because they advanced the match. The psychology and utilization of the spots were among the strong points, but Misawa should have won with the facelock. He used that move 5 times, all deep in the match where they could have been the finish…the fans here still reacted to it but it's no wonder how the move lost all it's heat.
UWF-I TV 6/1/93 taped 5/6 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Kiyoshi Tamura. ¼ aired, so it seemed really good because they just showed the hot spots.
Super Vader vs. Tatsuo Nakano. Vader makes his UWF-I debut by obliterating Nakano in 3:35. This match did a great job of getting Vader over as a monster. Good for what it was.
Gary Albright vs. Dennis Koslowski. Another short match that was not supposed to be great, but served it's purpose of getting Albright and his killer suplexes over more.
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Dan Severn. Decent match in spite of Severn.
AJ Pro Wrestling 30 6/20/99
6/11 Tokyo Nippon Budokan Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama. Kawada brought his A game and did a great job of carrying Takayama. Taue even did a good job with Takayama. The fans were going nuts so the match seemed even better than it was. It looked like it could be excellent, but in unedited form, very good might be a stretch.
6/9 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center Sekai Tag Senshukenjiai: Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs. Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn. Ace & Gunn win titles. **1/2
6/11 Tokyo Nippon Budokan: Jun Akiyama vs. Johnny Ace. Akiyama came out like a house of fire and the pace never slowed down. The fans bought Akiyama's near falls before the 2 minute mark because they were working so fast and the moves were his big ones. Akiyama looked really good and raised the level of Ace's work, but Ace still wasn't that impressive. Although this was a hot match, it was so short that there really wasn't anything to it. *1/2
5/30/93 taped 5/21 Sapporo
Masa Fuchi vs. Dan Kroffat 2:36
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Steve Williams **** 6:29
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen ****1/2 26:11
6/8/93 taped 5/29
Akira Taue vs. Dan Spivey ** 3/4 3:56
Kenta Kobashi vs. Terry Gordy **** 1/4 19:32
Akira Taue/Masa Fuchi/Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi *** 3/4 9:27
6/13/93 taped
Clips of Baba vs. Gene Kiniski
Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi**** 1/2 29:12
6/20/93 taped 6/1 Tokyo
Shoehi Baba/Rusher Kimura/Mighty Inoue vs. Masa Fuchi/Haruka Eigen/Abdullah the Butcher * 1/4 6:16
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi/Satoru Asako vs. Yoshinari Ogawa/Masao Inoue *** 1/4 7:24
Stan Hansen vs. Terry Gordy ** 19:42
AJ TV 5/30/93 ’93 Super Power Series taped 5/21 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
World Junior Heavyweight Title: Masa Fuchi vs. Dan Kroffat. Highlights. Kroffat wins title
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Steve Williams
Triple Crown: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen
UWF-I TV taped 5/6/93 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Naoki Sano
Super Vader vs. Tatsuo Nakano
Gary Albright vs. Dennis Koslowski
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Dan Severn
AJ TV 6/7/93 ’93 Super Power Series taped 5/21 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Akira Taue vs. Danny Spivey
Kenta Kobashi vs. Terry Gordy
taped 5/18 Kawasaki Shi Taiikukan
Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
NJ World Pro Wrestling 6/12/93 ’93 EXPLOSION TOUR taped 6/5 Mie-ken Tsu Shi Taiikukan
Masa Chono & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Bobby Eaton & Tony Halme
Keiji Muto & Akira Nogami vs. The Great Kabuki & Akitoshi Saito
Tatsumi Fujinami & Shinya Hashimoto vs. Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka
Super Jr. Tournament Highlights
AJ TV 6/13/93 ’93 Super Power Series taped 6/1 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
World Tag Titles: Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi
NJ World Pro Wrestling 6/19/93 taped 6/15 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Hellraisers vs. John Tenta & King Haku
Elimination Match: Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Shinya Hashimoto & Masa Chono & Hiroshi Hase vs. Genichiru Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa & Ashura Hara & Super Strong Machine & Tatsu Goto
AJ TV 6/20/93 ’93 Super Power Series taped 6/1 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Giant Baba & Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue vs. Abdullah The Butcher & Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen
Yoshinari Ogawa & Masao Inoue vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Satoru Asako
Stan Hansen vs. Terry Gordy
AJ TV 4/18/93 '93 Champion Carnival taped 4/12 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
'93 Champion Carnival Koshikisen: Terry Gordy vs. Steve Williams. I believe this was their first singles meeting in Japan. It was good, but these two are much better with a good athletic worker to bump for them.
'93 Champion Carnival Koshikisen: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Akira Taue. This match was deliberate in a good way. They wanted you to know what they were hoping to do so their teases, struggles, and cross ups of these moves would be more effective. Slow-paced match that was very stiff. Awesome build. Great match.
'93 Champion Carnival Koshikisen: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi. Exciting, spot oriented match. You basically had two heavyweights going back and forth with junior spots for near falls, and they were going them as well if not better than the juniors. The fans were totally into this, mainly supporting the underdog Kobashi even though Misawa is the man. Excellent.
AJ TV 6/27/93 '93 Super Power Series taped 6/13 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center
Stan Hansen & Joel Deaton vs. Terry Gordy & Steve Williams. For AJ, this was a "crazy brawl." Great heat. The fans went nuts for the finish. Good match.
Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa. Awesome match! Great work, great heat, great storyline. Kawada was awesome, so intense and stiff. Misawa work was even excellent with Taue. Kikuchi played his role to perfection, as always. ****3/4
FMW Korakuen X2 2/27/91 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Pandita & The Shooter vs. Ricky Fuji & Yukihide Ueno
Wrestler vs. Kickboxer: Billy Mac vs. Katsuji Ueda
WWA World Women's Title: Combat Toyoda vs. Megumi Kudo
Sambo Asako vs. Tarzan Goto
World Martial Arts Title Champion Final: Atsushi Onita vs. Gregory Veritchev. Veritchev becomes 1st champion.
AJ TV 6/27/93 '93 Super Power Series taped 6/3 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center
Stan Hansen & Joel Deaton vs. Terry Gordy & Steve Williams
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
6/27/93 taped 6/3 Sendai
Steve Williams/Terry Gordy vs. Stan Hansen/Joel Deaton 6:47
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue/Yoshinari Ogawa 21:23
7/4/93 taped 7/2 Tokyo
Big Bubba vs. Mighty Inoue * 2:35
Stan Hansen/Johnny Ace vs. Mark/Chris Youngblood *** 5:05
Mitsuhara Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue/Yoshinari Ogawa ***** 25:34
7/11/93 taped 7/9 Hiroshima
Akira Taue/Masa Fuchi vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi/Satoru Asako 2:12
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jun Akiyama *** 3/4 22:18
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi vs. Stan Hansen/Big Bubba *** 1/2 15:12
7/18/93 taped 7/12
Stan Hansen/Johnny Ace vs. Big Bubba/Kendall Windham 17:09
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue/Masa Fuchi 17:18
7/25/93 taped 7/19 Okazaki
Akira Taue vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi *** 3:31
Steve Williams/Terry Gordy vs. Stan Hansen/Johnny Ace ** 1/2 10:54
Mitsuharu Misawa/Jun Akiyama vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Masa Fuchi *** 3/4 17:50
8/1/93 taped 7/26 Kanagawa
Stan Hansen vs. Jun Akiyama * 1/2 6:38
Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue vs. Steve Williams/Terry Gordy *** 3/4 31:02
Ryukaku Izumida vs. Masao Inoue
Kendall Windham & Pete Roberts vs. Mark Youngblood & Chris Youngblood
Rusher Kimura & Mighty Inoue vs. Joel Deaton & Haruka Eigen
Destroyer Intai Jiai: Giant Baba & Mitsuo Momota vs. The Destroyer & Curt Beyer
Satoru Asako & Takao Omori vs. Dynamite Kid & Johnny Smith
Stan Hansen & Big Bubba & Johnny Ace vs. Terry Gordy & Steve Williams & Richard Slinger
4 vs 4 Survival Tag Match: Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
8/8/93 taped 7/29 Tokyo
Shoehi Baba/The Destroyer/Kurt Beyer vs. Masa Fuchi/Haruka Eigen/Masao Inoue 2:16
The Destroyer's retirement ceremony
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada *** 1/4 25:52
8/15/93 taped 7/29 Tokyo
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi/Jun Akiyama vs. Dynamite Kid/Johnny Smith 2:27
Terry Gordy/Steve Williams vs. Johnny Ace/Kendall Windham * 2:26
Akira Taue vs. Big Bubba * 1/2 8:34
Stan Hansen vs. Kenta Kobashi. An awesome match with both men playing their roles to perfection. Great psychology, timing, transitions, and comebacks. Stan's selling was excellent. Incredible stiffness. Kobashi ran into a stiff boot from Stan that caused immediate swelling and eventually shut his eye. Kobahi's face was a complete mess with welts, red spots, and swelling by the end of the match from taking big shots like this. Fans were so into this that they chanted Kobashi even when he was using the resthold facelock early on.***** 22:33
Hase & Muto & Chono & Fujinami vs. Ishingun, Akiyama vs. Hansen, Taue & Kawada vs. Williams & Gordy, Rude vs. Sting-Rude wins International Title, Hashimoto vs. Fujinami, Benoit vs. Otani, Liger vs. Finlay, Asako & Misawa & Akiyama vs. Williams & Bodies, Misawa & Kobashi vs. Kawada & Taue, Pritchard & Ace & Wlliams vs. Omori & Hansen & Baba, Misawa vs. Kawada, more!
8/15/93 '93 Summer Action Series taped 7/31 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Dynamite Kid & Johnny Smith vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Jun Akiyama. Seemed like a good match, but only 2:30 aired.
Terry Gordy & Steve Williams vs. Johnny Ace & Kendall Windham. 2:25 aired and it wasn’t all that good. Williams doctor bombed Ace on the floor after the match.
Special Match: Akira Taue vs. Big Bubba. Bossman didn’t look good in this setting at all because he’s a stiff that doesn’t work stiff. He used the same moves he uses in WWF, which just doesn’t cut it. Taue did a pretty good job given what he had to work with. *3/4
Special Match: Stan Hansen vs. Kenta Kobashi. An awesome match with both men playing their roles to perfection. Great psychology, timing, transitions, and comebacks. Stan’s selling was excellent. Incredible stiffness. Kobashi ran into a stiff boot from Stan that caused immediate swelling and eventually shut his eye. Kobahi’s face was a complete mess with welts, red spots, and swelling by the end of the match from taking big shots like this. Fans were so into this that they chanted Kobashi even when he was using the resthold facelock early on. *****
3/14/93 '93 Excite Series taped 2/28 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Jun Akiyama vs. Terry Gordy. Jun looked pretty good and got to push a little, but he went down easily. Looked good.
World Junior Heavyweight Title: Masa Fuchi vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi. Awesome performance by Kikuchi. His hero Dynamite Kid was at ringside watching him, so most of his offense was Kid spots in tribute. Excellent work. Great heat, as Kikuchi had so much charisma back then. Kikuchi’s offense was great, but Fuchi’s is pathetic for a junior. ****
Special Match: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Stan Hansen. One of the stiffest matches ever! These two just clobbered each other. Not pretty, but incredibly realistic looking offense. Crowd was into it for the stiffness and because they believed it was Kawada’s time to win. Stan finally hit his big lariat to KO’d Kawada as always, but his momentum sent him through the ropes to the floor so Kawada recovered some by the time Stan made it back into the ring. ****3/4
3/7/93 '93 Excite Series taped 2/28 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Triple Crown: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue. This match started really slow. The first 10 minutes saw Taue dominate with basic offense. Really, the first 13 minutes could very generously be called good. However, from there on out they worked fast and got excellent heat. Misawa’s offense was excellent. The selling wasn’t that great because the match was very spot oriented, but the action was explosive. There were several near falls that really looked like the could be the finish, which obviously added to the excitement. ****
8/22/93 taped 8/20 Tokyo
The Patriot/The Eagle vs. Steve Williams/Tracy Smothers *** 1/4 4:01
Dan Kroffat/Doug Furnas vs. Kenta Kobashi/Satoru Asako **** 1/4 10:12
Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue/Masa Fuchi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Jun Akiyama/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi **** 1/2 22:45
8/29/93 taped 8/23 Shizuoka
Masa Fuchi vs. Dan Kroffat ** 1/4 3:27
Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue vs. The Patriot/The Eagle * 1/2 10:51
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Steve Williams/Joel Deaton/Tracy Smothers *** 1/2 17:18
9/5/93 taped 8/31 Toyohashi
The Patriot/The Eagle vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi/Jun Akiyama *** 1/2 3:57
Akira Taue/Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Satoru Asako *** 1/4 5:19
Steve Williams vs. Kenta Kobashi ***** 27:15
9/12/93 taped 9/3 Tokyo
Kenta Kobashi vs. The Patriot *** 1/4 8:33
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Steve Williams **** 23:04
Misawa vs. Kawada 7/29/93****1/2, Can Am Express vs. Kobashi & Asako ****, Dynamite Kid & Johnny Smith vs. Akiyama & Kikuchi, Kobashi vs. Hansen 7/29/93 *****, Misawa & Kikuchi & Akiyama vs. Kawada & Taue & Fuchi, Misawa & Kobashi & Kikuchi vs. Williams & Smothers & Deaton, Akiyama & Kikuchi vs. Patriot & Eagle, Kobashi vs. Williams 8/31/93 ****1/2, Misawa vs. Williams 9/3/93 ****
7/29/93 Tokyo Nippon Budokan Sankan Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada
9/3/93 Tokyo Nippon Budokan Sankan Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Steve Williams
9/19/93 taped 9/3 Tokyo
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi/Jun Akiyama/Satoru Asako vs. Masa Fuchi/Masao Inoue/Yoshinari Ogawa ** 3/4 12:42
Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue vs. Stan Hansen/Ted Dibiase ** 3/4 13:09
9/26/93 taped 9/9 Omiya
Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue vs. Steve Williams/Richard Slinger ** 1/4 5:39
Stan Hansen/Tracy Smothers/Ted Dibiase vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama *** 1/2 8:46
Many clips
Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue/Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Stan Hansen/Joel Deaton/Ted Dibiase *** 1/4 10:23
9/19/93
Mitsuo Momota vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Ryukaku Izumida
Giant Baba & Rusher Kimura vs. Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen
Akira Taue vs. Satoru Asako
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Masao Inoue
Toshiaki Kawada & Takao Omori vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama
9/24/93
Rusher Kimura vs. Haruka Eigen
Mighty Inoue & Satoru Asako vs. Yoshinari Ogawa & Masao Inoue
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Takao Omori
Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama
Giant Baba & Mitsuharu Misawa & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi & Ryukaku Izumida
10/3/93 taped 9/29 Kasumigaura
The Patriot/The Eagle vs. Dory Funk Jr./Takao Omori 3:10
Steve Williams/Big Bubba/Richard Slinger vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama *** 1/2 16:30
Stan Hansen/Ted Dibiase/Kendall Windham vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi ** 3/4 13:38
10/10/93 taped 10/2 Shimizu
Stan Hansen/Ted Dibiase/Dan Spivey vs. Steve Williams/Big Bubba/Richard Slinger ** 3/4 9:47
Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue/Masa Fuchi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi **** 27:19
10/17/93 taped 10/14 Matsumoto
Kenta Kobashi vs. Big Bubba ** 11:39
Stan Hansen/Ted Dibiase vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue *** 1/4 18:15
10/24/93 taped
Dan Kroffat/Doug Furnas vs. Kenta Kobashi/Satoru Asako *** 3/4 10:26
Stan Hansen/Ted Dibiase/Kendall Windham vs. Steve Williams/Big Bubba/Richard Slinger *** 12:08
Mitsuharu Misawa/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi/Jun Akiyama vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue/Yoshinari Ogawa *** 3/4 15:59
10/31/93 taped 10/23 Tokyo
Shoehi Baba/Jumbo Tsuruta/Rusher Kimura vs. Masa Fuchi/Haruka Eigen/Ryuma Izumida 4:31
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen * 1/2 22:13
11/7/93 taped 10/23 Tokyo
Ted Dibiase vs. Jun Akiyama ** 3/4 3:44
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi **** 3/4 29:37
11/14/93 taped 11/13 Yokosuka
Steve Williams/Big Bubba vs. The Patriot/The Eagle 15:16
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi vs. Johnny Ace/Dan Spivey 18:46
11/21/93 taped 11/17 Niigata
Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue vs. Dan Kroffat/Doug Furnas *** 1/4 14:23
Shoehi Baba/Stan Hansen vs. The Patriot/The Eagle * 3/4 9:49
Steve Williams/Big Bubba/Richard Slinger vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama *** 3/4 10:13
11/28/93 taped 11/24 Osaka
Johnny Ace/Dan Spivey vs. Tracy Smothers/Richard Slinger 1:25
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi vs. Steve Williams/Big Bubba **** 1/2 12:47
Shoehi Baba/Stan Hansen vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue *** 1/2 23:34
12/5/93 taped 11/30 Sapporo
Steve Williams/Big Bubba vs. Dan Spivey/Johnny Ace *** 1/4 11:36
Shoehi Baba/Stan Hansen vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi **** 23:18
12/12/93 taped 12/1 Nagoya
Shoehi Baba/Stan Hansen vs. Tracy Smothers/Richard Slinger * 1/2 5:46
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi vs. The Patriot/The Eagle *** 3/4 12:34
Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue vs. Steve Williams/Big Bubba **** 1/2 18:03
12/19/93 taped 12/3 Tokyo
Shoehi Baba/Stan Hansen vs. Steve Williams/Big Bubba 6:48
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue 24:31
12/26/93
Year in review show with many clips