AJ Pro Wrestling 30 1/10/99 '99 New Year's Giant Series taped 1/2 Tokyo Korakuen Hall & 1/7 taped Kochi-ken Min Taiikukaikan
Heavyweight Battle Royal
World Tag Titles: Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama. Kobashi & Akiyama win titles.
NJ World Pro Wrestling 1/16/99 '99 Wrestling World in Tokyo Dome taped 1/4 Tokyo Dome
IWGP Jr. Tag Titles: Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Kendo Ka Shin & Dr. Wagner Jr. Ka Shin & Wagner win titles.
IWGP Jr. Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Koji Kanemoto
IWGP Tag Titles: Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Scott Norton vs. Keiji Muto. Muto wins title
AJ TV 1/17/99 & NJ TV 1/23/99 & AJ TV 1/24/99-2hr. Q=1st Gen
Vader vs. Kenta Kobashi
NJ World Pro Wrestling 1/23/99
Masa Saito career retrospective
AJ Pro Wrestling 30 1/24/99 '99 Shinshun Giant Series taped
1/22 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
Triple Crown: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada. Kawada wins title
1/22/99 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan Triple Crown: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada. Kawada wins title despite breaking his wrist and forearm during the match. Read Review. ****
1/2/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Heavykyu Battle Royal. Clip of Vader badly bloodying Kobashi above his right eye
1/7/99 Kochi-ken Min Taiikukan: Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama. Kawada & Taue were pretty nasty here. I particularly liked the knee drop Kawada did to the area on Kobashi's head Vader had bloodied. Fans got into it when Akiyama made the hot tag. They probably should have shown this whole match. It was technically good throughout and became highly dramatic with so many nice near falls, but I never quite had the feel for the overall quality. That said, if I were to guess I'd say it was an excellent match. Kobashi & Akiyama win titles.
1/15/99 Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan: Kenta Kobashi vs.Vader. Read Review. ****
1/15/99 Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan World Junior Heavyweight Title: Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Masahito Kakihara. Read Review. ****1/2
1/16/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall Asia Tag Titles: Tamon Honda & Jun Izumida vs. Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki. Some nice moves, but that was the be all and end all because only one team could give you anything good. It was a fun match when Hayabusa & Shinzaki were on offense, highlighted by an awesome swandive body press over the guard rail by Hayabusa. On the other hand, it was really boring when Honda & Izumida were on offense. Shinzaki did a sick blade job early on, but it pretty much only provided shock value. Hayabusa & Shinzaki deserve a lot of credit for making this worthwhile, but it was still over 23 minutes of things happening for little if any rhyme or reason. ***
AJ Pro Wrestling 30 2/21/99
Jumbo Tsuruta retirement-career highlights
AJW ATHENA AJW vs. LLPW taped 3/10/99 Tokyo Yoyogi Taiikukan 2
AJW vs. LLPW SCRAMBLE 8: Manami Toyota & Takako Inoue & Kumiko Maekawa & Momoe Nakanishi vs. Rumi Kazama & Noriyo Tateno & Harley Saito & Kurenai Yasha
AJ Tag Titles: Miho Wakizawa & Kayo Noumi vs. Keiko Aono & Megumi Sato
Nanae Takahashi & Miyuki Fujii vs. Carol Midori & Sayori Okino (G-MAX)
Judo Jacket Match: Kaoru Ito vs. Junko Yagi
Lumberjack Match: ZAP T vs. Eagle Sawai (G-MAX)
WWWA World Single Title: Shinobu Kandori vs. Yumiko Hotta
AJ Pro Wrestling 3/7/99 '99 Excite Series taped 3/6 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Triple Crown Decision Match: Vader vs. Akira Taue
Jumbo Tsuruta retirement ceremony
Jd' #35 3/12/99 BE REBORN Jd' Taped 12/29/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Jaguar's Cup 1st Round
Yuko Kosugi vs. Hiroyo Muto
Fang Suzuki vs. Megumi Yabushita
Crusher Maedomari vs. Ryuna
Jaguar's Cup Semifinals
Yuko Kosugi vs. The Bloody
Sumie Sakai vs. Megumi Yabushita
Mixed Match: Obatchi Iizuka vs. Tomezo Tsunokake (AJW)
Jaguar's Cup Final: Sumie Sakai vs. Yuko Kosugi
NJ World Pro Wrestling 3/20/99 HYPER BATTLE '99 taped 3/17 Hiroshima Sun Plaza
Kazuo Yamazaki & Yuji Nagata vs. Keiji Muto & Satoshi Kojima
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Don Frye
Kensuke Sasaki & Shiro Koshinaka & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Masa Chono & NWO Sting & AKIRA
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Koji Kanemoto. Kanemoto wins title
AJ Pro Wrestling 30 3/14/99 '99 Excite Series taped 3/6 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
World Tag Titles: Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa. ****1/4
WAR Puroresu Meishobu Collection Vol. 2 Tenryu vs. Onita Shotaiketsu (first showdown) Commercial Tape 3/2/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
Jado & Gedo vs. Nobukazu Hirai & Masanobu Kurisu. Decent
Koki Kitahara vs. Kim Duk. 3 1/2 minutes shown. Poor.
Five 3-minute Rounds: Hiromichi Fuyuki vs. Arashi. Poor
Ultimo Dragon & Masao Orihara vs. The Great Sasuke & SATO (Michinoku Pro team). ****1/4
Super Strong Machine vs. Lion Heart. 1 minute shown.
King Haku vs. Mr. Hughes. 1 minute shown.
Koji Ishinriki vs. Koji Kitao. 1/2*
Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Atsushi Onita & Tarzan Goto (FMW team). **1/2
AJ World Pro Wrestling 3/14/99 '99 Excite Series taped 3/6 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Sekai Tag Senshukenjiai: Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa. ****1/4
AJ World Pro Wrestling 3/28/99 '99 Champion Carnival taped 3/26 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Vader & Johnny Ace & Maunakea Mossman vs. Gary Albright & Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama. Less than two minutes of the match is shown. Post match was "wild and crazy" by AJ standards.
Champion Carnival Koshiksen: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jinsei Shinzaki. ***
Champion Carnival Koshiksen: Jun Akiyama vs. Akira Taue. ***1/4
3/6 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Sankan Heavykyu Oza Ketteisen: Akira Taue vs. Vader
Sekai Tag Senshuken: Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa
Jumbo Tsuruta Intai Ceremony
2/13/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall, Asia Tag Senshuken: Tamon Honda & Jun Izumida vs. Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki
AJ Pro Wrestling 30 4/4/99 '99 Champion Carnival
3/28/99 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan
'99 Champion Carnival League Sen (match): Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Vader
4/3/99 Tokushima Shi Taiikukan
'99 Champion Carnival League Sen: Jun Akiyama vs. Johnny Ace
'99 Champion Carnival League Sen: Takao Omori vs. Vader
'99 Champion Carnival League Sen: Akira Taue vs. Gary Albright
AJ Pro Wrestling 30 4/11/99
4/4/99 Hiroshima
'99 Champion Carnival League Sen: Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama
'99 Champion Carnival League Sen: Vader vs. Gary Albright
'99 Champion Carnival League Sen: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Takao Omori
4/8/99 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
'99 Champion Carnival League Sen: Kenta Kobashi vs. Vader
AJ Pro Wrestling 30 4/18/99 '99 Champion Carnival taped 4/16 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
'99 Champion Carnival Final: Kenta Kobashi vs. Vader. Vader wins Carnival.
Giant Baba Funeral
Highlights of league matches
4/16/99 Tokyo Nippon Budokan '99 Champion Carnival Yushoketteisen: Kenta Kobashi vs. Vader
4/25/99 Yokohama Arena
Ernesto Hoost vs. Francisco Filho
NJ World Pro Wrestling 5/1/99 STRONG ENERGY 1999 ? Shi Taiikukan
Koji Kanemoto & Kendo Ka Shin vs. Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Kensuke Saskai & Manabu Nakanishi & Brian Johnston vs. Masa Chono & NWO Sting & Michael Wallstreet
Tatsumi Fujinami & Genichiro Tenryu & Tadao Yasuda vs. Keiji Muto & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
taped 4/24 Oita Beppu Peekon (?) Plaza
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kazuo Yamazaki & Yuji Nagata vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Shiro Koshinaka & Manabu Nakanishi
AJ Pro Wrestling Giant Baba Intai IN Tokyo Dome Special 5/2/99 taped 5/2 Tokyo Dome
Giant Baba Intai: Giant Baba & The Destroyer vs. Bruno Sammartino & Gene Kiniski
Triple Crown: Vader vs. Mitsuharu Misawa
NJ World Pro Wrestling 5/8/99 STRONG ENERGY 1999 taped 4/24 Beppu Peekon Plaza
Masa Chono & Don Frye & AKIRA vs. Keiji Muto & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
Tadao Yasuda & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Tatsu Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara
Jushin Thunder Liger & Kendo Ka Shin vs. Koji Kanemoto & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
taped Fukuoka Kokusai Center
IWGP Tag Titles: Kensuke Sasaki & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Kazuo Yamazaki & Yuji Nagata
AJ Pro Wrestling 5/9/99 Giant Baba Intai IN Tokyo Dome Special taped 5/2 Tokyo Dome
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Hiroshi Hase
Jd' #37 5/14/99 taped 3/19 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Hiroyo Muto vs. Morimatsu
Sumie Sakai vs. Chaparrita ASARI (Neo Ladies)
Super Delfin & Cooga & Yuki Miyazaki vs. Masato Yakushiji & Obatchi Iizuka & Megumi Yabushiba
Sachie Abe vs. Mima Shimoda
AWF World Women's Title: Emi Motokawa vs. Yuko Kosugi
The Bloody & Fang Suzuki vs. Lioness Asuka & Sugar Sato
AJ Pro Wrestling 5/16/99 Giant Baba Intai IN Tokyo Dome Special taped 5/2 Tokyo Dome
Yoshinari Ogawa & Masahito Kakihara & Maunakea Mossman vs. The Great Sasuke & Hayabusa & Tiger Mask
Triple Crown: Vader vs. Mitsuharu Misawa
Giant Baba Intai: Giant Baba & The Destroyer vs. Bruno Sammartino & Gene Kiniski. Not a match. Clips of Baba wrestling these guys are played on the video wall and they have a retirement ceremony
Yoshinari Ogawa & Maunakea Mossman & Masahito Kakihara vs. Hayabusa & The Great Sasuke & Tiger Mask
Rusher Kimura & Mitsuo Momota & Masao Inoue vs. Giant Kimala & Haruka Eigen & Jun Izumida
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Gran Naniwa & Makoto Hashi
Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Johnny Ace & Animal Warrior & Hawk Warrior
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Hiroshi Hase
Akira Taue & Stan Hansen & Steve Williams vs. Gary Albright & Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama
Johnny Smith & Tamon Honda & Masa Fuchi vs. Koji Nakagawa & Yukihiro Kanemura & Gedo
Satoru Asako & Takeshi Morishima vs. Kentaro Shiga & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
FIGHTING NETWORK RINGS on WOWOW MEGA BATTLE TOURNAMENT 1996 Junkessho taped 12/21/96 Fukuoka Kokusai Center
Masayuki Naruse vs. Dick Vrij. *1/2
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Gogitidze Bakouri. *3/4
Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Hans Nyman. *1/2
Maurice Smith vs. Bitsadze Amiran. 1/2*
Feature on the '96 Sambo Championships
MEGA BATTLE 1996 Junkessho
Volk Han vs. Bitsadze Tariel. **1/4
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto. ***1/4
Special Match
Akira Maeda vs. Vladmir Klementiev. 1/2*
AJ Pro Wrestling 6/6/99 '99 Super Power Series taped 6/4 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Sayonara Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center ? Jiai: Mitsuharu Misawa & Akira Taue vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi. 4 star range.
Asia Tag Senshukenjiai: Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama. Great heat. This looked like an excellent match, but I can't even comprehend how anyone could try to rate a match when only 5:27 out of 27:11 aired. Omori & Takayama win titles.
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. Hansen wrestled smart, but is old and doesn't have great stamina. 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
Michinoku Pro
This is basically a year plus in review tape. It has highlights of 33 matches, focusing on things like the last big matches of KDX, JYB League, Crazy Max, etc.
AJ Pro Wrestling 6/27/99 '99 Super Power Series
6/9 Miyagi-ken Sports Center
Sekai Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Kentaro Shiga.
***3/4
Mitsuharu Misawa & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Vader & Maunakea Mossman. ***1/4
6/11 Tokyo Nippon Budokan: Vader vs. Bart Gunn. *1/2
6/4 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center: Jun Akiyama vs. Masahito Kakihara. 3 minutes
shown
AJ Pro Wrestling 7/4/99 '99 Summer Action Series taped 7/4 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Mitsuharu Misawa & Masahito Kakihara vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue.
**1/4
Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama.
**1/2
Vader vs. Jinsei Shinzaki. *1/2
note: the first 4 matches are edited down to 4+ minutes
Masahito Kakihara & Masamichi Marufuji vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Makoto Hashi
Giant Kimala & Tamon Honda vs. Wolf Hawkfield & George Hines
Rusher Kimura & Mitsuo Momota & Satoru Asako vs. Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Jun Izumida vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama & Masao Inoue
Vader & Maunakea Mossman vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Jinsei Shinzaki. ***1/4
Sekai Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Kentaro Shiga. ***3/4
Sekai Tag Senshukenjiai: Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs. Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn. Ace & Gunn win titles. **1/2
Jun Akiyama vs. Johnny Ace
Vader vs. Bart Gunn
Triple Crown: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi
6/11/99 Tokyo Nippon Budokan, Sankan Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi
6/4/99 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Sayonara Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center Kinen Jiai: Mitsuharu Misawa & Akira Taue vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi
Asia Tag Senshukenjiai: Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama
6/9/99 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center
Sekai Tag Senshukenjiai: Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs. Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn. Ace & Gunn win titles.
Sekai Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Kentaro Shiga
6/11/99 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama
*I have a very limited quantity of additional 1st Gen SP copies of this two tape set*
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Takeshi Morishima. **
Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn & Johnny Smith vs. Gary Albright & Pierre & Maunakea Mossman. *
Jun Akiyama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Yoshinari Ogawa & Naomichi Marufuji. ***1/4
Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga. **1/2
Vader vs. Jinsei Shinzaki. *1/4
Mitsuharu Misawa & Masahito Kakihara vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue. **1/4
AJ Hour #82 8/7/99 taped 7/7 Toyama Sangyo Tenjikan Techno Hall
Jun Akiyama vs. Pierre. **1/4
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Tamon Honda vs. Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn & Johnny Smith. *3/4
Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Masahito Kakihara. I might be overrating this a tad, but Kakihara is awesome here. Of course, you'd have to be to get a good singles match out of Takayama. ***1/4
Gary Albright & Takao Omori vs. Vader & Maunakea Mossman. **1/4
Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga. ***3/4
Classic American Pro Wrestling 8/7/99 Wrestling Champions From Chicago
Art Thomas vs. Rey Fells
Kurt Von Strougheim vs. Paul Christie
Red Kelly vs. Larry Shane
Big Moose Sholak vs. Carl Engstrom
Skull Murphy & Brute Bernard vs. The Bavarian Boys
7/16/99 Chiba Matsuda Shi Undo Koen Taiikukan: Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn & Johnny Smith vs. Gary Albright & Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama
7/23/99 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Sekai Tag Senshukenjiai: Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama. Omori & Takayama win titles.
Sankan (triple crown) Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada
Vader & Gary Albright vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama
7/16/99 Chiba Matsuda Shi Undo Koen Taiikukan (showdown) Untouchable vs. Burning Single Taiketsu
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kentaro Shiga
Masahito Kakihara vs. Kenta Kobashi
Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Jun Akiyama
7/17/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Yoshihiro Takayama
Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Naomichi Marufuji. **
Rusher Kimura & Mitsuo Momota & Makoto Hashi vs. Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi. *1/2
Masao Inoue vs. Pierre. *
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs. Vader & Maunakea Mossman. ***
Gary Albright & Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn & Johnny Smith. *1/2
This show was basically broken up into three sections. In the first and third section, the five guys in the studio (who include Kobashi & Momota) discuss Baba's career. In the long middle section, they feature some of Baba's most famous matches. They only showed parts of seven different matches (between 4-12 minutes of each), so they don't really give you a feel of the path his career was taking. It was more like a recommended match list, except they leaned more toward notable events (ie Baba winning a major title) than great matchdes. The most noticable difference was in his athleticism, it seemed a lot worse in the matches after the Robinson match.
8/14/67 Osaka Kyujo Toksetsu (specially installed) Ring 2/3 Falls International Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Giant Baba vs. Gene Kiniski. The one hour time limit expired during the deciding fall, so they went an extra 5 minutes, but it still wound up being a draw.
10/9/73 Tokyo Kuramae Kokugikan 2/3 Falls International Tag Senshuken Jiai: Dory Funk Jr. & Terry Funk vs. Giant Baba & Tomomi Tsuruta. Another hour draw.
12/21/74 Kagoshima-ken Taiikukan 2/3 Falls NWA Sekai Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Jack Brisco vs. Giant Baba. Baba wins title.
7/24/76 Tokyo Kuramae Kokugikan 2/3 Falls PWF Heavykyu Senshuken Jiai: Giant Baba vs. Billy Robinson. Robinson was able to get some quality wrestling (for the time period) out of Baba.
10/31/79 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan NWA Sekai Heavykyu Senshuken Jiai: Giant Baba vs. Harley Race. Double juice. Baba wins the title.
2/4/82 Tokyo Taiikukan PWF Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Giant Baba vs. Stan Hansen. This really lacked stiffness, particularly Baba's pitiful chops. They brawled on the floor for a count out. Hansen continued attacking Baba, taking out the undercarders that tried to stop him, until Baba finally knocked him to the floor with a boot to the head.
Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Stan Hansen & Giant Baba. The best match on the tape. Baba was really washed up by this point, but he wrestled seriously and Misawa & Kobashi took it to him (although you could see they were being really careful with him). Even in the edited down version, you could tell Hansen was really carrying the team. A strong heated contest. The fans went nuts when Kobashi moonsaulted Baba, but Misawa wound up scoring the major win, pinning Baba with a better (diving) version of Baba's famous neckbreaker drop.
Finally, they showed Baba's "retirement match" from the 5/2/99 Tokyo Dome show.
Akira Taue & Takeshi Morishima vs. Johnny Smith & Pierre. *1/2
Jun Akiyama & Kentaro Shiga vs. Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn. ***1/4
Gary Albright & Takao Omori vs. Vader & Maunakea Mossman. *3/4
Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga. **
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Yoshihiro Takayama. Takayama is counted out after Kawada kicks him in the face. *1/2
Johnny Smith vs. Jinsei Shinzaki. **1/2
Gary Albright & Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn & Maunakea Mossman. *1/2
Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa & Masahito Kakihara & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Masao Inoue & Makoto Hashi. ***
Vader & Pierre vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama. ***1/4
Makoto Hashi vs. Satoru Asako. *1/2
Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada & Hiroshi Hase vs. Johnny Ace & Mike Burton & George Hines. *1/4
Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Kentaro Shiga & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa & Masahito Kakihara & Naomichi Marufuji. ***1/2
Scorpio vs. Masao Inoue. *
Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen & Jun Izumida vs. Rusher Kimura & Mitsuo Momota & Takeshi Morishima. -*1/2
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Jinsei Shinzaki. *
Vader & The Gladiator & Maunakea Mossman vs. Gary Albright & Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama. Gladiator didn't paint his face. *
Classic American Pro Wrestling
$10,000 Challenge: King Kong Bundy vs. Jerry Lawler. The gimmick here is that Lawler gets $1,000 for every minute he can last with Bundy.
Leapin' Lanny & George Weingroff vs. Ricky Starr & Terry Harris
The Medic & Bobby Golden vs. Cowboy Mike Franco & Rainy Howard
Pistol Pez Whatley vs. Cowboy David Starr
Naomichi Marufuji vs. Makoto Hashi. The first 10 minutes are really basic, but it gets pretty good after that with Marufuji doing his flying spots including a springboard plancha. *1/4
Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Rusher Kimura & Mitsuo Momota & Takeshi Morishima. -*
Tamon Honda vs. Mike Burton. Honda found a way to be worse than even Burton. 1/4*
Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Kentaro Shiga vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa & Masahito Kakihara. This is one of those matches that should be **** because these guys certainly have that kind of talent if not more, but they just don't put the effort into the early portion. **1/2
Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Satoru Asako. **1/2
Hiroshi Hase & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. The Gladiator & Maunakea Mossman. **1/2
Akira Taue & Jun Izumida & Masao Inoue vs. Vader & Gary Albright & Scorpio. *1/4
Johnny Ace & George Hines vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama. *1/2
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Satoru Asako & Naomichi Marufuji. **1/2
Yoshinari Ogawa vs. George Hines. *1/2
Akira Taue & Masao Inoue vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama. *1/4
Mitsuharu Misawa & Masahito Kakihara vs. Vader & Scorpio. **1/2
Rusher Kimura & Mitsuo Momota & Makoto Hashi vs. Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen & Jun Izumida. **
Gary Albright vs. Takeshi Morishima. *
The Gladiator vs. Jinsei Shinzaki. ***
Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Kentaro Shiga vs. Johnny Ace & Mike Burton & Maunakea Mossman. *3/4
King's Road-guest Jun Akiyama
All Japan Hour #93 '99 Summer Action Series taped 9/4 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Hiroshi Hase vs. Akira Taue. **1/4
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Yoshihiro Takayama. ***1/4
Kenta Kobashi vs. The Gladiator. ***3/4
Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Vader. **1/2
Jun Akiyama vs. Takao Omori. ***1/4
Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Yoshihiro Takayama
Kentaro Shiga vs. Masa Fuchi
Kenta Kobashi & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Takao Omori & Makoto Hashi
Akira Taue & Masahito Kakihara vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Takeshi Morishima
Mitsuharu Misawa & Satoru Asako vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Masao Inoue
Hiroshi Hase & Mitsuo Momota & Jun Izumida vs. Jun Akiyama & Haruka Eigen & Tamon Honda
Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Satoru Asako. **
Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen & Jun Izumida vs. Rusher Kimura & Mitsuo Momota & Takeshi Morishima. -*1/2
Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Stan Hansen & Giant Kimala. -*1/2
Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Akira Taue & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi. *
Makoto Hashi vs. Masahito Kakihara. *1/4
Asia Tag League Ketteileaguesen: Tamon Honda & Masao Inoue vs. Jinsei Shinzaki & Kentaro Shiga. 1/2*
Gary Albright vs. Maunakea Mossman. *
Johnny Ace & Mike Burton & Johnny Smith vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Kentaro Shiga. **1/2
Masao Inoue vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru. If Inoue would have been willing to put Kanemaru over then it might have been half decent because Kanemaru was trying. *1/2
Asia Tag Oza Ketteileaguesen: Masahito Kakihara & Daisuke Ikeda vs. Johnny Smith & Maunakea Mossman. This match got off to a slow start, but eventually turned into a good match. It wasn't as good as it sounds because they didn't try hard enough. ***
Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Stan Hansen. Shinzaki gave one of his best performances, doing a great job of getting around Hansen's inability to move. I still can't believe this was actually good. **1/2
Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama & Satoru Asako vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Kentaro Shiga. Akiyama was the best of the bunch. He even made Takayama look good. Kobashi didn't try too hard, but his teammates made up for that. ***1/4
AJ Hour #98
Naomichi Marufuji vs. Takeshi Morishima. *1/2
Rusher Kimura & Mitsuo Momota & Tamon Honda vs. Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi. -*1/2
Johnny Ace & Mike Burton vs. Gary Albright & Rusher Kimura. 1/2*
Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Akira Taue & Jun Izumida. *3/4
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Wrestle Yume Factory 11/30 highlights
Rusher Kimura & Mitsuo Momota & Makoto Hashi vs. Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi. One of the best comedy matches of the year due to Hashi & Kikuchi. 1/4*
Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Stan Hansen & Giant Kimala. Hansen & Kimala were beyond awful, as usual. 1/4*
Asia Tag Oza Ketteileague Yushoketteisen: Johnny Smith & Maunakea Mossman vs. Tamon Honda & Masao Inoue. Smith & Mossman did a pretty good job of carrying the match, but 26 minutes is just too long for Honda & Inoue to be out there. *3/4
Naomichi Marufuji vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru. The match had good moves, but wasn't developed into anything beyond that. **
Gary Albright vs. Takeshi Morishima. *
Johnny Ace & Mike Barton vs. Akira Taue & Jun Izumida. The effort made up for some of their liabilities. Izumida used the Ace Crusher on Ace, so Ace kicked his ass. **
Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Kentaro Shiga & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa & Masahito Kakihara & Daisuke Ikeda. Fast-paced all action match. Stiff, crisp execution. This match had the intensity and the attitude. There's no good reason that we aren't seeing matches like this all the time. ***1/2
10/30/99 Tokyo Nippon Budokan Sankan Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Vader. Vader wins title.
10/9/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Kentaro Shiga vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama & Masa Fuchi. Digest.
10/16/99 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan 2: Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru. Digest
10/23/99 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan Sekai Tag Senshukenjiai: Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama
10/30/99 Tokyo Nippon Budokan: Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama
10/25/99 Niigata Nagaoka Shi Kosei Kaikan 68th Asia Tag Oza Yushoketteisen: Tamon Honda & Masao Inoue vs. Johnny Smith & Maunakea Mossman. Honda & Inoue win titles.
AJ Hour #101
Kentaro Shiga vs. Makoto Hashi. The spots were well done, but it was pretty basic. *1/2
Rusher Kimura & Mitsuo Momota & Satoru Asako vs. Masa Fuchi & Haruka Eigen & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi. Asako & Kikuchi didn't do anything to save this. -**
Vader vs. Takeshi Morishima. Vader actually sold a little for Morishima. Morishima even did a dive. It was pretty decent while it lasted, but that was only 4:08. *
'99 Sekai Saikyo Tag Ketteileagusen: Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs. Akira Taue & Stan Hansen. Slow-paced stiff match. Hansen looked really awful because he's so incredibly slow. Taue was alright. Kobashi & mainly Akiyama were the whole match. It had a lot of heat, but was nothing special until the end. **1/4
AJ Hour #102
Masahito Kakihara & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Maunakea Mossman & Yoshinobu Kanemaru. Kakihara stole the whole as usual. Mossman didn't do anything of note, but it was very good when Kanemaru was in with Kakihara. **3/4
Johnny Smith vs. Masao Inoue. They did a few good teases revolving around the Argentine backbreaker, but the match was short and what focus it had didn't really go anywhere. *1/2
Gary Albright & Wolf Hawkfield & Tamon Honda vs. Johnny Ace & Mike Barton & Jun Izumida. Several awful performance. The match was basically kick, punch, and headbutt. The big thing was a few near falls on Izumida. Ace gave Izumida an Ace crusher on the floor after the match because he was pissed that Izumida got pinned. 1/4*
'99 Sekai Saikyo Tag Ketteileagusen: Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama. No Fear dominated Ogawa. Ogawa got a ton of support from the fans, but next to none from Misawa, who basically stood on the apron the whole match. The first 10 minutes was nothing special, but it got good after that. **3/4