Otsuka vs. Usuda, Ikeda vs. Funaki, Yuki vs. ASARI, Sasuke & Shiryu & Tiger Mask 4 vs. TAKA & Naniwa & Funaki, Pantera vs. Delfin-Delfin wins CMLL Welterweight, more!
TAKA & Funaki vs. Yoneyama & Ono
TAKA vs. Tanaka, Ishikawa vs. Ikeda, Otsuka vs. Tanaka, more!
*All league matches*
8/4/96 Hokkaido Sapporo Teison Hall: Takeshi Ono vs. Carl Greco. Ono was totally unimpressive and killed the match. *
8/5 Hokkaido : Satoshi Yoneyama vs. Diusel Bert. Pretty realistic looking, but not that great to watch. Bert did a good job of making his strikes look real. *1/4
8/25 Tokushima Bunka: Alexander Otsuka vs. Minoru Tanaka. Otsuka carried this and looked good. Tanaka was fine, but has come a long way since then. Otsuka got a bloody nose. **1/4
8/31 Saitama Kawashima Chomin Taiikukan: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Naohiro Hoshikawa. This was fine, but I expected more from these two. **
9/1/96 Tokyo Kitazawa Town Hall
Shoichi Funaki vs. Minoru Tanaka. Funaki's submissions vs. Tanaka's stiff kicks. **1/2
Young Generation Battle '96 3rd Place Match: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Takeshi Ono. Ishikawa did a good job here. He mainly kept it on the ground, with Ono kicking a lot harder than he normally does during standup. **1/2
Young Generation Battle '96 Final: Daisuke Ikeda vs. Katsumi Usuda. Good stiff match that Ikeda made dramatic. ***
*Replica package available*
Satoshi Yoneyama vs. Tetsuhiro Kuroda. Nothing like what you see from today's Kuroda; it was very submission oriented. Nothing spectacular, but better than expected and decent enough. 5:07 shown. Okay
Shoichi Funaki vs. Victor Krueger. Funaki used his speed and quickness to combat Krueger's huge size advantage. The match was good while it lasted because Funaki can really go when he wants to and Victor wasn't afraid to let Funaki make him look foolish. Unfortunately for the match quality though, the point of the match was to put Victor over strong so once he caught up to Funaki it was all she wrote. 5:07 shown. Good for what it was
Carl Greco vs. Katsumi Usuda. '80's U.W.F style mat match. Technique was good, but since the style had evolved by this point and these guys aren't exactly Takada & Yamazaki, it wasn't that exciting. 9:13 shown. Decent
4/14/96 Saitama GAZA HALL: TAKA Michinoku vs. Minoru Tanaka. Good technical match. They pretty much explored all aspects of shoot style, although they weren't afraid to throw in a pro style move. TAKA made it dramatic. He made me believe that he could lose...and then he did. Excellent finish with Tanaka turning the Michinoku driver II into a hizajujigatame. ***1/4
5/31/96 Nagoya Nakamura Sports Center Independent World Sekai Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: TAKA Michinoku vs. Minoru Tanaka. As Tanaka won with a leg submission in the previous match, he focused on repeating that result again. TAKA sold his knee like crazy. Even though this was far more toward Tanaka's style, TAKA was on top of his game here and the reason it was very good. Smart, well worked match. 9:22 shown. Very good
8/4/96 Sappporo Teison Hall: TAKA Michinoku vs. Minoru Tanaka. Last 3 minutes of a 30:00 draw. They still had some stamina left.
Independent World Sekai Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: TAKA Michinoku vs. Minoru Tanaka. Such a good technical match, nice movement and execution.Once again, TAKA sold his knee for all it was worth. If you don't mind selling that's exaggerated, this was a clinic. TAKA even let Tanaka use his Michinoku driver II on him. Tanaka was hardly great at this point, but he did enough right to allow TAKA to give a memorable performance. Tanaka's problem was his strikes were at least as inaccurate as Hotta's, but lacked her stiffness. The other problem with this match was, after all Tanaka did to TAKA, TAKA put him away with two moves. 13:00 shown. ***1/2 range
Daisuke Ikeda & Takeshi Ono vs. Yuki Ishikawa & Alexander Otsuka. Brutally stiff. Ikeda and even Ono were SO NASTY. Not that they went easy on Otsuka, but Ishikawa really took a beating. Intense match, particularly when Otsuka was in. The match wasn't anything special beyond it's stiffness, but this was the kind of stiffness that would make Kawada proud. Ikeda really impressed me here. ***3/4
Shoichi Funaki vs. Ikuto Hidaka (debut)
Alexander Otsuka vs. Naohiro Hoshikawa (Michinoku Pro)
Michinoku Pro 8 Man Tag Match: Gran Hamada & Naohiro Hoshikawa & Masato Yakushiji & The Great Sasuke vs. Dick Togo & MEN'S Teioh & Shiryu & TAKA Michinoku
Minoru Tanaka vs. Shodai Tiger Mask (free)
Yuki Ishikawa & Takeshi Ono vs. Daisuke Ikeda & Katsumi Usuda
Infernal KAORU (KAORU) vs. Jabuki (Hokuto), Tanaka vs. Yuki Ishikawa, Otsuka & Ikeda vs. Ono & Usuda, more!
Battlarts 5/31/97
Otsuka vs. ?
Tanaka vs. ?
Usuda vs. Rambo
Otsuka & Ishikawa & Hoshikawa vs. Funaki & Ono & Krueger
NJ TV 5/31/97
Best of the Super Jr. League Bout: Takaiwa vs. Wagner Jr.
Best of the Super Jr. League Bout: Otani vs. Nakajima
Best of the Super Jr. League Bout: Samurai vs. Tajiri. Very good match.
Kojima & Nakanishi vs. Goto & Nogami
Koshinaka & Ohara vs. Muto & Choshu
Hashimoto & Sasaki & Iizuka vs. Tenzan & NWO Sting & Hiro Saito
7/25/98
Young Generation Battle '98 Koshiki Leaguesen: Katsumi Usuda vs. Alexander Otsuka. Stiff well worked action. It was worked in shoot style, but they were diverse within that style. The match was a little long for them to go in this style, but they didn't waste time to fill it. Usuda needs to learn how to kick without loading them up though because it's extremely hard to hit his kind of kicks when the opponent doesn't know it's coming. 13:59. ***
Young Generation Battle '98 Koshiki Leaguesen: Takeshi Ono vs. Masao Orihara. Battle of the Tonpachi Machine Guns. The execution was surprisingly good, but it was real basic with no real transition and just taking turns on offense. 12:20. **
Clips of YGB league matches from 7/26-7/30
8/2/98
Young Generation Battle '98 Koshiki Leaguesen: Alexander Otsuka vs. Katsuji Takemura. Takemura wasn't capable of much and has no charisma. Otsuka spiced it up a bit, but these two had no chemistry together. Dull but passable. 8:30. *3/4
Young Generation Battle '98 Koshiki Leaguesen: Masao Orihara vs. Muhammed Yone. Short nothing match with Orihara in full overselling mode. 6:44. *
Young Generation Battle '98 Koshiki Leaguesen: Daisuke Ikeda vs. Takeshi Ono. A lot of striking, but Ikeda's are too much better for exchanges to be credible. The Brief Brothers came out during the match to support Ono and antagonize Ikeda. After the match, Ikeda fought with them in the back. 5:24. *
5/27/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Minoru Tanaka vs. Masaaki Mochizuki (Buko Dojo). I wish they showed this whole match because it looked really good. Mochizuki was on here. They worked a good storyline where he injured Tanaka's leg, and Tanaka did a good job of putting this over. Very good.
Katsumi Usuda vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (free). This was not even remotely reminiscent of a Battlarts match. Matsunaga did the same garbage he did in all the garbage leagues, except he threw in submission once in a while. 5 1/2 minutes aired, and they were 5 1/2 too many.
Alexander Otsuka vs. Viktor Kruger. This was a pretty good match pitting Otsuka's submission and technique against Kruger's size and power. 6 minutes shown.
Carl Greco vs. Ryuji Yamakawa. 5 minutes aired, and it was nothing special.
8/29/98 Sapporo Teison Hall
Katsumi Usuda vs. Ryuji Yamakawa. Usuda did some killer kicks. This looked good, but only 3 minutes were shown.
Yuki Ishikawa vs. Alexander Otsuka. Lots of near finishes. 5 minutes shown.
Young Generation Battle '98 Koshiki Leaguesen B Block
7/25/98 Tokyo FM Hall: Masao Orihara (Mebius) vs. Takeshi Ono. Orihara carried Ono to a good match. 5 minutes shown.
8/21/98: Masao Orihara vs. Muhammad Yone. Good action. 6:45 shown.
8/2/98: Daisuke Ikeda vs. Takeshi Ono. Nothing special. 3 minutes shown.
5/22/98: Minoru Tanaka vs. Viktor Krueger. Krueger used his size advantage to dominate, but Tanaka beat him with one move. Fair. 4 1/2 minutes shown.
9/6/98 Tokyo FM Hall
Young Generation Battle Junkessho: Viktor Krueger vs. Carl Greco. This ended before it began. Why even bother? DUD
Young Generation Battle Junkessho: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Minoru Tanaka. One nice spot after another, too bad only 4:45 was shown.
Young Generation Battle Yushoketteisen: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Viktor Krueger. Match was alright, but nothing special.
6/14/98 Tokyo FM Hall UWA Sekai Middlekyo Oiza Ketteisen: Ikuto Hidaka vs. The Willow (Jeff Hardy). Willow wins title. Looked good. 4:15 shown.
6/15/98 Yuki Ishikawa vs. Yone Genjin. Nothing special. 4:15 shown.
8/22/98: Yuki Ishikawa & Daisuke Ikeda vs. Alexander Otsuka & Mohammed Yone. The match seemed good, but the finish was pretty week. 6:00 shown.
5/27/98 Tokyo Korkuen Hall: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Daisuke Ikeda. This is the best Battlarts match I've seen so far. These guys were just killing each other. The match was technically excellent, with really good timing. They connected with the audience well and entertained them, but still wrestled smart and built the match around parity, teases, and near finishes. The style was similar to old UWF, but it was more exciting, had better intensity and was stiffer. ****1/4
Young Generation Battle '98 league match highlights from 8/28/98 & 9/5/98
Daisuke Ikeda & Muhammad Yone vs. Alexander Otsuka & Ikuto Hidaka. Good, solid match. Ikeda, Otsuka, & Hidaka all had their moments. **3/4
Young Generation Battle '98 Junkessho: Carl Greco vs. Victor Kruger. 48 second match.
Young Generation Battle '98 Junkessho: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Minoru Tanaka. Good, submission oriented U.W.F. style match. Tanaka did his moves so well. He pushed Ishikawa, even giving Ishikawa his own enzuigiri to manjigatame, but Ishikawa wound up catching him. ***
Alexander Otsuka vs. Ryuji Hijikata. Short squash.
Daisuke Ikeda & Muhammad Yone & Mach Junji vs. Masao Orihara & Takeshi Ono & Damashii Okamoto. Tonpachi dominated and there weren't too many impressive performances here. *1/2
Young Generation Battle '98 Yushosen: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Victor Kruger. Match was okay, but pretty deliberate with Ishikawa not trying anything too difficult. Mainly Kruger dominated with his power when it wasn't on the mat. **
10/5/98
Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita vs. Masato Yakushiji & Naohiro Hoshikawa. Great fast action. Hidaka was really impressive wrestling wise, but his team never had a chance of winning. 5:20 shown
J.Y.B. Super Bout Ikkaisen: Minoru Tanaka vs. Katsumi Usuda. 3:40 shown
10/23/98
J.Y.B. Super Bout Ikkaisen: Naohiro Hoshikawa vs. Masaaki Mochizuki. 4:45 shown
Yuki Ishikawa & Bob Backlund vs. Alexander Otsuka & Hisakatsu Oya
Hidaka gives a lesson on how to do the swandive style missile kick
10/5/98
B-CUP '98 Tournament Ikkaisen: Hisakatsu Oya vs. Greg Valentine
B-CUP '98 Tournament Ikkaisen: Daisuke Ikeda vs. Bob Backlund
10/23/98
B-CUP '98 Tournament Ikkaisen: SASUKE vs. Victor Kruegar
10/5/98
B-CUP '98 Tournament Ikkaisen: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga. Matsunaga cut Ishikawa's head right away. When he got tired of gouging that cut, he switched to hacking Ishikawa's arm up.
Masaaki Mochizuki & Mach Junji vs. Masaru Seno (Michinoku Pro) & Takashi Hijikata
TAKA Michinoku & Shoichi Funaki (WWF team) vs. Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita (Big Japan)
Hayabusa vs. Rey Bucanero
Victor Krueger & Carl Greco vs. Masao Orihara (Mebius) & Takeshi Ono
JYB Super Bout Final: Naohiro Hoshikawa (Michinoku Pro) vs. Minoru Tanaka
Highlights of B-CUP '98 Tournament 1st Round matches
B-CUP '98 Tournament Semifinal: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Hisakatsu Oya (FMW)
B-CUP '98 Tournament Semifinal: SASUKE (Michinoku Pro) vs. Bob Backlund
Daisuke Ikeda vs. Katsumi Usuda
The Road Warriors vs. Alexander Otsuka & Muhammad Yone
B-CUP '98 Tournament Final: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Bob Backlund. Ishikawa wins B-CUP '98
taped 12/16/98 Saitama Honkawagoe Pepe Hall
Edited down versions of Yuki Ishikawa & Carl Greco vs. Katsumi Usuda & Ryuji Hijikata, Muhammad Yone vs. Mach Junji, Alexander Otsuka vs. Katsuji Takemura
TAG BATTLE '98 Koshikileaguesen: Minoru Tanaka & Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita. ***
TAG BATTLE '98 Digest
taped 12/25/98 Tokyo FM Hall
Mach Junji vs. Ryuji Hijikata. 6 minutes shown of 30:00 draw. Decent in this version.
Alexander Otsuka & Muhammad Yone vs. Katsumi Usuda & Katsuji Takemura. *3/4
TAG BATTLE '98 Koshikileaguesen: Masao Orihara & Takeshi Ono vs. Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita. ***
TAG BATTLE '98 Koshikileaguesen: Yuji Ishikawa & Carl Greco vs. Minoru Tanaka & Masaaki Mochizuki. **1/2
Mach Junji vs. Ryuji Hijikata. 3:28 shown.
Katsumi Usuda vs. Masaaki Mochizuki. Mochizuki put on a good show with his athleticism and kicks. 3:13 shown.
Tiger Mask & Naohiro Hoshikawa vs. Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita. Exciting match. Fast-paced with lots of action and really impressive work. The teamwork of Hidaka & Fujita was impressive. 4:39 shown.
Tonpachi Machine Guns '99 Leader Ketteisen (decison match): Masao Orihara vs. Takeshi Ono. Orihara was up to the task here, carrying Ono to one of his best matches. Action packed, but the uick comebacks were kinda ridiculous. Orihara made it dramatic by kicking out at 2 9/10 down the stretch. ***1/4
Minoru Tanaka vs. Hayato Nanjo. Tanaka looked great here combining cool high spots with choice submissions. 5:34 shown.
Yuki Ishikawa & Alexander Otsuka vs. Daisuke Ikeda & Mohammed Yone. Really stiff, high impact match. Not pretty, but there was some serious ass kicking going on here. Yone wasn't given a chance to reduce this one. ***3/4
2/12
Muhammad Yone vs. Ryuji Hijikata. 1:16 shown
Takeshi Ono & Mach Junji vs. Azteca & Daiyo Kawauchi. 1:46 shown
Yuji Ishikawa & Ikuto Hidaka vs. Minoru Tanaka & Minoru Fujita. Hidaka & Fujita worked well together, but overall it seemed like a big disappointment considering who was involved 6:51 shown
Alexander Otsuka & Tiger Mask vs. Daisuke Ikeda & Katsumi Usuda. One of those long matches where you keep waiting for them to turn it up but it never happens. 10:36 shown
2/14
Minoru Fujita vs. Ryuji Hijikata. 1:12 shown
Azteca vs. Daiyo Kawauchi. :59 shown
Tiger Mask & Ikuto Hidaka vs. Takeshi Ono & Mach Junji. Hidaka looked great when he was on offense, but Tonpachi mainly dominated and their offense wasn't good. *1/2
Muhammad Yone & Katsumi Usuda vs. Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Yoshinori Sasaki. FMW was outclassed by two of Battlarts worst. You know you are in trouble when Yone is carrying the match. Sasaki thinks he's Vader, but doesn't have the size or skill to come close. Kuroda just used a bunch of lariats and half of them didn't even look good. *1/2
Yuki Ishikawa & Minoru Tanaka vs. Daisuke Ikeda & Alexander Otsuka. Tanaka looked good, but no one else did much. 7:28 shown
taped 3/12/99 Tokyo FM Hall
TAG BATTLE '98 Yushoketteisen: Yuki Ishikawa & Carl Greco vs. Alexander Otsuka & Muhammad Yone. Otsuka & Yone win tag league. **1/4
JJC League Digest
taped 3/21 Osaka Maisu Arena Sub Arena
JJC Sodatsuleaguesen Yushoketteisn: Minoru Tanaka vs. Masaaki Mochizuki. **1/2
taped 3/20
Yuki Ishikawa & Alexander Otsuka & Muhammad Yone vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Katsumi Usuda & Ryuji Yamakawa. 1/2*
This is a tournament of man & woman vs. man & woman mixed matches where the men and women have to wrestle each other because each match goes until everyone on one team is eliminated
Tournament Ikkaisen
Takeshi Ono & Ran Yu-Yu & Mach Junji vs. Devil Masami & Daisuke Ikeda & Kayoko Haruyama. **1/4
Yuki Ishikawa & Kana Mizaki & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs. Alexander Otsuka & Azumi Hyuga & Hikari Fukuoka. *3/4
Tournament Junkessho
Devil Masami & Daisuke Ikeda & Kayoko Haruyama vs. Dynamite Kansai & Muhammad Yone & Maya Hashimoto. *1/4
Katsumi Usuda & Commando Bolshoi & Carlos Amano vs. Alexander Otsuka & Azumi Hyuga & Hikari Fukuoka. **1/2
King & Queen Tournament Kesshosen
Dynamite Kansai & Muhammad Yone & Maya Hashimoto vs. Alexander Otsuka & Azumi Hyuga & Hikari Fukuoka. *
6/20/99 Tokyo FM Hall
Rastaman vs. Ryushi Hijikata. DUD
Minoru Tanaka vs. Katsumi Usuda. Decent
Tokyo FM Hall Digest
Yuki Ishikawa & Muhammad Yone vs. Daisuke Ideda & Ikuto Hidaka. **
6/25/99 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan 2
Minoru Tanaka vs. Ikuto Hidaka. ***1/4 range
Osaka Digest
Yuki Ishikawa vs. Katsumi Usuda. ***
Daisuke Ikeda & Takeshi Ono vs. Muhammad Yone & Masao Orihara. **
Don Arakawa vs. Tsubo Genjin. -**
5 Minute Exhibition: San-daime (third) Mach Junji vs. ?
Tsunehito Naito & Cannonball KAZU vs. Hodes Min & Masahiro Hashibe. Seemed alright. 4 minutes shown.
Muhammad Yone & Mach Junji vs. Takeshi Ono & Ryushi Hijikata. Seemed okay. 4 minutes shown.
Tiger Mask & Minoru Tanaka vs. Gran Naniwa & Masaaki Mochizuki. Seemed very good. 4:45 shown.
Ikuto Hidaka vs. Shodai Tiger Mask. *3/4
Soronaka Memorial Ceremony. Masakatsu Funaki, Katsuomi Inagaki, Takaku Fuke & Kiuma Kunioku are present
FMW Sekai Junior Heavykyu Title Match: Naoki Sano vs. Katsumi Usuda. **1/2
Joe Malenko & Carl Malenko (Carl Greco) vs. Yuki Ishikawa & Daisuke Ikeda. **3/4
1/12/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Yuki Ishikawa & Alexander Otsuka vs. Daisuke Ikeda & Muhammad Yone. 6:11 shown
2/14 Across Fukuoka
Muhammad Yone & Katsumi Usuda vs. Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Yoshinori Sasaki. 3:53 shown
Yuki Ishikawa & Minoru Tanaka vs. Daisuke Ikeda & Alexander Otsuka. 4:20 shown
3/12/99 Tokyo FM Hall
TAG BATTLE '98 Yushoketteisen: Yuki Ishikawa & Carl Greco vs. Alexander Otsuka & Muhammad Yone. 4:54 shown
3/20/99 Nagoya
Yuki Ishikawa & Alexander Otsuka & Muhammad Yone vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Katsumi Usuda & Ryuji Yamakawa. 4:43 shown
3/21 Osaka Maisu (?) Arena Sub Arena
Dynamite Kansai & Muhammad Yone & Maya Hashimoto vs. Alexander Otsuka & Azumi Hyuga & Hikari Fukuoka. 4:11 shown
JJC Sodatsuleaguesen Yushoketteisn: Minoru Tanaka vs. Masaaki Mochizuki. 5:03 shown
4/26 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
NWA World Middleweight Title: The Great Sasuke vs. Minoru Tanaka. 5:04 shown
Alexander Otsuka vs. Daisuke Ikeda. 4:28 shown
5/14 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Ryuji Hijikata vs. Yoshinori Sasaki. :50 shown
Carl Malenko vs. Mach Junji. 1:33
Tiger Mask & Ikuto Hidaka vs. Gran Naniwa & Masaaki Mochizuki. 4:50 shown
Masao Orihara & Takeshi Ono vs. Katsumi Usuda & Ryuji Yamakawa. 3:57 shown
Independent World World Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Naoki Sano vs. Minoru Tanaka. 4:56 shown
Alexander Otsuka & Muhammad Yone vs. Hayabusa & Tetsuhiro Kuroda. 5:16 shown
Daisuke Ikeda vs. Bob Backlund. 2:44 shown
Bed Of Nails Death Match: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga
6/9 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Independent World World Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Naoki Sano vs. Katsumi Usuda. 3:32 shown
Joe Malenko & Carl Malenko (Carl Greco) vs. Yuki Ishikawa & Daisuke Ikeda. 5:21 shown
*I have a limited amount of additional 1st gen SP tapes available for $18 or $23.50 COOP*
Highlights of 14 Young Generation Battle matches
Young Generation Battle '99 Koshikileaguesen: Muhammad Yone vs. Katsumi Usuda. 4 min shown
Young Generation Battle '99 Koshikileaguesen: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Carl Malenko. 4:30 shown
Young Generation Battle '99 Koshikileaguesen: Alexander Otsuka vs. Takeshi Ono. 3:45 shown
Young Generation Battle '99 Koshikileaguesen: Daisuke Ikeda vs. Minoru Tanaka. 3:30 shown
Young Generation Battle '99 Koshikileaguesen: Muhammad Yone vs. Carl Malenko. 4:15 shown
Rastaman digest
Yushosen Shinshutsu Ketteisen (advance to the championship decision match): Daisuke Ikeda vs. Muhammad Yone. **1/2
Young Generation Battle '99 Yushoketteisen: Yuki Ishikawa vs. Daisuke Ikeda. Ikeda wins YGB '99. ****
ACTIVE-B in Aomori taped 9/23/99 Aomori-ken Min Taiikukan Sub Arena
Daisuke Ikeda & Katsumi Usuda vs. Muhammad Yone & Takashi Ono. The 1/3 that aired was decent, but what aired was the best stuff.
Naoki Sano vs. Ikuto Hidaka. ***
Yuki Ishikawa & Kazunari Murikami vs. Alexander Otsuka & Ryuji Hijikata. **
taped 9/26 Miyagi Shiraishi Kinrosha Taiiku Center
Yuki Ishikawa & TAKA Michinoku & Kazunari Murikami vs. Alexander Otsuka & Muhammad Yone & Ikuto Hidaka. ***1/2
Independent World Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Naoki Sano vs. Minoru Tanaka. ***
Gran Hamada & Masaaki Mochizuki (Buko Dojo) vs. Masao Orihara (Mebius) & Takeshi Ono. Digest
Kazunari Murakami (U.F.O.) vs. Muhammad Yone. *1/4
TNT (Savio Vega) vs. Daisuke Ikeda. 1/2*
The Great Sasuke & Yuki Ishikwa vs. Jinsei Shinzaki & Alexander Otsuka. Nice spots, but they didn't seem to lead anywhere. Highlight was a new double German suplex (three guys together-one getting suplexed, one suplexing and getting suplexed, and one suplexing). **1/2
Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita vs. Mach Junji & Ryuji Hijikata. About half of the match is shown. I hoped that Hidaka & Fujita could draw Junji & Hijikata up, but unfortunately it was the other way around.
Tiger Mask vs. Katsumi Usuda. 1st U.W.F. with a few high spots at the end by Tiger. *1/4
Independent World Junior Heavykyu Senshuken. Naoki Sano vs. Curry Man. Curry Man was badly outclassed. Sano looked good on offense, but Curry Man got to control the match since he was jobbing. Curry's antics got little reaction and his offense was too deliberate and light. *1/2
TAKA Michinoku vs. Minoru Tanaka. Like some of Yoshida's matches in ARSION, it was mainly a worked shoot. The pro style spots they used, with the exception of TAKA's enzui missile kick, were rather masterfully worked in though. Really effective transitions here. The selling was really good except they stayed in submissions too long. TAKA's slaps looked weak, but otherwise the execution was about perfect.****
Ikuto Hidaka & Mach Junji vs. Minoru Fujita & Ryuji Hijikata. Junji is crap as always, but Hidaka & Fujita are really good. 4:49 shown.
Katsuji Usuda & Carl Malenko vs. Masao Orihara & Takashi Ono. 4:38 shown.
Minoru Tanaka vs. Curry Man. Tanaka looks great here. 3:42 shown.
Independent World Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Naoki Sano vs. Masaaki Mochizuki. Fast-paced exciting match with near falls back and forth for basically the whole match. Spotfest with no selling, but they really chained their spots together. ***1/2
Daisuke Ikeda & Kazunari Murakami vs. Yuki Ishikawa & Muhammad Yone. Good stiff match with Ikeda & Ishikawa working well together as always. ***1/4
Highlights of Mitsuhiro Matsunaga's previous matches in Battlarts
Alexander Otsuka vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga. Otsuka brawled from the get go and really took it to Matsunaga, who juiced heavily inside of two minutes. Otsuka bled even heavier after Matsunaga carved his head up with a pointy object. The match was okay for what it was, especially given Matsunaga was involved. There was a lot of blood and some drama, but very little wrestling. **
11/21 Kyoto KBS Hall Tag Battle '99 Koshikleagusen: Yuki Ishikawa & Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Daisuke Ikeda & Mach Junji. Basic Battlarts match. **1/4
Tag Battle '99 Digest: Otsuka & Anderson vs. Yone & Ono, Ikeda & Junji vs. Otsuka & Anderson, Ishikawa & Mochizuki vs. Usuda & Malenko, Ishikawa & Mochizuki vs. Otsuka & Anderson, Ikeda & Junji vs. Usuda & Malenko, Ishikawa & Mochizuki vs. Yone & Ono
12/4: Mitsuya Nagai vs. Tsubo Genjin. Nagai shouldn't be selling for this clown. 1:10 shown.
12/5 Honkawagoe Pepe Hall
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Mach Junji. Kandori is at ringside scouting Junji. Ono & Junji attack her after the match and lay her out. 5:35 shown.
Alexander Otsuka vs. Takeshi Ono. Ono's sequences were better than normal, but it was still only adequate. 4:51 shown.
Daisuke Ikeda vs. Andy Anderson. Anderson is pretty good and has potential, but isn't a great bumper. Ikeda made it a solid match. 6:22 shown
Tag Battle '99 Yushoketteisen: Yuki Ishikawa & Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Katsumi Usuda & Carl Malenko. Stiff match with good execution. A ton of knockdowns but the selling wasn't good and they didn't make them have much meaning. **1/2
Takeshi Ono vs. Ryuji Hijikata. They had some problems going from one move to the next, but otherwise it was adequate. *1/4
Minoru Tanaka vs. Tsubo Genjin. Tanaka pins the goofy caveman in 6 seconds, but then agrees to give him a second chance. Match was somewhat entertaining in a perverted way, as Genjin's offense is all below the belt and Tanaka wasn't afraid to give it back to him.
Alexander Otsuka & Katsumi Usuda vs. Masaaki Mochizuki & SAITO. SAITO did some good moves, but he didn't do the kick, suplex, submission style of the other guys, and subsequently didn't work well with Otsuka. It got off to slow start, but the second half had good action even though there was no direction or focus. Mochizuki was the best of the bunch. **
Daisuke Ikeda & Mach Junji vs. Mitsuya Nagai & Mohammed Yone. Nagai is already comfortable in this style, and him and Ikeda were the match. Junji just got destroyed, but in this role he didn't suck. Like Yone, Junji didn't add anything to the match, but watching Nagai punt him was pretty cool. **1/2