WRESTLING WORLD Opening Match: Manabu Nakanishi vs. Kazuyuki Fujita
NJ vs. HI: Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Kido & Tadao Yasuda vs. Kengo Kimura & Tatsutoshi
Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara
IWGP Tag Titles: Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima.
Tenzan & Kojima win titles.
Atsushi Onita vs. Kensuke Sasaki
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Scott Norton vs. Keiji Muto. Muto wins title.
IWGP Junior Tag Titles: Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Kendo Ka Shin & Dr. Wagner, Jr. Ka Shin & Wagner win titles.
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Koji Kanemoto
NJ vs. UFO: Yugi Nagata vs. David Beneteau
NJ vs. UFO: Don Frye vs. Brian Johnston
NJ vs. UFO: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Naoya Ogawa
AJ Pro Wrestling 30 1/17/99 '99 Shinshun Giant Series taped 1/15 Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan
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
Jd' #34 2/99 TOGETHER '98 1st ALL STAR WOMEN"S WRESTLING IN ARIAKE taped 12/26/98 Tokyo Ariake Coliseum
The Bloody & Fang Suzuki vs. Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima. ** range
Mayumi Ozaki (Oz Academy) vs. Lioness Asuka. **
Jaguar Yokota Intai Final Match: Jaguar Yokota vs. Devil Masami (JWP). *1/4
NJ World Pro Wrestling 2/27/99 FIGHTING SPIRIT '99
2/11 Osaka
IWGP Jr. Tag Titles: Kendo Ka Shin & Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
IWGP #1 Contender Tournament Semifinals
Satoshi Kojima vs. Manabu Nakanishi
Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Kensuke Sasaki
2/12 Gifu
IWGP #1 Contender Tournament Final: Satoshi Kojima vs. Kensuke Sasaki
2/5/99 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
IWGP Tag Title Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata 18:47
Masahiro Chono vs. Keiji Muto & Hiro Saito 11:20
2/6/99 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center: Masahiro Chono & AKIRA vs. Keiji Muto & Satoshi Kojima 13:34
2/14/99 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Masahiro Chono & NWO Sting & AKIRA vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Hiro Saito 17:41
Masa Saito Retirement Match: Masa Saito vs. Scott Norton 6:35
IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Keiji Muto vs. Kensuke Sasaki 28:09
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 14:25 of 31:38. Excellent back and forth match that appeared to be one of their very best. Kanemoto is really disciplined and under control here, not forcing anything or acting superhuman to pop the crowd. He's even able to stick with the more measured pace that works better for such a long match. Liger is slowed by a knee injury that occured before TV picked the match up, but is able to overpower Kanemoto with bombs and strikes. Kanemoto hits some hot counters, particularly when Liger is running the ropes, but does his best damage going back to the knee late for a near finish with the kneebar and two with the ankle lock. The main thing I didn't like was the decision to book a title rematch two months after their 1/4/99 Tokyo Dome match, as you kind of knew Kanemoto was going to take the title this time, and that somewhat lessened the sweetness of Kanemoto finally succeeding in defeating Liger in a title math on the 5th try. ****+
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
6/23/95 Niigata Shi Taiikukan Super Jr. II Leaguesen: Shinjiro Otani vs. Koji Kanemoto. This was a lot better than their J Crown match from 97. The match didn't tell any kind of a story, but it wasn't goofy with illogical no sell spots and the like. The work was excellent as you'd expect, with crisp execution and good stiffness for juniors. The selling, mainly how much they put over the previous damage (although considering how long this was they couldn't exactly spring right back up), and comebacks was a lot stronger than I expected. They went at it hard for 30 minutes (a little over 20 shown here) and still had a lot left, actually more in the worked sense than they should have. **** on Vol. 28, 7:54 shown here.
9/14/98 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center: Shinjiro Otani vs. Koji Kanemoto. ***3/4 on Vol. 49, 10:54 shown here
10/23/97 Kumamoto Shi Taiikukan: Shinjiro Otani vs. Kendo Kashin. *** on Vol. 42, 5:31 shown here
Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Kendo Kashin & Dr. Wagner, Jr. Good match, but clearly toned down. More of the attitude and less of the sequences. 7:08 shown
5/28/94 Super Jr. Leaguesen: Shinjiro Otani vs. TAKA Michinoku. Seemed like Otani carried the match and TAKA supplied the flashy offense. Fans were very into TAKA's flying. He was so graceful. Otani focused on TAKA's right knee. Good early stuff from both. 4:33 shown
5/20/97 Tokyo Korakuen Hall Super Jr. Leagusen: Otani vs. Yoshihiro Tajiri. ***3/4 on Vol. 36, 5:12 shown here
4/13/99 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center: Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & The Great Sasuke. Excellent change of pace from the NJ's usual junior tags that the crowd was very into. Faster paced and more exciting because of Sasuke. Sasuke looked off right at the begining of what they showed, which hurt the match. I'm glad I saw this part because it gives me a much clearer indication of where the match probably was as a whole, but considering they were editing all these and cutting out excellent parts one has to wonder why they didn't start their clip 30 seconds later. 7:10 shown.
10/16/97 Yokkaichi Shi Taiikukan: Shinjiro Otani vs. El Samurai. *** on Vol. 42, 5:13 shown here.
5/19/98: Shinjiro Otani vs. El Samurai. Seemed like a very well worked match, but one that was just par for the course for these two. 4:45 shown
9/16/95 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Shinjiro Otani vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa. Good submission oriented match. I figured they'd just drop them and go to the spots at some point, but they saw it through to the end. 5:03 shown
5/31/98 Super Jr. Leaguesen: Shinjiro Otani vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa. **** range on Vol. 46, 5:45 shown here.
6/6/94 Chiba Koen Taiikukan Super Jr. Leaguesen: Shinjiro Otani vs. Jushin Thunder Liger. Otani wasn't as smooth or precise here, but he was working intelligently and the match wasn't about spots, so it didn't much matter. Otani was in full young punk mode here using the guard rail and post to work over Liger's arm. Meanwhile, Liger focused on Otani's knee. The difference between this match and the 9/16/95 one with Takaiwa is here there was much more breaking down the part and much less applying submissions to it. 7:16 shown
11/14/95 Hamamatsu Arena: Shinjiro Otani vs. Jushin Thunder Liger. I enjoyed the highlights of their previous encounter more because this was basically the standard NJ junior style of the time, but there's no denying how much smoother, more polished, and more charismatic Otani was a year and a half later. 7:26 shown
3/24/99: Kensuke Sasaki & Shinjiro Otani vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima. Sasaki & Otani offered solid varied opposition to Tenzan & Kojima, who didn't have their standard have a good match with anyone formula down yet. What made this good is that NJ hadn't killed off the juniors credibility yet, so fans actually felt Otani could win. Otani lacked sustained offense against this big tough opposition, but he did the counters into pins that gave you hope, and the fans wanted to believe. ***
Onita/Chono angles
No Rope Explosive Barbed Wire Death Match: Masa Chono vs. Atsushi Onita
NEW JAPAN PROGRESS: Yugi Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
New Japan vs. Battlarts Part 1: Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Minoru Tanaka
IWGP Junior Tag Titles: Kendo Ka Shin & Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & The Great Sasuke. Liger & Sasuke win titles
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Koji Kanemoto vs. Shinjiro Otani
NJ vs. Battlarts Part 2: Kazuo Yamazaki & Yugi Nagata vs. Alexander Otsuka & Yuki Ishikawa
IWGP Tag Titles: Kensuke Sasaki & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Genichiro Tenryu
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Keiji Muto vs. Don Frye
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 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
NJ World Pro Wrestling 5/15/99 STRONG ENERGY 1999 taped 5/3/99 Fukuoka Kokusai Center
Masahiro Chono & AKIRA vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Koji Kanemoto vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa
IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Keiji Muto vs. Genichiro Tenryu
NJ World Pro Wrestling 5/22/99 BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. VI taped 5/19 Saitama Koki Shi Min Taiikukan
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. League Match B Block: Shinjiro Otani vs. Dr. Wagner Jr.
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. League Match A Block: Koji Kanemoto vs. Masaaki Mochizuki
Shiro Koshinaka & Yuji Nagata & Tadao Yasuda vs. Keiji Muto & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
Kensuke Sasaki & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Masa Chono & NWO Sting
NJ World Pro Wrestling 5/29/99 BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. taped 5/25 Ishikawa-ken
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. League Match B Block: Shinjiro Otani vs. Masao Orihara
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. League Match A Block: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Gran Hamada
Kensuke Sasaki & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Masa Chono & NWO Sting
Tatsumi Fujinami & Genichiro Tenryu vs. Keiji Muto & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
NJ World Pro Wrestling 5/22/99 BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. VI taped 5/19 Saitama Koki Shi Min Taiikukan
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. League Match B Block: Shinjiro Otani vs. Dr. Wagner Jr.
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. League Match A Block: Koji Kanemoto vs. Masaaki Mochizuki
Shiro Koshinaka & Yuji Nagata & Tadao Yasuda vs. Keiji Muto & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
Kensuke Sasaki & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Masa Chono & NWO Sting
NJ World Pro Wrestling 5/29/99 BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. taped 5/25 Ishikawa-ken
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. League Match B Block: Shinjiro Otani vs. Masao Orihara
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. League Match A Block: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Gran Hamada
Kensuke Sasaki & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Masa Chono & NWO Sting
Tatsumi Fujinami & Genichiro Tenryu vs. Keiji Muto & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
NJ World Pro Wrestling 6/5/99 BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. VI taped 5/31/99 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan 2
Shiro Koshinaka & Tadao Yasuda vs. Tatsutoshi Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara
Kensuke Sasaki & Brian Johnston vs. Yuji Nagata & Takashi Iizuka
Masahiro Chono & Don Frye & NWO Sting vs. Keiji Muto & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. League Match B Block: Shinjiro Otani vs. Minoru Tanaka
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. League Match A Block: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Koji Kanemoto
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. VI taped 5/31/99 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
Gran Hamada & El Samurai & Kendo Ka Shin & Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Super Shocker & Masao Orihara & Masaaki Mochizuki. The timing and execution wasn't as good as the typical NJ Jr. tag, but overall I felt it was a better match because it was something different. The new people in the match, not so much Mochizuki, but Shocker, Orihara, & Hamada all performed well. In fact, Ka Shin & Takaiwa were probably the worst of the eight, which helps validate the theory that Liger, Samurai, Kanemoto, Otani, & Wagner could probably have better tag matches if the better independent juniors were in Ka Shin & Takaiwa's place. It was cool seeing Orihara & Wagner battle for who could be the biggest punk in the match. However, Shocker vs. Wagner produced better, probably the best, wrestling. This match wasn't that long, but they worked at such a fast pace, particularly Samurai, that they really packed a lot into it. ****
Genichiro Tenryu & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Meng. Pretty much everything you'd expect. Meng & Nakanishi did the expected no selling. Fujinami seemed out of place. Tenryu didn't even bother to try to resurrect this from the gutter. 1/2*
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. VI taped 6/4/99 Takamatsu Shi Sogo Taiikukan
Yutaka Yoshie vs. Michiyoshi Ohara. Yoshie was too deliberate here. They didn't embarrass themselves, but it was short and uneventful. *
5/20/99 Tsukubo Cabio: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Super Shocker. Shocker uses moves that haven't been seen in Japan, but what really helped this match is they fit so well into Liger's formula. Shocker had an interesting knee attack, but lacked the diversity to sustain it for as long as he tried to. These two worked quite well together. The finishing segment lacked the excitement and drama to live up to the body of the match and make it a standout. ***1/2
5/21 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Masaaki Mochizuki. Takaiwa tried to carry this. Mochizuki was bumping for him, but Takaiwa's offense was too basic for this to be all that good. These two didn't have much chemistry, and the execution was far from perfect. **
5/22: Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Gran Hamada. Got off to the expected slow start and wasn't going anywhere, but wound up having a few memorable spots. Takaiwa did his repeated powerbombs, but Hamada truned the 2nd into a Frankensteiner. Takaiwa caught Hamada's pescado and threw him into the guard rail. Takaiwa tried to turn Hamada's Frankensteiner off the top into a powerbomb,b ut Hamada switched into a DDT. **1/2
5/23 Nagano: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Masaaki Mochizuki. Shocker was better than Mochizuki, but Liger was better here and the psychology and focus were a few steps up. Liger shotei'd Mochizuki over the guard rail, but injured his arm shoteing the post when Mochizuki ducked out of the way. Mochizuki then went to work on the arm including exciting spots like swandive missile kick, kakato otoshi to keep at it after his main arm attack was over. ***1/2
5/29: Koji Kanemoto vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa. Kanemoto made this a fierce intense match. Takaiwa attacked Kanemoto's left knee including a diving elbow. Much more exciting than the previous Takaiwa, faster paced with more spots. 6:48 shown. Good.
6/3 Hiroshima Undo Koen Taiikukan: Koji Kanemoto vs. Gran Hamada. Kanemoto was on top of his game here. Hamada wasn't, but with Kanemoto's help most of the moves looked great anyway. Hamada did his diving swinging DDT off the apron. ***1/4
6/6: Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Super Shocker. Style clash. Takaiwa doesn't know Lucha, so he basically grounded Shocker. Shocker did his knee attack, but he had to fight like a Japanese heavyweight. Takaiwa didn't give him much respect either. Not a bad match, but Takaiwa's lack of diversity was a killer. **
5/20/99 Tsukubo Cabio: El Samurai vs. Masao Orihara. Great moves, but they didn't work them in that well so it was basically just an exhibition of spots. **3/4
5/21/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Kendo Kashin vs. Minoru Tanaka. Tanaka is a great opponent for Kashin because not only is he the best at the same basic style, but he's one of the best at camouflaging mistakes. Strong technical match. Great fast counters and transitions out of armbars and snapmares. Tanaka even turned an Argentine backbreaker into a hadakajime. A match like this shows even more than usual that Kashin's brawling detracts from the match because it removes the credibility and seriousness from the "shooting." Not that this match looked particularly believable, of course, but it was a match where the smoothness, quickness, and athleticism shown in the matwork allowed you to suspend disbelief. ***1/4
5/22/99: Kendo Kashin vs. Masao Orihara. Kashin & Takaiwa are really exposed in this tournament because they keep having style clashes they can't get over, unlike the other NJ juniors that basically have a good match with anyone. Orihara got most of the offense and was out to make it entertaining. Suddenly he missed a moonsault and Kashin armbared him for the win. **
5/23/99 Nagano: El Samurai vs. Minoru Tanaka. Lots of good moves, but too short so there wasn't much developement. Nice back and forth though. More towards Samurai's style, but some submission work when Tanaka caught Samurai. Tanaka had a nice stretch of near finishes including a Dragon suplex, but the match just ended there rather than becoming more dramatic with Samurai getting his chance. ***
5/30/99: Kendo Kashin vs. Shinjiro Otani. Kashin jumped Otani as soon as Otani hit the ring, and beat him up on the outside. What I liked about the opening was Kashin used his brawling to attack Otani's arm, so it actually set up his in ring submission work. Otani kept his arm in focus and did a typically good job of working to Kashin's strengths and keeping the quality high. Kashin was a little sloppy, but mainly it had the same problems as a lot of these matches, too short and ends rather abruptly. Still a pretty smart match with better transitions than I expected from a Kashin match. ***1/4
6/3/99 Hiroshima Undo Koen Taiikukan: El Samurai vs. Shinjiro Otani. Long match with a major effort from both parties. Wasn't real exciting early, but had good focus with Otani working over Samurai's knee. Samurai didn't have Otani's focus, but he did some good arm spots. They built up to the high spots with this slower paced more selling oriented section that made the holds seem meaningful. The problem is once they went to the spots they pretty much rendered the early submission work meaningful. There's no doubt in my mind that both segments were excellent, but this should have been a great match and all it would have taken was to connect the segments instead of it being like two different matches. The second half had some great work. Once they started the near falls they pretty much kept doing them until the end. They weren't just going through every move in their arsenal, they only did 1-2 per minute. They made you sure the match was going to end right there, but then it kept continuing. ****1/4
6/6/99: Kendo Kashin vs. Dr. Wagner, Jr.. Another style clash. Wagner pretty much conceded this wasn't going to approach his usual quality and didn't take it too seriously. What they did looked fine, but it was a lackluster ending to the tape, especially after we just saw a top notch match. 5:05 shown
NJ Strong Style #92 8/20/99 SUMMER STRUGGLE '99
taped 7/1 Gifu Sangyo Kaikan
Koji Kanemoto vs. El Samurai. ****
taped 7/7 Yamagata Yonezawa Shi Ei Taiikukan
Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Shinya Makabe. *1/4
Junji Hirata & Black Cat vs. Takashi Iizuka & Masakazu Fukuda. *1/2
6/25/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Shinya Hashimoto & Yuji Nagata vs. Keiji Muto & Satoshi Kojima
6/26/99 Nagaoka: Shinya Hashimoto & Tadao Yasuda vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Meng
7/6/99: Shinya Hashimoto & Junji Hirata vs. Masahiro Chono & Michael Wallstreet
7/12/99: Shinya Hashimoto & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Scott Norton & Satoshi Kojima
NJ Strong Style #93 8/27/99 SUMMER STRUGGLE '99
taped 7/7 Yamagata Yonezawa Shi Ei Taiikukan
Shinjiro Otani vs. Kendo Ka Shin. *3/4
Yutaka Yoshie vs. Manabu Nakanishi. 1/2*
taped 7/20 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai & Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Kendo Ka Shin. ***3/4
NJ Tadakai no Wonderland ~Chosenshi Gekiko Hen~ #555 8/31/99
taped 2/6/93 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Riki Choshu & Takayuki Iizukda vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura. *3/4
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Brad Armstrong. **3/4
taped 2/13/93 Chiba Shi Sports Center
Ashura Hara & Masao Orihara vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Masashi Aoyagi. **
Keiji Muto & Akira Nogami vs. Hellraisers. *
5/21/92 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Shinya Hashimoto & Keiji Muto vs. Big Van Vader & Rambo
9/26/93 Osaka: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Hiroshi Hase
3/23/94: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Rick Rude
9/27/94 IWGP Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Masahiro Chono
4/28/95 North Korea: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Scott Norton
6/13/95 Shizuoka: Shinya Hashimoto & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Riki Choshu & Kensuke Sasaki
9/13/96 Nagaoka: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
3/9/98 Kyoto: Shinya Hashimoto vs. NWO Sting
6/1/98 Odawara: Shinya Hashimoto & Junji Hirata vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka
6/25/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Shinya Hashimoto & Yuji Nagata vs. Keiji Muto & Satoshi Kojima
7/10/99: Shinya Hashimoto & Junji Hirata vs. Hiro Saito & Satoshi Kojima
Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Yutaka Yoshie. Yoshie actually wins. *1/4
Osamu Kido vs. Masakazu Fukuda. 1/4*
Michael Wallstreet & AKIRA vs. Junji Hirata & Takashi Iizuka. *
7/20
Shinya Hashimoto & Yuji Nagata vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Meng. **1/2
7/21
Osamu Kido & Masakazu Fukuda vs. Takashi Iizuka & Yutaka Yoshie. *1/2
Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Yugi Nagata. ***1/2
SUMMER STRUGGLE '99 taped 7/21 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Scott Norton & Satoshi Kojima vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Meng. *1/2
Shinya Hashimoto vs. NWO Sting. *
Tatsumi Fujinami & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Junji Hirata. *
Strong Style #147 BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. VII 6/9/00 Osaka Shi Chuo Taiikukan
Kenzo Suzuki & Wataru Inoue vs. Tadao Yasuda & Hiroshi Tanahashi
Masa Saito vs. Satoshi Kojima NJ video game match
Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Junji Hirata & Takashi Iizuka
World Pro-Wrestling #196 '99 G1 CLIMAX taped 8/13/99 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
B Block Koshiki Leaguesen: Manabu Nakanishi vs. Masahiro Chono
A Block Koshiki Leaguesen: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Yuji Nagata
8/14/99 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
B Block Koshiki Leaguesen: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Manabu Nakanishi
A Block Koshiki Leaguesen: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Yuji Nagata
8/15/99 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
A Block Koshiki Leaguesen: Satoshi Kojima vs. Keiji Muto
A Block Koshiki Leaguesen: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Manabu Nakanishi
A Block Daihyosha (representative) Ketteisen: Keiji Muto vs. Yuji Nagata
'99 G1 Climax Yushoketteisen: Keiji Muto vs. Manabu Nakanishi
GIngu CLIMAX THE LAST BATTLE OF SUMMER taped 8/28 Tokyo Jingu Kyujo
Brian Johnston vs. Kazuyuki Fujita. 1/2*
Tatsumi Fujinami & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima. **
Black Cat vs. Masakazu Fukuda. *
Kendo Kashin & Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai vs. Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa. ***1/2
Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Tadao Yasuda. **
Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Kido vs. Satoshi Kojima & Hiro Saito. **
6/25/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Kendo Kashin vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa
7/5/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. El Samurai
Koji Kanemoto vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa
7/10/99: Shinjiro Otani vs. Yuji Nagata
9/13/99 Niigata Shi Taiikukan: El Samurai vs. Koji Kanemoto
9/16/99 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center: Shinjiro Otani vs. Kendo Kashin
NJ Strong Style
Hiro Saito vs. Masakazu Fukuda. *
Kendo Kashin & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani. ***1/2
S-Arena
Highlights from Jd' 11/1
Motoshi Okuma career retrospective
taped 9/18/99 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan
El Samurai vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa. **3/4
taped 9/23/99 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Masakazu Fukuda & Shinya Makabe vs. Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani. **1/2
Osamu Kido & Takashi Iizuka vs. Junji Hirata & Kazuyuki Fujita. *
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. AKIRA. Liger sustained a flukish knee injury midway through the match and had to hobble around on one leg the rest of the way. What made the match is that AKIRA viciously attacked the bad knee and took the fight to Liger so he really didn't need to have much mobility. Liger's selling is top notch when he's faking, so you can imagine how good it was here. The only problem was that with Liger being so limited, he wound up just putting AKIRA away with two moves after taking all that abuse from AKIRA. ***1/4
NJ vs. L.A. Gym: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Sean McCully 2:35
IWGP Junior Tag Title Match: Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka 18:32. They came out with the look in their eyes, the desire to have a classic. The intensity and urgency were high from the get go, and never wavered. Kanemoto & Otani began by taking it to each other, doing a fast paced stiff match in Tanaka's shoot style. These two can move to a sort of UWF style with ease, I say sort of because it had the moves but desired to be a junior match rather than something credible, but Takaiwa lacks their diversity and ultimately was pretty much the same as always. Tanaka had no problem fitting in since they geared it toward his strengths, but Kanemoto & Otani were much better than the other two. It wasn't as well executed as the typical junior tag, but that was to be expected since they aren't as familiar with Tanaka. Not a spectacular bout in the traditional sense, but their passion had me riveted from start to finish. ****
GROUND X CROSS: Kimo vs. Yuji Nagata 3:54
Super Power vs. TEAM 2000: Scott Norton & Satoshi Kojima vs. Masahiro Chono & Don Frye 17:01
IWGP Heavykyu Senshuken: Keiji Muto vs. Manabu Nakanishi 20:00
Opening Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Tatsutoshi Goto 10:13
IWGP Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Kendo Kashin vs. Jushin Thunder Liger 16:08
Tatsumi Fujinami & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Osamu Kido & Takashi Iizuka 9:31
Genichiro Tenryu vs. Kensuke Sasaki 14:49
NWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Naoya Ogawa vs. Shinya Hashimoto 13:10
Highlights of 60 of the best and/or most important matches in the history of the promotion. Goes from Inoki vs. Gotch from the debut show on 3/6/72 through Chono defeating Muto to win the first G1 Climax on 8/11/91.
*Replica package available. Regular price + $2.50 for extended length tape so the whole show can be recorded on SP*
Highlights of 56 of the best and/or most important matches in the history of the promotion. Goes from Liger vs. Pegasus mask vs. mask match from 7/4/91 to Ogawa beat Hashimoto again on 10/11/99.
*Replica package available. Regular price + $2.50 for extended length tape so the whole show can be recorded on SP*
Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Kendo Kashin & Dr. Wagner Jr. Good solid match, but not nearly as exciting or spectacular as these guys are capable of. ***
Wataru Inoue vs. Katsuyori Shibata. The shoot style portion was good, but the rest was nothing much. *
Masakazu Fukuda vs. Shinya Makabe. Solid match, but short and unspectacular. *1/4
Junji Hirata & Tadao Yasuda vs. Takashi Iizuka & Kazuyuki Fujita. Iizuka made it passable. *1/2
Katsuyori Shibata vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
Shiro Koshinaka & Tadao Yasuda vs. Tatsutoshi Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara