#37
GREAT MUTA Johnny The Bull vs. Tomoaki Honma
Keiji Muto & Kohei Suwama vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima
16 Man Battle Royal: Keiji Muto & Kensuke Sasaki & Satoshi Kojima & Toshiaki Kawada & Jamal & David Flair & Love Machine Arashi & Nobukazu Hirai & Buchanan & Nobutaka Araya & Akira Raijin & Johnny Stamboli & Tomoaki Honma & D-Lo Brown & Taiyo Kea
#38
Toshizo vs. Akira Raijin
NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA vs. David Flair & Sambo Oishi
Mini Love Machine & Love Machine Arashi vs. D-Lo Brown & TAKA Michinoku
Satoshi Kojima & Kaz Hayashi vs. Keiji Muto & Taichi Ishikari
Digest of 1/2/05-4/20/05 tours plus the following complete matches
2/16/05: Keiji Muto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
4/20/05 Yoyogi National Gymnasium #2
Champion Carnival 2005 Semifinal: Jamal vs. Satoshi Kojima 16:22
Champion Carnival 2005 Semifinal: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Toshiaki Kawada 19:11
Champion Carnival 2005 Final: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Jamal 17:32
#39
Nobutaka Araya & Nobukazu Hirai vs. Tomoaki Honma & Kohei Suwama
TAKA Michinoku & D-Lo Brown & Buchanan vs. Masa Fuchi & Akira Raijin & KAZMA
Keiji Muto & David Flair vs. GREAT MUTA Johnny The Bull & TARU
Great Kosuke (Satoshi Kojima) & Masked Volcano (Kensuke Sasaki) & Shiryu (Kaz Hayashi) vs. Love Machine Storm & Mini Love Machine & Super Love Machine #2
#40
Love Machine Storm & Mini Love Machine #2 vs. MAZADA & TAKA Michinoku 8:14
Triple Crown Title: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kensuke Sasaki 23:27
#43
Johnny Stamboli & TARU vs. Keiji Muto & Tomoaki Honma 13:06
Ebessan vs. NOSAWA Rongai 8:21
Kohei Suwama Seven Match Trial Series #2: Satoshi Kojima vs. Kohei Suwama 14:03
#44
Masanobu Fuchi & Nobukazu Hirai vs. MAZADA & NOSAWA Rongai 10:27
Toshizo vs. Kaz Hayashi 10:33
Akira Raijin & Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma vs. Nobutaka Araya & Taichi Ishikari & Toshiaki Kawada 19:58
#45
World Junior Heavyweight Title: TAKA Michinoku vs. Mini Love Machine #2 11:03
Asia Tag Title: Masayuki Naruse & Mitsuya Nagaivs. Buchanan & Rico 24:28
AJPW World Tag Title: Jamal & Taiyo Kea vs. Keiji Muto & Kohei Suwama 26:25
#46
Kaz Hayashi & NOSAWA Rongai vs. AKIRA & Toshizo 12:52
Shuji Kondo & TARU & YASSHI vs. Blue K & Taiyo Kea & TAKA Michinoku 12:45
Akira Raijin & Satoshi Kojima vs. Kohei Suwama & Tomoaki Honma 26:12
Abdullah The Butcher & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Nobutaka Araya & Nobukazu Hirai
AKIRA & Toshizo vs. NOSAWA Rongai & MASADA
TARU & Chuck Palumbo & Johnny Stamboli vs. Love Machine Storm & Makai Love Machine #2 & Mini & Love Machine
Taiyo Kea & Jamal vs. Tomoaki Honma & Kohei Suwama
Satoshi Kojima & Akira Raijin vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Taichi Ishikari
Keiji Muto & Kensuke Sasaki & Kaz Hayashi vs. TAKA Michinoku & Buchanan & Rico
NOSAWA Rongai vs. MAZADA
Love Machine Storm & Makai Love Machine #2 & Mini Love Machine #2 vs. Tomoaki Honma & Taichi Ishikari & Akira Raijin
AKIRA & Toshizo vs. Kaz Hayashi & Katsuhiko Nakajima
2004 Strongest Tag vs. 2004 Weakest Tag Handicap Match: Taiyo Kea & Jamal vs. Masanobu Fuchi & Nobutaka Araya & Nobukazu Hirai
RO&D vs. Voodoo Murders: TARU & Chuck Palumbo & Johnny Stamboli vs. TAKA Michinoku & Buchanan & Rico
Kohei Suwama Trial Series 3rd & Kensuke Sasaki Anniversary Match: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Kohei Suwama
Keiji Muto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
Triple Crown Heavyweight Title Match: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Satoshi Kojima
AKIRA & Tomoaki Honma & Toshizo vs. TARU & Shuji Kondo & "brother" YASSHI
Champion Carnival 2005 Participation Match: Nobutaka Araya vs. Kohei Suwama
TAKA Michinoku vs. NOSAWA
Keiji Muto & Akira Raijin vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Taichi Ishikari
Satoshi Kojima & Kaz Hayashi vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima 12:25. A brutally stiff war in Kensuke's style that developed into a wrestling match which took advantage of the abilities of the others. Started strong with even Hayashi laying into the opposition. Hayashi was the primary whipping boy though because that's not his strong suit, so he wound up being primarily responsible for changing the style in his favor. The work was good too, but the match failed to pick up steam, and ended way too early. It clearly had the potential to be a 4 star match, but it was ultimately rather incomplete. ***1/4
World Tag Title Match: Taiyo Kea & Jamal vs. Johnny Stamboli & Chuck Palumbo
Kohei Suwama & Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Nobutaka Araya & Taichi Ishikari
Love Machine Storm & Makai Love Machine #2 vs. Naoshi Sano & Toshiyuki Moriya
Satoshi Kojima & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Keiji Muto & Kensuke Sasaki
Shuji Kondo & YASSHI vs. Kaz Hayashi & NOSAWA Rongai
AKIRA & Toshizo vs. Mini & Love Machine & Mini & Love Machine #2
Giant Bernard & TARU & Johnny Stamboli & Chuck Palumbo vs. TAKA Michinoku & Taiyo Kea & Jamal & BLUE & K
Toshizo & Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. TAKA Michinoku & BLUE-K
TARU & Chuck Palumbo & "brother" YASSHI vs. Kaz Hayashi & Tomoaki Honma & Kohei Suwama
Champion Carnival A Block: Taiyo Kea vs. Love Machine Arashi
Champion Carnival B Block: Buchanan vs. Jamal
Champion Carnival A Block: Satoshi Kojima vs. Shuji Kondo 15:44. Kondo wasn't anywhere near Kojima's level, both in push and in ability, but Kojima didn't dominate or abuse him. Kojima didn't have to go all out to beat him, so it wasn't the match it could have been, but it built pretty well and had some drama even though the outcome was never in doubt. Given Kojima likes to have junior style matches with heavyweights, I was surprised at how methodical it was early. They stepped it up in the second half though, with Kondo injuring Kojima's knee helping him to appear to have a chance, even though it was ultimately just a brief diversion. **3/4
Champion Carnival A Block: Giant Bernard vs. Kensuke Sasaki
Champion Carnival B Block: Keiji Muto vs. Toshiaki Kawada 30:00. The root of my dislike for Muto is his sabotaging of his matches against Nobuhiko Takada, and he's continued the same lazy, disrespectful, pansy ass tactics with just about every shooter type he's fought since, particularly Kawada. Muto's spirited start made me hope tonight was going to be different, injuring Kawada's knee at the bell and figure 4ing him on the floor (Kawada later avenged with an armbar on the floor). It was fools gold though, as Muto lacks the health and the offense to do a long match, so putting his knee attack early simply allows him to reset the tedious loop a few times later on. I could live with his repetition, but the match quickly devolved into the same anti shooter nonsense where in order to avoid having the shooter look good by opening up on him with their kicks, Muto just lays around on the mat. In order for the shooter to look good by actually doing some credible, quality submission work, he refuses to take their bait for counters and does pro style moves that don't hold water. I was beginning to get really frustrated when Kawada set up his backdrop, but Muto dug in so Kawada couldn't do it, and proceeded to stall for a few more minutes. The match was totally devoid of urgency, and very much lacking in intensity. Kawada was handling Muto very gently, and at some point just gave up and mailed it in because it wasn't worth the effort to fight for quality Muto wasn't going to deliver. *3/4
4/9/05
Champion Carnival 2005 Block B: Jamal [2] vs. Chuck Palumbo [0] 14:27
Champion Carnival 2005 Block B: Toshiaki Kawada [2] vs. Kohei Suwama [0] 3:36
Champion Carnival 2005 Block B: Keiji Muto [2] vs. Buchanan [0] 9:13
4/14/05
Champion Carnival Block A: Taiyo Kea vs. Giant Bernard 10:51
Champion Carnival Block A: Satoshi Kojima vs. Arashi 15:09
Champion Carnival Block A: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Shuji Kondo 14:29
4/14/05
Champion Carnival 2005 Block B: Chuck Palumbo [2] vs. Kohei Suwama [0] 9:18
Champion Carnival 2005 Block B: Keiji Muto [5] vs. Jamal [2] 13:14
5/20/05
Masanobu Fuchi & Taichi Ishikari & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kikutas Jack Kikutaro & Taiyo Kea & TAKA Michinoku 16:34
Keiji Muto & Kohei Suwama vs. Arashi & Masayuki Kono 18:53
Katsuhiko Nakajima & Toshizo vs. Akira Raijin & Tomoaki Honma 13:37
Champion Carnival 2005 Block B: Jamal [6] vs. Kohei Suwama [2] 6:08
Champion Carnival 2005 Block A: Arashi [4] vs. Giant Bernard [4] 2:38
Champion Carnival 2005 Block B: Chuck Palumbo [5] vs. Keiji Muto [5] 14:39
Kaz Hayashi & Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma vs. Shuji Kondo & TARU & YASSHI 18:19
Champion Carnival 2005 Block B: Toshiaki Kawada [7] vs. Buchanan [5] 7:06
Champion Carnival 2005 Block A: Kensuke Sasaki [6] vs. Taiyo Kea [5] 21:01
Arashi & Toshizo & Ryota Chikuzen vs. Akira Raijin & Taichi Ishikari & Masanobu Fuchi 5:26
Champion Carnival 2005 Semifinal: Jamal vs. Satoshi Kojima 16:22
Champion Carnival 2005 Semifinal: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Toshiaki Kawada 19:11
Buchanan & Taiyo Kea vs. Nobukazu Hirai & Nobutaka Araya 5:06
World Junior Heavyweight Title: TAKA Michinoku vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima 17:04
Chuck Palumbo & Giant Bernard & Shuji Kondo & TARU & YASSHI vs. Kaz Hayashi & Keiji Muto & Kohei Suwama & NOSAWA Rongai & Tomoaki Honma 17:16
Champion Carnival 2005 Final: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Jamal 17:32
5/20/05
Honma Special: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Tomoaki Honma 11:35
NOSAWA Rongai vs. YASSHI 5:42
Giant Bernard vs. Buchanan 10:08
Shuji Kondo & TARU vs. Kaz Hayashi & Satoshi Kojima 17:38
6/3/05
Giant Bernard & TARU vs. Buchanan & Taiyo Kea 12:32
Shuji Kondo & YASSHI vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki 12:28
Honma Special: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Tomoaki Honma 6:06
Digest of 5/22/05-9/23/05 tours plus the following complete matches
9/23/05: Akebono & Kaz Hayashi & Keiji Muto vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki & Tomoaki Honma 18:40
7/15/05 Shinya Hashimoto Memorial Match: Keiji Muto & Arashi vs. Satoshi Kojima & Kensuke Sasaki 10:00
7/26/05: Jamal & Masahiro Chono & Taiyo Kea & TAKA Michinoku vs. Chuck Palumbo & Giant Bernard & Johnny Stamboli & TARU 16:56
7/26/05 Triple Crown Title: Satoshi Kojima vs. Keiji Muto 26:37
Only Champion Carnival: Tomoaki Honma vs. Arashi
AKIRA & Taichi Ishikari vs. TAKA Michinoku & Kikutaro
Taiyo Kea & Buchanan vs. Nobutaka Araya & Nobukazu Hirai
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Shuji Kondo 9:13. Kawada respected Kondo as a willing and able adversary, and went after him as if he were a serious heavyweight adversary. The problem is that since he isn't, Kawada won the strike exchanges then dominating the rest of the match. Kondo made the briefest of comebacks after YASSHI interfered, but it was basically just a squash match. *3/4
TARU & Giant Bernard & "brother" YASSHI vs. Keiji Muto & Suwama & NOSAWA Rongai
Satoshi Kojiima & Kaz Hayashi vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima 20:35. As good a pairing as it sounded, everyone pushing one another to be more diverse. The backbone was Sasaki's brutality, but there weren't tons of exchanges as the pace was more Kojima's action style, and the juniors got everyone doing more high spots even though they were kicking the crap out of each other as well. They tended to pair heavy vs. heavy and junior vs. junior but the mixed portions produced some interesting stuff and weren't wholly one-sided. It wasn't a big show effort, but they were never biding their time or holding back, so it was certainly a nice TV taping main event. ***1/2
#57
World Junior Heavyweight Title: TAKA Michinoku vs. Toshizo
Keiji Muto & AKIRA vs. Satoshi Kojima & Kaz Hayashi 30:00
Nobutaka Araya & Taichi Ishikari vs. Kohei Suwama & Akira Raijin. Digest
Masanobu Fuchi & Nobukazu Hirai & NOSAWA Rongai vs. Arashi & Kikutaro & Shiori Asahi. Digest
#58
Asia Tag Title Tournament Round 1: Kaz Hayashi & Leonardo Spanky vs. NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA
Asia Tag Title Tournament Round 1: Shuji Kondo & YASSHI vs. Arashi & Ryuji Hijikata
Keiji Muto & Kohei Suwama vs. TARU & Giant Bernard
TARU vs. NOSAWA Rongai
Clips from 6/15 & 6/18/05
Asia Tag Title Tournament Final: Shuji Kondo & YASSHI vs. Tomoaki Honma & Katsuhiko Nakajima
Satoshi Kojima vs. Giant Bernard
Toshiaki Kawada & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Keiji Muto & Kohei Suwama
#63
Kazushi Miyamoto vs. Akira Raijin
Keiji Muto & Taiji Ishimori vs. Kaz Hayashi & Satoshi Kojima 22:29
Shinya Hashimoto Memorial Match: Keiji Muto & Arashi vs. Satoshi Kojima & Kensuke Sasaki 10:00
Mazada & NOSAWA vs. Kikutaro & PSYCHO. Digest
Arashi & Ryuji Hijikata vs. Nobutaka Araya & Nobukazu Hirai. Digest
#64
Nobutaka Araya & Ryuji Hijikata & Nobukazu Hirai vs. Kikutaro & Mazada & NOSAWA
World Junior Heavyweight Title: TAKA Michinoku vs. YASSHI
Giant Bernard & Shuji Kondo & Johnny Stamboli & TARU vs. Bull Buchanan & Jamal & Taiyo Kea & PSYCHO
MAZADA vs. Akira Raijin vs. Kikutaro 21:03
Chuck Palumbo & Johnny Stamboli vs. Nobukazu Hirai & Nobutaka Araya 11:58
Asia Tag Title: Shuji Kondo & YASSHI vs. Kaz Hayashi & NOSAWA Rongai 18:35
Arashi & Keiji Muto vs. Buchanan & TAKA Michinoku 12:36
Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki & Tomoaki Honma vs. Kazushi Miyamoto & Ryuji Hijikata & Satoshi Kojima 19:48
AJPW World Tag Title: Jamal & Taiyo Kea vs. Giant Bernard & TARU 21:03
Loser Leaves AJPW Match: MAZADA vs. NOSAWA Rongai 7:41
Akira Raijin & Ryuji Hijikata & Tomoaki Honma vs. Kikutaro & Nobukazu Hirai & Nobutaka Araya 5:27
Arashi vs. Buchanan 4:35
Kaz Hayashi vs. Taiji Ishimori 15:35
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kazushi Miyamoto 5:04
Asia Tag Title Match: Shuji Kondo & YASSHI vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki 12:23
Jamal & Masahiro Chono & Taiyo Kea & TAKA Michinoku vs. Chuck Palumbo & Giant Bernard & Johnny Stamboli & TARU 16:56
Triple Crown Title: Satoshi Kojima vs. Keiji Muto 26:37
Fumihiko Uwai & Katsuya Ichikawa & Katsuhiko Kanazawa & Yoshihiro Takayama & Yoshinari Tsuji
Mil Mascaras & Terry Funk vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Tomoaki Honma 10:49
Kaz Hayashi vs. AJ Styles 14:38
WRESTLE-1 Grand Prix Tournament First Round Match: Kohei Suwama vs. The Predator 7:36
WRESTLE-1 Grand Prix Tournament First Round Match: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Kazunari Murakami 7:29
WRESTLE-1 Grand Prix Tournament First Round Match: Bob Sapp vs. Giant Bernard 5:30
WRESTLE-1 Grand Prix Tournament First Round Match: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Riki Choshu 6:10
WRESTLE-1 Grand Prix Tournament First Round Match: Jun Akiyama vs. Katsuyori Shibata 13:46
WRESTLE-1 Grand Prix Tournament First Round Match: Great Muta vs. Akebono 10:08
Space Lone Wolf vs. Shiori Asahi 4:50
Keiko Saito vs. Fuuka 7:54
Nobukazu Hirai & Nobutaka Araya vs. Akira Raijin & Kohei Suwama 15:20
American Angel & Mika Nishio vs. Kana & Mima Shimoda 17:33
PSYCHO & TAKA Michinoku vs. Kikutaro & MAZADA 10:14
Shuji Kondo & TARU & YASSHI vs. Keiji Muto & Taiji Ishimori & Tomoaki Honma 16:06
Kaz Hayashi & Satoshi Kojima vs. Arashi & Ryuji Hijikata 15:35
#69
World Junior Heavyweight Title: TAKA Michinoku vs. Taichi Ishikari
Akebono & Keiji Muto & Kohei Suwama vs. Chuck Palumbo & Johnny Stamboli & TARU
Undercard digest
#70
Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima & Tomoaki Honma vs. D-Lo Brown & Bull Buchanan & Taiyo Kea
Taru & Shuji Kondo & YASSHI vs. Keiji Muto & Kaz Hayashi & Taiji Ishimori
Satoshi Kojima & Arashi vs. Akebono & Kohei Suwama
Digest of 9/30/05-12/20/05 tours plus the following complete matches
9/30/05: Bubba Ray & Devon vs. Kohei Suwama & Tomoaki Honma 12:50
11/19/05 Yoyogi National Gymnasium #2
Great Muta vs. Great Ruta (TARU) 12:06
Triple Crown Title: Satoshi Kojima vs. Kensuke Sasaki 23:28
12/5/05 Tag League 2005 Final: Bubba Ray & Devon vs. Akebono & Keiji Muto 20:23
Abdullah The Butcher & Giant Kimala vs. Dory Funk Jr. & Katsuhiko Nakajima 10:16
Giant Bernard & The Predator vs. Jan Nortje & Sam Greco 12:20
Bubba Ray & D-Von vs. Chuck Palumbo & Johnny Stamboli 14:19
WRESTLE-1 Grand Prix Tournament Second Round Match: Minoru Suzuki vs. Kohei Suwama 17:00
WRESTLE-1 Grand Prix Tournament Second Round Match: Jamal vs. Don Frye 8:16
Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Akebono & Scorpio 14:51
WRESTLE-1 Grand Prix Tournament Second Round Match: Great Muta vs. Kensuke Sasaki 13:14
WRESTLE-1 Grand Prix Tournament Second Round Match: Bob Sapp vs. Jun Akiyama 7:21
Masanobu Fuchi & Nobutaka Araya vs. Kikutaro & TAKA Michinoku 12:03
AKIRA vs. Ryuji Hijikata 10:53
World's Strongest Tag League 2005 Block B: Buchanan & D-Lo Brown [4] vs. Shuji Kondo & YASSHI [0] 8:00
Arashi vs. Nobukazu Hirai 10:50
World's Strongest Tag League 2005 Block A: Jamal & Taiyo Kea [4] vs. Giant Bernard & TARU [2] 18:02
World's Strongest Tag League 2005 Block A: Akebono & Keiji Muto [4] vs. Akira Raijin & Kohei Suwama [2] 16:48
Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki & Taiji Ishimori vs. Kaz Hayashi & Satoshi Kojima & Space Lone Wolf 17:20