Video: Jamal vs. Shuji Kondo (9/30/05)

Today’s video is in memory of wrestler Eki (Eddie) “Jamal/Umaga” Fatu, who died the other day after being hospitalized, he was only 36. He competed mainly in WWF/E but did some work in All-Japan. This is one of his AJPW matches, from 9/30/05 at Korakuen vs. Shuji Kondo. The match is after the jump. R.I.P, big guy.

Early 12/6 Results (Updated)

Perhaps the biggest day of the month in terms of major shows is underway and there is already a lot that has gone down. Click below for all the results so far, more to come today. (Updated with more results)

12/5 Results

What likely is the biggest weekend of the month in terms of major events is now underway and results from today are in. Click below for full results from today’s Big 3 shows and more.

12/4 WAVE Results

The final Weekday WAVE show of 2009 was earlier today, results from Shin-Kiba 1st Ring:
They claimed 94 paid.
Toshie Uematsu beat Shu Shibutani in 8:05.

Cherry & Misaki Ohata beat Ryo Mizunami & Chisato Kuroki in 12:08. Misaki beat Kuroki with a cross armbreaker.

Yumi Ohka beat Moeka Haruhi in 12:44.

In a Lumberjack Punishment & Slow Motion & Wild Speed No Megaphone, No Milk, No Knee, No Elbow Comical Death Match, Azumi Hyuga & Ran Yu-Yu beat GAMI & Bullfight Sora in 23:11. Hyuga pinned GAMI.

NOAH News: Title Matches Set, More

As is traditional ahead of title matches, NOAH has officially conducted the contract signings for the upcoming GHC Title matches this week at Budokan. All the signings were held at the NOAH offices with the participants and were overseen by GHC Title Commissioner Joe Higuchi. Pictures courtesy of NOAH’s English website, noah-usa.cc:
Left-to-right: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Kensuke Sasaki & Takeshi Morishima, Joe Higuchi, Challengers Takeshi Rikioh & Mohammed Yone

Left-to-right: GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki, Joe Higuchi, Challenger Takashi Sugiura

Left-to-right: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Kotaro Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Joe Higuchi, Challengers Taiji Ishimori & Ricky Marvin

Also at the office was Naomichi Marufuji, who returns to action this Sunday from an injury, to promote his produced show on 12/23:
“Naomichi MARUFUJI will produce his 3rd show @Differ Ariake and he said that he would like to dedicate this show to respect late Mitsuharu MISAWA, Abismo Negro & BJ Race as they were very influencial and precious peole to him. MARUFUJI also strongly mentioned that Noah will keep on moving forward to better themselves and provide the best show possible to all the wrestling fans out there.
He will make his comeback to the ring in 8 month on 12/6 Budokan show from his injury on his knee but he said he is in best of condition. He is now serves Noah as Executive Vice President and wish him the best of luck to his comeback match and his show!”
Best of luck and welcome back, Marufuji!

12/4 NEO Results

NEO STORM ‘09 has come and gone, results from Itabashi Green Hall:
They claimed 105 paid. Considering they came up with some gimmicks and even discount tickets to get at least a sellout (around 200-225, it’s a small arena), this has to be a big disappointment.
Tanny Mouse beat Lingerie Muto in 8:08.

Tomoka Nakagawa & Kyoko Kimura beat Yuki Miyazaki & Hamuko Hoshi in 11:49. Nakagawa pinned Hoshi.

Kyoko Inoue & Hiroyo Matsumoto beat Aya Yuki & Yukari Ishino in 18:06. Inoue pinned Ishino after a lariat.

Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo & Kana beat Yoshiko Tamura, Ayumi Kurihara & Tsukasa Fujimoto in 17:50. Tanahashi pinned Fujimoto.

In other NEO news, the first match was also announced today for their next event-NEO FORCE ‘09 on 12/18 at Itabashi Green Hall: Yuki Miyazaki vs. Azumi Hyuga.

12/4 Big Japan Results

Big Japan ran a major show today, results from Yokohama Bunka Gym:
They claimed 2100 paid.
Ryuichi Kawakami & Takumi Tsukamoto beat Craig & Kazuki Hashimoto in 11:04. Kawakami beat Hashimoto with a crab hold.

Yuichi Taniguchi & Shinobu beat Daikokubo Benkei & Kamui in 9:22. Shinobu pinned Kamui after S.E.X.

Onryo, Makoto Oishi & Mototsugu Shimizu beat Men’s Teioh, Atsushi Ohashi & Daisuke Masaoka in 12:18. Oishi pinned Ohashi after Miracle Ecstasy.

Shuji Ishikawa & Isami Kodaka beat Yoshihito Sasaki & Shinya Ishikawa in 13:36. Shuji pinned Shinya after Splash Mountain.

In a 3-way Dangerous Weapons Death Match, Ryuji Ito & MASADA beat Jun Kasai & Jaki Numazawa and Masashi Takeda & Kankuro Hoshino in 15:24 when Ito pinned Hoshino.

Big Japan Tag Team Champions Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi beat Shadow WX & Abdullah Kobayashi in 18:07 to retain the titles. Sekimoto pinned Kobayashi with a German suplex hold. V2 for the champs.

In a Flourescent Lighttubes & Scaffold Death Match, Big Japan Death Match Heavyweight Champion Yuko Miyamoto beat Takashi Sasaki in 21:48 to retain the title. V3 for Miyamoto.
As a result of his win, Miyamoto now has, by length, the 2nd-longest Big Japan Death Match Heavyweight Championship reign ever as it will reach 1 year. But he’s got a LONG way to go to set the record, it’s just short of 28 months (Ryuji Ito).

12/4 New Japan Results

In-progress results again as New Japan’s show is about halfway through. This will be updated as more results become available, here’s what’s happened so far at Osaka Prefectural Gym #2 (now full results):
They claimed 1666 paid (a Full House).
Tiger Mask 4 beat Kazuchika Okada in 9:21 by submission.

Manabu Nakanishi & Takao Omori beat Jushin Liger & Masa Chono in 11:47. Nakanishi pinned Liger after Argentine Backbreaker.

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Ryusuke Taguchi & Prince Devitt beat Koji Kanemoto & Nobuo Yoshihashi in 18:12 to retain the titles. Taguchi pinned Yoshihashi. V3 for the champs.

Tomohiro Ishii, Takashi Iizuka, Masato Tanaka & TAJIRI beat Tomoaki Honma, Makabe, Hirooki Goto & Hiroshi Tanahashi in 23:20. TAJIRI pinned Tanahashi.

Mitsuhide Hirasawa, Super Strong Machine, Wataru Inoue & Yuji Nagata beat Karl Anderson, Giant Bernard, Toru Yano & Shinsuke Nakamura in 20:16. Nagata pinned Anderson with a backdrop hold.

Joshi News: Weekend Lineups (Updated)

It’s going to be a busy weekend on the joshi schedule, several fairly big shows on the schedule. Here’s what’s known for tomorrow-Sunday in terms of lineups (Updated with Saturday’s Ice Ribbon lineup):
JWP runs Sunday, full card for JWP CLIMAX 2009 ~ 1ST at Shinjuku Face:
Keito & Toshie Uematsu vs. Chisato Kuroki & TBA, who will be from Ice Ribbon
Tojuki Leon vs. Carlos Amano in a Submission Match (you can only win by submission)
Tsubasa Kuragaki, Sachie Abe & KAZUKI vs. Nanae Takahashi, Passion Hotty & Natsuki*Taiyo
NEO High Speed Champion Kaori Yoneyama vs. Ayako Sato for the title
Azumi Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga vs. Command Bolshoi
JWP Openweight Champion Kayoko Haruyama vs. Emi Sakura for the title

NEO runs tomorrow, full card for NEO STORM ‘09 at Itabashi Green Hall:
Tanny Mouse vs. Lingerie Muto
Yuki Miyazaki & Hamuko Hoshi vs. Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa
Kyoko Inoue & Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Aya Yuki & Yukari Ishino
Yoshiko Tamura, Ayumi Kurihara & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs. Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo & Kana

OZ Academy runs Sunday, full card for HEY! YOU! at Shinjuku Face:
KAORU vs. Hiren
Manami Toyota vs. Carlos Amano vs. Tomoka Nakagawa in a 3-way
Dynamite Kansai & Ayumi Kurihara vs. Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue
Chikayo Nagashima vs. Sonoko Kato
OZ Academy Tag Team Champions Ran Yu-Yu & AKINO vs. Aja Kong & Hiroyo Matsumoto for the titles

WAVE runs tomorrow, full card for Weekday WAVE Vol. ‘09 LAST at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring:
Misaki Ohata & Cherry vs. Ryo Mizunami & Chisato Kuroki
GAMI & Bullfight Sora vs. Azumi Hyuga & Ran Yu-Yu. No time limit. It is a Lumber jack punishment & slow motion & wild speed NO megaphone, NO milk, NO knee, NO elbow comical death match. No GAMI megaphone use, no Sora “milk attack”, no Hyuga knee attacks and no Yu-Yu elbow attacks for 3 minutes. “After the slow motion time ending afterwards it does not move immediately at speed of 2 times that usual speed and adopting the [te] the wild speed rule which does not become. The result of conference, very because of danger, time was 30 seconds.” I think I once downloaded one of these matches with the slow motion rule. Hilarious.
Shu Shibutani vs. Toshie Uematsu
Yumi Ohka vs. Moeka Haruhi

Ice Ribbon runs Saturday but the card probably won’t be revealed ahead of time.
Update: They did post it. Here it is:
Mai Ichii vs. Chii Tomiya
Hikari Minami vs. Riho
Hikaru Shida vs. Tsukasa Fujimoto vs. Miyako Matsumoto in a 3-way
Makoto & Haruna Akagi vs. Kazumi Shimouma & Hamuko Hoshi

I’ll post all results as soon as I get them.

12/3 All-Japan Results

Now that All-Japan’s totally redone event is now in the books, results from Wakayama Prefectural Gym:
They claimed 1800 paid (sellout).
Masayuki Kono vs. Manabu Soya went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Minoru & Toshizo beat Masanobu Fuchi & Shuji Kondo in 11:06. Minoru beat Fuchi with a jumping armbreaker.

Riki Choshu & Suwama beat Zodiac & Hiroshi Yamato in 8:36. Suwama pinned Yamato after Last Ride.

Yoshihiro Takayama & NOSAWA Rongai beat TARU & Voodoo Mask in 14:40. Takayama pinned Mask after a kneelift.

Real World Tag League:
Yoshihiro Takayama & NOSAWA Rongai beat TARU & Joe Doering by forfeit.
Keiji Muto & Masakatsu Funaki beat Osamu Nishimura & Seiya Sanada by forfeit.
Akebono & Ryota Hama beat Taiyo Kea & Minoru Suzuki in 16:38. Akebono pinned Kea after a body press.

Keiji Muto & Masakatsu Funaki beat Osamu Nishimura & Kaz Hayashi in 21:41. Muto pinned Hayashi after Shining Wizard.

Updated standings:
Keiji Muto & Masakatsu Funaki [11]
Riki Choshu & Manabu Soya [10]
Suwama & Masayuki Kono [9] *
Satoshi Kojima & Zodiac [8]
Akebono & Ryota Hama [8] *
Taiyo Kea & Minoru Suzuki [8] *
Yoshihiro Takayama & NOSAWA Rongai [6] *
Osamu Nishimura & Seiya Sanada [4]
TARU & Joe Doering [4]
Teams with a * have one match left. If it’s Top 2 advancing, here are the scenarios:
Muto & Funaki advance no matter what. If Suwama & Kono beat the sumos, they advance. The sumos may be out even with a win because they lost to Choshu & Soya. If Kea & Suzuki beat Takayama & NOSAWA, they have a chance because they beat Choshu & Soya.
If it’s Top 4…Muto & Funaki advance no matter what. If Suwama & Kono win, they advance. Choshu & Soya advance no matter what. If both the sumos and Kea & Suzuki win, today’s win may give the tiebreaker and thus the semifinal spot to the sumos.
We’ll see what happens Saturday.