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"Steve Corino scored a pinfall in just over 13-minutes of action to capture the AWA World Heavyweight Championship from Takao Omori. Both Corino and Omori were bloody from the hard fought contest. This was the second of three chances that Corino secured to wrest the title from the champion in his tour of the United States.

Omori has successfully defended the title the previous night in Waldron, Michigan over Corino and Hoss Monaham in a 3-way defense. The AWA sanctioned Michigan territory, UCW, hosted the title bouts.

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And while Tiger Mask I scored with multiple kicks, and almost won a victory after a flurry of offense followed up with a cross arm breaker. Earlier in the match, Otani managed to hit the spinning heel kick and get the facewash in the corner. There was a tense moment for Otani when after receiving a pescado from Tiger Mask, Otani was able to get back in the ring just at the 18 count.

Eventually Otani was able to grab Sayama's arm and lock on the King Cobra hold for the submission victory at just over 10½ minutes. In a post match interview, Tiger Mask stated he has great appreciation for Shinjiro Otani and with his loss he has even more respect for him now. Real Japan's next show is scheduled for September 26, 2005 back at Korakuen Hall.

Somebody who was not pleased with Ikeda entering the Fire Festival was Young MAX member and one half of the NWA International Tag Team champions - Ryouji Sai. Sai stormed into the press conference and had to be restrained from attacking Ikeda. Sai's complaint was an outsider taking a coveted spot in the prestigious tournament.

Shinjiro Otani's idea for reconciling this situation was to set up a match at the upcoming Korakuen Hall show on 6/17 between Ikeda and Sai, with the stipulation that if Ikeda wins over Sai he will cement a spot in the tourney. Ikeda will also be participating in the two shows following the opening of "Survivar 72H" on the 6/18 and 6/19.

Mr. Nakamura also announced that the main event of the 6/17 show will be the singles match for the AWA/ZERO1/UPW/WORLD-1 International Jr. title between current NWA International Lightweight tag team partners - Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita.

Hidaka said while it's a little akward to be battling his partner in such a big match, he knows Fujita is the #1 contender to the title. Mr. Nakamura said while it's a little different to have a Junior match as the main event, the success of the Tenka-Ichi tournament and Differ Cup was the inspiration for the idea.

AWA-Japan General Manager Oscar David has told AWA President Dale Gagne that June 10 and 11 will be Corino's last chance at the AWA crown. It was also David's idea to have the champ defend his title three days in a row. Omori will also be appearing on the afternoon of June 12 in Mount Clemens, MI.

Masato Tanaka Gets Extreme In NYC!!!
And next weekend will also mark the return to the United States of Masato Tanaka, as he will be appearing at the WWE's production of ECW: One Night Stand. Tanaka, a former ECW World champion, was last in the United States in April 2004 for Pro-Wrestling WORLD-1. It is not known who Tanaka will be wrestling on Sunday night live on Pay Per View with his rumored opponent being long time rival Mike "The Gladiator" Awesome. Visit www.wwe.com for more information. Good luck in the US for these two great ZERO1-MAX fighters.

"The Enforcer," who was a member of Extreme Championship Wrestling from mid-1999 to the last day of the promotion, will also be appearing Friday night June 10th at the Hardcore Homecoming show in Philadelphia, PA at the New Alhambra Arena ( former Viking Hall).

Anderson has done some recent matches in the World Wrestling Entertainment and we here at www.zerooneusa.com wish CW Anderson the best of luck this weekend.

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In addition, newly crowed Tenka-Ichi Jr. champion Yoshihito Sasaki was on hand for a special announcement by Mr. Nakamura. Nakamura-san said he will be having a meeting with New Japan Pro Wrestling's President, Simon Inoki, to discuss the idea of the ZERO1-MAX Tenka-Ichi Jr. champ facing off one-on-one with the winner of the NJPW's "Best of the Super Jr." tournament in NJPW. Mr. Nakamura said he wants to see this match so the true best of the Japanese super Junior would be recognized. Otani said he is in agreement with this idea and would like to see that himself.

When asked for a comment, Sasaki said that he hopes that Wataru Inoue wins the tournament because he trained with Inoue at the Animal Hamaguchi Dojo while they were starting out as pro-wrestlers.

UPW is happy to announce that The Hardkore Kidd (Aaron "Jesus" Aquilera), Horshu (Luther Reigns), and Ryan Sakoda are all returning to the active roster! To welcome them back, UPW has booked their "WWE 3" as follows:

ZERO1-MAX: June 17, 18, 19 ("Survivar 72H")
ZERO1-MAX: July 29 - Aug 7 ("Fire Festival '05")

All three of these superstars will also be appearing on the July, September and November HUSTLE tours.

"I am very happy to have all 3 of these extremely talented individuals back in the UPW family. Not only do I consider them to be some of the finest people in the business today, but I also consider them very good friends" - UPW owner Rick Bassman was quoted as saying.

This could be a big stepping stone for Sasaki, who has seen streaky success and failure since coming to ZERO1-MAX from the defunct Frontier Martial-arts Wrestling (FMW). Sasaski lost his first confrontation with Takaiwa on 5/20 in the tournament, so he was somewhat lucky due to the rules of the tourney going head-to-had again due to a points tie. Time will tell if Sasaki can use this a platform to go to the next level.