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Press Conference Circus as Otani Celebrates!

August 8th, 2005

Today at the First On Stage/ZERO1-MAX offices in Tokyo, new Fire Festival 2005 Champion Shinjiro Otani held a press conference to talk about his victory in the annual tournament. He talked about how he felt he needed to win this Fire Festival to know his worth and to feel that he is the right man to lead ZERO1-MAX into the future.

Otani said his desire became stronger to win with the death of former ZERO-ONE boss Shinya Hashimoto, as Hashimoto had given the name "Fire Festival" to the tournament and was instrumental in its creation. He added that his victory brought a mixture of excitement and a little relief, as winning the Fire Festival this year was his lone focused mission and now he's accomplished it.

Defeating Kensuke Sasaki was also a mission for Otani, as it was something he'd never accomplished before. Otani also admitted he was a bit hungover from celebrating his victory as he had refrained from drinking since the conclusion of the previous Summer Season Battle '05 tour as preparation. Despite the hangover, he still was very excited and animated as he discussed his victory the previous night:

"Having won the championship, the ban was lifted! Of course I then received many offers to celebrate my victory and continued drinking until early this morning! I have the winner's proof right here in my hands - the Fire Festival katana! The sword has gained some weight over the years since I last held it. I think Satoshi Kojima and Kohei Sato have both added prestige and value to the sword since obtaining it. However, from now on the value will be added by me! When I have this sword, I can do magic!"

Otani was then asked as the 3x winner of the Fire Festival who would he like to challenge in the pro wrestling world. He responded that he doesn't quite know who he should challenge but will continue to fight onward and upward. He also said that Kensuke Sasaki was a great and warm person, and that he was glad that the tournament finals came down to them. He said his victory over Kensuke makes him want to devote more of himself to pro wrestling as with the extra effort and focus he was able to defeat a "great senpai."

"I am very happy that I once again carry the Fire Festival katana. I don't know what will come next, but I plan to be an immovable champion for some time. This is how you conquer the ZERO1-MAX wrestling ring by force!"

Suddenly with a shout, the press conference was interrupted by Karate Forces leader Katsuhiko Ogasawara! Ignoring the fact that Otani was interviewing, Ogasawara claimed that "Mr. Danger" Mitsuhiro Matsunaga was working on his own when he interfered in the previous Karate Army vs. Young MAX matches on 6/30 and 7/29 and attacked Osamu Namiguchi, Rikiya Fudo, Mr. Nakamura and Ring Announcer Oki leaving them bloodied.

"I am a sensei, and now I will be seen as untrustworthy. With Karate, one fights with their body and not with all these evil weapons that Matsunaga brings to the ring! It is evil and is a heresy to karate what he is doing! I cannot express my anger towards Matsunaga!"

Ogasawara said he now regrets bringing Matsunaga into ZERO1-MAX and wants a singles match against the blood-thirsty fighter before leaving. Mr. Nakamura was shocked by this whole tirade, as the Karate Army continues to fight against ZERO1-MAX and Young MAX. He then declared that if Young MAX could defeat the Karate Army on 8/23 at the S-ARENA show in Shin-Kiba 1st ring than Ogasawara and his crew would be gone from ZERO1. Suddenly young jr. class fighter Osamu Namiguchi spoke up saying that he doesn't want to be in Young MAX anymore and is tired of fighting the Karate Army. He said that after Otani's win over Kensuke Sasaki he want to continue to battle against Sasaki's protege Katsuhiko Nakajima, and "continue to rise to the top of pro wrestling."

Soon after the conclusion of the "Fire Festival" yesterday, ZERO1-MAX President Yoshiyuki Nakamura frustratingly announced the company would no longer book Tadao Yasuda. Mr. Nakamura said Yasuda was lazy during the Fire Festival and has a poor attitude. Yasuda in turn launched into a verbal tirade against Nakamura, questioning why he wasn't booked on the next tour, which caused the boss to make his decision to fire Yasuda. Nakamura also told the Press that the fans weren't impressed with Yasuda either.

But Today, a chastised Yasuda came to the ZERO1-MAX offices to beg forgiveness from Mr. Nakamura, tearful and saying without ZERO1-MAX he'll once again be unemployed. Instead of talking to Nakamura however, Yasuda instead begged help from Otani. He told the Fire Festival champion that he would turn over a new leaf and swore "with all his heart" that if Otani backed him he wouldn't let him down. Otani was at first skeptical, but being in a good mood soon believed Yasuda and they both began to press Mr. Nakamura to reinstate the big wrestler. "Yasuda says he'll do anything, and I believe him," Otani said. "I will watch him very carefully, and he will try hard you will see. If anything happens, I will take responsibility."

Mr. Nakamura still was not sure about the situation but relented to Otani's persuasion, saying that Yasuda should not automatically assume he will be on all the shows of the next tour, for if he sees Yasuda doing a poor job he will be fired. Yasuda said in a way, Otani had become his "guarantor."

Following that, Young MAX and Stonehenge member Ryouji Sai then announced that he has begun planning a new tournament similar to the "Fire Festival" tournament and hopes to have it happen in October or November at Shin Kiba 1st ring and Korakuen Hall. He was sketchy on the details saying they only had a "blueprint," but revealing that it was be a tournament where wrestlers regardless of age or affiliation will participate. He said Stonehenge already has agreed to be involved and that he has been contacted by several other wrestlers from different companies.

Otani heard these comments and said that Shinya Hashimoto created the "Fire Festival" and he's glad that Ryouji Sai has the same idea. While he said he backed Ryouji doing what he can, he warned the young fighter that it can be very difficult starting a new event. Ryouji shot back that he doesn't need the meddling of Otani and that he was serious and enthusiastic about what he was saying.

And finally, Mr. Nakamura announced that the company will be running a special show on 9/19 where all the profits will go to help paying Hoshikawa's medical bills. Hoshikawa was injured last year in October when he suffered a serious head injury and has been rehabilitating ever since. The show will be a "Ganbatte Hoshikawa Charity Event" where all the proceeds will be given to the injured fighter. Mr. Nakamura said besides ZERO1-MAX contracted wrestlers, he had been contacted by wrestlers from other companies about participating in the event.

Redemption! Otani Wins Fire Festival 2005!

August 7th, 2005

Today, ZERO1-MAX ace, Shinjiro Otani, regained the Fire Festival katana for the first time in two years. Otani struggled through the last two Fire Festivals, losing big matches and never able to regain his title after winning the first two Fire Festivals in 2001 and 2002. This time he not only broke his losing streak, but also defeated Kensuke Sasaki, the 2004 Japanese wrestling MVP and journeyman, for the first time.

To secure his win over Block B to get to the finals, Sasaki managed to defeat Ryouji Sai decisively in his final placement match. Sasaki was relentless with the hard vertical chops, making the crowd grimace and making Ryouji's chest swell up and turn purple. Sai tried to counter with chops, elbow strikes and kicks of his own, but was just no match for the powerful force of Sasaki. In just over 12 minutes, Sasaki floored Ryouji with a lariat and scored the pinfall to advance. After the match he pointed to Ryouji's damaged chest and told him it might sting for a while.

In Otani's final placement match, he had much more on the line, as ZERO1-MAX announced that if there were ties in any of the blocks they would be decided in 3-ways or 4-ways. This turned out to be unnecessary, as Otani was able to defeat last years Fire Festival champion, Kohei Sato, with the King Cobra hold. Also, Daisuke Ikeda defeated the "Debt King" Tadao Yasuda in their final match to eliminate Yasuda from the finals on the opening match of the show. So it came down to Otani versus Sato for the decision as to who advances.

Kohei again went right after Otani's weakened left leg with kicks, but managed to fight back until Kohei went on a rampage, hitting him with a avalanche urinagi, multiple German suplexes, and finally his big dead-lift German suplex hold but Otani was able to kick out. Otan then fought back in rapid-fire succession: spinning heel kick, springboard dropkick, spiral bomb, and then finally the King Cobra hold for the tap-out victory.

And so to the finals go Shinjiro Otani versus Kensuke Sasaki. Until they met last month (7/9) in a singles match these two hadn't fought in over 4 years, way back on February 16th, 2001 for New Japan Pro Wrestling for Sasaki's then IWGP Heavyweight title. Back in July, Sasaki had won once again, defeating Otani in 17½ minutes in Niigata with the Northern Lights bomb. The turning point of the match came in an unusual moment witched caused the crowd to gasp in astonishment.

As the gong sounded to start the match, the two fighters stood motionless for sometime glaring into each other's eyes. Sasaki has declared he would win the Fire Festival and Otani declared if he himself wasn't the victor then he'd feel like a failure. Eventually the two began to circle each other and locked up. Once again, Otani's opponent went relentlessly right for his left knee. Eventually the chop battle began, as Sasaki rained his deadly chops onto Otani, but Otani shot around behind Sasaki and hit the surprise German suplex, and then the Face wash in the corner. Sasaki quickly hit a low dropkick on the left knee to buy himself some time but the following lariat attempt was seized by Otani who then quickly went for the jujigatame, but Sasaki made it to the ropes.

15 minutes in and once more to the horizontal chops it goes, as Sasaki unleashed with everything he had on Otani's chest, the loud SMACK reverberating through Korakuen Hall. And that's when it happened - Otani suddenly unleashed with a huge overhand karate chop on Sasaki, a signature move of recently deceased ZERO-ONE boss Shinya Hashimoto, and floored his opponent completely. The crowd was stunned along with Otani as for a second he just stood there staring at his hand in surprise.

He quickly took advantage of the situation as Sasaki stumbled back to his feet, Otani scored with the missile dropkick to the back. Sasaki went for it all at this moment, conjuring his remaining strength by nailing a hard lariat and then his finisher the Northern Lights bomb, but could only score the 2 count on the defiant and inspired Shinjiro Otani! Otani then changed the momentum for the final time, hitting a jumping kick to the head, and then grabbed the dragon suplex hold for the victory!

Afterwards both Otani and Sasaki spoke on the microphone to the fans, who applauded both loudly and appreciatively. Otani thanked the crowd and all the fans from the bottom of his heart for supporting ZERO1-MAX and that the wrestlers who participated in the Fire Festival also are thanful. The ZERO1-MAX wrestlers then hoisted Otani onto their shoulders in the middle of the ring and threw him in the air several times in celebration.

When asked about the spontaneous Karate Chop after the match by reporters, Otani said he had no idea where it came from, but he added that he knows that particular strike was one of Hashimoto's favored moves and Kensuke Sasaki was a big rival of The Boss. He then added for this obvious reason he dedicates his victory to the "Father of the Fire Festival" and his former mentor - Shinya Hashimoto.

Other matches saw Hirotaka Yokoi beat Takao Omori in a short decisive victory with the Anaconda choke. Masato Tanaka and Kamikaze teamed together in a losing effort against the gaijin tag team of Chris the Bambi Killer and Alex Shelley. World-1 Jr tournament champion Yoshihito Sasaki defeated Rikiya Fudo. And in a 6-man tag, Ikuto Hidaka, Minoru Fujita and Katsuhiko Nakajima defeated the team of Tatsuhito Takaiawa, Takehiro Murahama and Osamu Namiguchi when once more Nakajima defeated Namiguchi.

A very successful and entertaining Fire Festival this year, and also a very close run thing leading into the final day of the tournament with the scores so close. After the troubles and tribulations ZERO1-MAX has gone through since ZERO-ONE folded, nobody deserves this win more than Shinjiro Otani. The Fire Festival katana is back where it belongs.

Fire Festival '05 - Day 5 - Finals! Tokyo, Japan August 7th , 2005 Korakuen Hall 1,680 fans
FIGHT CARD
Fire Festival - Finals
O Shinjiro Otani (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	Kensuke Sasaki X (Kensuke Office)
(20:00 → Dragon Suplex Hold)
6-Man Tag Match
Ikuto Hidaka (ZERO1-MAX) Minoru Fujita (ZERO1-MAX) O Katsuhiko Nakajima (Kensuke Office)	vs.	Tatsuhito Takaiwa (ZERO1-MAX) Takehiro Murahama (ZERO1-MAX) Osamu Namiguchi  X (ZERO1-MAX)
(12:04 → German Suplex hold)
Single Match
X Rikiya Fudo (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	Yoshihito Sasaki O (ZERO1-MAX)
(10:18 → Argentine Coaster)
Tag Match
Masato Tanaka (ZERO1-MAX) X Kamikaze (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	Chris the Bambi Killer (EWA) Alex Shelley O (ROH)
(11:46 → modified clutch)
Fire Festival - Block B
X Takao Omori [4] (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	[4] Hirotaka Yokoi O (ZERO1-MAX)
(6:15 → Anaconda Choke)
Fire Festival - Block B
X Ryouji Sai [2] (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	[6] Kensuke Sasaki O (Kensuke Office)
(12:06 → Lariat)
Fire Festival - Block A
O Shinjiro Otani [5] (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	[3] Kohei Sato X (ZERO1-MAX)
(12:39 → King Cobra hold)
Fire Festival - Block A
O Daisuke Ikeda [4] (Free)	vs.	[4] Tadao Yasuda X (Free)
(5:57 → Count-Out)

Fire Festival '05 Champion!

August 7th, 2005

TOURNAMENT WINNER (BLOCK A vs. BLOCK B):

Shinjiro Otani

WINNER BLOCK A: Shinjiro Otani [5 points]

WINNER BLOCK B: Kensuke Sasaki [6 points]

BLOCK A	Kohei Sato	Shinjiro Otani	Masato Tanaka	Daisuke Ikeda	Tadao Yasuda	SCORE
Kohei Sato		X	O	Δ	X	3
Shinjiro Otani	O		X	Δ	O	5
Masato Tanaka	X	O		O	X	4
Daisuke Ikeda	Δ	Δ	X		O	4
Tadao Yasuda	O	X	O	X		4

BLOCK B	Takao Omori	Hirotaka Yokoi	Kensuke Sasaki	Ryouji Sai	Bambi Killer	SCORE
Takao Omori		X	X	O	O	4
Hirotaka Yokoi	O		X	X	O	4
Kensuke Sasaki	O	O		O	X	6
Ryouji Sai	X	O	X		X	2
Bambi Killer	X	X	O	O		4

Fire Festival '05 - Day 2!

July 31st, 2005

Day 2 of the prestigious "Fire Festival" 2005 is over, with some surprising outcomes. The most notable victory today being Masato Tanaka winning his first tournament match since having to default last years "Fire Festival" due to an injury. The victory was made all the more sweeter with a decisive win over Team EMBLEM partner, Shinjiro Otani. The two teammates showed no remorse as Otani went after Tanaka's shoulder (the same injury sustained in last years Fire Festival; Tanaka has worked through it for a year) and Tanaka went after Otani's left knee, injured from his first match against Dasiuke Ikeda. Otani almost had the win, but Tanaka kicked out of the "Spiral Bomb," and then Tanaka scored the win in just over 17 minutes when he hit the "Roaring Elbow," a brainbuster and then the "Diamond Dust" for the 1-2-3.

After the match, Tanaka got on the microphone and showed his excitement to the Korakuen Hall faithful by doing the "3-2-1-ZERO-1 Ooooooooo- MAX!!" cheer.

Other results saw the "Debt King" Tadao Yasuda beat last years "Fire Festival" victor, Kohei Sato, in just over 7 minutes with the Big Boot. And even more surprising, Chris "the Bambi Killer" managed to out think Kensuke Sasaki into a count-out and win his match. Sasaki gave props to the Austrian after the match and said he was out-witted by the maneuver. Hirotaka Yokoi hasn't won a match yet, as fellow ROWDY member Ryouji Sai beat him with the "Sky Kick" with the win.

In non-tournament matches, ZERO1-MAX junior rivals Ikuto Hidaka and Alex Shelley met in singles action once again, this time for the ZERO1-MAX International Jr. Heavyweight Title. Shelley had won their first singles meeting in the "Tenka-Ichi" Jr. Tournament, and with the help of Tadao Yasuda pinned Hidaka once more in their Tag match on the opening night. Hidaka held onto his title this time, nailing the "Misty Flip" in just under 15 minutes for the victory. Speaking of rivalries, who could forget the Osamu Namiguchi versus Katsuhiko Nakajima singles match from Night 2 of this years "Differ Cup." That match ended in a time limit draw as Nakajima was about to score the win on a bloodied Namaguchi. This time his victory was decisive, as the current All Asia Tag Team champion (along with his Sensei, Kensuke Sasaki) won in 11:26 with the R-15.

Fire Festival '05 - Day 2 Tokyo, Japan July 31st, 2005 Korakuen Hall 1,500 fans
FIGHT CARD
Fire Festival - Block A
X Shinjiro Otani [1] (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	[2] Masato Tanaka O (ZERO1-MAX)
(17:11 → Diamond Dust)
Fire Festival - Block A
X Kohei Sato [2] (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	[2] Tadao Yasuda O (Free)
(7:18 → Big Boot)
ZERO1-MAX International Jr. Heavyweight Title
O Ikuto Hidaka © (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	Alex Shelley X (Free)
(14:45 → Misty Flip)
Fire Festival - Block B
O Ryouji Sai [2] (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	[0] Hirotaka Yokoi X (ZERO1-MAX)
(11:41 → Sky Kick)
Fire Festival - Block B
X Kensuke Sasaki [2] (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	[2] Bambi Killer O (EWA)
(7:46 → Count-out)
6-Man Tag
Takao Omori (ZERO1-MAX) Tatsuhito Takaiwa (ZERO1-MAX) X Yoshihito Sasaki (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	Daisuke Ikeda O (Free) Minoru Fujita (ZERO1-MAX) Takehiro Murahama (ZERO1-MAX)
(13:47 → Big Bomber)
Single Match
X Osamu Namiguchi (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	Katsuhiko Nakajima O (ZERO1-MAX)
(11:26 → R-15)
Single Match
O KAMIKAZE (ZERO1-MAX) Fuyuki Takahashi (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	Rikiya Fudo X (ZERO1-MAX) Fugo Fugo Yumeji (ZERO1-MAX)
(10:57 → Kamikaze driver)

Hashimoto's Fan Farewell!

July 30th, 2005

Today at the Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo, 8,000 of Shinya Hashimoto's fans gathered to say goodbye to the "Destructive King." Hashimoto's son and daughter were on hand, along with even coordinators Masahiro Chono, Keiji Muto, Naoya Ogawa and Shinjiro Otani.

ZERO1-MAX ring announcer, Oki Okidata, once more did the announcing honors as they played Hashimoto's music and fans chanted his name. Otani even lead the crowd in the vintage "3-2-1-ZERO-ONE!" cheer, and Ogawa led everyone in doing the "hustle." There was a large shrine in which photos of Hashimoto through his career were shown, along with his ring robe, attire, and the recently retired old IWGP Heavyweight title (the title has now been replaced by a newer version).

Shinjiro Otani said everything he learned about running a promotion he learned from The Boss, and that the spirit of Hashimoto will live on in ZERO1-MAX.

The guest list included numerous ZERO1-MAX wrestlers and many others from All-Japan, New Japan, NOAH and several freelancers. Fighters appearing included: Takao Omori, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Masato Tanaka, Kohei Sato, Jun Akiyama, Tatsumi Fujinami, Animal Hamaguchi, Jushin "Thunder" Liger, Koji Kanemoto, Toshiaki Kawada, Kenta Kobashi, Satoshi Kojima, Mitsuharu Misawa, Hiroyoshi Tenzan Katsuhiko Nagata, Yuji Nagata, Shinsuke Nakamura, Manabu Nakanishi, Seiji Sakaguchi, Nobuyuki Sakakibara, Jinsei Shinzaki, Nobuhiko Takada, Kiyoshi Tamura, Hiroshi Tanahashi and others.

Fire Festival 2005 - Day 1!

July 29th, 2005

The first day of the 2005 "Fire Festival" took place today in Tokyo's Korakuen Hall. Before the opening of the Festival there was a memorial service held for former ZERO-ONE boss, Shinya Hashimoto. After a few of the wrestlers, who gathered in the ring, said a few words they played a memorial video of The Boss from when he left New Japan and started the fledgling promotion. The presentation ended when the tolled the bell 10 times and the played Hashimoto's entrance music as Ring Announcer Okidata announced him one final time. The crowd chanted along "Hashimoto! Hashimoto! Hashimoto...!"

The show started of with a re-match between Osamu Namiguchi & Yoshihito Sasaki versus Takehiro Murahama & Katsuhiko Nakajima. These two teams battled fiercely in a "Differ Cup '05" qualification match on 5/5, with Murahama & Nakajima coming out on top. Then on the 2nd night of the Differ Cup" Namiguchi and Nakajima met in a violent and brutal singles match that Nakajima won. Sadly for the ZERO1-MAX fighters, the outcome was the same as Murahama hit Nami with the brainbuster for the win.

In the first match of the tournament last year's winner, Kohei Sato, pulled of a big win against Masato Tanaka. Tanaka has been looking forward to this "Fire Festival" ever since an injury forced him to have to exit last year's tournament. Kohei reminded Tanaka of that injury as he repeatedly attacked the injured shoulder. The matched contained much brawling and head dropping, not to mention several submissions and reversals. Kohei nailed the victory when he hit the German suplex hold for the victory.

The Austrian, Chris "The Bambi Killer" Raaber, made his Japanese debut against Takao Omori in the second tourney match. Omori was sporting his old dyed-blonde hair and mocked Raaber as the two held a battle of moves. The two battled outside of the ring, and exchanged Axe Guillotine Drivers before Omori nailed the Axe Bomber on the "Bambi Killer" in just over 8 minutes for the win.

In an interesting tag team match, Alex Shelley teamed with Tadao Yasuda against Ikuto Hidaka & Kamikaze. Shelley and Yasuda weren't on the same page however and got in each other ways a few times before getting it together near the end. At one point, Kamikaze took money out of the back pocket of the Referee and tried to distract Yasuda who almost got rolled up by Hidaka.

Yasuda played the last trick however, as he grabbed Hidaka's foot as Hidaka was about to perform the "Shawn Capture" on Shelley. Hidaka then turned into a Shell Shock and was rolled-up. This bodes well for Shelley, who faces Hidaka on Sunday in a singles match for the ZERO1-MAX International Jr. Heavyweight Title.

The next match featured Otani versus Daisuke Ikeda in their Block A match. Ikeda spent the match working over Otani's left leg, and the two exchanged chairshots and facewashes in the corner. The two also traded submissions as both escaped each other's King Cobra Hold (by Otani) and rear-naked choke (by Ikeda). But eventually the time ran out, much to the aggravation of Otani.

The final match saw Kensuke Sasaki against Hirotaka Yokoi. Sasaki has promised he will win the "Fire Festival" and showed lots of fire coming off his loss to Kenta Kobashi in NOAH and his subsequent victory in All Japan Pro Wrestling for the All-Asia Tag Team Titles with student Katzuhiko Nakajima. Sasaki showed his fire, by mercilessly chopping Yokoi over and over, as Yokoi countered with straight punches.

He also took a nasty brainbuster on the floor, and a hard slam. Though he was able to hit his own German suplex and get several submission attempts in. Eventually one final chop is all it took, as at 10:44 he shot Yokoi off the ropes, hit him with a vicious reverse knife edge chop and scored the pinfall.

Fire Festival '05 - Day 1 Tokyo, Japan July 29th, 2005 Korakuen Hall 1,500 fans
FIGHT CARD
Fire Festival - Block B
X Hirotaka Yokoi [0] (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	[2] Kensuke Sasaki O (ZERO1-MAX)
(10:44 → Reverse Horizontal Chop)
Fire Festival - Block A
Δ Shinjiro Otani [1] (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	[1] Daisuke Ikeda Δ (Free)
(30:00 → Time Limit Draw)
Tag Match
O Alex Shelley (ROH) Tadao Yasuda (Free)	vs.	Ikuto Hidaka X (ZERO1-MAX) Kamikaze (ZERO1-MAX)
(9:49 → Shellshock into a side roll-up)
Fire Festival - Block B
O Takao Omori [2] (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	[0] Bambi Killer X (EWA)
(8:03 → Axe Bomber)
Fire Festival - Block A
O Kohei Sato [2] (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	[0] Masato Tanaka X (ZERO1-MAX)
(12:47 → German suplex hold)
Tag Match
Minoru Fujita (ZERO1-MAX) X Rikiya Fudo (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	Ryouji Sai O (ZERO1-MAX) Fuyuki Takahashi (ZERO1-MAX)
(15:13 → modified back suplex hold)
Single Match
Yoshihito Sasaki (ZERO1-MAX) X Osamu Namiguchi (ZERO1-MAX)	vs.	Takehiro Murahama O (ZERO1-MAX) Katsuhiko Nakajima (Kensuke Office)
(9:36 → brainbuster)