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| Kanemoto Intrudes! Junior
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the 3rd match of the show in Chiba today, New Japan Pro Wrestling's
Koji Kanemoto invaded the ring! After the conclusion of the
Sasaki and Murahama versus Hardkore Kidd and Bambikiller match,
Kanemoto ran in and attacked Sasaki with a steel chair.
The ZERO1-MAX locker room cleared and chased the NJPW veteran Junior from the ring. Kanemoto then got on the microphone and said he's decided to give Sasaki what he's been looking for and accepts the challenge issued by ZERO1-MAX and Yoshihito Sasaki on Sepetember 11th. |
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| Marufuji Default! Tag Partner
KENTA is in! September 14th, 2005 |
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Sadly, NOAH's Naomichi Marufuji will be unable to participate in the upcoming "Perseverance" show, the tribute for Naohiro Hoshikawa, due to a injury to his knee. He instead will be replaced by fellow GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team partner, and current GHC Jr. Heavyweight - KENTA. Marufuji will be out of action for 2-3 weeks. |
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| ZERO1-MAX in Real Japan!
Otani on New Japan! September 13th, 2005 |
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Today at a hotel conference room in Tokyo,
Real Japan Pro Wrestling announced it's second event, once
again including Shinjiro Otani. Originally it was thought
that Otani would re-match against Tiger Mask I but instead
he will team in the main event tag match with The Tiger (Yoshihiro
Asai) against Tastuhito Takaiwa and the "Shadow Tiger" of
Michinoku Pro - Kagetora (SUWAcito). Otani said he was fine
with the abrupt change in the Fight Card, but he mentioned
that he thinks Tiger doesn't quite understand how dangerous
an opponent Takaiwa is and he hopes to fill him in before
the match happens later in the month.
Real Japan's "Business Launch - 2nd Show" takes place
on September 26, 2005 at Korakuen Hall. President of the
company, Tiger Mask (Sayama) will be taking on Masao Orihara
in the Semi-Main event.
Osamu Namiguchi is also taking part on the show in the
opening match, where he's facing Lasse of Michinoku Pro.
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| All Out War? ZERO1-MAX
vs. New Japan! September 11th, 2005 |
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New Japan Pro Wrestling had a show last
night at Sagamihara City Gym when after the main event of
Yuji Nagata and Manabu Nakanishi against Takashi Iizuka and
Hiroyoshi Tenzan, ZERO1-MAX Juniors Tatsuhito Takaiwa and
Yoshihito Sasaki entered the ring to call out the NJPW Juniors.
The New Japan juniors came out, led by Koji Kanemoto.
Takaiwa mentioned how when Yoshihito Sasaki defeated he
and Takehiro Murahama in the "Tenka-Ichi" Junior
tournament he offered a challenge to Wataru Inoue or other
NJPW Juniors but it was never answered. Kanemoto wasn't
intimidated and said he's always ready for a fight. Though
he brushed off Sasaki's hand when offered to him.
If you might remember, back in May after the "Tenka
Ichi" Jr. Tournament, Mr. Nakamura stated that he would
like to meet with NJPW's President Simon Inoki to set up
a meeting between Sasaki and NJWP's winner of the "Best
of the Super J." At this 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. Check the May
30th past news for the story.
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| Hidaka & Fujita Victorious
in Dragondoor! September 9th, 2005 |
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The Dragondoor "Los Conquistadores"
show took place at Korakuen Hall today where ZERO1-MAX fighters
and current NWA International Lightweight Tag champs, Minoru
Fujita & Ikuto Hidaka, teamed with Taiji Ishimori in a 6-man
tag to defeat "Aagan Iisou" - Brother YASSHI, Shuji Kondo
and Takuya Sugawara. Fujita scored the pin with a modified
DDT on Sugawara in a little over 19 minutes.
After the victory for his team, Fujita announced to Aagan
Iisou that if they have some spare time on their hands and
want a re-match against he and Hidaka, they're welcome to
come to ZERO1-MAX. Fujita also added that he would like
to once again team with Taiji Ishimori as well.
Also appearing on the undercard was Osamu Namiguchi teamed
with Lambo Miura against DDT's Ibushi Kota and Toryumon
X's Milanito Collection AT. Nami's team lost the match when
Milanito pinned Miura in 17:04.
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| Hoshikawa Tribute Show
- Sepetember 19th! September 7th, 2005 |
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On 9/19 at Korakuen Hall ZERO1-MAX will
have a special tribute show to Naohiro Hoshikawa called "Perseverance."
No better word describes what the ZERO1 fighter has gone through
in the last year.
On October 17th, 2004 in Sapporo during a Jr. title cage match against the champion at the time, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Hoshikawa was seriously injured when he took a lariat across the eyes and fell back to the mat hitting his head. He suffered a serious brain injury that required a craniotomy and fell immediately into a coma. The doctors were not sure what would happen, and said there might be risk of paralysis but were very positive. Over a month later, Hoshi finally awoke from the coma and his doctors highly praised his strength and recuperative powers. He was still very weak and needed to be fed through a tube, and at the time they were still not sure if he'd be partially paralyzed or have permanent brain damage. But this is Naohiro Hoshikawa, fighting athlete, and Februrary 14th, 2005 he had recovered enough to be moved from the hospital to a rehabilitation center. Once again his strength and the pace of his recovery amazed his doctors, as it had been just 5 months since his injury.
As one would imagine, his treatment and recovery has been expensive so ZERO1-MAX is putting on this show to help alleviate some of his bills. Several outside fighters have joined the show:
Kawada will team with Takao Omori versus Team Emblem in the semi-main event. Wataru Sakata also returns to the promotion along with NOAH fighters Naomichi Marufuji and Tiger Emperor in the main event. As Hidaka, Fujita & Marufuji take on Takaiwa, Sakata and Tiger Emperor. "Mr. Danger," Mitsuhiro Matsunaga will battle Kohei Sato in singles action. Also on the card, gaijin juniors Alex Shelley and Sonjay Dutt will battle for the ZERO1-MAX US Openweight title now held up as former holder Spanky has returned to the WWE. The show will be held in Tokyo's Korakuen Hall and hopefully will draw a big crowd to support Hoshi.
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Shinjiro
Otano also commented today on the confrontation the ZERO1-MAX
roster had in the ring with New Japan. He said that the
two promotions are not at war, simply that certain individuals
within the companies have unsettled business. He specifically
mentioned Yoshihito Sasaki's request after winning the "Tenka-Ichi"
Jr. Tournament of facing the winner of the "Best of the
Super J." He said now he'd like to see Koji Kanemoto fight
Sasaki. He added that the entire ZERO1-MAX roster was present
to back-up Sasaki and show the unity of ZERO1-MAX.
Suddenly
almost the entire ZERO1-MAX roster entered the ring led
by Shinjiro Otani and Takao Omori! Otani was brandishing
the "Fire Festival" katana. This was the first
time Otani and Takaiwa had been in a New Japan ring since
February 2001, and Otani showed his usual fire. The situation
was tense for a little while with lots of pent up aggression
in the ring, but the ZERO1-MAX fighters were able to extract
themselves and get back on their bus before things got out
of hand. This is only the begining, as there are already
rumours of the impending collision between the promotions
coming sooner than later.
