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JWA Tour-Ending Show – March 24th – Tokyo, Japan Tiger Mask, Mutoh, & Yamada vs Misawa, Hamada, & Hase We put our Middleweight Champion in the opening match, so obviously he got the pinfall here (spectacularly, with a Turning Moonsault on the rookie Hiroshi Hase). There were also some nice, crowd-pleasingly athletic interactions between Mutoh and Misawa, and a slick exchange of mat-wrestling between Yamada and Hamada. Hase didn’t get to show off much, but his day will come soon enough. Footloose (Kawada & Fuyuki) vs Danger Zone (Hickerson & Shaw) Clash of the Kenny Loggins Theme Songs. Kawada and Fuyuki came out firing, but the big Americans took control by attacking Fuyuki’s knee (which they had damaged on TV on the 14th). After enduring a ton of punishment, Fuyuki popped the crowd with a hot tag to Kawada. Kawada got some revenge on his much larger opponents with a series of very stiff kicks, but eventually Shaw cut him off with an eye poke and a thumb to the throat. Danger Zone then went after Fuyuki, tossing him to the outside and going after his injured knee. When they started using folding chairs again, the ref called for the bell and awarded Footloose the match by virtue of Disqualification. That was slim comfort to Kawada as he helped his injured partner to the back. Mystery Partner Match: Simmons, Cameron, & Finlay vs Ueda, Goto, & “X” The crowd erupted in a mixture of joy and horror as Ueda and Goto’s partner was revealed to be none other than Abdullah the Butcher. To their credit, Simmons and Cameron seemed to get a real kick out of bumping and selling for Abby’s Throat Thrusts and Head-butts. Cameron got a nice pop with a Backdrop on Abdullah. About five minutes in, the fork and the kendo stick came into play. About seven minutes in, all six men were bleeding profusely. Finlay made a real mess of Goto, punching his forehead until the young heel’s blonde hair turned bright red. Goto managed to break free and tag in the Madman from the Sudan. The Butcher got some nice heat by nailing Finlay with a pretty good Dropkick. He followed that up with a Running Elbow Drop to Finlay’s throat. The AWA team ate the loss, but the crowd cheered loudly for them as they made their way back to the dressing room. Mystery Partner Match: Baba, Teranishi, & Koshinaka vs Atisanoe, Afi, & “X” The mystery man in this one was Bruiser Brody and he and Baba delighted the crowd by starting out as the first two in the ring. They traded Big Boots and Chops, and each man got a two-count, but after five minutes they tagged out and stayed on the ring apron until the finish. Teranishi bumped and sold for the South Pacific Islanders, and they in turn sold for Koshinaka’s entertaining offense. Around the 15-minue mark, things went bonzo gonzo. Baba and Atisanoe battled on the outside. Umanosuke Ueda and Tatsutoshi Goto emerged through the crowd and attacked the JWA president. Koshinaka rushed to Baba’s defense, but inside the ring Brody hit Teranishi with a Big Boot and a Double Knee Drop and then Siva Afi came off the top rope with a huge Diving Splash on Teranishi to score one more victory for the bad guys. Umanosuke Ueda got on the mic and challenged Baba to choose three friends to meet him, Goto, Brody, and Stan Hansen on April 4th in Osaka. Tag Team #1 Contenders Match: Tsuruta & Yatsu vs Fujinami & Kimura This was a pretty good tag team match. Yatsu sold for Fujinami. Kengo Kimura sold for Jumbo. Fujinami got the advantage on Jumbo but Yatsu made the save. Jumbo got the advantage on Fujinami, but Kimura broke up the pinfall attempt. Yatsu and Kimura brawled with intensity. Kimura caught Yatsu with a Flying Leg Lariat, and Tagged in Fujinami who pinned Yatsu with a Dragon Suplex while Kimura kept Tsuruta from breaking it up. Fujinami and Kimura offered handshakes, and Yatsu went to accept but Jumbo pulled him back and they just walked away. ***BREAK*** JWA Trios Champions The Machines vs Patera, Blackwell, & Spivey The Machines’ second Trios Title defense was significantly more hard-fought than their first. Sumo Machine took a ton of punishment from Patera and Blackwell. Very Tall Machine and Danny Spivey traded stiff strikes and power moves. Super Strong machine broke up half a dozen near-falls. He and Patera had a dramatic battle over a test-of-strength. The Spinning Lifting Full Nelson came very close to finishing SSM, and the American heels came very close to stealing the JWA Trios Titles, but in the end Blackwell got caught in the Machines’ corner and ate an Underhook Suplex from Very Tall Machine and a big Lariat from Sumo Machine before Super Strong Machine put him down for the count with a Machine DDT. JWA Tag Team Champions Power Rush vs Dos Caras & El Canek The Luchadores fought clean and fought hard and proved themselves to be worthy contenders. Riki Choshu and Rusher Kimura, however, cut every possible corner. Every time Caras and Canek gained the advantage, Power Rush pulled tights, gouged eyes, and used chokes and other illegal tactics to get the momentum back on their side. Stealing a tactic from the great heels in the World Wrestling Council, they loosened El Canek’s mask and turned it sideways so that he could not see. They then beat Dos Caras down with a quick and vicious series of double team manoeuvres, and finished him off with a Double Lariat Attack. JWA Heavyweight Champion Tenryu vs Bam Bam Bigelow Danger Zone accompanied the challenger to the ring, which brought out a still-furious Toshiaki Kawada. Tenryu and Kawada brawled on the entrance ramp with the three big foreigners as things got completely out of control before the bell even rang. Masa Fuchi and Ashura Hara ran down and chased Danger Zone to the back, but some damage had already been done. As order was restored and the match finally started, Tenryu was already bleeding from his forehead. Bigelow went right after the cut, using Head-butts and Closed Fist Punches to open it up even wider. The blood only seemed to make Tenryu angry, however, and he fought back with powerful Chops and Kicks. In an impressive display of power and resilience, Bigelow made a comeback and worked over Tenryu’s neck (presumably still injured from the chair attack on the 14th). He hit a Cobra Clutch Bulldog for a close two-count. Bigelow picked Tenryu up off the mat and nailed the JWA Champion with a Military Press Slam. Bigelow then went up to the top corner… but as he was coming off in an attempted Flying Head-butt, Tenryu leapt to his feet and sent Bigelow crashing to the mat with a vicious Kesagiri Chop to the big man’s neck. As Bigelow struggled to his feet, Tenryu nailed him with a Running Shoot Kick. He then picked Bigelow up off the mat, threw a huge Guh Punch at his jaw, then came off the ropes with a thunderous Lariat to end the match and defend his title. Card for the major show on April 4th in Osaka Special Challenge Match: Giant Baba, “X”, “X”, & “X” vs The Blonde Heels, Bruiser Brody, & Stan Hansen JWA Tag Team Champions Power Rush vs Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura JWA Trios Champions The Machines vs Bam Bam Bigelow, OMG, & Bossman Traylor Tenryu & Hara vs Danger Zone (Hickerson & Shaw) Black Tiger, Kobayashi, & Kensuke vs Tiger Mask, Hashimoto, & Mutoh Dos Caras, El Canek, & Fishman vs Fujiwara, Takada, & Funaki Misawa & Hase vs Yamada & Hoshino

Gilles "The Fish" Poisson steps up. Nice! I wonder who will face him, and who will team with Regal.

Happy birthday, Ohtani's Jacket!

Are Ray Candy and Leroy Brown the Zambui Express guys under different gimmicks? I like how you are building toward The Road Warriors vs Doc & The Barbarian this week. That match is going to be major when it finally happens.

I am not one of the people who made a complaint about him, but I can definitely state with 100 percent confidence that he is not really Japanese.

I like how guys like Profe, Madril, Starr and so on, even though they are all heels, have different and distinct personalities. I'm enjoying the slow build of Bigelow's resentment toward Barrabas.

Wow, well my shit booking is inspired by Eddie Gilbert's Continental run and Memphis Wrestling...I thought everything Vince Russo ever did was fucking garbage including the Attitude era....I'll do better next time. Probably in '86 cage-match run-ins were still shocking or whatever. It's just that the way Russo booked interference into EVERY cage match during his run has ruined that for me completely. In '86 I probably would have popped for that finish, but now I just think, "What is the point of even having the cage in that case?"

Aw... I hate interference in cage matches. Reminds me of Vince Russo. Long Riders as champs should be cool, though. Make the bikers in the crowd happy, at least.

Yet again, top to bottom, every match looks good. Bigelow vs Cactus and Spivey vs Sarge both sound hard-hitting and intense. Pillman vs Hector and Tanaka vs Chavo both sound exciting.

Is Big Van Walter the guy now known as WALTER?

1- ...this Monday it will be Rick Martel & Magnum TA against Ivan & Nikita Koloff in the Jacksonville, Coliseum! 2 - LARRY CHEATEM 1 - Whoo-hoo! 2 - of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe?

Yep. Great send-off for Dusty, and overall another great episode of TV. I don't think the AWA in the mid-80s ever gave us four TV matches in a month as good as the last four on this show.

is that a sin now Come on, man. Think about this for a second. Sin is a Christian concept. It is not a Buddhist concept. It is not a Shinto concept. "Is that a sin now" is an entirely western expression. No Japanese person would normally use that expression. No Japanese-to-English translation device would ever come up with that expression . No need to "gp and never come back." Just stop pretending to be something/someone that you obviously are not.

Kissing someone against their will and then claiming that they like it is Rape Culture. There is no grey area there. It is an obviously negative thing. I continue to assert that it is a very bizarre choice that you are questioning that at all.

my native language does not really have spacing system and or a system of capitalization at all minus that i like you to comment on what on what i write now how i do would be nice I have lived and worked in Japan for over 8 years. I have never ever seen a single Japanese person who writes English the way you do. I have never ever seen any Japanese person format their writing in English the way you do. There are certain grammar and structural mistakes that are extremely common among Japanese people who speak English as a second language. None of them are apparent in your writing. Your writing style is absolutely not how a Japanese English speaker would write. It absolutely is how a kind of dumb person might assume a Japanese person might write English. So, my question is: Why are you pretending to be Japanese? im not im fact pretending anything at all i also to be a bit lead handed when i comes to button presses in general There is a zero percent chance you are actually Japanese. You are the PY Chu Hi of this board. In addition to your fake-poor English being a dead giveaway, most of your posts go up at, like 3 am or 6 am Japan time. Quit pretending. It's embarrassing.

LaFon vs Furnas is fun to see. British Bullies vs British Steel vs Black Irish should be nuts, in a good way.

It is not the point. It's simply yet another instance of Rape Culture in pro-wrestling, which is what this thread is all about. I don't think the topic of Rape Culture is simple and so the examples to me aren't always simple and cut and dry. If everyone is just posting examples but not having any discussion about them then what benefit is it? You yourself responded to NintendoLogic's example of Muta in HUSTLE "impregnating" Yinling by blowing mist into her crotch in this thread as "That was pretty much alien comedy, with maybe a wee-bit of hentai. " So you can excuse an example with jokes but I can't offer any comments or thoughts of the cliche kiss the heel valet spot ? So, you are deliberately trying to present yourself as the DEFENDER of rape culture in pro wrestling? That is a very bizarre choice to make. Do you think it is a GOOD thing?

my native language does not really have spacing system and or a system of capitalization at all minus that i like you to comment on what on what i write now how i do would be nice I have lived and worked in Japan for over 8 years. I have never ever seen a single Japanese person who writes English the way you do. I have never ever seen any Japanese person format their writing in English the way you do. There are certain grammar and structural mistakes that are extremely common among Japanese people who speak English as a second language. None of them are apparent in your writing. Your writing style is absolutely not how a Japanese English speaker would write. It absolutely is how a kind of dumb person might assume a Japanese person might write English. So, my question is: Why are you pretending to be Japanese?

I like how you booked that Tag Title match. Hot property look good and strong even in defeat.

Kind of an unceremonious end for Bad News in Texas. Von Erichs vs Funks is getting brutal!

Hickerson seems to have been a damned fine tag team worker and a good big man brawler type... But do you remember when Jerry Jarrett’s CWA (based in Tennessee) and Fritz Von Erich’s WCCW (based in Texas, of course) merged to form the USWA in an attempt to combat the expanding WWF and WCW behemoths? Remeber when, in an attempt to create a heel out of one of the Memphis-based wrestlers, Hickerson was given the PY Chu Hi gimmick? The idea was to make this obviously-in-no-way Japanese, big, pasty Southern-fried veteran into a sinister backstabbing oriental heel. It flopped miserably. The lesson here? It is folly for someone who is OBVIOUSLY not actually Japanese to pretend to be Japanese in an attempt to get over. You will not fool anyone who is paying even the slightest bit of attention and it will just make you look like a fool and end up embarrassing everyone else. Feels like that is worth pointing out.

JWA would like to bring in Brody and Hansen for April 4th.

Oh, man! Flair vs Rougeau and Robinson vs Backlund on the same card. That's a whole lot of good wrestling. I hope we get more from that Robinson vs Backlund match-up.

I bet there were some stiff punches thrown in that Butcher Vachon vs MS-1 match!