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If he can (temporarily but it'd be weird booking him in Japan full-time anyway) only work WAR, then he's working the hell out of WAR. I hope that the first Revolution angle wasn't TOO unsubtle. Part two will be up by tomorrow morning at latest.

12/9/95 AJPW Real World Tag League, Final Nippon Budokan Tokyo 1) Black Cat & Negro Casas defeat Katsumi Usuda & Yuji Yasuraoka via pinfall by Casas on Usuda with La Casita to advance to the WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship final. (9:16) - 2) Masanobu Fuchi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi defeat Mascara Magica & Alex Wright via pinfall by Fuchi on Magica with a backdrop suplex hold to advance to the WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship final. (12:45) - 3) Joe Malenko, Miguel Perez, Jr., & Kentaro Shiga defeat Masao Inoue, Bull Pain, & Akitoshi Saito via pinfall by Shiga on Pain after a bridging German Suplex. (9:43) - 4) Akira Nogami & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Masao Orihara & Ultimo Dragon ends in a time-limit draw. After the match, Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuji Yasuraoka ran into the ring and helped Orihara & Ultimo attempt a beat down on the Red Lions before being chased out by Takashi Iizuka. As Iizuka tended to his stablemates, Ogawa, as the #2 member of Revolution, officially invited Ultimo to join the stable and also gain WAR's assistance for any of his future projects, which he accepted. Dos Caras appeared in AJPW for the first time in 12 years and stated that he was jumping from Asahi Pro to join Revolution & WAR as well, to become Ultimo's partner. (20:00) - 5) Satoru Asako & Maunakea Mossman defeat Frank Andersson & Robbie Brookside via pinfall on Mossman on Andersson after an H50. (8:34) - 6) Tamon Honda & Jun Izumida defeat Samson Fuyuki & Koki Kitahara to WIN the All-Asia Tag Team Championship via submission by Honda on Fuyuki after applying an Olympic Hell choke. The Olympus team were jubilant in picking up their first career AJPW championships but the Romantic Warriors were disgusted and all five Revolution members to have appeared during the fourth match (Caras, Dragon, Ogawa, Orihara, & Yasuraoka) came to their defense, again attempting a beatdown before being run off by the Faces of Fear. Tenryu finally appeared, laughing, and stating that while the title loss was a setback, that the day of reckoning for AJPW in which Revolution would ultimately succeed had already been set in motion. (14:58) - 7) Black Cat & Negro Casas defeat Masanobu Fuchi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi to WIN the WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship via pinfall by Black Cat on Kikuchi after a folding powerbomb. Black Tiger II & a debuting Felino appeared to support the other members of the La Peste Negra/Los Gatos Locos collective in their dominance over the AJPW junior heavyweight division. (15:37) - 8) Black Tiger II defeats Masashi Aoyagi to RETAIN the AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Championship via submission after applying an STF. Aoyagi's leg was already weakened from having had two intense matches in the Super J-Cup the night before and Tiger immediately went to work on it, drawing Aoyagi into going for multiple desperation Kick of Death attempts only to punish him with dragon screws and dropkicks to the knee. He repeatedly went for his stablemate AKIRA's trademark STF to assert revenge for his loss the night before, finally torturing Aoyagi into tapping out. Jushin Liger, the man who had eliminated Aoyagi the night before, immediately made a surprise appearance in order to challenge Tiger to a title match, regardless of what happened in the J-Cup. Since they could only meet in the final, Liger said that he would only put up his own Asahi Pro Welterweight Championship if Tiger defeated him there but that he wanted Tiger next no matter what. Tiger told him that he'd love to restore their rivalry but only if Giant Baba and the Championship Committee declared Liger a worthy challenger. (12:42) - 9) Haku, Takashi Iizuka, Konga, Osamu Nishimura, & Kazuo Yamazaki defeat Nobutaka Araya, The Great Kabuki, Takashi Ishikawa, Yoshinari Ogawa, & Genichiro Tenryu in a tag team elimination match. Kabuki & Konga were simultaneously eliminated quickly into the match via countout after brawling at ringside (4:48), and eventually to the back after Tenryu sent out Samson Fuyuki to attack Konga and bait Haku into saving his partner, causing his own elimination (5:39). Ishikawa was eliminated via submission by Yamazaki in his debut for AJPW after Yamazaki applied a jujigatame (11:26), Iizuka was eliminated via pinfall by Tenryu following a Tenryu lariat and an Araya moonsault (17:03), Araya was eliminated via submission by Nishimura after Nishimura applied a Dragon sleeper (20:48), Ogawa was eliminated via submission after Nishimura applied a figure-four leglock (23:57), Nishimura was eliminated via TKO after Tenryu hit a top rope back elbow drop in an attempt to break the hold Nishimura had on Ogawa (24:01), Yamazaki eliminated Tenryu via referee stoppage after immediately pouncing on him following the Nishimura elimination and applying a rear-naked choke (24:36), winning the match for the Faces of Fear/Red Lions team. Yamazaki announced that he was proud to finally be a member of the All Japan roster but that he was there to represent his dojo and his style of fighting and nobody else's; if that meant destroying Revolution or any other faction in the process, so be it. (24:36) - 10) Jun Akiyama & Steve Williams defeat Mitsuharu Misawa & Takao Omori via pinfall by Williams on Misawa after a Doctor Bomb. Williams's return to AJPW was swiftly felt as he continuously destroyed Omori through the match, allowing Akiyama to rampage upon his former mentor in Misawa as long as he could without being interrupted, but when the coup de grace came, Williams sent Akiyama after Omori to ensure that they would get the win themselves and proceeded to hit a devastating version of his iconic gutwrench Doctor Bomb. Akiyama seemed miffed but Williams told him that he'd be "Dr. Death"'s first challenger for the Triple Crown after he took it from Misawa, feeling that this pin guaranteed him as the next contender. (16:37) - 11) Stan Hansen & Akira Taue defeat Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi to WIN the 1995 Real World Tag League AND the AJPW World Tag Team Championship via pinfall by Taue on Kawada after a pair of Nodowa Otoshi bombs. The match was as much of a war as expected, with all four men smelling the blood in the water immediately after both Hansen & Taue started the match with lariats to Kobashi & Kawada sending them over the top rope and Hansen following it with a rare dive through the ropes, creaming the two reigning champions. Taue wanted explicit vengeance on Kawada for his betrayal and used his mastery of the tag setting to never let Dangerous K have even a moment's rest as Hansen clobbered Kobashi every chance that he got. But neither champion took it laying down as both took the aging Hansen off of his feet several times, including with an enziguri/lariat combination that nearly landed them the three count, and Kawada baiting Taue into having his famous usage of the ring apron backfire on him with Kobashi spearing him through the ropes as Kawada provoked Taue into a forearm exchange. But ultimately the champions could not manage the true anger and desire to win by the challengers, and after Hansen's biggest Western Lariat of the match to Kobashi, Kawada was left defenseless to Taue's chokeslams. (26:15)

The second day & RWTL final will have some better match descriptions. I got into the mode of going light on what were effectively house shows but when it's two of the biggest shows all year, it shouldn't be too dry.

CARD FOR SUPER J-CUP, DAY TWO (DECEMBER 13) AT SUMO HALL ROUND TWO CARL GRECO vs. TAKA MICHINOKU - THE GREAT SASUKE vs. SHINJIRO OHTANI - BLACK TIGER II vs. HAYABUSA - NEGRO CASAS vs. ALEX WRIGHT QUARTERFINALS DICK TOGO vs. KOJI KANEMOTO - JUSHIN LIGER vs. EL SAMURAI - [Winner of CARL GRECO vs. TAKA MICHINOKU] vs. [Winner of THE GREAT SASUKE vs. SHINJIRO OHTANI] - [Winner of BLACK TIGER II vs. HAYABUSA] vs. [Winner of NEGRO CASAS vs. ALEX WRIGHT] SEMIFINALS [Winner of DICK TOGO vs. KOJI KANEMOTO] vs. [Winner of JUSHIN LIGER vs. EL SAMURAI] - [Winner of QUARTERFINAL #3] vs. [Winner of QUARTERFINAL #4] FINALS [WINNER OF SEMIFINAL #1] vs. [Winner of SEMIFINAL #2]

12/8/95 WAR Super J-Cup II, Day One Ota Ward Gymnasium Tokyo 1) Dick Togo defeats Robbie Brookside via pinfall after a diving senton. (8:58) - 2) Koji Kanemoto defeats Ultimo Dragon via submission after applying a Koji Clutch. (8:29) - 3) Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeats Tsuyoshi Kikuchi via pinfall after a Death Valley Bomb. (13:27) - 4) Masashi Aoyagi defeats Akira Nogami via knockout after a Kick of Death. (7:14) - 5) TAKA Michinoku defeats Minoru Tanaka via pinfall after a second-rope Michinoku Driver II. (9:53) - 6) Shinjiro Ohtani defeats Hanzo Nakajima via pinfall after a Spiral Bomb. (6:20) - 7) Hayabusa defeats Masao Orihara via pinfall after a Firebird Splash. (12:34) - 8) Alex Wright defeats Naohiro Hoshikawa via submission after applying an STF. (10:05) - 9) Dick Togo defeats Super Delfin via pinfall after a diving senton. (12:40) - 10) Koji Kanemoto defeats Brian Pillman via pinfall after an avalanche Tiger suplex. (17:32) - 11) El Samurai defeats Tatsuhito Takaiwa via pinfall with the Samurai Clutch. (9:58) - 12) Jushin Liger defeats Masashi Aoyagi via submission after applying a kneebar. (15:22)

It's Kawada/Kobashi vs. Hansen/Taue. I thought that Hansen, hating all the young natives as he would, would be the perfect hired gun to bail out Taue against Misawa & co.. DEFINITELY would want Hansen-Kobashi faceoffs. Now, how having three legit aces in one faction shuffles out... My plan is to do a UWFi merger, which will leave some guys out like Maeda because there is just no world in which he'd ever have worked for AJPW without him or Baba killing the other, and then your other RINGS guys are more borderline in how I'd use them, which is part of why explicitly keeping the "WAR" brand around, to do explicitly un-King's Road stuff, even with Tenryu as full-time AJ was part of my plan when I took over even in 2016. That gets some big name heavies, the true key being Hash. I had a revelation about the AJPW junior division really just being their TV title division a few weeks ago (Fuchi as Arn, Kiku as Brad Armstrong, Ogawa as Morton, J. Malenko as Larry in a way), but I'd already reintroduced the All-Asia singles as my #2 anyway. That way the true juniors get their title & the AJ-style juniors plus young guys (Akiyama, Honda, Nishimura) have an IC title. My main plan with Akiyama was always to set him up with a Nishimura rivalry, just because they've always worked so well together in reality. Tanaka was absolutely on my mind, and with the UWFi guys come the bigger BAT-BAT boys like Otsuka (and even though he's technically in FMW, that no longer matters so Ikeda) who absolutely could have been on that level of stardom if given the chance. I'm investing in Honda/Takayama before either really did hit their peaks in NOAH but eh, why not give them a chance? Maybe Nobutaka Araya could have hit the big time with the right push, and unlike Misawa did both in the post-Baba run for AJPW and in NOAH, I don't have the foreigner aversion so Regal and (if this is all fiction anyway) Alex Wright are there. And, of course, for those who know me... Brian Dyet.

Thank you for the permission. I don't know why that matters to me but it kinda does; I asked Grimmas for an FMW rep for the J-Cup and he suggested Hanzo while forgetting Hayabusa.

With that said... foreigners are all mine, and I will do the TNR shuffle every time I pluck one. Panasonic bucks, boys.

I'm taking back Sunday on Kentaro Shiga. Returning after a fake injury. I want the fake MichiPro/NJPW post-merger entity to be at least somewhat viable as a competitor in this reality but also I'm totally taking their guys if I want. Every native that I didn't inherit or get in a Larger Acquisition will have been with AJPW or NOAH for multiple years. Like, I want an insanely sick promotion here, but not TOO insanely sick. "Insanely sick" to the point of legitimately wasting talent just so I can say that I have it. I'm going to use WAR shows as mini-indie summits with Big Japan, FMW, IWA Japan, et cetera having representatives.

FINAL CARD FOR REAL WORLD TAG LEAGUE FINAL AT NIPPON BUDOKAN (DECEMBER 9) JOE MALENKO, MIGUEL PEREZ, JR., & KENTARO SHIGA vs. MASAO INOUE, BULL PAIN, & AKITOSHI SAITO - AKIRA NOGAMI & TATSUHITO TAKAIWA vs. MASAO ORIHARA & ULTIMO DRAGON - FRANK ANDERSSON & ROBBIE BROOKSIDE vs. SATORU ASAKO & MAUNAKEA MOSSMAN - WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship semifinal: BLACK CAT & NEGRO CASAS vs. KATSUMI USUDA & YUJI YASURAOKA - WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship semifinal: MASANOBU FUCHI & TSUYOSHI KIKUCHI vs. MASCARA MAGICA & ALEX WRIGHT - WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship final: WINNERS OF MATCH #1 vs. WINNERS OF MATCH #2 - All-Asia Tag Team Championship: SAMSON FUYUKI & KOKI KITAHARA © vs. TAMON HONDA & JUN IZUMIDA - AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Championship: BLACK TIGER II © vs. MASASHI AOYAGI - Elimination match: NOBUTAKA ARAYA, THE GREAT KABUKI, TAKASHI ISHIKAWA, YOSHINARI OGAWA, & GENICHIRO TENRYU vs. HAKU, KONGA, TAKASHI IIZUKA, OSAMU NISHIMURA, & AKIRA NOGAMI - JUN AKIYAMA & [X] vs. MITSUHARU MISAWA & TAKAO OMORI - Real World Tag League Final, AJPW World Tag Team Championship: TOSHIAKI KAWADA & KENTA KOBASHI vs. STAN HANSEN & AKIRA TAUE

12/7/95 AJPW Real World Tag League, Day Fifteen Kiryu City Gymnasium Kiryu 1) Negro Casas defeats Mascara Magica via pinfall with La Casita. (10:03) - 2) Joe Malenko defeats Maunakea Mossman via submission after applying a Texas Cloverleaf. (11:48) - 3) Jun Izumida & Katsumi Usuda defeat Frank Andersson & Ian Dean via pinfall by Izumida on Dean after a diving headbutt. (10:12) - 4) Osamu Nishimura & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeat Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuji Yasuraoka via pinfall by Nishimura on Yasuraoka after a bridging German suplex. (15:49) - 5) The Great Kabuki & Takashi Ishikawa defeat Mosh & Thrasher via pinfall by Ishikawa on Mosh after a lariat. (5:58) - 6) Jun Akiyama, Masanobu Fuchi, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, Akitoshi Saito, & Akira Taue vs. Satoru Asako, Toshiaki Kawada, Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa, & Tiger Mask IV ended in a time-limit draw. (30:00)

CARD FOR SUPER J-CUP, DAY ONE (DECEMBER 8): ROUND ONE ROBBIE BROOKSIDE vs. DICK TOGO - KOJI KANEMOTO vs. ULTIMO DRAGON - TSUYOSHI KIKUCHI vs. TATSUHITO TAKAIWA - MASASHI AOYAGI vs. AKIRA NOGAMI - TAKA MICHINOKU vs. MINORU TANAKA - HANZO NAKAJIMA vs. SHINJIRO OHTANI - HAYABUSA vs. MASAO ORIHARA - NAOHIRO HOSHIKAWA vs. ALEX WRIGHT ROUND TWO [Winner of ROBBIE BROOKSIDE vs. DICK TOGO] vs. SUPER DELFIN - [Winner of KOJI KANEMOTO vs. ULTIMO DRAGON] vs. BRIAN PILLMAN - [Winner of TSUYOSHI KIKUCHI vs. TATSUHITO TAKAIWA] vs. EL SAMURAI - [Winner of MASASHI AOYAGI vs. AKIRA NOGAMI] vs. JUSHIN LIGER

CARD FOR DAY 15 IN KIRYU NEGRO CASAS vs. MASCARA MAGICA - JOE MALENKO vs. MAUNAKEA MOSSMAN - FRANK ANDERSSON & IAN DEAN vs. JUN IZUMIDA & KATSUMI USUDA - OSAMU NISHIMURA & TATSUHITO TAKAIWA vs. YOSHINARI OGAWA & YUJI YASURAOKA - THE GREAT KABUKI & TAKASHI ISHIKAWA vs. MOSH & THRASHER - JUN AKIYAMA, MASANOBU FUCHI, TSUYOSHI KIKUCHI, AKITOSHI SAITO, & AKIRA TAUE vs. SATORU ASAKO, TOSHIAKI KAWADA, KENTA KOBASHI, MITSUHARU MISAWA, & TIGER MASK IV

12/6/95 AJPW Real World Tag League, Day Fourteen Miyagi Sports Center Sendai 1) Tamon Honda defeats Frank Andersson via pinfall after a rolling fireman's carry. (9:23) - 2) Nobutaka Araya vs. Miguel Perez, Jr. ends in a time-limit draw. (15:00) - 3) Robbie Brookside & Alex Wright defeat Masao Inoue & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi via pinfall by Wright on Inoue after a top-rope crossbody. (13:05) - 4) Takao Omori & Tiger Mask IV defeat Koki Kitahara & Masao Orihara via pinfall by Omori on Kitahara after an Axe Bomber. (14:26) - 5) Yoshinari Ogawa defeats Takashi Iizuka via submission after a figure-four leglock. (8:58) - 6) Satoru Asako, Mitsuharu Misawa, & Maunakea Mossman defeat Jun Akiyama, Bull Pain, & Jun Izumida via pinfall by Misawa on Pain after a rolling elbow. (17:28) - 7) Stan Hansen & Akira Taue defeat Haku & Konga via pinfall by Hansen on Haku after a second-rope Nodowa by Taue followed by a Western lariat by Hansen. (13:11)

CARD FOR DAY 14 IN SENDAI FRANK ANDERSSON vs. TAMON HONDA - NOBUTAKA ARAYA vs. MIGUEL PEREZ, JR. - ROBBIE BROOKSIDE & ALEX WRIGHT vs. MASAO INOUE & TSUYOSHI KIKUCHI - KOKI KITAHARA & MASAO ORIHARA vs. TAKAO OMORI & TIGER MASK IV - TAKASHI IIZUKA vs. YOSHINARI OGAWA - JUN AKIYAMA, BULL PAIN, & JUN IZUMIDA vs. SATORU ASAKO, MITSUHARU MISAWA, & MAUNAKEA MOSSMAN - Real World Tag League: HAKU & KONGA vs. STAN HANSEN & AKIRA TAUE

UWFi have confirmed that they are sending CARL GRECO and MINORU TANAKA to finalize the field at 24. The eight wrestlers receiving first-round byes are Greco, Black Tiger, Negro Casas, The Great Sasuke, Jushin Liger, Brian Pillman, El Samurai, & Super Delfin.

HAYABUSA and HANZO NAKAJIMA have been named to represent FMW, and NAOHIRO HOSHIKAWA to represent the upstart IWA Japan in the Super J-Cup! Two spots left, with UWFi still mulling their participation.

12/5/95 AJPW Real World Tag League, Day Thirteen Niigata City Gymnasium Niigata 1) The Great Kabuki vs. Haku ends in a double disqualification after Kabuki repeatedly misted Haku after he applied the Tongan Death Grip and wouldn't release the hold. Samson Fuyuki ran out to attack Haku but was followed by his opponent for the next match in Konga. (4:48) - 2) Konga defeats Samson Fuyuki via countout after powerbombing Fuyuki over the guardrail and onto the timekeeper's table, leaving Fuyuki immobilized. Koki Kitahara came out to help his Revolution stablemates but Miguelito Perez made the save for the Faces of Fear. (7:25) - 3) Mosh & Thrasher defeat Ian Dean & Ultimo Dragon via pinfall by Thrasher on Dean following a Stage Dive. (9:17) - 4) Masashi Aoyagi & Akitoshi Saito defeat Robbie Brookside & Bull Pain via pinfall by Saito on Pain after a duelling Kick of Death from he & Aoyagi. (8:57) - 5) Osamu Nishimura & Akira Nogami defeat Masanobu Fuchi & Masao Inoue via submission after Nishimura applied an Octopus Stretch to Inoue. (16:43) - 6) Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi defeat Takashi Ishikawa & Genichiro Tenryu via pinfall by Kawada on Ishikawa after a powerbomb (19:15) - 7) Stan Hansen & Akira Taue defeat Tamon Honda & Jun Izumida via pinfall by Hansen on Izumida after a Western Lariat. (18:33)

Official Super J-Cup field: FIRST ROUND Masashi Aoyagi. Robbie Brookside. Hayabusa. Naohiro Hoshikawa. Koji Kanemoto. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi. TAKA Michinoku. Hanzo Nakajima. Akira Nogami. Shinjiro Ohtani. Masao Orihara. Minoru Tanaka. Tatsuhito Takaiwa. Dick Togo. Ultimo Dragon. Alex Wright. SECOND ROUND Black Tiger II. Negro Casas. The Great Sasuke. Carl Greco. Jushin Liger. Brian Pillman. El Samurai. Super Delfin.

CARD FOR DAY 13 IN NIIGATA THE GREAT KABUKI vs. HAKU - SAMSON FUYUKI vs. KONGA - lAN DEAN & ULTIMO DRAGON vs. MOSH & THRASHER - MASASHI AOYAGI & AKITOSHI SAITO vs. ROBBIE BROOKSIDE & BULL PAIN - MASANOBU FUCHI & MASAO INOUE vs. OSAMU NISHIMURA & AKIRA NOGAMI - TOSHIAKI KAWADA & KENTA KOBASHI vs. TAKASHI ISHIKAWA & GENICHIRO TENRYU - Real World Tag League: STAN HANSEN & AKIRA TAUE vs. TAMON HONDA & JUN IZUMIDA

Okay, so Day 13 will have Olympus-Unsinkables, Day 14 that winner vs. the Faces of Fear, and Day 16 the final. Day 15 a hoedown.