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AJPW signs Frank Andersson.

http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/35352-all-japan-pro-wrestling/?p=5771823 This is a better version of my roster and the one I think more about because of booking.

I've killed the territory, I'm afraid.

Episode turned out great, I think.

11/28/95 AJPW Real World Tag League, Day Eight Okayama Budokan Okayama 1) Masao Orihara defeats Yuji Yasuraoka via pinfall after a spike Michinoku Driver. (12:48) - 2) Ultimo Dragon defeats Masanobu Fuchi via pinfall after a corkscrew moonsault. (17:36) - 3) Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeats Tiger Mask IV via pinfall after a Death Valley Bomb. (11:29) - 4) Mosh & Thrasher defeat Masao Inoue & Akitoshi Saito via pinfall by Thrasher on Inoue after a Stage Dive. (13:38) - 5) Takashi Iizuka & Osamu Nishimura defeat The Great Kabuki & Takashi Ishikawa via submission after Iizuka applied a Boston Crab on Kabuki. (20:41) - 6) Mitsuharu Misawa defeats Yoshinari Ogawa via pinfall after a Tiger Driver. (11:37) - 7) Haku & Konga defeat Stan Hansen & Akira Taue via referee stoppage after Taue's knee buckled and collapsed while attempting to deliver a nodowa on Konga and he was unable to meet an in-ring ten count. The Faces of Fear had spent the entire match working over the Unsinkables' two injuries; Hansen's eye and Taue's leg. Both men fought valiantly but were clearly disorganized compared to the Polynesian blood brothers. Giant Baba appeared at the end of the match and personally asked both Hansen & Taue if they were willing to compete further in the tournament; through the pain, both said yes. (22:45)

I don't. I think that IF YOU CAN, trying to merge them would be best, and then you can run USWA as an imprint like I am with WAR in AJPW. You won't have to be as familiar and you can try extra ideas.

It's just a phrase that sounds cool and is easy to market. "King's Road"? Difficult to market.

TENTATIVE CARD FOR DAY EIGHT IN OKAYAMA Super J-Cup Qualifier: MASAO ORIHARA vs.YUJI YASURAOKA - Super J-Cup Qualifier: MASANOBU FUCHI vs. ULTIMO DRAGON - Super J-Cup Qualifier: TATSUHITO TAKAIWA vs. TIGER MASK IV - MASAO INOUE & AKITOSHI SAITO vs. MOSH & THRASHER - Third Round of the Real World Tag League, Bracket B: THE GREAT KABUKI & TAKASHI ISHIKAWA vs. TAKASHI IIZUKA & OSAMU NISHIMURA - MITSUHARU MISAWA vs. YOSHINARI OGAWA - Third Round of the Real World Tag League, Bracket A: HAKU & KONGA vs. STAN HANSEN & AKIRA TAUE

So where do we stand in the RWTL? GROUP A, UNDEFEATED: Faces of Fear (Haku/Konga), Holy Hammer (Kawada/Kobashi), Unsinkable Vengeance (Hansen/Taue) GROUP B, ONE LOSS: Hellscape (Ishikawa/Kabuki), Olympus (Honda/Izumida), Red Lions (Iizuka/Nishimura), Revolution (Ogawa/Tenryu), Super Generation (Akiyama/Misawa) ELIMINATED, TWO LOSSES, COMPETING FOR RANKING: The Headbangers (Mosh/Thrasher), Merciless (Inoue/Saito), Romantic Warriors (Fuyuki/Kitahara), Wild Youth (Mossman/Omori)

11/27/95 AJPW Real World Tag League, Day Seven Tokushima Municipal Gymnasium Tokushima 1) Tiger Mask IV defeats Masanobu Fuchi via pinfall after a diving headbutt. (8:52) - 2) Masashi Aoyagi, Katsumi Usuda, & Yuji Yasuraoka defeat Black Cat, Akira Nogami, & Tatsuhito Takaiwa via pinfall by Aoyagi on Takaiwa after a triple Buzzsaw Kick from Aoyagi, Usuda, & Yasuraoka. (12:18) - 3) Nobutaka Araya & Masao Orihara defeat Satoru Asako & Maunakea Mossman via pinfall by Araya on Asako after a Northern Lights Bomb. (11:29) - 4) Tamon Honda & Jun Izumida defeat Samson Fuyuki & Koki Kitahara via submission after Honda applied a triangle choke on Fuyuki. (14:33) - 5) The Great Kabuki & Takashi Ishikawa defeat Masao Inoue & Akitoshi Saito via pinfall after a backdrop suplex by Ishikawa on Inoue. (13:03) - 6) Yoshinari Ogawa defeats Toshiaki Kawada via pinfall after an unseen low blow and an inside cradle. (8:17) - 7) Osamu Nishimura defeats Genichiro Tenryu via submission with a Dragon Sleeper. (24:58)

11/26/95 AJPW Real World Tag League, Day Six Yonago Industrial Gymnasium Yonago, Tottori 1) Masao Orihara defeats Katsumi Usuda via pinfall after a spike Michinoku Driver. (11:36) - 2) Mosh & Thrasher defeat Black Cat & Yuji Yasuraoka via pinfall by Thrasher on Black Cat after a Stage Dive. (10:19) - 3) Masashi Aoyagi defeats Nobutaka Araya via referee stoppage after a jumping high kick. (6:14) - 4) Satoru Asako & Takao Omori defeat Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Richard Slinger via pinfall by Omori on Slinger after an Axe Bomber. (16:53) - 5) Osamu Nishimura & Akira Nogami defeat Tamon Honda & Miguel Perez, Jr. via pinfall by Nishimura on Perez after a Gotch-style piledriver. (23:44) - 6) Masao Inoue, Akitoshi Saito, & Akira Taue defeat Samson Fuyuki, Takashi Ishikawa, & Koki Kitahara via disqualification after the Revolution members attacked Taue with a chair in the center of the ring. Fuyuki took the impetus, striking Taue's leg several times as Ishikawa & Kitahara fought off Inoue & Saito. The two had to help Taue from the ring as he couldn't stand on his left leg. (5:12) - 7) Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi defeat Yoshinari Ogawa & Genichiro Tenryu via pinfall by Kobashi on Ogawa after a moonsault. (28:46)

I'm definitely getting 16 days out of this tournament.

Or the one that fans pay less to see.

So, FMW & UWF-i, any interest in the J-Cup?

11/29 will have the first Super J-Cup qualifiers for AJPW, based off of the previous week's series of juniors singles matches. Six will advance to join Black Tiger II, Casas, Delfin, Kanemoto, Liger, Michinoku, Ohtani, Pillman, Samurai, Sasuke, Togo & the winner of Brookside-Dean.

TENTATIVE CARD FOR DAY SEVEN IN TOKUSHIMA ON 11/27: MASANOBU FUCHI vs. TIGER MASK IV - MASASHI AOYAGI, KATSUMI USUDA, & YUJI YASURAOKA vs. BLACK CAT, AKIRA NOGAMI, & TATSUHITO TAKAIWA - NOBUTAKA ARAYA & MASAO ORIHARA vs. SATORU ASAKO & MAUNAKEA MOSSMAN - Second Round of the Real World Tag League, Bracket B: SAMSON FUYUKI & KOKI KITAHARA vs. TAMON HONDA & JUN IZUMIDA - Second Round of the Real World Tag League, Bracket B: THE GREAT KABUKI & TAKASHI ISHIKAWA vs. MASAO INOUE & AKITOSHI SAITO - OSAMU NISHIMURA vs. GENICHIRO TENRYU - TOSHIAKI KAWADA vs. YOSHINARI OGAWA

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE SUPER J-CUP: ON 11/29, ROBBIE BROOKSIDE AND IAN DEAN WILL COMPETE FOR STAMPEDE WRESTLING'S SPOT IN THE TOURNAMENT IN ADDITION, WCW'S LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION, BRIAN PILLMAN, IS CONFIRMED TO COMPETE, AND AS CHAMPION HE WILL RECEIVE A BYE TO THE SECOND ROUND

TENTATIVE CARD FOR DAY SIX IN TOTTORI ON 11/26: MASAO ORIHARA vs. KATSUMI USUDA - BLACK CAT & YUJI YASURAOKA vs. MOSH & THRASHER - MASASHI AOYAGI vs. NOBUTAKA ARAYA - SATORU ASAKO & TAKAO OMORI vs. TSUYOSHI KIKUCHI & RICHARD SLINGER - TAMON HONDA & MIGUEL PEREZ, JR. vs. OSAMU NISHIMURA & AKIRA NOGAMI - SAMSON FUYUKI, TAKASHI ISHIKAWA, & KOKI KITAHARA vs. MASAO INOUE, AKITOSHI SAITO, & AKIRA TAUE - Third Round of the Real World Tag League, Bracket A: TOSHIAKI KAWADA & KENTA KOBASHI vs. YOSHINARI OGAWA & GENICHIRO TENRYU

11/24/95 AJPW Real World Tag League, Day Five Hamamatsu City Gymnasium Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 1) Tsuyoshi Kikuchi defeats Ultimo Dragon via pinfall after a diving headbutt. (15:43) - 2) Masao Inoue defeats Maunakea Mossman via pinfall after a Cobra clutch suplex. (10:28) - 3) Black Cat & Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeat Satoru Asako & Tiger Mask IV via pinfall by Takaiwa on Asako after a Death Valley Bomb. (14:49) - 4) Katsumi Usuda & Yuji Yasuraoka defeat Mosh & Thrasher via pinfall by Usuda on Mosh after dueling Usuda/Yasuraoka buzzsaw kicks. (13:34) - 5) Akira Nogami defeats Jun Izumida via submission after applying a STF. (11:19) - 6) Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa vs. The Great Kabuki & Takashi Ishikawa ends in a time-limit draw. With roughly forty seconds left in the match, as Akiyama attempted to set up Ishikawa for a Death Valley Bomb but staggered and fell to one knee, so Misawa tagged himself in and attempted to lift Ishikawa for an Emerald Flowsion to be met by The Great Kabuki who had launched into the ring after Misawa's tag and sprayed mist in his face before delivering a DDT. Ishikawa attempted to pin Misawa, who kicked out at 2 as time expired. (30:00) - 7) Stan Hansen & Akira Taue vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi ends in a time-limit draw. The entire match was a brawl, with very few exchanges in the middle of the ring, with extended segments of both Kawada and Taue in peril in the opposite corner. With only two minutes left, Hansen finally had his chance after Taue tagged him in, but Kobashi & Kawada swarmed him, the former hitting a chop block as Kawada kicked Hansen straight in the face, seeming to blind the already poor-sighted Hansen, who thrashed and tossed both Kawada & Kobashi to the ground recklessly without a plan, unable to perform a true move after the damage to his eye as the time limit ran out. (30:00)

Enos-Jericho hasn't been, though.

Yeah, that's wild.

The Skull-Crushing Finale went through a stretch where Miz was incapable of putting anyone down with it. So it's just a case of the body of the match and how it builds to the finish. Just add slightly more creativity. I'd love to see Cena go for consecutive AAs without a pin attempt in-between. It's not original for wrestling, but it's original for him. More combination finishers, too. Ziggler hits a Zig Zag, immediately locks the sleeper for a tapout, not TKO. People like seeing adrenaline bursts where someone seems superhuman. Shorter but higher impact comebacks. But, overall: yes. Styles make fights, right? But if everyone does the same thing, or you have too great of a contrast between workers where matches seem incompatible next to each other, then things can't work. Everything needs a root of commonality where individualism can then bloom.

Anyway, SUPER J-CUP, 24 ENTRANTS, ALL PROMOTIONS WELCOME, 12/4, 12/9, 12/13. (12/9 has been added to minimize congestion. Afternoon show before AJPW's year-ender as part of RESUFEST '95.

Yeah, just go simple, let the results come to you, there's no need to be flowery or whatever. Tell the story first, then add as you want. That sounds hypercondescending but I don't mean for it to.

11/22/95 AJPW Real World Tag League, Day Four Korakuen Hall Tokyo 1) Masanobu Fuchi defeats Yuji Yasuraoka via pinfall after an arm-wringer snap DDT. (8:51) - 2) Takao Omori defeats Akitoshi Saito via pinfall after an Axe Bomber. (13:25) - 3) Masashi Aoyagi, Takashi Iizuka, & Akira Nogami defeat Takashi Ishikawa, Genichiro Tenryu, & Yoshinari Ogawa via referee stoppage after a leaping Yakuza Kick by Aoyagi to Ogawa. (9:38) - 4) Samson Fuyuki & Koki Kitahara defeat Mosh & Thrasher via pinfall by Fuyuki on Thrasher after a low blow. (13:48) - 5) Haku & Konga defeat Tamon Honda & Jun Izumida via pinfall by Haku on Izumida after a double diving headbutt. (20:17) - 6) Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa defeat Stan Hansen & Osamu Nishimura via submission after Kawada applied the Stretch Plum on Nishimura. (23:58) - 7) Akira Taue defeats Kenta Kobashi via pinfall after a sitout nodowa chokeslam. (25:15)