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Akira Maeda is pissed at Takada for not picking him first.

I demand Tier A status.

Nobuhiko Takada casually walks to the draft podium, looks around, leans forward towards the microphone and says 3 words: IT'S VADER TIME!

Are you doing a Junior division or NOT????????????? Yeah I have a junior title with Dan Kroffat. I just have to get the right pieces... AJPW had a junior title so I plan to keep up with that. Cool. Yeah, they had the title but didn't really do anything with it. Bringing in Eddie shows you want to try, which is awesome. Just means I probably will not worry about it, too many people using juniors. The cool thing about Eddy being a cornerstone though is that he can work with a ton of different juniors. He's someone who you could see working well with everyone from Masa Fuchi to Gran Naniwa. And he's an actual junior heavyweight. Unlike Dan Kroffat.

Tenryu was my #2 prospect behind Hashimoto. Him going back to All Japan is perfect though. That would've been awesome. Imagine Kawada wanting to prove to Tenryu that he's grown up and shit.

Depending on how the next few rounds go I may only run stadium shows

Yesss! Hashimoto was always my target.

At his monthly press conference, UWFI owner/world champ made his usual grandstand challenge to all other world champions and top stars. UWFI fans have come to expect this to go nowhere until SHINYA HASHIMOTO bursts through the door. Game changer

My top 4 are still all in play!

And it is guaranteed to be the guy I want. I already know it. There are 4 guys I have my eye on with my first pick but only one that I REALLY want and I'm certain he won't be there. "Uh yes, Mr Baba, this is Nobuhiko Takada. How many jobs to Misawa would it take for a pick swap?"

You can't argue with starting off Misawa/Kawada/Kobashi/Taue/Akiyama.

I am having way too much fun with this literally yelling at my computer screen at LowBlowPodcast to "DON'T DRAFT WRESTLER X! COME ON BABY!"

UWFi didn't have a juniors title but with Tamura & Sakuraba both able to fight bigger guys at under 200lbs, I may not actually have to steal too many juniors. I mean, I'm UWFi, so junior fans don't have to worry about me grabbing Eddy or Ultimo Dragon or anything like that.

The juniors are going to be really interesting because really all of us will be looking at certain guys.

I wish HHH was available to all so Grimmas could draft him with the last pick and put him in exploding barbed wire match after exploding barbed wire match.

Absolutely. edit: to both of those last two posts

Hogan is a great pick for New Japan I think. I worry a little about his willingness to do jobs for Mutoh & Chono and whatever other guys are picked up. But that's the issue with grabbing Hogan in 1995. I'm interested to see where this goes though because Hulk always had his working boots on in Japan. I demand at least one Hogan & Liger tag team appearance so they can do dueling posing routines. Grimmas, I'm fascinated by who you pick first because it will likely determine just how angry I am tomorrow on my lunch break. There are 4 guys I'm targeting with my first pick and with 4 Japanese promotion picks in front of me, its very possible I'll miss out on all of them. There are a bunch of different directions you can go in which leads you to be the total wildcard in Japan. I absolutely anticipate spite drafting John Tenta in like the 6th round after you grab a couple of my guys

Union of Wrestling Force International: No Gracie's Allowed. UWFi World Heavyweight Champion: Nobuhiko Takada UWFi World Light Heavyweight Champion: TBD Heavyweight Roster: Nobuhiko Takada Shinya Hashimoto Vader Akira Maeda Volk Han Dr Death Steve Williams Kiyoshi Tamura Yoshiaki Fujiwara Lord Steven Regal Kazuo Yamazaki Fit Finlay Yoji Anjoh Yoshihiro Takayama Victor Zangiev Yoshiaki Yatsu Tatsuo Nakano Osamu Kido Shigeo "Yuko" Miyato Light Heavyweight Division: Kazushi Sakuraba Naoki Sano Yuki Ishikawa Alexander Otsuka Masahito Kakihara Carl Greco Takeshi Ono Minoru Tanaka Hiromitsu Kanehara Keichi Yamamoto

Making my wishlist (which is awesome, and if I get even a third of these guys, holy shit) and I'm sad Stan Hansen will be Tier 1. Hansen was a darkhorse candidate for UWFi's first pick.

Part of me wishes I was able to draft Hogan to UWFi to promote a Hogan vs Takada "shoot style match" where Takada doublecrosses Hogan, tries to really shoot and then gets his ass kicked by the Hulk Just a small part

Thanks bud! Enjoy your flick!

One last one just to totally give away my hopes and dreams, Alexander Otsuka

Awesome! Check the edit too for more RINGS guys

Can PWFG guys get added to Japan? There was a PWFG show on 8/30/95 with Fujiwara, Ishikawa, Greco, Ikeda, Ono, etc etc. Edit Also, there are some RINGS dudes out there like Mikhail Ilioukhine, Yamamoto, Andrei Kopilov, Dick Leon-Vrij, Mitsuya Nagai, that wouldn't disappoint me if they found there way to the list