joeg Posted November 26, 2017 Report Share Posted November 26, 2017 It is the spring of 1989. The Cold War has signifigantly thawed. Two years earlier Billy Joel had done a series of mega concerts exposing the Soviet people to Western music. Inoki had already ran a small show with a skelton crew in the USSR. This show featured NJPW mid carders against members of the Red Bull Army which was composed of Soviet amateur wrestlers and judokas who had been trained in pro wrestling by Inoki himself. But Inoki realizes its time for something bigger- a mega tour, stadium shows in several cities, with major stars, and world titles on the line. Each show will feature a major title defended in the main event. Inoki will also fight a series of Mixed Styles fights against some pretty bad ass guys. The goal of this tour is to open up the USSR as a viable territory for wrestern style professional wrestling. Champions featured on the shows - NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair IWGP Heavyweight Champion Tatsumi Fujinami Triple Crown Champion Genichiro Tenryu IWGP Tag Champions Riki Choshu and Masa Saito Prominent General Badasses Inoki will face in a Mixed Styles fight- Kickboxing/ Karate World Champion Andy Hug Former Soviet Bronze Medalist Olympic Super Heavyweight Boxer Aleksandr Miroshnichenko Former Dutch Silver Medalist Judoka Willie Wilhelm, who a year earlier lost a mixed styles match to Meada Two Time Sambo Russian Champion Volk Han 3 time World Bronze Medalist in Greco Roman Wrestling Evgeny Artyukhin A Soviet IWGP Title will also be established on the tour. Each show will basically follow the same format Main Event- Title Match Semi Main- Mixed Styles Match Semi Main- Tag Match which sets up the next night's title match Mid Card match building setting up the next nights semi main event Mid Card Match featuring Russians trained by Inoki vs American wrestlers Mid Card Match featuring Russians trained by Inoki vs Japanese wrestlers Prelim Junior match Prelim Match featuring Russians trained by Inoki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted November 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 Roster Japanese Heavyweight Tatsumi Fujinami - IWGP Champ Antonio Inoki Kengo Kimura Revolution Genichiro Tenryu - Triple Crown Champ Samson Fuyuki Ishin Gundan Reunion Riki Choshu - IWGP Tag Champ Masa Saito - IWGP Tag Champ Yoshiaki Yatsu Kuniaki Kobayashi American Heavyweights Ric Flair- NWA World Heavyweight Champ Scott Norton Brad Rhenigans Big Titan The Gladiator European Heavyweights Tony Halme Otto Wanz The Red Bull Army Salman Hashimikov Victor Zangiev Timur Zalasov Andrei Sulsaev Evgeny Artyukhin Habieli Victachev Wakha Eveleov Special Attraction Russian Shooters Volk Han Gregory Verichev Aleksandr Miroshnichenko Special Attraction Shooters Andy Hug Willie Wilhelm Junior Heavyweights Super Tiger Chris Benoit Ninja Sasuke Eiji Ezaki Blue Demon Jr Jerry Lynn Super Delphin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 Hell of a bold project here. The Inoki mixed styles matches should be different than anything else in the project. Hell of a juniors division. Tenryu, Fujinami, Choshu and Flair all in the mix for main events should be all kinds of fun. Oh and Volk Freaking Han!! Love that guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Casebolt Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 There is no bigger fan of the Inoki vs The World tours than me, plus I love the Russian shooters. Expect this to be amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordi Posted December 1, 2017 Report Share Posted December 1, 2017 I'm hoping we get some behind-the-scenes stories about touring behind the iron curtain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Casebolt Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 I just got done watching Volk Han's debut match and now I hate joeg all over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted December 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2017 I hope to get the first two shows booked on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week... and sorry Gordi there will not be a behind the scenes tell all. Simply because no work of fiction could out do the Sports Illustrated article on the New Japan trip to North Korea.... and Lee, Han was A1 from day 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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