AJPW [Triple Crown, World Jr. & GAORA TV] results for November 24, 2013

All Japan Pro-Wrestling “2013 Oudou Renaissance”, 11/24/2013 [Sun] 15:00 @ Big Hat in Nagano

(1) Masao Inoue vs. BambiKiller
◆Winner: BambiKiller (6:17) following the Bambi Death Shot.

(2) GAORA TV Championship Decision Match: SUSHI vs. Keisuke Ishii [DDT]
◆Winner: SUSHI (11:49) with the Katsuo no Ipponzuri
~ SUSHI becomes the 3rd Generation Champion.
~ SUSHI got his wish of reinstating the belt for a reason, now it it time for him to defend the belt as a champion.

(3) Suwama & Hikaru Sato [Pancrase MISSION] vs. Jun Akiyama & Takao Omori
◆Winner: Akiyama (15:50) following an Exploder on Sato.

(-) Shinshu Pro Offer Bonus Match: Great☆Mucha & NOZAWANA Rongai vs. S Nazo no Maskman & Jigokudani PONTA
◆Winner: – ()

(4) World Junior Heavyweight Championship Match: [35th Champion] Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. [Challenger] Kotaro Suzuki
◆Winner: Kanemaru (20:38) following the Deep Impact (Diving DDT).
~ 7th successful title defense.

(5) Special 6 Man Tag Match: Go Shiozaki, Kento Miyahara [Free] & Atsushi Aoki vs. Masahiro Chono, KENSO & D-Lo Brown
◆Winner: KENSO (20:41) following the Hagakure to Aoki.
~ KENSO declared that Chono would be in connection with his new group. (Truthfully there seemed to be some doubt with that, but we will see how things play out in time.)

(6) Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship Match: [47 Champion] Akebono vs. [Challenger] Joe Doering
◆Winner: DRAW (5:16) Both Ring Out.
~ The match was then restarted.
◆Winner: Akebono (2:14) following the Yokozuna Impact.
~ 1st successful title defense

The rest of the tour has been altered to reflect the stroryline invovling Xceed & KENSO’s group.
All Japan Event Cards for November & December 2013
https://puroresuspirit.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/all-japan-event-cards-for-november-december-2013/

[All Japan News] A few more title matches have been officially announced for the month of August.

Following the news this morning that All Japan will be holding an openweight tournament in September….
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All Japan also had another part of the conference dedicated to the upcoming World Junior and World Tag title matches.

It was already announced that Suwama would be defending the Triple Crown against Go Shiozaki on August 25th, but before that Go Shiozaki and Jun Akiyama will be defending the World Tag belts against Suwama and his partner of Takao Omori on August 17th. Omori’s regular partner in Manabu Soya, GET WILD, gave his approval for Omori to team with Suwama while he is out on injury, and Omori specifically is finally looking to gain a decisive edge over the Burning team. Burning is very much dominant when it comes to the titles within the promotion, and even Go Shiozaki has said that he is aiming to be crowned a 5 belt champion. By retaining over Suwama/Omori and then taking Suwama out at the end of the month he could very well do so, and the same could be said vice-versa for Suwama. It should be interesting to see who will be standing as Shinsei All Japan’s true champions when this month comes to a close.

Then it was announced that Yoshinobu Kanemaru will be defending the World Junior belt against Hikaru Sato on August 25th. Hikaru has been on a roll as of late with picking a part the junior contenders ad even the junior champion himself. Hikaru has been a semi-regular in the promotion for a little over a year now and has proven from time to time that he can be a real contender with his MMA background… it probably doesn’t hurt that he is the protege of Minoru Suzuki as well. Kanemaru has said that he will take on all challengers and will be fighting to stake his claim as the rightful champion.

But before all the scheduled title matches,  the show on August 11th will be headlined with 2 prelude matches which could foretell the chances of a title change.

Below are the announced cards at this time.

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All Japan Pro-Wrestling “SUMMER IMPACT 2013 ~ The beginning of evolution”, 8/11/2013 [Sun] 12:00 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo

(-) World Tag & World Junior Double Prelude Match: Takao Omori & Hikaru Sato (Pancrase MISSION) vs. Jun Akiyama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
(-) Triple Crown Prelude Match: Suwama & Joe Doering vs. Go Shiozaki & Akebono [Free]

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All Japan Pro-Wrestling “SUMMER IMPACT 2013 ~ The beginning of evolution”, 8/17/2013 [Sat] 18:00 @ Hakata Starlane in Fukuoka

(-) World Tag Championship Match: [65th Champions] “Burning” Jun Akiyama & Go Shiozaki vs. [Challengers] Suwama & Takao Omori

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All Japan Pro-Wrestling “SUMMER IMPACT 2013 ~ The beginning of evolution”, 8/25/2013 [Sun] 16:00 @ Ota Ward General Gymnasium

Newly Announced:
(-) World Junior Heavyweight Championship Match: [35th Champion] Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. [Challenger] Hikaru Sato (Pancrase MISSION)

Previously announced:
(-) Triple Crown Championship Match: [46th Champion] Suwama vs. [Challenger] Go Shiozaki
~ 2nd title defense.

All Japan Official Videos for February 22, 2013

Great Muta & KENSO vs. “SMOP” Akebono & Ryota Hama, World Tag Championship Match, from June 19, 2011 @ Ryogoku Kokugikan.

KAI vs. Kenny Omega, World Junior Heavyweight Championship Match, from October 23, 2011 @ Ryogoku Kokugikan.

[All Japan News] All Japan announced the first title matches to be held in the new year.
Following the show this past weekend the next set of title matches have been set in place as well as a Triple Crown contendership struggle.

The first title match announced for the new year will see a double Junior heavyweight showdown as a Hiroshi Yamato and Shuji Kondo will be putting their titles on the line against each other. Both men will walk in with their belts, but the victor shall walk out with both around their waist.

Manabu Soya was unable to defeat Masakatsu Funaki for the Triple Crown Champion, and so GET WILD is on nothing more than fumes at this time. Tokyo Sports awarded GET WILD as the team of 2012, but due to Soya’s loss against Funaki they will be forced to disband. Funaki though gave the reigning tag champions a challenge for the tag belts, which will see take place on January 2nd. Nothing is for certain to how GET WILD’s reign will be decided as the stipulation to the last title match was that GET WILD would be forced to disband, but a win over Funaki/Kono might give them the right to stay together while they are champions (just speculation).

The next day on January 3rd will see Seiya Sanada defending the GAORA TV title against Tomoaki Honma. Sanada has beaten every challenger thrown in front of him so far from the rising Yasufumi Nakanoueno to the dangerous power of Kazushi Miyamoto, but on the 3rd Sanada will face off against the other half of Tumeric Storm. Honma has been on a mission since re-appearing in All Japan and has become one of the biggest rulebreakers currently in the promotion. Not only will Sanada have to contend with Honma, but it can almost be certain that Miyamoto will try and create some sort of distraction to try and make sure the champion falls.

The Asia Tag belts will once again be decided between Junior Stars and Team 246. Both teams just recently faced each other in a solid match-up which saw Kanemoto get the win over Shuji Kondo. One might have expected that win would have gave a title shot against Kondo for the GHC Jr. belt, but Hayashi said that he wants one more shot against the champions. Their last match was pretty solid and the rematch should be nothing less than solid.

Then lastly, a title contendership match has been set in place to determine who will face Masakatsu Funaki for the Triple Crown title on January 26th. Following his win over Soya, Funaki once again showed that he is still the fighting champion. Following the match Akebono & Joe Doering came out to the ring to make the next bid to the champion and a #1 contender match has been set to take place on January 3rd. Akebono has had an up and down year in 2012 from facing off in a high profiled match against Atsushi Onita to his illness that could have sidelined him for good. Akebono has returned with the goal of become a title champion yet again. Joe Doering though is known for his mean streak as well as his super strength in the ring. Doering is no stranger to having to face Akebono in the ring and has managed to slam the big man on more than one occasion. This should be a solid match between 2 of All Japan’s big men, and no matter what Funaki may have one of the toughest matches later on in the month as he will be giving up a lot of size to both men.

Below you will see the announced event cards at this time.

All Japan Pro-Wrestling “2013 New Year Shining Series ~NEW YEAR 2DAYS~”, ½/2013 [Wed] 12:00 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo

(-) World Tag Team Championship Match: [64th Champions] “GET WILD” Takao Omori & Manabu Soya vs. [Challengers] “SOA” Masakatsu Funaki & Masayuki Kono
~ 2nd Defense.

(-) World Junior Heavyweight & GHC Junior Heavyweight Double Championship Match: [33rd World Jr. Champion] Hiroshi Yamato vs. [25th GHC Jr. Champion] Shuji Kondo
~ Yamato 6th Defense, Kondo 3rd Defense.

All Japan Pro-Wrestling “2013 New Year Shining Series ~NEW YEAR 2DAYS~”, 1/3/2013 [Thu] 12:00 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo

(-) GAORA TV Championship Match: [1st Champion] Seiya Sanada vs. [Challenger] Tomoaki Honma
~ 3rd Defense.

(-) Asia Tag Championship Match: [89th Champions] “Junior Stars” Minoru Tanaka & Koji Kanemoto vs. [Challengers] “Team 246” Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo
~ 2nd Defense.

(-) Triple Crown #1 Contender Match: Akebono vs. Joe Doering

The winner of the contendership match will then earn the right to face Masakatsu Funaki on January 26th.

All Japan Pro-Wrestling “2013 New Year Shining Series”, 1/26/2013 [Sat] 12:00 @ Ota City General Gymnasium

(-) Triple Crown Championship Match: [45th Champion] Masakatsu Funaki vs. [Challenger] (Winner of 1/3 match)
~ 4th Defense.

[All Japan News (Part 3)]
Following the 2 previous announcements/news posts from this morning.
(Part 1) Teams Announced for the World’s Strongest Tag League
http://keepingthespiritalive.tumblr.com/post/34087508796/all-japan-news-part-2-ajp-has-announced-all
(Part 2) Next defenses set for the Triple Crown and World Jr. Championships.
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All Japan also held a press conference to rap up Sundays show as well as lead into the the final months of 2012.

First up is the announcement that Koji Kanemoto has officially become a member of STACK OF ARMS (SOA).

This has been expected for quite some time now as the history of himself with Minoru Tanaka and the fact that he has been competing along with the members of this faction for most of this year. Though with the All Asia Tag Championship win it was seen to be only fitting that he would finally become a member of the SOA.
All 4 members of SOA will be competing in the World’s Strongest Tag League which is set to begin on November 17.
Speaking of the All Asia Tag Champions they officially appointed their first challengers in “Team 246” Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo. Minoru & Kanemoto stated that they want to have a high quality match to kick off their reign as champions, and nothing better than to go after the other veteran junior team of All Japan.
No date for the title match has been set, but it could very well take place on December 11, after the Tag League is finished.

Next up, All Japan held a press conference for the upcoming title matches that were previously announced earlier that day.

The first being Hiroshi Yamato defending the World Junior belt against Kaz Hayashi.
Yamato right off the bat seems to be taking his recent title wins go to his head, and being that this is his first title reign that is somewhat expected. Yamato is calling himself “The Symbol of All Japan Pro-Wrestling Juniors”. Yamato is aiming to build a new era as the Junior Champion. Kaz Hayashi being a former champion on multiple occasions himself has took notice to the way Yamato has been acting as of late. The way he was dressed just for the press event was even a bit on the odd side of things. Hayashi said he will be coming to reclaim that very title belt.

Then the last part of the press conference saw the meeting between Maskatsu Funaki and Manabu Soya, as Funaki defends the Triple Crown belts against Manabu on December 11.

Manabu picked up the win over Funaki’s SOA teammate in Masayuki Kono, and subsequently made the challenge to the reigning champion after his defense against Omori on October 21st.
Funaki though made a stipulation back at Manabu, that if Manabu loses this upcoming title match (no date announced as of yet) that him and Omori will be forced to disband GET WILD. That is definitely putting a lot more pressure on Manabu Soya, as they are also reigning World Tag Champions. If they are forced to split that means they will also lose the belts
Manabu officially agreed to these terms at the press conference and the title match has been set to happen in December. Manabu has nothing but revenge on his mind as he faces off against Funaki as he wants to defend the loss against Omori and prove that GET WILD is a strong team in All Japan.
Funaki also stated that he wants a shot at the World Tag belts as well, but at this point in time the upcoming Tag League will be deciding who will be the next challengers.
Manabu stated that it is his time to prove that he is ready for the huge challenge set before him.

[All Japan News (part 2)] Following the show this last Sunday (10/21), AJP has announced two upcoming title matches to take place before the year is up.

The first is scheduled to take place on November 17, during the opening of the Tag League, as Hiroshi Yamato will be defending the World Junior belt against Kaz Hayashi.

All Japan Pro-Wrestling “40th Anniversary Year 2012 World’s Strongest Tag League”, 11/17/2012 [Sat] 18:00 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo
(-) World Junior Heavy Championship Match: [33rd Champion] Hiroshi Yamato vs. [Challenger] Kaz Hayashi
~ 4th Title Defense.

Then on December 11, Masakatsu Funaki will be defending the Triple Crown Championship against the other member of “GET WILD” in Manabu Soya. This will be the final defense for the Triple Crown until the new year.

All Japan Pro-Wrestling “40th ANNIVERSARY FINAL TOUR ~ Tour Final”, 12/11/2012 [Tue] 18:30 @ Nagano White Ring
(-) Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship Match: [45th Champion] Masakatsu Funaki vs. [Challenger] Manabu Soya
~ 3rd Title Defense.

[All Japan News] AJP held a press conference today for two of the upcoming matches that are set to happen on October 7.

First up is the press meeting between Hiroshi Yamato and Kenny Omega. Yamato appointed Omega to be his 3rd defense as he wants to challenge himself by facing against the former All Japan Jr. champion. For Yamato to prove to himself that he will be a champion that All Japan needs he needs to reclaim loses from the past as well as push himself to the limit against top wrestlers.

Omega mentioned the fact that he has already beaten Yamato-san once already and it seems that he is already aiming to reclaim the belt which he lost to KAI back in late May.

The other press spot belonged to SUSHI who has been humiliated by not one but two different Aegyptus Aerial’s. During the show on September 23rd, Aerial kept aiming to grab the second “Tamago” off of SUSHI’s mask while SUSHI himself was fighting to reclaim the first one that Aerial took. SUSHI would pick up the win in the match, but out of nowhere a second “larger’ Aerial appeared and attacked SUSHI. Both Aerials then took the tamago’s off of his mask and haven’t been seen from since. The tamago’s are the source of SUSHI’s power and since losing both he has been left without much energy to carry on. On October 7 he will team with Andy Woo to take on both Aegyptus Aerial.

Of course this upcoming show will see the crowning of the first ever GAORA TV Champion, as well as many other matches that will build up to bigger show scheduled for 10/21.

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All Japan Pro-Wrestling "40th ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2012”, 10/7/2012 [Sun] 12:00 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo

(1) GAORA TV Championship, First Champion Decision Tournament, Semi-Final Match: Yasufumi Nakanoueno vs. Kazushi Miyamoto
(2) GAORA TV Championship, First Champion Decision Tournament, Semi-Final Match: Seiya Sanada vs. Tomoaki Honma

(3) SUSHI & Andy Woo vs. Aegyptus Aerial & Aegyptus Aerial Large
(4) 6 Man Tag Match: Suwama, Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo vs. Joe Doering, NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA
(5) Special Tag Match: Keiji Mutoh & Scott Norton vs. Taiyo Kea & Masanobu Fuchi

(6) World Junior Heavy Championship Match: [33rd Champion] Hiroshi Yamato vs. [Challenger] Kenny Omega
~ 3rd Defense.

(7) Triple Crown Prelude 8 Man Tag Match: Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono, Minoru Tanaka & Koji Kanemoto vs. Takao Omori, Manabu Soya, KENSO & Ryota Hama
(8) GAORA TV Championship, First Champion Decision Tournament, Final Match:

[All Japan News] AJP announced that Hiroshi Yamato will be defending the World Junior belt against DDT’s Kenny Omega on the October 7 show. This match kind of came out of nowhere, but Yamato has said that he wants to be a strong champion. Well he will get that chance to prove himself when he faces a former champion in Omega on Oct. 7.

Also announced is SUSHI looking to get some revenge of over the now “2”, count it two, Aegyptus Aerial’s. Aegyptus Aerial has found something a fascination ins something he wants in SUSHI’s “sushi rolls” on the top of his hat, and has been antagonizing SUSHI in the recent month. Well to throw a curveball in the mix a second Aerial appeared out of nowhere and apparently stole it from SUSHI.

Below are the matches announced for the show. The official order for the show is expected to be released soon.

All Japan Pro-Wrestling “40th ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2012”, 10/7/2012 [Sun] 12:00 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo

Newly Announced:
() SUSHI & Andy Woo vs. Aegyptus Aerial & Aegyptus Aerial Large

() World Junior Heavy Championship Match: [33rd Champion] Hiroshi Yamato vs. [Challenger] Kenny Omega
~ 3rd Defense.

Previously Announced:
(-) GAORA TV Championship, First Champion Decision Tournament, Semi-Final Match: Seiya Sanada vs. Tomoaki Honma
(-) GAORA TV Championship, First Champion Decision Tournament, Semi-Final Match: Yasufumi Nakanoueno vs. Kazushi Miyamoto
(-) GAORA TV Championship, First Champion Decision Tournament, Final Match:

() 6 Man Tag Match: Suwama, Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo vs. Joe Doering, NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA
() Special Tag Match: Keiji Mutoh & Scott Norton vs. Taiyo Kea & Masanobu Fuchi
() Triple Crown Prelude 8 Man Tag Match: Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono, Minoru Tanaka & Koji Kanemoto vs. Takao Omori, Manabu Soya, KENSO & Ryota Hama

All Japan Official Videos for August 24, 2012 [2 Matches]

Kaz Hayashi vs. Jimmy Yang, World Junior Heavy Championship Match from August 30, 2002 @ Nippon Budokan Seiya Sanada & Manabu Soya vs. Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabyashi, All Asia Tag Championship Match from March 21, 2011 @ Ryogoku Kokugikan

All Japan News for Feb. 14th, 2011!

All Japan held a press conference today in Japan and it was mainly held to begin the build up for the event coming up on March 21st (3/21).

Taiyo Kea and Akebono lost the World Tag Team Titles to KONO & Joe Doering on Feb. 6th in a somewhat controversial manner when it comes to Kea. Kea is adamant that he did not tap to KONO who had him locked in a submission, that the ref ended the match prematurely. With Akebono involved in the Triple Crown picture Kea felt that Akebono should only worry about that right now and that he will search out for a new individual to team with. Kea almost as soon as he announced he is looking for a partner indeed found one a few days later when Takao Omori stepped foot in the AJPW ring. It only took Kea a few moments to shake Omori’s hand and well the rest is now going down in history. TARU though is not taking this union as something that is worthy of anything and to the surprise of Kea they have been given a match against KONO & Doering, but in a non-title match. Kea instead of looking at the match as a play-down accepted it and said that “it doesn’t matter, we will win this match and then they will have no choice but to give us a title match”. Kea has had the most success in the tag team division in All Japan and has worked well with everyone he has partnered with the likes of Johnny Smith, Mutoh, Kawada, Kojima & Suzuki.
Minoru finally took the belt that was around the waist of the unstoppable Kaz Hayashi in the beginning of the New Year and after the last month of trying to figure out who is going to be get the first shot against Minoru, Shuji Kondo beat Kaz Hayashi one on one and in turn set himself up for a shot on 3/21. Though really this could not be called the big story of the last month. Because there was a bigger surprise in the mist, as Koji Kanemoto made a surprise appearance at the 2/11 show and in turn has reformed his bond with Minoru. Minoru and Kohji Kanemoto were successful IWGP Junior Tag Champions in 2000-2001 and it has been announced that they will compete against Shuji Kondo & Kaz Hayashi at the All Japan Pro Wrestling’s “HOLD OUT TOUR 2011” on March 6. So definitely an interesting turn of events and could provide for a great match.



Following the outcome of the All Japan show yesterday (2/13) KENSO has emerged the new challenger, defeating Akebono and KONO in a triple threat match, for the Triple Crown Titles.  KENSO has had a rough past few weeks after being pretty much removed from the VooDoo Murders even though successfully defeating TARU in a decisive match. The faithful VooDooo Murder members stuck with their leader and KENSO was taken down quicker than he was made a member. Since leaving the VooDoo Murders KENSO has had a string of successful wins and has earned himself the title of #1 contender.
Suwama though is called the current ace in All Japan. The fighting champion that the promotion needs and someone who takes all challenges set before him.

All Japan Pro Wrestling “HOLD OUT TOUR 2011”, 3/6/2011 (Sun) 12:00
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

() Team 246 vs. “Junior Stars”: Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo vs. Minoru & Kohji Kanemoto
() Taiyo Kea & Takao Omori vs. KONO & Joe Doering [World Tag Team Champions]
~ non-title match, but the rules will be announced later.
() Suwama & Ryota Hama vs. KENSO & Zodiac

All Japan Pro Wrestling “2011 Pro Wrestling LOVE in Ryougoku Vol.11“, 3/21/2011 (Sun) 12:00
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

() World Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Minoru vs. Shuji Kondo
~ Minoru’s first defense.
() Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship Match: Suwama vs. KENSO
~ Suwama’s third defense.