UWF-I 1996 DVD
Union of Wrestling Force International Videos Tapes

UWF-I vs. NEW JAPAN ALL-OUT CONTEND BATTLE 4 IWGP Heavyweight Title Match Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka
Commercial Tape 3/1/96 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
-2hr 25min. Q=Master. 2 DVDs

Tatsuo Nakano vs. Kenichi Yamamoto

Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Kazushi Sakuraba

Shinjiro Otani (NJ) vs. Masahito Kakihara

Muay Thai Rules: Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Chanpa Gennsoritto (sp)

Yoji Anjo & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Kazuo Yamazaki & Takayuki Iizuka (NJ team)

Yuhi Sano vs. Keiji Muto (NJ)

IWGP Heavyweight Title: Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (HI)

UWF-I U.W.F vs. Shin Nihon All Out Contend Battle 5 Clash U.W.F.-gun vs. Heisei Ishingun Commercial Tape 3/23/96 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center
-1 1/2hr. Q=Master

Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Kazushi Sakuraba

Tatsuo Nakano vs. Yoshihiro Takayama

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Kengo Kimura

Masahito Kakihara vs. Akitoshi Saito

Yoji Anjo & Kenichi Yamamoto vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi & Akira Nogami

Nobuhiko Takada & Yuhi Sano vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Michiyoshi Ohara

UWF-I U.W.F vs. Shin Nihon All Out Contend Battle 6 Top Confrontation Takada vs. Choshu Commercial Tape 4/19/96 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
-1hr 35min. Q=Near Perfect

Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Billy Scott

Tokimitsu Ishizawa vs. Kazushi Sakuraba 6:39

Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa

Masahito Kakihara vs. Yuji Nagata

Tatsuo Nakano & Yuhi Sano vs. Kenichi Yamamoto & Yoji Anjo

Kensuke Sasaki & Riki Choshu vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Hiromitsu Kanehara

UWF-I New Japan WAR Fujiwara-gumi Overthrown! UWF Encirclement Commercial Tape 5/27/96 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
-2hr. Q=VG

Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Kazushi Sakuraba

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Akira Nogami (NJ)

Yuhi Sano vs. Kenichi Yamamoto

Tatsuo Nakano vs. Koki Kitahara (WAR)

Yoji Anjo & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Hiromichi Fuyuki & Gedo (WAR team)

Masahito Kakihara vs. Shiro Koshinaka (HI)

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (PWFG)

UWF-I Outbreak of War! U.W.F. vs. W.A.R What's this!? 6/7/96 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
-1hr 50min. Q=Master

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. James Stone. Stone was greatly overexaggerating his selling of strikes, as usual. Very good match when it was on the mat, which is where it was after the first minute. Kanehara made a few great moves, but it was just too short. *3/4

Masahito Kakihara vs. Billy Jack Scott. Theme match where they agreed not to strike. This sounds like a waste of Kakihara, but there was some really fine and more modern (i.e. Tamura) matwork. Perpetual motion with constant countering early then slowing down some when they started hooking submissions. ***1/4

Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Koki Kitahara. Even though it's similar to what he regularly does in pro style, Kitahara was a little out of his element because he's not used to doing it shoot style. I though he would strike more to make up for it, but I'm not sure he struck as much as usual. Sakuraba controlled most of the match, and was definitely the better of the two. Enough talent in the ring to make it good, but I'm sure they could do a lot better if Kitahara did this style regularly. **1/2

Yuhi Sano vs. 200% Machine. Nothing much happened. 200% was somewhere in between Greco Roman and shooting, and very methodical at both. *

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Arashi. Takada is so patient that it makes him seem all the more explosive when he unleashes his strikes. Arashi doesn't have the right approach much less the talent, but this turned into an exciting match even though it wasn't the most believable. Takada had a good idea turning Arashi's shotei into and udehishikigyakujujigatame, but it turned out clumsy. Short but Takada looked very good after the feeling out period. **

WAR Nintei Sekai 6 Man Tag Senshukenjiai: Yoji Anjo & Yoshihiro Takayama & Kenichi Yamamoto vs. Hiromichi Fuyuki & Jado & Gedo. Very stiff pro-wrestling with lots of double teaming from Fuyuki's team. Anjo's team beat the hell out of Fuyuki's team all match because they are the "shooters", to the point of it being a massacre. Fuyuki bled immediately and his partners soon followed. This had some comedy as well with Anjo attacking Fuyuki with an octopus, as well as some brawling like Anjo's team using the title belts outside the ring. Fuyuki's team did their usual double team spots like the stuff powerbomb off the 2nd. Generally entertaining match even though it made no sense to have this as the main event of a show that was otherwise worked shoots, and losing to guys that don't do "real" fighting killed whatever myth the UWF-I guys had left. **3/4

150% Machine vs. Koki Kitahara

Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Rene Rooze

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Billy Jack Scott

Yoshihiro Takayama & 200% Machine vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Arashi

Yoji Anjo vs. Naoki Sano

Nobuhiko Takada & Masahito Kakihara vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara

UWF-I vs. 200% Gundan Commercial Tape 7/28/96 Kobe Fashion Mart
-1hr 55min. Q=Near Perfect

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. 100% Machine

Masahito Kakihara vs. Kenichi Yamamoto

Yuhi Sano vs. 150% Machine

Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Billy Scott

Nobuhiko Takada vs. 200% Machine

Yoji Anjo vs. Kazushi Sakuraba

UWF-I Takada Anjo Tenryu Kimo Summer Jingu Great Battle Commercial Tape 8/17/96 Tokyo Jingu Stadium
-2hr 35min. Q=Master 2 DVDs

Dutch Windmail vs. Kenichi Yamamoto 5:34

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Tiger Maduro 7:10

The Great Kabuki & Tokeru & Benkei Daikokubo vs. Kishin Kanabata & Shigeo Okumura & Gekko 14:44

Tiger Mask (Sayama) vs. Gran Hamada 15:00

Kimo vs. Yoshihiro Takayama 1:16

Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Masahito Kakihara 14:31

Genichiro Tenryu vs. Yuhi Sano 8:59

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Yoji Anjo 11:26

UWF-I 5th Anniversary UWFvsWAR Top Confrontation Nobuhiko Takada vs. Genichiro Tenryu Commercial Tape 9/11/96 Tokyo Jingu Stadium
-2hr 45min. Q=VG/fair. 2 DVDs

Errol "Tiger" Maduro vs. Kenichi Yamamoto 8:00

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Nikolia Gordeau 5:30

Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Masao Orihara 10:41

Shodai Tiger Mask vs. The Cobra 12:54

Kensuke Sasaki vs. Masahito Kakihara 8:43

Shinya Hashimoto vs. Yuhi Sano 11:00

Yoji Anjo vs. Dave Beneteau 2:48

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Genichiro Tenryu 19:30

Toshiaki Kawada vs. Yoshihiro Takayama 8:43. Green tinted handheld of the stadium jumbotron because Baba wouldn't allow the match to be included on the official comm. Pity because Kawada's inspired performance results in what would have been the best Takayama match on a UWF-I comm.

UWF-I vs. NEW JAPAN All Out War DVD Vol 1 & 2 10/11/95-9/11/96
-6hr 30min. Q=Perfect. 4 DVDs

10/11/95 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan

Hiromitsu Kanehara & Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Tokimitsu Ishizawa (Kashin) & Tadao Yasuda

Yoji Anjo & Masahito Kakihara vs. Riki Choshu & Yuji Nagata

10/28/95 Tokyo Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyogijo Dai-nitaiikukan

Kenichi Yamamoto vs. Shinjiro Otani

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa

Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Koji Kanemoto

Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Kensuke Sasaki

Masahito Kakihara & Tatsuo Nakano vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Akira Nogami

Yoji Anjo vs. Masa Chono

11/25/95 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan

Tatsuo Nakano vs. Riki Choshu

Yoji Anjo & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan

3/1/96 Tokyo Nippon Budokan

Yoji Anjo & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Kazuo Yamazaki & Takayuki Iizuka

Yuhi Sano vs. Keiji Muto

IWGP Heavyweight Title: Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka

3/23/96 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Kengo Kimura

Masahito Kakihara vs. Akitoshi Saito

Yoji Anjo & Kenichi Yamamoto vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi & Akira Nogami

Nobuhiko Takada & Yuhi Sano vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Michiyoshi Ohara

4/19/96 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan

Tokimitsu Ishizawa vs. Kazushi Sakuraba 6:39

Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa

Masahito Kakihara vs. Yuji Nagata

Kensuke Sasaki & Riki Choshu vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Hiromitsu Kanehara

5/27/96 Tokyo Nippon Budokan

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Akira Nogami

Masahito Kakihara vs. Shiro Koshinaka

6/26/96 Nagoya Rainbow Hall: Nobuhiko Takada & Masahito Kakihara vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara

9/11/96 Tokyo Jingu Stadium

Kensuke Sasaki vs. Masahito Kakihara 8:43

Shinya Hashimoto vs. Yuhi Sano 11:00

UWF-I UWF ROAD in Morioka 9/30/96 Morioka Iwate Kenei Taiikukan
-2hr 25min. Q=Ex. 1 DVD

Debut Match: Ryuki Ueyama vs. Shunsuke (Daijiro) Matsui

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Billy Jack Scott

Shodai Tiger Mask vs. Naohiro Hoshikawa

Nikolai Gordeau vs. James Stone

Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Masahito Kakihara

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Yoji Anjo Double Bout 5 Match Trial: Kenichi Yamamoto & Yoji Anjo vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Kazushi Sakuraba

UWF-I U.W.F. ROAD in Shizuoka 10/23/96 Twin Messe Shizuoka
-2hr 25min. Q=Master. 2 DVDs

James Stone vs. Shunsuke Matsui

Kenichi Yamamoto vs. Billy Scott

Tiger Mask (Sayama) vs. Naohiro Hoshikawa

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Masahito Kakihara

Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Keith Dirody

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Yoji Anjo Double Bout 5 Match Trial: Nobuhiko Takada & Yuhi Sano vs. Kazushi Sakuraba & Yoji Anjo

UWF-I U.W.F. ROAD in Sapporo 11/20/96 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
-2hr 25min. Q=Near Perfect. 1 DVD

Errol "Tiger" Maduro vs. James Stone

Shodai Tiger Mask vs. The Cobra

Nikolai Gordeau vs. Yuhi Sano

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Kenichi Yamamoto

Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Kazushi Sakuraba

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Yoji Anjo Double Bout 5 Match Trial: Billy Scott & Yoji Anjo vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Masahito Kakihara

UWF-I U.W.F. ROAD in Sendai 11/23/96 Miyagi-ken Sports Center
-2hr 25min. Q=VG. 1 DVD

Billy Scott vs. Errol "Tiger" Maduro

Shodai Tiger Mask vs. Shoichi Funaki

Masahito Kakihara vs. James Stone

Kenichi Yamamoto vs. Kazushi Sakuraba

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Yoshihiro Takayama

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Yoji Anjo Double Bout 5 Match Trial: Nobuhiko Takada & Yuhi Sano vs. Nikolai Gordeau & Yoji Anjo

UWF-I U.W.F. ROAD in Fukuoka 12/25/96 Fukuoka Hakata Starlanes
-2hr 10min. Q=Master. 1 DVD

Daijiro Matsui vs. Ryuki Ueyama

Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Kazushi Sakuraba

Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Kenichi Yamamoto

Naoki Sano vs. Masahito Kakihara

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Yoji Anjo Double Bout 5 Match Trial: Nobuhiko Takada & James Stone vs. Yoji Anjo & Billy Jack Scott

UWF-I U.W.F. FINAL 12/27/96 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
-2 1/2hr. Q=Master. 2 DVDs

Daijiro Matsui vs. Ryuki Ueyama

Naoki Sano vs. James Stone

Yoji Anjo vs. Billy Jack Scott

Masahito Kakihara & Kenichi Yamamoto vs. Hiromitsu Kanehara & Kazushi Sakuraba

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Yoshihiro Takayama

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