-3hr 20min. Q=Perfect. 2 DVDs
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka & The Great Kabuki & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Michiyoshi Ohara vs. Osamu Kido & El Samurai & Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi. What any short 10-man should be - heated, intense, and fast-paced. As usual with NJ heavies, this wasn't exactly good wrestling in the traditional sense. Where they succeeded is in making me care about their match, which said something because I approached with disinterest. Koshinaka is perfect for this type of match because his personality and energy go a long way, even on rare instances like this where he wasn't on top of his game. Nagata & Kobayashi were impressive, with Kobayashi doing a facecrusher on the ramp. The stiffs weren't given much chance to hurt the match. 12:09. ***
Brutus Beefcake vs. Black Cat. Like watching a match from another planet. Brutus did the same heel routine he did in the US during the mid 80's. His act worked there, but these fans don't want to see it. They reacted to nothing, which might have been lucky considering how bad the match was. 8:05. 1/4*
IWGP Tag Title: Power Warrior & Hawk Warrior vs. Hercules Hernandez & Scott Norton. Tons of no selling, with assorted annoying displays of machismo. All they did was kill off each others moves to show how tough they were. The big excitement was wondering if you'd see any roid rage. No crowd reaction until the last 30 seconds. 12:46. -1/2*
Hulk Hogan vs. Tatsumi Fujinami. Hogan, who didn't look a day over 55, tried to do his version of a technical match. If you think Fujinami's technique is boring and dated, wait until you see The Sucksters. Of course, with Hogan this was not only boring but poorly worked, lame, and phony. 13:33. 1/4*
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Masahiro Chono 27:58. Slow developing technical match in the stiff, more realistic style. Hashimoto was awesomely brutal, and he got his requisite bloody nose in return, but there were long dead spots of submissions nobody believed in. Considering the match went close to 30 minutes I can forgive some dead spots, but I was bored before it got going. They created the aura that the match was something special. The selling was excellent, but they could have used more in the way of story and focus, especially at this length. ***
Takayuki Iizuka & Akira Nogami vs. Masashi Aoyagi & Akitoshi Saito. Aoyagi & Saito did fine kicking and punching, but someone forgot to tell them their opponents are supposed to get offense too. By the time Iizuka & Nogami did some moves, they'd already been written off as job boys. I guess in a way that made the match effective because it suddenly seemed like a big deal that they pulled off the surprise win. Iizuka's team did a solid job and made the opposition look good even though the opposition brought little. 14:05. *3/4
Super Strong Machine vs. Tatsutoshi Goto 8:30. I forgot that Goto actually tried to fight technically once in a while after joining HI. That's not a plus though, as he has no aptitude for it. When they mixed it up the match was adequate, largely because Machine's offense can be done to a guy of any skill level. The 2nd half was pretty good, but choppy and with an awful finish. *1/4
(Kanemoto). The crowd was dead for the first 9 minutes, but finally reached when they did dives. The fans seemed to only care about flying from these guys, but Tiger gave them a good deal and Liger dusted off his shooting star press, though there was still a cobwebb or two on it. Lacked Liger's direction and Kanemoto wasn't impressive beyond his moves, but there was enough impressive offense to make up for some of the weaknesses. The last 5 minutes were excellent, even if the first 9 didn't support them. Tiger did a space rolling body attack on the ramp then missed a diving headbutt onto the ramp, but he was so worried about not hurting himself on the landing it looked lame. Tiger took his mask off after the match and threw it at Liger. 14:22. ***1/2
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase. This was what the NJ tag division should have been. They built anticipation well. The Steiners would win the sequence, but it would be even until they got their suplex at the end. Muto got the crowd into it with a snap suplex on the ramp then his windsprint lariat to Scott. Rick tried to get involved, so Muto snap suplexed him on the ramp as well and Hase gave him Muto's windsprint lariat. The Steiners eventually took a lot of moves, which made this much better than their typical match. Unfortunately, they still didn't put them over, which once again kept them from greatness. Eventually they stopped building and tried to put each other away with all the big moves. Hase & Muto were in top form here, making everything the Steiners did look good. Hase, of course, took the brunt of the punishment, and in doing so he really made the match (though he could have made it in other ways, the Steiners couldn't do the same). Very well executed match with legit drama. 20:44. ****
Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara. This was as bad as it sounds, but at least Choshu was respectful of his opponent's shooter gimmick. In spite of his amaresu background, Choshu is much better against strike oriented shooters. He can take it and give it, but this was just a bunch of boring matwork that went nowhere then a few strikes and a series of Riki lariats. 1/4*
#612 taped 1/4/94 Tokyo Dome
Super Strong Machine vs. Tatsutoshi Goto 8:30
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Masahiro Chono 27:58
#613 taped 1/4/94 Tokyo Dome
IWGP Tag Title: Power Warrior & Hawk Warrior vs. Hercules Hernandez & Scott Norton 12:46
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase 20:44
#614 taped 1/4/94 Tokyo Dome
Hulk Hogan vs. Tatsumi Fujinami
Antonio Inoki vs. Genichiro Tenryu
#615 taped 1/4/94 Tokyo Dome
Brutus Beefcake vs. Black Cat
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Tiger Mask
1/30/94 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Jushin Thunder Liger & Takayuki Iizuka & Akira Nogami vs. Chris Benoit & Max Moon & Scorpio
Discs 1 & 2
Intro from Genichiro Tenryu
10/15/76: Press conference with Genichiro Tenryu and Giant Baba
12/9/76: Knot cutting ceremony
3/20/77: Genichiro Tenryu & Jumbo Tsuruta vs. The Mafia. 4:11 shown
6/11/77: Genichiro Tenryu & Giant Baba vs. Mario Milano & Mexico Grande 12:04
12/2/77: Genichiro Tenryu & Rocky Hata vs. Dory Funk & Terry Funk 4:59 shown
7/30/81: Genichiro Tenryu & Billy Robinson vs. Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta 7:43 shown
10/6/81: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Ric Flair 2:40 1st fall, 1:32 2nd fall, 2:00 3rd fall
2/4/82: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Mil Mascaras 3:00 shown
4/16/82: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta 5:53 shown
3/1/83: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Umanosuke Ueda 5:01 shown
2/23/84: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Ricky Steamboat 5:12 shown
2/5/85: Genichiro Tenryu & Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Riki Choshu & Masa Saito 5:13 shown
3/9/85: Genichiro Tenryu & Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Road Warriors 11:29 shown
6/21/85: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu 19:01 shown
4/26/86: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Ted DiBiase 15:21 shown
6/12/86: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Super Strong Machine 4:10
9/3/86: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu 19:59 shown
Discs 3 & 4
2/5/87: Genichiro Tenryu & Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yoshiaki Yatsu 17:02 shown
6/8/87: Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Hiroshi Wajima & Takashi Ishikawa 12:16 shown
6/11/87: Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Tiger Mask 7:02 shown
8/21/87: Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & The Great Kabuki 7:40 shown
4/15/88: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Bruiser Brody 30:00 shown
6/4/88: Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 5:47 shown
7/27/88: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Stan Stan Hansen 14:34 shown
6/5/89: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta 24:04 shown
7/11/89: Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 21:28 shown
8/19/89: Genichiro Tenryu & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Kenta Kobashi 3:36 shown
Disc 5 & 6
11/29/89: Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen vs. Giant Baba & Rusher Kimura 20:22 shown
12/6/89: Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 28:56
1/26/90: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Isao Takagi 5:40 shown
4/19/90: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta 12:34
1/28/01: Genichiro Tenryu & Hiroshi Hase vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Toshiaki Kawada 23:48
1/8/05: Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Takeshi Rikio 6:24 shown
4/24/05: Genichiro Tenryu & Jun Akiyama vs. Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiozaki 5:30 shown
7/18/05: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Yoshinari Ogawa 10:24 shown
10/8/05: Genichiro Tenryu vs. KENTA 11:37 shown
11/5/05: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Mitsuharu Misawa 14:25 shown
Discs 7 & 8
2/10/90: Genichiro Tenryu & Tiger Mask vs. Riki Choshu & George Takano 19:00 shown
10/23/92: Genichiro Tenryu & Koki Kitahara vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura 8:51 shown
11/23/92: Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa & Koki Kitahara vs. Shiro Shiro Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura & Aoyagi 4:46 shown
12/14/94: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Shiro Koshinaka 20:43 shown
1/4/93: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu 18:15 shown
2/5/93: Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara & Takashi Ishikawa vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Keiji Muto & Akira Nogami 6:56 shown
3/23/93: Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu 4:26
4/6/93: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu 14:51 shown
5/3/93: Genichiro Tenryu & Riki Choshu vs. Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami 19:23 shown
7/14/93: Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Masa Chono 10:44 shown
8/3/93: Genichiro Tenryu & Koki Kitahara vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Tatsumi Fujinami 5:37 shown
Discs 9 & 10
8/8/93: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Shinya Hashimoto 21:25 shown
9/23/93: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Hiroshi Hase 8:54
12/10/93: Genichiro Tenryu & Super Strong Machine vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Tatsutoshi Goto 5:27 shown
1/4/94: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Antonio Inoki 13:56
4/29/96: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Tatsumi Fujinami 9:16 shown
7/15/98: Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 15:01 shown
8/1/98: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Shinya Hashimoto 13:12 shown
5/3/99: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Keiji Muto 25:36 shown
6/8/99: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Shinya Hashimoto 14:10 shown
10/11/99: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Kensuke Sasaki 13:36 shown
11/1/99: Genichiro Tenryu & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Kazuhiko Fujita 9:08 shown
Discs 11 & 12
12/5/99: Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Takashi Iizuka 7:15 shown
12/10/99: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Keiji Muto 26:31
1/4/04: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Manabu Nakanishi 7:14 shown
2/15/04, IWGP Heavyweight Title Tournament 1st Round: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Masahiro Chono 6:25
2/15/04, IWGP Heavyweight Title Tournament Semifinal: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi 10:32
2/15/04, IWGP Heavyweight Title Tournament Final: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan 13:01
3/21/04: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Tadao Yasuda 6:56 shown
3/28/04: Genichiro Tenryu & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama 6:43 shown
5/3/04: Genichiro Tenryu & Meng vs. Dolgorsuren Sumiyabazar & Dolgorsuren Serjbudee (Blue Wolf) 4:14 shown
6/5/04: Genichiro Tenryu & Tadao Yasuda vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Osamu Nishimura 10:26 shown
8/8/04: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Yuji Nagata 11:28 shown
8/15/04: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Kensuke Sasaki 8:10 shown
8/15/04: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi 6:34 shown
10/9/04: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Katsuyori Shibata 4:45 shown
11/13/04: Genichiro Tenryu vs. Katsuyori Shibata 9:09 shown
Wonderland #616 taped 1/30/94 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Tatsutoshi Goto & Akitoshi Saito vs. Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga
Masahiro Chono & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Bobby Eaton & Mike Enos
Osamu Kido & Satoshi Kojima vs. Kengo Kimura & Kuniaki Kobayashi
Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Shiro Koshinaka & The Great Kabuki
Wonderland #617 taped 1/30/94 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Hiroshi Hase vs. Michiyoshi Ohara
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Mathew Rambo
taped 2/5/94 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Riki Choshu & Hiroshi Hase vs. Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior
Wonderland #618 taped 2/5/94 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Kido vs. Takayuki Iizuka & Akira Nogami
Shinya Hashimoto & Masahiro Chono vs. Mathew Rambo & Mike Enos
Heisei Ishingun vs. WAR 7 vs. 7: Kuniaki Kobayashi vs. Hiromichi Fuyuki
Heisei Ishingun vs. WAR 7 vs. 7: Akitoshi Saito vs. Koki Kitahara
Wonderland #619 2/5/94 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Heisei Ishingun vs. WAR 7 vs. 7: Kengo Kimura vs. Nobukazu Hirai
Heisei Ishingun vs. WAR 7 vs. 7: Michiyoshi Ohara vs. Masao Orihara
Heisei Ishingun vs. WAR 7 vs. 7: The Great Kabuki vs. Ashura Hara
Heisei Ishingun vs. WAR 7 vs. 7: Tatsutoshi Goto vs. Genichiro Tenryu
Heisei Ishingun vs. WAR 7 vs. 7: Shiro Koshinaka vs. Super Strong Machine
Wonderland #620 taped 2/6/94 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Red Scorpio
Shinya Hashimoto & Masahiro Chono vs. Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior
New Japan Seikigun vs. Heisei Ishingun 7 vs. 7: Riki Choshu vs. Kengo Kimura
New Japan Seikigun vs. Heisei Ishingun 7 vs. 7: Hiroshi Hase vs. The Great Kabuki
Wonderland #621 taped 2/6/94 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
New Japan Seikigun vs. Heisei Ishingun 7 vs. 7: Takayuki Iizuka vs. Tatsutoshi Goto
New Japan Seikigun vs. Heisei Ishingun 7 vs. 7: Satoshi Kojima vs. Michiyoshi Ohara
New Japan Seikigun vs. Heisei Ishingun 7 vs. 7: Akira Nogami vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi
New Japan Seikigun vs. Heisei Ishingun 7 vs. 7: Osamu Kido vs. Akitoshi Saito
New Japan Seikigun vs. Heisei Ishingun 7 vs. 7: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Shiro Koshinaka
Tokimitsu Ishizawa & Yuji Nagata vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Tatsuhito Takaiwa 18:13
Max Moon vs. Satoshi Kojima 8:43
Wild Pegasus vs. Shinjiro Otani 13:31
Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka vs. El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger 15:46
Power Warrior vs. Monsieur Rambo 7:01
Riki Choshu & Shinya Hashimoto vs. Kengo Kimura & Tatsutoshi Goto 10:05
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Bobby Eaton & Mike Enos 9:09
Akitoshi Saito & Michiyoshi Ohara & Shiro Koshinaka & The Great Kabuki vs. Hiroshi Hase & Masahiro Chono & Osamu Kido & Tatsumi Fujinami 19:42
Wonderland #622 taped 2/17/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
El Samurai & Shinjiro Otani vs. Wild Pegasus & Max Moon
Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga vs. Super Strong Machine & Masanobu Kurisu
Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Matthew Rambo & Bobby Eaton & Mike Enos
Wonderland #623 taped 2/17/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
Power Warrior & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner 13:05. An explosive action packed sprint with all kinds of big throws that might be the best Steiner match that doesn't have Hiroshi Hase carrying things. It was, to an extent, the typical great Steiner heavy artillery, but Liger was actually taken seriously rather than simply being a bump boy like I expected, and as a result it was far more of a back and forth match (meaning Rick was in charge of taking more) than most of their stuff against two heavies. Everyone was on, with Sasaki doing a nice job of matching fire with fire. The highlight of the spotfest was Liger hitting a diving lariat to the floor with Power going into a backdrop on impact. The finish was a little weak, but fit into the theme of protecting Liger despite the heavyweight opposition. ****
Genichiro Tenryu vs. Shinya Hashimoto 15:04. The climax of the 17 month NJPW vs. Tenryu fued is one of the key matches of the decade, with Hashimoto finally breaking through for the current generation New Japan stars and defeating the WAR ace after he had taken Hashimoto out twice as well as his contemporaries Chono, Hase, & Koshinaka. It was one of the angriest interpromotional matches ever, truly a war, with both men just getting more and more pissed off as the bout progressed. Urgent and desperate action from start to finish with both combatants just unleashing one bomb after another. Hashimoto injured Tenryu's left arm with a kneedrop and worked it over with an ipponzeoi, triangle armbar, etc. Tenryu took over, but Hashimoto withstood his lariat and came back with a middle kick so brutal it buckled Tenryu. Hashimoto might have been able to get a 10 count KO here Tenryu was in such bad shape, but he got past the ref and stomped Tenryu instead. This ticked Tenryu off so much he popped up and backed Hashimoto into the corner with sumo chops then worked him over when he was down. Hashimoto came back with an enzuigiri and a series of high kicks in the corner, and yet again the ref was completely unable to control these two, maintain order or uphold the rules. The ending was pretty classic as the announcer did a funny soprano "YAHOO" after Hashimoto scored the victory, and everyone gave Hashimoto a standing ovation. As Tenryu had even defeated Antonio Inoki at the Tokyo Dome, and had only split with fellow legends Fujinami & Choshu during the entire program, the importance of this victory for Hashimoto can't be underscored enough. Hashimoto was going to do big things, but it's really this victory that allowed him to hold the heavyweight title for 1052 of 1441 days from 9/20/93-8/31/97. ****1/4
#624 taped 2/17/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono & Osamu Kido & Hiroshi Hase vs. Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka & The Great Kabuki & Tatsutoshi Goto & Kuniaki Kobayashi
Hiroshi Hase vs. Tadao Yasuda
#625 taped 2/24/94 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Shiro Koshinaka & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Michiyoshi Ohara vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga
Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Osamu Kido vs. Power Warrior & Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka
2/10/92 Nagoya Rainbow Hall IWGP Junior Heavykyu & WCW Light Heavykyu Double Title Match: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Pegasus Kid
12/10/92 Nagoya Rainbow Hall: Jushin Thunder Liger & Koji Kanemoto vs. Ultimo Dragon & Masao Orihara
2/16/93 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan: Jushin Thunder Liger & Ultimo Dragon vs. Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga
8/3/93 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan: Jushin Thunder Liger & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Koki Kitahara
2/17/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan: Power Warrior & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner 13:05. An explosive action packed sprint with all kinds of big throws that might be the best Steiner match that doesn't have Hiroshi Hase carrying things. It was, to an extent, the typical great Steiner heavy artillery, but Liger was actually taken seriously rather than simply being a bump boy like I expected, and as a result it was far more of a back and forth match (meaning Rick was in charge of taking more) than most of their stuff against two heavies. Everyone was on, with Sasaki doing a nice job of matching fire with fire. The highlight of the spotfest was Liger hitting a diving lariat to the floor with Power going into a backdrop on impact. The finish was a little weak, but fit into the theme of protecting Liger despite the heavyweight opposition. ****
6/12/90 Fukuoka Kokusai Center, Martial Arts Match: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Masashi Aoyagi R4. Liger does almost everything shockingly credibly, to the point he actually seems like the total package with the amateur wrestling, ground and pound and submissions to win, and all the kickboxing movement & feints to stay out of trouble. While the match is fairly one-sided, it's a great example of using a more legitimate setting to up the intense hatred pro wrestling often strives to attain. The fact that they manage not to lose the plot when it comes to credibility as they incorporate cheap shots, mask ripping, and a blade job is pretty amazing. An underrated classic of the genre, and a big win for Liger, defeating a legimiate karate master who also defeated Onita in their first match on 10/6/89. ****
2/24/94 Tokyo Nippon Budokan: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Shinya Hashimoto 23:08
11/25/99 Utsunomiya City Gym
Kensuke Sasaki & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata
Hiro Saito & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) vs. Masahiro Chono & Michael Wallstreet & Super J
11/27/99 Fujisawa City Akiba Bunka Gym
Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. El Samurai & Kendo Kashin & Minoru Tanaka
Kensuke Sasaki & Tadao Yasuda & Takashi Iizuka vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Shiro Koshinaka & Yuji Nagata
Hiro Saito & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Masahiro Chono & Michael Wallstreet & Super J
3/23/19: Tajiri vs. Mike Bailey
NJ Wonderland #626 taped 2/24/94 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Satoshi Kojima & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Shinjiro Otani & Yuji Nagata
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Jushin Thunder Liger 23:08. There wasn't one person in the building who truly believed Hashimoto, coming off the monster win the week before against the legendary Genichiro Tenryu that established him as the king of the heavyweights, would lose to the king of the juniors. However, Hashimoto didn't allow that to stop him from taking Liger seriously and working hard to delivering a worthy big show main event. They avoided the obvious formula, instead having the big man bully the little guy, working Liger's arm for much of the first 10 minutes and refusing to allow him any establishing offense. By making Liger seem that much more overmatched, the fans would go nuts anytime he did anything. He finally came back with a couple kneecap dropkicks and worked Hashimoto's knee. What surprised me was that Liger was never able to use his speed or quickness. This was totally a heavyweight style match, and Hashimoto kept denying Liger's power moves. Finally Liger had one big run with two avalanche style moves, the DDT and the Frankensteiner, which broke down Hashimoto's resistance enough to allow him to hit a German suplex. Liger ultimately went down a little easily, but the match was long enough that you felt he accomplished enough. ***3/4
NJ Wonderland #627 taped 2/24/94 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Masahiro Chono vs. Tatsutoshi Goto
3/6/94 Okayama-ken Taiikukan: Shinjiro Otani vs. Black Tiger
3/16/94 Tokyo Taiikukan: Antonio Inoki & Tadao Yasuda vs. Masahiro Chono & Osamu Kido
NJ Wonderland #628 taped 3/6/94 Okayama-ken Taiikukan
Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Nobukazu Hirai
5th Young Lion Hai (cup) Koshikisen: Satoshi Kojima vs. Manabu Nakanishi
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Villano V
Tadao Yasuda vs. The Great Kabuki
NJ Wonderland #629 taped 3/6/94 Okayama-ken Taiikukan
Masahiro Chono vs. Akitoshi Saito
Power Warrior & Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Hercules Hernandez & The Barbarian & Killer Bee (B. Brian Blair)
3/16/94 Tokyo Taiikukan: Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai vs. Killer Bee & Black Tiger
4/4/94 Hiroshima Green Dome: Antonio Inoki & Hiroshi Hase vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Yuki Ishikawa
NJ Wonderland #630 taped 3/16/94 Tokyo Taiikukan
5th Young Lion Hai Koshikisen: Tokimitsu Ishizawa vs. Nobukazu Hirai
5th Young Lion Hai Koshikisen: Manabu Nakanishi vs. Yuji Nagata
3/6/94 Okayama-ken Taiikukan: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Scott Norton
Shinya Hashimoto vs. The Barbarian
NJ Wonderland #631 taped 3/16/94 Tokyo Taiikukan
Power Warrior vs. Scott Norton
Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka & Tatsutoshi Goto
4/4/94 Hiroshima Green Dome Riki Choshu & Genichiro Tenryu vs. Keiji Muto & Masahiro Chono
Wonderland #632 taped 3/6/94 Okayama-ken Taiikukan
Kuniaki Kobayashi & Michiyoshi Ohara vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Hiro Saito
taped 3/16/94 Tokyo Taiikukan
WCW International Heavyweight Title Match: Rick Rude vs. Hiroshi Hase
Wonderland #633 taped 3/21/94 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan
5th Young Lion Hai Koshikisen: Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Satoshi Kojima. Execution was sharp. Kojima got a bloody nose. Slow early, but quite good when it picked up in the last few minutes. The crowd got into Kojima after he kicked out of two Death Valley bombs in a row and made his comeback. **1/4
5th Young Lion Hai Koshikisen: Nobukazu Hirai vs. Manabu Nakanishi. Boring match. 10 minutes of kicks in restmissions. It picked up for the final 3+ minutes, but these two don't have much offense. They didn't screw up, but they were putting me to sleep. *
Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka & Tatsutoshi Goto. Just kicking and punching, but it was a heated match. Choshu was stuck in the ring for a long time where they beat him bloody. The pace tripled when he finally made the hot tag. Structured well, but boring and repetitive until the final minutes. **
Wonderland #634 taped 3/21/94 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan
Osamu Kido & Tadao Yasuda vs. Shinjiro Otani & Yuji Nagata
Kuniaki Kobayashi & Tatsutoshi Goto vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Hiro Saito
Masahiro Chono vs. Rick Rude
Wonderland #635 taped 3/21/94 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan
Power Warrior vs. Hercules Hernandez
Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase vs. Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka & The Great Kabuki & Tatsutoshi Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara
Wonderland #636 taped 3/21/94 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan
IWGP Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Black Tiger
taped 3/24/94 Kyoto Furitsu Taiikukan
5th Young Lion Hai Yushoketteisen: Satoshi Kojima vs. Manabu Nakanishi
Wonderland #637 taped 4/4/94 Hiroshima Green Dome
El Samurai vs. Shinjiro Otani
taped 3/21/94 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan
IWGP Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Scott Norton
Young Lion Cup 1994: Satoshi Kojima [6] vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa [1] 10:48
Young Lion Cup 1994: Manabu Nakanishi [4] vs. Nobukazu Hirai [2] 13:17
Osamu Kido & Tadao Yasuda vs. Shinjiro Otani & Yuji Nagata 10:09
Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Killer Bee & The Barbarian 13:52
Hiro Saito & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Akitoshi Saito & Kuniaki Kobayashi 15:29
Rick Rude vs. Masahiro Chono 12:13
Power Warrior vs. Hercules Hernandez 8:10
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Black Tiger 16:41
2/3 Falls: Kengo Kimura & Michiyoshi Ohara & Shiro Koshinaka & Tatsutoshi Goto & The Great Kabuki vs. Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Muto & Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara 30:00
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Scott Norton 18:55
Young Lion Cup 1994: Nobukazu Hirai [3] vs. Yuji Nagata [3] 13:34
Young Lion Cup 1994: Manabu Nakanishi [5] vs. Shinjiro Otani [2] 14:05
El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Black Tiger & Satoshi Kojima 14:38
Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Akitoshi Saito & Kengo Kimura & Kuniaki Kobayashi 11:54
Hiroshi Hase & Masahiro Chono vs. Hercules Hernandez & Scott Norton 12:26
Keiji Muto & Power Warrior vs. Killer Bee & The Barbarian 14:34
Riki Choshu vs. Michiyoshi Ohara 3:56
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Rick Rude 15:24
Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Shiro Koshinaka & The Great Kabuki 9:59
Disc 1
4/24/89 Tokyo Dome: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi
5/25/89 Osaka IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Hiroshi Hase vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
7/13/89 Tokyo IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Naoki Sano
8/10/89 Tokyo IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Naoki Sano
1/31/90 Osaka IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Naoki Sano vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
6/12/90 Fukuoka Martial Arts Match: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Masashi Aoyagi
8/19/90 Tokyo IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Pegasus Kid
11/1/90 Tokyo IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Pegasus Kid vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
Disc 2
12/26/90 Shizuoka IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Negro Casas
5/31/91 Osaka IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Norio Honaga vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
6/12/91 Tokyo IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Norio Honaga vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
7/4/91 Fukuoka Mask vs Mask Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Pegasus Kid
4/30/92 Tokyo Top of the Super Jr Final: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. El Samurai
5/17/92 Osaka IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. El Samurai
Disc 3
1/4/93 Tokyo Dome IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Ultimo Dragon
2/24/94 Tokyo: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Shinya Hashimoto
3/21/94 Nagoya IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Black Tiger
4/16/94 Tokyo Super J Cup 1st Round: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Hayabusa
4/16/94 Tokyo Super J Cup Semifinal: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Great Sasuke
5/1/94 Fukuoka Exhibition Match: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Satoru Sayama
Disc 4
6/13/94 Osaka Best of the Super Junior Final: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Super Delfin
8/4/94 Tokyo: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Gran Hamada
10/9/95 Tokyo Dome: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Naoki Sano
6/17/96 Tokyo British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Title: Dick Togo vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
8/2/96 Tokyo WAR International Jr & British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Ultimo Dragon
1/4/97 Tokyo Dome J Crown Title: Ultimo Dragon vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
Disc 5
2/9/97 Sapporo J Crown Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Shinjiro Otani
2/16/97 Tokyo J Crown Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Koji Kanemoto
4/12/97 Tokyo Dome J Crown Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Great Sasuke
1/4/98 Tokyo Dome: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Riki Choshu
2/7/98 Sapporo IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Shinjiro Otani vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
4/4/98 Tokyo Dome IWGP Junior Title:Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Kendo Kashin
7/15/98 Sapporo IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Koji Kanemoto
Disc 6
12/4/98 Osaka IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa
10/17/99 Kobe: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Wild Pegasus
1/4/00 Tokyo Dome IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Koji Kanemoto
8/7/00 Osaka G1 Climax Block A: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Tatsumi Fujinami
6/4/01 Osaka Best of the Super Jr VIII Finals Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Minoru Tanaka
8/5/01 Osaka G1 Climax Block B: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Keiji Muto
8/8/01 Sendai G1 Climax Block B: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Satoshi Kojima
Disc 7
1/4/04 Tokyo Dome GHC Junior Heavyweight Title: Takashi Sugiura vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
8/8/06 Yokohama G1 Climax Block A: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Hiroshi Tanahasi
2/17/08 Tokyo IWGP Jr Tag Title: Minoru & Prince Devitt vs. AKIRA & Jushin Thunder Liger
2/15/09 Tokyo IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Tiger Mask
4/4/10 Tokyo IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Naomichi Marufuji vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
5/3/10 Fukuoka CMLL Middleweight Title: Negro Casas vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
6/8/11 Tokyo Best of the Super Jr Block B: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Kota Ibushi
Disc 8
11/8/14 Osaka NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title: Chase Owens vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
5/3/16 Fukuoka IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: KUSHIDA vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
5/18/17 Tokyo Best of the Super Jr Block A: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Hiromu Takahashi
5/31/17 Osaka Best of the Super Jr Block A: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Taichi
3/25/18 Long Beach: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Will Ospreay
3/6/19 Tokyo IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Taiji Ishimori vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
Disc 9
12/31/89 Moscow: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Black Tiger
12/5/91 Chiba: Jushin Thunder Liger & Akira Nogami vs. El Katana & Negro Casas
8/3/93 Tokyo: Jushin Thunder Liger & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Koki Kitahara
10/15/93 Tokyo Super Grade Tag League: Jushin Thunder Liger & Wild Pegasus vs. Masahiro Chono & Shinya Hashimoto
11/1/93 Nagano Super Grade Tag League: Jushin Thunder Liger & Wild Pegasus vs. Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Muto
4/4/94 Hiroshima: Jushin Thunder Liger & Wild Pegasus vs. Rick & Scott Steiner
6/15/94 Tokyo: Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai & Shinjiro Otani & Tokimitsu Ishizawa vs. SATO & Shiryu & TAKA Michinoku & Great Sasuke
Disc 10
9/23/94 Yokohama Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
9/23/95 Yokohama: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Sabu
3/13/96 Ishizawa: Jushin Thunder Liger & Shiyna Hashimoto vs. Wild Pegasus & Scott Norton
7/17/96 Sapporo: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Randy Savage
10/20/96 Kobe: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Great Muta
5/3/97 Osaka: Jushin Thunder Liger & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Antonio Inoki & Tiger King
2/15/98 Tokyo Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai & Kendo Kashin vs. Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Disc 11
5/5/01 Fukuoka IWGP Jr Tag Title: Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai vs. Dr. Wagner Jr & Silver King
8/8/02 Hiroshima: Jushin Thunder Liger & Super Delfin & Ebessan vs. Billyken Kid & Kuishinbo Kamen & Tigers Mask
11/22/02 Tokyo: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Takashi Iizuka
4/18/03 Tokyo: Jushin Thunder Liger & Koji Kanemoto vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Masahiro Chono
2/15/04 Tokyo GHC Junior Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Mitsuo Momota
5/3/04 Tokyo Dome: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima
5/14/05 Tokyo Dome: Jushin Thunder Liger & Masahiro Chono vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Tatsumi Fujinami
Disc 12
9/3/06 Tokyo Tetsuya Naito Trial Series Match #1: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Tetsuya Naito
5/26/08 Tokyo: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Kazuchika Okada
5/3/09 Fukuoka: Jushin Thunder Liger & CIMA vs. Koji Kanemoto & Tiger Mask
8/27/11 Tokyo: Jushin Thunder Liger & Masakatsu Funaki & Takuma Sano vs. Minoru Suzuki & Taichi & Atsushi Aoki
6/16/12 Osaka IWGP Jr Tag Title: Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask vs. Taichi & TAKA Michinoku
6/5/15 Tokyo Best of the Super Jr Block A: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. El Barbaro Cavernario
1/24/16 Tokyo: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Virus
5/4/18 Fukuoka: Jushin Thunder Liger & Ryusuke Taguchi & Tiger Mask vs. Ren Narita & Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura
6/9/18 Osaka: Jushin Thunder Liger & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Rey Mysterio Jr vs. Cody & Hangman Page & Marty Scrull
4/6/19 NY: Honor Rumble
Wonderland #638 taped 4/4/94 Hiroshima Green Dome
Osamu Kido & Tadao Yasuda vs. Great Kabuki & Akitoshi Saito
Power Warrior & Satoshi Kojima vs. Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka
Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Michiyoshi Ohara vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Shinichi Nakano & Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga
Wonderland #639 taped 4/4/94 Hiroshima Green Dome
Jushin Thunder Liger & Wild Pegasus vs. Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner
IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Tatsumi Fujinami
Yuji Nagata vs. Tokimitsu Ishizawa 9:44
El Samurai vs. Shinjiro Otani
Akitoshi Saito & The Great Kabuki vs. Osamu Kido & Tadao Yasuda
Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Power Warrior & Satoshi Kojima 11:13
Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga & Shinichi Nakano & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Kengo Kimura & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Michiyoshi Ohara & Shiro Koshinaka 15:54
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Wild Pegasus 14:03
Antonio Inoki & Hiroshi Hase vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Yuki Ishikawa 13:34
Genichiro Tenryu & Riki Choshu vs. Keiji Muto & Masahiro Chono 10:12
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Tatsumi Fujinami 14:55
4/4/94 IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Tatsumi Fujinami
5/1/94 IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Tatsumi Fujinami
4/29/96 IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Nobuhiko Takada
7/31/98 G1 Shinya Hashimoto vs. Tatsutoshi Gotoh 1998
8/1/98 G1: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Genichiro Tenryu
8/2/98 G1: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Satoshi Kojima
8/2/98 G1 Final: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Kazuo Yamazaki
#640 taped 4/7/94 Kumamoto Shi Taiikukan
Shinjiro Otani vs. Yuki Ishikawa
Super Strong Machine vs. Hiro Saito
5/1/94 Fukuoka Dome: Antonio Inoki vs. The Great Muta
#641 taped 4/7/94 Kumamoto Shi Taiikukan
Yuji Nagata vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Satoshi Kojima vs. Akitoshi Saito
Jushin Liger & El Samurai vs. Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka
Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. The Great Muta & Hiroshi Hase
Wonderland #642 taped 4/7/94 Kumamoto Shi Taiikukan
Masahiro Chono & Tadao Yasuda vs. Kengo Kimura & The Great Kabuki
Shiro Koshinaka & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Michiyoshi Ohara vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Shinichi Nakano & Norio Honaga
Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Kido vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Power Warrior
Wonderland #643 SUPER J-CUP 1st. STAGE Ikkaisen taped 4/16/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
Dean Malenko vs. Gedo
Shinjiro Otani vs. Super Delfin
Black Tiger vs. TAKA Michinoku
El Samurai vs. Masayoshi Motegi
Round 1
Dean Malenko vs. Gedo (WAR). Malenko did everything in this match, but Gedo couldn't hold up his end. In Gedo's defense, as usual, Malenko didn't work to his opponent's strengths. **1/4
Shinjiro Otani vs. Super Delfin (Michinoku Pro). You couldn't tell that these two never worked together before because they really clicked. Damn good work and a hot crowd. Very unselfish performance by Delfin. ***1/2
Black Tiger (Guerrero) vs. TAKA Michinoku (Michinoku Pro). Great match while it lasted. TAKA showed some greenness, but his athletic spots were so awesome he stole the show anyway. ****
El Samurai vs. Masayoshi Motegi (SPWF). Samurai did his best, but Motegi blew everything imaginable, even falling off the top rope while trying a plancha. The ultimate choke job. DUD
Negro Casas (EMLL) vs. Ricky Fuji (FMW). Casas did a good job carrying the match and his moves were very well set up. Solid and well built, but the typical lack of impact from the Lucha style and wasn't as glamorous as the other matches. *1/2
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Hayabusa (FMW). Liger carried the match. Hayabusa got to look good doing his great flying, but he blew a couple spots at the end, which took the match down a notch. ***
Round 2
Gedo vs. Super Delfin. Good showing by Delfin, carrying Gedo to a very good match. ***
Wild Pegasus (Benoit) vs. Black Tiger. These two showed why they are great. Every spot was done to perfection, but the match only going a little over 10 minutes prevented them from reaching the greatness they were capable of. ***3/4
The Great Sasuke (Michinoku Pro) vs. El Samurai. Excellent work and hot crowd. Very exciting match with an awesome 2nd half, but again too short because like Benoit, Sasuke had to work 3 matches in 1 night. ****1/4
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Ricky Fuji. Fuji was really outclassed and pretty much sucked. Liger tried to carry him, but Fuji made some spots look bad by taking lousy bumps. Still, Liger's performance was strong enough that the match was good in spite of Fuji. Liger did a rare diving footstomp to the floor. ***
Semifinals
Wild Pegasus vs. Gedo. Gedo once again proved to be carryable, and Benoit was by far the best of his 3 opponents on this night, so this was Gedo's best of the show. Benoit's offense was great, and Gedo generally did a good job of selling it. All spots. ***
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. The Great Sasuke. Absolutely tremendous match with great work, build, timing, and some incredible spots. Would have been 5 stars if the Sasuke wouldn't have slipped off the top rope near the finish, but even that didn't hurt too badly because Liger did a good job of covering it by mocking Sasuke and the crowd still popped huge for the surprise upset win. ****1/2
Final: Wild Pegasus vs. The Great Sasuke. One of the best junior matches ever! Beautiful and perfect action with awesome work, great athleticism, perfect execution, and great flow. Tremendous spots, including more suicidal dives by Sasuke. A 1990's version of Tiger Mask Sayama vs. Dynamite Kid. Benoit wins the J Cup. *****
Wonderland # SUPER J-CUP 1st.STAGE Ikkaisen taped 4/16/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
Negro Casas vs. Ricky Fuji
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Hayabusa
Nikaisen
Super Delfin vs. Gedo
Wild Pegasus vs. Black Tiger
Wonderland # SUPER J-CUP 1st.STAGE Nikaisen taped 4/16/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
El Samurai vs. The Great Sasuke
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Ricky Fuji
Junkessho: Wild Pegasus vs. Gedo
6/15/94 Tokyo Nippon Budokan: Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai & Shinjiro Otani & Tokimitsu Ishikawa vs. The Great Sasuke & SATO & TAKA Michinoku & Shiryu 12:47. Beautifully choreographed, highly athletic, very spectacular lucha match. It's kinda friendly considering it's New Japan vs. Michinoku Pro, but loads of fun. Liger does try to put heat on his 7/8/94 match against Sasuke, taunting the Great one by laying on his back until Sasuke finally has to work with him, and there's intensity for TAKA vs. Otani (probably the best pairing), as they are the two fiery up and comers, but generally it has more of an exhibition feel, with a big pop when the NJ guys do the little hop after Shiryu's repeated half kipups. Everyone is up for the match, and working at a high level (well, except Ishizawa is just along for the ride since he lacks the diversity to do this style). They take advantage of everyone, both to keep everyone fresh so they can maintain the high pace, and also the more they have to dive off the top rope simultaneously or to the floor in succession, the better. The match is too short and undeveloped to be one of the great Michinoku tags, but it's super enjoyable. ****
Yuji Nagata vs. Satoshi Kojima. Basic work with tons of submissions. Nagata looked sharp with big league transition and crispness.
Osamu Kido & Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Akitoshi Saito & Michiyoshi Ohara & Tatsu Goto. Bad and boring with way too much kicking and punching
Tadao Yasuda vs. El Gigante. No redeeming factors. The worst incarnation of crap. Yasuda was totally dwarfed.
Dream Open Exhibition Match: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Satoru Sayama. Dream match turned DUD as Sayama didn't want to do anything. So uneventful that they edited it down to 1:22 of 10:00 draw, showing just the "action." Probably Liger's worst match of the 1990's.
WCW International Heavyweight Title Match: Sting vs. Rick Rude. Good match with both men making a good showing. Runway was well utilized. Risky to throw two outsiders out there working American style for 22+ but it worked, and Sting was quite over, and Rude was on top of his game. It was truly an amazing performance by Rude given he broke his back along the way, an injury he's never able to recover from. Rude wins WCW International title.
Tokimitsu Ishizawa & El Samurai vs. Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa. Good match, but no heat. Youngsters were featured and they looked good because Samurai & Otani were carrying them.
Norio Honaga & Hiro Saito & Shinichi Nakano vs. Kengo Kimura & The Great Kabuki & Kuniaki Kobayashi. Punches, kicks, and boredom. Bad even by these guys standards.
Shiro Koshinaka vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu. Another great job by Shiro carrying the over the hill Yatsu to a good, exciting match with hot near falls. Yatsu was really sucking wind.
Masahiro Chono vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara. Typical bad Fujiwara match
Hiroshi Hase vs. Riki Choshu. Good sprint. Work was a lot better than you'd expect from a Choshu match, all due to Hase.
IWGP Title: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Tatsumi Fujinami. A 6-minute world title match as the semifinal of a Dome show? The talent is there, but there's no way for it to come through.
INOKI COUNTDOWN 1st.: Antonio Inoki vs. Great Muta
#650 taped 5/1/94 Fukuoka Dome
Shiro Koshinaka vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu
IWGP Tag Title: Power Warrior & Hawk Warrior vs. Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner
Hansen #4
9/23/81 Tokyo Den'en Coliseum: Stan Hansen vs. Andre the Giant
12/8/81 Kuramae Kokugikan: Stan Hansen & Roland Bock vs. Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami
12/27/87 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Kuniaki Kobayashi vs. Hiroshi Hase
2/7/88 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center, '88 Top of the Super Junior Final: Hiroshi Hase vs. Shiro Koshinaka
9/14/90 Hiroshima Sun Plaza: Hiroshi Hase vs. Great Muta
11/1/90 Tokyo Nippon Budokan, IWGP Tag Title Match: Masahiro Chono & Keiji Muto vs. Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki
7/4/91 Fukuoka Kokusai Center: Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Masahiro Chono & Keiji Muto
5/1/92 Chiba Port Arena, IWGP Tag Title Match: Big Van Vader & Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki
6/26/92 Tokyo Nippon Budokan: Hiroshi Hase vs. Kensuke Sasaki
12/11/92 Nagoya Rainbow Hall: Hiroshi Hase vs. Masahiro Chono
9/23/93 Yokohama Arena: Hiroshi Hase vs. Genichiro Tenryu
2/24/94 Tokyo Nippon Budokan: Hiroshi Hase vs. Tadao Yasuda
3/11/88 Aichi-ken Taiikukan, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Hiroshi Hase vs. Nobuhiko Takada
3/21/91 Tokyo Dome, IWGP Tag Title Match: Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Rick & Scott Steiner
8/26/91 4 vs 5 Elimination Match: Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki & Masahiro Chono & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Osamu Nishimura & Koji Kanemoto & Masayoshi Motegi & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
5/1/94 Fukuoka Dome: Hiro Hase vs. Riki Choshu
Wonderland #651 taped 5/1/94 Fukuoka Dome
Tadao Yasuda vs. El Gigante
Dream Open Exhibition Match: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Satoru Sayama
taped 5/26/94 Mie Tsu Shi Taiikukan
Top Of The Super Junior Koshikisen: El Samurai vs. Dean Malenko
Wonderland #652 taped 5/26/94 Mie Tsu Shi Taiikukan
Satoshi Kojima & Tadao Yasuda vs. Yugi Nagata & Tokimitsu Ishizawa
Best Of The Super Jr. Koshikisen: Super Delfin vs. TAKA Michinoku 11:31. This is an excellent program, as TAKA always gets Delfin to take the match seriously and bring his working boots. These two have exceptionally chemistry and were highly motivated to show the Michinoku style to the New Japan fans. This match was everything Delfin's subsequent match against Black Tiger wasn't. It was quick, fluid, and diverse, delving into all areas, but truly showcasing their ability to play off each other to develop the sequences and counters. The tension was there from the outset, with neither wanting to get shown up. Really, the only downside of this match was the brevity. ***3/4
Akira Nogami & Takashi Iizuka vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Michiyoshi Ohara
Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior vs. Scott Norton & Mike Enos
Wonderland #653 taped 5/26/94 Mie Tsu Shi Taiikukan
Best Of The Super Jr. Koshikisen: Wild Pegasus vs. Shinjiro Otani
Best Of The Super Jr. Koshikisen: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. David "Fit" Finlay
Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Keiji Muto & Masahiro Chono
Wonderland #654 taped 6/1/94 Sendai Miyagi Shi Taiikukan
Best Of The Super Jr. Koshikisen: Masayoshi Motegi vs. David "Fit" Finlay
Best Of The Super Jr. Koshikisen: Wild Pegasus vs. Dean Malenko
Best Of The Super Jr. Koshikisen: Super Delfin vs. Black Tiger 13:22. Delfin wore a black costume so Black Delfin could wrestle Black Tiger, but Tiger may as well have been wrestling generic opponent who can't be trusted. Match followed the basic loser dominates formula, with Tiger playing rudo and doing his spots then getting upset rather suddenly. You could see they weren't sure of one another, but as lucha is the strength of both, the match was still at its best when they were risking sequences. This probably wouldn't have been memorable no matter what, but there was no chance the way Tiger refused to both open up and allow Delfin to contribute much. ***
Wonderland #655 taped 6/1/94 Sendai Miyagi Shi Taiikukan
Keiji Muto & Masahiro Chono & Hiroshi Hase vs. Scott Norton & Mike Enos & Brad Armstrong
Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Tatsutoshi Goto
IWGP Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
NJ Wonderland #656 taped 6/8/94 Takamatsu Shi Sogo Taiikukan
6/1/94 Sendai Miyagi Shi Taiikukan: Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior vs. Akira Nogami & Takashi Iizuka
Best Of The Super Jr. Koshikisen: Tokimitsu Ishizawa vs. Dean Malenko
Best Of The Super Jr. Koshikisen: Super Delfin vs. Wild Pegasus. Both were on top of their game work wise, but it was as if they simply pasted together a series of high quality segments, as one section did little to set up the next. Pegasus aimed to run through Delfin, mauling him from the outset. Delfin finally showed some guile, but it took two counters to gain control, at which point the previously overwhelmed Delfin could do suddenly whatever he wanted to Pegasus for the next few minutes. Delfin was stretching Pegasus’ back, so logically Pegasus came back with a German suplex. Pegasus seemed to sucker Delfin into an exchange, but Delfin quickly tired of this, laying Pegasus out with a low blow to kickstart a big run where he exhausted his arsenal of flying moves. Delfin got to kick out of most of Pegasus’ big moves, much to Pegasus’ disgust, but as is so often the case when Pegasus can’t incapacitate his opponent, he outsmarts them, leveraging his way to victory. ***1/2
Osamu Kido & Tadao Yasuda vs. Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata 8:58
Best Of The Super Junior: Masayoshi Motegi [2] vs. Dave Finlay [2] 9:06
Best Of The Super Junior: Wild Pegasus [8] vs. Dean Malenko [8] 14:04
Best Of The Super Junior: Super Delfin [6] vs. Black Tiger [4] 13:23
Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga & Shinichi Nakano & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Akitoshi Saito & Kengo Kimura & Michiyoshi Ohara & The Great Kabuki
2/3 Falls: El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Shinjiro Otani & Tokimitsu Ishizawa vs. SATO & Shiryu & TAKA Michinoku & Terry Boy 12:27
Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Muto & Masahiro Chono vs. Brad Armstrong & Mike Enos & Scott Norton 12:30
Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Tatsutoshi Goto 8:30
Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior vs. Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka 8:30
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 12:15
#657 taped 6/8/94 Takamatsu Shi Sogo Taiikukan
Yuji Nagata vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Shinjiro Otani & TAKA Michinoku vs. Black Tiger & David Finlay
Best Of The Super Jr. League Match: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. El Samurai
#660 taped 6/15/94 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Wild Pegasus & Black Tiger vs. Dean Malenko & Brad Armstrong
Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Tatsutoshi Goto vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Shinichi Nakano & Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga
Keiji Muto & Masahiro Chono vs. Scott Norton & Mike Enos
#658 taped 6/8/94 Takamatsu Shi Sogo Taiikukan
Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka & The Great Kabuki & Tatsutoshi Goto vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Shinichi Nakano & Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga
Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Scott Norton & Brad Armstrong
Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Masahiro Chono & Hiroshi Hase
#659 taped 6/15/94 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
6/13/94 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. Yushoketteisen: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Super Delfin
Yuji Nagata vs. Michiyoshi Ohara
Osamu Kido & Tadao Yasuda vs. The Great Kabuki & Akitoshi Saito
Note: some matches are digested
5/28/94
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Dean Malenko
Shinjiro Otani vs. TAKA Michinoku
5/30/94 Niigata Shi Taiikukan
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Super Delfin
Shinjiro Otani vs. El Samurai
6/4/94
Tokimitsu Ishizawa vs. Super Delfin
6/6/94 Chiba Koen Taiikukan
Black Tiger (Guerrero) vs. Wild Pegasus (Benoit)
Super Delfin vs.El Samurai
6/13/94 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. Yushoketteisen: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Super Delfin ****
Vol. 20 SG TAG LEAGUE '93
10/15/93 Korakuen Hall Super Grade Tag League III: Jushin Thunder Liger & Wild Pegasus [2] vs. Masahiro Chono & Shinya Hashimoto [1] 17:22
10/19/93 Hiroshima Sun Plaza Super Grade Tag League III: The Jurassic Powers Hercules Hernandez & Scott Norton [2] vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Wild Pegasus [2] 10:50
Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Muto [6] vs. The Hell Raisers Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior [6] 8:34
11/1/93 Matsumoto Gym Super Grade Tag League III: Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Muto [12] vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Wild Pegasus [4] 25:28
Vol. 21 Enthusiasm 6/13/94 Osaka Prefectural Gym
Hiroshi Hase & Power Warrior vs. Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka 12:24
Masahiro Chono & Shinya Hashimoto vs. Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Fujiwara 13:02
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Keiji Muto 19:05
Yuji Nagata vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa 8:53
Michiyoshi Ohara & The Great Kabuki vs. Osamu Kido & Tadao Yasuda 9:23
Black Tiger & Dean Malenko & Wild Pegasus vs. El Samurai & Shinjiro Otani & Tokimitsu Ishizawa 12:44
Akitoshi Saito & Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka & Tatsutoshi Goto vs. Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga & Shinichi Nakano & Yoshiaki Yatsu 15:04
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Mike Enos & Scott Norton 7:59
Hiroshi Hase & Power Warrior vs. Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka 12:24
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Keiji Muto 19:05
Masahiro Chono & Shinya Hashimoto vs. Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Fujiwara 13:02
Best Of The Super Junior Final: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Super Delfin 18:27
Wonderland #661 taped 6/15/94 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
Akira Nogami & Takashi Iizuka vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara
Hiroshi Hase & Power Warrior vs. Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner
IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Riki Choshu
Wonderland #662 taped 7/2/94 Akita Kenritsu Taiikukan
Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai & Shinjiro Otani vs. Black Tiger & American Machine & Black Cat. A puroresu-tinged lucha libre match that was a nice change of pace, though a far cry from the quality of the typical NJPW junior tag. Liger, Samurai, & Otani are good enough to make a respectable showing in any style, but they don’t receive as well in lucha style since timing is at least as important as bumping. There was occasional hesitation, and they seemed to be winging it at times, which is no surprise as you can’t expect to have the necessary rhythm to the segments if you are doing the style once in a while. The luchadors showed some good offense within their rudo tactics, for instance double teaming with a suplex and frog splash combo. Black Cat was obviously the weak link with some execution errors. **3/4
Michiyoshi Ohara vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
Riki Choshu vs. Tatsutoshi Goto
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Kengo Kimura
Wonderland #663 taped 7/2/94 Akita Kenritsu Taiikukan
Power Warrior & Akira Nogami & Takashi Iizuka vs. Lord Steven Regal & Jerry Sags & Brian Knobbs
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Akitoshi Saito
Keiji Muto & Masahiro Chono & Hiroshi Hase vs. Shiro Koshinaka & The Great Kabuki & Kuniaki Kobayashi
Wonderland #664 taped 7/8/94 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Akira Nogami vs. Hiro Saito
Takashi Iizuka vs. The Great Kabuki
Osamu Kido vs. Michiyoshi Ohara
7/9/94 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center: Power Warrior vs. Flying Scorpio
Wonderland #665 taped 7/9/94 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
7/8/94 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center, Advance to G1 CLIMAX Decision Tournament a Zone: Kengo Kimura vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu
Advance to G1 CLIMAX Decision Tournament a Zone: Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Manabu Nakanishi
Advance to G1 CLIMAX Decision Tournament c Zone: Takashi Iizuka vs. Shinichi Nakano
Wonderland #666 taped 7/9/94 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Advance to G1 CLIMAX Decision Tournament d Zone Final: Osamu Kido vs. Tatsutoshi Goto
Masahiro Chono vs. Lord Steven Regal
Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase
Wonderland #667 taped 7/9/94 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Advance to G1 CLIMAX Decision Tournament b Zone Final: Shiro Koshinaka vs. Hiro Saito
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Jerry Sags & Brian Knobbs
Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Masahiro Chono & Power Warrior
Wonderland #668 '94 Summer Struggle taped 7/8 Hokkaido Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. The Great Sasuke 15:15. Sasuke was the best flying wrestler to come down the pipe in quite some time, but it still took the great New Japan juniors to incorporate his amazing offense into superb singles matches. His rematch with Liger was even more of a Sasuke showcase, as The Great One ultimately had to repay Liger for putting him over in the 4/16/94 SUPER J-CUP semifinal. Sasuke came out in kamikaze mode, but injured Liger’s arm during the initial aerial surge. Though Sasuke can certainly go on the mat, the biggest liability of his game is he’s almost never able to make the stretching and submission meaningful in a match he’s carrying. With Liger taking the initiative, they bounded that hurdle in less than 30 seconds, as Jushin beginning to sell his arm before we should have had any reason to believe it had been damaged, thus urging Sasuke to spend the early portion taking it apart. Liger typically came back with his shotei, except now performing the move hurt him almost as much as it hurt Sasuke. Knowing he can’t match Liger’s power long before Liger tossed him like a rag doll with a released German suplex, Sasuke kept the pace as fast as possible in standup. He performed 3 dives including a suicidal plancha with Liger in the guard rail gate, which is just big enough for Sasuke to land without coming down upon the standing metal, but Sasuke still hurt his knee landing on the metal connector that rests on the floor. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the match is just how fast it seemed. Even the most ardent groundwork hater couldn’t get bored with the submission spots, yet on the other hand it never appeared as though they were plowing through the submissions. Moreover, as dazzling as the offense consistently was, the contest never felt like a spotfest. That said, if there’s a downside, it’s the bout being a bit on the short side. Sasuke, who had noticeably improved in the brief time since the J CUP, mostly through his success lending him the confidence to know he belongs on the largest stage with the best wrestlers in the world, gives another memorable, show stealing performance. Liger was at his most unselfish - everything while seeming to be nothing - to the point he has little offense until the final few minutes. A brilliant match apart from Liger actually having to remind Sasuke which arm he’s supposed to be working over. Full Match Review ****3/4
Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase vs. Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner 20:55. Seeing them in later years, it's difficult to remember the excitement generated by The Steiner Brothers matching up with the best tag teams in New Japan. The Steiners felt they had something to prove when they journeyed to the orient, and actually respected the top opposition leading to matches such as this where everyone fired up and put each other over. Yes, even Scott Steiner sold today, not necessarily in believable fashion, but we'll take what we can get. For the most part, even Scott's substandard selling came off very well because Muto & Hase, who were in top form, were wrestling a very athletic style that didn't require much help from the opponent. Scott was tossing them around with every move, and they were making him look like a million bucks. The crowd was into it early, really reacting to what Muto & Hase were doing. They pulled out all the tricks here to get reaction - saves, double teaming, going alone because partner is down and out, etc. Comparative to the New Japan matches involving their peers, the heavyweight tag was actually far more spectacular than the previous Liger vs. Sasuke junior singles match. ****
Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Yuji Nagata vs. El Samurai & Tokimitsu Ishizawa 13:38
Tatsutoshi Goto vs. Hiro Saito
Jushin Thunder Liger & Shinjiro Otani vs. Black Tiger & Norio Honaga
Hiroshi Hase & Manabu Nakanishi & Power Warrior vs. Brian Knobbs & Jerry Sags & Flying Scorpio
Kuniaki Kobayashi & Shiro Koshinaka & The Great Kabuki vs. Akira Nogami & Riki Choshu & Takayuki Iizuka
Osamu Kido & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. American Machine & Black Cat
Masahiro Chono vs. Michiyoshi Ohara
Keiji Muto vs. Akitoshi Saito
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Kengo Kimura
Hansen #3
4/23/81 Kuramae Kokugikan NWF Heavyweight Title Decision: Stan Hansen vs. Antonio Inoki
12/10/81 Osaka Furitsu Gym 2nd MSG Tag League Advance To Final Decision: Stan Hansen & Dick Murdock vs. Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami
Wonderland #672
8/3/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan: Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai vs. Gran Hamada & Dean Malenko
8/4/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan: Scott Norton & Hercules Hernandez vs. Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner
8/4/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan, '94 G1 Climax A Block League Match: Osamu Kido vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
A Block
8/3/94
Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Osamu Kido 8:25
Keiji Muto vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 8:25
Masa Chono vs. Riki Choshu 3:47
8/4/94
Osamu Kido vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 9:46
Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu 10:11
Masa Chono vs. Keiji Muto 27:28
8/5/94
Masa Chono vs. Osamu Kido 5:00
Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 9:00
Keiji Muto vs. Riki Choshu 15:00
8/6/94
Keiji Muto vs. Osamu Kido 7:54
Masa Chono vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu 15:03
Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 8:27
8/7/94
Riki Choshu vs. Osamu Kido 5:14
Keiji Muto vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu 15:14
Masa Chono vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 9:34
B Block
8/3/94
Shiro Koshinaka vs. Takayuki Iizuka 14:02
Hiroshi Hase vs. Shinya Hashimoto 9:10
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Power Warrior 5:25
8/4/94
Shiro Koshinaka vs. Tatsumi Fujinami 13:00
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Takayuki Iizuka 13:05
Hiroshi Hase vs. Power Warrior 16:51
8/5/94
Takayuki Iizuka vs. Tatsumi Fujinami 7:19
Shiro Koshinaka vs. Hiroshi Hase 20:50
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Power Warrior 30:00
8/6/94
Hiroshi Hase vs. Takayuki Iizuka 17:34
Shiro Koshinaka vs. Power Warrior 14:11
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Tatsumi Fujinami 10:31
8/7/94
Power Warrior vs. Takayuki Iizuka 17:34
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Shiro Koshinaka 30:00
Hiroshi Hase vs. Tatsumi Fujinami 11:54
8/7/94, '94 G1 Climax Final: Masahiro Chono vs. Power Warrior 21:51
8/3/94
Gran Hamada & Dean Malenko vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai 16:13
El Gigante vs. Nails 2:47
8/4/94
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Scott Norton & Hercules Hernandez 11:19
Gran Hamada vs. Jushin Thunder Liger 16:49
8/5/94, Irregular Tag Match: Jushin Thunder Liger & El Gigante vs. El Samurai & Shinjiro Otani & Tadao Yasuda 6:15
#682 8/7/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
'94 G1 Climax Final: Masahiro Chono vs. Power Warrior 21:51
#683 9/19/94 Kanazawa Industrial Exhibition Hall #1
Jushin Liger & El Samurai vs. Norio Honaga & Gran Hamada
Scott Norton & Chris Benoit vs. Power Warrior & Hawk
Osamu Kido & Shinya Hashimoto vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara
Tokimitsu Ishizawa vs. Yuji Nagata 20:00
Black Cat vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa 11:57
Satoshi Kojima vs. Tadao Yasuda 8:44
Gran Hamada & Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga vs. El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger & Shinjiro Otani 11:23
Hiroshi Hase vs. Manabu Nakanishi 11:40
Masahiro Chono & Wild Pegasus vs. Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka 10:04
Keiji Muto & Osamu Kido & Shinya Hashimoto & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Black Tiger & Scott Norton & Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior 14:12
Handicap Match: El Gigante & Black Tiger vs. El Samurai & Tadao Yasuda & Tokimitsu Ishikawa
Gran Hamada vs. Shinjiro Otani
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
Steiner Brothers vs. Scott Norton & Wild Pegasus
Tatsumi Fujinami & Hiroshi Hase vs. Riki Choshu & Manabu Nakanishi
The Great Muta vs. Masa Chono
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Power Warrior
##686 taped 9/23/94 Yokohama Arena
Scott Norton & Chris Benoit vs. Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Power Warrior
#687 taped 9/23/94 Yokohama Arena
Shinjiro Otani vs. Gran Hamada
Manabu Nakanishi & Riki Choshu vs. Hiroshi Hase & Tatsumi Fujinami
Inoki Final Count Down 2nd: Antonio Inoki vs. Willem Ruska
5/1/94 Fukuoka Dome Dream Exhibition Match: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Satoru Sayama
6/13/94 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. II Yushoketteisen: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Super Delfin
9/23/94 Kanagawa Yokohama Arena: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
Wonderland Liger #16
8/4/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Gran Hamada
10/9/95 Tokyo Dome: Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Naoki Sano
10/29/95 Fukuoka Marine Messe: Jushin Thunder Liger & Koji Kanemoto vs. Naoki Sano & Kenichi Yamamoto
Tokon V Special 22 10/20/96
Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Satoshi Kojima 11:06
Super Grade Tag League VI Match: Kensuke Sasaki & Riki Choshu [2] vs. Scott Norton & Shinya Hashimoto [2] 9:40
Tokon V Special 23
Great Muta vs. Jushin Thunder Liger 17:35
9/26/94 Kobe World Kinen Hall: Great Muta vs. Osamu Kido
9/24/94 Aichi-ken Taiikukan: Riki Choshu & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Keiji Muto & Wild Pegasus. Liger breaks his leg trying to baseball slide through Muto's legs.
9/27/94 Osaka Jo Hall: Tatsumi Fujinami & Keiji Muto vs. Riki Choshu & Hiroshi Hase
El Samurai vs. Hiro Saito
Yuji Nagata vs. Takayuki Iizuka
El Gigante vs. Black Cat & Tadao Yasuda
Hiroshi Hase & Satoshi Kojima vs. Kantaro Hoshino & Kotetsu Yamamoto
Gran Hamada & Norio Honaga vs. Shinjiro Otani & Tokimitsu Ishizawa 10:33
Shinya Hashimoto & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Road Warrior Hawk & Black Tiger
Hiroshi Hase & Satoshi Kojima vs. Kantaro Hoshino & Kotetsu Yamamoto 9:40
Great Muta vs. Osamu Kido 9:58
Scott Norton vs. Masahiro Chono 8:41
Scott Steiner & Rick Steiner & Chris Benoit vs. Hiroshi Hase& Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Tournament First Round Match: Norio Honaga vs. Gran Hamada 10:48
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Tournament First Round Match: Black Tiger vs. El Samurai 9:47
Akira Nogami & Scott Norton & Takayuki Iizuka vs. El Gigante & Manabu Nakanishi & Tadao Yasuda 8:56
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Tournament Semifinal Match: Norio Honaga vs. Shinjiro Otani 12:30
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Tournament Semifinal Match: Wild Pegasus vs. Black Tiger 10:40
Hiroshi Hase & Riki Choshu vs. Keiji Muto & Tatsumi Fujinami 17:37
IWGP Tag Title Match: Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior vs. Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner 16:03
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Tournament Final: Norio Honaga vs. Wild Pegasus
IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Masahiro Chono 13:48
9/27/94 Osaka Jo Hall
IWGP Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Masahiro Chono
IWGP Tag Senshukenjiai: Hell Raisers (Hawk & Power Warrior) vs. Rick & Scott Steiner
9/22/94 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center: Shinya Hashimoto & Hiroshi Hase vs. Hell Raisers
9/24/94 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan: Masahiro Chono vs. Hawk Warrior
9/26/94 Kobe World Kinen Hall: Masahiro Chono vs. Scott Norton
11/6/94 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Hawk Warrior vs. Satoshi Kojima
El Samurai vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Akira Nogami vs. Yuji Nagata
Takayuki Iizuka vs. Takashi Ishikawa
Hiroshi Hase vs. Tadao Yasuda
Keiji Muto vs. Shinjiro Otani
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Manabu Nakanishi
Wonderland 5/7/01 taped 9/19/94 Ishikawa-ken Sangyo Tenjikan
Keiji Muto & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Akira Nogami & Takashi Iizuka
Masahiro Chono vs. Hiroshi Hase
Wonderland 5/22/01 taped 10/9/94 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Super Junior Tag League Match: Wild Pegasus & Shinjiro Otani vs. The Great Sasuke & Black Tiger 13:19. A nice companion to the final, but by no means a classic in its own right. Benoit brought the intensity from the outset, doing particularly nice work with Eddie early on but not getting much chance to build on it. The heat should have been on Pegasus vs. Sasuke, but their first meeting since their classic J Cup Final somehow wasn't a story, and that was even more of a shame when you saw the finish of Sasuke getting a flash pin to avenge that historic loss. Pegasus was in top form, but didn't get a ton of help here, and the match was more designed to feature Otani. The match was moving along in an entertaining enough fashion, but they practically went from squabbling over making saves on weardown submissions to the finishing sequence, and it ended 5 minutes sooner than expected, with pretty much all the stories & tons of ammunition left in the holster. Tiger was solid, and it was his match when Pegasus wasn't in. Sasuke did little flying, so it didn't feel like a Sasuke match, even if he did add to it. Otani showed good teamwork with Pegasus and was trying his best to hang with the others, but despite a strong effort, as you'd expect was pretty well outclassed by Benoit & Guerrero. I know this is only Korakuen Hall, but a show featuring 4 jr league matches would normally be highlighted by something a lot more all out than this. ***
Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Riki Choshu vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Manabu Nakanishi
10/18/94 Okayama-ken Taiikukan
Super Junior Tag League Final: Wild Pegasus & Shinjiro Otani vs. The Great Sasuke & Black Tiger 18:14. They stepped it up for the final, delivering a far more intense match from start to finish. Pegasus was really jacked up from the get go, wrestling with furious aggression. He ignited the spark that was missing all tournament lariating Tiger before the bell and taking it to the floor only to get railed and chaired by Tiger. Even in the early portion, the pace Benoit was pushing was faster than even the finishing sequences of the prior tournament matches. His bumping/mannerisms were exaggerated, but pretty much everything else he did was fantastic. Tiger was able to step it up here and provide much more support for Benoit than in their league match, working well with Benoit & helping to raise Otani's level. Still, Benoit was several notches above everyone else, and his efforts to will the others to step up their game & close this with a frantic classic were largely successful. The problem was the match was designed to feature Otani, who was getting a title shot at Honaga on 10/30, and he was decidedly the weak link, getting sloppy in his efforts to maintain Benoit's high pace. Never was this deficiency more pronounced than at the finish, which was probably supposed to be Otani hitting an elevated diving Frankensteiner, but the spot was completely blown, so he then improvised & pinned Tiger with a Dragon suplex. Sasuke was flying from get go, doing consecutive hilos with Tiger, but again there was no real rivalry with Benoit, who had now fully switched all the heat to him vs. Tiger, so Sasuke's role here was just adding some hot flying moves. He can obviously do that in his sleep, but he did have a submission battle with Otani as well, and with them being more of a pairing in both matches, it seemed more random (read the outsider isn't doing the job in the final) that Otani went over Tiger. While the match wasn't without flaw, it finally felt like a big match, and this was an especially fantastic effort given they'd worked the semis earlier in the night. ****
10/9/94 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Dean Malenko & Tokimitsu Ishizawa vs. Yuki Ishikawa & Shoichi Funaki 8:10. They got all the mat wrestlers together, but it never really materialized. Best when Dean was in with Ishikawa, but basically a Dean Malenko one man show.
El Samurai & Flying Scorpio [2] vs. Kamikaze & Masayoshi Motegi [0] 13:38. Scorpio could awe with his standing somersault leg drops & moonsaults, but the SPWF team really didn't have much to offer giving or taking, so it was kind of a generic exhibition leading to the predictable result. Highlight was Motegi hitting his tope followed by Scorpio hitting a body attack to the floor & Kamikaze getting Scorpio with a tope con giro. Kamikaze tried to pull some hot stuff down the stretch, but the fans laughed at him when he whipped Samurai into the ropes & was supposed to backflip for show then hit the huracanrana, but he backflipped onto his knees then hit a Frankensteiner & fumbled to hook a leg. As usual, the only burning question was why is Motegi here?
Gran Hamada & Norio Honaga [2] vs. Super Delfin & TAKA Michinoku [0] 13:11. TAKA worked 3x as hard as anyone in the league so far, singlehandedly making the match with his athleticism, energy, & enthusiasm. Honaga & Hamada basically punked him & laid into him, setting him up for hot counters. TAKA eventually got even, low blowing Hamada so he could tag out. Delfin ultimately didn't contribute that much & there wasn't much build to the predictable result of TAKA getting pinned. **3/4
Super Junior Tag League Match: Wild Pegasus & Shinjiro Otani vs. The Great Sasuke & Black Tiger 13:19. A nice companion to the final, but by no means a classic in its own right. Benoit brought the intensity from the outset, doing particularly nice work with Eddie early on but not getting much chance to build on it. The heat should have been on Pegasus vs. Sasuke, but their first meeting since their classic J Cup Final somehow wasn't a story, and that was even more of a shame when you saw the finish of Sasuke getting a flash pin to avenge that historic loss. Pegasus was in top form, but didn't get a ton of help here, and the match was more designed to feature Otani. The match was moving along in an entertaining enough fashion, but they practically went from squabbling over making saves on weardown submissions to the finishing sequence, and it ended 5 minutes sooner than expected, with pretty much all the stories & tons of ammunition left in the holster. Tiger was solid, and it was his match when Pegasus wasn't in. Sasuke did little flying, so it didn't feel like a Sasuke match, even if he did add to it. Otani showed good teamwork with Pegasus and was trying his best to hang with the others, but despite a strong effort, as you'd expect was pretty well outclassed by Benoit & Guerrero. I know this is only Korakuen Hall, but a show featuring 4 jr league matches would normally be highlighted by something a lot more all out than this. ***
10/18/94 Okayama-ken Taiikukan
Super Junior Tag League Semifinal: Shinjiro Otani & Wild Pegasus vs. Dean Malenko & Tokimitsu Ishizawa 4:09 of 14:28
Super Junior Tag League Semifinal: Black Tiger & The Great Sasuke vs. Gran Hamada & Norio Honaga 9:09 of ?. Honaga was in with a bunch of guys who prefer lucha, but did surprisingly well anyway, being a good base for their flying. This seemed to be the 2nd best match on the tape, still not significant, but a nicely flowing, well executed athletic contest with good efforts all around. Sasuke seemed much more at home here than on 10/9, showing better flying, and Guerrero was super smooth.
Super Junior Tag League Final: Wild Pegasus & Shinjiro Otani vs. The Great Sasuke & Black Tiger 18:14. They stepped it up for the final, delivering a far more intense match from start to finish. Pegasus was really jacked up from the get go, wrestling with furious aggression. He ignited the spark that was missing all tournament lariating Tiger before the bell and taking it to the floor only to get railed and chaired by Tiger. Even in the early portion, the pace Benoit was pushing was faster than even the finishing sequences of the prior tournament matches. His bumping/mannerisms were exaggerated, but pretty much everything else he did was fantastic. Tiger was able to step it up here and provide much more support for Benoit than in their league match, working well with Benoit & helping to raise Otani's level. Still, Benoit was several notches above everyone else, and his efforts to will the others to step up their game & close this with a frantic classic were largely successful. The problem was the match was designed to feature Otani, who was getting a title shot at Honaga on 10/30, and he was decidedly the weak link, getting sloppy in his efforts to maintain Benoit's high pace. Never was this deficiency more pronounced than at the finish, which was probably supposed to be Otani hitting an elevated diving Frankensteiner, but the spot was completely blown, so he then improvised & pinned Tiger with a Dragon suplex. Sasuke was flying from get go, doing consecutive hilos with Tiger, but again there was no real rivalry with Benoit, who had now fully switched all the heat to him vs. Tiger, so Sasuke's role here was just adding some hot flying moves. He can obviously do that in his sleep, but he did have a submission battle with Otani as well, and with them being more of a pairing in both matches, it seemed more random (read the outsider isn't doing the job in the final) that Otani went over Tiger. While the match wasn't without flaw, it finally felt like a big match, and this was an especially fantastic effort given they'd worked the semis earlier in the night. ****
#690 10/19/94 Shimonoseki City Gym
SG Tag League: Ron Simmons & Nailz vs. Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Muto
SG Tag League: Steven Regal & Mike Enos vs. Scott Norton & Osamu Kido
SG Tag League: Manabu Nakanishi & Shinya Hashimoto vs. Road Warrior Hawk & Power Warrior
#691 10/21/94 Nagasaki Prefectural Gym
10/19/94 Shimonoseki City Gym: Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka 10/19/94
SG Tag League: Ron Simmons & Nailz vs. Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka
SG Tag League: Steven Regal & Mike Enos vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Manabu Nakanishi
SG Tag League: Scott Norton & Osamu Kido vs. Power Warrior & Road Warrior Hawk
#692 10/21/94 Nagasaki Prefectural Gym
SG Tag League: Yoshiaki Yatsu & Riki Choshu vs. Masahiro Chono & SS Machine
SG Tag League: Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara
SG Tag League: Steven Regal & Mike Enos vs. Ron Simmons & Nailz
#693 10/24/94 Kurume Prefectural Gym
SG Tag League: Takayuki Iizuka & Akira Nogami vs. Scott Norton & Osamu Kido
SG Tag League: Power Warrior & Road Warrior Hawk vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara
SG Tag League: Masahiro Chono & SS Machine vs. Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase
#694 taped 10/30/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
10/24/94 Kurume Prefectural Gym: Yoshiaki Yatsu & Tadao Yasuda vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Shinya Hashimoto
SG Tag League: Shinya Hashimoto & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Takayuki Iizuka & Akira Nogami
SG Tag League: Power Warrior & Road Warrior Hawk vs. Masahiro Chono & Super Strong Machine
#695 taped 10/30/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
Yuji Nagata & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Yuki Ishikawa & Yoshiaki Fujiwara
SG Tag League: Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase vs. Masahiro Chono & Super Strong Machine
Wonderland #696 taped 10/30/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
IWGP Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Norio Honaga vs. Shinjiro Otani
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Scott Norton & Ron Simmons
Wonderland #722 taped 3/7/95 Kanazawa Ishikawa Sangyo Tenjikan
Wild Pegasus & Shinjiro Otani vs. Black Tiger & Koji Kanemoto. Good rivalries where with Pegasus vs. Tiger and Otani vs. Kanemoto adding to the heat. Smooth match with crisp execution. The little things were so well done that you didn't care when they went to the big moves. In the end though, it was somewhat disappointing because it didn't deliver like I expected once it did pick up. It seemed like the big minutes were just starting, but instead the match ended. At 20 minutes this would have been great or at least damn close, but without those last 5 1/2 minutes it was very good and something of a let down. My favorite spot saw Koji being a punk stepping on Pegasus's throat, so Otani gave him his swandive missile kick to the back. Otani really had a lot of attitude here. ***3/4
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Matthew Rambo. As bad as a Hashimoto match from this period could be. Rambo - with his 80's WWF offense and the cartoon selling that goes with it - showed no signs of ability. Basic boring match taken down by communication problems between the two. *
3/13 Kyoto Furitsu Taiikukan 6th Young Lion Hai Koshikisen: Shinjiro Otani vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa. Takaiwa took Otani down to his level with the basic offense more than Otani was able to raise Takaiwa up. Too much unimpressive meandering wear down and submission before the few good minutes at the end. **
Wonderland #696 taped 10/30/94 Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
IWGP Junior Heavykyu Senshukenjiai: Norio Honaga vs. Shinjiro Otani
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Scott Norton & Ron Simmons
#697 11/13/94 Tokyo Bay NK Hall
Animal Hamaguchi vs. Michiyoshi Ohara
The Great Kabuki vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu
Kengo Kimura vs. Isao Takagi
2/8/95
Kensuke Sasaki & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Takashi Iizuka & Manabu Nakanishi
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Scott Norton
Great Muta vs. El Gigante
9/26/94 Kobe World Kinen Hall: Hiroshi Hase & Satoshi Kojima vs. Kotetsu Yamamoto & Kantaro Hoshino
9/22/94 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center: Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Scott Norton & Takayuki Iizuka & Akira Nogami
11/21/94 Hakata Starlanes
Mini Black Cat & Jerrito Estrada vs. Mascarita Sagrada & Octagoncito
Lucha World 8 Man Tag Tournament Captain Fall: Hijo Del Santo & Perro Aguayo & Mascara Sagrada & El Mexicano vs. Norio Honaga & Black Tiger & Wild Pegasus & Black Cat
Lucha World 8 Man Tag Tournament Captain Fall: Gran Hamada & Great Sasuke & El Samurai & Shinjiro Otani vs. Konan & La Parka & Black Panther & Psicosis
Lucha World 8 Man Tag Tournament Final 2/3 Falls: Gran Hamada & Great Sasuke & El Samurai & Shinjiro Otani vs. Hijo Del Santo & Perro Aguayo & Mascara Sagrada & El Mexicano
#698 11/13/94 Tokyo Bay NK Hall
Kuniaki Kobayashi & Akitoshi Saito vs. Gedo & Ricky Fuyuki
Martial Arts Match: Tatsutoshi Goto vs. Wilhelm Ruska
Tiger Jeet Singh vs. Shiro Koshinaka
#699 11/29/94 Korakuen Hall
Takayuki Iizuka & Akira Nogami vs. Riki Choshu & Osamu Kido
Road Warrior Hawk & Power Warrior vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Manabu Nakanishi
12/11/94 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan: Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Manabu Nakanishi
11/25/94, IWGP Tag Title Match: Hellraisers (Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior) vs. Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase 14:39 of 25:37
12/6/94, Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Keiji Muto 9:24 of 21:55
12/12/94, New Japan Strongest Tag Decision Match: Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase vs. Steiners (Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner) 19:03 of 25:08
11/23/94: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Osamu Kido
2/8/95
Kensuke Sasaki & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Takashi Iizuka & Manabu Nakanishi
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Scott Norton
Great Muta vs. El Gigante
#700 12/11/94 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Norio Honaga vs. Black Tiger
Masahiro Chono vs. Junji Hirata
#701 12/13/94 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
UWA World Junior Heavyweight Title: Norio Honaga vs. Shinjiro Otani
12/11/94 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan: Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Keiji Muto & Riki Choshu
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu
Shinjiro Otani vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa 9:55
Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Tokimitsu Ishizawa & Yuji Nagata 12:15
Satoshi Kojima vs. Tim Horner 4:23
Flying Scorpio & Hiro Saito vs. El Samurai & Gran Hamada 13:50
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Scott Norton & Wild Pegasus 16:56
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Norio Honaga vs. Black Tiger 19:47
Keiji Muto & Riki Choshu vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara 11:12
Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Shinya Hashimoto 13:54
Junji Hirata vs. Masahiro Chono 15:59
#702 12/13/94 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
Junji Hirata vs. Masahiro Chono
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Hiroshi Hase
#703 12/13/94 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
Takayuki Iizuka & Akira Nogami vs. Keiji Muto & Satoshi Kojima
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Scott Norto
1/4/95 Tokyo Dome: Great Kabuki & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Akitoshi Saito vs. Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka, & Osamu Kido
12/11/94: Junji Hirata vs. Masahiro Chono
12/12/94: Junji Hirata vs. Masahiro Chono
12/13/94: Junji Hirata vs. Masahiro Chono
12/12/94: Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Muto
12/11/94: Riki Choshu & Keiji Muto vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara. This series of bouts celebrates Fujinami's 3000 pro match.
12/12/94: Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu
12/13/94: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu
12/11/94, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Norio Honaga vs. Black Tiger
12/12/94, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Norio Honaga vs. Gran Hamada
12/13/94, UWA World Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Shinjiro Otani vs. Norio Honaga
12/11/94: Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Manabu Nakanishi
IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Hiroshi Hase
Tokimitsu Ishizawa & Yuji Nagata vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Tadao Yasuda 11:17
Black Tiger & Gran Hamada & Hiro Saito vs. El Samurai & Flying Scorpio & Wild Pegasus 15:30
Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Keiji Muto & Satoshi Kojima 13:18
UWA World Welterweight Title: Norio Honaga vs. Shinjiro Otani 13:11
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu 5:39
Junji Hirata vs. Masahiro Chono 7:26
Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Scott Norton 12:06
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Hiroshi Hase 29:11
Junior title matches, Best of the Super Jr, & Super J CUP highlights from 1993-94
Reviewed in Quebrada #37
LLPW FLASHBACK #47 3/31/98 taped 11/5/95 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Michiko Nagashima vs. Mizuki Endo 13:05 of 14:00. Decent match, but Endo wasn't able to mount much resistance to Nagashima's heel technique.
Michiko Omukai vs. Jenn Yukari 5:32 of 13:58. Pretty good work though Yukari is a little sloppy. Average match.
Rumi Kazama & Karula vs. Mikiko Futagami & Carol Midori 13:57. Very good work and faster paced than normal. Good match. Kandori vs. Tateno. Good solid match. Tateno "injures" Kandori's shoulder.
Shinobu Kandori vs. Noriyo Tateno 10:58. ***