Ryu Echigo vs. Katsuhisa Fujii
Naoki Kimura vs. Manabu Hara. *3/4
Yasuhito Namekawa vs. Kyosuke Sasaki. ***
Ryuki Ueyama vs. Hiroyuki Ito. ***1/2
Takehiro Murahama vs. Kazuki Okubo. **
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Wataru Sakata. ***3/4
Hiroyuki Ito vs. Tomohiko Yoshida 7:23. Ito was far superior to his inexperienced opponent to the point it wasn't much of a match. He made some good moves, but everything came too easily and Yoshida's main defense was the rope escape. *
Ryu Echigo vs. Manabu Hara 15:00. Echigo is a suplex guy, while Hara seems to like the flying knee and high kick. They showed fire and intensity, particularly in the key moments when they had a flurry of action. It was too long given their inexperience so they weren't able to sustain things, but it had it's moments and was good enough to keep you interested. **1/2
Naoki Kimura vs. Katsuhisa Fujii 2:09. Fujii is very aggressive and shows potential. Kimura thinks he's all big and bad, but hits as gay as he looks.
Takehiro Murahama vs. Kyosuke Sasaki 8:49. They did something different here, staying away from the big moves through a kind of extended feeling out period where they always kept just far enough out of range. That sound boring but it was anything but. They managed to find credible ways to miss and then from time to time they'd perform an explosive sequence at lightning speed. They even credibly worked in a little story of Murahama trying to go for pro wrestling moves. Sasaki did enough, particularly early on to make himself credible, though like many a UWF-I match it was undermined by his standing not being nearly what Murahama's is. Sasaki looked very promising. ***1/4
Wataru Sakata vs. Kazuki Okubo 8:42. Okubo shows his inexperience, and Sakata was quite content with just beating him up. Okubo was never in the match, and his striking is pretty weak (not crisp or precise). Usually Sakata's one of the better guys at getting more out of less, but today he just looked sharp offensively. *1/2
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Dokonjonosuke Mishima 10:06. Mishima is a world class shorter and an excellent athlete, but he's got no experience working. Of course it helps to be going against the best, but he certainly showed potential. He seemed unsure when to attack sometimes and oversold badly once, but with this opposition there was no problem putting him right in the main event. Tamura wasn't able to develop the match as much and went through the points a lot quicker than he likes, but the quality was consistently good. Mishima did a cool kick where he started to do a cartwheel so he could kick Tamura in the head. ***
Naoki Kimura vs. Ryu Echigo
Katsuhisa Fujii vs. Tomohiko Yoshida
Kazuki Okubo vs. Manabu Hara
Dokonojosuke*Mishima vs. Kyosuke Sasaki
Wataru Sataka vs. Hiroyuki Ito
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Takaka Fuke
U-STYLE 3rd 6/29/03 Osaka Umeda Stella Hall
Dokonojosuke*Mishima vs. Kyosuke Sasaki
Wataru Sataka vs. Hiroyuki Ito
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Takaka Fuke
U-STYLE 4th Kiyoshi Tamura Next Challenger 1 Day Tournament10/6/03 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Katsuhisa Fujii vs. Ryu Echigo 3:31.
Manabu Hara vs. Kazuki Okubo 15:00 + OT
Kyosuke Sasaki vs. Naoki Kimura
Hiroyuki Ito vs. Ryuki Ueyama
Kiyoshi Tamura Next Challenger 1 Day Tournament Semifinals:
Katsuhisa Fujii vs. Kazuki Okubo
Kyosuke Sasaki vs. Hiroyuki Ito
Kiyoshi Tamura Next Challenger 1 Day Tournament Final: Katsuhisa Fujii vs. Kyosuke Sasaki
U-STYLE 5th 12/9/03 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Kazushi Miyamoto vs Ryu Echigo
Manabu Hara vs Crafter M
Hiroyuki Ito vs Yasuhito Namekawa
Dokonjonosuke Mishima vs Ryuki Ueyama
Kyosuke Sasaki vs Wataru Sakata
Kiyoshi Tamura vs Katsuhisa Fujii
U-STYLE 6th 1st Anniversary 2/4/04 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Hiroyuki Ito vs. Dai Moriyama
Dokonjosuke*Mishima vs. Manabu Hara
Ryuuki Ueyama vs. Kazuki Okubo
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
Kiyoshi Tamura Next Challenger 1 Day Tournament 1st Round
Katsuhisa Fujii vs. Ryu Echigo 3:31. Rushed. Fujii looked better on the April show, while Echigo is still about equally green.
Manabu Hara vs. Kazuki Okubo 15:00 + OT. Solid match with good moments.
Kyosuke Sasaki vs. Naoki Kimura
Hiroyuki Ito vs. Ryuki Ueyama
Kiyoshi Tamura Next Challenger 1 Day Tournament Semifinals:
Katsuhisa Fujii vs. Kazuki Okubo
Kyosuke Sasaki vs. Hiroyuki Ito
Kiyoshi Tamura Next Challenger 1 Day Tournament Final: Katsuhisa Fujii vs. Kyosuke Sasaki
Naoki Kimura vs Kazuki Okubo
Kazushi Miyamoto vs Ryu Echigo
Manabu Hara vs Crafter M
Hiroyuki Ito vs Yasuhito Namekawa
Dokonjonosuke Mishima vs Ryuki Ueyama
Kyosuke Sasaki vs Wataru Sakata
Kiyoshi Tamura vs Katsuhisa Fujii
Hiroyuki Ito vs. Dai Moriyama
Kyosuke Sasaki vs. Crafter M
Dokonjosuke*Mishima vs. Manabu Hara
Ryuuki Ueyama vs. Kazuki Okubo
Yasuhito Namekawa vs. Naoki Kimura
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
Manabu Hara vs Ryuki Ueyama
Crafter M vs Seichi Ikemoto
Kazuki Okubo vs Dokonjonosuke Mishima
Hiroyuki Ito vs Takaku Fuke
Naoki Kimura vs Wataru Sakata
Kiyoshi Tamura vs Kyosuke Sasaki
Naoki Kimura vs Hiroyuki Ito
Koichiro Kimura vs Junji Tanaka
MAX Miyazawa vs Ryuki Ueyama
Manabu Hara vs Crafter M
Shoichi Ichimiya vs Yasuhito Namekawa
Kiyoshi Tamura vs Kazuki Okubo
Masahito Kakihara vs Kyosuke Sasaki
Naoki Kimura vs. Hiroshi Moriyama
Takaku Fuke vs. Kazuki Okubo
Kyosuke Sasaki vs. Hiroyuki Ito
Alexander Otsuka vs. Ryuki Ueyama
Masahito Kakihara vs. Yuki Ishikawa
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Dokonjonosuke Mishima
Manabu Hara vs. Rocky Romero
Ryuki Ueyama vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima
Yuki Ishikawa vs. Crafter M
1st Champion Decision Tournament Semifinal: Masahito Kakihara vs. Alexander Otsuka
1st Champion Decision Tournament Semifinal: Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Hiroyuki Ito
Kensuke Sasaki vs. Kyosuke Sasaki
1st Champion Decision Tournament Final: Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Alexander Otsuka
Hiroshi Moriyama vs. Crafter M
Yoshinori Oniki vs. Max Miyazawa
Manabu Hara vs. Kyosuke Sasaki
Alexander Otsuka vs. Tomohiko Yoshida
Hiroyuki Ito vs. Yuki Ishikawa
Seichi Ikemoto vs. Ryuki Ueyama
Tatsumi Moriyama vs. Manabu Hara
Crafter M vs. Dokonjonosuke Mishima
Daisuke Nakamura vs. Kazuki Okubo
Hiroyuki Ito vs. Alexander Otsuka
Kyosuke Sasaki vs. Yashuhito Namekawa
Kiyoshi Tamura & Takaku Fuke vs. Ryuki Ueyama & Seichi Ikemoto
Katsuhisa Fujii vs. Kyosuke Sasaki 7:48
Wataru Sakata vs. Hiroyuki Ito 10:06
Luiz Azeredo & Yasuhito Namekawa vs. Kazuki Okubo & Hidehisa Matsuda 12:08
James Thompson vs. Ricardo Morais 10:01
Frank Shamrock vs. Daisuke Nakamura 12:56
Toshiaki Kawada vs. Mikhail Ilioukhine 4:44
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Josh Barnett 16:10