(Retro) Tossing Salt - 10/11/03

Tossing Salt - 10/11/03

Here's a sneak peek at my latest column - Tossing Salt - which will be posted later today at the Wrestling Informer.net. Hope ya'll enjoy!
-Doug

Tossing Salt - Wrestling News From The Land of The Rising Sun! 10/11/03 by Doug M.

What up, Informants? And welcome to another spine-tingling edition of "Tossing Salt - Wrestling From The Land of The Rising Sun!" Although, maybe I should just shorten it to "Tossing Salt" because I'm starting to branch out and cover more than just Japan? I don't know. I'll think on that. But I'm Doug M. and I'm back with some more international news - just for all the fine folks here at the Wrestling Informer.

I've got some WWE stuff today, the results from the Passport to Pain house show that took plae last night in Cologne, Germany. Plus some news from Japan regarding Hogan/Chono and a possible expansion by NOAH. And match results out the whazoo! So, let's get this party started with:

NEWS:

The WWE Smackdown "Passport to Pain" tour continued last night with a great show in Cologne, Germany. I'm print the results of that card later under "Match Results". And tonite, the WWE superstars will be traveling to Birmingham, England. Tommorow they will be in Manchester, England and then will travel back home to the states to tape Smackdown in Cincinnati on Tuesday night. I hope they're saving those frequent flier miles.

Congrats to Trish Stratus to winning her third consecutive WWE Babe Of The Year over at WWE.com. She narrowly beat out Stacy Keibler in the finals, and will get her own web-site on WWE. com as a result. Just a personal opinion here, because I like Stacy and Trsih fine, but the Babe of the Year to me - this year and any year - will always be my beloved Ivory.

In NOAH news, there is some strong speculation that they are considering setting up an alliance with some local wrestling groups in South Korea in order to expand their following and territory. Nothing is official or official as of yet, but the Noah management seems to feel that South Korea is often neglected by the major Japanese markets and would be a great territory to expand to.

Hulk Hogan versus Masa Chono - and if Hogan wins, Chono will cede his booking powers over to Hogan. That's the stipulation tha t New Japan placed on the Hogan / Chono match scheduled for the 10/13 Toyko Dome show in an effort to increase ticket sales, which have thus far, been very dissapointing. So far, it seems to be working as sales have began to pick up a bit. They still have a ways to go in order to have a sell-out on Monday, but it looks as if things are picking up.

And now, let's move this bad mama-jama over to :

MATCH RESULTS:

WWE Smackdown 10/10/03 Cologne, Germany Koeln Arena
Chris Benoit beat A-Train
Nunzio & Tajiri defeated Rey Mysterio & Ultimo Dragon
Charlie Haas (with Shelton Benjamin) defeated Jamie Noble (with Nidia)
Rhyno stopped Funaki
WWE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Los Guerreros defeated The Basham Brothers
Matt Hardy beat The Big Show
BIKINI CONTEST
Torrie Wilson defeated Nidia, Dawn Marie, & Sable.
Kurt Angle & The Undertaker defeated Brock Lesnar and John Cena

ALL JAPAN PRO WRESTLING 10/01/03 Osaka, Japan Prefectural Gym #2
Shigeo Okumura beat Nobukazu Hirai by DQ in 4:26
Taichi Ishikari & Kazushi Miyamoto over Jermey Lopez & Masayuki Kono in 8:43
Silver King & Gran Hamada defeated Yasu Urano & Kendo KaShin in 9:36
Tigers Mask & Hi69 & Satoshi Kojima beat Ebessan, Kaz Hayashi, & Masa Fuchi in 19:26
Taka Michinoku & Gladiator beat Ryuji Hijikata & Toshiaki Kawada in 13:21
D-Lo Brown & Bull Buchanan & Gigantes beat Tomoaki Uonma, Arashi, & Keiji Muto in 14:11

ZERO ONE 10/10/03 Tokyo, Japan Korakuen Hall
Wagyuta beat Akashi Tiger in 5:20
Naohiro Hashikawa beat Vansack Acid in 9:40
Kazuhiko Ogasawara defeated Yoshihito Sasaki in 5:10
BAD BOY Hito & Mr. Gannosuke over Jun Kasai & Tatsuhito Takaiwa in 10:30
Watura Sakata defeated Onryo in 6:50
Mike Knox & Steve Corino stopped Low-Ki & The Predator in 16:10
ALL ASIAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Kintaro Kanmura defeated Hirotaka Yokoi & Kohei Sato in 14:28 to capture the win and become the NEW tag team champs.
Masato Tanaka & Sinjiro Otani over Hardcore Kid & Tom Howard in 15:10

MICHINOKU PRO 10/10/03 Miyagi, Japan Ishinomaki City Gym
Kazuya Yuasa over Osamu Inoue in 4:29
Kazuya Yuasa over Nobutaka Moribe in 8:36
Hayate & Komachi wrestled Kesen Numa-jiro & Tsubo Genjin to a double count out in 1:16
The match was restarted - Hayate & Komachi defeated Numa-jiro & Genjin in 10:47
Tarzan Boy & Macho Pump won by DQ over Sabu & MIKAMI in 14:39
Dick Togo & Masao Orihara beat Atlantis & Masashi Ikeda in 15:25

TORYU-MON 10/10/03 Hyogo, Japan Kobe Chicken George
K-ness & Susumu Yokosuka over Kenichiro Arai & Dragon Kid in 12:56
Genki Horiguchi beat Stalker Ichikawa in 1:25
TARU & SUWA beat Berlinetta Boxer & Super Shisa in 8:34
KARAOKE MACHINES beat YASSHI & Dotti Shuji in 8:21 by DQ
JUN & CIMA defeated Anthony W. Morii & YOSSINO in 11:23
Millano Collection AT & Magnum Tokyo beat Second Doi & Masaki Mochizuki in 12:35

TORYU-MON 10/09/03 Matsue, Japan Shimane Messe
Yasshi & Dotti Shuji beat Super Shisa & Dragon Kid in 11:32
Kenichiro Arai over Stalker Ichikawa in 5:50
TARU over Berlinetta Boxer in 5:53
Second Doi & Masaaki Mochizuki defeated Anthony W. Morii & YOSSINO in 11:30
Millano Collection AT & Magnum Tokyo defeated Karaoke Machines in 5:51
JUN, SUWA, & CIMA over Genki Horiguchi, K-ness, & Susumu Yokosuka in 15:28

K-DOJO 10/09/03 Chiba City, Japan Blue Field
Joe Aoyama defeated Taku Joetsu in 6:00
Quiet Storm over Mike Lee Jr. in 9:10
Mr X. defeated Shiori Asahi in 7:49
Kunio Tosima defeated PSYCHO in 6:15
Daigore Kashiwa & Teppei Ishizaka defeated Mr X #2 and Mr X #3 in 10:14

And that wraps up this edition of "Tossing Salt". Hope you had fun. If you have any questions, comments, or just want to talk about the weather, give me a shout at either Doug28352@yahoo.com or at DougMaynard@wrestlinginformer.net.

I guess that's it, so take it light and I'll see ya next time. -D.