Tossing Salt - 10/06/03
What up folks? Here is my latest column for the Wrestling Informer - to be posted later today. I just figured, as always, I'd give all the fine people in my group a sneak -peek. Hope ya like..
-Doug
What's up? Welcome to the Wrestling Informer. It's time for a little "Tossing Salt - Wrestling From the Land of the Rising Sun". Todays date is 10/06/03. I'm your ever-lovin' degenerate ringmaster, Doug M. Not too much news to report from Japan, but I've got a load of results from matches from all over Japan from this past weekend. I also want to make a few comments on the new Randy Savage cd, the late Brian Pillman, and get in a few cheap plugs while I can. So, let's get this party started with:
NEWS:
As I said, it's been a little quiet on the news front. But there is a little. From the DDT promotion, it has been announced that the 10/11 show at the Jiyugaoka Festival will feature a match for the new "Jiyugaoka Cup" between Sanshiro Takagi, Etsuko Mita, and a person yet to be announced versus Shoichi Ichimiya, Futoshi Miwa, & Kaori Yoneyama.
Yesterday - 10/05 - marked the 19th anniversary of the professionial wrestling debuts of two Japanese legends - Masa Chono (who will be wrestling Hulk Hogan on 10/13 at the Tokyo Dome event - and the debut of Keiji Muto - better known as The Great Muta. Congrats to these two guys on their legendary careers thus far.
SAVAGE BOMBS
A few days ago in Treasure Island, FL - the Macho Man Randy Savage performed to promote his new CD - being released tommorow. Well, just three songs into the set - the CD began to skip, and Savage - who was lypsyncing - was pretty much booed off the stage. He finally threw down the mic and stalked off the stage after being unable to regain control of the merciless crowd.
Well, Savage made the mistake of trying to mime the words instead of singing/rapping live and paid the price. He would have done better to do like the majority of rap acts and just pre-record the background and done the vocals live. It wouldn't be as sharp, but it would avoid such PR bombs as this one.
That being said, I still am looking forward to hearing this new CD in it's entirety. I've heard the track about Hogan and it is quite impressive. It's on sale in record stores near you starting tommorow - so go out and give it a listen. I know I am.
ANNIVERSERY OF BRIAN PILLMAN'S DEATH.
On 10/5/97 - Flying Brian Pillman was found dead in his motel room in Bloomington, MN. He had wrestled his last match the night before when he lost at a house show to Goldust.
Brian was a helluva performer and from all I've heard, a great person away from the ring as well. His death left a big void in the world of wrestling that has never been and never can be filled. It's been 6 years, but Brian - you're still missed. Everyone needs to have a few seconds of silence and flash the 4 fingers in the air in honor of wrestlings "Loose Cannon". RIP - Brian..We love ya & miss ya!!
CHEAP PLUGS:
A quick mention of a couple of sights that I've really been impressed with. For all the HBK fans out there - and even for those who aren't - go check out Kitty's HBK sight - www.HeartbreakHeaven.com. It's one of the best fan sites on the web today and Kitty (a fellow DXSI degenerate of mine) has really outdone herself.
Also - if you're interested in joining the best wrestling chat group at Yahoo - DXSI Suck It!! - give me a holler and I'll hook you up. If you give us a chance - you'll be hooked. I promise. OK - and now that I've done my butt-kissing for the day - It's time to move on to :
MATCH RESULTS:
(All match results are from Picksi's Puroresu Page)
ALL JAPAN 10/5/03 Tokyo, Japan Korakuen Hall
Attendance: 1800 fans
Masa Fuchi & Jeremy Lopez defeated Tomohiko Hashimoto & Taichi Ishikari in 11:20
Shigeo Okumura defeated Nobukazu Hirai in 4:51
Kaz Hayashi & Hi69 over Kendo Kashin & Yasu Urano in 12:18
HANDICAP MATCH
Arashi defeated Taka Michinoku, Daigoro Kashiwa, & Teppei Ishizaka in 6:33
Satoshi Kojima, Tomoaki Honma, & Kazushi Miyamoto over Keiji Muto, Masa Yukikono, & Gran Hamada in 17:06
Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka beat Toshiaki Kawada & Ryuji Hijikata in 20:31
PRO WRESTLING NOAH 10/5/03 Differ Aricke
Attendance: 1800 fans (Sold out)
Massao Inoue & Haruka Eigen defeated Jun Izumida & Mitsou Momota in 10:25
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi beat Masashi Aouagi in 12:50
Tamon Honda over Kishin Kawabata in 9:40
Takashi Sugiura, Yoshinobu Kanemura, & Makoto Hashi defeated Naomichi Marufugi, KENTA, & Kotaro Suzuki in 24:50
Yoshinari Ogawa & Takuma Sano defeated Daisuke Ikeda & Mohammed Yone in 19:20
Mitsuhoru Misawa, Akira Taue, & Takeshi Murishima wrestled Kenta Kobashi, Jun Akiyama, & Takeshi Rikio to a 30:00 draw.
DAI-NIHON 10/5/03 Fukuoka, Japan Hakata Star Lanes
Mister Dai Nihon over Yuichi Taniguchi in 7:58
Abdullah Kobayashi wrestled Daisuke Sekimoto to a 20 minute draw.
Kintaro Kanemura over 2 Tuff Tony in 10:53
MEN's Teioh & Junji Tanaka beat Daikokubo Benkei & Katsumara Inoue in 15:10
BARBED WIRE MATCH
Shadow WX & Mad Man Pondo defeated Ryuji It and GOSAKU in 16:17
MICHINOKU PRO 10/5/03 Aomori, Japan Aomori Bluewood Arena
Sabu over Nobutaka Moribe in 8:46
Hayate & Komachi defeated Tsubo Genjin & Macho Pump in 12:12
Atlantis & Kesen Numa-jiro stopped Tarzan Boy & Mikami in 14:22 by DQ
Dick Togo & Masao Orihara pinned Masashi Ikeda & Kazuya Yuasa in 18:40
TORYU-MON 10/5/03 Miyagi, Japan ZEPP Sendai
Anthony W. Morii & Yossino over K-ness & Susumu Yokosuki in 12:17
SUWA beat Stalker Ichikawa in 42 seconds
TARU over Genki Horiguchi in 10:33
Raimu Mishima defeated Takamichi Iwasa in 4:59
JUN & CIMA over the Karaoke Machines in 8:25
Kenichiro Arai & Dragon Kid bested Second Doi & Masaaki Muchizuki in 10:54
YASSHI & Dotti Shuji beat Milano Collection A.T. & Magnum Tokyo
OSAKA PRO 10/5/03 Osaka, Japan Delfin Arena
Black Buffalo beat Masato Matuba in 7:38
Gamma over Yukaka Fukuda in 9:10
Billy Ken Kid bested Pero in 10:23
Takehiro Murahama, Miracle Man & TIgers Mask defeated Big Boss MA-G-MA, Daio QUALLT, & Goa in 18:34
Tsubasa & Ebessan beat Super Delfin & Kuisinbo Kamen in 15:00
ALL JAPAN WOMEN 10/05/03 Tokyo, Japan Korakuen Hall
Emi Sakura over Ofune in 7:53
Saki Maemura beat Hakura Matsuo in 7:48
Misae Genki over Sasori in 5:37
Amazing Kong defeated Hikaru in 12:33
Tomoka Watanabe & Kumiko Maekana bested Nanae Takahashi & Kayo Noumi in 19:13
Eagle Sawai & Kyoko Inoue defeated Shinobu Kandori & Takako Inoue in 15:30
GAEA JAPAN 10/05/03 Osaka, Japan Osaka Dome Sky Hall
Devil Masami & Aja Kong beat Carlos Amano & Sakura Hirota in 11:20
Ayako Hamada defeated Toshiyo Yamada in 11:09
Meiko Satomura over Toshie Uematsu in 9:27
Chikayo Nagashima defeated Ran YuYu in 11:17
STREET FIGHT
Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Aslka defeated Mayumi Ozaki & KOARU in 12:53
JD STAR 10/05/03 Tokyo, Japan Shinjuka Club Heights
Command Bolshoi bested Kazuki in 5:21
Keiko Saito defeated Yuni Ohka in 14:10
The Bloody beat Maru in 14:53
Fang Suzuki & ZAP T defeated Hiroyo Muto & Ran Maru in 12:10
Well, that's it for today. Don't forget RAW is on tonite on Spike TV at 9:00pm eastern time - so be sure to tune it. I'll be back later tonite with the RAW recap, exclusively here at the Wrestling Informer. If you have any questions or comments or just want to talk wrestling - contact me here at DougMaynard@wrestlinginformer.net or else at my home mail-box of Doug28352@yahoo.com.
I suppose that's all for now. Until next time - see ya!
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