The next PPV event of the year has arrived, with New Japan Pro Wrestling storming Ishikawa ahead of its Muscle Storm 1995 tour for another huge card. With another SOLD OUT, twenty thousand fans on hand, Keiji Muto will get his shot against Shinya Hashimoto for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship! Plus, the white-hot Último Dragón meets Tiger Mask III for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, Hawk Warrior takes on the rising star of Hiroyoshi Tenzan, and much more!
NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING PRESENTS:
MUSCLE STORM ’95
Date: March 07, 1995
Ishikawa, JPN || Local Arena
Attendance: 20,000 [SOLD OUT]
Broadcast: TV ASAHI [ 869,586 total viewers ]
Singles Match
[O] Flying Scorpio vs. Perry Saturn [X]
Singles Match
[X] Norio Honaga vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi [O]
Six-Man Tag Team Match
[O] Yuji Nagata & J J JACKS (Akira Nogami & Takashi Iizuka) vs. Satoshi Kojima & Heisei Ishingun (Michiyoshi Ohara & Tatsutoshi Goto) [X]
Singles Match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
[X] Último Dragón vs. Tiger Mask III (c) [O]
Tag Team Match
[O] Hiro Saito & Masahiro Chono vs. Heart & Soul (Ricky Fuji & Chris Jericho) [X]
Singles Match
[O] Scott Steiner vs. Hiroshi Hase [X]
Tag Team Match
[O] Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Iron Titans (Gary Albright & Scott Norton) [X]
Singles Match
[X] Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Hawk Warrior [O]
Singles Match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship
[X] (c) Shinya Hashimoto vs. Keiji Muto [O]
~ Suzuki-gun then arrived in NJPW! ~
Following his monumental win over the seemingly unbeatable Shinya Hashimoto, Keiji Muto celebrated his win in the center of the ring. Suddenly, the lights went out. Then, on stage, PANCRASE co-founder, MINORU SUZUKI, appeared to the shock of the live crowd! Suzuki said that people in NJPW have had it far too east for far too long and that it was time a real group introduced some real pain and sacrifice to the IWGP Championship… Suzuki-gun was here in NJPW and there was nothing Keiji Muto could do about it! Suzuki went on to say that some members of his army have secretly been here all along, some not… some like the man that’ll be Muto’s first championship challenger, AKIRA MAEDA! The crowd roared as Maeda made his way to the ring and went nose-to-nose with Muto. Blows were explosively exchanged, but a deadly kick put an exhausted Muto down quickly with a head kick. Maeda then raised the championship over his head while the new champion laid in a heap on the mat.
03/07/1995
- NJPW is expecting March to be their best financial month of the year thus far. After some setbacks in January and a recovering February, March is set with tonight’s pay-per-view as well as the lengthy Muscle Storm Tour that’ll cover up to March 27. (03/07)
- The NJPW Muscle Storm Tour is rumored to be centered around the newly debuted Suzuki-gun stable taking on the company’s biggest babyfaces for the next several weeks. More members are said to be revealed as the tour goes on. (03/07)
- NJPW will be hosting this year’s Young Lion Cup over the course of the next several weeks. Announcements are yet to be made on participants. (03/07)