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!
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NJPW Fighting Spirit ’95 02/19/1995
Our second PPV event of the year has arrived, with New Japan Pro Wrestling landing back in Tokyo for a STACKED card of action. All titles are on the line, Michinoku Pro gets a chance to showcase some of their greatest talents, and the arena is SOLD OUT with twenty thousand fans on hand!
NJPW Fighting Spirit Tour 1995 (01/30 – 02/18)
New Japan Pro Wrestling’s second tour of the New Year is underway, all leading up to the next PPV event, NJPW Fighting Spirit. This tour will feature IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Shinya Hashimoto, Masahiro Chono, and the IWGP Tag Team Champions, Hiroshi Hase and Keiji Muto. Also to be crowned, a new Number One Contender for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship!
NJPW Heisei Ishingun Restoration Spirit Tour 1995 (01/19 – 01/27)
New Japan Pro Wrestling kicks off the spring of 1995 with the very first tour of the year, Heisei Ishingun Restoration Spirit Tour! This tour will focus on the heel group, Heisei Ishingun, alongside headliners like Kensuke Sasaki, Masahiro Chono, and current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, Norio Honaga. Tonight is night one, and fans in Oita, Japan, will see a huge tag team match main event!
NJPW Tokyo Dome Battle 7 01/04/1995
In this series, Austin Skinner will take over the books for New Japan Pro Wrestling, starting in January of 1995. With there being very little angle-driven pieces and matches alone being used to sell seats, how will he measure up to the challenge? Well, show number one is BATTLE 7 in Tokyo Dome… there’s only one way to find out!
New Japan World Gems #5: Wild Pegasus vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
In this next installment of the NJPW World Gems series, we turn the clocks back to January of 2000. In one of the final WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING and NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING crossovers, Chris Benoit (widely known in Japan as Wild Pegasus) took on one of the promotions most beloved in Hiroyoshi Tenzan at the biggest show of the year held at the Tokyo Dome! With Benoit’s hands firmly in the WCW World Championship picture stateside and Tenzan tearing it up in the heavyweight ranks of NJPW, I was interested in how the former junior wrestler in Benoit had evolved in the main eventer he had become against a tried and true Japanese talent! Why was it worth the watch? Find out now!
2004 Super J-Cup Tournament: A Breakdown and Review
I purchased a copy of this tape from one of my tried and true sources on the world wide web a year or so ago, I figured it was about time I get around to reviewing it! I haven’t watched much Osaka Pro Wrestling (especially 2004-), but being honored as the host promotion of this 4th Stage of the interpromotional Super J-Cup had me interested in their version of this famous tournament. What did I think? How did this year’s matches stack up? Only time will tell!
New Japan World Gems #3: Super Delfin Vs. Jushin “Thunder” Liger
The next installment of the New Japan World Gems series has arrived! For number three, we head back to June of 1994, for the final match of the inaugural Best…
New Japan World Gems #2: Hiroshi Hase vs. Sting
Round two of my New Japan World Gems series takes us back to another Tokyo Dome Show, this time in 1993. In a series that is intended to get you…