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!
Wrestlemania 2… What If?
Long-standing rumors surrounding the main event of Wrestlemania II have started to swirl up again this week on social media. The rumor in question? Allegedly, Bruiser Brody NEARLY signed with the World Wrestling Federation in 1986 and was to be programmed against WWF Champion, Hulk Hogan, for a dream showdown of epic proportions at Wrestlemania! Could it have really worked? What was the situation heading into April of 1986? We’ll take a look at all those questions, plus a little more ‘slightly tweaked’ history in this piece.
DA MAN in Japan: The Revival of Goldberg
By the spring of 2001, the professional wrestling landscape would forever change with the closure of one of the sport’s largest promotions, World Championship Wrestling. With opens limited in the United States, former WCW talent would be left to either ride out the remainder of their contract, wrestle on the independants, or be swallowed up by the WWE as supplemental talent. For Bill Goldberg, there was really only one place in pro wrestling he had yet to conquer… “Da Man” had his sights on Japan.
Rebooking WCW: Week 1, 1992
I know, I know… ANOTHER rebooking series!? Well, I have been inspired by Bob Colling Jr. and his WWF 1992 series being presented on YouTube. So, introducing my rebook of WCW, starting in January of 1992 and working forward. We start with the first week, including WCW Power Hour, WCW Saturday Night, and the huge WCW/NJPW Supershow II event held in Tokyo!
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!