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NJPW- January 1992-January 1995- Post Wrestlekingdom 3 IWGP Heavyweight Champion- Masahiro Chono- Beat Keiji Mutoh @ Wrestlekingdom III IWGP Tag Team Champions- Holy Demon Army (Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue)- Beat Steve Williams & Glenn Jacobs @ Wrestlekingdom III IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion- El Samurai- Beat Shoichi Hattori @ Wrestlekingdom III IWGP U-30 Openweight Champion- Steven Regal- Beat Hayabusa @ Battle Formation 1994 Tournaments most recent 1994 G1 Climax- Masahiro Chono (3) 1994 New Japan Cup- Shinya Hashimoto 1994 World Tag League- Holy Demon Army (Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue) 1994 Young Lions Cup- Nobuyoshi Nakamura (Dragon Kid) 1995 New Japan Rambo- Kensuke Sasaki

Wrestlekingdom III New Japan Rambo- Won by Kensuke Sasaki If they weren’t on the rest of the card, they were put in here. Sasaki was the biggest name, so the Rambo starts off with a bang, Terry Gordy, Hiroshi Hase & SWS World Champion Gary Albright were the final 4 Sasaki will get a Championship shot at the Anniversary Show The Titans (Kokina Maximus & Nelson Knight) def. Full Force (Dan Kroffat & Billy Black) Upset at seemingly missing out on a Wrestlekingdom payday (As the Rambo hadn’t been announced yet) The Titans issues an open challenge on the final TV of 1994. Which was answered by former SWS Tag Team champions Dan Kroffat and Billy Black making their NJPW debut. But the rookies didn’t have enough to put the massive men down... plus they’re currently negotiating with both us and AJPW and I don’t know which way they’re gonna go yet but I already had them planned to answer this spot Main Show Dan Severn def. Vader A farewell match for Vader whose WCW contract has now become exclusive, and as he has loyalty there was no chance for us. So, I put him up against the man who has been a thorn in his side throughout the entire save, eliminating him from 2 consecutive New Japan cups plus beating him in a G1. But as he is leaving the three time IWGP Heavyweight champion says farewell to the company that served him well. I hope to get him back at some point but I don’t think it will happen The Headhunters def. The Takano Brothers The Takano Brothers are also leaving as part of my rebuilding of the Tag Team division, they were kicked out of Shinryaku-Gun by Tenryu who was then userped by Koji Kitao, and part of the rebuild for the faction were the Headhunters, which led to this match as the Takano’s face who technically are their factional replacement. The Hunters pick up the win as the Takano’s are leaving there is a higher ceiling for The Headhunters Team NJPW (Riki Choshu, Shinya Hashimoto & Tatsumi Fujinami) vs Team AJPW (Stan Hansen, Mitsuhara Misawa & Kenta Kobashi) Is there an Irony that two of the All-Japan team are exclusive with NJPW, yes but this felt like the perfect culmination of the Stan Hansen excursion story we’ve had since the G1. We didn’t have anything for Misawa and Kobashi which I do think was probably a mistake, but the main event scene is very crowded now. Makes me think it might be time to bring in the Intercontinental Championship soon. The NJPW team picked up the win because eventually the host need to beat the invasion force. This match also showed how much Choshu has fallen due to time decline. Everyone in this match got in the 90s for ratings.... Choshu got a 55. I might retire him at the Anniversary Show Koji Kitao def. Genichiro Tenryu The former leader of Shinryaku-Gun versus the new leader, Kitao felt the faction had moved away from what made them such a formidable force in the first place. So, Kitao took out the aging Tenryu and bought in The Headhunters, David Finlay and Galaxy (Damian 666) another wave of invading forces from SWS. Kitao beats Tenryu here as an attempt to try and legitimize him as a main event talent, Tenryu however still isn’t declining and is putting on some of the best ratings in the entire company, so he is staying in the main event despite this loss Loser Goes On Excursion- Glenn Jacobs def. Steve Williams The Miracle Violence Connection faction has been decimated by WCW. Steve Williams has also been signed by the American Company so I may have retconned what Jacobs’ speech was at the end of the tag league. The 3-time IWGP Tag Team Champion is leaving, and I don’t think we will ever get him back. So, Jacobs and Gordy are now all that is left of MVC. So much for building that tag division. Jushin Thunder Liger and Dean Malenko go to a 30 Minute Draw Two of the best juniors that aren’t in the title match, was billed as a number one contender's match but with a draw that will lead to complications. Malenko in an odd twist was seconded by Chris Benoit rather than his brother which was seemingly a forced decision by Dan Severn in an attempt to get the two of them to work together. This Malenko and Benoit storyline has been my biggest slow build story of the entire save. IWGP Tag Team Championship- The Holy Demon Army def. Death Riders (TenKoji) (C) Taue and Kawada are the tag team champions, the overall arch of Kawada coming in and taking over the Demon’s Triad and founding the Army is starting to reach its second chapter, as the Army is now completely assimilated into the NJPW roster. Despite Death Riders being Heel against Mutoh in the main event they are still face in this feud as The Army believe that they along with Seiki-Gun represent everything wrong with Puro, Strong Style. King’s Road picks up the victory here and Kawada becomes a 2-time tag team champion. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship- El Samurai def. Shoichi Hattori (C) The rookie reign of Hattori is over, and El Samurai has finally won the IWGP Junior Championship and stepped out of the massive shadow cast by his tag team partner Jushin Thunder Liger, until after the match Liger comes out to challenge Samurai for his title despite not winning the contenders match earlier. Reluctuntly Samurai accepts, and it is official for the Anniversary Show. IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship- Steven Regal (C) def. Minoru Suzuki Regal makes the eleventh defense of the Openweight Championship beating Minoru Suzuki who picked up a pinfall victory against the British Wizard at the Tag League finals. Regal has made the TV show his own with frequent defenses against all comers from 19yr old Rey Misterio Jr from CMLL to main event stars like Shinya Hashimoto. Regal still has 3 years in the U-30 division and the NJPW management need to consider, who could possibly beat Regal IWGP Heavyweight Championship- Masahiro Chono def. Keiji Mutoh (C) 365 days after winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and a 7 defenses later Keiji Mutoh has lost the title in the same building he won it in, and Masahiro Chono is the second of the three musketeers to hold the main title. Chono has consistently been my most over talent and was supposed to win this title back at Dontaku, but an injury postponed that and lead to Chono’s 3rd G1 Climax victory after his big heel turn, showing the bad ass Chono from the 90s that we all know and love to hate.

On TV during Tag League- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship- Shoichi Hattori def. Great Sasuke After holding two pinfall victories over the champion Sasuke, flanked by Takada-Gun, got his shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, which he first won around this time last year. But lightning doesn’t strike the same spot twice as the champion once again shows up more in championship matches than he does during multi-man or tournament matches. Although he did break his ribs in this match IWGP Heavyweight- Keiji Mutoh def. Vader What has Vader done to earn this title shot? Despite a disastrous G1 tournament in his eyes, one of the shining lights was a victory over Keiji Mutoh, two people who have a lot of history during tournaments. In the first New Japan Cup final in 1992, Vader defeated Mutoh. During the 1993 G1, Vader once again defeated Mutoh and now this year. Vader was 3-0 against the champion going into this match. Which used the different pacing of the TV show to go nearly 40 Minutes before Mutoh finally hit a moonsault to hold on to his title Tag League Block A Riki Choshu & Kuniaki Kobayashi- Seiki-Gun- (1-2) A losing record for the two elder statesmen as their plan to prove they still gave it failed, although they did do something that nobody has been able to do in the save so far. They were the first team to ever beat Nelson Knight in a World Tag League match Akira Nogami & Takashi Iizuka- J-J-Jacks- (1-1-1) The pure .500 record after beating Choshu & Kobayashi but drawing to the Takano Brothers on the last night, which had either team of won they would have won their block. But a strong performance for the unifying team George & Shunji Takano (1-1-1) Identical record to J-J-Jacks winning against the old man legion, losing to the Titans but drawing on the last night against J-J-Jacks, although whilst the young team will be celebrating this performance, The Takano’s will not as on the last night Genichiro Tenryu came out and told them that their performances were not good enough and that he was kicking them out of Shinryaku-Gun Nelson Knight & Scott Norton- (2-1)- Block Winners The Titan’s continue their dominance over the tag league- making it to 10 matches over 3 years undefeated, before finally losing on the final night to Choshu & Kobayashi. I guess when you put two big guys together they just work as a tag team in a block which has a Junior in it. Block B Holy Demon Army (Kawada & Taue)- (3-0) - BLOCK WINNER The Only Undefeated team in the tournament will go on to face the famously tough to beat Titans at the finals, Taue and Kawada worked perfectly as a team with amazing chemistry and seem almost impossible to beat. But We thought that about the Titans too Dan Severn & Ken Shamrock- (2-1) A Good Tournament for the MMA Guys with the biggest moment being when Dan Severn choked out Steve Williams. If this was a longer tournament having only one loss would be a miraculous performance but with such a weak tag team division, they were probably the second best team in the tournament but due to the luck of the draw they won’t make it to the finals Michiyoshi Ohara & Tatsutoshi Goto- (0-3) The Weakest Team in the tournament, and its not a suprise. Beaten handedly in most of their matches and it does show the lack of depth in the tournament. This is my biggest goal over the next year, so if we get to this point next year and my tag division is still dreadful then please all shout at me!! Miracle Violence Connection (Williams & Jacobs)- (1-2) The Former Champions couldn’t get it together in this tournament, and at the end Glenn Jacobs said in a promo that he had proven he couldn’t replace Terry Gordy as Steve Williams’ tag team partner but is grateful for the chance that he has been given by the MVC. He feels like he hasn’t found his footing in NJPW yet and wonders whether he should make an excursion. He asks Williams to assist him and challenges him to a match at Wrestlekingdom, where the loser has to go on a foreign excursion. World Tag League Finals Jushin Thunder Liger came out to challenge Dean Malenko at Wrestlekingdom, he wants to prove that whilst he still isn’t the IWGP Junior Champion he is still the ace of this division, and he wants this match to prove it Minoru Suzuki & Nobuhiko Takada def. Dan Severn & Steven Regal Minoru Suzuki pins Steven Regal here to set up a u-30 championship match.... it feels weird to consider Suzuki as U-30 Masahiro Chono, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima draw with. Keiji Mutoh, Shinya Hashimoto & Tatsumi Fujinami- 30 Minute Time Limit Set up for Wrestlekingdom and attempting to present Tenkoji on the same level as Hashimoto & Fujinami when in multiman matches Genichiro Tenryu & Koji Kitao def. George & Shunji Takano Post match Kitao turns on Tenryu ending his two year leadership of Shinyaku-Gun, its Kitao’s time to lead now, but where does this leave Tenryu, he has spent two years targeting everything NJPW stands for, its not like Seikigun will take him in. NJPW World Tag League Final - Holy Demon Army (Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue) def. The Titans (Nelson Knight & Scott Norton) The reign of terror over the Tag League is over, The Titans have finally been vanquished!! The Holy Demon Army will go forward to Wrestlekingdom to face Death Riders (Tenkoji)

NJPW Battle Autumn- Nippon Budokan Show Major Matches TenKoji def. Steve Williams & Glenn Jacobs (C)- IWGP Tag Team Championship Glenn Jacobs (having filled in for Terry Gordy who showed up drunk to a show so was sent to rehab), got a short reign as champion to say thanks for filling in and performing well in the role. But we gave the title to TenKoji to give the Death Riders some gold and continue the pressure on Mutoh to protect the IWGP World Title from Chono’s group El Samurai def. Jushin Thunder Liger- Number One Contenders for Tokyo Dome Jushin Liger came to me and offered to put over his tag partner so I thought it would be a good chance to finally tell the story of Samurai trying to break out from Liger’s shadow plus for the first time in the save Liger will not be in the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match at the Tokyo Dome. So what is the Junior Ace’s path to the Tokyo Dome Special Singles Match- IWGP Heavyweight Champion- Keiji Mutoh def. Stan Hansen- AJPW Triple Crown Champion A big showcase match to show off the top champions from both the major Japanese Companies. Mutoh picks up a big victory here as Hansen isn’t our guy and has loyalty to AJPW so will never be our guy. He is also in his mid 40s so a victory for Mutoh made the most sense We now go into the Super Grade Tag League Block A Riki Choshu & Kuniaki Kobayashi- Seikigun Animal and Kuniaki have been the two strongest backers of Choshu returning to the Seikigun fold, Kobayashi offered to team up with Choshu during the Battle Autumn team, hoping to find solance in each other and reassurance that their top-level careers aren’t over Japanese Jolly Jacks- Akira Nogami & Takashi Iizuka- Unaffiliated J-J-Jacks formed after both Nogami & Iizuka found themselves floundering without much forward direction as singles stars, so they’ve come together and are looking to use this tournament to boost their journey to the IWGP Tag Team Championships- Their biggest weakness is that they’re the only team to have a Junior as one of their members. The Takano Brothers- George & Shunji Takano- Shinyraku-Gun The Takano Brothers have a chip on their shoulder. They have had a poor year after a 2-2 Tag League last year. They will be the first to admit that they have benefited from the Tag Division as a whole by having a week year otherwise they probably wouldn’t have made the cut for the tournament. Nelson Knight & Scott Norton- The Titans The Titan’s have been the strongest tag team in the tournament since the save began with Kokina Maximus & Nelson Knight winning both of the previous tournaments without losing a single match. But with Maximus moving into the singles division in comes Scott Norton, the often-forgotten 3rd Member of the TItans. Will Knight and Norton have as much success as their predecessors Block B The Holy Demon Army- Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue Kawada went 2-2 last year in the Tag League with Misawa as his partner and since then has bought in Taue as his more familiar partner. They are under strict orders as part of a three-way factional war with the Seikigun Main Unit and Chono’s Death Riders who they consider representative of everything wrong with Puro Dan Severn & Ken Shamrock- Tekunikarugajin The two forefathers of American MMA teaming together in a Tag team tournament, after training together for almost a year with some of the best technicians that wrestling has to offer. Who will possibly be able to defeat them. Caused a big shock during the battle autumn tour beating Tatsumi Fujinami and Osamu Nishimura by knocking out Nishimura, a first ever finish in my New Japan Ring The Mad Dogs- Tatsutoshi Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara- Raging Staff Making their second appearance in the tag league after a 1-3 performance last year, Ohara was also in the 1992 tournament teaming with Super Strong Machine, after Goto had left for PWFG, and that was an even worse 0-4 performance. But with a really shallow tag team division this year, hence the move from 10 to 8 teams they were able to make the cut, but they cannot rely on that forever Steve Williams & Glenn Jacobs- Miracle Violence Connection The former tag team champions were hoping to be going into October for a rest before the build to wrestlekingdom but their defeat against TenKoji puts them into the tournament and being forced to go through at least 4 other teams to stand a chance of going back for their tag team championships. Williams was in the 1992 Tournament finishing 3-1 only missing out on the finals to eventual winners The Titans, missing out in 1993 due to injury Predictions welcomed!!

They've been great, Jacobs graduated to become a student under Williams, Vader and Gordy but when Gordy turned up completely drunk and went to rehab I just decided to take the jump and go with them as Tag Champs

NJPW- January 1992-September 1994 IWGP Heavyweight Champion- Keiji Mutoh- Beat Genichiro Tenryu @ Wrestlekingdom II IWGP Tag Team Champions- Steve Williams & Glenn Jacobs- Won vacant Title's after Terry Gordy left for rehab IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion- Shoichi Hattori (regen)- Beat Tiger Mask III @ Nippon Budokan April IWGP U-30 Openweight Champion- Steven Regal- Beat Hayabusa @ Battle Formation Tournaments most recent 1994 G1 Climax- Masahiro Chono (3) 1994 New Japan Cup- Shinya Hashimoto 1993 World Tag League- The Titans (Kokina Maximus & Nelson Knight) 1994 Young Lions Cup- Nobuyoshi Nakamura (Dragon Kid)

Block A Keiji Mutoh- 8 Points- (4-5)- A disappointing tournament for the IWGP Heavyweight Champion with landmark losses against half the field. Setting up many people to claim to have earnt a championship shot in the build up to the Tokyo Dome Kokina Maximus- 10 Points- (5-4)- A Positive win record for Kokina’s first G1 and his arrival as a potential faction ace, victories against Mutoh and Kobashi were the highlights of a tournament that looked like he was a contender for the finals spot Kenta Kobashi- 9 Points- (4-4-1)- The .500 record saw a strong debut for Kobashi, Kobashi is looking like a strong hand but his biggest weakness seems to be the competitiveness in his own faction. When he is currently the number 3 in his faction how can he expect to blossom into a company ace if he can’t even be a faction ace Shinya Hashimoto- 10 Points- (5-4)- Getting a Bye on the last night of the tournament, Hashimoto was already mathematically eliminated, Hashimoto showed that while he is beatable in the tournaments, he isn’t one to take lightly and will still punish you even if someone can beat him. Hiroshi Hase- 6 Points- (3-4)- Hase’s tournament ended abruptly in his 7th Match tearing his rotator cuff against Tatsumi Fujinami. But if Hase was being honest he probably didn’t mind as he was already ruled out of contention. With his injury coming so late in the tournament he was not replaced by his match 8 & 9 opponents were given a bye 2 points Minoru Suzuki- 9 Points- (4-4-1)- Suzuki’s debut tournament ends with a .500 record, and the perfect way to describe his tournament was he beat who you would expect him to lose too and lost to those you would expect him to beat. Whether it's temperament or arrogance that is stopping Suzuki from making it to the next level we will have to find out. Tatsumi Fujinami- 13 Points- (6-2-1)- Block Winner- Fujinami won his first G1 block at age 40 proving to the young wippersnappers that he still has it. The most loyal NJPW defender gets his reward for sticking up for the company against the invading forces with a G1 Block victory and will go forward into the final Masakatsu Funaki- 6 Points- (3-6)- The Young trainee of Tanaka and Suzuki proved that he belonged in the conversation for the top prizes in the company with his gritty and strong performances throughout the tournament, whether he has done enough to justify a spot next year in the Climax is a different question though. Genichiro Tenryu- 12 Points- (5-2-2)- If Tenryu had managed to finish off his two time limit draws against Vader and Kenta Kobashi then I would be sat here telling you about G1 Block Winner Genichiro Tenryu. But being unable to finish off two people who had quite average G1’s posed questions about Tenryu. At 44 we don’t know how many more chances he is going to get. So every missed shot is a question mark against his record. Vader- 7 Points- (3-5-1)- A weak showing from the former 3 time IWGP Heavyweight Champion as he continues his record of being underwhelming in the league tournament feature. Although a big victory against IWGP Heavyweight Champion Keiji Mutoh has put his name into contention for a championship match during the Autumn months. Block B Dan Severn- 6 Points-(3-6)- An Improvement on his 1993 campaign but questions will be asked about his performance considering both of his younger training partners in the same block as him outperformed him. Kensuke Sasaki- 10 Points- (5-4)- Sasaki continues his record of only having winning records in the G1 following his 3-2 in 1992 and Injury hiatus in 1993, but is still not been able to make the jump from upper Mid-Card to the Main Event and a block victory Nobuhiko Takada- 6 Points- (2-5-2)- Just like Tenryu in the A Block the biggest flaw of Takada’s performance was draws against Steve Williams and Ken Shamrock. But even with those two draws he still would have had a losing performance Akira Taue- 8 Points- (4-5)- A steady first tournament for Taue as he solidifies himself into the main event singles scene, A lot of chatter surrounding Taue is whether the Holy Demon Army is the right faction for him to break through in considering the level of talent that would be considered ahead of him in the pecking order Steve Williams- 7 Points- (3-5-1)- Like his faction-mate Vader, Williams just can’t momentum going in a tournament fashion. His biggest run came when a WDW from match 4-6 but consistent mistakes cost Dr Death the chance of lifting the hallowed trophy Ken Shamrock- 9 Points- (4-4-1)- Outperforming his mentor in Dan Severn, Ken Shamrock was one of the suprises of the tournament, victories over Misawa, Taue and Williams caught everyone by suprise, and you can imagine if Shamrock gets in again next year then he won’t be taken as lightly Masahiro Chono- 13 Points- (6-2-1)- BLOCK WINNER- The favorite from the beginning had a slow start to the tournament, going 2-2 in his first four matches but in the final 5 the only dropped points he had was a draw with Misawa. Going into the finals with a roll of momentum and a point to prove regarding the IWGP Heavyweight Champion there is only one major thing acting against him. He has never beaten Tatsumi Fujinami in a singles match Steven Regal- 8 Points- (4-5)- Probably the biggest success story of this year's tournament, despite not having a winning record the U-30 Champion won all the matches against people that would be in his title class. Regal has shown that he has a massive future in wrestling, whether that is in NJPW or overseas Mitsuhara Misawa- 12 Points- (5-2-2)- Two draws, once again costing someone the G1 Block victory, but with Misawa its even more agonizingly close as the two people he drew against were Kawada and Block winner, Masahiro Chono- who finished a mere one point ahead of Misawa. If either of those results had been a victory then Misawa would have been champion, being so close however does present the Emerald star as a legitimate challenge to any Heavyweight Champion Toshiaki Kawada- 11 Points- (5-3-1)- But the same could easily be said about Kawada, his only draw against Misawa would also have won him the group if he had been victorious. If anything the two faction leaders taking each other to the limit and refusing to give up due to pride cost them both and their faction the glory. Kawada however unlike Misawa has a pinfall victory over Chono so also presents a massive threat in the future G1 Finals AJPW Triple Crown Champion Stan Hansen made a shock appearance at the G1- Challenging IWGP Heavyweight Champion Keiji Mutoh to an exhibition match at an upcoming Nippon Budokan show. Hansen (despite being the Triple Crown and Tag Team Champion) hasn’t been used by AJPW for over a year, so I bought him in on a handshake short term deal just to run this program Minoru Suzuki & Great Sasuke of Takada-Gun teamed up to beat Shinya Hashimoto and Shoichi Hattori of Seikigun with Sasuke pinning Hattori, leading to Sasuke challenging Hattori for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship G1 Climax Final- Masahiro Chono def. Tatsumi Fujinami Chono wins his 3rd G1 in 4 years and immediately lays out his challenge, whoever is IWGP Champion at the time of the January 4th Tokyo Dome show will be facing Chono, and he hopes it is still Mutoh

I will fully admit, Peria's dynasty on this thread is the entire reason that I started this save, and I did the first 18 months of booking reading through the entire thread, then I realised, wait why don't I just post mine as well

Wrestling Dontaku Important Storyline matches Steven Regal and Dan Severn def. Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko Severn set up an exhibition match with 3 of his best stablemates but also attempting to force Benoit and Malenko to get onto the same page. In the end, Malenko and Benoit started working together well, with great chemistry, only for a miscommunication to cost them, with both blaming the other Takada-gun (Nobuhiko Takada, Manubu Nakanishi & Masato Tanaka) def. The Titans (Kokina Maximus, Nelson Knight (Mabel) & Scott Norton) Having lost their leader Atsushi Onita to AJPW the Titans needed someone to step up and take over as the Ace of the faction, the issue comes that both Kokina and Knight want that role. As former tag team champions and back-to-back Tag league winners they’ve earnt their spot as a faction ace, but after Knight accidently trips Norton causing the loss he concedes and hands the leadership to Kokina IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship- Shoichi Hattori def. Yoshinari Ogawa Hattori once again shocks everyone by going into a title match as an underdog and managing to come out as the champion still. Ogawa, who had never wrestled Hattori before being in a different block had openly admitted that he hadn’t watch any of Block A’s matches except for the Sasuke ones, so the only time he saw Hattori was in his resounding defeat to Great Sasuke. But how long will opponents keep overlooking Hattori IWGP Heavyweight Championship- Keiji Mutoh def. Shinya Hashimoto A match built on respect between two of the three musketeers, and the two who are still in Seikigun. Hashimoto won this opportunity by winning the New Japan Cup. But he was not my originally planned winner. At Battle Formation during a six man tag Masahiro Chono turned on both Mutoh and Hashimoto and was supposed to set himself up to win the New Japan Cup but he also tore his pectoral muscle in that same match. Giving Hashimoto this title shot instead. After the match Chono made his return flanked by his new Faction mates, Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima- stolen from Hiroshi Hase’s faction. So upcoming tour plans is for Chono/Tenzan/Kojima to take on variations of Seiki-Gun plus Hase’s The Cabinet No Big Show during the next tour so straight onto G1 Climax preview ------------------------------------ G1 Climax Preview Block A Keiji Mutoh- IWGP Heavyweight Champion- Seikigun Converted his G1 Victory last year into an IWGP Heavyweight title reign that is still going on, recently been turned on by Masahiro Chono having previously been turned on by Hase during 1992. Forever being turned on the champions biggest worry is that there are multiple people in this block that he has never beaten in singles contests Kokina Maximus- The Titans The newest faction ACE in NJPW having taken over the reins to the titans from Atsushi Onita after his departure to AJPW. Making his G1 Debut but with good experience at winning tournaments as a back-to-back winner of the Super Tag League with Nelson Knight without dropping a single point either year. Looking to make a singles statement Kenta Kobashi- Holy Demon Army The first of the AJPW names on this list. Because All Japan have been stupid and went into massive financial issues. Which led to them refusing to renew many of their top stars. We have bailed out AJPW because I want competition but I’m not just going to give them back their top stars. Kobashi came in and joined up with Kawada, Misawa and Sasaki as they kicked Riki Choshu out of the faction he founded, the Demon’s Triad. With it no longer being a triad, the Holy Demon Army was formed Shinya Hashimoto- Seikigun Also recently been turned on my Masahiro Chono but unlike Mutoh is a lot more trusting of Hase meaning he is willing to work with the Cabinet despite his previous betrayals. Lost out in the semi-finals of both previous G1’s to the eventual winner. Is hoping the 20-Man format works in his favor more. Hiroshi Hase- The Cabinet Started the save as Tag Champ with Mutoh, before turning on him to become an inaugural member of the Demon’s Triad with Choshu and Kawada. They kicked him out in favor of Misawa after he lost to Mutoh at the first Wrestlekingdom, leading to him founding the Cabinet with Akitoshi Saito, Kojima and Tenzan. Tenkoji have recently deserted him to join Chono’s group causing Hase to have to try and make ammends with those he has betrayed in the past Minoru Suzuki- Tanaka-Gun The Herald of Tanaka-Gun. The second in command was sent into New Japan on a recruiting mission to find the toughest SOBs for Tanaka’s faction whilst he was away fighting in MMA. Shortly after Takada came in Suzuki himself went for an MMA fight which he lost so this tournament is the first real time we have both Suzuki and Tanaka on the roster at once Tatsumi Fujinami- Seikigun The Defacto Leader of Seikigun, former IWGP Champion who has spent the last two years floundering in the midcard. Is looking to climb back to the top of the mountain and win his first G1, and prove that despite being 40, he still isn’t declining. If anything like a fine wine he is getting betterl Masakatsu Funaki- Tanaka-Gun Suzuki’s prize recruit for Tanaka-Gun and the only one of our MMA fighters who has actually won a fight. Brings a sense of legitimacy to the roster, and only being 25yrs old has a bright future ahead of him Genichiro Tenryu- Shinrunyagun The leader of the first invasion storyline from our purchase of SWS. Won the IWGP Championship at Battle Formation 1993 and held it all the way to Wrestlekingdom 2. The longest reign of the save so far. His invading faction Shinrunyagun (or Invading Army) as morphed into a more traditional heel faction but the future isn’t looking great as a lot of the faction are failing to live up to their original invading hype Vader- Miracle Violence Connection One of the first factions set up was Vader being joined by Steve Williams, Terry Gordy and Bam Bam Bigelow to found the Miracle Violence Connection, in the first of AJPW’s weird refusals to resign. Vader has always struggled in the tournaments however, never leaving the G1 with a winning record. He is hoping to finally prove that he is still a main eventer Block B Dan Severn- Tekunikarugajin Made his G1 Debut last year in a disastrous performance, since then formed his own training gym with members on the roster often working out there and in return helping Severn when he needs it. Kensuke Sasaki- Holy Demon Army One of the founding members of The Demon’s Triad, and the only one still involved in the factions successor. Missed out on the G1 last year due to injury but is hoping to improve on his middling record from 1992 and to show he isn’t the weak link in his faction Nobuhiko Takada- Takada-Gun The Bringer of Pain, the leader of Takada making his first G1 appearance, the most recent quasi-invasion force to attack NJPW currently in a major feud with the Seikigun main unit and looking to show that shoot style is the way forward Akira Taue- Holy Demon Army The most recent addition to the Holy Demon Army ranks and the completion of the four pillars from heaven who once again wasn’t extended by AJPW, I think they’re trying to go under. Came in shortly after the transition from Triad to Army and is looking to use this tournament to break into the crowded Main event scene after failing to make the quarter finals of the New Japan Cup Steve Williams- Miracle Violence Connection The Original signing from AJPW, a former Two IWGP Tag Team champion with Terry Gordy and the current IWGP Tag Team Champion with Glenn Jacobs, Williams is entering his 3rd G1 which so far have been getting progressivly worse Ken Shamrock- Tekunikarugajin Making his G1 debut, the training partner of Dan Severn is looking to stand out amongst the crowd with the shoot heavy style in the B-Block. If Shamrock can pull together a strong tournament, then his stock could easily rise and he could end up with an invite to one of the actual factions within the company Masahiro Chono- Death Riders The Death Rider, fresh from turning on Keiji Mutoh and Shinya Hashimoto turns to the G1 to fufill his destily, so far Chono has already won the 1991 and 1992 G1 Climax tournaments however he is yet to convert tournament success to championship victory having never held a singles championship in New Japan. And his fellow musketeer Mutoh is the first of the three to hold it, well that just rubs salt in the wounds Steven Regal- Tekunikarugajin Another trainee at Severns Tekunikarugajin gym and the current U-30 openweight champion. Regal has been making the wednesday night tv show his own with constant title defences being broadcasted on the show, but now he is looking to prove that he isn’t just a face for the future. He is a force to be reckoned with now. Mitsuhara Misawa- Holy Demon Army Toshiaki Kawada- Holy Demon Army Two more of the four pillars, and I told you AJPW were being stupid. The two co-leaders of the Holy Demon Army are former tag team champions together and are now looking to get singles success, Kawada won the New Japan Cup in 1993 but Misawa has yet to achieve singles success in Puro.

Best of The Super Juniors Results Block A Shoichi Hattori (IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion) (Regen)- (4-3)- 8 points A positive win record for the champion who is still very inexperienced- losses to the more experienced wrestlers was the plague of Hattori’s first BOSJ run Chris Jericho (3-4)- 6 Points Jericho suprised many in this tournament, picking up a massive win against Tiger Mask III early in the tournament, in the end fatigue kicked in and despite a 2-0 start Chris would fall to a losing record Great Sasuke- (4-2-1)- 9 Points- BLOCK WINNER Sasuke managed to come from behind to pick up a last day victory, however it is one of his losses that tells the biggest story of the tournament, as despite being able to win his group when he went one on one with Hattori it was the champion that still came out on top, will that play on Sasuke’s mind as he goes into the final Tiger Mask III- (4-3)- 8 Points Going into the final night with a .500 record was not what Tiger Mask expected having only been champion less than a month before the tournament started but the flying tiger was already ruled out of contention before the final day, a dissapointing tournament which did have a major possitive as he was able to pin Shoichi Hattori getting revenge for the rookies shock title victory. El Samurai- (3-4)- 6 Points The best thing that could be said about Samurai’s bosj performance was that it was better than last years, victories over Hattori, Jericho and Guerrero proved fruitful but silly mistakes in matches cost the Samurai the chance to break out of his tag team partners shadow Tanaka Minoru (3-3-1) - 7 Points The exact .500 record, Tanaka was already eliminated by the final night but still played a pivotal role in deciding the winner of block A. The Draw with Sasuke and victory over Tiger Mask would be the biggest moments usually... except Shinjiro Otani- (4-3)- 8 Points The out and out favorite going into the final night, having already made it to 8 points. The only person standing in his way, Tanaka Minoru. Who, With the assistance of Takada-gun beat down Otani before his final match, pinning him in the middle of the ring in a matter of seconds. Outside of Kayfabe, this will write Otani of screen as he has been picked up by AJPW, but I do plan on finishing this story Eddie Guerrero- (2-5)- 4 Points The weakest performance in the A Block but still had a massively memorable moment when he made Tiger Mask III pass out to the Gory Special, there is a lot of potential in Guerrero, but he isn’t there yet. Block B Art Barr- (3-3-1)- 7 Points A strong debut singles showing for Barr with a .500 record showing how much potential he has, although it could be said that he wasn’t able to beat any of the expected big hitters in the tournament. So maybe Barr is just in the middle of the pack Black Tiger III- (2-5)- 4 Points The weakest performance in the B Block with only victories against Benoit and Ogawa, in the mirror opposite of Barr, Tiger lost heavily to the lower ranked names in the block including a 4 minute defeat to Hayabusa, which somehow wasn’t the most embarrasing defeat in the block Chris Benoit- (3-3-1)- 7 Points Another .500 record as Benoit was considered an early favorite after a strong start, however, slip ups against Black Tiger and a tedious time limit draw against Malenko ended up costing him a second consecutive finals Dean Malenko- (2-3-2)- 6 Points Dean Malenko’s biggest issue this tournament was finishing his opponents off in time. Dean showed how good his stamina was with only one match going less than 25 minutes and two of them going the full 30 minutes. Draws against Benoit and Ogawa cost him what could have been a group victory El Hijo Del Santo- (4-3)- 8 Points The son of an icon had a strong debut performance, picking up victories over Benoit and Ogawa to highlight a strong cameo performance from the ULL member Hayabusa- (3-3-1)- 7 Points Hayabusa shocked everyone in round one by picking up a shocking pinfall victory over Jushin Thunder Liger, this momentum and everyone underestimating him led to him getting a .500 rating with the only losses coming from the more technical of the high flyers, using the combination of the two to target Hayabusa’s surgically repared neck Jushin Thunder Liger- (4-3)- 8 Points We were almost telling a very different story about Jushin Thunder Liger, who nearly half way through the tournament was rock bottom of his league. Losing to Hayabusa, Ogawa and Benoit in near half an hour classics. However the fear of having a losing record for the first time ever seemed to trigger something in liger cause he the went and beat Art Barr in less than 2 minutes. Dominating all the rest of his matches Liger’s first 3 losses too over an hour, his remaining four victories took less than 15 minutes Yoshinari Ogawa- (4-2-1)- 9 Points- BLOCK WINNER Capitalising on Liger’s misfortune in this block was Ogawa who managed to string together constant positive results throughout the entire tournament, the only losses came to Black Tiger and Santo. Although the biggest question mark around Ogawa coming out of the tournament is with his stamina, with none of his matching going about 15 minutes, win or lose. ------------------------------- Finals Yoshinari Ogawa proved that his stamina was not an issue beating Great Sasuke to ensure a title shot at Shoichi Hattori at Wrestling Dontaku and becoming the 5th Best of the Super Juniors, the first to not graduate from the NJPW Dojo

NJPW 1992-1994 Best of The Super Juniors Preview- 1st Time Sharing this save so will answer any questions Previous 2 tournaments have been 2 groups of 4 Block A Shoichi Hattori (IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion) (Regen) The nephew of legendary referee Tiger Hattori (he had the same name I had to add it in) recently came back from an excursion in Europe for CWA shockingly beating Tiger Mask III for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight championship. As part of Seikigun he is a good guy, but management have ruled that he is not allowed to be in any matches refereed by Hattori Chris Jericho Making a Cameo appearance from our partnership with the West Four Wrestling Alliance, Chris Jericho has slimmed down to Junior for this tournament and is hoping that his lack of Tournament conditioning doesn’t hinder him in his NJPW debut Great Sasuke Made his NJPW debut last year in the BOSJ ending with a 2-1 record in his group losing out on a spot in the finals due to a final day loss to Jushin Thunder Liger, showing great promise he was recruited to join Nobuhiko Takada’s Takada-gun and hopes that the shoot-style training of that faction will help him get across the finish-line this year after a brief Junior and U-30 Openweight title reign towards the end of last year Tiger Mask III The name everyone expected to be top of group A as champion shockingly lost to Shoichi Hattori at the Battle Formation show. After failing to make the cut for the 8 tournament spots last year Koji Kanemoto took some time to look internally and ended up donning the Tiger Mask as its 3rd iteration. This led to him winning the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlekingdom II (I like the name, I bought it in early) El Samurai El Samurai has been a tale of two years in regards to the BOSJ- in 1992 he won his group ahead of Jushin Thunder Liger with a perfect 3-0 record, however in the year that followed he was only able to pick up a singlular point in a draw with Yoshinari Ogawa. Samurai is hoping to go one step further than his 1992 performance and win the entire tournament Tanaka Minoru Great Sasuke’s tag team partner in Tanaka-Gun was bought up alongside Shinjiro Otani as graduates from excursion to Mexico, before turning on Otani and taking the Tanaka-gun shirt that Otani had just refused seconds before. Had name flipped to avoid similarities with faction mate Minoru Suzuki- will eventually return to right way round. Making BOSJ debut Shinjiro Otani Big Rival to Tanaka Minoru, stuck out with Seikigun despite offers from multiple factions to join them, often tag team partner of Akira Nogami, making BOSJ debut Eddie Guerrero Debuted in NJPW as part of a luchador invasion storyline that spanned the tail end of 1993 as a tag team with Art Barr, looking to make a splash as a singles competitor during his debut tournament, but expected to be the wooden spoon, but with expectations for him so low, surely, he can only exceed them Block B Art Barr Eddie Guerrero’s tag team partner and the half that is connecting more with the Japanese crowds since the end of the University of Lucha Libre storyline. Known as a tag team guy but not able to fight with the heavyweights enough to go for the titles, is hoping this tournament can mark his arrival as a singles talent Black Tiger III Bought in to be the foil to Tiger Mask III, briefly held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship before losing it to the Tiger Mask. Before he donned the mask, he was Silver King, and took part in the 1993 tournament finishing with a losing 1-2 record. He hopes the new character is more successful Chris Benoit Tag Team partner of Flying Scorpio has been in both BOSJ tournaments so far, finish both with a 2-1 record which in 1993 was enough to win his block, losing to Jushin Thunder Liger in the finals, Benoit is hoping this new expanded tournament gives him more chances to show himself off as a singles competitor and repeat his fortunes from last year Dean Malenko With his brother the forever tag team rivals of Benoit and Scorpio, post Wrestlekingdom got invited into Dan Severns Tekunikarugjin stable by Benoit but has made very clear that he still doesn’t trust them. Made BOSJ debut last year finishing with a 2-1 record losing out to Benoit on head to head. El Hijo Del Santo The son of the legendary El Santo led the University of Lucha Libre invasion of the junior division in late 1993 losing to Jushin Thunder Liger at Wrestlekingdom to end the feud. Went back to Mexico following the Tokyo Dome show but has come in to attempt to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship which he was never given a shot at in his first run- Debut Hayabusa FMW went under and was merged with SWS to form Pro Wrestling WAR as a Japanese developmental agency for NJPW, one of the biggest acquisitions was the contract of Eiji Ezaki, who unfortunately in the dying days of FMW Herniated his Spinal Cord. Made his return in late 1993 in a feud with Great Sasuke, winning the U-30 Openweight Championship in his first singles match for NJPW at Wrestlekingdom. Has since lost the Openweight to Steven Regal but is looking to claim the Junior title Jushin Thunder Liger The Ace of the Junior Heavyweight Division, Held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title for a full year from Tokyo Dome 92- Wrestlekingdom 1 in 1993 and again after winning the Best Of the Super Juniors last year from Dontaku to the G1 Finals. Is looking to repeat his victory this year and regain the Junior Heavyweight Championship that feels at home around his waist Yoshinari Ogawa AJPW have been weird with their signings, but I’ll get into that more when I talk about our heavyweight tournaments but one of the many names, they let expire was Ogawa who I happily scooped up. His BOSJ debut last year was a disaster for him, but he was in a group with Liger, Sasuke and Samurai, only picking up a singular point in a draw with Samurai

February Week 2 Journal Thursday 11th -Last night RINGS sold out Korakeun Hall for their BATTLE DIMENSIONS show- Main Evented by Akira Maeda defeating Yoji Anjo Friday 12th -Antonio has bought me two Dutch trainees to go through the Dojo- Dick Vrij and Hans Nijman- Both of whom have had Mixed Martial Arts fights and some wrestling matches on the European indies and for RINGS. Antonio does seem to like his MMA guys. Saturday 13th Wellington Wilkins Jr, a Junior Heavyweight from Canada has been bought in on a handshake deal to help boost the undercard of our Juniors division Sunday 14th We drew a Sold out 16,800 into the Nippon Budokan last night also getting over half a million viewers on TV Asahi. So the anniversary show was a big success PWFG also had a big show last night with their Roar of The Lion Kings show- headlined by Akira Maeda beating Dean Malenko selling over 1000 seats in the Club Citta

Prediction results @Scottie- 8/9 @Old School Fan - 6/9

New Japan Pro Wrestling Presents The 20th Anniversary Special Nippon Budokan- Sunday 14th February 1992 Sold Out Budokan!! Masa Saito vs Osamu Kido vs I got to wrestle in the opener as part of the Old Man Contingency to get the crowd ready for the show ahead against good friend of mine Osamu Kido. We wrestled a very technical match before I made him submit in my poison lock in about 6 minutes (56) Brad Armstrong & Brad Rheingans vs Norio Honaga & Super Strong Machine vs Super Strong Machine pinned Brad Armstrong with the Devil Windmill Suplex (57) Black Cat, Eddie Guerrero & Pegasus Kid vs Great Sasuke, Koji Kanemoto & Ultimo Dragon vs Ultimo Dragon pinned Pegasus Kid with an Moonsault (64) The Headhunters vs Kensuke Sasaki & Shinya Hashimoto vs One of the Headhunters (They’re twins cut me some slack) pinned Kensuke Sasaki with the Diving Leg Drop- Vader interfered (71) IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Jushin Thunder Liger (C) vs Hiro Saito vs Jushin Thunder Liger hit the shooting star press on Saito to make his first defence of his title (77) The Blue Bloods vs Dick Vrij & Hans Nijman vs Steven Regal taps out Dick Vrij with the Regal Stretch (35) BBD (Vader, Bigelow & Kokina) vs Bad News Allen, Chris Jericho & Lance Storm vs Kokina squashed Lance Storm with a Sitout Bomb from the Middle Rope (66) IWGP Tag Team Championships Keiji Mutoh & Hiroshi Hase (C) vs Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami vs Keiji Mutoh pinned Tatsumi Fujinami with the Moonsault to make the 7th defence of his and Hase’s tag team championships (78) Main Event- Special Singles Match Antonio Inoki vs Masahiro Chono vs Masahiro Chono defeated the Founder of NJPW hitting the Kenka kick for the victory (76) Overall Rating (75) - I've tried deleting this picture 3 times already so I'm just gonna live with it... and so can you

Prediction Code Masa Saito vs Osamu Kido Brad Armstrong & Brad Rheingans vs Norio Honaga & Super Strong Machine Black Cat, Eddie Guerrero & Pegasus Kid vs Great Sasuke, Koji Kanemoto & Ultimo Dragon The Headhunters vs Kensuke Sasaki & Shinya Hashimoto Jushin Thunder Liger (C) vs Hiro Saito The Blue Bloods vs Debuting Gajin Young Lions BBD (Vader, Bigelow & Kokina) vs Bad News Allen, Chris Jericho & Lance Storm Keiji Mutoh & Hiroshi Hase (C) vs Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami Antonio Inoki vs Masahiro Chono

bNew Japan Pro Wrestling Presents The 20th Anniversary Special Nippon Budokan- Sunday 14th February 1992 Masa Saito vs Osamu Kido vs Brad Armstrong & Brad Rheingans vs Norio Honaga & Super Strong Machine vs Black Cat, Eddie Guerrero & Pegasus Kid vs Great Sasuke, Koji Kanemoto & Ultimo Dragon vs The Headhunters vs Kensuke Sasaki & Shinya Hashimoto vs IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Jushin Thunder Liger (C) vs Hiro Saito vs The Blue Bloods vs Debuting Gajin Young Lions vs ??? BBD (Vader, Bigelow & Kokina) vs Bad News Allen, Chris Jericho & Lance Storm vs IWGP Tag Team Championships Keiji Mutoh & Hiroshi Hase (C) vs Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami vs Main Event- Special Singles Match Antonio Inoki vs Masahiro Chono vs

February Week 2 Tour results NJPW Fighting Spirit Night 8- Tuesday 9th February 1992 Koji Kanemoto beats The Great Sasuke- 54 BBD (Vader & Bam Bam Bigelow) beat The Blue Bloods- 69 The New Blood (Sasaki, Chono, Hashimoto, Mutoh & Hase) beat Bad News Allen, Chris Jericho, Lance Storm, Flying Scorpio & Brad Armstrong- 64 Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu beat Animal Hamaguchi, Kuniaki Kobayashi & Takashi Iizuka- 68 Important Post Show Press Conference Comments Bad News Allen chats to his two protégé's and reasurres them that he will get them all the opportunities he can, and they will go up against people much bigger than them and they will lose to people much better than them, but they are still very young and will grow into amazing talent Riki Choshu and Tatsumi Fujinami issues a challenge for the IWGP Tag Team Championships- Mutoh and Hase accept Masahiro Chono lays out the challenge to Antonio Inoki who storms into the press conference and accepts for the Main Event of the Anniversary show of the company that he built

February Week 1 Journal Entries Tuesday 2nd February 1992 After his match last night El Samurai came to the back complaining about Chronic Lower Back Pain and after looking it through with a medical it was decided he would be unable to wrestle for the next 35 days Sunday 7th February 1992 So a few of my gajin workers make sure to keep me updated on the going ons of american wrestling, especially if it involves people who have toured Japan in the past, but I'm not really sure if today's gossip was really relevant for me to hear, Ted Dibiase has gotten a divorce.

NJPW Fighting Spirit Night 4- Monday 1st February 1992 Ultimo Dragon beats Akira Nogami- 61 Vader beats Lex Luger- 66 The Headhunters beat The Blue Bloods- 58 El Samurai beats Norio Honaga- 42 Akitoshi Saito & Masa Saito beat Brad Armstrong & Brad Rheingans- 51 Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami vs Masahiro Chono & Shinya Hashimoto ended in a time limit draw Important Post Show Press Conference Comments Keiji Mutoh and Hiroshi Hase join the conference of Masahiro Chono & Shinya Hashimoto and together with Kensuke Sasaski, The New Blood is formed Inoki and Fujinami offer Choshu support amongst rivals with the young guard all teaming up to go after him NJPW Fighting Spirit Night 5- Tuesday 2nd February 1992 Shiro Koshinaka beats Scott Norton- 49 Pegasus Kid beats Eddie Guerrero- 42 Flying Scorpio beats Great Sasuke- 40 Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami beat Raging Staff (Hiro Saito, Super Strong Machine & Tatsutoshi Goto)- 66 Kokina Maximus, Vader, Bam Bam Bigelow & The Headhunters beat Bad News Allen, Chris Jericho, David Taylor, Lance Storm and Steven Regal- 63 The New Blood (Chono, Hashimoto, Sasaki, Mutoh & Hase) beat Osamu Kido, Satoshi Kojima, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Michiyoshi Ohaha & Brad Armstrong- 64 Important Post Show Press Conference Comments Vader announces the formation of his own stable- Bigelow, Kokina and The Headhunters- Together they are BIG BAD AND DANGEROUS NJPW Fighting Spirit Night 6- Thursday 4th February 1992 Blond Outlaws beat Osamu Nishimura and Michiyoshi Ohara- 50 Jushin Thunder Liger, Ultimo Dragon & Great Sasuke beat Flying Scorpio, Brad Armstrong & Brad Rheingans- 65 Post Match Hiro Saito came out after the match as Liger hadn’t responded to his challenge- Liger accepts but warns Saito that he will need to give over 100% to even get close to being as good as Liger on his worst day The Headhunters beat The Blue Bloods 57 The New Blood (Sasaki, Mutoh & Hashimoto) beats Bad News Allen, Chris Jericho & Lance Storm- 61 Important Post Show Press Conference Comments Bad News Allen promises that he will be able to deliver Storm and Jericho to much higher heights than he ever achieved in his career NJPW Fighting Spirit Night 7- Friday 5th February 1992 Kokina Maximus & Bam Bam Bigelow beat Brad Armstong and Brad Rheingans- 55 Big Van Vader beats Tony Halme- 58 Koji Kanemoto, Eddie Guerrero & Pegasus Kid beat Bad News Allen, Chris Jericho & Lance Storm- 54 Tatsumi Fujinami & Jushin Thunder Liger beat Blond Outlaws- 55 Important Post Show Press Conference Comments Tatsumi Fujinami announces he will be stepping down as Ace of Dragon Bombers and handing the reigns over to Jushin Thunder Liger who can rebuild the faction in his own image. He is doing this to focus on his new alliance forming with Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu

January Week 4 Journal Entries Wednesday 24th January 1992 El Gigante and Arn Anderson finished up their last dates with the company last night, recorded for broadcast on WCW Syndication Television Thursday 25th January 1992 We have made it official today that the Greatest 18 Championship has been retired with only one champion who was awarded the belt and only 2 defences pre unification, I doubt it will be a championship that lives on in the memory of fans Friday 26th January 1992 We can confim today that the location and time of our 20th Anniversary Show will be on the 14th of February and will be in the legendary Nippon Budokan

NJPW Fighting Spirit Night 1- Tuesday 23rd January Kensuke Sasaki & Shinya Hashimoto beat Akira Nogami & Eddie Guerrero- 65 Kokina Maximus, Bam Bam Bigelow & Vader beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Osamu Kido & Kim Duk- 61 Ultimo Dragon & Great Sasuke beat Dave Taylor & Steven Regal- 42 The Headhunters beat Arn Anderson & El Gigante- 49 Bad News Allen, Chris Jericho & Lance Storm beat Osamu Nishimura, Michiyoshi Ohara & Satoshi Kojima- 45 El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger beat Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga- 61 Important Post Show Press Conference Comments Hashimoto talks about respect for Chono and offers him a parley to discuss matters going forward NJPW Fighting Spirit Night 2- Wednesday 24th January Scott Norton beats Satoshi Kojima- 44 Akira Nogami beats Flying Scorpio- 55 Hiro Saito beats Black Cat- 46 Bad News Allen & Chris Jericho beats Osamu Kido & Michiyoshi Ohara- 46 Masahiro Chono beats Brad Rheingans- 57 Tatsumi Fujinami & Vader beat The Headhunters- 72 Important Post Show Press Conference Comments Hiro Saito challenges Jushin Thunder Liger for a Junior Heavyweight title shot at the Anniversary Show Vader talks up the Headhunters as formidable big guys Chono says despite his better instincts he agrees to Parley with Hashimoto after their tag match against each other tomorow NJPW Fighting Spirit Night 3- Thursday 25th January Tatsumi Fujinami beats Akitoshi Saito- 58 Big Van Vader beats Lance Storm- 70 El Samurai & Jushin Thunder Liger beat Ultimo Dragon & Great Sasuke- 71 Blond Outlaws (Hiro Saito & Noria Honaga) beat The Blue Bloods (David Taylor & Steven Regal)- 52 Shinya Hashimoto & Kensuke Sasaki beat Antonio Inoki & Masahiro Chono- 72 Important Post Show Press Conference Comments Hashimoto and Chono have their parley with Kensuke Sasaki at the side, they talk about teaming together to attempt to hoist the IWGP Heavyweight Championship away from the old guard and offer the olive branch out to IWGP Tag Team Champions Keiji Mutoh and Hiroshi Hase to join them and become Atarashī chi (The New Blood) that the company needs

Matt Riddle vs Bryan Keith Jacob Fatu vs Timothy Thatcher Mustafa Ali vs Shawn Spears Nic Nemeth vs Chris Hero Mercedes Mone vs Megan Bayne Kenzie Paige vs Tenille Dashwood The Von Erichs vs Violence is Forever HEAVY METAL MAYHEM vs MxM

January 5th, 1992 All of the WCW Loanee’s have gone back to the United States after last night show Preliminary numbers from TV Ashai have come in and they are happy with the viewing figures for the show in domestic markets, over 1million viewers confirmed already. We will have to wait to find out how the WCW Saturday Night broadcasts with the two matches performs We also ran three dark matches before the big tokyo dome show to give some young lions and trialists some experience Flying Scorpio beat Pegasus Kid- 50 Hiroshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima beat Osamu Nishimura & Michiyoshi Ohara- 42 Eddie Guerrero beat Bill Kazmaier- 41 January 6th, 1992 Multiple handshake signings have been made to boost certain divisions Yoshihiro Asai has been bought in from CMLL and will be using his Mexican gimmick of Masked Luchador Ultimo Dragon Rodney Anoaʻi has been bought in, having wrestled for us during the last tag league. But this contract will have a more consistent presence than his previous touring contracts- He will work as Kokina Maximus Twins- Manuel and Victor Santiago have been signed after impressing me during their tour for W*ING during the past 12 months- They will work as Headhunters A & B Masanori Murakawa has been signed to boost the junior heavyweight division after impressing in his run for ULL working for Gran Hamada, he will be working with the gimmick he pitched to me called “The Great Sasuke” Janurary 7th, 1992 We attempted to sign Satoru Sayama to a contract however he has signed a contract with our big rivals AJPW The Takano brothers and Naoki Sano have also decided to sign elsewhere, with all signing extensions for Tenryu’s Super World Of Sports January 10th, 1992 Keiji Mutoh made his last contracted appearance for WCW last night teaming with Jushin Thunder Liger & The Steiner brothers defeating Cactus Jack & The Fabulous Freebirds January 14th, 1992 The Syndicated Episode of Saturday Night Featuring the three taped matches from our Tokyo Dome show getting a .57 rating on TBS January 15th, 1992 Former IWGP Heavyweight Champion Salman Hashimikov has made the jump over the All Japan Pro Wrestling, whist we had had discussions we were never able to come to terms on a workable creative to bring him back into the company, so I wish him the best for his career over there Janurary 16th, 1992 Junji Hirata and Tatsutoshi Goto have agreed to work for shoot wrestling company Pro Wrestling Fujiwari Gumi as secondary contracts, they will be paid per appearance but have confirmed to be that they will honor NJPW dates above PWFG shows, although I will be annoyed if they get injured on one of their shows January 22st, 1992 WWF held their Royal Rumble last night with Ric Flair winning the titular match CMLL also made mass releases of El Supremo, Ponzana, El Hijo Del Gladiador, Masakre, Águilla Solitaria, Kato Kung Lee, Universo 2000, Misterioso, Bestia Salvaje, Pierroth Jr, Negro Casas, Sangre Chicana, Rayo Del Jalisco Jr, Blue Demon Jr and our recent signing Ultimo Dragon January 23rd, 1992 Tonight is our first tour show of the year in the Nagoya Congress Center Results for the first week of the tour will be posted shortly

Prediction Scores @Old School Fan 5/10

Super Warriors In The Tokyo Dome Bad News Allen vs Kuniaki Kobayashi vs Your Opening Match of the evening in a Sold-Out Tokyo Dome sees one of my own trainees Kuniaki Kobayashi take on Bad News Allen. Kuniaki whilst having moved up to the heavyweight division is still much smaller than Allen. On the other hand however, Kuniaki is over 10 years younger than his larger opponent and is able to use this to his advantage, moving out of the way of a splash into the corner and swiping the legs before running the ropes and hitting a 3 consecutive sliding kicks into the corner, pinning Allen in 5 minutes 50 Post match, Allen is taken down to the back by Young Lions but starts shouting into the microphone that he isn’t finished yet and has a plan to make it back to the top. Akira Nogami vs Koji Kanemoto vs In a match between two of our most promising Junior Heavyweight, who both could easily win the big title at some point in the next few years Akira Nogami. The match mostly stays technical, and strike based with very little high-flying offence. Nogami stays on the top for most of the match and looks to be setting up for the Growing Up before Kanemoto reverses it into the Koji Clutch. Nogami is able to make it to the ropes before Kanemoto stamps onto Nogami’s back turning him over, climbing up the ropes and hitting his big moonsault for the three count in just under 15 minutes 55 The Rhodes (Dusty & Dustin) vs Kensuke Sasaki & Scott Norton vs Dusty and Dustin coming in from loan from WCW in a match that is planned to be pre-taped to air on one of WCW Syndicated Shows over the next few weeks. Dusty gets in all his major iconic spots but he is past his prime at this point so allows his son to do most of the heavy lifting. For the NJPW representative team Kensuke Sasaki makes a point of barely tagging in Scott Norton only allowing Norton into the ring when he tags himself in. Norton runs wild on the younger Rhodes, before going into the corner to get ready to hit the lariat, only for Sasuke to tag himself back in. Hit a lariat himself and the Northern Lights Bomb for the 3 count in 14:18 49 Special Singles Match (30 Minute Time Limit) Masahiro Chono vs Shinya Hashimoto vs Two of the brightest young stars in the company, two of the trio of Dojo graduates refered to as the Three Musketeers go head-to-head. The match starts a lot slower than the previous matches which straight away gives the audience the impression that this would go longer. Some of the big spots include Chono hitting a Yakuza kick only for Hashimoto being too close to the ropes and able to grab them. A Vertical Drop Brainbreaker onto Chono which Hashimoto isn’t able to make it back to his feet quick enough to get a cover allowing Chono to kick out. The finish comes when Chono takes Hashimoto up to the top rope looking to hit a big backdrop which Hashimoto counters with a solid elbow strike which knocks Chono out. But just as Hashimoto is about to make the cover the 30 Minute time limit runs out causing a draw. 83 Bam Bam Bigelow & Vader vs Chris Jericho & Lance Storm vs Big vs Small once again as the team of Bam Bam Bigelow and Big Van Vader takes on new signings Chris Jericho and Lance Storm- as part of our negotiations with WCWA to bring the youngsters in we were able to build an angle on their TV with Bigelow who also works for that company getting into fights with Bad News Allen, who Jericho and Storm came out to save causing Jericho to challenge Bigelow to find a partner to face them. Vader came out at the press conference to become Bigelow’s partner naming their team Big, Bad and Dangerous. In the end it is the size which comes through as Vader and Bigelow hit a consecutive moonsault and Vader Bomb onto Storm, flattening him into the mat in just 7 minutes 59 Dragon Bombers (Black Cat, El Samurai & Takashi Iizuka) vs Raging Staff (Hiro Saito, Super Strong Machine & Tatsutoshi Goto) vs Six Man action in suplimentary action to the Junior Heavyweight Championship match later tonight as Jushin Thunder Liger’s faction-mates Black Cat, El Samurai and Takashi Iizuka takes on Noria Honaga’s Raging Staff faction-mates, Hiro Saito, Super Strong Machine & Tatsutoshi Goto. Liger’s team picks up the win when El Samurai hits a tope suicida to take out Goto, Takashi Iizuka locks Super Strong Machine into a sleeper hold leaving Black Cat to hit a German Suplex on Hiro Saito for the three count in 8 minutes IWGP Tag Team Championships (60 Minute Time Limit) Keiji Mutoh & Hiroshi Hase (C) vs David Taylor & Steven Regal vs Tag Team Championships on the line as Keiji Mutoh and Hiroshi Hase take on the British team of David Taylor and the “Lord” Steven Regal. The match was set up during the press conference on the 3rd of January where Keiji Mutoh remarked that over their numerous defences they had already beaten most of the legitimate teams in NJPW, as I mentioned in my previous journal entry earlier that day, I had made my acquisitions to boost that exact division. So out came The Blue Bloods to issue the challenge to get onto the Tokyo Dome Show. The British style merges brilliantly with the striking of Mutoh and Hase as both teams get their licks into each other. Even the British guys start getting stiffer with their strikes matching the intensity of the match. In the end Hiroshi Hase hits a Dragon Suplex onto David Taylor allowing Keiji Mutoh to hit the moonsault for the 3 count after a 20 minute showcase IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (60 Minute Time Limit) Norio Honaga (C) vs Jushin Thunder Liger vs Junior Heavyweight championship on the line as Noria Honaga and Jushin Thunder Liger show off the best of The Junior Division in NJPW, a division that we have a major lead over our main rivals AJPW. Honaga and Liger go full out from the start with Liger attempting to keep the speed high and Honaga attempting to ground the masked superstar with counter-based wrestling. Jushin Liger however hits a big jumping spin kick to Noria’s gut, hoisting him up for brainbuster, leaps up onto the turnbuckle to hit his iconic shooting star press to win in just over 12 minutes 74 Special Tag Team Match (60 Minute Time Limit) Antonio Inoki & Sting vs The Steiner Brothers vs In our second match taped for WCW Syndication Television, NJPW founder Antonio Inoki teams with the face of WCW Sting to take on a team with experience on both sides of the pond, The Steiner Brothers In a competitive match between the three American workers, Inoki working a limited style due to his advanced age, we see some big moves with Scott Steiner busting out a frankensteiner, Sting going for a dive off the apron to the ring side area. But the climax of the match comes when The Steiners are working over Sting to build to an Inoki hot tag. Inoki comes in and runs wild for a few minutes with strikes and throws. Eventually hitting the Enziguri onto Rick Steiner for the victory in 22 minutes 76 MAIN EVENT- Unification Match IWGP Heavyweight & Greatest 18 Club Championships Tatsumi Fujinami (IWGP) vs Riki Choshu (G18) vs The MAIN EVENT of the evening in a title unification match between IWGP Heavyweight Champion “The Dragon of The Flame” Tatsumi Fujinami of The Dragon Bombers and Greatest 18 Champion “The Revolution Warrior” Riki Choshu of the Main Unit The two champions go back and forth in a traditional early nineties style main event, build heavily on technical attributes and strikes rather than the death defying suplexes that our rivals over in AJPW would be using. Also as this was one of the biggest shows we could put on, it meant that Choshu was actually not being as lazy as we know he can be. Although in traditional Choshu fashion he attempted to get the scorpion lock on but wasn’t able to do it fully so he ended up just hitting the lariat for the victory in 21 minutes 74 Tokyo Dome Sell Out- 42,000 Overall Rating- 75