White Canvas Grappling ~ The Comeback [CVerse]

[Scottie]

『WCG Explosion In Sapporo Night 1』 – February 6th, 2021
Sapporo Baseball Stadium (Sapporo, Hokkaido) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

1. Reiwa Ishingun (Kiyotaka, Kado Kamisaka, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita) vs. Naozane Goto, Shogun Watoga, Shiba Mizoguchi & Morimasa Kato
2. REAL BLOOD (Jinzaburo Kakinomoto, Tsuneyo Yanagimoto, SUKI & Hitomaro Suzuki) vs. Musashi, Jap. Phoenix, Findlay O'Farraday & Brandon Smith
3. Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi) & El Mítico Jr. vs. Billy Robinson & Gaijin Wrecking Crew (Ray Snow & Nigel Svensson)
4. xDREAM (KATOU, Motoyuki Miyake & Razan Okamoto) vs. Danny Cavanagh, Hirokichi Yoemon & Bunrakuken Torii
5. GCG World Heavyweight Championship: Tadakuni Toshusai vs. Washi Heat [1st Defense]
6. WCG US Heavyweight Championship: Yasunobu Masuno vs. Pavel Vanzycha [1st Defense]
7. RISE Openweight Championship: Koshiro Ino vs. Zeshin Makioka [1st Defense]
8. WCG Intercontinental Championship: Greg Gauge vs. Ieyoshi Shimakage [4th Defense]

『WCG Explosion In Sapporo Night 2』 – February 7th, 2021
Sapporo Baseball Stadium (Sapporo, Hokkaido) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

1. Burning Hazard (Taheiji Konoe, Zeshin Makioka & Heihachiro Sakai) vs. Naozane Goto, Tadakuni Toshusai & Koshiro Ino
2. Rogue Squad (Logan Diaz, Ernest Youngman & Greg Gauge) vs. Findlay O'Farraday, Brandon Smith & Yasunobu Masuno
3. REAL BLOOD (Yuta Isono, SUKI & Hitomaro Suzuki) vs. Danny Cavangh, Washi Heat & Morimasa Kato
4. xDREAM (Tanyu Toshusai, KATOU & Razan Okamoto) vs. Reiwa Ishingun (Kado Kamisaka, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita)
5. WCG Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: The Revengers (Musashi & Jap. Phoenix) vs. ?? [1st Defense]
6. WCG Junior Heavyweight Championship: El Mítico Jr. vs. Billy Robinson [1st Defense]
7. WCG World Tag Team Championship: Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi) vs. Gaijin Wrecking Crew (Ray Snow & Nigel Svensson) [1st Defense]
8. WCG World Heavyweight Championship: Bunrakuken Torii vs. Motoyuki Miyake [2nd Defense]

[kinealg]

Hi!

Just a quick shout out to say I'm loving the diary. I'm a massive Gauge fan so I'm hoping he goes on to stay Intercontinental Champion for a long time!

I particularly like the layout you have going on - so much so that's it's inspired me for what I want mine to look like.

Hope you don't mind me asking though - how do you manage to get the coloured background for the results? I assumed it was such sort of HTML code but I've tried for ages yet can't seem to figure it out! 😂

[CGN91]

@kinealg Hey thank you for the compliment. Appreciate it! Yea it's a HTML code thing, like the whole layout. Just sent me a PM if you need help

[kinealg]

@CGN91 Of course, I'm looking forward to the next show!

 

I did try sending a PM btw but it's telling me you don't receive messages for some reason. 😅

[CGN91]

『Road To EXPLOSION - Tour Recap』

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The first tour of the year is traditionally the „Road To EXPLOSION“ - the only tour in the year that will be headlined by two tour ending shows. Other than in the previous years we kicked-off the tour with „RISE.28“ at the Saitama Sports Field and end the tour with „RISE.29“ at the Kyoto Arena.

The theme of RISE.28 was „White Canvas versus Pride Glory“ as four young boys of the Osaka based promotion head to Saitama to test out WCG's young guns. The home turf advantage was too much for the PGHW young boys as every match went positive for the WCG boys. It seems like the theme of the show was pretty intriguing for the subscriber of WCG Global as their double the numbers of viewer's to the last show of RISE.

The first „Road To“ show was held at the Kyoto Arena in downtown Kyoto where we saw another breakout performance by young boy Yutaka Ogata who had joined WCG after the demise of Black Canvas Grappling. Ogata teamed up with Tadakuni Toshusai and Koshiro Ino who took on the Burning Hazard trio of Zeshin Makioka, Heihachiro Sakai and Taheiji Konoe. Althought Ogata got pinned by Makioka the fans applauded Kansai native for his performance.

The most eyeballs were definitely on WCG World Heavyweight Champion Bunrakuken Torii and xDREAM's Motoyuki Miyake squaring off each and every night of the tour. Althought Miyake was on the edge of getting a pinfall victory over the champion it wasn't meant to be as Torii was too smart, too fast or too strong for the young man. Nevertheless Miyake's progress from being just a young guy to an Intercontinental Champion and now a World title contender is truly astonishing.

As previously announced the new Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, Musashi and Japanese Phoenix, wanted to defend the titles in Sapporo and the challengers solidify themselves over the tour with a pinfall victory over Musashi. REAL BLOOD's newest acquisition and former EXODUS Champion Tsuneyo Yanagimoto put the Champion down and announced the challenge for the tag straps. Yanagimoto will face The Revengers alongside young Jinzaburo Kakinomoto.

The double header will be shown live on WCG Global, Aichi and Emperor Choice!

[Scottie]

Nice tour! Excited to see how Explosion turns out

[kinealg]

I'm not overly familiar with the japanese scene (especially in CV) so let's see how these go 😅

 

『WCG Explosion In Sapporo Night 1』 – February 6th, 2021
Sapporo Baseball Stadium (Sapporo, Hokkaido) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

1. Reiwa Ishingun (Kiyotaka, Kado Kamisaka, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita) vs. Naozane Goto, Shogun Watoga, Shiba Mizoguchi & Morimasa Kato
2. REAL BLOOD (Jinzaburo Kakinomoto, Tsuneyo Yanagimoto, SUKI & Hitomaro Suzuki) vs. Musashi, Jap. Phoenix, Findlay O'Farraday & Brandon Smith
3.Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi) & El Mítico Jr. vs. Billy Robinson & Gaijin Wrecking Crew (Ray Snow & Nigel Svensson)
4. xDREAM (KATOU, Motoyuki Miyake & Razan Okamoto) vs. Danny Cavanagh, Hirokichi Yoemon & Bunrakuken Torii
5. GCG World Heavyweight Championship: Tadakuni Toshusai  vs. Washi Heat [1st Defense]
6. WCG US Heavyweight Championship: Yasunobu Masuno  vs. Pavel Vanzycha [1st Defense]
7. RISE Openweight Championship: Koshiro Ino  vs. Zeshin Makioka [1st Defense]
8. WCG Intercontinental Championship: Greg Gauge  vs. Ieyoshi Shimakage [4th Defense]

『WCG Explosion In Sapporo Night 2』 – February 7th, 2021
Sapporo Baseball Stadium (Sapporo, Hokkaido) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

1. Burning Hazard (Taheiji Konoe, Zeshin Makioka & Heihachiro Sakai) vs. Naozane Goto, Tadakuni Toshusai & Koshiro Ino
2. Rogue Squad (Logan Diaz, Ernest Youngman & Greg Gauge) vs. Findlay O'Farraday, Brandon Smith & Yasunobu Masuno
3. REAL BLOOD (Yuta Isono, SUKI & Hitomaro Suzuki) vs. Danny Cavangh, Washi Heat & Morimasa Kato
4. xDREAM (Tanyu Toshusai, KATOU & Razan Okamoto) vs. Reiwa Ishingun (Kado Kamisaka, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita)
5. WCG Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: The Revengers (Musashi & Jap. Phoenix)  vs. ?? [1st Defense]
6. WCG Junior Heavyweight Championship: El Mítico Jr.  vs. Billy Robinson [1st Defense]
7. WCG World Tag Team Championship: Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi)  vs. Gaijin Wrecking Crew (Ray Snow & Nigel Svensson) [1st Defense]
8. WCG World Heavyweight Championship: Bunrakuken Torii  vs. Motoyuki Miyake [2nd Defense]

 

Can't wait to see how many I got hilariously wrong!

[CGN91]

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Before White Canvas Grappling heads to Sapporo the Tokyo based promotion announced yet another double event but this time we fly over the pacific to New York City. „We started to held shows in the USA years ago and today we can proudly announce that we'll held two shows in the legendary Rockefeller Square Garden“, said WCG president Junnosuke Fukazawa at the press conference in front of the Pro Wrestling media.

Most of the american talent will be from the WCG american subsidiary which will celebrate their first anniversary with these two shows. To celebrate the birthday WCG Of America will have two of their own titles being defended on each night: On the first show the WCG American Tag Titles will be defended when Team Warrior, Doug Peak and the gigantic BB Colossus, will take on The American Cobras! Just a day later WCG American Openweight Champion Nelson Callum has to fight the mysterious Aldous Blackfriar.

On the second night of Big Apple action we have two special singles matches when WCG World Heavyweight Champion Bunrakuken Torii steps in the ring in a non-title bout with the legendary Billy Russell from Puerto Rico. Our friends of Total Champion Wrestling are a part of the main event when Aaron Andrews and former WCG World Champ Hitomaro Suzuki will collide one on one.

WCG remind all of his fans that some titles can change hands one week before so expect card changes.

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『WCG Canvas Grappling In NYC 2021 Night 1』 – February 13^th, 2021
Rockefeller Square Garden (New York City, New York, USA) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

0. REAL BLOOD (Jinzaburo Kakinomoto, Yuta Isono & Takenori Doi) vs. Akihiro Hisato, Akira Arato & Haru Shionoya
1. Aldous Blackfriar, Jay Bryant & Masked Cougar vs. Reiwa Ishingun (Maro Shimizu, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita)
2. Frankie Perez & Gaijin Wrecking Crew (Ray Snow & Nigel Svensson) vs. El Mítico Jr. & American Demolition (Findlay O'Farraday & Brandon Smith)
3. Bunrakuken Torii & Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi) vs. Rogue Squad (Ernest Youngman & Killer Shark) & Gonnohyoe Kada
4. REAL BLOOD (Tsuneyo Yanagimoto, SUKI & Hitomaro Suzuki) vs. Morimasa Kato & Shocking Kobra (Tadakuni Toshusai & Koshiro Ino)
5. WCG American Tag Team Championship: Team Warrior (Doug Peak & BB Colossus)  vs. The American Cobras (Marvel Malloy & Storm Spillane)
6. WCG Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: The Revengers (Musashi & Jap. Phoenix)  vs. Devil May Care (Stuntman & Acid II)
7. WCG US Heavyweight Championship: Yasunobu Masuno  vs. Logan Diaz
8. xDREAM (Motoyuki Miyake & Razan Okamoto) vs. Rogue Squad (Animal Harker & Greg Gauge)

『WCG Canvas Grappling In NYC 2021 Night 2』 – February 14^th, 2021
Rockefeller Square Garden (New York City, New York, USA) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

1. Morimasa Kato, Tadakuni Toshusai & Yasunobu Masuno vs. Frankie Perez, Masked Stranger & Acid II
2. Rogue Squad (Logan Diaz & Ernest Youngman) & Austin Smooth vs. Ant-Man & The American Cobras (Marvel Malloy & Storm Spillane)
3. Reiwa Ishingun (Maro Shimizu, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita) vs. Motoyuki Miyake & American Demolition (Findlay O'Farraday & Brandon Smith)
4. WCG World Tag Team Championship: Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi)  vs. Samoan Destruction Inc. (Samoan Machine & Rhino Umaga)
5. WCG American Openweight Championship: Nelson Callum  vs. Aldous Blackfriar
6. Special Singles Match I: Billy Russell vs. Bunrakuken Torii
7. RISE Openweight Championship: Koshiro Ino  vs. Doug Peak
8. Special Singles Match II: Aaron Andrews  vs. Hitomaro Suzuki

[CGN91]

『WCG Explosion In Sapporo Night 1』 – February 6^th, 2021
Sapporo Baseball Stadium (Sapporo, Hokkaido) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

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Pre-Show: Akira Arato, Kichibei Ezakiya, Yutaka Ogata & Sotatsu Sarumara def. Akihiro Hisato, Chomei Fuwa, Daisetsu Yanagi & Haru Shionoya (10:13)

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Naozane Goto, Shogun Watoga, Shiba Mizoguchi & Morimasa Kato def. Reiwa Ishingun (Kiyotaka, Kado Kamisaka, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita) (11:48)
The last shows were some negative experience for the Ishingun and today was the same when Morimasa Kato choked out Kiyotaka to add another loss to them. With that win Morimasa Kato kept them away from the six man tag belts.

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REAL BLOOD (Jinzaburo Kakinomoto, Tsuneyo Yanagimoto, SUKI & Hitomaro Suzuki) def. Brandon Smith, Findlay O'Farraday, Musashi & Japanese Phoenix (12:52)
The new faction made it clear when Yanagimoto hit his Mikado Bomb on Musashi to score a pinfall victory over the current Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champs just one night before they meet in the ring for the straps. Once again Suzuki and Smith had some disputes in the match.

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El Mítico Jr. & Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi) def. Billy Robinson & Gaijin Wrecking Crew (Ray Snow & Nigel Svensson) (13:33)
A title skirmish is always funny. Tomorrow the champions trio of Mítico, Kamioka and Narahashi will defend their titles against the opponent's of today's match. The Junior Heavyweight Champ ejected himself from the match with flying above the top rope outside on all combatans while just minutes later Narahashi took Robinson's head off with a lariat for the win.

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xDREAM (KATOU, Motoyuki Miyake & Razan Okamoto) def. Danny Cavanagh, Hirokichi Yoemon & Bunrakuken Torii (13:48)
With the biggest opportunity of his life on his mind, Motoyuki Miyake's eyes were on Bunrakuken Torii the whole match. It seemed like that he went a bit nuts while kicking the living s*it out of Yoemon while looking Torii into the eyes. Besides all that Razan Okamoto pinned vet Hirokichi Yoemon after his Brainbuster Suplex to let people know he's not out of the main event picture.

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Tadakuni Toshusai  def. Washi Heat (16:22)
Washi Heat's first title challenge went unsuccessful with a loss to Tadakuni Toshusai for the GCG World Heavyweight Championship. The former Warrior Engine veteran did his best to beat Toshusai after having a short fighting spirit period but „The Shocker“ cut it off and put the masked man to sleep with the Shock Treatment. After the match the two shook hands.

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Yasunobu Masuno  def. Pavel Vanzycha (18:49)
It's about the pride of the Rogue Squad that the United States Heavyweight Championship gets back to the Squad as soon as possible. But the current titleholder disliked the idea of losing the title to the Rogue Squad so soon and had something other in my mind. Masuno beats the pole but got attacked right after the bell by Logan Diaz, Ernest Youngman and Sterling Whitlock.

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Koshiro Ino  def. Zeshin Makioka (20:42)
The Kobra makes his first defense by defeating Burning Hazard's Zeshin Makioka in a real slugfest. Both men can punch pretty hard and they showed it to the Sapporo crowd. The challenger came close to beating the former BHOTWG World Champion but Koshiro Ino's shoulder touched the mat only for two seconds. The finishing sequence was an open exchanges of forearms and more which was ended by Ino after the Kobra's Bite. Even more important was what happened after the fight...

..when Ino's former stablemate TATSUYA TOSHITARA came to the ring and focussed Ino with a severe look on his face. WCG commentator Isei Deushi confirmed that Toshitara has officially joined White Canvas Grappling! What has the WCG future in mind for the former NEO Prime mates? 
 

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Greg Gauge  def. Ieyoshi Shimakage (23:48)
The leader of the Rogue Squad continues his run as the greatest WCG Intercontinental Champion with another defense, this time against Ieyoshi Shimakage. These two had some issues starting at Anniversary where Greg Gauge couldn't care less about his match with Shimakage. This caused some more troubles between them, Gauge even copied his kick in the nuts from the New Year Wars!! show today. The finish was an absolute beauty when Gauge stucked in the Package Piledriver, wobbled his way out and immediatly locked in the Proton Lock for the win.

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Prediction Results
kinealg 6/8
Scottie 4/8 

[CGN91]

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『WCG Explosion In Sapporo Night 2』 – February 7^th, 2021
Sapporo Baseball Stadium (Sapporo, Hokkaido) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

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Pre-Show: Haru Shionoya, Kichibei Ezakiya, Yutaka Ogata & Guerrero Muerto def. Akihiro Hisato, Akira Asato, Chomei Fuwa & Daisetsu Yanagi (10:02)

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Burning Hazard (Zeshin Makioka, Taheiji Konoe & Heihachiro Sakai) def. Naozane Goto & Shocking Kobra (Tadakuni Toshusai & Koshiro Ino) (12:11)
It was yet another night of frustration for Burning Hazard yesterday with another loss in a titlematch but let's see the positive side of today when the trio of Zeshin Makioka, Taheiji Konoe and Heihachiro Sakai won the opening match of night two here in Sapporo.

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Rogue Squad (Logan Diaz, Ernest Youngman & Greg Gauge) def. Yasunobu Masuno & American Demolition (Brandon Smith & Findlay O'Farraday) (12:32)
The Rogue Squad is still after Yasunobu Masuno and his United States Championship. Logan Diaz, the next challenger of Masuno, pinned him today and absolute demolish him afterwards. Typical Rogue Squad style when they were in the majority but not for long when a new music hit the box and...

... former WEXXV and now BHOTWG wrestler MUNEMITSU SENMATSU came to the ring to rescue Masuno from the outcasts. Senmatsu is no stranger to the crowd as he competed in the second S-1 Festival in 2017 and made it to the final where he lost to now WCG World Heavyweight Champion Bunrakuken Torii.

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Washi Heat, Danny Cavangh & Morimasa Kato def. REAL BLOOD (Yuta Isono, SUKI & Hitomaro Suzuki) (14:53)
It will be the second year in a row that former World, Intercontinental and RISE Champion Morimasa Kato won't be a participating in the S-1 Festival. Nevertheless the one third of the current Six Man Tag Team Champions went mad and choked Yuta Isono out which lead to some tensions between him and Suzuki..again! Those two have their problems with each other since the start of the company and won't be friends anytime soon.

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Reiwa Ishingun (Kado Kamisaka, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita) def. xDREAM (Tanyu Toshusai, KATOU & Razan Okamoto) (13:18)
With the announcement of the S-1 blocks they were some early issues between Omezo Shikitei and Razan Okamoto. Althought these two were not involved in the finish of the match, the eyes of the crowd were cleary on them. Okamoto and Shikitei shoved each other around and gave each other some slaps to the face to heat things off.

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The Revengers (Musashi & Japanese Phoenix)  def. Jinzaburo Kakinomoto & Tsuneyo Yanagimoto (14:55)
The first title challenge of a team of REAL BLOOD went down the hill when The Revengers defended the Junior Tag titles for the very first time. Kakinomoto's inexperience was the key to victory for the well travelled champion team, Musashi kicked Kakinomoto around while Phoenix came from heaven with his Phoenix Splash for the win.

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El Mítico Jr.  def. Billy Robinson (21:23)
That's a perfect way to start a title reign! El Mítico Jr. and Billy Robinson had an absolute banger, maybe one of the best junior heavyweight matches in the history of the promotion. The match was pretty even, Robinson tried to put the mexican down with some classic Wigan style stuff but Mítico is on the mat very good thanks to his amateuer wrestling background. After a german suplex Mítico put Robinson down with a Northern Lights Suplex for his V1.

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Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi)  def. Gaijin Wrecking Crew (Ray Snow & Nigel Svensson) (20:28)
The former Champions failed to recapture the tag titles while Team 220kg made their first defense. The Gaijin Wrecking Crew lost the straps in 2019 and had their last title challenge in fall during the very same year, so it was a pretty big deal for them to have the opportunity. Kamioka and Narahashi are one of the best hard hitting duo's of the world and showed it to the Sapporo crowd. With a combination of a Saito Suplex and a big lariat the reigning champions pinned Nigel Svensson. Afterwards Svensson spoke some broken japanese and announced that they'll be in the United States for quite some time and will lace their boots for WCG Of America.

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Bunrakuken Torii  def. Motoyuki Miyake (29:38)
After defending the title against xDREAM leader Razan Okamoto on the second night of Anniversary, Bunrakuken Torii did it yet again against a xDREAM member. While Motoyuki Miyake did his best with some fierced strikes and submission moves "Machine Gun" Torii was just one step above him. Miyake tried to apply a rear naked choke on numerous occassions but Torii escaped with great ring awarness. In nearly one motion Torii ducked a penalty kick by Miyake hit a shotgun dropkick, a brutal headbutt and pinned Miyake after the Spinning Forearm Smash. After the match Torii helped Miyake on his feet and wanted to shake his hands, the defeated challenger hesitated a bit but finally shook the hand of the champion to end a two night extravaganza in the snow town of Sapporo!

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S-1 FESTIVAL BLOCK ANNOUNCEMENT

A-BLOCK

Azumamaro Kita ~ Brandon Smith ~ Bunrakuken Torii ~ Greg Gauge ~ Heihachiro Sakai

Tadakuni Toshusai ~ Munemitsu Senmatsu ~ Hitomaro Suzuki ~ Logan Diaz ~ Zeshin Makioka

B-BLOCK

Koshiro Ino ~ Omezo Shikitei ~ Motoyuki Miyake ~ Yasunobu Masuno ~ Ernest Youngman

Fujio Narahashi ~ Razan Okamoto ~ Ieyoshi Shimakage ~ Tatsuya Toshitara ~ SUKI

[Scottie]

Great shows! I'm a big fan of Motoyuke Miyake but I guess it wasn't his time. Hopefully he has a good showing in the S-1, though it's a tough block.

What a great field too for the S-1 Festival too. I'm excited to see how it turns out!

[CGN91]

Prediction Results

kinealg 11/16
Scottie 9/16

Thanks guys! The next two shows in the USA are around the corner and just one week after the Sapporo shows so you can get your predictions in.

『WCG Canvas Grappling In NYC 2021 Night 1』 – February 13^th, 2021
Rockefeller Square Garden (New York City, New York, USA) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

0. REAL BLOOD (Jinzaburo Kakinomoto, Yuta Isono & Takenori Doi) vs. Akihiro Hisato, Akira Arato & Haru Shionoya
1. Aldous Blackfriar, Jay Bryant & Masked Cougar vs. Reiwa Ishingun (Maro Shimizu, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita)
2. Frankie Perez & Gaijin Wrecking Crew (Ray Snow & Nigel Svensson) vs. El Mítico Jr. & American Demolition (Findlay O'Farraday & Brandon Smith)
3. Bunrakuken Torii & Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi) vs. Rogue Squad (Ernest Youngman & Killer Shark) & Gonnohyoe Kada
4. REAL BLOOD (Tsuneyo Yanagimoto, SUKI & Hitomaro Suzuki) vs. Morimasa Kato & Shocking Kobra (Tadakuni Toshusai & Koshiro Ino)
5. WCG American Tag Team Championship: Team Warrior (Doug Peak & BB Colossus)  vs. The American Cobras (Marvel Malloy & Storm Spillane)
6. WCG Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: The Revengers (Musashi & Jap. Phoenix)  vs. Devil May Care (Stuntman & Acid II)
7. WCG US Heavyweight Championship: Yasunobu Masuno  vs. Logan Diaz
8. xDREAM (Motoyuki Miyake & Razan Okamoto) vs. Rogue Squad (Animal Harker & Greg Gauge)

『WCG Canvas Grappling In NYC 2021 Night 2』 – February 14^th, 2021
Rockefeller Square Garden (New York City, New York, USA) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

1. Morimasa Kato, Tadakuni Toshusai & Yasunobu Masuno vs. Frankie Perez, Masked Stranger & Acid II
2. Rogue Squad (Logan Diaz & Ernest Youngman) & Austin Smooth vs. Ant-Man & The American Cobras (Marvel Malloy & Storm Spillane)
3. Reiwa Ishingun (Maro Shimizu, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita) vs. Motoyuki Miyake & American Demolition (Findlay O'Farraday & Brandon Smith)
4. WCG World Tag Team Championship: Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi)  vs. Samoan Destruction Inc. (Samoan Machine & Rhino Umaga)
5. WCG American Openweight Championship: Nelson Callum  vs. Aldous Blackfriar
6. Special Singles Match I: Billy Russell vs. Bunrakuken Torii
7. RISE Openweight Championship: Koshiro Ino  vs. Doug Peak
8. Special Singles Match II: Aaron Andrews  vs. Hitomaro Suzuki

[CGN91]

『WCG Canvas Grappling In NYC 2021 Night 1』 – February 13^th, 2021
Rockefeller Square Garden (New York City, NY, USA) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

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WCG made their american comeback tonight witht he first show of the double header event at the legendary Rockefeller Square Garden in Manhattan. In front of a packed sell out crowd the White Canvas crowd saw a special tag match in the main event between the xDREAM duo of Motoyuki Miyake and Razan Okamoto against WCG Intercontinental Champion Greg Gauge and his Rogue Squad partner Animal Harker. After a loud roar by the crowd Okamoto hits a lariat and followed with his Brainbuster Suplex to pin Harker, after the match Okamoto thanked all the fans coming to see WCG. He hyped tomorrow's show with having four singles matches to close the double header.

Yasunobu Masuno is still the WCG US Heavyweight Champion after beating the third Rogue Squad member in a row. It was a little bit strange to see that the american crowd cheered for Logan Diaz instead of Masuno but having Diaz in a titlematch on home turf is just something else. Nevertheless Masuno successfully defended the title for the second time and had a stare-down afterwards with former champ Ernest Youngman. The two will meet at the first night of the S-1 Festival.

In some sort of a showstealer the Junior Tag Champs Musashi and Japanese Phoenix had to defend their titles against Acid II and Stuntman and this was a real high flying extravaganza. The Phoenix Splash was yet again the gamechanger for the champions when the masked man pinned Stuntman. After receiving a loud round of applause Japanese Phoenix invited both men to come to Japan to fight in front of the japanese crowd, which was "accepted" by bowing down to the champs.

What the Rogue Squad is for the domestic fans in Japan that is Team Warrior for the american WCG fans. A group of villains, cheating people which fight like typical western heels. The gigantic BB Colossus and his leader Doug Peak defended their American Tag titles yet again by defeating the American Cobras, Marvel Malloy and Storm Spillane, after a shot with a foreign object behind the back of the referee.

Results~!
0. REAL BLOOD (Yuta Isono, Jinzaburo Kakinomoto & Takenori Doi) def. Akihiro Hisato, Akira Arato & Haru Shionoya (7:28)
1. Reiwa Ishingun (Maro Shimizu, Azumamaro Kita & Omezo Shikitei) def. Jay Bryant, Masked Cougar & Aldous Blackfriar (9:34)
2. El Mítico Jr. & American Demolition (Findlay O'Farraday & Brandon Smith) def. Frankie Perez & Gaijin Wrecking Crew (Ray Snow & Nigel Svensson) (11:41)
3. Bunrakuken Torii & Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi) def. Gonnohyoe Kada & Rogue Squad (Killer Shark & Ernest Youngman) (12:33)
4. Morimasa Kato & Shocking Kobra (Tadakuni Toshusai & Koshiro Ino) def. REAL BLOOD (Tsuneyo Yanagimoto, SUKI & Hitomaro Suzuki) (12:55)
5. WCG American Tag Team Championship: Team Warrior (Doug Peak & BB Colossus)  def. The American Cobras (Marvel Malloy & Storm Spillane) (13:19)
6. WCG Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: The Revengers (Musashi & Jap. Phoenix)  def. Devil May Care (Stuntman & Acid II) (17:39)
7. WCG US Heavyweight Championship: Yasunobu Masuno  def. Logan Diaz (22:14)
8. xDREAM (Motoyuki Miyake & Razan Okamoto) def. Rogue Squad (Animal Harker & Greg Gauge) (25:54)

[CGN91]

『WCG Canvas Grappling In NYC 2021 Night 2』 – February 14^th, 2021
Rockefeller Square Garden (New York City, NY, USA) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

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The second night of the american return saw a double header of special single matches on top of the card with some spicing called RISE Openweight titlematch. The first special single match included the current WCG World Heavyweight Champion Bunrakuken Torii, who didn't defend the title in this match, against the INSPIRE legend Billy Russell. Sure thing the puerto rican shifted the fight to the mat to lock in several submission moves but the champion could escape most of the times. But the "Tap Out Artist" can also fight on the feet and he showed it here as well, Torii welcomed Billy's fighting spirit and fought him off. Afterwards the two shook hands and showed respect to each other.

Hitomaro Suzuki met Total Championship Wrestling's Aaron Andrews in the main event in the second special singles match of the night. In an epic clash the japanese had the better ending when he could lock in his Suzuki Lock to let Andrews tap to the move. Just before Andrews had several near falls to get Suzuki's shoulder down but the leader of REAL BLOOD always raised his shoulders before the ref slapped the mat for the third time.

American Tag Team Champion and Team Warrior leader Doug Peak challenged RISE Openweight Champion Koshiro Ino at the Rockefeller Square Garden and nearly took the title of the "Kobra". Typical Team Warrior Doug Peak bend the rules pretty much to the outermost, he hit Ino in the crown jewels and rolled him up for a razerclose two count. All the shenanigans aside Ino was able to beat the former WEXXV Champion with the Kobra's Bite to defend the title yet again.

Two more title matches were on the matchcard when American Openweight Champion, the king of the american subsidiary, Nelson Callum defended the title against the gothic punk Aldous Blackfriar successfully as well as the WCG World Team Champions. Team 220kg overcame the big samoans Rhino Umaga and Samoan Machine.

Results~!
1. Morimasa Kato, Tadakuni Toshusai & Yasunobu Masuno def. Frankie Perez, Masked Stranger & Acid II (9:29)
2. Ant-Man & The American Cobras (Marvel Malloy & Storm Spillane) def. Rogue Squad (Logan Diaz & Ernest Youngman) & Austin Smooth (8:35)
3. Motoyuki Miyake & American Demolition (Findlay O'Farraday & Brandon Smith) def. Reiwa Ishingun (Maro Shimizu, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita) (13:22)
4. WCG World Tag Team Championship: Team 220kg (Gonkuro Kamioka & Fujio Narahashi)  def. Samoan Destruction Inc. (Samoan Machine & Rhino Umaga) (14:09)
5. WCG American Openweight Championship: Nelson Callum  def. Aldous Blackfriar (15:19)
6. Special Singles Match: Bunrakuken Torii def. Billy Russell (18:20)
7. RISE Openweight Championship: Koshiro Ino  def. Doug Peak (20:04)
8. Special Singles Match II: Hitomaro Suzuki def. Aaron Andrews  (27:40)

[The Blonde Bomber]

I am excited for the S-1 Festival!!

[CGN91]

Thanks @The Blonde Bomber! I know I've been inconsistent in terms of posting shows but real life is kicking a** at the moment moment 😂

[The Blonde Bomber]

1 hour ago, CGN91 said:

Thanks @The Blonde Bomber! I know I've been inconsistent in terms of posting shows but real life is kicking a** at the moment moment 😂

 

Hope things start getting better man.

[CGN91]

『WCG Of America - An Introduction』

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With the expansion into US territory White Canvas Grappling created an american subsidiary in the last year to bring Canvas Grappling to America on a weekly basis. After having a couple of standalone shows on american soil, WCG president Fukazawa wanted to have an american brand as soon as possible. He approached Fumihiro Ota, a japanese wrestler who grew up in the United States and wrestled there his whole life. 

On February 2nd the very first show of the american subsidiary was held in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in front of just 550 people. In the meantime the shows are held in front of over 5,000 people, without any big japanese talent involved. WCG Of America does 36 Shows a year, most of them on the eastcoast. The subsidiary has three championships which are the following:

WCG American Openweight - Nelson Callum (former holder: Doug Peak, Chris Caulfield)
WCG American Showcase - Stuntman (fh: Acid II)
WCG American Tag Team - Doug Peak & BB Colossus (fh: Aldous Blackfriar & Billy Russell, Rhino Umaga & Samoan Machine, Doug Peak & Chris Caulfield)

The biggest stars of the company are Doug Peak, Acid II, Billy Russell, Nelson Callum and Stuntman. And they're even japanese wrestler on the roster who wanted to built up the name of WCG in american like veteran Gonnohyoe Kada, former two time WCG World Tag Team Champ Kimitada Yanagita, Kuemon Hotta or former Jr. Tag Champ Jotaro Tanaka. With Nigel Svensson and Ray Snow, the Gaijin Wrecking Crew, the subsidiary will get two more stars for a period of several months.

Edited June 3, 2023 by CGN91

[CGN91]

『Participants Round-Up A~BLOCK』

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The sixth edition of the S-1 Festival is upon us and we take a look at the participants of the A~BLOCK! At the very first sight you can see that two former S-1 winners as well as three finalits are in the same block together. With Bunrakuken Torii, the current World Champ, a two time winner will be in the block alongside a two time finalist in Greg Gauge. Former champions aside we'll see the S-1 debut of Rogue Squad member Logan Diaz this year, he'll face his boss Greg Gauge as well as former stablemate Brandon Smith. 

 
Azumamaro Kita
Affiliation: Reiwa Ishingun
Past S-1 Experience: 5^th Appereance


Brandon "Bulldozer" Smith
Affiliation: Hontai
Past S-1 Experience: 5^th Appereance (Final: 2018)


"Machine Gun" Bunrakuken Torii
Affiliation: Hontai
Past S-1 Experience: 6^th Appereance (Winner: 2017, 2020)


Greg Gauge
Affiliation: Rogue Squad
Past S-1 Experience:  4^th  Appereance (Final: 2019, 2020)


"Headhunter" Heihachiro Sakai
Affiliation: Burning Hazard
Past S-1 Experience: 3^rd Appereance


"Genius" Hitomaro Suzuki
Affiliation: REAL BLOOD
Past S-1 Experience: 6^th Appereance (Winner: 2019)


"Glorious" Logan Diaz
Affiliation: Rogue Squad
Past S-1 Experience: DEBUT


Munemitsu Senmatsu
Affiliation: Hontai
Past S-1 Experience: 2^nd Appereance (Final: 2017)


"Shocker" Tadakuni Toshusai
Affiliation: Hontai
Past S-1 Experience: 4^th  Appereance


"Mad Dog" Zeshin Makioka
Affiliation: Burning Hazard
Past S-1 Experience: 5^th  Appereance
 

[CGN91]

『Participants Round-Up B~BLOCK』

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The sixth edition of the S-1 Festival is upon us and we take a look at the participants of the B~BLOCK! Other than in A-BLOCK there is no former winner or finalist in this block, although the record breaking WCG World Champion Razan Okamoto is in this block. He may be the biggest favourite to break through the group at top but he's not having that much luck in recent S-1 tournaments though. Also there is one more debutant than in A-BLOCK with newly acquired Tatsuya Toshitara and Ieyoshi Shimakage.

 
"The Assassin" Ernest Youngman
Affiliation: Rogue Squad
Past S-1 Experience: 2^nd Appereance


"Strong Pitbull" Fujio Narahashi
Affiliation: Hontai
Past S-1 Experience: 4^th Appereance


"Gunslinger" Ieyoshi Shimakage
Affiliation: Burning Hazard
Past S-1 Experience: DEBUT


"Kobra" Koshiro Ino
Affiliation: Hontai
Past S-1 Experience:  3^rd Appereance


Motoyuki Miyake
Affiliation: xDREAM
Past S-1 Experience: 2^nd Appereance


"Riot" Omezo Shikitei
Affiliation: Reiwa Ishingun
Past S-1 Experience: 5^th Appereance


"Dreamcatcher" Razan Okamoto
Affiliation: xDREAM
Past S-1 Experience: 5^th Appereance


SUKI
Affiliation: REAL BLOOD
Past S-1 Experience: 2^nd Appereance


"Double T" Tatsuya Toshitara
Affiliation: Hontai
Past S-1 Experience: DEBUT


Yasunobu Masuno
Affiliation: Hontai
Past S-1 Experience: 2^nd Appereance

[DarK_RaideR]

Dang, both blocks are stacked!

[CGN91]

Thanks man!

Not sure how I'll present the tournament to you guys due to my schedule in the next weeks. 

[CGN91]

『A~BLOCK RECAP』

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Wrestling journalists and fans labelled the A-Block as the "killer block" of this year's S-1 Festival and it could be very true indeed. Eight men had the chance to climb to the top of the mountain on the last block day, except Logan Diaz and Tadakuni Toshusai, so it was quite exciting to follow the matches.

When we go back to the start of the tournament we saw that debutant Logan Diaz scored two wins a row to lead the A-Block at the beginning, the first big surprise in the tournamento. The member of the Rogue Squad started with a win against former Squad bully Brandon Smith and former S-1 Festival finalist Munemitsu Senmatsu. Those two wins ultimately lead to a seven match losing streak with Diaz ending the tournament with just four points.

From the bottom to the top, like we said in the opening there were more than two eligible candidates for topping the group. When White Canvas Grappling marched into Matsuyama on the island of Shikoku, Munemitsu Senmatsu was the first one who eliminated one of the eligible candidates by defeating Brandon Smith. With Hitomaro Suzuki beating Azumamaro Kita and Heihachiro Sakai having a hard time against WCG Intercontinental titleholder Greg Gauge but still beating him both of the named and WCG World Champion Bunrakuken Torii were still alive on the last block night.

Three men went into the race for being the number one at Toyota Stadium: Bunrakuken Torii (12), Hitomaru Suzuki (10) and Heihachiro Sakai (10). While Suzuki has beaten Sakai and Torii he's got an advantage over both of them, while Torii and Sakai would meet at Toyota Stadium. In the semi-main event Suzuki met his longtime nemesis Brandon Smith and they went to a freaking war, the american was motivated to eliminate his opponent and so he did. After twentyfour minutes Smith pinned Suzuki and therefore the former champ wasn't able to top the group. All eyes were on the main event were Torii and Sakai had a bummer of a match because of a small injury Torii took during the match. Nevertheless the leader of Burning Hazard beat the world champ to climb on top of the group to reach his first ever S-1 Festival final!
 

 

[CGN91]

『B~BLOCK RECAP』

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With the assumption that A-Block is the better block overall many people overlooked the B-Block although there were some banger matches and exciting paths to follow. Razan Okamoto missed the tournament due to an injury, Gonkuro Kamioka replaced him.

Sometimes a wrestler starts with a hot streak in a round-robin tournament but not in this group of ten warriors. After three nights of block action every player had at least one win on their scoreboard and no one was able to win all three matches so far. It seemed like that B-Block is pretty balanced and the fans couldn't guess who's going to win the next match on the show.

On the bottom of the table we could see WCG United States Heavyweight Champion Yasunobu Masuno with only six points on his side. Masuno can't be happy with his performance only winning matches against Motoyuki Miyake, Ieyoshi Shimakage and newly acquired Tatsuya Toshitara. Even last place finished Gonkuro Kamioka scored a win over Masuno, havin this big amount of losses can mean that Masuno will be challenged quite a few times down the line though.

From the botton to the top of the group three wrestlers head into the last two nights of block action with the chance to meet Heihahiro Sakai in the finals of the Saikyou no Matsuri. The leader of the block so far Tatsuya Toshitara, runner-up Koshiro Ino and dark horse Fujio Narahashi. In Shikoku the most dramatic scenes happened when Narahashi won his match in the opener against Masuno while Toshitara (loss to SUKI) and Ino (Shimakage) both weren't able to win their respectively matches. At Toyota Stadium Narahashi made his homework by beating Ernest Youngman while he was in need of a draw between Toshitara and Ino. When we reached the thirty minute mark and the bell rang the WCG faithful were in a roar that their boy "Strong Pitbull" Fujio Narahashi topped the group and will meet Sakai in the legendary Tokyo Egg Dome for the trophy!
 

 

Edited July 6, 2023 by CGN91

[CGN91]

『S-1 Festival Night 19』– April 4^th, 2021
Tokyo Egg Dome (Tokyo, Kanto) [Emperor Choice, WCG Global & Aichi]

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A packed crowd of 43,250 people in the legendary Tokyo Egg Dome witnessed a final match between two wrestler who had never reached a S-1 Festival final before in their career. The WCG faithful eagerly awaited the entrances of the combattants, a roar went through the Egg Dome during the announcement by ring announcer Hirokichi Hatakeda in the middle of the squared circle. 

The war between these two gentleman went over thirty-two minutes, a record breaking match length for a S-1 final, with an incredible exciting finishing sequence with several counter and nearfalls. When the second lariat hit the chest of Burning Hazard leader Heihachiro Sakai, the crowd inside the Dome knew it's over and were satisfied with the result. "Strong Pitbull" Fujio Narahashi won the S-1, the biggest accomplishment of his thirteen year long career.

Narahashi, still one half of the current WCG World Tag Team Champions, got fairly emotional during the ceremony after the main event when he received the Katana sword by WCG president Junnosuke Fukazawa alongside his tag team partner Gonkuro Kamioka. The "Strong Pitbull" isn't a man of words but he told the crowd how proud he is of his performances and the performance of all his opponents during the grueling tournament.

Of course the center of attention was the final between Sakai and Narahashi but it became a tradition that the Junior Heavyweight Champion needs to put his title on the line just a match prior. El Mítico Jr. met PGHW's Magnum Kobe, a multiple time WLW Universal Champion, who recently signed a contract with White Canvas Grappling. The two had a fierced striking battle, it could have been a proper MMA fight in ALPHA-1 though, where the mexican put Kobe to sleep to get his second title defense.

Results~!
1. Japanese Phoenix, Musashi, Findlay O'Farraday & Washi Heat def. Rogue Squad (Animal Harker, Joffy Laine, Pavel Vanzycha & Sterling Whitlock) (9:34)
2. RISE Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship: Shogun Watoga, Shiba Mizoguchi & Morimasa Kato  def. Akira Arato, Hirokichi Yoemon & Sotatsu Sarumara (11:15) [1st Defense]
3. REAL BLOOD (Tsuneyo Yanagimoto, SUKI & Hitomaro Suzuki) def. Stone Yoshikawa, Gonkuro Kamioka & Koshiro Ino (13:22)
4. xDREAM (Tanyu Toshusai, KATOU & Motoyuki Miyake) def. Reiwa Ishingun (Kiyotaka, Omezo Shikitei & Azumamaro Kita) (12:53)
5. Tadakuni Toshusai, Tatsuya Toshitara & Munemitsu Senmatsu def. Burning Hazard (Taheiji Konoe, Zeshin Makioka & Ieyoshi Shimakage) (15:48)
6. Nobuhiko Serizawa, Brandon Smith, Yasunobu Masuno & Bunrakuken Torii def. Rogue Squad (MATSUMOTO, Logan Diaz, Ernest Youngman & Greg Gauge) (16:02)
7. WCG Junior Heavyweight Championship: El Mítico Jr.  def. Magnum Kobe (23:34) [2nd Defense]
8. S-1 Festival 2021 Final: Fujio Narahashi def. Heihachiro Sakai (32:11)