All Japan to have two Carnivals

[Guest NoSelfWorth]

All Japan revealed more information regarding "CHAMPION CARNIVAL 2003". There will be a Jr. Champion Carnival, which will be set up how the heavyweight Champion Carnival usually is, round-robin style. League matches will take place from 3/31 to 4/10, where the final will take place (at Hiroshima Green Arena's Small Arena). Then, two days later at Tokyo Nippon Budokan, the winner will challenge Kendo Kashin for All Japan's World Jr. Heavyweight Title. All but one of the participants are regulars, those being Kaz Hayashi, Gran Hamada, Gran Naniwa, Ryuji Hijikata, and Jimmy Yang. The non-regular will be former PRIDE and BattlARTS fighter, Carl Contini (also known as Carl Greco and Carl Malenko), who is a good technician. The tournament looks more interesting than the awful heavyweight version this year, and although All Japan haven't listed the points system yet, I assume it'll be the 2-1-0 setup. Another vale tudo fighter, Kazuki Okubo, of Kiyoshi Tamura's U-FILE Camp, is booked for the first three shows as a Turmeric Storm member. A third vale tudo star is supposedly going to show up at Budokan, the most likely name being Masaaki Satake. Yuki Ishikawa is also on some shows, as are ZERO-ONE combatants. Arashi faces the dreaded "X" from ZERO-ONE on 3/22, while Z1 junior stars, Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Low Ki, face Kaz Hayashi & Jimmy Yang on 3/28.

 

AJPW, 3/22/03

Tokyo Korakuen Hall

 

1. Masanobu Fuchi vs. Taichi Ishikari

2. George Hines, Hideki Hosaka & Ryuji Hijikata vs. Tomoaki Honma, Kazushi Miyamoto & Kazuki Okubo

3. Kendo Kashin & Nobukazu Hirai vs. Johnny Smith & Shigeo Okumura

4. Arashi vs. X

5. Keiji Muto, Satoshi Kojima & Kaz Hayashi vs. Genichiro Tenryu, Nobutaka Araya & Jimmy Yang

6. Champion Carnival - Round 1: Gigantes vs. Yoji Anjo

7. Champion Carnival - Round 1: Big John Tenta vs. The Gladiator

 

AJPW, 3/23/03 (Samurai! TV)

Tokyo Korakuen Hall

 

1. Nobukazu Hirai vs. Taichi Ishikari

2. Shigeo Okumura, Hideki Hosaka & Yuto Aijima vs. Tomoaki Honma, Kazushi Miyamoto & Kazuki Okubo

3. Kendo Kashin & Ryuji Hijikata vs. Yoji Anjo & Yuki Ishikawa

4. Satoshi Kojima & Jimmy Yang vs. The Gladiator & Gigantes

5. Keiji Muto & Kaz Hayashi vs. Big John Tenta & Masanobu Fuchi

6. Champion Carnival - Round 1: Johnny Smith vs. George Hines

7. Champion Carnival - Round 1: Arashi vs. Nobutaka Araya

 

AJPW, 3/25/03

Iwate Prefectural Gymnasium

 

1. Masanobu Fuchi & Ryuji Hijikata vs. Tomoaki Honma & Kazushi Miyamoto

2. Champion Carnival - Round 2: Satoshi Kojima vs. Winner of Gigantes/Anjo

3. Champion Carnival - Round 2: Keiji Muto vs. Winner of Tenta/Gladiator

 

AJPW, 3/28/03

Hokkaido Sports Center

 

1. Jr. Champion Carnival: Ryuji Hijikata vs. Carl Contini

2. Kaz Hayashi & Jimmy Yang vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Low Ki

3. Champion Carnival - Semi Final: Winner of #2 on 3/25 vs. Winner of Smith/Hines

4. Champion Carnival - Semi Final: Winner of #1 on 3/25 vs. Winner of Arashi/Araya

5. Champion Carnival - Final:

 

AJPW, 3/31/03

Hakodate Citizen Gymnasium

 

1. Jr. Champion Carnival: Gran Naniwa vs. Jimmy Yang

2. Jr. Champion Carnival: Kaz Hayashi vs. Gran Hamada

 

AJPW, 4/3/03

Tomioka Town Gymnasium

 

1. Jr. Champion Carnival: Gran Hamada vs. Carl Contini

2. Jr. Champion Carnival: Kaz Hayashi vs. Gran Naniwa

 

AJPW, 4/4/03

Fukushima Big Palette

 

1. Jr. Champion Carnival: Gran Naniwa vs. Carl Contini

2. Jr. Champion Carnival: Ryuji Hijikata vs. Jimmy Yang

 

AJPW, 4/5/03

Nagaoka Welfare Hall

 

1. Satoshi Kojima & Kaz Hayashi vs. Kendo Kashin & Masanobu Fuchi

2. Jr. Champion Carnival: Jimmy Yang vs. Carl Contini

3. Jr. Champion Carnival: Ryuji Hijikata vs. Gran Naniwa

4. Keiji Muto & Arashi vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Nobutaka Araya

 

AJPW, 4/7/03

Toyama Techno Hall

 

1. Jr. Champion Carnival: Gran Hamada vs. Ryuji Hijikata

2. Jr. Champion Carnival: Kaz Hayashi vs. Carl Contini

 

AJPW, 4/8/03

Gifu Industrial Hall

 

1. Jr. Champion Carnival: Gran Hamada vs. Gran Naniwa

2. Jr. Champion Carnival: Kaz Hayashi vs. Jimmy Yang

 

AJPW, 4/9/03

Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2

 

1. Jr. Champion Carnival: Gran Hamada vs. Jimmy Yang

2. Jr. Champion Carnival: Kaz Hayashi vs. Ryuji Hijikata

 

AJPW, 4/10/03

Hiroshima Green Arena Small Arena

 

1. Jr. Champion Carnival - Final: First place vs. Second place

 

AJPW, 4/12/03

Tokyo Nippon Budokan

 

1. AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Title: Kendo Kashin © vs. Jr. Champion Carnival Winner

2. Toshiaki Kawada Return Match: Toshiaki Kawada & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Keiji Muto & Satoshi Kojima

3. Triple Crown: Shinya Hashimoto © vs. Arashi

 

Credit - SSS

[Guest DragonflyKid]

If you're going to copy and paste can you at least add your own opinions on the subject before posting?

[EL DANDY~! 0]

how fuckin funny is it that this year, the JUNIOR carnival is gonna be better than the heavies, and already in it's first year of existence?

[Guest NoSelfWorth]

If you're going to copy and paste can you at least add your own opinions on the subject before posting?

If you're going to whine, can you at least add your own opinions on the subject before posting ?

[Guest DragonflyKid]

What the fuck was the point of C&Ping news if you weren't going to add anything? People know about SSS and PP so if they want news it's not hard to find. Posting news without adding your own opinion is pointless. Try doing something that starts discussion instead of creating a topic for the sake of creating a topic.

 

Just how was one sentence promoting common sense whining?

[Guest NoSelfWorth]

I can't help but notice the irony in you attacking me for not adding my opinion of this news, while you don't add your opinion of this news either.

[Guest Jubuki]

I can't help but notice the irony of an utter buffoon trying to make a point.

[Guest NoSelfWorth]

True, but you must be allowed to post just like the rest of us.

[Guest Black Tiger]

I hope Ka Shin finally loses the title, he's the worst champion since Yoshinari Ogawa.