NAKAMURA wins IWGP

[Guest The Son of Sting]

23 YEAR OLD SHINSUKE NAKAMURA BECOMES THE YOUNGEST IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION IN HISTORY. THE FIFTH GENERATION REACHES THE TOP IN 2003, A NEW GENERATION ACE IS BORN!!!

 

NJPW, 12/9/03 (WPW/NJ+IWTV Internet)

Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

5,500 Fans - No Vacancy

 

1. Ryusuke Taguchi beat Hirooki Goto (6:43) with a dropkick.

2. The Shadow & American Dragon beat Tatsutoshi Goto & Wataru Inoue (12:33) when Shadow used a diving body press on Goto.

3. Tiger Mask & Heat beat Gedo & Katsushi Takemura (9:34) when Tiger used a Tiger suplex hold on Gedo.

4. Yutaka Yoshie, Blue Wolf & Toru Yano beat Makai #1, Mitsuya Nagai & Ryushi Yanagisawa (13:59) when Yano used a Canadian backbreaker on Yanagisawa.

5. Minoru Suzuki beat Takashi Iizuka (8:38) with a sleeper hold.

6. Yoshihiro Takayama & Shinya Makabe beat Osamu Nishimura & Jushin Thunder Liger (12:08) when Makabe used a German suplex hold on Liger.

7. Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi beat Scott Norton & Josh Barnett (17:13) when Nakanishi used a German suplex hold on Norton.

8. U-30 Openweight Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi © beat Naomichi Marufuji (19:52) with a Dragon suplex hold (5th defense).

9. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinsuke Nakamura beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan © (12:03) with a cross armbreaker to become the 34th champion.

 

Credit SSS

 

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Wow,i didnt think he had a chance.Im more surprised Tenzan didnt get past his first defence.I wouldent be surprised if Tenzan won it back right away.

How will this effect Nakamura fighting on New years eve now being the champ?

[Guest Black Tiger]

NO SHIT!

 

I can't even begin to list how much is wrong with this booking move.

[Guest ligerbomb03]

Why the hell did they take the belt off Tenzan?

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Great.

 

Now I can hate the Heavyweight Champ alone with the Junior and Junior Tag Champs.

[Guest ligerbomb03]

It just keeps getting better doesn't it Mad Dog?

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

It just keeps getting better doesn't it Mad Dog?

Opps forgot that I dislike the NWF Champ too. Guess that leaves the Tag and U-30 champs.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

WTF? I seriously am having a hard time believing that they would do this? I guess you are right MadDog as I hate all their choices for champions as well.

[Guest Black Tiger]

Guess that leaves the Tag and U-30 champs.

You like Yutaka Yoshie? I guess we all have our crosses to bear don't we?

 

I don't hate Nakamura, but this was SO not a good idea, going into 12/31 vs Fedor, had he lost it would have meant nothing, but a win would mean the world. As IWGP Champion, Nakamura better pray that he wins or NJPW is in so much trouble.

[Guest ligerbomb03]

There's a chance Nakamura might job to Takayama. Oh please don't give Takayama the title.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Guess that leaves the Tag and U-30 champs.

You like Yutaka Yoshie? I guess we all have our crosses to bear don't we?

 

I don't hate Nakamura, but this was SO not a good idea, going into 12/31 vs Fedor, had he lost it would have meant nothing, but a win would mean the world. As IWGP Champion, Nakamura better pray that he wins or NJPW is in so much trouble.

It has become more of a "I hate him less than the other guys" kind of thing.

[SinToxic 0]

A month they gave him, wonder when will be the next time Tenzan wins what he should have held for a year at least. At most he should have made a V1 defense. And not like it was a long match to show the champions resistance, they really dropped the ball on Tenzan. I see him going back and standing next to Chono and making as much impact as Scott Norton.

[Guest The Son of Sting]

I don't hate Nakamura, but this was SO not a good idea, going into 12/31 vs Fedor, had he lost it would have meant nothing, but a win would mean the world. As IWGP Champion, Nakamura better pray that he wins or NJPW is in so much trouble.

 

You took the words right out of my mouth,Nakamura has as much chance against Fedor that Takayama as against CroCop.

The frustrating thing about this is that they did such a super job of buliding Tenzan up,Nakamura should have taken him to the edge but not beat him.Im guessing a rematch at 1/4.

[Hawkius Maximus 0]

Nakamura/Fedor isn't happening guys. It's being changed to Kosaka v.s. Fedor.

 

Not even INOKI is stupid enough to throw the IWGP champion against the PRIDE champion.

[Guest ligerbomb03]

Well, at least the new champion won't be demolished by Fedor after all.

 

And is Takayama facing Cro Crop? When is that match?

[Guest The Son of Sting]

And is Takayama facing Cro Crop? When is that match?

 

It is the main event on Inoki's new years eve show.

 

I just read that Kensuke Sasaki made an apperance at the show.

[Guest ligerbomb03]

Okay, I think Takayama will get slaughtered by Cro Crop, but will he face defeat if placed in a match with Nakamura? That is not up to me to decide, but it's certainly something to think about.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

Okay, I think Takayama will get slaughtered by Cro Crop, but will he face defeat if placed in a match with Nakamura? That is not up to me to decide, but it's certainly something to think about.

I think that this one is hard to say. I know that Inoki is HUGE on Takayama, but it seems as people are telling him to go AWAY with the shoot style that he loves so much. I think it depends on which route he is trying to take the company. Hopefully Takayama won't be near that title though.

[Guest ligerbomb03]

[Vyce 0]

I have absolutely no fucking clue who Nakamura even is.

[Guest ligerbomb03]

I have absolutely no fucking clue who Nakamura even is.

Check the link for Nakamura's profile...

 

http://www.puroresufan.com/roster/nakamura.php

[Slayer 0]

Tenzan = Kawada of the '00s?

[Guest The Son of Sting]

Nakamura vs Takayama is comfirmed for 1/4.

[Guest Dave O'Neill, Journalist]

Puro n00b rant.

 

Is this honestly such as bad thing. Being here are ragging on Tanahashi aswell, but face it, the current "generation" of Tenzan, Nagata, Nakanishi etc have FAILED , be it through the shoot fights or whatever. If the new group (I'm primarily thinking Tanahashi, Nakamura, Yoshie and Blue Wolf, along with Barnett as the gaijin ace) are working and are drawing, then GO FOR IT. Yes New Japan are taking a massive risk but thats what companies in a market as shitty as Japan have to do.

 

Other than that I blame everything on Tenzan shaving his skunk mullet off.