TWC Update

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Here's tonight's line-up for the Japanese shows:

 

New Japan- 9pm

1 Katsuyori Shibata, Kazunari Murakami & Masahiro Chono vs. Shinya Makabe, Kendo Ka Shin & Yuji Nagata

2 Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

3 Katsuhiko Nakajima & Ultimo Dragon vs. Garuda & Wataru Inoue

 

NOAH- 10pm

1 Jun Izumida vs. Masashi Aoyagi

2 Richard Slinger & Superstar Steve vs. Kentaro Shiga & Takuma Sano

3 KENTA, Takashi Sugiura & Daisuke Ikeda vs. Satoru Asako, Takao Omori & Shinjiro Ohtani

 

GAEA- 11pm

1 Ran Yu Yu & Toshie Uematsu vs. Hitomi Hayashi & Carlos Amano

2 Dynamite Kansai & Chigusa Nagayo vs. Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima

3 Aja Kong & Lioness Aska vs. Meiko Satomura & Ayako Hamada

 

Notes

 

Tonight's New Japan show features more matches from the June 5th Crush II event. The show is highlighted by a superb battle for the vacant IWGP World heavyweight title. Bob Sapp, the previous champ, vacated the title after losing to Kazuyuki Fujita in devastating fashion a couple of weeks earlier at a K-1 MMA show. Fujita wrestles the number one contender for the belt, the excellent Hiroshi Tanahashi. Also, don't miss the final match on the show, which was actually the opening bout on the card, as WWE's Ultimo Dragon teams with the 16-year-old sensation, Katsuhiko Nakajima.

 

More NOAH coverage from 2001. The highlight of the show is a strong six-man match featuring Zero-One's Shinjiro Ohtani. Be sure to watch tonight's Bagpipe Report as I'll have an announcement about the future of NOAH on TWC.

 

Three matches on this week's GAEA (which was taped on January 25th, 2004). Watch the cocky unit of Yu Yu and Uematsu as they continue in their pursuit of the AAAW World tag team titles (held by Chikayo Nagashima and Meiko Satomura) as well as GAEA's top two younger wrestlers in tag action as Meiko Satomura and the great Ayako Hamada jin forces.

 

This week's Japan Classics (Saturday night @ 9pm) will feature Flying Scorpio & Pegasus Kid vs. Akira Nogami & Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger. This is our first look at Chris Benoit on the show, and he takes part in a superb tag team match. DON'T miss that one.

 

And finally, don't forget to check out New Japan's Super J Cup '94 this Sunday at 8pm. No sell job necessary.

[Guest wildpegasus]

I've never seen Scorpio/Pegasus vs Nogami/Lyger. Although I think this match is available if you look hard enough no tape dealers have this on classics because a lot of the early 90s are missing from collections.

 

So if anyone sees this would you please report on what you thought about it? Thank you very much.