Champions Carnival 2005 schedule

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Courtesy of Oudou Love:

 

"CHAMPION CARNIVAL 2005"

 

BLOCK A:

 

- Satoshi Kojima

- Kensuke Sasaki

- Love Machine Arashi

- Taiyo Kea

- Shuji Kondo

- Giant Bernard

 

BLOCK B:

 

- Keiji Muto

- Toshiaki Kawada

- Kohei Suwama

- Jamal

- Buchanan

- Chuck Palumbo

 

AJPW, 4/9/05 (GAORA TV/TV)

Tokyo Korakuen Hall

 

1. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Satoshi Kojima vs. Kensuke Sasaki

2. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Love Machine Arashi vs. Shuji Kondo

3. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Keiji Muto vs. Buchanan

4. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kohei Suwama

5. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Jamal vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

AJPW, 4/10/05 (Samurai! TV Near-Live)

Tokyo Korakuen Hall

 

1. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Satoshi Kojima vs. Shuji Kondo

2. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Giant Bernard

3. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Love Machine Arashi vs. Taiyo Kea

4. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Keiji Muto vs. Toshiaki Kawada

5. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Jamal vs. Buchanan

 

AJPW, 4/13/05

Matsuyama ITEM

 

1. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Satoshi Kojima vs. Taiyo Kea

2. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Love Machine Arashi

3. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Shuji Kondo vs. Giant Bernard

4. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Kohei Suwama vs. Buchanan

5. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

AJPW, 4/14/05 (GAORA TV/TV)

Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2

 

1. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Satoshi Kojima vs. Love Machine Arashi

2. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Shuji Kondo

3. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Taiyo Kea vs. Giant Bernard

4. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jamal

5. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Keiji Muto vs. Kohei Suwama

6. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Buchanan vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

AJPW, 4/16/05

Sunpia Matsumoto

 

1. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Satoshi Kojima vs. Giant Bernard

2. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Taiyo Kea vs. Shuji Kondo

3. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jamal

4. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Keiji Muto vs. Kohei Suwama

5. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Buchanan vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

AJPW, 4/17/05

Niigata City Gymnasium

 

1. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Taiyo Kea

2. Champion Carnival '05 - Block A: Love Machine Arashi vs. Giant Bernard

3. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Keiji Muto vs. Chuck Palumbo

4. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Toshiaki Kawada vs. Buchanan

5. Champion Carnival '05 - Block B: Kohei Suwama vs. Jamal

 

AJPW, 4/20/05 (PPV/GAORA TV/TV)

Yoyogi National Stadium Gymnasium #2

 

1. Champion Carnival '05 - Semi Final:

2. Champion Carnival '05 - Semi Final:

3. Champion Carnival '05 - Final:

[Nevermortal 0]

I really, really can't wait until my eyes get to view A-Train v. Kensuke Sasaki or Kawada v. Chuck Palumbo.

[Vyce 0]

Jesus. Jamal, Buchanan AND Palumbo in one block is just brutal.

 

I suppose I'll be happy with a Kojima / Kea v. Suwama / Kawada final.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

I'm highly impressed that they managed to make this CC look even worse than last year's.

[Sass 0]

Having Shinjiro Ohtani, Takao Omori, Masato Tanaka and Kohei Sato would make a world of differnce with the quality of this year's show.

 

BLOCK A:

 

- Satoshi Kojima

- Kensuke Sasaki

- Takao Omori

- Taiyo Kea

- Shuji Kondo

- Kohei Sato

 

BLOCK B:

 

- Keiji Muto

- Toshiaki Kawada

- Kohei Suwama

- Shinjiro Ohtani

- Masato Tanaka

- Love Machine Arashi

 

Just make it all natives (plus one Hawaiian) and let the RO&D and Voodoo Murder guys have tag matches on the undercards all the time along with a couple Jr. matches. Mix match the actual matches around with the guys above and you have some potentially entertaing matches compared to the actual ones themselves.

 

The gaijin vs. gaijin matches could be something brutal to watch.

 

Z-1's Fire Festival's have managed to churn out better tournament's than the CC has for a while.

[SinToxic 0]

Results for 2 days. 1 shocker.

 

4/9/05

 

1. Champion Carnival - Block A: Shuji Kondo [2] beat Love Machine Arashi [0] (10:33) with a chickenwing hold.

 

2. Champion Carnival - Block B: Jamal [2] beat Chuck Palumbo [0] (14:27) with the Flying Sausage.

 

3. Champion Carnival - Block B: Toshiaki Kawada [2] beat Kohei Suwama [0] (3:36) with a Jumping High Kick.

 

4. Champion Carnival - Block B: Keiji Muto [2] beat Buchanan [0] (9:13) with the Shining Wizard.

 

5. Champion Carnival - Block A: Kensuke Sasaki [2] beat Satoshi Kojima [0] (29:29) with the Northern Light Bomb.

 

 

 

4/10/05

 

1. Champion Carnival - Block A: Taiyo Kea [2] beat Love Machine Arashi [0] (4:01) with a horizontal cradle.

 

2. Champion Carnival - Block B: Buchanan [2] beat Jamal [0] (8:50) with the Iron Bomb.

 

3. Champion Carnival - Block A: Satoshi Kojima [2] beat Shuji Kondo [2] (15:44) with a lariat.

 

4. Champion Carnival - Block A: Giant Bernard [2] beat Kensuke Sasaki [2] (7:50) with a Reverse Splash.

 

5. Champion Carnival - Block B: Keiji Muto [3] drew Toshiaki Kawada [3] (30:00).

 

 

I like that Muto and Kawada drew.

 

Train winning over Sasaki is something to remember as the years go by, going over Kea now seems destined.

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Isn't Kojima still the multi title holder? I know Sasaki is a legend in Japan, but shouldn't the fact he went over Kojima when he has all the gold also be considered a bit of a shock?

[Guest Black Tiger]

Not really. Kojima needs to do a few jobs, to set up some potential title challengers down the line.

 

I'm taking Taiyo Kea to win this year. I took him last year, and I still think he would have taken it, if Kawada hadn't gotten hurt and screwed up the booking.

[JoeDirt 0]

It's clearly Chuck Palumbo's tournament to lose.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

Don't mock my boy.

[Vyce 0]

I'm very much HOPING that Kea goes over this year. I'm afraid they'll do something crazy like give it to A-Train.

 

Although I must say, I really dig the name "Voodoo Murders". It's like the best name for a stable EVAR.

[Jingus 0]

I am morbidly curious to see Kawada punting various WWE castoffs. The rest of the tournament can go fuck itself.

[Guest Black Tiger]

The Semi Finals are set.

 

Toshiaki Kawada vs Kensuke Sasaki

Satoshi Kojima vs Jamal

 

I think whoever wins Kawada vs Sasaki is going to win the Carnival. Kojima winning doesn't really do anything for future Triple Crown contenders. The only one who would really have a viable challenge for Kojima would be Sasaki, based on his win over Kojima in the league.

 

I personally hope Kawada takes it though.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Ugh...... this is even worse than when it looked like Mutoh was getting in instead of Jamal. They should've pushed Albert to the semis.

[Cuban Linx 0]

One particular result that caught my attention:

 

3. Champion Carnival - Block B: Buchanan [5] drew Chuck Palumbo [3] (30:00).

 

I have little desire to see Bull Buchanon and Chuck Palumbo face each other for more than 5 minutes, let alone THIRTY. I can't imagine it being anything other than a trainwreck, yet i'm morbidly curious to see just how they could possibly pull it off.

[Guest TheLastBoyscout]

I cannot believe Mutoh jobbed to Chuck Palumbo and Kawada jobbed to Jamal.

 

MAN, is Mutoh serious about getting these guys over or what?

[Jingus 0]

Mutoh seems to have the unerring ability to hire some of the worst guys to ever be fired by the WWE. Do these guys actually draw in Japan? How are All Japan's TV ratings? How've they been doing business-wise since they started pushing the clumsy gaijin?

[Guest TheLastBoyscout]

They're actually really cool in Japan. I think both Palumbo and Jamal have been molded into good workers.

[Vyce 0]

The Semi Finals are set.

 

Toshiaki Kawada vs Kensuke Sasaki

Satoshi Kojima vs Jamal

 

I think whoever wins Kawada vs Sasaki is going to win the Carnival. Kojima winning doesn't really do anything for future Triple Crown contenders. The only one who would really have a viable challenge for Kojima would be Sasaki, based on his win over Kojima in the league.

 

I personally hope Kawada takes it though.

I'd think a good bit of booking would be to have Sasaki v. Kojima in the finals, with Sasaki going over, to get heat for a Sasaki / Kojima title match. Which Kojima, of course, wins.

[JoeDirt 0]

Final results!

 

All Japan ran their 2005 Champion Carnival tournament finals on April 20th in Tokyo at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym II, claiming 5,300 paid. Results:

 

1. Ryuji Hijikata & Arashi defeated Masa Fuchi & Akira Raijin in 5 minutes, 26 seconds when Hijikata used a Fisherman's Buster on Raijin for the win.

 

2. CC Semi-Finals: Jamal (B Block #2) defeated Satoshi Kojima (A Block #1) in 16 minutes, 22 seconds with the Flying Sausage.

 

3. CC Semi-Finals: Kensuke Sasaki (A Block #2) defeated Toshiaki Kawada (B Block #1) in 19 minutes, 11 seconds with the Northern Lights Bomb.

 

4. Bull Buchanan & Taiyo Kea defeated Nobutaka Araya & Nobukazu Hirai in 5 minutes, 6 seconds when Buchanan used the Iron (Claw) Bomb on Araya for the win.

 

5. Jr. Heavyweight Title Match: TAKA Michinoku defeated Katsuhiko Nakajima in 17 minutes, 4 seconds with the Michinoku Driver #2.

 

6. All Japan vs. Voodoo Murders 5 vs. 5: TARU, Giant Bernard, Chuck Palumbo, Shuji Kondo, and "brother" YASSHI defeated Keiji Mutoh, Kaz Hayashi, Tomoaki Honma, Kohei Suwama, & NOSAWA in 17 minutes, 16 seconds when Bernard used the Baldo Bomb on NOSAWA for the win.

 

7. 2005 Champion Carnival finals: Kensuke Sasaki defeated Jamal in 17 minutes, 32 seconds with the Northern Lights Bomb to win the tournament.

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ALBERT GETTING THE PUSH IN JAPAN! HAIL ALBERT!

 

And FUCKING JAMAL made it to the finals? Wow...