Muto books kronik in aj as tag title challengers..

[Guest Stuart]

- This year's G1 Climax will be separated into two mini-tours. The group stage, which runs on 8/3, 8/4, 8/5, 8/7 and 8/8 will be named "BATTLE TYPHOON G1 CLIMAX 2002", while the finals, which take place on 8/10 and 8/11 will be called "FINAL HURRICANE G1 CLIMAX 2002". Meanwhile, NJ has added yet more shows to the "SUMMER FIGHT SERIES". This tour is going to be very long, with 21 shows planned at this point. Current schedule can be found @ http://www.puroresufan.com/njpw/results.php

 

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Toru Yano, who is being called one of New Japan's best dojo prospects in years, will debut on the tour opener, which is also his 23rd birthday. Yano was initiated into the dojo at the same time as Blue Wolf last year, and has a bright future. He debuts against his dojo friend.

 

NJPW, 5/18/02 (SXW)

Yamato Sports Center

 

1. Blue Wolf vs. Toru Yano (debut)

2. Kenzo Suzuki & Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tatsutoshi Goto & GOKU-DO

3. Best of the Super Jr. - Block B: Masayuki Naruse vs. Wataru Inoue

4. Best of the Super Jr. - Block A: Jado vs. Curry Man

5. Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai vs. Black Tiger & Gedo

6. Best of the Super Jr. - Block A: Masahito Kakihara vs. Koji Kanemoto

7. Best of the Super Jr. - Block B: Minoru Tanaka vs. AKIRA

8. Kensuke Sasaki & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuji Nagata & Tadao Yasuda

9. Manabu Nakanishi, Osamu Nishimura & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Masahiro Chono, Scott Norton & Hiroyoshi Tenzan

 

- It's a joshi puroresu fan's nightmare, but Joanie "Chyna" Laurer is set to face a joshi superstar, Shinobu "Joshi's Strongest Man" Kandori. Kandori made the challenge and LLPW president, Rumi Kazami, gave her full support. The match has been unofficially arrange for an unspecified date.

 

- Well, he wasn't quite able to bring in Ron and Don Harris, so Muto has instead invited Brian Adams & Bryan Clark, AKA Kronik, to challenge for the World Tag Team Title on 7/17. Muto said, "Mr. (The) Rock is also coming to All Japan, along with Kronik and (Hulk) Hogan". Meanwhile, the discussion that Kojima and The Rock had yesterday will be shown on 6/21 on the SKY PerfecTV! network. Senator Hiroshi Hase also held very brief talks with Rock about his possible participation on All Japan shows. I wonder what Giant Baba would think about all this...

 

AJPW, 7/17/02

Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

 

1. AJPW World Tag Team Title: Keiji Muto & Taiyo Kea © vs. Brian Adams & Bryan Clark

2. Triple Crown: Genichiro Tenryu © vs. Satoshi Kojima

 

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NOAH, 5/16/02 (NTV)

Aomori Exercise Park Gymnasium

2,400 Fans

 

1. Haruka Eigen & Jun Izumida beat Rusher Kimura & Mitsuo Momota (10:21) when Izumida used a Meteorite punch on Momota.

2. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, Masashi Aoyagi & KENTA beat Richard Slinger, Juventud Guerrera & Ray Gordy (16:12) when KENTA used a Falcon Arrow on Gordy.

3. Scorpio beat Kishin Kawabata (11:27) with the Scorpion Twist II.

4. Yoshihiro Takayama beat Mohammed Yone (2:45) with a knee kick.

5. Tamon Honda beat Takashi Sugiura (9:51) with a head height cross knee scissors hold.

6. Takeshi Morishima, Takeshi Rikio & Daisuke Ikeda beat Vader, Michael Modest & Donovan Morgan (13:45) when Rikio used a powerbomb on Morgan.

7. Takao Omori & Kentaro Shiga beat Akira Taue & Masao Inoue (16:09) when Omori used an Axe Bomber on Inoue.

8. Yoshinari Ogawa, Mitsuharu Misawa & Takuma Sano beat Jun Akiyama, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Makoto Hashi (20:18) when Sano used a Northern Lights Bomb on Hashi.

[Guest dr deaf]

I'll admit that I know more about the WWF than AJPW but that's just.... I wouldn't even pay to see them at my local bingo hall how do they rate?  Must be great gag reflexes on both those boys.

[Guest]

I think that The Rock is not bad for workrate and should be not bad although I dont like the idea of him facing the big guns in AJPW ! The Rock v Mutoh sounds like a good match to me ! But, I am not AMAZINGLY knowlegable because I dont see Japanese Wrestling often !

[Guest J*ingus]

Kronik?  Why?  No really, why?  I see no reason to hire them.  They 1.Don't draw money, and 2.Have bad matches.  Is there a third strike possible here?  I mean, these guys' workrate was so bad that even the WWF fired them over it.  Did Mutoh see their match on the WWA ppv and think "wow, since Hashimoto books those Native Blood guys, I've gotta get my hands on their opponents"?

[Guest RickyChosyu]

The Rock v Mutoh sounds like a good match to me !

If you're into that whole "so bad, it's good" thing. Even then...

 

I'll never understand why guys like the Steiners, Harris Bros, and Kronic can get work in Japan. It just boggles my mind. I mean, do the people who hire these actually *gasp* watch their matches? And did I hear Mutoh say he's going to try to bring in Hogan? I wonder if Hogan/Mutoh is Keji's way of expressing his "Puroresu Love" to us. And Motoko Baba thought that Misawa was taking All Japan in the wrong direction?

 

Oh well, just one more reason not to watch AJPW. Hell, Kojima/Tenryu doesn't even seem appealing to me right now.

[Guest MrDanger]

The really sad thing is that Kronik are actually a step up from the likes of The Harris Brothers, Cedman and Abby

[Guest The Son of Sting]

Kronik in AJ sounds like a bad dream.

 

I'll never understand why guys like the Steiners, Harris Bros, and Kronic can get work in Japan.

 

The Steiners used to be awsome, and are in at the moment on past rep. I dont understand the Harris Bros as well.

[Guest Your Olympic Hero]

The Harris Bros. vs. Kronik were the kinds of things that killed WCW... fuck the nWo being poison, these idiots are the poison to pro wrestling.  They think they can compete just because they're big, but they have no in ring skills, no charisma, and no mic skills.

[Guest DragonflyKid]

They just bring in guys like the Harris boys and Kronik so they can use the formula of the native underdog versus the monster foreigner so that the natives can eventually conquer the monster foreigners.

 

The Harris boys and Kronik are both horrible and Muto and Kea are going to have to bump their asses of to make it anywhere near good. If they do that the formula should work to some degree as bad as Kronik is.

[Guest PlatypusFool]

RollingChop, you are absolutely correct. But it is Kea alone who is going to be bumping like a mad man in that match. Mutoh is gonna be playing the 'stand on apron getting behind partner, make hot tag in the last few minutes of match, beat the gaijin for the big pop' role because of his knees and his status in the company. I predict we will see 5 shining wizards this time as well...

 

My biggest fear here though, is that Kronik might actually win. Lets not forget that Kea has 'seperated' himself from Mutoh in storylines, and they ain't gonna be a tag team for much longer. Common sense suggests that Kronik win the match, until you remember how crap they are of course.

[Guest dreamer420]

The Harris Bros. vs. Kronik were the kinds of things that killed WCW... fuck the nWo being poison, these idiots are the poison to pro wrestling.  They think they can compete just because they're big, but they have no in ring skills, no charisma, and no mic skills.

Bullshit.  You want someone to blame for wcw's demise.  Let try Vince Russo, Eric Bischoff, Kevin Nash for starters.  Or how about the fans who stopped watching wcw and made it the sad joke that it was during it's dying days.

[Guest RickyChosyu]

Bullshit.  You want someone to blame for wcw's demise.  Let try Vince Russo, Eric Bischoff, Kevin Nash for starters.  Or how about the fans who stopped watching wcw and made it the sad joke that it was during it's dying days.

Listen:

 

1) Eric Bischoff, despite being one of the men who let the company get out of hand and Kevin Nash have the power that he did, was also the guy who lead them to their one and only run as the #1 wrestling company in North America. Point being, WCW wouldn't have had a downfall if it were not for him, because there would have been no mountain for them to fall off of.

 

2) Vince Russo had little to do with it. He was simply another nail in the casket. The signs were clearly there long before he came and pissed away what little was left.

 

3) The fans not watching is almost always the result of a bad product, not the cause of one. The fans decided to stop watching WCW because of the One-Fingered Pin, the "Who Drove the Hummer" angle, the Sting/Hogan train-wreck. They didn't make things go bad, they just left once there was nothing worth seeing.

 

4) For someone who seems so mad about people seeking out blaim for WCW's end, you sure do blaim a lot of people. Just a thought.

[Guest dreamer420]

Listen:

 

It is stupid to say that guys like Ron and Don Harris, Bryan Adams, and Brian Clarke are responsible for the demise of the WCW.  Every wrestling company in the world puts out it's share of shitty matches but for every crappy match that was on WCW TV there was a good one to match it.  I'm just looking to other places to lay the blame because blaming 4 curtain jerkers doesn't make one bit of sence.  You should look to who was running the company and who was booking the matches during the demise, not the first four guys in the ring every night.

[Guest RickyChosyu]

Listen:

 

It is stupid to say that guys like Ron and Don Harris, Bryan Adams, and Brian Clarke are responsible for the demise of the WCW.  Every wrestling company in the world puts out it's share of shitty matches but for every crappy match that was on WCW TV there was a good one to match it.  I'm just looking to other places to lay the blame because blaming 4 curtain jerkers doesn't make one bit of sence.  You should look to who was running the company and who was booking the matches during the demise, not the first four guys in the ring every night.

Right,

 

There was not always a good match to go with the crappy matches. In fact, rarely was there a good match near the end of WCW's exhistance (when Kronic and the Harris Bros. were being pushed). They weren't curtain jerkers, either. Kronik were put over so many teams that there were no threats in the tag division and The Harris Bros. have been given repeated pushes in a many number of promotions for years opon years without ever deserving it. Is it more the booker's fault for booking them? Yeah, but it doesn't save the fact that they were terrible workers and turned many people off from the WCW product.

[Guest dreamer420]

Right,

 

There was not always a good match to go with the crappy matches. In fact, rarely was there a good match near the end of WCW's exhistance (when Kronic and the Harris Bros. were being pushed). They weren't curtain jerkers, either. Kronik were put over so many teams that there were no threats in the tag division and The Harris Bros. have been given repeated pushes in a many number of promotions for years opon years without ever deserving it. Is it more the booker's fault for booking them? Yeah, but it doesn't save the fact that they were terrible workers and turned many people off from the WCW product.

Maybe you are thinking of a different WCW.  I'm talking about:

 

World

Championship

Wrestling

 

Ever heard of them, or seen any shows?  Statements like "rarely there was a good match near the end of wcw" indicate that either you haven't seen any matches from the end of WCW or you don't know what a good match is.  The cruiserweights were burning up the ring during the last few months of wcw as well as O'Haire, Jindrak, Storm, Kanyon, DDP, Jarrett, Morrus, Awesome, Booker, Vampiro, and Disco.  All those guys are capable of working excellant matches and all of them did work excellant matches towards the end of WCW.

[Guest RickyChosyu]

Maybe you are thinking of a different WCW.  I'm talking about:

 

World

Championship

Wrestling

 

Ever heard of them, or seen any shows?  Statements like "rarely there was a good match near the end of wcw" indicate that either you haven't seen any matches from the end of WCW or you don't know what a good match is.  The cruiserweights were burning up the ring during the last few months of wcw as well as O'Haire, Jindrak, Storm, Kanyon, DDP, Jarrett, Morrus, Awesome, Booker, Vampiro, and Disco.  All those guys are capable of working excellant matches and all of them did work excellant matches towards the end of WCW.

Yeah, Kanyon was really "burning it up" against Ernest Miller. Geeze, I really need to re-watch those Bigelow/Awesome matches, too. All this and Hugh Morris? Sorry, dude, I guess I just totally sold the company short with my dispariging coments there...

 

I guess I'm just not profound enough when it comes to knowing about wreslting to realize how excellent Disco Inferno was. W-C-W!!! W-C-W!!!

[Guest dreamer420]

That's your opinion dude and that's cool.  You know mine and it's not going to change.

[Guest]

nah guys, the last ppv greed was the shit, there was atleast 4 good matches, the rest watchable.  SHit if anything it was better the last 2 months than the last 3 months of the wwe.

 

--Rob

[Guest]

I know what Baba would "say" about all of this Rock, Hogan & KroniK nonsense... NOTHING! Because he's dead! Let the man rest in peace for crying out loud.