Look to the East – 07/19/12
All Japan’s Junior Hyper League begins!
Hello everyone and welcome to Look to the East for the week of July 19th, 2012. So get this… NO major news this week from Japan. So this’ll be a short column where all I can bring you are show results from this week, which I have plenty of. Especially since All Japan began the Junior Hyper League. So here we go!!
Show Results – 07/13/12 – 07/19/12
07/13/12 – Kizuna Road (NJP) – Muroran City Gym
Wataru Inoue def. Hiromu Takahashi
Yoshi-Hashi & Jado def. Captain New Japan & Maximo (CMLL)
Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Tiger Mask & Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi) def. Chaos (Low Ki, Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov & Gedo)
Suzuki Army (Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, Taka Michinoku (K-Dojo) & Taichi) def. Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata, Kushida & Bushi
Hirooki Goto, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima def. Chaos (Shinsuke Nakamura, Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka) (DQ)
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tetsuya Naito, “Machine Gun” Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga def. Chaos (“Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada, Masato Tanaka (Zero1), Yujiro Takahashi & Tomohiro Ishii)
07/14/12 – Kizuna Road (NJP) – Kutchan Town Gym
Wataru Inoue def. Hiromu Takahashi
Chaos (Low Ki, Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov) def. Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Tiger Mask & Maximo (CMLL)
Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Captain New Japan def. Chaos (Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Yoshi-Hashi) (DQ)
Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata & Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi) def. Suzuki Army (Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, Taka Michinoku (K-Dojo) & Taichi)
“Machine Gun” Karl Anderson, Kushida & Bushi def. Chaos (“Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada, Jado & Gedo)
Chaos (Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka (Zero1), Yujiro Takahashi & Tomohiro Ishii) def. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, Tetsuya Naito & Tama Tonga
07/14/12 – Road to Budokan in Hakata, Dramatic Dream Tourimon (DDT) – Sazanpia Hakata
Keisuke Ishii def. Tetsuya Endo
Takao Soma & DJ Nira def. Rion Mizuki & Micheal Nakazawa
Harashima def. Azure Dragon
Sanshiro Takagi & Yuto Aijima def. Monster Army A & B
Danshoku Dino def. Batten Tamagawa
Kota Ibushi, Kudo & Makoto Oishi def. Yuji Hino, Antonio Honda & Daisuke Sasaki
Bonus Battle Royal – Winner – Harashima
07/14/12 – Club K 3000 EX (K-Dojo) – Reina Arena
3 way match – Daigoro Kashiwa def. Kotaro Nasu & Jonathon Bader (France)
2-3 falls match – Hiro Tonai & Silver Wave def. Kunio Toshima & Ayumu Honda – Tonai scored both falls for the win, on one each of his opponents.
Kengo Mashimo vs. Hiroki – Draw
Isami Kodaka (Union) def. Ryuichi Sekine
8 Man Elimination Tag Match – Kengo Mashimo, Hiro Tonai, Silver Wave & Ayumu Honda def. Saburo Inematsu, Daigoro Kashiwa, Kunio Toshima & Ryuichi Sekine
Eliminations – Inematsu def. Honda (pinfall), Mashimo def. Sekine (submission), Tonai def. Toshima (ringout), Mashimo & Kashiwa (double ring out), Inematsu def. Wave (ring out), Tonai def. Inematsu (pinfall)
07/14/12 – Michinoku Pro – Akita City Selion Plaza
Taro Nohashi def. Ayumu Gunji
Yapperman 1, 2 & 3 def. Ultimo Dragon, Kesen Numa-Girolamo & Kinya Oyanagi
Rasse & Kenbai def. The Great Sasuke & Daichi Sasaki
Ken45* def. Rui Hiuagaji – DQ
Kenou, Shu & Kai Brahman def. Fujita “Jr.” Hayato, Takeshi Minamino & ManjiMaru
07/15/12 – Kizuna Road (NJP) – Yakumo Town Gym
Wataru Inoue def. Hiromu Takahashi
Maximo (CMLL) & Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi) def. Chaos (Low Ki, Jado & Gedo)
Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Jushin “Thunder” Liger & Tiger Mask def. Chaos (Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka, Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov) – (DQ)
Suzuki Army (Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, Taka Michinoku (K-Dojo), Taichi) def. Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata, Kushida & Bushi
“Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada & Yoshi-Hashi def. Tetsuya Naito & Captain New Japan
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, “Machine Gun” Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga def. Chaos (Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka (Zero1), Yujiro Takahashi & Tomohiro Ishii)
07/15/12 – Junior Hyper League, Day 1 (AJP) – KBS Hall
A Block – Aegyptus Aerial def. Mazda
Minoru Tanaka & Gillette def. Yasufumi Nakanoueno & Andy Woo
B Block – Sushi def. Hiroshi Yamato
B Block – Shuji Kondo def. Kaz Hayashi
Akebono, Ryota Hama & Kenso def. Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Hikaru Sato (Pancrase)
A Block – Koji Kanemoto def. Kai
Taiyo Kea, Seiya Sanada & Joe Doering def. Suwama, Takao Omori & Manabu Soya
07/15/12 – Summer Navigation ’12 (NOAH) – Gifu Chamber of Commerce & Industry Great Hall
Atsushi Aoki def. Masao Inoue (Free)
Atsushi Kotoge def. Diablo
Akitoshi Saito def. Mikey Nicholls
Jun Akiyama def. Shane Haste
Go Shiozaki & Kotaro Suzuki def. Mohammad Yone & Ricky Marvin
Brave (Takeshi Morishima, Naomichi Marufuji & Taiji Ishimori) def. No Mercy (Maybach Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi)
07/15/12 – Road to Budokan, Dramatic Dream Toukasan (DDT) – Hiroshima Industrial Hall
Daisuke Sasaki def. Tetsuya Endo
Masa Takanashi vs. DJ Nira vs. Batten Tamagawa – No idea who won this one
Kota Ibushi & Ray Paloma def. Danshoku Dino & Micheal Nakazawa
Yuto Aijima def. Antonio Honda
Harashima & Keisuke Ishii def. Sanshiro Takagi & Takao Soma
KO-D Tag Titles – Kudo & Makoto Oishi © def. Yasu Urano & Yuji Hino – V2 Defense
07/15/12 – Ryuij Yamakawa Retirement Show (BJP) – Sapporo Teisen Hall
*No results for the first four matches*
Takumi Tsukamoto & Masashi Otani vs. Kazuki Hashimoto & Hideyoshi Kamitani
Yuichi Taniguchi vs. Masato Inaba
Barbed wire Board Deathmatch – Yuko Miyamoto & Isami Kodaka vs. Masashi Takeda & Mototsugu Shimizu
Takashi Sasaki vs. Shinya Ishikawa
BJP Tag Titles – Yuji Okabayashi & Shinobu def. Shuji Ishikawa & Shigehiro Irie ©
BJP World Strong Heavyweight Title – Yoshihito Sasaki © def. Daisuke Sakimoto – V3 Defense
Spiked Nails & Fluorescent Lighttube 6 man tag Deathmatch – Ryuji Yamakawa, Abdullah Kobayashi & Ryuji Ito def. Shadow WX, “Black Angel” Jaki Numazawa & Kankuro Hoshino
07/15/12 – Wrestling New Classic – Korakuen Hall
Taijiri & Naomichi Marufuji (NOAH) def. Starbuck & Hajime Ohara
Kana def. Mio Shirai
Yusuke Kodama def. Shinose 37
3 way Hardcore Match – Hoshito Takahashi def. Lin Bairon & Takuya Kito
Tatsumi Fujinami & Koji Doi def. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Jiro Kuroshio
Ayako Hamada def. Shuri
07/15/12 – Summer Game Anthology ’12 (Michinoku Pro) – Yahaba Residential General Gym
Ken45* def. Ayumu Gunji
Yapperman 1, 2 & 3 def. The Great Sasuke, Ultimo Dragon & Kesen Numa-Girolamo
Shu & Kai Brahman def. Kinya Oyanagi & Daichi Sasaki
Fujita “Jr” Hayato, Takeshi Minamino & ManjiMaru def. Kenou, Rui Hiuagaji & Taro Nohashi
Rasse def. Kenbai
07/16/12 – Kizuna Road (NJP) – Hakodate Citizen Gym
Wataru Inoue def. Hiromu Takahashi
Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Tiger Mask, Kushida, Bushi & Maximo (CMLL) def. Chaos (Low Ki, Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov, Jado & Gedo)
Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Captain New Japan def. Chaos (Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii) (DQ)
Tetsuya Naito & “Machine Gun” Karl Anderson def. Yujiro Takahashi & Yoshi-Hashi
Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata & Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi) def. Suzuki Army (Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, Taka Michinoku (K-Dojo) & Taichi)
Chaos (Shinsuke Nakamura, “Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada & Masato Tanaka (Zero1) def. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto & Tama Tonga
07/16/12 – Junior Hyper League, Day 2 (AJP) – Kuki City General Gym
Gillette def. Yasufumi Nakanoueno
B Block – Kaz Hayashi (2pts) def. Andy Woo (0pts)
Kenso & Sushi def. Shuji Kondo & Mazda
A Block – Minoru Tanaka (2pts) def. Aegyptus Aerial (2pts)
Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Koji Kanemoto (NJP) def. Akebono, Ryota Hama & Hiroshi Yamato
A Block – Hikaru Sato (Pancrase) (2pts) def. Kai (0pts)
Suwama, Takao Omori & Manabu Soya def. Taiyo Kea, Seiya Sanada & Joe Doering
07/16/12 – Summer Navigation ’12 (NOAH) – Toyama Industrial Exhibition Building
Taiji Ishimori def. Genba Hirayanagi
Atsushi Kotoge def. Masao Inoue (Free)
Mohammed Yone def. Mikey Nicholls
Takeshi Morishima def. Shane Haste
Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki def. Naomichi Marufuji & Ricky Marvin
Jun Akiyama & Go Shiozaki def. Maybach Taniguchi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
07/16/12 – Road to Budokan, Dramatic Dream Tameike (DDT) – Takamatsu Symbol Tower
Sanshiro Takagi def. Tetsuya Endo
Micheal Nakazawa def. Batten Tamagawa
Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda def. DJ Nira & Teppei Ishizaka
Danshoku Dino & Makoto Oishi def. Yasu Urano & Daisuke Sasaki
Yuji Hino def. Takao Soma
Kota Ibushi & Kudo def. Harashima & Keisuke Ishii
07/16/12 – Diamond Ring – New City Hall, Yokohama
Namazu Man & Marines Mask (Free) def. Masato Shibata & Chango (Free)
Tomoaki Honma (Free) def. Mitsuhiro Kitamiya
K-ness (DragonGate) def. Satoshi Kajiwara
Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kengo Mashimo (K-Dojo) vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa (Free) & Fujita “Jr” Hayato (Michinoku) (Draw – Time Limit)
Kensuke Sasaki, Kento Miyahara & Kentaro Shiga (Free) def. Daisuke Ikeda, Kenichiro Arai (DragonGate) & Takeshi Minamino (Michinoku)
07/16/12 – Wrestling New Classic – Osaka Sekaikan
Koji Doi def. Shinose 37
Kito Cup ’12 – Tsubasa, Jiro Kuroshio & Lin Bairon def. Daisuke Harada, Yusuke Kodama & Hoshito Takahashi
Shuri def. Sawako Shimono
Kito Cup ’12 – The Bodyguard, Takuya Kito & Mio Shirai def. Taijiri, Zeus & Kana
Kito Cup Final – Tsubasa, Jiro Kuroshio & Lin Bairon def. The Bodyguard, Takuya Kito & Mio Shirai
Starbuck def. Hajime Ohara
07/18/12 – Kizuna Road (NJP) – Sapporo Teisen Hall
Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi) def. Kushida & Bushi
Chaos (Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov, Jado & Tomohiro Ishii) def. Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Tiger Mask, Captain New Japan & Maximo (CMLL)
Hiroyoshi Tenzan def. Takashi Iizuka (DQ)
Satoshi Kojima def. Toru Yano (DQ)
DDT (Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki) def. Low Ki & Gedo
Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata, Akebono (AJP) & Wataru Inoue def. Suzuki Army (Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, Taka Michinoku (K-Dojo) & Taichi)
Chaos (Shinsuke Nakamura, “Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada & Yoshi-Hashi) def. Hirooki Goto, “Machine Gun” Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga
Masato Tanaka (Zero1) & Yujiro Takahashi def. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tetsuya Naito
07/18/12 – Junior Hyper League, Day 3 (AJP) – Mito City East Town Sports Park
Masanobu Fuchi def. Yasufumi Nakanoueno
Kai & Sushi def. Mazda & Aegyptus Aerial
B Block – Hiroshi Yamato (2pts) def. Andy Woo (0pts)
A Block – Shuji Kondo (4pts) def. Gillette (0pts)
A Block – Koji Kanemoto (NJP) (4pts) def. Hikaru Sato (Pancrase) (2pts)
Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka def. Kenso, Ryota Hama & Kaz Hayashi
Taiyo Kea, Seiya Sanada & Joe Doering def. Suwama, Takao Omori & Manabu Soya
07/18/12 – BJW x Union Joint Show – ShinKiba 1stRing
Isami Kodaka, Hiroo Tsumaki & Daichi Kazato def. Shinya Ishikawa, Kazuki Hashimoto & Hideyoshi Kamiya
Great Kojika & Cherry def. Masashi Otani & Hiroshi Fukuda – Special Referee – Sanshiro Takagi
“Black Angel” Jami Numazawa & Big Rude def. Yuji Okabayashi & Hoshitango
Hardcore Match – Ryuji Ito def. Ken Ohka
Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Ohka def. Abdullah Kobayashi & Isami Kodaka
Yoshihito Sasaki def. Shigehiro Irie
DDT Extreme Title, Fluorescent Lighttube, Roses & Ecosystem Deathmatch – Shuji Ishikawa def. Yuki Miyamoto © – Special Referee – Sanshiro Takagi – Ishikawa becomes the 19th Champion
07/19/12 – Kizuna Road (NJP) – Sapporo Teisen Hall
Kushida, Bushi & Tama Tonga def. Wataru Inoue, Hiromu Takahashi & Takaaki Watanabe
Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Tiger Mask & Maximo (CMLL) def. Chaos (Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov & Gedo)
Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka def. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima – Referee Stoppage
Low Ki & Jado def. DDT (Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki)
Tetsuya Naito, “Machine Gun” Karl Anderson & Captain New Japan def. Chaos (“Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada, Yujiro Takahashi & Yoshi-Hashi)
Suzuki Army (Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, Taka Michinoku (K-Dojo) & Taichi) def. Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata & Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi)
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto & Akebono (AJP) def. Chaos (Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka (Zero1) & Tomohiro Ishii)
Junior Hyper League ’12 Full Current Standings (AJP)
A Block
Koji Kanemoto (NJP) – 4pts
Minoru Tanaka – 2pts
Hikaru Sato (Pancrase) – 2pts
Aegyptus Aerial – 2pts
Mazda – 0pts
Kai – 0pts
B Block
Shuji Kondo – 4pts
Sushi – 2pts
Kaz Hayashi – 2pts
Hiroshi Yamato – 2 pts
Gillette – 0pts
Andy Woo – 0pts
Final Thoughts
Wow, I can’t believe I couldn’t find any serious news. Pretty crazy how slow things are over there right now. Oh well, hopefully all those results made up for it.
Well, that’s all I have for today. Come on back tomorrow for Crossing the Impact Zone, which will be the review of this month’s edition of Open Fight Night! Also, head over to my deviantArt page to check out my photography work! So, until next time, take care, stay tuned and remember….listen to the stars, for they know all.
Dennis Gates Jr. (@knightnephrite)
