New Japan TV 7-29-93 New Japan vs All Japan main event!

[Chitohausen]

Sanctioned by International Wrestling Grand Prix; Seiji Sakaguchi, president


Airs across Japan on Saturday, July 29, 1993 on:


TV Asahi


From the Nakajima Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan



Announcers: Kenji Wakabayashi and Kotetsu Yamamoto
Ring Announcer: Hidekazu Tanaka
Referees: Red Shoes Unno, Tiger Hattori and Kyohei Wada



KENJI WAKABAYASHI and KOTETSU YAMAMOTO open the show.

They welcome us to this week’s episode of Asahi TV’s “World Pro-Wrestling”!

This week, El Samurai, representing New Japan, will square off with All Japan’s Ultimo Dragon!

In a tag team match that should be an absolute slobberknocker, Stan Hansen and Dan Spivey face off against the Jurassic Powers, Scott Norton and Hercules Hernandez!

Another chapter in the battle between Heisei Ishingun and Raging Staff will be written today, as Kuniaki Kobayashi, Masashi Aoyagi and Akitoshi Saito square off with Super Strong Machine, Tatsutoshi Goto and Hiro Saito!

And, in our huge feature match, Kengo Kimura, Shiro Koshinaka and Masa Saito defend the honour of New Japan Pro Wrestling against Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada and Kenta Kobashi!


Before we get to the first match, we see highlights of some of the earlier matches on the card. The card began with Hiroshi Hase and Satoshi Kojima defeating Akira Nogami and Manabu Nakanishi after a Northern Lights Suplex from Hase on Nakanishi.

Shinya Hashimoto beat AJPW’s Yoshiaki Yatsu in about 10 minutes with a vicious DDT.

Keiji Mutoh beat Dan Kroffat in a non-title match with a Moonsault.


ULTIMO DRAGON (AJPW) defeats EL SAMURAI (NJPW). The two men start out on the mat, trading holds and counters at a lightning-quick pace. Samurai focuses on Dragon’s leg, looking to limit Dragon’s high-flying offense.

After a few minutes, with the mat wrestling now out of the way, Dragon takes to the sky, sending Samurai out of the ring with a dropkick, then diving over the top rope onto his opponent on the floor!

Back inside the ring, Dragon goes for a moonsault, but Samurai rolls out of the way. Samurai then goes back to the leg of Dragon, and continues to work it over. Samurai then tries the same tactic that Dragon used against him earlier, he dropkicks Dragon out of the ring and dives over the top rope. However, Dragon moves out of the way, and Samurai crashes and burns!

Back inside, a backdrop driver from Dragon gets a 2-count, as does a Fisherman’s Suplex. The two men trade nearfalls for the next few minutes. Dragon hits the Dragon Bomb for a VERY close nearfall, but Samurai gets a shoulder up at the very last second!

Dragon goes for the Asai Moonsault, but Samurai gets his knees up, then hits a Huracaranra, into a pinning predicament, but Dragon kicks out!

A moment later, Dragon again gains the upper hand, and this time, he connects with the Asai Moonsault. He then drives Samurai into the mat with the Dragon Bomb for the 1, 2, 3!


STAN HANSEN & DANNY SPIVEY defeat THE JURASSIC POWERS: SCOTT NORTON & HERCULES HERNANDEZ via DQ. This is more a knockdown, drag out brawl than a wrestling match! The two teams spend the entire match just trying to pummel their opponents into the mat.

Late in the match, all four men are brawling outside the ring, Dan Spivey rolls Hercules back in, and continues to pummel him. On the outside, Scott Norton grabs Hercules’ chain, and batters Hansen with it, and then tosses it into the ring. Hercules grabs the chain, wraps it around his fist, and starts punching Spivey in the face! The referee tries to stop him, but he gets a shot from the chain as well!

The referee is down and out as the two teams continue to brawl, but when he finally gets back to his feet and shakes off the cobwebs, he immediately calls for the bell, and awards the match to Hansen and Spivey by disqualification!

Neither team seems to care, they just continue to brawl, eventually making their way down the aisle and out of sight.


HEISEI ISHINGUN: KUNIAKI KOBAYASHI & MASASHI AOYAGI & AKITOSHI SAITO defeat RAGING STAFF: SUPER STRONG MACHINE & TATSUTOSHI GOTO & HIRO SAITO. Koby teams up with the karatekas, Aoyagi and Saito, to face archrivals Raging Staff. We see a lot of martial arts attacks from the Heisei Ishingun side, while Raging Staff would rather turn the match into more of a brawl.

In the end, Heisei Ishingun get the win when Kobayashi pins Hiro Saito with a Fisherman’s Suplex.


VTR: Two Weeks Ago on World Pro-Wrestling:
After the match, Fujinami, Choshu and Hase celebrate in the ring while their opponents head to the back. Suddenly, the All Japan wrestlers hop the guardrail and enter the ring!

There’s a heated confrontation between the New Japan wrestlers and the All Japan group! Referees and young lions get in between the two sides before things can get physical, but the two groups continue to yell back and forth at each other as they’re removed from the ring!
END VTR


MITSUHARU MISAWA & TOSHIAKI KAWADA & KENTA KOBASHI (AJPW) defeat HEISEI ISHINGUN: KENGO KIMURA & SHIRO KOSHINAKA & MASA SAITO. We’re treated to plenty of hard-hitting, back and forth action in this one!

Misawa and Kobashi wrestle a more technical style, as do Kimura and Koshinaka, but Kawada and Saito just beat the hell out of each other whenever they’re in the ring together! Kawada hits some vicious kicks that leave Saito stunned, and in return, Masa connects with some brutal forearm smashes and elbow strikes that leave the commentators wondering how Kawada didn’t end up with a broken jaw after some of those shots!

In the end, it comes to the top guys for each team, as Misawa and Kimura trade holds and counters, until Misawa gets the upper hand, and lays Kimura out with the Rolling Elbow! Misawa goes for the cover, but Kimura manages to get a shoulder up at 2.

Misawa then kicks it up a notch, and moments later, drives Kengo into the mat with the Tiger Driver! That does it, and Misawa gets the 1, 2, 3!


The commentators remind the viewing audience that the G1 Climax tour kicks off this Wednesday, August 2. The tour will consist of seven shows at Tokyo’s Sumo Hall. The G1 will consist of a 16-man, single elimination tournament. Masahiro Chono has won the previous two tournaments, will he make it three in a row this year?


Wakabayashi and Yamamoto wrap things up, and hype next week’s show.


Credits Roll



© 1993, New Japan Pro Wrestling