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The following are "NZWA Terror in Japan 2000" results from the shows held
Monday and Tuesday night at the Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Both shows
were sold out and followed by a brief interview session and fan meet.
Another show was held at Budokan on Wednesday and the NZWA also participated
in the PXWO Supercard, "Battlefest Supreme III," on Thursday at the Dome.
Both results for those shows will be posted tomorrow.
Credit NZWA Today reporter Gus Diamond for filling in for the injured NZWA
Boy on the tour and getting these results.
Monday/Budokan Hall-sold out
1) Nijimo Katsuke defeated Kato Sojima at 8:43 with a nadare shiki no
frankenstiener (top rope frankenstiener)-great match pitting two of the
PXWO's rookies against each other.
2) Melvin the Janitor & Mr. Shiso defeated Grande Maximus VI & Viper Goto at
12:18 when Melvin nailed Goto with the "Mop Up" (pumphandle backbreaker)-I
was suprised to see Melvin and especially in a match against guys with a
lucha libre style, but it was an awesome contest that had the crowd on it's
feet. Melvin even did a moonsault (!!!) and afterward left through the
crowd with Shiso.
3) Aleyah defeated The Masked Man at 6:47 after knocking him out cold with a
giant shovel in what was a crazy hardcore rules match. Lots of action and
fun for the crowd. Aleyah even grabbed some lady's bag and started beating
MM over the head with it. MM meanwhile accidentally (?) tore her tights
trying to piledrive her off the ring apron. Great contest.
4) Yumi Takaiwa, Miyami Fujo, & Pandora Devlin defeated Shima Saito, Junzaki
Isai, & TOJO SUKI at 23:20 to become the 4th holders of the PXWO Sankaku Tag
Senshuken (Triangular Tag Championship) and the first all female team to win
the titles against an all male team. The win came after Fujo nailed Isai
with her swandive shiki no dropkick (basically a slingshot dropkick from the
apron) in the back of the head which allowed Takaiwa to hook him in the
"Yumi Crusher" (a version of the Ace Crusher, but with a twisting motion)
and get the pin. Afterwards both Saito and SUKI attacked Isai claiming him
to be a "weak link." This was one hell of a match and the attacking of Isai
after drew major heat.
5) Sabella defeated Reija Shimutsuko at 16:32 to become the 5th holder of
the PXWO Sekai Joshi Senshuken (World Women's Championship) with a modified
Death Valley Bomb (driver). This was one of the best pure wrestling matches
I've seen in awhile and got a standing ovation at the end. It was non-stop
action from bell to bell with both women evenly matched. The end came after
Sabella nailed her Skytwister Press, but Reija kicked out! Sabella then
picked her up going for what appeared to be a suplex or something, but Reija
hooked her arm and flipped on her shoulders apparently going for a
udehishigigyakujujigatame (takedown into a cross arm bar). Sabella spun
around and planted her with a weird looking Death Valley Bomb and got the
pin. Both gave 200% and suprised me that the PXWO would give someone a
title shot so close to the supercard where the title was to be defended.
6) Mentski defeated Sasume Kintohimura at 8:27 in a Barbwire Spiderglass
Deathmatch with a "Ski-dog" off of the top turnbuckle through a table over
one of the boxes of spiderglass (a box with a glass top in which is several
wounds of barbwire) surrounding ringside. This was a brutal bloodbath with
Ski drawing tons of heat from the crowd many chanting "kutabre subeta,"
which means more or less "fuck you, bitch," (Mentski apparently is still one
hated heel over there from his IWA days) and him egging them on all the way.
He even started throwing broken glass into the crowd at one point. Both
were bleeding massively from almost the start taking several big and brutal
bumps, Ski at one point going head first into one of the spiderglass boxes
and getting a blade of glass in in forehead as well as barbwire around his
throat. Sasume, an old foe I was told, put up a hell of a fight nailing Ski
with his "Kintobomb" (diving kneeling powerbomb), but it wasn't enough to
put Mentski away. Fantastic match which had me thinking I was at an IWA
event.
7) Zombie Sr, Nightmare, Bloody J, Nashima Funitsu, and Mr. Pogo defeated
Varjay, Zombie Jr, Angel, Big Daddy Bull, and Kenshi Ryohito at 46:39 in a
wild 10-man elimination tag match. The crowd popped bigtime for Sr,
Nightmare, Jr, and Varjay due to the fact that they wrestled in Japan for a
long time before. They popped also for Funitsu, who holds the PXWO Sekai
Heavyku Senshuken (World heavyweight championship) and booed the hell out of
Ryohito, his current rival, but that in no way compared to the enormous
ovation given to the returning Mr. Pogo, who hasn't wrestled in PXWO since
it's birth in '95. He also lived up to his brutal reputation, as did they
all, and newcomer Bloody J showed up something as well. I will now go
through the order of eliminations.
-Big Daddy Bull is eliminated at 3:21 by Nightmare with the Nightmare Driver
(crucifix powerbomb drop) after nailing Jr by accident.
-Ryohito is eliminated at 7:38 by Mr. Pogo after Funitsu nailed him with a
super fisherman's buster and Pogo nailed him with what appeared to be an
hatchet.
-Nightmare is eliminated at 8:14 by Zombie Jr after a double-team VarHammer
from Varjay and Jr.
-Mr. Pogo is eliminated at 16:53 by Zombie Jr after turning wolf-form and
chokeslamming him and goring him with his claws.
-Angel is eliminated at 26:41 by Bloody J after nailing her with his
"Twisted Sister" move (chain of three double-arm suplexes followed by a
spinning Tiger Driver).
-Funitsu is eliminated at 30:02 by Varjay with a Tiger Suplex after blocking
a Funitsu bulldog attempt.
-Varjay is eliminated at 33:19 by Bloody J after J blocks a VarHammer and
drops Varjay on his head.
-Bloody J is eliminated at 34:06 by Zombie Jr with a double-arm DDT.
-Zombie Jr is eliminated at 46:39 by Zombie Sr with backdrop driver
(backdrop dropping opponent on head) from behind after Jr breaks the "Scream
Machine" (sharpshooter) when Cathy comes down to ringside.
The match was outstanding with more action than these results give credit.
After the loss Jr turned into wolf-form again and clawed Sr very badly until
Funitsu, Nightmare, and Bloody J broke it up. The crowd ate it up entirely.
This was a great ending to the first show and set the stage for more action
on the upcoming shows. On a side note, many other NZWA superstars like
Matango, Omegadawn, Cling, Kaz, Malk-kind, among others were not at this
show because of delays with their flights. They did arrive for the rest of
the tour however.
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