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NEW JAPAN ON ASAHI August 5, 1983 TV (Taped on 7/26, Miyagi Prefecture) 2 Hour Special Opening Montage The show opens with a rundown of tonight’s matches… · Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara in a Teacher vs. Student match! · Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kantaro Hoshino in a #1 Contender for the WWF Jr. Heavyweight Title Match! · Dick Murdoch vs. Abdullah the Butcher in a No Disqualification Match! · Riki Choshu, Animal Hamaguchi, Isamu Teranishi, Tiger Toguchi & Kuniaki Kobayashi vs. Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, Seiji Sakaguchi, Rusher Kimura & Tiger Mask in a Ten Man Elimination Match! Next, we go to pre-recorded interviews from Maeda and Fujiwara… Maeda: 私はあなたが指導偉大藤原喜明下で学んできたことを光栄に思います。彼は、彼は私の戦士の道を示して、触発されています。まあ、それは' sの時間がのために彼を表示されないと私はもはや少年彼の若いんだ自分で立っていません。マスター引退し、新しい戦士が戦いをしなければならない時間を有していなければなりません。 Fujiwara: 前田日明は...私はあなたの非常に誇りに思っています。あなたは多くのストライキや提出のことを学びました。これらは、リングでの成功にあなたを導くでしょう。しかし、あなたは私に対しての成功を持っていません。私はすべてのものをあなたに多くのことを教えてくれましたが、していません。私は死ぬまで、あなたはまだ私の下になります。学生がマスターを倒すことはできません。 Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara Both men start off slowly, feeling each other out. They go through some rudimentary exchanges, not unlike exchanges early on in Maeda’s training when Fujiwara was showing his star pupil the basics. Maeda tries to upend his teacher but Fujiwara holds his ground. For several minutes, every time Maeda gets the advantage, Fujiwara counters, and Maeda gets frustrated with each roadblock. One point, Maeda gets a mount, Fujiwara slips under his legs and hooks on an STF. Maeda reaches the ropes and as Fujiwara releases, Maeda kicks Fujiwara in the jaw. Fujiwara is stunned and Maeda stars nailing him with combo kicks. Fujiwara goes into a defensive stance but the force of his kicks makes Fujiwara go to one knee. Maeda runs the ropes looking for his Kick to the Face but Fujiwara drops to the mat and catches Maeda’s leg and hooks a leg grapevine counter. Maeda fights his way to the ropes. Back on their feet, Maeda shakes off the leg pain and goes for more combo kicks but Fujiwara responds with multiple headbutts. Both men are not backing down but after two fierce headbutts, Maeda tries a spinkick, stumbles and Fujiwara jumps on his arm and locks in the Fujiwara armbar. Maeda tries to make the ropes but Fujiwara digs his heels into the mat and won’t let his prey go. Maeda is forced to tap. After the match, Fujiwara helps his protégé off the ground and raises his hand. WINNER: Yoshiaki Fujiwara with the Fujiwara Armbar in 16:11 +++ We are back with a pre-recorded interview with Nobuhiko Takada… Takada: 私は非常に星野を尊重します。私は山に登るようWWFジュニアタイトルは私の旅のピークとなります。星野は、私が登る必要があります崖...非常に小さいピークであるが、彼はちょうど同じ障害物、です。 Interviewer: あなたは星野を尊重する場合は、なぜあなたはこのタイトルの機会のために彼を倒すために必要なのですか？なぜあなたはあなたの順番を待つことができないのですか？ Takada: 私は長年のために訓練されています。伝統的な方法は、自分のターンが輝くためのレスラーは、10年を待つようにすることです。若いライオンが古いハイエナを殺すなら、彼は生き残っています。あなたはライオンを処罰しないでください。あなたは彼が成長し、誇りの王になる見。 We go to a pre-recorded interview with Kantaro Hoshino… Interviewer: 星野は、あなたが長年にわたってレスリングされています。長いあなたはどのくらい戦うことができますか？ Hoshino: 良い感じ。私はまだ何年も戦いを残しています。 Interviewer: あなたは多くの機会がタイトルのために戦うために得ることはありません。あなたはこのチャンスに値すると思いますか？ほとんどの人はコメディアンとしてあなたのことを考えます Hoshino: 私はリングで血と汗と涙を残しています。私はまた、私たちのファンの顔に笑顔を置くことができる場合は、悪いことではということですか？私は困難な訓練を行ってきました。私は、ほぼリングの内側に不自由されています。私は多くの骨折がありました。私はトップに私の方法をツメガエルており、タイトルは私のキャリアを検証することになります。それは私の成功の象徴であろう。成功は年齢制限はありません。 Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kantaro Hoshino - #1 Contender for the WWF Jr. Heavyweight Title Both men take it to the mat and start exchanging holds on the mat for several minutes. Neither man is able to maintain an advantage for long and they work in and out of armbars, leglocks and head scissors. Hoshino is not attempting his famous comedy spots and treating this like a serious contest. Takada works to get a bridging armbar and Hoshino escapes the move with a pin attempt. Hoshino nails a floatover suplex and hooks Takada in a surfboard bridge. Takada escapes and Hoshino follows through with a Camel Clutch. Takada makes the ropes and Hoshino breaks. Hoshino attempts a missile dropkick but Takada dodges. Takada nails Hoshino with a German suplex. He begins a multiple kick combo that backs Hoshino to the ropes. Takada tries to attack Hoshino on the ropes but gets hit with a drop toe hold and Takada lands chest first on the middle rope. Hoshino executes a running hip drop on Takada. Hoshino attempts a rolling cradle but Takada reverses it for a nearfall. Hoshino tries to hit Takada with a running body press but Takada ducks and Hoshino crashes to the mat. Takada picks Hoshino up and hits a belly to belly suplex followed by a Full Nelson Suplex for the pin and title shot. Takada celebrates as Hoshino stays on the mat, a defeated old man. Takada picks him up off the mat and hugs him. WINNER: Nobuhiko Takada with a Full Nelson Suplex at 14:19 +++ We are back with a pre-recorded interview with Dick Murdoch… Dick Murdoch: Abdullah the Butcher! You tried to take out my eye. I don’t know how the hell you do things in Africa boy but in Texas, we don’t run away after taking out a man’s eye. We look him straight in the other eye, slap him in the face and pull out the other one!!! Well, it’s on now boy. You can’t get disqualified. You can’t run away. You can’t climb Mt. Fuji to escape me boy. You tried to take my blood. You tried to take my eye. You tried to take away my paycheck. I will take you and make you bleed and teach you English just so you can scream and beg me to stop. The only thing I know is I won’t stop until you can’t breathe. We go to a pre-recorded interview with Abdullah the Butcher… Abdullah: … (Abdullah just stares at the camera, holding a fork in his hand. He stares straight into the camera and stabs himself in the forehead repeatedly until the blood starts pouring down his face. Abdullah then takes the fork and licks the blood off the fork as the screen fades) Dick Murdoch vs. Abdullah the Butcher - No Disqualification Match Both men slug away at each other… sick punches and bionic elbows from Murdoch; throat thrusts and headbutts from Abby. Neither man relents in their attack. After several minutes brawling in and out of the ring, Abby reaches for the fork and starts attacking Murdoch’s bandaged eye. Murdoch starts bleeding and Abby has the match in his control. Murdoch gives Abby a low blow kick in the nuts and drops a Big Elbow for two. Abby grabs his fork and jabs it in Dick’s forehead and then throws Murdoch out of the ring. By the time Abby rolls out of the ring, Murdoch has a chair and slams it into Abby’s head. Now Abby is bleeding. Back in the ring, Murdoch misses an axe handle from the 2nd rope and Abby hooks in a nerve hold. As Abby hooks the hold, Murdoch reaches into his tights and pulls out a fork for the entire audience to see. The audience cheers wildly and Murdoch breaks the nerve hold by spiking Abby in the head with the fork. Abby falls down and Murdoch punches Abby in the head. He grabs the fork and stabs Abby in the eye. Blood is really flowing and Murdoch punches Abby some more with the Texas jabs. Murdoch hooks Abby under his arm and drops him with a nasty brainbuster. Abby is convulsing but still manages to kick out of the pin. Murdoch picks him up again, stabs him in the head with the fork and drops him for a second brainbuster and Abby lies motionless on the mat. Murdoch has won the war. WINNER: Dick Murdoch in 13:32 after two Brainbusters +++ We go to a pre-recorded interview with the members of Team Fujinami… Fujinami: 長州！犬のあなたのパックはドラゴンから逃げることができません！あなたは火で遊ぶときは、燃焼されます！ Rusher: 浜口は、私は痛みがあなたを引き起こすことが...一つの理由のためにここにいます！あなたが苦しむことになります。 Tiger Mask: 虎だけではなく、今日です。今日虎はパックで狩り。小林は、あなたが犬を持っています。私はドラゴンを持っています。 Fujinami: タイガー...ドラゴン...ライオン...犬。修復 - 軍団は、犬今夜死にます。ドラゴンはごちそうします Next, we have a pre-recorded interview with Team Ishin-Gundan… Choshu: 藤波は...あなたはドラゴンではありません。あなたはガターにおけるラットです。あなたとあなたの疾患を有する他のラットは...あなたは維新-軍団によって破壊されます。 Hamaguchi: ライオンズ？タイガース？ドラゴンズ？これらは嘘です。新日本プロレスで唯一の動物があります。維新軍団フォーエバー！ Choshu: 私たちは数の力です。私たちはあなたのための私達の憎悪に団結しています。私たちは永遠軍団維新ています。 ALL: 維新-軍団フォーエバー！ Riki Choshu, Animal Hamaguchi, Isamu Teranishi, Tiger Toguchi & Kuniaki Kobayashi vs. Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, Seiji Sakaguchi, Rusher Kimura & Tiger Mask - Elimination Match Elimination #1: The match begins with Choshu and Fujinami paired up against each other. Each member on the team squared off against each other until Choshu was matched up with Kengo Kimura. After a referee distraction, Ishin-Gundan pounded Kimura in their corner. Once he was released, he stumbled out of the corner and was nailed by a Choshu Lariat for the first elimination. Elimination #2: Team Fujinami is down one man but after Fujinami dismantles Tiger Toguchi with three Dragon Backbrekaers, He tags in Rusher Kimura who finishes Toguchi off with a Rusher Butterfly Suplex. The teams are even at four apiece. Elimination #3: Rusher feels good and attempts to hit Animal with a Butterfly Suplex but nearly gets pinned with a Northern Lights Suplex. Eventually, Kobayashi comes in and kicks Rusher in the throat and Animal hits the Airplane Spin Samoan Drop for the pin. Elimination #4: Sakaguchi comes in and destroys Ishin-Gundan with Jumping Knee Strikes. The crowd roars with approval. Sakaguchi punishes Teranishi but as he attempts to lift Teranishi into an Argentine Back Breaker, Choshu runs in and hits Sakaguchi with the Lariat. Teranishi falls on top and eliminates another member of Team Fujinami Elimination #5: Knowing they are outmanned, Tiger Mask and Fujinami tag in and out quickly and assault Teranishi with double team moves and strikes. At one point, Teranishi holds Tiger Mask’s arms so Choshu can nail the lariat but Tiger Mask escapes and Choshu knocks Teranishi out. Tiger Mask pins Teranishi and it is 3 on 2. Elimination #6 & 7: After continuing their assault, Fujinami and Tiger Mask isolate Kobayashi. However, Tiger Mask hits a running body press that sends him and Kobayashi over the top rope and out of the ring. Both men are down and counted out leaving Fujinami one on two. Elimination #8: Choshu and Hamaguchi double team Fujinami and it looks like the end is near for the Dragon. However, he is able to fight off both men and regain control with Dragon screws. Sensing Ishin-Gundan is in trouble, Tiger Toguchi gets on the apron and attempts to throw salt in Fujnami’s eyes. Fujinami ducks and Hamaguchi is blinded. He bumps into Choshu and lifts Choshu up and nails him with the Airplane Samoan Drop. Fujinami covers Choshu and the leader is eliminated! Elimination #9: Hamaguchi is still blinded and wandering around aimlessly. Fujinami hooks him in a Dragon Suplex and knocks him loopy. He grabs Hamaguchi from behind, hooks in the Dragon Sleeper and Hamaguchi gives up. Fujinami survives. WINNER: Tatsumi Fujinami is the sole survivor in a Ten Man Elimination Match in 47:27 The announcers discuss next week’s card… Pete Roberts & Dave Finlay vs. Kantaro Hoshino & Nobuhiko Takada Adrian Adonis vs. Brian Blair Dick Murdoch vs. Rusher Kimura Riki Choshu & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Seiji Sakaguchi +++

I think Wade Smeltzer might have been in attendance for a special report.

I can't believe that Scott Casey lasted 16 minutes with Gordy or Darsow lasted 14 minutes with anyone. In my head, Casey was just squashed for 15 minutes and Gordy was playing with him. For Darsow, I am guessing, every time Dr. D tried to kill him, Darsow would run away like for at least 12 minutes. The first contact happened at around the 13 minute mark.

What's the price?

OK, summer is almost over and I already have my TV written for this current tour. The next tour date for All Japan is 8/26 and the next for New Japan is 8/19. With my free time, I tried to get ahead as much as possible but I need to focus on my classroom and preparing my curriculum for the upcoming school year. Would anyone object if I just posted the TV results for the rest of this tour so I have one less thing to worry about the next couple of weeks? I have the results for both feds already completed throughout the rest of the year. I have the TV written for this tour and the next tour but I don't want to worry about posting on time or getting behind.

August 4, 1983 TOKYO (TV Taping) · Tatsumi Fujinami pinned Riki Choshu © to win the WWF International Heavyweight Title · Nobuhiko Takada pinned Tiger Mask © to win the WWF Jr. Heavyweight Title · Rusher Kimura defeated Animal Hamaguchi in a Texas Death Match · Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch defeated Kengo Kimura & Seiji Sakaguchi when Murdoch pinned Sakaguchi · Isamu Teranishi pinned Akira Maeda with outside interference help from Ishin-Gundan · Paul Orndorff pinned Osamu Kido · Brian Blair, Pete Roberts & Dave Finlay defeated Kazuo Yamazaki, Makoto Arakawa & Tatsutoshi Goto · Haruka Eigen pinned Shunji Kosugi · Halcon 78 pinned Black Cat

Tokyo 8/4/83 (TV Taping) · Jumbo Tsuruta & Giant Baba defeated Nick Bockwinkel & Billy Robinson © in an NWA International Tag Team Title Match when Jumbo pinned Robinson with a Backdrop Suplex · Terry Funk pinned Genichiro Tenryu after countering a Brainbuster with a Small Package · Mighty Inoue & Ashura Hara © defeated Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa in an All Asia Tag Titles match when Hara nailed Misawa with a Back Breaker · Shiro Koshinaka pinned Umanoseke Ueda when Ueda mistimed a fireball · Jerry Oates & Gerry Morrow defeated Yoshihiro Momota & Mitsuo Momota when Oates pinned Mitsuo · Tiger Jeet Singh defeated Alexis Smirnoff after stabbing him in the face with his sword · Rocky Hata pinned Akio Sato · Great Kojika & Hiromichi Fuyuki defeated Gypsy Joe & Nobuyoshi Sugawara

Bill Dundee is #1 on the list. I would add Ron Garvin to the list as well.

I can only think of his title loss to Race. It had to be Bock or someone with that type of background.

I don't think you can. Prove it!!!

August 3, 1983 Yokosuka · Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura & Rusher Kimura defeated Riki Choshu, Animal Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi when Rusher pinned Teranishi after a Butterfly Suplex · Toshiaki Fujiwara forced Akira Maeda tosubmit to a Cross Arm Breaker · Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch defeated Osamu Kido & Haruka Eigen when Adonis pinned Eigen · Tiger Mask © pinned Kantaro Hoshino with a Tiger Suplex · Paul Orndorff pinned Makoto Arakawa · Kazuo Yamazaki & Shunji Kosugi defeated Tatsutoshi Goto & Halcon 78

Saitama 8/3/83 · Jumbo Tsuruta © defeated Terry Funk after a Jumping Knee Attack · Nick Bockwinkel & Billy Robinson defeated Giant Baba & Genichiro Tenryu when Bockwinkel caught Baba in a small package for a rare pinfall · Mighty Inoue & Ashura Hara defeated Tiger Jeet Singh & Alexis Smirnoff when Hara gave Smirnoff a Back Breaker · Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Jerry Oates & Gerry Morrow when Misawa gave Oates a Sunset Flip · Yoshihiro Momota pinned Akio Sato · Mitsuo Momota pinned Hiromichi Fuyuki · Gypsy Joe vs. Great Kojika resulted in a Double Count Out · Ultra Seven pinned Nobuyoshi Sugawara

This comment was in the Dean Ambrose thread but it got me to thinking... What is wrong with the WWE? Make your list here. If you can make a list of 100 things, you get a gold star.

Keeping it local, I like it.

Yokohama 8/2/83 · Giant Baba, Jumbo Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu defeated Terry Funk, Nick Bockwinkel & Billy Robinson when Baba pinned Robinson after a Big Boot · Ashura Hara & Mighty Inoue © defeated Jerry Oates & Gerry Morrow in an All Asia Tag Title Match after Hara hit Morrow with a Back Breaker · Akio Sata pinned Rocky Hata · Alexis Smirnoff vs. Gypsy Joe ended in a Double Disqualification · Great Kojika & Hiromichi Fuyuki defeated Yoshihiro Momota & Mitsuo Momota after Fuyuki pinned Mitsuo · Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Nobuyoshi Sugawara & Ultra Seven

August 2, 1983 Miki · Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Paul Orndorff with a Dragon Suplex · Animal Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi defeated Kengo Kimura & Seiji Sakaguchi when Hamaguchi pinned Kimura after a Samoan Dorp · Tiger Mask pinned Nobuhiko Takada after a flying headbutt · Kantaro Hoshino pinned Pete Roberts · Dave Finlay forced Shunji Kosugi to submit to a Leg Grapevine · Makoto Arakawa & Black Cat defeated Tatsutoshi Goto & Haruka Eigen

August 1, 1983 Gifu (TV Taping) · Riki Choshu & Animal Hamaguchi defeated Tatsumi Fujinami & Seiji Sakaguchi when Animal pinned Fujinami · Dick Murdoch pinned Rusher Kimura after a Brainbuster · Adrian Adonis pinned Brian Blair after a Flying Body Splash · Pete Roberts & Dave Finlay defeated Kantaro Hoshino & Nobuhiko Takada when Finlay pinned Hoshino · Kazuo Yamazaki pinned Tatsutoshi Goto · Makoto Arakawa pinned Halcon 78

Tokyo 8/1/83 (TV Taping) · Billy Robinson & Nick Bockwinkel defeated Jumbo Tsuruta & Giant Baba © when Bockwinkel pinned Jumbo to win the NWA International Tag Titles · Terry Funk defeated Genichiro Tenryu after a pildriver · Tiger Jeet Singh defeated Alexis Smirnoff · Mitsuharu Misawa pinned Toshiaki Kawada · Yoshihiro Momota & Mitsuo Momota defeated Jerry Oates & Gerry Morrow after Morrow accidentally gives Oates a Flying Lariat · Mighty Inoue pinned Rocky Hata · Gypsy Joe vs. Hiromichi Fuyuki results in a Double Disqualification · Ultra Seven pinned Nobuyoshi Sugawara

Smeltzer may or may not have a story about Ward & Jones hitting the sauce again.

Done. Make sure you post the New Japan dates we discussed for Choshu.

OK then throw that out the window. Seriously, besides making a porn tape, using racial slurs and burying your family... it has to be hiding something.

OK awesome!!!

Ok, I have the big tournament for the WWF International Tag Team Titles in November/December. Wahoo's Leg was kind enough to loan me the Moondogs. What two Moondogs are part of this team? Someone else was nice enough to loan me the Can-Ams. I was thinking Furnas and Lafon but they aren't both wrestling yet. I don't think we are talking Rick Martel & Tom Zenk. 1. Who was nice enough to loan me the Can-Ams? 2. Who are the Can-Ams?

So, when was the Graziano incident... before or after this? If it was before, could the smoking gun be getting Nick out of trouble by using connections?

I am planning an extensive Memphis podcast series soon that will be more focused. These are just to remind people that Memphis is awesome.