GANBARE☆PRO “ENEMY OF AMERICA 2022” Results

September 23, 2022

GANBARE☆PRO “ENEMY OF AMERICA 2022”, 23/09/2022
Tokyo Oji BASEMENT MON☆STAR
85 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Young Drama Generation Vs Reiwa Dramatic Generation: Keisuke Ishii defeated Toi Kojima with the Running Double Arm Clutch Driver (8:06).
2. GanPro Three Major Tag Match: Moeka Haruhi & HARUKAZE defeated Miyuki Takase & Yoshiko Hasegawa when HARUKAZE submitted Hasegawa with the Haru Ichiban (10:45).
3. YuuRI GanPro 1st Anniversary Match: Yuna Manase defeated YuuRI with the Lariat (10:36).
4. GanPro Three Major Tag Match: Kouki Iwasaki & Yuki Kanzaki defeated Shuichiro Katsumura & Shinichiro Tominaga when Iwasaki pinned Tominaga with the Back Drop Hold (16:08).
5. GanPro Three Major Tag Match: Ken Ohka & Yumehito Imanari defeated Soma Takao & Mizuki Watase when Ohka pinned Watase with the Flame Spear (20:32).

The connection between Kouki Iwasaki & Yuki Kanzaki is they both train in the same martial arts gym Power Of Dream run by Kenichi Yamamoto. Kanzaki told Iwasaki after their tag match that he wants to continue wrestling in Ganbare☆Pro. Iwasaki shook his hand and told him they both have to catch up with another member of their gym, Jake Lee! Maybe he can get in touch with Yamamoto and they can set up an all Power Of Dreams clash.

The match between Yuna Manase and YuuRI was important for various reasons. It was a rematch from YuuRI’s entry into Ganpro one year ago. It was also Manase’s last match before she challenges for the Spirit Of Ganbare Title on 2nd October. Manase said that YuuRI’s Ganbare fire made her own flame feel even hotter.

Ken Ohka gave Manase some motivating words at the end of the show. He told her beating Hartley Jackson will be like winning the entire world. Even though he is giving Manase his support, Ohka has his own goal to someday win the Spirit Of Ganbare Title and do it at the Tokyo Dome!


Endo Visits Kobashi, 121000000 Still Alive, Ganpro’s Big Matches

August 31, 2021

Earlier this week Tetsuya Endo visited Kenta Kobashi at his gym to talk about his successful KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles defence at “WRESTLE PETER PAN 2021”. Kobashi praised Endo for getting bigger. He noticed Endo’s movements haven’t changed and his posture in the air is good so his weight gain isn’t negatively effecting his performance. Endo was advised to target 95-100kg for his ideal weight. However Kobashi also said that Endo didn’t stand out much during the match. Instead the focus was entirely on Yuji Hino and Saki Akai.

Kobashi moved on to talking about Endo’s rivalries with Konosuke Takeshita and Jun Akiyama. He thinks Takeshita defeating Akiyama while Endo couldn’t is the kind of frustration Endo needs in order to become stronger. That along with the support of his fans is what can make Endo the champion again. Endo then showed Kobashi a video of a brand new finishing move he is working on, one nobody else has seen yet. Kobashi approves of it and recommends Endo to work on his arm strength because it is the key to make this mystery move work. He also told him to give it a good name so it will become the move that represents Endo. After an hour long talk, Endo worked out in the gym with Kobashi coaching him.

MUSCLE “HIRAGANA MUSCLE 5 TOKYO PERFORMANCE ~NO MORE SPECIAL MOVES ANYMORE~”, 01/09/2021
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

My nightmare of trying to write up the Muscle show report is back. Let’s see what 2.9 Dimensional ideas Muscle Sakai has for The Finisher Boys and The Folding Chair Boys this time. Maybe Endo will do another run in.

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “TOKYO JOSHI 2021 SUMMER ~STEP AND A STEP~”, 04/09/2021
Tokyo Itabashi Green Hall

1. Hikari Noa & Kaya Toribami
2. Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe Vs Yuki Kamifuku & Arisu Endo
3. Shoko Nakajima, Raku & Moka Miyamoto Vs Mirai Maiumi, Suzume & Haruna Neko
4. Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Pom Harajuku Vs Hyper Misao, Nao Kakuta & Nodoka Tenma
5. Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh Vs Yuki Aino & Marika Kobashi

The 121000000 tag team is still alive even though Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh have a big match against each other coming up. Itoh originally thought they would have to split up but Yamashita convinced her that continuing their team will not effect their match at “WRESTLE PRINCESS II”.

GANBARE☆PRO “HARLEY DAVIDSON & MARLBORO MAN 2021”, 12/09/2021
Tokyo Itabashi Green Hall

1. Ganpro Special Mixed 6-Person Tag Match: Shota, Moeka Haruhi & Miyako Matsumoto Vs Shinichiro Tominaga, Makoto & HARUKAZE
2. Ganpro Triple Big Singles Match: Nobuhiro Shimatani Vs Takahiro Katori
3. Ganpro Triple Big Singles Match: Shuichiro Katsumura Vs Shu Sakurai
4. Ganpro Triple Big Singles Match ~ 26 Year Revenge For The Master: Shinjiro Otani Vs Kouki Iwasaki
5. Ken Ohka Pre-Debut 20th Anniversary Special Tag Match Part 2: Ken Ohka & Yumehito Imanari Vs Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie

Look at Shinjiro Otani. He is spoiled for choice when it comes to matches against the Ganbare☆Pro roster. They all want a piece of him and he wants them too. Otani asked for a match against Kouki Iwasaki because Iwasaki’s mentor is Kenichi Yamamoto. In 1995 Yamamoto defeated Otani at a UWFi event. 26 years later Otani gets a chance to get some measure of revenge by fighting his student.

Shu Sakurai will be taking an indefinite leave of absence from Ganpro after 25th September. He explains this decision is being made for positive reasons and he will be using his experience from wrestling to take on new challenges. This is not a retirement from pro wrestling so he may return some day having grown as a pro wrestler and also as a person. Before he leaves, Sakurai wants to wrestle Shuichiro Katsumura so he gets to have that match.

GANBARE☆PRO “BAD COMMUNICATION -ULTRA PLEASURE STYLE 2021”, 25/09/2021
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Ganjo Special Tag Match: Yuna Manase & Yuna Mizumori Vs Asuka & HARUKAZE
2. THE HALFEE Vs Team Sanyo Sanin Full Scale Battle: Katsuzaki Shunosuke, Moehiko Harumisawa & Shu Sakurai Vs Minoru Fujita, Nobuhiro Shimatani & Itsuki Aoki
3. Ganpro Special Tag Match: Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Shigehiro Irie Vs Yumehito Imanari & Kouki Iwasaki
4. IJ Tag Team Titles: Kenichiro Arai & Shota (c) Vs Hagane Shinno & Shinichiro Tominaga
5. Ganpro Special Single Match: Keisuke Ishii Vs Shinjiro Otani
6. Ken Ohka 20th Anniversary Special Tag Match ~Roar Of The Lion King~: Ken Ohka & Isami Kodaka Vs HARASHIMA & Kengo Mashimo

Otani’s other big singles match this month is a first time one on one meeting with Keisuke Ishii. His appearance in Ganpro has given Ishii new motivation after he went through a slump from losing the Independent World Jr. Heavyweight Title. Ishii made the challenge and Otani has been impressed enough with his work to accept it.

Tenryu Project has approved of Hagane Shinno & Shinichiro Tominaga’s challenge for the IJ Tag Team Titles. They gave Kenichiro Arai & Shota permission to defend the belts after the champions accepted the challenge.

It was Otani’s idea to get Tatsuhito Takaiwa booked on the show. I don’t know about you guys but I’ve been noticing this Ganpro/ZERO1 relationship for a while and I wonder if it will lead to anything more permanent down the road.

Sakurai ends his wrestling career with the rest of THE HALFEE.


HARD HIT “HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE” Results

October 13, 2014

HARD HIT “HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE – PART 1”, 13/10/2014
Sapporo Teisan Hall
314 Fans – No Vacancy

1. Keitaro Kawamura (3) Vs Akihiro Yamamoto (3) ended in a Time Limit Draw (5:00).
2. Masaki Miyabo (3) defeated Takashimi Ono (2) by Points Decision (5:00).
3. Masaki Nishi (3) defeated Akira Yamamoto (2) by Points Decision (5:00).
4. Red Dragon defeated Toshiaki Kindaichi with a Modified Leg Splitter (3:19).
5. Grappling Rules: Kazuyasu Takahashi defeated Yoshito Takeuchi with a Grounded Cobra Stretch (1:01).
6. Masahiro Nina (3) defeated Satoshi Wakahara (2) by Points Decision (5:00).
7. Hokuto Omori (3) Vs Gen Sasaki (3) ended in a Time Limit Draw (5:00).
8. Liger Kanzaki (3) Vs Tetsuo Onuma (3) ended in a Time Limit Draw (5:00).

HARD HIT “HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE – PART 2”, 13/10/2014
Sapporo Teisan Hall
314 Fans – No Vacancy

1. Hiroshi Kozakai (1D/0E/0P) defeated Shibata (1D/2E/0P) by TKO (3:49).
2. Yukio Sakaguchi (0D/0E/0P) defeated Hayato Mashita (2D/0E/0P) by KO with a High Kick (2:26).
3. Tomoya Miyashita Memorial Tag Match: Manabu Hara & Yukio Kubota (0D/3E/0P) defeated Mitsuhisa Sunabe & Shuichiro Katsumura (2D/0E/0P) when Hara submitted Katsumura with a Chickenwing (7:18).
4. Ryo Kawamura (1D/0E/0P) Vs Super Tiger (1D/0E/0P) ended in a Time Limit Draw (10:00).
5. HARASHIMA (1D/1E/0P) defeated Hikaru Sato (0D/1E/0P) with a Cross Armlock (7:56).
6. Kenichi Yamamoto 20th Anniversary & Retirement Match: Kenichi Yamamoto (1D/3E/0P) defeated Ryuki Ueyama (1D/1E/0P) with an Achilles Tendon Lock (11:53).

During his retirement speech Kenichi Yamamoto said he moved to Hokkaido three years ago. He called Hokkaido the sacred home of UWF. He thinks now is the time to pass the baton to the new era of fighters.

Hikaru Sato says he wants to have a big match for Hard Hit’s next show in December.


Gorgeous Night, Yamamoto In Sapporo, Pachinko Wrestling, DDT48 Card Announced

October 4, 2013

DDT “GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY ~GORGEOUS NIGHT~”, 05/10/2013
Fukushima Gymnasium

1. Hikaru Sato & Yukio Sakaguchi Vs MIKAMI & Tomomitsu Matsunaga
2. Tokyo Women’s Wrestling Offer Match: Miyu Yamashita & Shoko Nakajima Vs KANNA & Chikage Kiba
3. Antonio Honda & Daisuke Sasaki Vs Gota Ihashi & Michael Nakazawa
4. Yasu Urano Vs Soma Takao
5. Kota Ibushi & Masa Takanashi Vs Shigehiro Irie & Keisuke Ishii
6. Gorgeous Matsuno, HARASHIMA & KUDO Vs Danshoku Dino, Makoto Oishi & Akito

Last year Gorgeous Matsuno celebrated his 10th anniversary in wrestling by headlining a DDT show in Fukushima. Eleven months later that show returns and this time includes a charity drive for earthquake recovery in the area.

DDT “SAPPORO WRESTLING FESTA 2013”, 13/10/2013
Sapporo Teisen Hall

1. Sapporo Specialty 6 Way Match: Yasu Urano Vs Keisuke Ishii Vs Michael Nakazawa Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Gota Ihashi Vs DJ Nira
2. Masa Takanashi Vs Akito
3. Antonio Honda & Daisuke Sasaki Vs Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata
4. Kota Ibushi Vs Hiroshi Fukuda
5. Kenichi Yamamoto & Yukio Sakaguchi Vs Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao
6. HARASHIMA & KUDO Vs Danshoku Dino & Makoto Oishi
7. KO-D Tag Team Title Match: Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto (c) Vs MIKAMI & Tomoya

Kenichi Yamamoto returns for his second match in DDT this year, the first happening back in April when Yukio Sakaguchi was one of his opponents. This time Yamamoto and Sakaguchi will team together to take on Drift members Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao.

DDT “PACHINKO PRO WRESTLING”, 13/10/2013
Saitama Kotobuki Niiza

1. Soma Takao & Kazuki Hirata Vs Danshoku Dino & Michael Nakazawa
2. Kota Ibushi, Kenny Omega & Masa Takanashi Vs HARASHIMA, KUDO & FUMA

DDT’s next odd choice of location for wrestling is a pachinko parlour in Saitama. Expect a lot of old guys who inhabit the place having no idea what’s going on behind them.

DDT “SPECIAL 2013”, 20/10/2013
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
DDT48 General Election Ranking In Parentheses

0. Dark Match – 2 Vs 1 Handicap Match: Yukio Sakaguchi (#23) Vs Michael Nakazawa (#14) & DJ Nira (#25)
1. 3 Way Match: Cherry (#10) Vs KUDO (#14) Vs MIKAMI (#15)
2. Konosuke Takeshita (#13) Vs Hiroshi Fukuda (#16)
3. Masa Takanashi (#12) Vs Daisuke Sasaki (#20)
4. Soma Takao (#7), Keisuke Ishii (#18) & Shigehiro Irie (#20) Vs Isami Kodaka (#2), Cherry (#6) & Yasu Urano (#11)
5. Kota Ibushi (#3) & Kenny Omega (#8) Vs Hikaru Sato (#5) & Akito (#17)
6. DDT Extreme Title: Antonio Honda (c) (#19) Vs Super Sasadango Machine (9th)
7. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) (#4) Vs Danshoku Dino (#1)

Mio Shirai has pulled out of the show due to her already being booked for another show on the same day. Her spot in the dark match will not be filled and it will become a Handicap match instead. Shirai apologised to the fans that voted for her and said it wouldn’t happen again.


More MMA Guys!

March 12, 2013

DDT “JUDGEMENT SERIES 2013 IN SENDAI”, 24/03/2013
Miyagi El Park Sendai

1. Tsukasa Fujimoto Vs Cherry
2. MIKAMI Vs Gorgeous Matsuno
3. Sanshiro Takagi & Toru Owashi Vs KUDO & Yasu Urano
4. Kota Ibushi & Kenny Omega Vs Danshoku Dino & Makoto Oishi

DDT “BIG HOUSE ARROW HOMETOWN 2013”, 30/03/2013
Toyama Takaoka Coeur

1. Yoshiaki Yago & Yukio Sakaguchi Vs Sanshiro Takagi & Michael Nakazawa
2. HARASHIMA Vs Ken Ohka
3. Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi & Gota Ihashi Vs Shigehiro Irie, Keisuke Ishii & Takao Soma

Yoshiaki Yago’s annual hometown return has him facing off with his eternal rival Sanshiro Takagi.

Ken Ohka is given another chance with DDT while he prepares his next Ganbare☆Wrestling show.

DDT “ROAD TO RYOGOKU 2 DAYS IN SAPPORO ~DRAMATIC DREAM CLOCK TOWER~”, 07/04/2013
Sapporo Teisan Hall

1. KUDO Vs Masa Takanashi
2. Antonio Honda & Yoshihiko Vs Keisuke Ishii & Takao Soma
3. Kenichi Yamamoto & HARASHIMA Vs Yukio Sakaguchi & Akito

The MMA invasion continues. Former UFC tournament champion Kenichi Yamamoto will be next to make his DDT debut following Yukio Sakaguchi and Kizaemon Saiga. Yamamoto won the UFC 23 Middleweight Tournament in 1999 but his MMA career plummeted down to a 5-11-2 record. He does have wrestling experience however, winning the WAR World 6-Man Tag Team Title with Yoji Anjo & Yoshihiro Takayama way back in 1996.

Yoshihiko finds itself teaming with a member of the Monster Army. Will it get along with Antonio Honda?