EAGLE PRO WRESTLING
EAGLE have released their 2022 schedule and thankfully for us fans they will be holding four shows this year. The first event kicks off April 17th and all our favourite names are back. Kazunori Yoshida, Hiroshi Shimada and Crusher Takahashi will be wrestling! In moments like these I wish I lived in Japan.
April 17th
1. (3 minute exhibition) Shoji Ohno vs Kyohei Negishi
2. Kazuhiko Matsuzaki vs Crusher Takahashi
3. TA*KU & TOP*GUN vs Leo Isaka & X
4. Kamikaze vs Toshiki Iwaki
5. Shoji Ohno, Lil Krakken & Kamui vs Hiroyuki Kondo, Takahiro Katori & Kazunori Yoshida
DDT LEGEND ARMY FIGHT ON!
After their successful capturing of the KO-D 10 man titles at Sumo Hall last month the five man team of Gentaro, MIKAMI, Takashi Sasaki, Thanomsak Toba and Poison Sawada JULIE return to DDT May 1st to defend their titles.
They will be facing the team of Sanshiro Takagi, Gorgeous Matsuno (cosplaying as Sawada), Akito, Kazuki Hirata and Yoshiaki Yatsu.
Hikaru Sato also returns to DDT on this show as he teams with HARASHIMA to take on Yukio Sakaguchi and Kazusada Higuchi. OG’s will remember Sato’s DDT work for wow close to fifteen years ago now… Time Fly’s.
CAPTURE
They return to the Basement (Monstar) on May 8th for two shows, one being in the afternoon and the other in the evening.
Afternoon Show
Takuya Nomura vs Mizuki Watase
Naoya Nomura vs Hiroshi Yamato
Rikiya Fudo vs Rocky Kawamura 2
Keisuke Goto & Raito Shimizu vs Takahiro Tababa & Sanshu Tsubakichi
Super Crafter-U vs Kosuke Sato
Evening Show
X vs X
X vs X
X vs X
Daisuke Kanehira & X vs Keisuke Goto & X
Raito Shimizu & X vs Takahiro Tababa & X
THE THIRD BRAND
The Third Brand are back on May 14th with the much anticipated debut incoming from the masked team known as “Rock’n’Roll Express 1.0″… They Will be facing off against Shoji Ohno and Crusher Takahashi.
Ho Death Minh attacked Iori Sugawara in a promo they were filming which has set up a singles contest between the two longtime veterans.
OSAKA PRO
Osaka Pro held two shows this previous weekend outdoors at the Osaka Castle Park, 8,000 people came and visited Osaka Pro over the two days which is a huge success for the company. They are getting as many eyes on them as possible which is integral when starting/re-starting a promotion. The card’s weren’t anything special but full credit to Zeus and his crew.
Billy Ken Kid’s 25th anniversary show will be held in collaboration with Osaka Pro on June 12th. Lot’s of outside names are coming in which has me very excited, former Osaka Pro all-star HUB is on the front of the poster alongside the other big names so I hope that’s a sign that HUB is going to stick around in Zeus’s Osaka Pro.
Outside names scheduled to appear on June 12th
Gurukun Mask
HUB
Ryota Chikuzen (not wrestling)
Masamune
Kengo Takai
Naoki Sakurajima
MASAMUNE PRODUCE
Masamune is holding another show on June 19th at Basement Monstar. I own a couple of his “produce” shows that are back from 2009 and 2010 when he mixed it up fella’s like Dick Togo and Daisuke Sekimoto producing great matches.
Masamune’s match isn’t announced yet but the full card otherwise has been announced
Keita Yano vs Takafumi Ito
Gentaro vs Kenichiro Arai
CHANGO vs Kagura
Gabai Ji-Chan vs Pretty Ota
BURST
The 1st anniversary show for Towa Iwasaki and Kohei Sato’s BURST promotion is scheduled for next month. They are running a bigger venue as well as promising to involve multiple promotions. Can’t find the official date but the main event looks very awesome as Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa will be facing Big Japan’s Ryuji Ito and Daisuke Sekimoto.
MANYO PRO
Manyo Pro! I only learnt about this promotion very recently following a group tape purchase which included a Manyo Pro show from 2010! I’m yet to watch the show and I still have no idea who is behind the promotion but I’m going to have a stab in the dark and say Hideo Toda has something to do with the company given he is on the 2010 Manyo Pro show from the group purchase and he is front and centre on the upcoming May 22nd Manyo Pro show.
A lot of faces and names I’m very unfamiliar with but Super Delfin is scheduled to appear as well as Shachihoko Boy from Dragon Gate.
PURO IN THE ROUGH 