Saturday 7 September 2013

NEW JAPAN VS WAR (1992-1994) - WHEN THE TIGERS BROKE FREE~!

Between late 1992-early 1994, Japanese Wrestling in addition to being exposed to the wonderous All Japan 'Kings Road' formula found further infamy with the explosion of the inter-promotional dispute between New Japan & WAR. 

WAR was spearheaded by Genichiro Tenryu, one of All Japan's biggest stars by the end of the 1980s and suffice to say, his invasion of New Japan would give rise to one of the most acclaimed multi-year angles of all time. Tenryu was fast becoming the famed stoic and ruthless bastard we'd all grow to love, and with the rising emergence of Shinya Hashimoto as New Japan's prized ace, the inevitable Tenryu/Hashimoto matches promised incredible potential.


I'll be going through as many of the matches in chronological order as possible depending on my ability to track down links. Thankfully the bulk of the matches seem to be online in various capacity, so only my famed lax nature stands in the way of this becoming a recurring side project.

As with World of Sport, all links to matches & thoughts will be updated here. 

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ONGOING LIST ~!

1. Genichiro Tenryu & Koki Kitahara vs Shiro Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura, New Japan (10/23/92) 
2. Genichiro Tenryu, Takashi Ishikawa & Koki Kitahara vs Shiro Koshinaka, Kengo Kimura & Masashi Aoyagi, New Japan (11/23/92) 
3. Genichiro Tenryu vs Shiro Koshinaka, New Japan (12/14/92) 
4. Genichiro Tenryu, Ashura Hara & Takashi Ishikawa vs Keiji Mutoh, Akira Nogami & Shinya Hashimoto, New Japan (2/5/93) 
5. Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa vs Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami, New Japan (3/23/93) 
6. Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa vs Riki Choshu & Shinya Hashimoto, WAR (4/2/93) 
7. Genichiro Tenryu vs Riki Choshu, New Japan (4/6/93) 
8. Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa vs Shinya Hashimoto & Michiyoshi Ohara, New Japan (6/14/93) 
9. Genichiro Tenryu vs Shinya Hashimoto, WAR (6/17/93) 

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