The History Of Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Chapters

1. Preface
2. The Gimmick Era (03/16/1995-09/23/1998)
2.1 1995
2.2 1996
2.3 1997
2.4 1998
3. Death Match Revolution (09/23/1998-04/05/2000)
3.1 1999
3.2 2000
4. BJPW vs. CZW World War (04/05/2000-12/02/2001)
4.1 2001
5. The Dark Era (12/02/2001-08/24/2003)
5.1 2002
5.2 2003
6. Renaissance of the Death Match (08/24/2003-10/08/2004)
6.1 2004
7. The Death Match Wars (10/08/2004-Today)
7.1 2005
7.2 2006
7.3 2007
Appendix A: Essential Matches
Appendix B: Picture Credits

1. Preface

The roots of Garbage Wrestling reach deep into the history of Professional Wrestling. The first matches involving barbed wire supposedly happened in Texas during the 1950s. A Death Match tournament was held in 1972 by the Amarillo promotion (Sadly, no footage exists). Abdullah the Butcher shocked Japanese fans in the 70s with his use of sharp objects to make his opponents bleed. Cage Death Matches as well as Texas Death Matches have a long history. On 08/02/1978, Antonio Inoki beat Umanosuke Ueda in the first ever Bed of Nails Death Match (W*ING would claim in 1992 to have done the first, however, this is not true). Barbed wire and fire matches were common in Puerto Rico during the 80s. Garbage Wrestling as we know it today was originated by Atsushi Onitas Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling in 1989. The first "modern" Death Match took place on 12/10/89, it was a Barbed Wire Death Match between Atsushi Onita & Tarzan Goto and Jerry Blayman & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga. From this day on, the rise of Garbage Wrestling was unstoppable. FMW created more and more violent matches which drew bigger and bigger crowds. Their formula for success was soon copied by others, like W*ING in 1992 and IWA Japan in 1994. 1995 was the most important year in the history of Garbage Wrestling marked by three events. First, FMWs Kawasaki stadium show on 5/5/1995. Headlined by Atsushi Onitas retirement match against Hayabusa in an Exploding Barbed Wire Cage Death Match, the show drew the biggest crowd of a Garbage Wrestling show ever selling out the stadium with 58250 fans. Second, the first ever King of the Death Matches tournament promoted by IWA Japan on 8/20/1995. Cactus Jack raised the trophy in triumph after defeating Terry Funk in the finals of a one night eight man tounament in a No Rope Barbed Wire C4 Boards Time Bomb Death Match. And lastly, this was also the year the blood wave was spilled over the USA. Ian and Axel Rotten did the first Death Matches on US soil in ECW, Ian would later found his own Garbage Wrestling promotion, IWA Mid South, in 1996. In this climax year of Garbage Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling was founded.

2. The Gimmick Era (03/16/1995-07/26/1998)

2.1 1995

The early and mid 90s were the golden age of Garbage Wrestling in Japan. In 1995 the scene was dominated by two promotions: Atsushi Onita's legendary FMW and IWA Japan which was founded one year earlier. They tried to surpass each other in brutality and were able to draw huge crowds, FMWs biggest shows sold out entire baseball stadiums with tenthousands of fans. Impressed by the huge success of garbage wrestling, Shinya Kojika and Kazushi Sakurada (better known under his ring name Kendo Nagasaki) decided to found an own promotion with a similar style. The first show took place on 3/16/1995 and was supported by Takashi Ishikawa's Tokyo Pro Wrestling and IWA Japan; Iceman (aka Ricky Santana), Crypt Keeper and Shoji Nakamaki were on the first tour. Main event of the first show was a No Rope Barbed Wire Death Match in which Shoji Nakamaki and Kendo Nagasaki took on Iceman and Ron Powers. Team BJPW defeated the gaijin in a wild brawl after Nagasaki used a piledriver on Iceman. Ahmed Johnsen, who would later work for WWF, was also on that show. There were feuds with Tokyo Pro and IWA wrestlers in the following months; BJPW even managed to sell out Korakuen Hall in that time. Big names from the Japanese Garbage Wrestling scene such as Tarzan Goto and Mr. Gannosuke were part of the shows, as well as gaijin from the US, mostly from Texas (Sakurada had good connections there), for example Chris Adams, Action Jackson and Dan Davis. Additionally BJPW trained their own junior talent. Also in 1995 BJPW did one of the strangest matches in wrestling history: the Grocery Store Death Match. Yosuke (Abdullah) Kobayashi, Seiji (Ryuji) Yamakawa, Yuichi Taniguchi, Bruiser Okamoto and Kendo Nagasaki had a wrestling match in the middle of a market place. The match soon went totally out of control and the wrestlers brawled in the streets, in several shops and in the backyards, destroying lots of property in the process.

2.2 1996

In 1996 the Japanese Garbage Wrestling scene began to change. Onita had retired and FMW, now without an ace, began losing popularity. IWA lost most of their top stars and became insignificant. This was the time for BJPW to become the most brutal and innovative hardcore promotion in the world. After signing Death Match legends Shoji Nakamaki and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga BJPW were ready to enter new dimensions of violence. The main event of the 5/22/1996 show was an Exploding Balloon Thumbtacks Streetfight Death Match between Kendo Nagasaki & Seiji Yamakawa and Axl Rotten & Shoji Nakamaki. Balloons filled with thumbtacks were suspended from the roof and exploded after seven minutes, showering the ring with tacks. Yamakawa won after a DDT against Axl. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga made his BJPW debut on 6/19/1996 teaming with Nakamaki to take on Nagasaki and Yamakawa in a No Rope Barbed Wire Scaffold Death Match. He made clear why he is called Mr. Danger and won after hitting a double knee drop off the scaffold onto Yamakawa who was laying on a barbwire board. Yamakawa lost his front teeth because of that bump. On 8/19/1996 there was the legendary Piranha Fish Tank Death Match between Matsunaga and Nagasaki in Yokohama which had a tank of piranhas in the centre of the ring. The match ended when Nagasaki threw Matsunaga into the tank and trapped him inside by covering it with a barbed wire board. Other wrestlers made the save quickly, but Matsunaga was bleeding heavily from the chest as a result. Only one month later, on 9/23/1996, Nakamaki and Matsunaga were facing off in a No Rope Barbed Wire Chandelier Death Match. Hundreds of lit up lightbulbs were attached to the barbed wire and the lights were switched off for the match. This was the first match ever that involved lightbulbs. Matsunaga won with a backdrop. Another month later, on 10/20/1996, Nakamaki and Matsunaga had a rematch in a Scorpion Cactus Desert Death Match. It featured a tank of scorpions in the centre of the ring and cactus plants in two corners. After a fierce battle Nakamaki won by throwing Matsunaga into the tank. By staging never before seen brutality in the ring on a monthly basis, BJPW were able to attract a lot of the fans that turned their backs on FMW and IWA.

2.3 1997

The new year started as brutal as the old one ended with a Barbed Wire Board Lightbulb Double Hell Death Match on 1/2/1997 between Shoji Nakamaki & Seiji Yamakawa and Great Kojika & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga. Boards with electrified lighttubes and barbed wire on them were set up in the corners and outside of the ring, the lights were turned off. Kojika won after Yamakawa submitted to his armbar to end a great and innovative match. This was the first match ever that involved lighttubes which should soon become a BJPW trademark. Only four days later BJPW set the bar of violence even higher. Barbwire matches had been done in all forms imaginable for years, be it No Rope Barbed Wire, Barbed Wire Cages or variations with electricity and explosives. But BJPW was going to promote the mother of all barbwire matches: A scaffold match with a net of barbed wire above the second rope. This wicked creation was called the Danger Net Circus Death Match because of the similarity to the safety nets used by high wire artists in circuses. The match was insane with Nakamaki, Yamakawa and Matsunaga all tasting the wire within a few minutes after the match started. The finish is still considered one of the craziest bumps in history as Matsunaga powerbombed Yamakawa off the scaffold through two tables. BJPW was now without a doubt the most violent promotion on the planet. On 4/1/1997 BJPW did the next crazy gimmick: the 8,000 Volt Shock Death Match. Electrified bugzappers were put on boards and wrapped in barbed wire, then set up in the corners. The lights in Korakuen Hall were turned off for this match, creating an eerie atmosphere with the bugzapper's blue glow and the crackling of electricity. Tarzan Goto and Matsunaga defeated Nakamaki and Yamakawa after Matsunaga ripped Yamakawas shirt off and powerbombed him through a bugzapper board bridged between two chairs. The first BJPW tag champions were crowned on 6/3/1997. Kengo Kimura and Takashi Ishikawa won a Five Way Tag Scramble Match by beating Nakamaki & Takashi Okano, Nagasaki & Satoru Shiga, Yoshihiro Tajiri & Yuichi Taniguchi and Jado & Gedo after a Scorpion Deathlock by Ishikawa against Okano. One of the most gruesome moments in BJPW history was the No Rope Barbed Wire, Glass & Thumbtacks Death Match between Nakamaki & Yamakawa and Tarzan Goto & X (Jun Kikuzawa) on 6/7/1997. Goto used a shard of glass to cut up Nakamakis arm and shredded his flesh. Blood was pouring profusely out of two extremely deep gashes for the rest of the match. Despite his partners injury Yamakawa was still able to win the match by powerbombing X into the pit of thumbtacks. Nakamaki left in an ambulance afterwards. Later that year, Pogo and his Shadow Army began feuding with Kojika and the BJPW wrestlers. The first highlight of the feud was the Dry Ice Casket Street Fight Death Match between Great Pogo & Shadow WX and Great Kojika & Shoji Nakamaki on 10/31/1997. A casket filled with frozen carbon dioxide was set up in the ring for this bout. Pogo & WX won after throwing Kojika into the casket. On 12/8/1997, Great Pogo, Shadow Winger & Shadow WX beat Great Nakamaki, Great Kojika & Jason the Terrible in a regular casket match.

2.4 1998

On 2/3/1998 BJPW held a one night tournament in Korakuen Hall to crown their first Junior Heavyweight Champion. Yoshihiro Tajiri won after defeating Gran Naniwa, Minoru Tanaka and in the finals Gedo. The BJPW vs. Shadow Army feud continued in the new year and on 3/25/1998, both factions clashed in a Scramble Bunkhouse Time-Lag Desert Death Match between Shoji Nakamaki, Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Jason The Terrible and The Great Pogo, Shadow WX & Shadow Winger. It featured huge cactus plants in all four corners and Pogo made liberal use of a power saw during the match. BJPW was victorious, but the war was far from over. One of the most famous matches in the history of BJPW took place on 5/1/1998 in Toda. Nakamaki, Matsunaga, Jason The Terrible & Kojika were facing Pogo, Shadow WX, Shadow Winger & Shadow in the BJPW W*ing Crisis Big Born Death Match that involved barbwire boards, lighttube boards, a bed of nails, thumbtacks, a cactus, scorpions, bugzappers, dry ice, a casket, barbwire bats, nail bats and a Circus Death Match in the second ring. Matsunaga won after superbombing Shadow Winger onto a bed of nails covered in thumbtacks, cactus plants and more. This marks the climax as well as the beginning of the end of BJPW's gimmick era right before the D-NG (Death Match - New Generation) era was about to begin. The first presage of this new era was a Barbed Wire Boards & Barbed Wire Bat Death Match between Shadow WX and Tomoaki Honma in the first round of a Death Match tournament to crown the first BJPW Death Match Heavyweight Champion. They did something never before seen in this match: instead of relying on gimmicks and brutality they had an actual wrestling match and used the gimmicks only to emphasize big moves. The winner of the tournament was, however, Death Match Legend Mr. Pogo who represented the old Death Match style. He beat Mitsuhiro Matsunaga in a Glass & Fire Coffin Cremation Death Match on 08/09/1998 by trapping him in a casket an setting it ablaze. Masunaga was able to win the belt in a rematch on 08/23/1998 and on 09/23/1998, the final day of the gimmick era had come as Matsunaga lost his belt to Shadow WX in an 3 Way Board Alligator Death Match. Matsunaga wrestled an alligator in a casket match afterwards, but it was only a very small one. This was the last of BJWs "crazy" gimmick matches, and the first time a member of D-NG won the belt. A new era had begun.

7. The Death Match Wars (10/08/2004-Today)

On 10/08/2004, the first episode of BJW Deathmatch Wars aired on Samurai TV. From now on BJW provided the Japanese Garbage Wrestling fans with blood drenched entertainment on a weekly basis, propelling BJWs popularity to new heights and made them ready to enter a new era. BJW had finally overcome the problems following the feud with CZW and was now free to create a new style of Death Matches. The D-NG era blurred the line between Pure Wrestling and Garbage Wrestling, the New Age era completely tore this barrier down, a development which already started in the Renaissance era.

Daisuke Sekimoto, the best pure wrestler BJW has to offer and by many considered one of the most talented Japanese indy workers, made his Death Match debut on 10/22/2004 in a 100 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match against Mad Man Pondo. He put on an amazing performance combining his power wrestling arsenal with Death Match spots and emerged victorious after a German Suplex through a log cabin of lighttubes. Necro Butcher and Kanemura had a great brawl on the same show. On 12/18/2004 BJW had their 10th anniversary show. Sekimoto and Numazawa, the Death Match newcomers, both lost their matches. In the main event, Ryuji Ito successfully defended his title against Bad Boy Hido in a 10 Items Death Match by putting his opponent under a nail cross and hitting a Dragon Splash for the threecount.

7.1 2005

The new year started with the traditional Korakuen Hall show on 01/02/2005. In the semi main event it was the battle of the new Death Match breed as Daisuke Sekimoto faced Jaki Numazawa in a Hardcore Match. The match had a horrific and unplanned ending as Jaki tried a Hurracanrana off the apron and smacked the back of his head on the floor. He lost consciousness and was heavily bleeding, the match had to be stopped. The main event started the Apache Army vs. Big Japan feud. Ito & Shadow WX fought Kintaro Kanemura & Takashi Sasaki in a Barbed Wire Boards & Barbed Wire Trap Death Match, but during the match, other BJW and Apache wrestlers interfered. Ito scored the victory for BJW with a Dragon Splash against Sasaki.

On 01/10/2005, Ito, Sekimoto and Kobayashi battled the DDT team of Sanshiro Takagi, Mikami and Kudo to a 30 minute time limit draw in an excellent match. Numazawa and Sekimoto had a rematch on the 01/28/2005 show. Both were able to show off their wrestling skills in a hard hitting battle, Sekimoto won with his trademark German Suplex Hold. The main event featured the continuation of the Apache vs. BJW feud as Ito, Teioh, WX and Kobayashi beat Kanemura, Hido, Sasaki and Miyawaki in a Spider Net Death Match.

Jun Kasai, who left BJW in 2002, returned to join the Apache Army on 02/22/2005. He teamed up with Hido and Sasaki to take on Ito, Teioh and Kanemura in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Fluorescent Lighttubes Trap Death Match. Team BJW came out on top, but Kasai was able to show the fans that he lost nothing of his craziness in Zero-One. On the same show, Numazawas 7 Death Match Trial series began in which he had to face established Death Match stars to prove he is worthy of competing in main events. The first match was a Fans Bring the Weapons Match against Kobayashi which Numazawa lost after the Koba Driver onto thumbtacks. On the same card, Sekimoto and Tomohiro Ishii had a great strong style match.

The Apache vs. BJW feud went on with lighttube matches on 03/28, 03/31 and a great one on 04/03/2005 between Sasaki & Kasai and Ito & Sekimoto. Numazawa lost against Teioh, Shadow WX and Hido in the next matches of his trial series. Necro Butcher had a fun brawl with Shadow on the 03/28 show. BJW and Apache clashed again in lighttube matches on 04/29, 05/04 and 05/05. It went back and forth, neither side could gain a clear advantage in this war. While all of those lighttube matches may look very repetitive on paper, they were all well worked, creative, diversified and defined the style of the New Age of the Death Match.

Numazawa lost his fifth trial match against Pondo in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Graveyard Death Match on 05/08. In the main event of that show, the BJW team of Ito, Kanemura, Sekimoto and Kobayashi faced the Apache team of Hido, Sasaki, Kasai and Gentaro in a Two Rings & Scaffold Death Match. Ito got the pin over Gentaro after hitting an incredible Frankensteiner off the scaffold to end a great spotfest.

The feud culminated in a 300 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match for the BJW Death Match Heavyweight Title between the leaders of each faction, Ryuji Ito and Takashi Sasaki, at the 06/08 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium show. This was the first really big match of this era. They absolutely killed themselves for almost 24 minutes in an excellent match that featured both great wrestling and lighttubes being broken over human bodies in every way imaginable before Ito won with a lighttubes-assisted Dragon Splash. Afterwards Ito offered a handshake to Sasaki but he refused. Numazawa had his sixth trial match on that show against Kasai and it was something never done before: a Razorblades Death Match. A barbed wire board was set up in one corner of the ring, Kasai brought a cross covered in razorblades with him and put it in the opposite corner. Kasai was also the one to take the bump as he was powerbombed onto the cross set up between two chairs. It was a gruesome sight as Kasais back was completely shredded by the blades leaving huge gaping gashes with blood squirting everywhere. But because Numazawa became arrogant and too sure about his victory Kasai was able to use his experience to still win the match. He offered Numazawa to team up with him afterwards. Also on that show Necro Butcher and Mad Man Pondo had a brutal Street Fight.

The events of that show led to a great 200 Fluorescent Lighttubes Tower Death Match between Ryuji Ito & Takashi Sasaki and Jun Kasai & Jaki Numazawa. It featured lots of broken glass and crazy bumps off the tower. At one point in the match Ito was trapped inside the tower behind a thick wall of lighttubes. As Sasaki was close to being defeated Ito - not caring about his own body - broke through the glass wall to save his former arch rival. Ito finally won after a Dragon Splash off the Tower onto Numazawa. From this day on Ito and Sasaki were a team, former enemies welded together by the heat of battle. The match between Sekimoto and Kobayshi on this card is also quite good and worth watching.

On 08/14, Numazawa got his last chance to prove he is worty to be a Death Match wrestler, but this match was different than all the previous ones as he didn't face an established star but fellow Death Match newcomer Daisuke Sekimoto. It was a Prison Hall Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match that featured one side of the ring ropes being covered in lighttubes, one side covered in clusters of five lighttubes each and lots of other lighttube gimmicks inside and outside of the ring. The match was great and the finish just plain awesome as Numazawa destroyed approximately 150 lighttubes within a few seconds. First he smashed countless lighttube bundles over his opponents head, then he hit a Death Valley Driver through a gigantic log cabin consisting of 88 lighttubes for the win.

On 08/28 the recently formed teams of Ito & Sasaki and Kasai & Numazawa clashed again, but this time the new team of Abdullah Kobayashi and Daisuke Sekimoto, also known as Muscle & Fat, joined the battle in a Three Way Tag Death Match. BJW again showcased a great match which was won by Kobayashi after he used the Bakachinga Elbow on Sasaki.

A very special match was held on 10/02: the first Fire Death Match since 2003. Ito & Kobayashi teamed up to take on Kasai & Numazawa. The match was nuts and featured lots of creative use of the fire, including flaming lighttubes. Kobayashi won after hitting the Bakachinga Elbow against Numazawa.

The tag team warfare reached its climax on 10/14 as Sekimoto and Kobayashi faced Numazawa and Kasai in a 250 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match for the vacant BJW Tag Titles. The match was brutal and is without a doubt one of the matches with the most hardway blood loss in the history of professional wrestling. Especially Kasai looked gruesome with every square centimetre of his skin covered in cuts and gore. In one of the following weeks (I don't know the exact date), Kasai was hospitalized because there was a tumour discovered in his intestines (this had nothing to do with his Death Matches) and he had to undergo surgery, keeping him out of the ring for several months. On 10/29 there was a rematch of the 08/28 Three Way Death Match in which Men's Teioh replaced Kasai. Necro Butcher delivered another quality brawl on this show as he beat Masada in a Hardcore Match.

The next big singles Death Match was on 11/22 and it was Kobayashi and Sekimoto fighting for the contendership of the Death Match Title. The match was brutal yet excellently worked. Sekimoto uses his power advantage to tear his opponent to shreds while Kobayashi proved his incredible resistance to pain. When he was finally able to beat Sekimoto after a great comeback his upper body looked as if he wore a jacket made out of raw meat.

Another notable match took place on 12/11 as K-Dojo's Saburo Inematsu made his Death Match debut teaming with Hyoma to take on Ito & Sasaki in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match. The veterans absolutely destroyed him but he kept coming back for more proving indomitable fighting spirit. He finally fell victim to Ito's lighttubes-assisted Dragon Splash. In the main event of that show, Kobayashi and Sekimoto successfully defended their tag titles against Numazawa and Teioh in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match which featured lighttubes spraypainted in red to represent the Japanese national colors red and white.

On 12/21 BJW had their big Yokohama Bunka show headlined by the Death Match Heavyweight Title bout between Abdullah Kobayashi and Ryuji Ito in a 200 Fluorescent Lighttubes & Scaffold Death Match. The match was incredible and featured lots of busted lightubes, insane bumps and actual chain wrestling on top of the scaffold. Highlights include Kobayashi hitting a Death Valley Bomb off the scaffold, Ito hitting a splash off the scaffold through a table on the outside and a Dragon Splash by Ito off the scaffold onto Kobayashi who was buried under tons of lighttubes. The end came when Kobayashi headbutted a huge cluster of electrified lighttubes into Itos face who then fell off the scaffold allowing Kobayashi to score the victory via Bakachinga Elbow Drop off the scaffold to become the 17th BJW Death Match Heavyweight champion. After 28 months and six successful title defences Ryuji Ito's bloody reign was finally ended. Earlier that night, Takashi Sasaki earned the next title shot by defeating Jaki Numazawa in a semi-decent Scramble Bunkhouse Death Match.

7.2 2006

The new year started with the 01/02 Korakuen Hall show. In the semi main event Masato Tanaka defeated Daisuke Sekimoto in a ridiculously stiff match that would lead to a long feud that featured lots of great six man tag and tag matches. Takashi Sasaki, Kintaro Kanemura and Hido beat Kobayashi, Ito & Numazawa in the main event in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Tornado Tag Death Match. On 01/27, Muscle & Fat lost their Tag Titles to the team of Mammoth Sasaki and Shadow WX in a great match.

After his Death Match debut on 12/11/2006 Saburo Inematsus push was continued. He lost a Fans Bring the Weapons match against Numazawa on 02/04. In the main event champion and challenger clashed as Ito and Sasaki defeated Kobayashi and Masada in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match. On 02/27 BJW once again promoted a Three Way Tag Death Match, this time Inematsu replaced the injured Kasai teaming up with Numazawa to take on Ito & Sasaki and Kobayashi & Sekimoto. Inematsu was able to kick out of Sasakis D-Geist a split second too late to escape the threecount and thus lost the match.

On 03/31 Sasaki got his chance at the Death Match Title in a 200 Fluorescent Lighttubes & Kenzan Death Match. Kenzan are tiny beds of sharp needles used for flower arrangements in Japan. The match was absolutely incredible (**** Match, ranked #7 in the DVDR 2006 puro MOTY vote). Sasaki was really able to express the pain and agony of a Death Match. Towards the end Kobayashi hit the Koba Driver onto the Kenzan and they got stuck in Sasakis skull and back. The one in the back of his head was stuck so deep they weren't even able to pull it out afterwards, it was gruesome. Sasaki was still able to emerge victorious after finishing Kobayashi with the lighttubes-assisted Right Trail to become the 18th BJW Death Match Heavyweight champion.

Only one day later Sasaki again wrestled in a Death Match with his head taped up. It was a Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match between Abdullah Kobayashi, Daisuke Sekimoto & "Black Angel" Jaki Numazawa and Ryuji Ito, Takashi Sasaki & MASADA. Sasakis opponents showed no mercy and attacked the wound on his head which soon started bleeding. Numazawa scored the pinfall after a Lighttube-assisted Jaki Wicked Line against MASADA.

During April BJW did a tour of Japan that ended on 04/28 with a big Korakuen Hall show. On this show Yoshihiro Tajiri made his return after leaving WWE. He teamed with BJW president Kojika against Katsumasa Inoue & Hiroyuki Kondo. The main event was again Ito & Sasaki against Kasai & Numazawa, this time it was a 200 Fluorescent Lighttubes Tokyo Tower Death Match that featured 200 lighttubes on the ropes and a huge lighttube tower in each corner. It was again a fierce and bloody battle with a surprise ending as Numazawa pinned Ito with a rollup which was a huge upset. This would lead to a singles Death Match between Ito and Numazawa on 05/05 for the contendership of the Death Match title, this time in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match with an enormous lighttube log cabin in the shape of a ferris wheel in one corner. Numazawa was again able to pull off an upset victory, and again with a rollup pin.

On 05/26 champion and contender met in a Death Match. The team of Sasaki, Ito & Kobayashi took on Kasai, Numazawa & Hido in a Kawasaki Death Bridge Double Ring Death Match. They had two rings set up and a scaffold leading from one ring into the other so it looked like a bridge between both rings. As usual when the scaffold comes into play in BJW, the match was filled with lots of crazy spots. The finish was Sasaki hitting the D-Geist on Numazawa off the scaffold into the ring, the impact looked quite painful.

The 06/04 show was a very special one because the card featured three Death Matches and four wrestlers making their BJW Death Match debut. The first Death Match was a Mixed Tag Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match that had BJW veteran Abdullah Kobayashi teaming with yoshi hardcore legend Mayumi Ozaki to take on the newcomers Yuko Miyamoto and Kyoko Kimuro. The match was very exciting, especially Miyamoto and Kimura put on a convincing performance. Kobayashi used the Bakachinga Elbow on Kimura for the win. The semi main event was a Barbed Wire Boards Death Match between Daisuke Sekimoto and newcomer isami. Sekimoto was physically superior and tossed his skinny opponent around like a rag doll. isami fought back bravely but finally fell victim to Sekimotos patented German Suplex Hold. In the main event Kasai, Numazawa & Hido took on Sasaki, Ito & Hyoma - who was also relatively new to Death Matches - in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match. Hyoma was brutalized by his opponents and finally finished off with Kasais lightrube-assisted Pearl Harbor Splash.

This would lead to a Barbed Wire Board Death Match between Jun Kasai and Hyoma on the 06/26 Korakuen Hall show. Kasai once again proved his craziness by starting the match clad only with short tights and his body completely wrapped in barbed wire which made the chain wrestling parts a lot more interesting. Despite this advantage Hyoma was still unable to win. The main event was the long awaited Death Match title match between Jaki Numazawa and Takashi Sasaki. The stipulations were 200 Fluorescent Lighttubes & Cage Plus Alpha. Two sides of the ring ropes were covered in lighttubes, the two other sides in lighttube clusters of five each, the mini cage was set up in one corner and a huge lighttube cross in the opposite corner. Numazawa returned the favour of Sasakis D-Geist off the scaffold on 05/26 and hit a Death Valley Bomb off the top of the cage after smashing a thumbtacks-filled lighttube bundle over Sasakis head and showering the canvas with tacks. Sasaki won after wrapping Numazawas head in a lighttube contraption and hitting the Right Trail to defend his title for the first time. The match was absolutely great and comparable to the 03/31 title match.

On 07/14 it was once again Sasaki and Ito against Numazawa and Kasai. This time they had a huge lighttube contraption in the shape of a Japanese character, R2D2 filled with lighttubes and lots of other lighttube contraptions. Instead of starting the match with some chain wrestling as usual they just started blasting countless lighttubes over each others heads till no one was left standing. Ito got the win after putting Numazawa under a lighttube contraption and hitting the Dragon Splash. After the match, Ito challenged Sasaki to a title match on 09/10.

BJW had another show dedicated to the Death Match newcomers on 07/30. Abdullah Kobayashi beat Kyoko Kimura in a great Intergender Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match. In the main event the newcomer team of Yuko Miyamoto and isami challenged Ito and Sasaki to a Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match. The veterans taught them a lesson, but Miyamoto and isami put on an exciting performance before isami fell victim to the Dragon Splash with lighttubes.

During August BJW did their big Hardcore Summer Series Tour in which JC Bailey made his BJW debut. On 08/18 at Korakuen Hall Ito, Sasaki, Kasai and Numazawa again clashed in a Death Match but because of Itos challenge, the teams were mixed up putting Ito and Kasai against Sasaki and Numazawa in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match. This match was interesting because while Ito and Sasaki each tried to gain an advantage for their upcoming title match, Kasai and Numazawa had their own madman contest. The great match which also featured the return of the thumbtacks-filled lighttubes cluster ended after Ito hit the Dragon Splash on Numazawa off a ladder that was set up on top of two tables.

The midcard of the 09/10 show featured a School of Death Match between Kasai & Numazawa and Miyamoto & isami. The story behind this was that the experienced Death Match wrestlers wanted to teach the newbies what Death Matches are all about and this was their first lection. Of course the "teachers" won after Numazawa gave isami a Last Ride Powerbomb onto a barbed wire board. In the main event Ryuji Ito and Takashi Sasaki had the long awaited rematch of their excellent 06/08/2005 match. This time it was a Super High Ladder, Fluorescent Lighttubes & Barbed Wire Hell Death Match. Two sides of the ring ropes were covered in lighttubes, a huge Caribbean spidernet was set up outside the ring, a big lighttube pit on the opposite side and the mini cage with a ladder on top in one corner of the ring. The match featured two insane bumps off the "Super High Ladder". The first was a superplex off the 20 foot high contraption, the second one was a botched Dragon Splash by Ito off the top that broke both of his arms. Ito was still able to win the match and the title and even cut a promo afterwards, then he was rushed to the hospital. After it was clear that Ito wouldn't return anytime soon he vacated the belt. The BJW office later announced a decision match for the vacant belt between Takashi Sasaki and Jaki Numazawa at the 12/03 Yokohama Bunka show.

Ryuji Yamakawa, BJW Death Match legend, had his return match on 09/23. He teamed with Kintaro Kanemura to take on Shadow WX and Tetsuhiro Kuroda. During the match he was constantly held back by his tag partner and finally lost to WX's Brainbuster. In another Mixed Tag Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match Yuko Miyamoto and Mayumi Ozaki defeated Kyoko Kimura and isami. Kasai, Numazawa and Inematsu beat Sasaki, Sekimoto and MASADA in the main event in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match after Inematsu used the 36 Hammer on MASADA. This would lead to a singles match between Sasaki and Inematsu on 11/12. BJW held another Fire Death Match on 10/01 between Kasai & Teioh and Sasaki & Numazawa, but the match wasn't very good because it was raining heavily and the wrestlers could barely moved around.

The next Death Match lesson for isami and Miyamoto was on 11/12 as they took on Kasai and Numazawa in the "School of Madness Death Match 2 Term Final". This match was all about insane bumps. Miyamoto gave Numazawa the Yankee Driver off a truck through two tables, isami hit a lighttubes-assisted Double Knee Drop off a ladder on Kasai, completely shredding his chest, and for the finish, Kasai hit a lighttubes-assisted Pearl Harbor Splash off a ladder onto isami. In the main event Sasaki defeated Inematsu in an excellent Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match in which Inematsu put on a very convincing performance. Early in the match he was cut bad on his shoulder after Sasakis machine gun lighttube kicks and was bleeding heavily for the rest of the match. On the afternoon show there was a great 35 minute eight man elimination tag match wich was a showcase of what BJW could do outside of Death Matches.

The 11/27 Korakuen Hall show featured an excellent Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match between Teioh, Kasai & Numazawa and Sasaki, Kobayashi & Hido that built up nicely to the title match on 12/03.Teioh was taken out of the match early as Hido stabbed him in the eye and he had to be rushed out, only to make a Memphis-style comeback when his team mates were in the greatest need. Numazawa tried to piss Sasaki off by copying his moves and mocking him which led to a post match brawl after Jaki pinned Kobayashi. Also on this show the Hane Brothers made their BJW debut.

The third in the School of Death Match series happened on 12/03. Since Numazawa was in the main event he was replaced by Teioh in this match. This match was more wrestling-based than it predecessors and again the teacher's team emerged victorious after a running elbow strike by Teioh against isami. Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki defeated Mammoth Sasaki and Shadow WX in a BJW Tag Title Match to end their 10 month title reign and became the 23rd BJW Tag Team champions. The main event was the decision match for the vacant BJW Death Match Heavyweight Title, and it was a Fluorescent Lighttubes Shrine Death Match in which a lot of huge lighttube towers were set up on the ring ropes and only three single lighttubes. Therefore they used the lighttubes only for their bigger moves and did not constantly smash them over each others head which made the match feel a bit different than the usual BJW Death Match. It was still very brutal because the lighttube contraptions were really huge and created tons of glass shards covering the canvas. Also used in this match were a huge illuminated lighttube cluster and the returning Kenzan. After the battle lasted for over 23 minutes Sasaki was finally able to score the victory via lighttubes-assisted Right Trail to become the 20th BJW Death Match Heavyweight champion.

Because the 10/01 Fire Death Match was more or less ruined by heavy rain BJW decided to promote another one on 12/17. This time it was a three way match between the teams of Teioh, Kasai & Numazawa; Sasaki, Kobayashi & Winger and Pondo, WX & MASADA. Two sides of the ring had flaming barbed wire ropes and two sides were left open with flaming wooden frames set up on the outside. Highlights of the match include Winger hitting a Senton off a truck, Teioh diving through a flaming wooden frame and Pondo getting suplexed stomach first through the flaming ropes. The finish was Teioh giving MASADA the Miracle Ecstasy onto flaming lighttubes.

BJW also had a show on Christmas Eve which was headlined by an eight man Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match between Sasaki, Numazawa, WX & MASADA and Kasai, Inematsu, Miyamoto & isami. Inematsu clashed again with Sasaki after their singles match on 11/12 and after he was defeated by him via lighttubes-assisted Right Trail, he challenged Sasaki to a title match. However this would not happen because Inematsu was set on fire during the match by a fireball and had to take some time off due to his injuries.

7.3 2007

The beginning of 2007 saw the rise of the new Death Match star Yuko Miyamoto. He amazed and inspired Death Match fans around the world since his Death Match debut on 06/04/2006, but now was the time for his breakthrough. The main event of the 01/02 show was supposed to be a Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match between Teioh, Kasai, Numazawa & Inematsu and Sasaki, Kobayashi, WX & MASADA, but because Inematsu suffered severe burns on the 12/24/2006 show he could not wrestle and it was turned into a four on three handicap match. Miyamoto originally only had a tag match in the midcard, but after the match was over Numazawa came out and asked him if he wanted to take Inematsus spot in the main event. Miyamoto accepted. He had the match of his life, dishing out the most damage and receiving the most. Finally he was able to pull off an upset victory after destroying MASADA with a lighttubes-assisted Moonsault Press. Also on that show there was a great 30 minute time limit draw between Sekimoto, Yoshihito Sasaki & Hiroyuki Kondo and Kanemura, Tesuhiro Kuroda & Onryo which was sadly never shown in full on TV.

On 01/28 KAORU made her BJW Death Match debut in a Barbed Wire Boards Death Match teaming with Numazawa and Kobayashi to defeat Teioh, Kasai and Kyoko Kimura with a barbed wire board-assisted Valkyrie Splash. The main event was another six man Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match in which Sasaki showed Miyamoto who's boss before finishing him with a lighttubes-assisted Right Trail.

Miyamoto had another upset victory on 02/26 as he pinned three time BJW Death Match champion and living legend Shadow WX with a lighttubes-assisted Moonsault press in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match between Kasai, Miyamoto & Inematsu and Sasaki, WX & Kobayashi.

BJW provided more yoshi Death Match action on 03/04 as Onryo & KAORU took on Teioh & Kyoko Kimura in a Mixed Barbed Wire Boards Tag Death Match. KAORU again was victorious after a Hurracanrana against Kimura. The main event was a School of Death Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match and it was the final School of Death Match. Miyamoto beat isami with a lighttubes-assisted Moonsault Press, therefore finished the "School of Death" successfully and was now ready for greater challenges.

Ryuji Ito made is return on 03/14 after recovering from the injuries he suffered in his match against Sasaki on 09/10/2006. He won a Barbed Wire Boards Death Match between him, WX & Kobayashi and Kasai, Numazawa & Inematsu with a barbed wire board-assisted Dragon Splash to Inematsu. The main event was the highly anticipated title match between Takashi Sasaki and the rising star Yuko Miyamoto in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Construction Site Scaffold Death Match. The match was subtitled "One Night Carnival" to show that no matter if Miyamoto won or lost, his dreams would come true in this moment and that he would give it all for one night. The match was very emotional as Miyamoto attacked the champion with fierce fighting spirit and came close to winning several times. The scaffold was used for unearthly bumps including a double stomp off the scaffold right onto Sasakis chest. Towards the end Miyamoto seemed to be willing to kill himself for the victory as he hit a Moonsault off the scaffold, but Sasaki kicked out. Miyamoto then placed him on a table and went for another Moonsault off the scaffold, but Sasaki got up and climbed the scaffold as well. The two exhausted warriors then tried to throw each other off, Sasaki finally got the upper hand and hit the D-Geist off the scaffold through the table. Miyamotos determination and spirit seemed indestructible as he gathered all of his remaining strength to kick out at 2.99. Sasaki dragged a motionless Miyamoto into a sitting position and hit the lighttubes-assisted Right Trail, but somehow Miyamoto again manages to kick out. He was finally able to destroy his opponent with a lighttubes-assisted modified D-Geist. The crowd went nuts during the match and even chanted Miyamotos name. After it was all over, Sasaki told Miyamoto that he has proven himself worthy and from now on belonged into the main event.

On 03/25 BJW returned to Kawasaki for a Double Ring Four Way Tag Death Match between Sasaki & Kobayashi, Kasai & Numazawa, Shadow WX & Winger and Ito & isami. The match featured one regular ring and one Death Match ring with barbed wire boards, a barbed wire bat, tables, ladders and chairs. It was a wild and chaotic brawl until Kobayashi finished isami with the Bakachinga Elbow. After the match Numazawa, Kobayashi and Ito each demanded to get the next title shot which soon turned into a post match brawl.

Necro Butcher returned to BJW after over 16 months on 04/29 teaming with Mad Man Pondo to defeat MASADA and Sterling James Keenan who made his BJW debut in this match. On the next day BJW had their next Korakuen Hall show. The main event was for the contendership of the BJW Death Match title, and it was a Fluorescent Lighttubes Kenzan Death Match between Ryuji Ito and Abdullah Kobayashi. One of the highlights was Kobayashi hitting a Top Rope Frankensteiner into the Kenzan and having one of them stuck deep in his elbow afterwards. Ito tried to finish his opponent with a lighttubes-assisted Dragon Splash, but Kobayashi rolled trough and covered Ito for a twocount. Kobayashi though was now so exhausted that he could not resist Ito hitting another Dragon Splash for the win.

Appendix A: Essential Matches

Must-see matches in chronlogical order.

1995:
1. 03/16/95 No Rope Barbed Wire Death Match: Kendo Nagasaki & Shoji Nakamaki vs. Iceman & Ron Powers
2. 07/01/95 Grocery Store Death Match

1996:
1. 05/22/96 Exploding Balloon Thumb Tacks Street Fight Death Match: Shoji Nakamaki (Free) & Axl Rotten (ECW) vs. Kendo Nagasaki & Seiji Yamakawa
2. 07/19/96 No Rope Barbed Wire Double Free Fall Diving Exhibition Death Match: Kendo Nagasaki & Seiji Yamakawa vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Shoji Nakamaki
3. 08/19/96 Barbed Wire Board Piranha Fish Tank Death Match: Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Kendo Nagasaki
4. 09/30/96 No Rope Barbed Wire Chandelier Baseball Bat Death Match: Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Shoji Nakamaki
5. 11/20/96 Scorpion Cactus Desert Death Match: Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Shoji Nakamaki

1997:
1. 01/02/97 Barbed Wire Board Light Bulb Double Hell Death Match: Shoji Nakamaki & Seiji Yamakawa vs. Great Kojika & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga
2. 01/06/97 Danger Net Circus Deathmatch: Shoji Nakamaki & Seiji Yamakawa vs. Great Kojika & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga
3. 04/01/97 8,000 Volt Shock Deathmatch: Tarzan Goto & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Shoji Nakamaki & Seiji Yamakawa
4. 06/07/97 No Rope Barbed Wire, Glass & Thumbtacks Deathmatch: Shoji Nakamaki & Ryuji Yamakawa vs. Tarzan Goto & X
5. 10/31/97 Dry Ice Casket Street Fight Death Match: Great Pogo & Shadow WX vs. Great Kojika & Shoji Nakamaki

1998:
1. 03/25/98 Scramble Bunkhouse Time-Lag Desert Death Match: Shoji Nakamaki & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Jason The Terrible vs. The Great Pogo & Shadow WX & Shadow Winger
2. 05/01/98 BJPW vs. W*ING Crisis Big Born Deathmatch: Shoji Nakamaki/Masked G.K./Mitsuhiro Matsunaga/Jason The Terrible vs. The Great Pogo/Shadow WX/Shadow Winger/Shadow VI
3. 07/26/98 Barbed Wire Boards & Barbed Wire Bat Death Match: Shadow WX vs. Tomoaki Honma
4. 08/09/98 Glass & Fire Coffin Cremation Death Match: The Great Pogo vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga
5. 09/23/98 3 Way Board Alligator Death Match: Shadow WX vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga

1999:
1. 05/30/99 No Ropes Barbed Wire Death Pallet Coffin & Fire Death Match: Ryuji Yamakawa vs. Shadow WX
2. 06/20/99 Anywhere 3 Way Board Death Match: Ryuji Yamakawa vs. Tomoaki Honma
3. 10/03/99 Barbed Wire Boards Death Match: Tomoaki Honma vs. The Winger
4. 10/17/99 Lighttube Boards & Barbwire Boards Death Match: Tomoaki Honma vs. Shadow WX
5. 11/08/99 Lighttube Boards & Barbwire Boards Death Match: Tomoaki Honma & Ryuji Yamakawa vs. Winger & Shadow WX

2000:
1. 01/02/00 5-Inch Spike Nail & Barbed Wire Double Board Death Match: Tomoaki Honma vs. Ryuji Yamakawa
2. 02/22/00 Barbed Wire Board & Ladder Death Match: Tomoaki Honma vs. Abdullah Kobayashi
3. 04/30/00 Fluorescent Lighttubes Board Death Match: Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Jun Kasai
4. 07/02/00 Lemon, Salt & Mustard Death Match: Zandig vs. Tomoaki Honma
5. 11/23/00 Glass & Barbed Wire Board Death Match: Tomoaki Honma vs. Zandig

2001:
1. 05/04/01 CZW Caribbean-style Barbed Wire & Light Bulb & Light Bulb Board & Barbed Wire Chess Board Death Match: Zandig vs. Kintaro Kanemura
2. 05/27/01 Barefoot Thumbtack Death Match: Jun Kasai vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga
3. 08/19/01 200 Lighttubes & Thumbtack & Glass Board Death Match: Zandig vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga

2002:
1. 03/03/02 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Kintaro Kanemura vs. Bad Boy Hido
2. 03/03/02 Land Mine Board Russian Roulette Death Match: Ryuji Yamakawa vs. Jun Kasai
3. 08/04/02 Thumbtacks Death Match: Bad Boy Hido vs. Ryuji Yamakawa
4. 08/18/02 100 Fluorescent Lighttubes & Panes of Glass Death Match: Kintaro Kanemura vs. Ryuji Yamakawa

2003:
1. 03/30/03 150 Fluorescent Lighttubes & Panes of Glass Death Match: Kintaro Kanemura vs. Shadow WX
2. 08/24/03 Cage Death Match: Kintaro Kanemura vs. Ryuji Ito
3. 12/24/03 Ring of Death Fluorescent Lighttubes, Barbed Wire Board & Glass Board Death Match: Ryuji Ito vs. Abdullah Kobayashi

2004:
04/29/04 Glass Board Plus Alpha Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Ryuji Ito vs. BADBOY Hido
05/13/04 Fans Bring The Weapons Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Ryuji Ito vs. Madman Pondo
07/18/04 300 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Ryuji Ito vs. Gosaku
10/22/04 100 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Mad Man Pondo vs. Daisuke Sekimoto
12/18/04 10 Items Death Match: Ryuji Ito vs. Bad Boy Hido

2005:
1. 02/22/05 Fans Bring the Weapons Match: Jaki Numazawa vs. Abdullah Kobayashi
2. 04/03/05 100 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Jun Kasai & Takashi Sasaki vs. Ryuji Ito & Daisuke Sekimoto
3. 06/08/05 300 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Ryuji Ito vs. Takashi Sasaki
4. 06/08/05 Barbed Wire Board/Razor Cross Board +Alpha Death Match: Jun Kasai vs. Jaki Numazawa
5. 07/22/05 200 Fluorescent Lighttubes Cage Death Match: Ryuji Ito & Takashi Sasaki vs. Jun Kasai & Jaki Numazawa
6. 08/14/05 200 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Jaki Numzawa vs. Daisuke Sekimoto
7. 08/28/05 100 Fluorescent Lighttubes 3 Way Death Match: Abdullah Kobayashi & Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Ryuji Ito & Takashi Sasaki vs. Jun Kasai & Jaki Numazawa
8. 10/14/05 250 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Daisuke Sekimoto & Abdullah Kobayashi vs. Jun Kasai & Jaki Numazawa
9. 11/22/05 100 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Abdullah Kobayashi vs. Daisuke Sekimoto
10. 12/21/05 200 Fluorescent Lighttubes Scaffold Death Match: Ryuji Ito vs. Abdullah Kobayashi

2006:
1. 03/31/06 200 Fluorescent Lighttubes & Kenzan Death Match: Takashi Sasaki vs. Abdullah Kobayashi
2. 04/28/06 Tokyo Tower 200 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Jun Kasai & Jaki Numazawa vs. Ryuji Ito & Takashi Sasaki
3. 05/05/06 100 Fluorescent Lighttubes Ferris Wheel Death Match: Ryuji Ito vs. Jaki Numazawa
4. 06/26/06 200 Fluorescent Lighttubes Cage +Alpha Death Match: Jaki Numazawa vs. Takashi Sasaki
5. 07/14/06 100 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Ryuji Ito & Takashi Sasaki vs. Jun Kasai & Jaki Numazawa
6. 08/18/06 100 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Ryuji Ito & Jun Kasai vs. Jaki Numazawa & Takashi Sasaki
7. 09/10/06 Super High Ladder, Fluorescent Lighttubes & Barbed Wire Hell Death Match: Takashi Sasaki vs. Ryuji Ito
8. 11/12/06 100 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Takashi Sasaki vs. Saburo Inematsu
9. 11/27/06 100 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: MEN's Teioh, Jun Kasai & Jaki Numazawa vs. Takashi Sasaki, Abdullah Kobayashi & BADBOY Hido
10. 12/03/06 Fluorescent Lighttubes Shrine Death Match: Jaki Numazawa vs. Takashi Sasaki

2007:
1. 01/02/07 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Jun Kasai, MEN’s Teioh, Yuko Miyamoto & Jaki Numazawa vs. Abdullah Kobayashi, Masada, Takashi Sasaki & Shadow WX
2. 02/26/07 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Jun Kasai, Yuko Miyamoto & Saburo Inematsu vs. Takashi Sasaki, Shadow WX & Abdullah Kobayashi
3. 03/14/07 Fluorescent Lighttubes Construction Site Scaffold Death Match ~ One Night Carnival: Takashi Sasaki vs. Yuko Miyamoto

Appendix B: Picture Credits

Onita picture: Bahu's FMW World
Kojika picture: unknown
01/06/1997: George Mayfield
03/31/2007, 01/02/2007 & 03/14/2007: Yahoo Sportsnavi
07/14/2006, 09/10/2006 & 12/03/2006: http://hakase.no-blog.jp/