With WWE ratings at historic lows, the company has announced a loaded up go-home show for Hell in a Cell.
The final Raw before the PPV, on October 19th from the American Airlines Arena in Dallas, TX, has announced a lineup for the show that includes Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair along with Hell in a Cell headliners Undertaker and Brock Lesnar. With the go-home Raw being in Dallas, and it being the final show in the market until WrestleMania, it is expected that significant WrestleMania 32 news will come out of that event.
Raw on Monday, September 21st, drew just 3.34 million viewers, down from the 3.39 million that the show drew the week prior. Worse, the show lost viewers as it went on, finishing with just 3.26 million in the third hour. John Cena defending the WWE United States Title versus Seth Rollins was the main event.
Brock Lesnar vs. Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match headlines the October 19th PPV.
– Dick The Bruiser defeated Verne Gagne to win the United States championship in a Best of Three Falls match
1965
Kansas City, Kansas:
– Penalty Box rules match, North American tag team champions, Bob Geigel and Bob Brown beat Mongolian Stomper and The Ox
– Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Corsica Joe
– Sonny Myers beat Jerry Miller
– Thor Hagen beat Bulldog Plechas
1968
Orlando, Florida:
– Nick Kozack defeated Johnny Valentine for the NWA Florida Heavyweight Title
1972
Calgary, Alberta, Canada:
– George Gordienko defeated Beautiful Brutus
– Kendo Nagasaki defeated Geoff Portz to win the Stampede North American Heavyweight championship
1974
Orlando, Florida:
– NWA World Champion Jack Brisco beat Bill Watts
– Bob Armstrong (substituting for Ron Fuller) & Tony Charles beat The Hollywood Blondes, Buddy Roberts & Jerry Brown
– Bob Armstrong beat Greg Valentine
– Jerry Brisco beat Dick Slater
1975
Des Moines, Iowa:
– NWA World Title match, Jack Brisco defeated Ed Wiskoski
– Baron Von Raschke defeated Pat O’Conner
– Akio Sato & Jerry Oates beat Jesse Ventura & Palmer
1979
Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
– Canadian Title Match, AWA Title not on the line; Canadian Champion Dewey Robertson beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel
– US Champion Jimmy Snuka beat Ricky Steamboat
– Andre The Giant beat Ken Patera dq
– Jay Youngblood & Pedro Morales beat Swede Hanson & John Studd
1982
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:
– Non Title match, Dino Bravo & Rick Martel beat AWA Tag Team Champions Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell
– AWA Champion Otto Wanz beat Nick Bockwinkel
– Adrian Adonis beat Baron Von Raschke
– Bobby Heenan beat Ray Stevens dq
– Ken Patera & Bobby Duncum no contest Jerry Blackwell & Sheik Adnan
1983
Houston, Texas:
– Non Title Match, Junk Yard Dog beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel
– Butch Reed beat Dusty Rhodes dq
– Hacksaw Duggan & Steve Williams beat King Kong Bundy & One Man Gang
– Missing Link beat Magnum TA
1984
Minneapolis, Minnesota:
– WWF champion Hulk Hogan & Mad Dog Vachon defeated George Steele & Big John Studd (substituting for Jesse Ventura)
– Pat Patterson & Michael Hayes defeated The Moondogs. This bout replaced Fabulous Freebirds vs. Spoiler & Moondogs
– WWF Intercontinental champion Tito Santana defeated Paul Orndorff via disqualification
1986
Tokyo, Japan:
– Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura defeated Akira Maeda & Osamu Kido to win the IWGP Tag Team Title
Portland, Oregon:
– Road Warriors beat Bruiser Brody & Rip Oliver dq
– AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Curt Hennig dq
– Sgt. Slaughter beat Abudda Dein
1987
Los Angeles, California:
– NWA Western States Heritage Champion Barry Windham defeated Rick Steiner
– Terry Taylor & Eddie Gilbert defeated Sting & Shane Douglas
– UWF Champion Steve Williams defeated Black Bart
– NWA US Champion Lex Luger defeated NWA World TV Champion Nikita Koloff
– NWA World Champion Ric Flair fought Ron Garvin to a no contest
1990
Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico:
– Rick Valentine & Eric Embry defeated Hurricane Castillo Jr. & Miguelito Perez to win the WWC Caribbean Tag Team Title
1994
Las Vegas, Nevada:
– Danny Spivey beat Johnny Ace to win the first UWF Americas Title
– Candi Divine pinned Tina Moretti to win vacant UWF Women’s Title
– The Killer Bees beat Warlord & Power Warrior (Larry Power) to win the first UWF Tag Title
– UWF champ Steve Williams beat Sid Vicious via dq
1996
Hershey, Pennsylvania:
– During a Raw taping, Marc Mero defeated Faarooq to win a tournament for the Intercontinental Title
Japan:
– Kensuke Sasaki defeated Shiro Koshinaka in the finals of New Japan Pro Wrestling’s “Japan-U.S. All Star Tournament”
– Sasaki defeated Lex Luger, Ric Flair, and Scott Norton to reach the finals, while Koshinaka beat Hugh Morrus, Sting, and Shinya Hashimoto to reach the finals
1998
Yokohama, Japan:
– Scott Norton defeated Yuji Nagata for the vacant IWGP Heavyweight Title
2000
Newport, Delaware:
– Inferno Kid defeats JJ The Ring Crew Guy for the ECWA Heavyweight Title
2001
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:
– Kurt Angle defeated Steve Austin to win the WWF World Heavyweight Title
– Christian defeated Edge to win the Intercontinental Title
– Rhyno defeated Yoshihiro Tajiri for the United States Title
2002
– Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito defeated Takeshi Rikio & Takeshi Morishima for the Global Honored Crown Tag Team Title
– Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Yoshihiro Takayama to win the Global Honored Crown Heavyweight Title
2003
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
– Yoshihiro Tajiri defeated Rey Mysterio to win the WWE Cruiserweight Title
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Kane came out live talking about how glad he was to be back at work. He said the WWE was on fire. He announced two matches for tonight, Kevin Owens & Rusev vs. Dolph Ziggler & Ryback, and Roman Reigns vs. Luke Harper with everyone banned from ringside. Seth Rollins came out and told Kane to cut the crap, because everyone knows what he did last night. Kane still pretended he was a different person. He said he wanted to make up with Rollins, but Rollins turned him down. Kane showed flashes of being a monster, and announced Rollins vs. Ambrose non-title as the main event.
Reigns beat Harper with a spear.
New Day beat Lucha Dragons & Neville.
The New Day pushed the 10/3 Network special and their match with the Dudleys for the title.
Cesaro beat Bo Dallas. Dallas did his usual promo. Cesaro won with a roll-up.
They showed clips of the Charlotte celebration and Paige turn from Raw. Charlotte & Lynch came out and thanked everyone for their support. Paige came out and took credit for everything saying she was the catalyst. Natalya came out and asked Paige why she’s so mad because the Divas division is the best it has ever been. Paige and Natalya argued and Paige slapped her and left.
Ryback & Ziggler beat Rusev & Owens when Owens walked out on Rusev, who was pinned after Ryback hit the shell shock.
The Dudleys cut a promo about the Madison Square Garden match with the New Day for the WWE Tag Team Titles. The Prime Time Players wished them luck.
Seth Rollins did an interview talking badly about Kane, not knowing Kane was right there watching it.
Dean Ambrose beat WWE Champion Seth Rollins in a non-title match. The finish saw Kane’s pyro distract Rollins, who was then pinned.
Rollins cut a promo after, saying he was fed up and will make Kane’s life miserable if he keeps up the mind games. The pyro went off again, and Rollins ran off scared while Kane was shown on the screen laughing.
Raw set a new record low last night with 3.34 million viewers, down slightly from the 3.39 million last week and 3.37 million the week before.
The shows represent the three lowest audiences for Raw aside from a July 4th or a Christmas or New Year’s Eve dating back to 1997.
While expected that football would hurt numbers this fall and send them to some record lows, this has been worse than expected.
The New York Jets vs. Indianapolis Colts game did 12.48 million viewers, down from the prior week, but it was the New York market and that’s a traditional strong WWE market where the home team will hurt Raw ratings worse than any other market.
Another difference is the second hour was no longer the highest. The first hour saw the initial 30 minutes before the game kicked off which gives it an edge now.
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 3.42 million viewers 9 p.m. 3.37 million viewers 10 p.m. 3.26 million viewers
Bellator on Saturday night did 800,000 viewers, also a major disappointment, going against a plethora of college football games.
Total Divas airs at 9:00 p.m. ET on E! with an episode titled “Some Like It Hot.” Paige announces her engagement, the Bella twins learn that they have a new sibling on the way, and Alicia Fox somehow messes with Trinity/Naomi and Jon/Jimmy’s relationship.
SmackDown will be taped tonight in Corpus Christi with Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Sheamus as the top advertised stars.
New Japan Destruction in Okayama PPV on tonight at 2:00 a.m. ET on New Japan World: Sho Tanaka & Yohei Komatsu & Yuji Nagata & Katsuyori Shibata vs. Jay White & David Finlay & Manabu Nakanishi & Tetsuya Naito Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly vs. Jushin Liger & Mascara Dorada in a non-title match Steve Anthony vs. Tiger Mask for NWA Junior Heavyweight Title Hiroshi Tanahashi & Matt Sydal vs. Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson vs. Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan for IWGP tag titles Hirooki Goto & Tomoaki Honma & Captain New Japan & Ryusuke Taguchi & Alex Shelley vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & Yoshi-Hashi & Rocky Romero & Baretta Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano vs. A.J. Styles & Cody Hall Kushida vs. Kenny Omega for IWGP jr. title Togi Makabe vs. Kota Ibushi for Never Open weight title
The newest issue of Figure Four Weekly is now up for subscribers (subscribe to the site here and get access to Figure Four, the Observer, tons of audio, and more) featuring a look back at how exactly WWE lost the WWF name. Forget the stories you’v heard, this detailsexactly what the World Wildlife Fund objected to, what WWE agreed to and why, what scandals worried the fund, and more. On top of that, we have all the usual stuff like Vinny’s reviews and international news from Dr. Lucha Steve Sims and and Alan”4L” Counihan.
The recent FREEFigure Four Weekly is still up with a look at the crazy story of why Gawker thinks the FBI may have helped Hulk Hogan cover up his racist and homophobic comments. A judge has ordered the FBI to turn over the records of their investigation, and what Gawker is saying in court about what has and hasn’t been turned over paints a very interesting picture.
Also, now available for the first time on Kindle (meaning Kindle devices and anything with the Kindle app) is Fall Guys, the seminal 1937 book that has been described as being like the 1930s version of the Wrestling Observer. It was surprisingly not on Kindle already, so we put together a nice version with a full table of contents w/ chapter marks, proper formatting on everything, etc. Right now it’s available from the American, Canadian, and Australian Amazon/Kindle stores OR you can also buy it from anywhere in the world on PayHip, who will provide you with both Kindle and ePub (every other e-reader) format files, and you can either sideload them to your device or have them email it to your Kindle.
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Wrestling Observer Newsletter: We’ve got a look at WWE right now with the issues that have led to ratings setting record lows as well as an update on TNA, New Japan, GFW, ROH and everyone else in the battle for No. 2, as the lead stories in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. This issue also has a detailed look at the Nick Diaz situation and why it is far more complicated than most are making it out to be, Atlantis vs. La Sombra in one of the year’s biggest matches, a history of the CMLL anniversary shows, a look at Thomas Hauser’s article on USADA, an update on Dr. Christopher Amann’s lawsuit against C.M. Punk and Colt Cabana, what led to the Mayweather flop on PPV and New Japan builds for two PPVs this month.
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The lead story looks at what is and isn’t misleading about the record low ratings for Raw and Smackdown over the past two weeks, the rate of decline, the future of Smackdown, and why wrestling even with lower ratings may be far more valuable to the USA Network when the current contract is over. We look at the problems that are inherent, those that can be addressed and those that can’t. We look at why this past week’s Raw rating was far more sobering than the week before as well as how wrestling and every combat sport is changing from an economic situation worldwide. We look at interviews, finishes, making stars and dropping the ball on stars. We also look at Night of Champions.
We update the TNA television situation, what promotion had a strong growth year, and the future of No. 2, as well as an update on all of TNA’s TV deals.
We go in depth on Nick Diaz, and what are the key elements of the story, why he got a five year suspension, how Diaz has blown his prime years in fighting, the commissioners discuss the suspension and the deliberations leading to it. We talk about why comparisons to Anderson Silva and Jon Jones aren’t valid in this case, detail the controversies over the test results, the legal issues involved, and Diaz talks about what happened in childhood that led him to where he is.
We also look at the situation with Jake Shields and the commission ruling on his post-match punch to Rousimar Palhares, as well as his comments on what happened.
We also look at what contracted talent was told about Hulk Hogan, as well as a double standard that is too obvious, the next Takeover special, Update on Lana, Dwayne Johnson makes former WWE writer a major executive in his company, what happened at the recent NXT talent meeting, Daniel Bryan talks about creating new stars, and his health situation as well as PPV matches he wants.
We look at plans for the November European tour, WWE performers and Twitter, Paige talks in detail about her incident with Alicia Fox that turned into a fight of sorts with two other women and how it all went down. Jimmy Noonan talks issues with WWE security including a story when a fan kicked the ass of a main event wrestler inside the ring one night and how that fan ended up as a wrestler.
We look at another sports star that WWE is bringing in for a tryout, four cast members from Tough Enough who have now signed contracts, this week’s NXT shows, and the father of a WWE wrestler who is an all-time legend in slow-pitch softball.
We’ve got notes on the WWE TV shows as well as the next month of NXT shows, as well as reports on WWE business over the past week, and highlights from all the house shows.
We look at the Atlantis vs La Sombra match, the build to the match, why the match is so big, the last angle and what happened with Dr. Wagner Jr. an L.A. Park. We also look at a history of the CMLL Anniversary shows, with the big names that have appeared on them and the most famous matches over the years.
We look at Thomas Hauser’s article on USADA and how it related to Floyd Mayweather, what about the article had validity and what was a stretch. We look at USADA’s drug testing in UFC and what the results so far say, the concept of retroactive TUE’s, a scary aspect of a contract Manny Pacquiao was given and wouldn’t sign, rumors of Mayweather positive tests, and the story behind Erik Morales failing four tests before a fight for Clenbuterol and still fighting.
We update the situation with Dr. Christopher Amann’s lawsuit against C.M. Punk. We look at the response to the suit filed by Punk and Colt Cabana, WWE’s response and what the key issues in the suit are.
We’ve got notes on the Floyd Mayweather-Andre Berto PPV number and lessons that it has taught.
We also run down this past week’s New Japan show at Korakuen Hall and how it builds the next two PPV shows.
We’ve also got ratings from all the television shows this past week along with results from all the major arena events.
We also update on the last two AAA TV tapings, Genichiro Tenryu’s last match at Korakuen Hall, the Dragon Gate Summer Adventure tag team tournament, the All Japan Open singles tournament, the NOAH jr. heavyweight tournament, New Japan talks about their relationship with WWE and more.
We look at the Japanese female wrestler who broke her record for most world championships, and a new Hall of Fame mixed tag team.
We’ve got notes on Hulk Hogan’s latest media and what he said that simple time lines can disprove, notes on Jimmy Snuka including why there will be a lot more coverage of his story coming up, as well as why his hearing this week was canceled. We look at the U.S. gold medalists in the world wrestling championships and what wrestler looks like a great UFC or WWE prospect. We also update GFW and where television stands, look at a star indie wrestler sent to prison, Podcasts involving wrestling personalities, two pro wrestlers at the 1980 Olympic team reunion, an update on House of Hardcore, an update on Kelly Kelly, whatever happened to Chuck Palumbo, former UFC star getting a pro wrestling break, a wrestling show uncovered by a historian that drew 80,000 fans in 1936, the daughter of a WWE Hall of Famer starting wrestling training, and a well known pro wrestler competing under another name in pseudo MMA combat.
We also look at some significant negotiations going on with ROH and a look at the weekend events.
We also look at the Jarrett/Dixie Carter deal, Earl Hebner into the TNA Hall of Fame and his background, an update on Bram and Kurt Angle and Angle’s wrestling schedule.
We look at ticket sales for UFC 194 and how early sales have been, more big fights announced, a UFC signee who will start after competing in the 2016 Olympics, Ronda Rousey in the ESPN poll of the greatest female athlete of all-time, as well as lots of new UFC fights.
We also look at a new Bellator deal, and Scott Coker’s hopes for this week’s show.
We also look at a proposed Chael Sonnen vs. Josh Barnett grappling match, and the return of Ben Askren.
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Tuesday Daily Update
— Josh Gross’s big article about Vitor Belfort’s 2012 blood test (showing heavily elevated free testosterone levels), which Dave and Bryan talked about last night, is available here. At MMAJunkie, Ben Fowlkes has a good article about his five big takeaways from the piecs. Gross’s article is a must-read, super illuminating and pretty damning at the same time.
— Kurt Angle’s statement on his brother being charged with the murder of his wife:
This has been a very trying time for everyone in my family. We ask that you respect our privacy to mourn our loss…
— Haven’t gotten a chance to read them yet, but in the mess of combined WWE concussion lawsuits, the wrestlers’ side has filed a motion to dismiss in WWE’s suit against wrestlers who retained lawyer Konstantine Kyros but had yet to file. There’s also been an amended complaint filed in the Russ McCullough lawsuit against WWE, which had been expected for a while due to various issues with the original complaint. Finally, WWE’s motion to expedite discovery and get the identities of wrestlers who retained Kyros but haven’t been named was denied.
— Rob Naylor tweeted a performance review that Dusty Rhodes gave Bayley in 2013.
— The Spanish feed of Bellator’s shows returns t ESPN Deportes the Friday night with the card headlined by Joe Warren vs. L.C. Davis. Most of it is just the Spanish dub of the Spike broadcast, but they’ll also be airing an hour of prelims before the main card.
— WWE Network has added 11 new episodes of ECW TV from 1996 and 1997 on top of a lot more WCW Monday Nitros being added.
— Today’s NWAClassics.com update features the Dirty White Boys vs. Brickhouse Brown and Tony Torres. Yesterday’s was a more high profile match: Dusty Rhodes & JYD vs. Ted DiBiase & Kamala in a dog collar/bullrope match.
— Keith Harris joins Kris Zellner and myself on this week’s Between the Sheets podcast to talk about the week that was September 15-21, 1993 in pro wrestling around the world. We discuss Shawn Michaels quitting the WWF, Eddie Gilbert quitting ECW, WCW quitting the NWA and much much more.
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Here are quick results for the last of the Road to Destruction shows, taking place this morning in Uwajima.
Ryusuke Taguchi defeated Yohei Komatsu. He was defeated after Taguchi pinned him following a dodon. Good opener with lots of hot near falls towards the end.
Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi defeated Jay White and Satoshi Kojima. Nagata pinned White with the backdrop suplex hold. Solid match, but nothing beyond that.
Mascara Dorada, Tiger Mask and Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Roppongi Vice and Gedo. Tiger Mask submitted Gedo with what looked like a modified seated chickenwing. Another solid tag match with both Tiger Mask and Dorada doing cool dives here and there. Crowd was really into it. Tiger Mask cut a promo, probably talking about the NWA Jr. title match coming up.
Tomoaki Honma and Katsuyori Shibata defeated Tetsuya Naito and Juice Robinson. Honma pinned Robinson with the top rope kokeshi headbutt while Shibata choked Naito using the ropes on the apron. Sibata threw him into the barricade after the match. They had the same finish from the last show where Naito acted like he was going to hit Shibata with a chair, but sat on it instead. This time Shibata used Honma to give Naito another kokeshi, then Shibata beat him up some more to send him packing. Solid match that the crowd was really into.
The mayor of Uwajima came to the ring with the town mascot, which looked like a sun in a bonnet wearing a superhero outfit. Don’t ask me! Sho Tanaka, who is the hometown favorite, came to the ring to a nice pop as he posed with them.
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Kushida and Sho Tanaka defeated Bad Luck Fale, Kenny Omega, Cody Hall and Doc Gallows. Tanahashi pinned Hall following the high fly flow. People were very into the match, especially when Tanaka was on offense. Very good match helped by the crowd reacting big to everything. Tanaka had his music played after the match and posed with his team mates.
Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii defeated Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga. Just a standard match, not very much to it. Okada pinned Tama Tonga with the rainmaker.
Shinsuke Nakamura, Yoshi Hashi and Toru Yano defeated Togi Makabe, Hirooki Goto and Captain New Japan. Nakamura won after pinning CNJ with a boma ye. Nothing that exciting but not bad by any means. There was a period where CNJ was scoring a number of near falls on Nakamura but very few people in the crowd bought it, which is weird because they even get into the young lion pin falls. But I guess that result is why no one buys him as anything more than a job guy.
11/25/1994 Mitsuhara Misawa and Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsbNPlg9xxg&index=26&list=PLSDDUhzpikTk4f1eS7qH_IToivCuAkU5p 12/10/1995 Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada vs Giant Baba and Stan Hansen RWTL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv1jctR-PYE
1995 1/2/1995 Toshiaki Kawada, Akira Taue and Yoshinari Ogawa vs Mitsuhara Misawa, Jun Akiyama and Satoru Asako https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6oTE3QG6zo&list=PLSDDUhzpikTmfqKel79Q-UZRfNLDYp1Tu&index=1 1/19/1995 Akira Taue vs Tommy Dreamer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-TQVBB832I&list=PLSDDUhzpikTmfqKel79Q-UZRfNLDYp1Tu&index=2 1/20/1995 Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi and Jun Akiyama vs Akira Taue, Toshiaki Kawada and Takao Omori https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRAQjLh94rY&list=PLSDDUhzpikTmfqKel79Q-UZRfNLDYp1Tu&index=3 01/24/1995 Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue AJPW ***** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8MYNZB2NKA 3/4/1995 Gianta Baba, Jumbo Tsuruta and Jun Akiyama vs Akira Taue, Toshiaki Kawada and Masao Inoue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJHQjMKGBWg&list=PLSDDUhzpikTmfqKel79Q-UZRfNLDYp1Tu&index=7 3/21/1995 Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcyZh0OneVc&list=PLSDDUhzpikTmfqKel79Q-UZRfNLDYp1Tu&index=9 4/8/1995 Akira Taue vs Toshiaki Kawada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLIs_5WKy6w&list=PLSDDUhzpikTmfqKel79Q-UZRfNLDYp1Tu&index=11 4/12/1995 Akira Taue vs Mitsuhara Misawa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6tCZKPWEKA
04/15/1995 Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue AJPW ***** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il3kWE0zO4E 06/09/1995 Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue AJPW ***** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALyg-EhxbgI 06/30/1995 Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Satoru Asako vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Tamon Honda AJPW ***** 7/20/1995 Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada vs Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M78ehOAGOL4 7/24/1995 Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jac0zWuLjl8&list=PLSDDUhzpikTmfqKel79Q-UZRfNLDYp1Tu&index=16 9/10/1995 Mitsuhara Misawa vs Akira Taue ****1/2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0VA5bkeD6A 10/15/1995 Mitsuhara Misawa and Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EmheXSMcT0&list=PLSDDUhzpikTmfqKel79Q-UZRfNLDYp1Tu&index=20 12/9/1995 Kenta Kobashi and Mitsuhara Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue ****3/4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbXo06NiZY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2obDx0Fvik 1996 1/24/1996 Stan Hansen and Gary Albright vs Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8yShGAo8Y4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37c7raTI4Eo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70OC5cbRq08 3/2/1996 Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi and Jun Akiyama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc_-o6Ym9no 3/31/1996 Akira Taue vs Toshiaki Kawada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBYeDYPZnLo 4/20/1996 Akira Taue vs Steve Williams ****1/2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUngG0ZKmA4 05/23/1996 Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue AJPW ***** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2kA_LC3eVk 5/24/1996 Mitsuhara Misawa vs Akira Taue Triple Crown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYK2O-Lp0fA&list=PLSDDUhzpikTnamVLndNoZ9rutEGvLXbqN&index=6 6/7/1996 Akira Taue vs Toshiaki Kawada Triple Crown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1ZuZ8wo6o&list=PLSDDUhzpikTnamVLndNoZ9rutEGvLXbqN&index=8 7/9/1996 Mitsuhara Misawa and Jun Akiyama vs Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LE3_CKx6MU&list=PLSDDUhzpikTnamVLndNoZ9rutEGvLXbqN&index=9 7/24/1996 Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi Triple Crown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpaNE8-2-EU&list=PLSDDUhzpikTnamVLndNoZ9rutEGvLXbqN&index=10 9/28/1996 Toshiaki Kawada, Akira Taue and Yoshinari Ogawa vs Mitsuhara Misawa, Jun Akiyama and Satoru Asako https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mWjxyhgYww 10/18/1996 Akira Taue, Giant Baba and Dory Funk Jr vs Mitsuhara Misawa, Jun Akiyama and Jumbo Tsuruta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymrw-_X69Sw&list=PLSDDUhzpikTnamVLndNoZ9rutEGvLXbqN&index=12 11/22/1996 Akira Taue and Toshaki Kawada vs Steve Williams and Johnny Ace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNfc2JdkrS4&list=PLSDDUhzpikTnamVLndNoZ9rutEGvLXbqN&index=15 11/29/1996 Mitsuhara Misawa and Jun Akiyama vs Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb1vE5xf-d0&list=PLSDDUhzpikTnamVLndNoZ9rutEGvLXbqN&index=17 12/06/1996 Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama AJPW ***** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQUFHpk3rWU 1997 1/20/1997 Jun Akiyama vs Akira Taue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BgjkZk0MY4&list=PLSDDUhzpikTm1G9bBjR-t5odRMDWuwpi-&index=1 3/29/1997 Akira Taue vs Jun Akiyama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ9DiDv_nKE 5/12/1997 Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue vs Mitsuhara Misawa and Jun Akiyama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC6aRZt0Ftk&index=12&list=PLSDDUhzpikTm1G9bBjR-t5odRMDWuwpi- 5/18/1997 Kenta Kobashi, Johnny Ace and The Patriot vs Akira Taue, Takao Omori and Toshiaki Kawada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmuw1e9suTw&index=14&list=PLSDDUhzpikTm1G9bBjR-t5odRMDWuwpi- 5/27/1997 Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada vs Mitsuhara Misawa and Johnny Ace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43B7wP2G0Co&index=6&list=PLSDDUhzpikTm1G9bBjR-t5odRMDWuwpi- 7/25/1997 Mitsuhara Misawa vs Akira Taue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuhxC6jNRS8&index=17&list=PLSDDUhzpikTm1G9bBjR-t5odRMDWuwpi- 10/11/1997 Kenta Kobashi and Johnny Ace vs Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfXEfQr6vKQ&index=21&list=PLSDDUhzpikTm1G9bBjR-t5odRMDWuwpi- 10/21/1997 Akira Taue vs Johnny Ace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKNl5uMm9kY&index=22&list=PLSDDUhzpikTm1G9bBjR-t5odRMDWuwpi- 11/23/1997 Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada vs Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnflw7GIqoc&index=26&list=PLSDDUhzpikTm1G9bBjR-t5odRMDWuwpi- 11/27/1997 Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi and Johnny Ace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI-wV3BfUGY 11/28/1997 Mitsuhara Misawa and Jun Akiyama vs Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ0aZ1DqM_E 12/5/1997 Mitsuhara Misawa and Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiLl7RbFhTc 1998 1/25/1998 Kenta Kobashi and Johnny Ace vs Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr11wJKP8m4&list=PLSDDUhzpikTl-L1Q6PtHTjQC5oDnapk49&index=3 6/5/1998 Kenta Kobashi and Johnny Ace vs Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frag75COmW4&list=PLSDDUhzpikTl-L1Q6PtHTjQC5oDnapk49&index=11 7/19/1998 Toshiaki Kawada vs Akira Taue vs Yoshihio Akiyama and Masahito Kakihara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Wq0nGIf5w&list=PLSDDUhzpikTl-L1Q6PtHTjQC5oDnapk49&index=15 8/23/1998 Kenta Kobashi and Johnny Ace vs Akira Taue and Tamon Honda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKZOELI7IDc 8/28/1998 Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi and Manaukea Mossman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieAslEZALt4 9/11/1998 Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue Triple Crown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43S9ozfJ6NA&list=PLSDDUhzpikTl-L1Q6PtHTjQC5oDnapk49&index=18 1999 1/7/1999 Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue vs Jun Akiyama and Kenta Kobashi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMrb6VTAUsc&index=1&list=PLSDDUhzpikTlq0UsiHmwMTlwCcXIaxm3m 1/15/1999 Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue vs Mitsuhara Misawa and Jinsei Shinzaki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5o-gA6ymUA&index=2&list=PLSDDUhzpikTlq0UsiHmwMTlwCcXIaxm3m 2/28/1999 Toshiaki Kawada and Mitsuhara Misawa vs Stan Hansen and Vader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFvQiqSX20&index=11&list=PLSDDUhzpikTlq0UsiHmwMTlwCcXIaxm3m 3/6/1999 Akira Taue vs Vader (For vacant Triple Crown Title) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W81vgrcEW5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf4n6CLetbY 6/4/1999 Mitsuhara Misawa and Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi and Toshiaki Kawada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSteagn3ySg&index=19&list=PLSDDUhzpikTlq0UsiHmwMTlwCcXIaxm3m 11/30/1999 Akira Taue and Stan Hansen vs Jun Akiyama and Kenta Kobashi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX9HGGuo71Q&index=32&list=PLSDDUhzpikTlq0UsiHmwMTlwCcXIaxm3m 12/3/1999 Akira Taue and Stan Hansen vs Jun Akiyama and Kenta Kobashi RWTL Finals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2votkVoTs&index=34&list=PLSDDUhzpikTlq0UsiHmwMTlwCcXIaxm3m 12/3/1999 Akira Taue and Stan Hansen vs Jun Akiyama and Kenta Kobashi RWTL Finals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2votkVoTs
2000 1/31/2000 Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuhara Misawa and Jun Akiyama vs Stan Hansen, Akira Taue and Takao Omori (Giant Baba Memorial Match) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10o7mf_kobashi-misawa-akiyama-vs-hansen-taue-omori-ajpw-01-31-00_sport
2001 1/30/2001 Akira Taue and Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama and Vader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOWaYJ8Bs8Q&index=8&list=PLSDDUhzpikTk-h_svYcrMs4OQT8vqu7Td
2002 11/24/2002 Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue http://vbox7.com/play:4f45216f
2003 1/10/2003 Mitsuhara Misawa and Masa Chono vs Kenta Kobashi and Akira Taue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFHekTsrfRc&index=18&list=PLSDDUhzpikTk-h_svYcrMs4OQT8vqu7Td 6/6/2003 Akira Taue vs Yuji Nagata http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x310o8x_akira-taue-vs-yuji-nagata-noah-2003-06-06_sport 2004
7/10/2004 Akira Taue and Takuma Sano vs Mohammed Yone and Daisuke Ikeda http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x72sp6_akira-taue-takuma-sano-vs-daisuke-i_sport 9/10/2004 Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue GHC Title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxqGJ_CRadM&index=27&list=PLSDDUhzpikTk-h_svYcrMs4OQT8vqu7Td
2005
4/20/2005 KENTA and Akira Taue vs Genichiro Tenryu and Makoto Hashi http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12492z_genichiro-tenryu-makoto-hashi-vs-akira-taue-kenta_sport 9/18/2005 Kenta Kobashi and Akira Taue vs Jun Akiyama and Genichiro Tenryu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRYTVjinEw 11/5/2005 Akira Taue vs Takeshi Rikio GHC Title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSnOFE6BSwo 12/4/2005 Akira Taue vs Takeshi Morishima GHC Title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrC8Q15FCB8&index=57&list=PLSDDUhzpikTk-h_svYcrMs4OQT8vqu7Td 2006
1/22/2006 Akira Taue vs Jun Akiyama GHC Title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LZQ082ngis&index=32&list=PLSDDUhzpikTk-h_svYcrMs4OQT8vqu7Td 3/5/2006 Akira Taue vs Naomichi Marufuji https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWy3xO5aDrQ&index=46&list=PLSDDUhzpikTk-h_svYcrMs4OQT8vqu7Td 9/9/2006 Akira Taue and Go Shiozaki vs KENTA and Katsuyori Shibata http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x687n8_kenta-katsuyori-shibata-vs-akira-ta_sport 10/13/2006 Akira Taue and SUWA vs Nigel McGuinness and Doug Williams http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkx0c5_akira-taue-suwa-vs-nigel-mcguinness-doug-williams-noah-10-13-06_sport 2007 1/21/2007 Akira Taue vs Matoko Hashi (might be 10/28/2005) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x69wu3_akira-taue-vs-makoto-hashi_sport 2/15/2007 Ricky Marvin and Takeshi Rikio vs Akira Taue and Taiji Ishimori http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pwtc_ricky-marvin-takeshi-rikioh-vs-akir_sport 7/15/2007 Mitsuhara Misawa vs Akira Taue GHC Title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baUy_7xONp0&index=62&list=PLSDDUhzpikTk-h_svYcrMs4OQT8vqu7Td 10/27/2007 Yoshihiro Takayama, Takuma Sano and Ricky Marvin vs. Akira Taue, Go Shiozaki and KENTA http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3fj6l_takayama-sano-marvin-vs-taue-shioza_sport 12/23/2007 Akira Taue vs Tsutomu Hirayanagi http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6rxyv_noah-akira-taue-vs-tsutomu-hirayana_sport 2008 3/29/2008 Akira Taue, Ricky Marvin & Shuhei Taniguchi vs Masao Inoue, Junji Izumida & Ippei Ota http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6m47o_akira-taue-ricky-marvin-taniguchi-v_sport 4/27/2008 Akira Taue, Kotaru Suzuki and Ricky Marvin vs Buchanan, D-Lo Brown and Bobby Fish http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xba4em_akira-taue-kotaro-suzuki-marvin-vs_sport 5/24/2008 Akitoshi Saito & Bison Smith vs Akira Taue & Masao Inoue http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x611mn_akitoshi-saito-bison-smith-vs-akira_sport 8/17/2008 Akira Taue and Kikutaro vs Catfish Man and Kuishinbo Kamen http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6wzho_akira-taue-kikutaro-vs-kuishinbo-ka_sport 11/14/2008 Buchanan and Keith Walker vs Takeshi Morishima and Akira Taue http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7hxrl_noah-takeshi-morishima-akira-taue-v_sport
2009
6/4/2009 Kensuke Sasaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Akira Taue and Geba Hirayanagi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWRR3ZTEllk 10/3/2009 Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada vs KENTA and Jun Akiyama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXhK35uzeLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU3LCn2ko0A 2013
12/7/2013 Akira Taue & Genba Hirayanagi & Takashi Sugiura & Takeshi Morishima vs Genichiro Tenryu and Kentaro Shiga and Masao Inoue and Tatsumi Fujinami http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18jzz0_takeshi-morishima-takashi-sugiura-akira-taue-genba-hirayanagi-vs-genichiro-tenryu-tatsumi-fujinami-m_redband Retirement Ceremony http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18k1c7_akira-taue-retirement-ceremony-noah_sport
