Schedule, January 10-18

The first Passion Red (Nanae's faction) show has sold out the small Itabashi Green Hall venue. Not a bad start.

OZ Academy will have a title watch with Carlos Amano defending against Mayumi Ozaki again. Hopefully this will lend closure to this feud. Also, Dynamite Kansai has returned thinner and with the short blonde hair and has vowed to destroy the Ozaki Army. KAORU got squashed in 80 seconds in her return; this time Kansai teams with Tomoka Nakagawa against Evil Manami Toyota in Black Jeans and Trashy Hiren in Lacy Black Tights. Hiren will take a ride on Splash Mountain.

NEO is starting their "STAGE" tournament to determine the next challenger for Nanae Takahashi's NEO/NWA Pacific belts. The format is the same as last year, a single elimination tourney with 12 wrestlers, 6 from NEO and 6 outside. Hiroyo Matsumoto won in an upset last year. I expect a NEO regular, either Yoshiko Tamura (if they want to burn Nanae/Tamura this soon) or Yuki Miyazaki to win.

PASSION RED "1 PASSION" January 10, 2009
Itabashi Green Hall

1. Kana vs Hiroyo Matsumoto
2. Sakura Emi vs Arisa Nakajima
3. Yumiko Hotta & Natsuki*Taiyo vs Toshie Uematsu & Io Shirai
4. Fuuka vs Ray
5. Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Kana vs Meiko Satomura, Ryo Mizunami, & DASH Chisako

BattlARTS January 10, 2009
Kitasenju Theater 1010

1. Chihiro Oikawa vs X

JWP January 11, 2009
Tokyo Cinema Club

1. Pinkie Mayuka vs Io Shirai
2. Arisa Nakajima vs Misaki Ohata
3. Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita vs Sachie Abe & KAZUKI
4. Three Way Match: Tojuki Leon vs Kaori Yoneyama vs Bullfight Sora
5. Kayoko Haruyama, Ran Yu-Yu, & Toshie Uematsu vs Azumi Hyuga, Keito, & Yumiko Hotta

NEO "STAGE 09" January 11, 2009
Tokyo Cinema Club

1. Nanae Takahashi vs Aya Yuki
2. Yuki Miyazaki & Aoi Kizuki vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata
3. Etsuko Mita & Makoto vs Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa
4. NEO STAGE Round 1: Tanny Mouse vs Haruka Matsuo
5. NEO STAGE Round 1: Natsuki*Taiyo vs Atsuko Emoto
6. NEO STAGE Round 1: Yoshiko Tamura vs Ayumi Kurihara
7. NEO STAGE Round 1: Kyoko Inoue vs Kana


OZ ACADEMY "THE WIZARD OF OZ 2009" January 11, 2009
Shinjuku FACE

1. Chikayo Nagashima vs AKINO
2. Ran Yu-Yu vs Sonoko Kato
3. Dynamite Kansai & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Manami Toyota & Hiren
4. Aja Kong & Hiroyo Matsumoto vs KAORU & Takako Inoue
5. OZ Openweight Championship: Carlos Amano (c) vs Mayumi Ozaki

Magnitude Kishiwada Produce January 11, 2009
Osaka Azalea Taisho Hall

5. Kikutaro vs Apple Miyuki vs X

GUTS WORLD "THE CHAOS" January 12, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Shoichi ichinomiya, Umibozu, Masked Mistery, Ryan Upin, Itomo Ariyama & Tetsuya Saito vs Guts Ishijima, SUZKI, Kazuhiko Matzuzaki, Apple Miyuki & Bungy Takada

MAKEHEN January 17, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Mio Shirai, Io Shirai, & Mikado vs DASH Chisako, Sendai Sachiko, & Ryo Mizunami

NEO "STAGE 09" January 18, 2009
Kitazawa Town Hall

1. NEO STAGE Round 2: Yuki Miyazaki vs Tamura/Kurihara
2. NEO STAGE Round 2: Kyoko Kimura vs Inoue/Kana
3. NEO STAGE Round 2: Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Tanny/Matsuo
4. NEO STAGE Round 2: Etsuko Mita vs Taiyo/Emoto

JWP January 18, 2009
JWP Dojo

LLPW January 18, 2009
Korakuen Hall

1. Yumiko Hotta & Takako Inoue vs Hikaru & Saki Maemura
2. Glamorous Angels Match
3. Jumbo Hori vs Aki Kanbayashi
4. Dump Matsumoto vs Eiger
5. Shinobu Kandori & Toshie Uematsu vs Ayako Sato & Hanako Kobayashi
6. Noriyo Tateno & Harley Saito vs Ayako Hamada & Mima Shimoda