MICHINOKU PRO 1996-1999 TAPES

Naohiro Hoshikawa vs. Johnny Saint

PWA Heavykyu Senshuken Jiai: Wellington Wilkins, Jr. vs. Lenny Lane

Yuki Ishikawa & Alexander Otsuka vs. Daisuke Ikeda & Satoshi Yoneyama

The Great Sasuke & Shodai Tiger Mask & Mil Mascaras vs. Dynamite Kid & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Dos Caras

Gran Hamada & Super Delfin & Tiger Mask & Gran Naniwa & Masato Yakushiji vs. Dick Togo & MEN'S Teio & Shiryu &
TAKA Michinoku & Shoichi Funaki. *****

Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Hayabusa

9/23/96: Hamada & Delfin & Astro & Otsuka vs. Togo & Shiryu & Funaki & Collins ****1/4

11/12/96: Sasuke & Hamada & Delfin vs. Togo & Men's & Shiryu-super stretch run ****1/2

12/9/96: Sekigun vs. DX Elimination Match: Sasuke & Hamada & Delfin & Naniwa & Tiger Mask IV vs. Togo & Men's &
TAKA & Shiryu & Funaki-Some of the eliminations come too quick, but other than that it's awesome. Naniwa is the man here.
****1/4

12/16/96: Sasuke & Hamada & Delfin & Naniwa & Yakushiji vs. Togo & Men's & TAKA & Shiryu & Funaki-there's about
500 people in the crowd, but these guys have an incredible match that's not as good as 10/10/96 but it's on that level and it's
the best match these guys have done since 10/10. 25 minutes of one great spot after another with perfect execution. An
incredible display of athleticism. *****

12/17/96: TAKA vs. Shinzaki-TAKA probably should have just packed it in since he was doing the job to the lazy stiff, but
instead he caries Shinzaki to his best match in a long time.

12/20/96: TAKA vs. Delfin-TAKA's selling is phenomenal. First half is fine, but 2nd half, particularly the finishing sequence, is
great. ****

More!

Battle Anchor! Puroresu 10/9/99 Battle Station Michinoku Pro Lucha no Koku Kara '98-'99 Adios Yone! THE
                                             FINAL
                          taped 1/10/99 Miyagi New World Sendai Tennis Club
                                        -1hr 25min. Q=TFT

Beef Wellington vs. Ryuj Hijikata. *

Jinsei Shinzaki vs. SM Revolution. DUD

Gran Hamada & Tiger Mask vs. SASUKE & Masaaki Mochizuki. **

Naohiro Hoshikawa & Masato Yakushiji & Masaru Seno vs. Shiima Nobunaga & Judo Suwa & Sumo Fuji. ****

Super Welterkyu Senshuken Jiai: Super Delfin vs. Solar. 1/2 aired and it was decent

Adios Yone! Saishusen: Gran Naniwa vs. Yone Genjin. Yone worked really hard in his retirement match and the fans were into
it, but he's still Yone. A little less than half aired and it was average.

Beef Wellington vs. Pero Ruso. 1/2*

Chaparita ASARI vs. Saya Endo. 5:41 shown

Flying Kid Ichihara & Cosmo*Soldier & Pilota Suicida vs. Sasuke The Great & The Convict & Akinori Tsukioka. Fast-paced
all action match. Exciting with good moves, but too short with no build and too many missed spots. **1/4

TAKA Michinoku & Gran Naniwa & Tiger Mask vs. The Great Sasuke & Gran Hamada & Pablo Marquez. Contained
spectacular moves, but didn't build as well or have as great a finishing sequence as we've come to expect from these guys over
the past four years. Pablo brought very little to the table, but the other guys made up for him. ***1/2

Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Alexander Otsuka. A very good match, but they could have done better if this wasn't so ridiculously long
(nearly 35 minutes). ***1/2

Beef Wellington vs. Perro Russo. 1/2*

Gran Hamada & Tiger Mask vs. Zorro & Cosmo*Soldier. ***

Pilota Suicida vs. Super Boy. **

Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Pablo Marquez. *1/4

The Great Sasuke & TAKA Michinoku & Gran Naniwa vs. Shiima Nobunaga & Judo Suwa & Sumo Fuji. Killer 8-minute
finishing sequence. ****1/4

Highlights of Tiger Mask & TAKA Michinoku vs. Shiima Nobunaga & Sumo Fuji and The Great Sasuke vs. Judo Suwa
NWA Sekai Middlekyu Senshuken Jiai from 3/28/99

Survival Tobita vs. Origin Ape Man VIRGON. VIRGON did a good baboon impersonation, but that's not what I watch
wrestling to see. This was beyond pathetic DUD

Royal Rumble style Battle Royal. Nearly as bad as the WWF version.

Beef Wellington vs. Chad Collier. Digest

Chaparita ASARI vs. Saya Endo. Digest

Yasushi Kanda & Genichiro Arai vs. Ricky Fuji & Magnum TOKYO. Too short to amount to anything. *

Yuki Ishikawa vs. Ryuji Hijikata. See previous match.

The Great Sasuke vs. Jinsei Shinzaki. Sasuke was pretty spectacular here with his flying. Shinzaki used more power moves
since his advantage is strength not speed. Sasuke was real good and Shinzaki worked hard. ***1/2

Beef Wellington vs. Perro Ruso. ½ shown. Poor

Chaparita ASARI & Tanny Mouse vs. Yoshiko Tamura & Yuka Nakamura. ½ shown. Decent

The Great Sasuke & Minoru Fujita vs. Gran Hamada & Gran Naniwa. ***

Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Masaaki Mochizuki. *1/2

TAKA Michinoku & Sho Funaki & Tiger Mask vs. Shiima Nobunaga & Sumo Fuji & TARU. ****

Beef Wellington vs. Chad Korea. Awful

Gran Hamada & White Bear & Dakko CHAN vs. Black Warrior & Curry Man & Chabinger. CHAN did a springboard
shooting star attack to the floor! *3/4

TAKA Michinoku & Minoru Fujita vs. Shiima Nobunaga & Sumo Fuji. ***3/4

Dainikai Fukumen (mask) World Leaguesen: The Great Sasuke vs. Dirtbike Kid. Kid injures himself, so Sasuke gets a quick
win. DUD

Dainikai Fukumen (mask) World Leaguesen: Gran Naniwa vs. Tiger Mask. ****

Clip of Sasuke vs. Dakko CHAN. Sasuke tries to whip CHAN into a wall, but CHAN climbs up it and moonsault attacks
Sasuke off it!

Clip of Sasuke vs. White Bear

Highlights of 7/17 World League matches

Highlights of the following World League matches: Sasuke vs. Naniwa, Sasuke vs. Tiger Mask, Sasuke vs. Curry Man & Dos
Caras vs. Curry Man

Beef Wellington vs. White Bear. 1/4*

Highlights of the Dakko CHAN vs. White Bear loser must unmask match. CHAN counters Bear's whip into the wall by
jumping and pulling himself up to the balcony. Then he does a plancha off the balcony

Jody Fleish (Dakko CHAN) vs. Mr. Aguila. Some cool spots, but otherwise...*

Gran Hamada vs. Chad Korea. *3/4

TAKA Michinoku & Magnum TOKYO & Minoru Fujita vs. SUWA & Super Boy & Curry Man. ****1/4

Dainikai Fukumen (mask) World Leaguesen Yushoketteisen: Dos Caras vs. Tiger Mask. *1/2

Beef Wellington vs. Kazuya Yuasa. *

Yuka Nakamura vs. Lady Victoria. 1/4*

NANIWA vs. CIMA (Shiima Nobunaga). *1/4

Masaaki Mochizuki & Magnum TOKYO vs. Sasuke The Great & SUWA. *1/2

Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Sumo "Dandy" Fuji. *1/2

The Great Sasuke & TAKA Michinoku vs. Tiger Mask & Minoru Fujita. ***1/2

Gran Hamada & Masaaki Mochizuki (Buko Dojo) vs. Masao Orihara (Mebius) & Takeshi Ono. Digest

Kazunari Murakami (U.F.O.) vs. Mohammed Yone. *1/4

TNT (Savio Vega) vs. Daisuke Ikeda. 1/2*

The Great Sasuke & Yuki Ishikwa vs. Jinsei Shinzaki & Alexander Otsuka. Nice spots, but they didn't seem to lead anywhere.
Highlight was a new double German suplex (three guys together-one getting suplexed, one suplexing and getting suplexed, and
one suplexing). **1/2

Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita vs. Mach Junji & Ryuji Hijikata. About half of the match is shown. I hoped that Hidaka & Fujita
could draw Junji & Hijikata up, but unfortunately it was the other way around.

Tiger Mask vs. Katsumi Usuda. 1st U.W.F. with a few high spots at the end by Tiger. *1/4

Independent World Junior Heavykyu Senshuken. Naoki Sano vs. Curry Man. Curry Man was badly outclassed. Sano looked
good on offense, but Curry Man got to control the match since he was jobbing. Curry's antics got little reaction and his offense
was too deliberate and light. *1/2

TAKA Michinoku vs. Minoru Tanaka. Like some of Yoshida's matches in ARSION, it was mainly a worked shoot. The pro
style spots they used, with the exception of TAKA's enzui missile kick, were rather masterfully worked in though. Really
effective transitions here. The selling was really good except they stayed in submissions too long. TAKA's slaps looked weak,
but otherwise the execution was about perfect.****

Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Kazuya Yuasa. Mochizuki dominated the rookie in a very short match.

Gran Hamada & MEN'S Teio vs. Judo Suwa & Curry Man. Good action, but awfully short. MEN'S wasn't too fired up in his
return, but Curry Man looked better here than in the past. **1/2

CIMA vs. Minoru Fujita. 12 minutes of non-spot action. Really exciting with great work and spots. No time for build or selling
though. Most people will rate this above ****, I think. ***3/4

Junsei Shinzaki & Magnum TOKYO vs. Sumo "Daddy" Fuji & TARU. Magnum & Shinzaki were good enough to make this a
pretty good match in spite of the lackluster opposition. 9:28 shown.

The Great Sasuke vs. Tiger Mask. Several nice, well executed spots, but they didn't really sell so the timing of the comebacks
was rather bizarre. ***1/2

     10/23 Iwate

Michinoku Futari Tobi '99 Tag Leaguesen: The Great Sasuke & Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Tiger Mask & Magnum TOKYO.
Lots of good action here. The fans really got into it at the end. 9:22 shown.

Chaparita ASARI vs. Yuka Nakamura. The wrestling was better than expected, but it was so short.

Beef Wellington vs. Kazuya Yuasa. 2:54 shown

Chaparita ASARI vs. Misae Genki. 3:43 shown

Sekai Martial Arts Senshuken Jiai: TARU vs. Kendo. 5:36 shown

Tag League digest

The Great Sasuke & Gran Hamada & Masaaki Mochizuki & Minoru Fujita vs. Sasuke The Great & Sumo Fuji & Curry Man
& NANIWA. The first half had too much brawling, but they really turned it on in the second half. This had so many near fall
saves that it almost got ridiculous. Fujita was the best. ***3/4

Michinoku Futari Tobi '99 Yushoketteisen: Tiger Mask & Magnum TOKYO vs. CIMA & SUWA. This was basically a
Toryumon match, spots but not much else. The main problem with the match was that CIMA & SUWA totally dominated and
eventually won, so it never really built the drama that a league final should have. The wrestlers are good enough to have very
good one dimensional matches though. ***1/2

Tiger Mask vs. Kazuya Yuasa. Tiger totally dominated the rookie. *

Chaparita ASARI & Hiromi Yagi vs. Yoshiko Tamura & Tanny Mouse. ASARI & Yagi got almost all the offense in, so it was
pretty good. ASARI did even more flying than usual. 4:33 shown

Beef Wellington vs. Chad Collyer. Collyer has potential, but right now his mechanical American style with cartoonish selling
doesn't fit in. 6:15 shown.

Minoru Fujita & Shiryu 2 & Jody Fleisch vs. CIMA & Super Boy & Curry Man. All action sprint with all kinds of flying. The
rudos totally made the match because they made Shiryu & Fleisch look like spectacular veteran aerialists. The match was great
when CIMA & Fujita were in, as they did some really nice sequences, but the main thing was the rudos held it together in
between the great flying with good looking and well executed offense and teamwork. Spectacular exhibition. ****

Jinsei Shinzaki & Gran Hamada vs. Masaaki Mochizuki & Magnum TOKYO. Shinzaki had his working boots on. Hamada &
particularly Mochizuki were impressive, but Magnum wasn't that great. They did all their good spots, but the match had the
typical problem of Mochizuki & TOKYO never being in danger of winning. ***1/4

The Great Sasuke & Great Sasuke Dina & Great Sasuke Tiga vs. Sasuke The Great & Masked Tiger & NANIWA. Match
didn't have much in the way of direction, focus, or flow. There was too much brawling and the heels were unimpressive. **