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Muto challenges for IWGP belt
Topic Started: Apr 18 2008, 05:29 AM (154 Views)
TheObserver

This may not be big news to anyone but Muto is I think one of the all time greats to still be wrestling and has made the IWGP belt the one to want if you lived in Japan or even admire their concept of wrestling like myself.

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The one and only Keiji Muto returns to New Japan on April 27th and for the first time in over eight years, challenges for the title he helped make so prestigious. Yes, Muto will challenge Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP Heavyweight Title at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in what is sure to be one of the biggest matches of the year - the "forbidden first confrontation" as the press labels it. Nakamura defeated Tanahashi to win the title, then did the impossible by submitting Kurt Angle to unify the two IWGP belts, then recently again defeated Tanahashi to hold on the title, but President Sugabayashi explained he needs to defeat the likes of Muto to become the true ace.

Muto explained his reason for accepting this match, and that was his 30 minute draw with Nakamura's great rival Tanahashi in the Champion Carnival being better than he had imagined. Tanahashi's growth into one of the world's best wrestlers has Muto wanting to test Nakamura. Muto said that although Nakamura and Tanahashi are good men, he believes he was a better man when he was young. Nakamura said he is both nervous and excited to be fighting Muto and called it "high-risk fighting", for if he stumbles even once, Muto will surely take him down and take the IWGP Heavyweight Title he fought so hard to win back and help restore some prestige to.

New Japan's 4/27 Osaka show has also been made a live PPV, and now features two title matches, with the "Friends" team of Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka, who are winning great popularity for their bloody battles with GBH are the moment, set to challenge Togi Makabe & Toru Yano for the IWGP Tag Team Title.


NJPW, 4/27/08 (WPW/PPV)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

1. Yujiro, Tetsuya Naito & Kazuchika Okada vs. Jado, Gedo & Karl Anderson
2. Shiro Koshinaka & AKIRA vs. Milano Collection AT & Minoru
3. Hirooki Goto & Giant Bernard vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma
4. New Japan vs. ZERO1-MAX: Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Masato Tanaka ZERO1-MAX & Shinjiro Otani ZERO1-MAX
5. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi & Tiger Mask vs. Riki Choshu, Masahiro Chono & Jushin Thunder Liger
6. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Wataru Inoue © vs. Christopher Daniels TNA Wrestling
7. IWGP Tag Team Title: Togi Makabe & Toru Yano © vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka
8. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Shinsuke Nakamura © vs. Keiji Muto All Japan
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TheObserver

This was up a couple days already but I just didn't put it up.

I'll be posting this match soon in the video thread if anyones interested.

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After eight years and four months, Keiji Muto is again the IWGP Heavyweight Champion! 6,000 fans watched the spectacle of Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Keiji Muto today, the young ace of the industry vs. the living legend, for Japanese pro wrestling's top prize. Nakamura aimed for an arm, while Muto aimed for a leg, not too surprising given their trademark moves, and it was a grueling technical battle over 20 minutes. Even Muto's Shining Wizard and Nakamura's Landslide couldn't finish this match, and it was old school Muto that made the difference, a Schmidt-style backbreaker and moonsault press, the professional wrestling master defeating the man who it was said had no enemies left after defeating Tanahashi twice and submitting the mighty Kurt Angle. Osaka rose with "Muto" chants after the match, the legend's popularity as always overwhelming, the crowd treating him as one of their own, rather than an outsider as has always been the case in his returns. Nakamura's RISE second-in-command, Hirooki Goto, who fell to the Great Muta at the Tokyo Dome on January 4th, challenged Muto to a match after his celebration.

After their no contest with Nakamura & Bernard in March not counting as a defense, GBH's Togi Makabe & Toru Yano made their second V1 defense of the IWGP Tag Team Title against the on-fire "Friendship" tag of Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka. But the unexpected happened as suddenly Iizuka betrayed his tag partner, choking a bloody Tenzan out with a sleeper hold. Makabe dropped the King Kong knee on GBH's former leader for the win, while Iizuka mysteriously exited, it would seem a GBH member now - although he did not confirm that tonight. Wataru Inoue made a successful V3 defense of the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title, ending his three match series with TNA superstar, Christopher Daniels. Wataru's V1 defense of the title was against Daniels at the Tokyo Dome in January, before Daniels won a non-title rematch at Sumo Hall in February, setting up this third and decisive battle, again for the title. Well, in their closest and longest match yet, Wataru pulled through, pinning the Fallen Angel after his Oracion Flame.

ZERO1-MAX's ace combination of Masato Tanaka & Shinjiro Otani earned quick revenge for their promotion's 3-1 series loss on the Hakata double header, beating Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi today, Tanaka pinning Taguchi. Nagata's music hit after the match and he intruded, getting into a showdown with Tanaka.
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