[All Japan] 2002/10/27 Nippon Budokan "King's Road 30 Giant Battle in Budokan"

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Please post the results on this thread

Masanobu Fuchi & Gran Hamada vs. Shigeo Okumura & Kazushi Miyamoto

Kaz Hayashi & Jimmy Yang vs. Hideki Hosaka & Gran Naniwa

Yoji Anjoh, Mitsuya Nagai, & Ryuji Hijikata vs. Steve Williams, Mike Rutondo, & Johnny Smith

All Japan Pro-Wrestling 30th Anniversary Memorial Match
Terry Funk & Abdullah the Butcher vs. Tarzan Goto & Tomoaki Honma

Agnes Kamen vs. Kendo Kashin

Hiroshi Hase vs. Satoshi Kojima

Triple Crown Heavyweight Title Match
Gen'ichiro Tenryu (champion) vs. Great Muta (challenger)

[JustS2pendous]

Masa Fuchi & Gran Hamada defeated Shigeo Okumura & Kazushi Miyamoto when Fuchi pinned Miyamoto

Kaz Hayashi & Jimmy Yang defeated Hideki Hosaka & Gran Naniwa when Hayashi pinned Naniwa

Steve Williams, Mike Rotunda, & Johnny Smith defeated Yoji Anjoh, Mitsuya Nagai, & Ryuji Hijikata when Williams pinned Hijikata

Mike Barton, Jim Steele, & George Hines defeated Arashi, Nobutaka Araya, & Nobukazu Hirai when Barton pinned Hirai

Abdullah the Butcher & Terry Funk defeated Tarzan Goto & Tomoaki Honma when Abby pinned Honma

Agnes Kamen pinned Kendo Ka Shin

Satoshi Kojima defeated Hiroshi Hase

In the Triple Crown Championship Match, Great Muta defeated Gen'ichiro Tenryu

[Haiku Warrior]

Thoughts on Muto winning the Triple Crown?

[OldSchoolFan]

Happy about it here. Hopefully they'll give it to Kea or Kojima next since those are the two young guns of that company. But I'm just happy it's off Tenryu. I'm not the biggest Tenryu fan to be honest.

[JustS2pendous]

Strange that Muta still went over to win the Crown after almost destroying what was left of his knee and was meant to be out for some time. I'm glad Muta has won it as opposed to Muto, I don't think it would have looked too great to the casual audience for a guy to become President of the company and then win the top titles a month later. Muta gives him the option to take it a little easier on his knees for a while but in saying that the man finnished the match off with a moonsault. Tenryu's time was up and it had been a long overdue title change. Tenryu's third run with the Triple Crown won't go down in history as the greatest me thinks. As for where the title goes after Muta, it won't be Goldberg unless he signs full time which is unlikely. Kea and Kojima are the main contenders but an outside chance might be Hashimoto?

[wasp911]

I would like to see Kojima win it.

If Goldberg does sign full time, I would almost say it was a given. It has been a while since an American has held the Triple Crown.

[Jason]

Mutoh is "freezing" the title until Kawada makes his comeback in the spring. Although I'm sure Kawada will receive another TC run, I doubt he'll win it his first time out.

[Rattler151]

Muta as champ is cool but I see this reign as a transitional one.

Kawada getting another run would absolutely rule but I also have no problems with Kea or Kojima getting a run. Although with Muto now looking to scrap the triple crown in the future the only respectful thing to do is put that title on Kawada.