Champion Carnival Announced

[Haiku Warrior]

From Stuart over at SSS
All Japan revealed more information regarding "CHAMPION CARNIVAL 2003". There will be a Jr. Champion Carnival, which will be set up how the heavyweight Champion Carnival usually is, round-robin style. League matches will take place from 3/31 to 4/10, where the final will take place (at Hiroshima Green Arena's Small Arena). Then, two days later at Tokyo Nippon Budokan, the winner will challenge Kendo Kashin for All Japan's World Jr. Heavyweight Title. All but one of the participants are regulars, those being Kaz Hayashi, Gran Hamada, Gran Naniwa, Ryuji Hijikata, and Jimmy Yang. The non-regular will be former PRIDE and BattlARTS fighter, Carl Contini (also known as Carl Greco and Carl Malenko), who is a good technician. The tournament looks more interesting than the awful heavyweight version this year, and although All Japan haven't listed the points system yet, I assume it'll be the 2-1-0 setup. Another vale tudo fighter, Kazuki Okubo, of Kiyoshi Tamura's U-FILE Camp, is booked for the first three shows as a Turmeric Storm member. A third vale tudo star is supposedly going to show up at Budokan, the most likely name being Masaaki Satake. Yuki Ishikawa is also on some shows, as are ZERO-ONE combatants. Arashi faces the dreaded "X" from ZERO-ONE on 3/22, while Z1 junior stars, Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Low Ki, face Kaz Hayashi & Jimmy Yang on 3/28.

[Peru-Yakuza]

The junior tourney can outclass anything put on by the jackasses in the heavyweight class (except for Kojima, that is).

Hopefully Ka Shin will job to the winner. It's been a year of good start, but I hate this tournament to become what the World's Strongest Junior Tag Team league was last year...

[Luds]

Originally posted by Peru-Yakuza
The junior tourney can outclass anything put on by the jackasses in the heavyweight class (except for Kojima, that is).

Hopefully Ka Shin will job to the winner. It's been a year of good start, but I hate this tournament to become what the World's Strongest Junior Tag Team league was last year...

And job to Arashi no less!