YES! Kojima wins it.

[Peru-Yakuza]

All-Japan at Hokkaido Territorial Center, Sapporo: Nobutaka Araya beat Masayuki Kono (4:31, Kono's debut)... Tomoaki Honma, Tomohiko Hashimoto & Kazushi Miyamoto beat Masanobu Fuchi, Shigeo Okumura & Taichi Ishikari (11:49) when Miyamoto pinned Ishikari... JUNIOR CHAMPION CARNIVAL TOURNAMENT: Carl Contini (2) beat Ryuji Hijikata (0) (6:16)... Yoji Anjo & Kendo Ka Shin beat Hideki Hosaka & Gran Hamada (9:47) when Anjo pinned Hosaka. CHAMPION CARNIVAL TOURNAMENT, SEMIFINALS: Satoshi Kojima beat George Hines (16:16)... Arashi beat Keiji Muto (18:03). Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Low-Ki beat Kaz Hayashi & Jimmy Yang (17:30) when Takaiwa pinned Yang... Johnny Smith, The Gladiator & Gigantes beat Genichiro Tenryu, John Tenta & Nobukazu Hirai (15:12) when Gladiator pinned Hirai... CHAMPION CARNIVAL TOURNAMENT FINAL: Kojima beat Arashi (16:30).

Source: www.oudou.co.jp

[Luds]

Well, Koji won the tournament...

Hope the big useless fat piece of pork known as Arashi doesn't win the TC

[edgehead1984]

About time Mutoh did something right.

[El Fiasco]

2003 is Kojima's year

[Peru-Yakuza]

Considering that the site is 12,000 capacity and they only sold 4,500... I just hope it's not too late...

[Peru-Yakuza]

Originally posted by Luds
Hope the big useless fat piece of pork known as Arashi doesn't win the TC

Ha Ha Ha!

[OldSchoolFan]

Its great that he won it but it would have been better and ment more in the old format IMO. I'm sorry but 8 match tournaments don't do nothing for me, especially when trying to pass them off as something of the magnatude of the Champion Carnaval.

[Jason]

From Zach Arnold's site:

All Japan ran an angle on Saturday in which Arashi left Sapporo and did not go with the rest of the crew to work All Japan's tour in Northeastern Japan. The angle is that Arashi left because he is "in shock" and distraught over losing to Satoshi Kojima in the CC Finals on Friday. The talk now is that Arashi may be booked out of the 4/12 Budokan TC match against Hashimoto and that Kojima would take Arashi's place.

Yay!!!!!

[El Fiasco]

Originally posted by Jason
From Zach Arnold's site:



Yay!!!!!

[Mutoh-Mania]

Although I am a Mutoh mark and would have enjoyed seeing him win I accept that his victory would have further tarnished AJW. Kojima is a great wrestler who frankly I feel has his best days before him, therefore perhaps this is setting those days up. Long live the Champ.

[Luds]

Originally posted by Jason
From Zach Arnold's site:



Yay!!!!!

Well I was gonna quote El Fiasco's post but it seems that quotes aren't recursive...


so here it is!

[The Great Maijin]

I was expecting Kojima VS Mutoh in the finals but I'm still glad that Kojima won.

[Tradewynd]

I too would have liked to see Kojima beat Mutoh in the final, but I'll take what I can get. There may be light at the end of the tunnel yet.

[EvilMidnightBomber]

At least we now know that Mutoh has occasional bouts of sanity...

[Tradewynd]

Nah, Kojima's name just happened to be on a little slip of paper that Mutoh pulled out of a hat. It could have just as easily been John Tenta.