2003/10/26 Nippon Budokan "Re-Birth x Re-Verse"

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

[source: Nikkan Sports]

All Japan announced that its Nippon Budokan card on 10/26 will have a guest appearance by the legendary rock band Metallica in cooperation with Sony Music.

Stay tuned on more WWE imitation by Keiji Mutoh...

[edgehead1984]

[source: Nikkan Sports]

All Japan announced that its Nippon Budokan card on 10/26 will have a guest appearance by the legendary rock band Metallica in cooperation with Sony Music.

Stay tuned on more WWE imitation by Keiji Mutoh...

How in the blue hell did get this appearance, but well said Hisa, Giant Baba must be rolling in his grave, and Inoki must be looking in ENVY.

[The Franceman]

After the KISS Demon, the Metallica Demon?

[DavyRam]

Well, with AJ falling so badly latly, they wanted a band who could symathize with them...

[Luds]

Well... at least it isn't a crap band like Evenessance or whatever...

[Sofa Kingdom]

Will this mean that getting All Japan matches via internet will become even more diffacult?

[edgehead1984]

Will this mean that getting All Japan matches via internet will become even more diffacult?

LOL!!!! I agree.

[ChrisAwesome]

This is bizarre. Truly, truly, bizarre. Bizarrely bizarre even.

Metallica and AJPW go together like steak and ice cream.

Did I mention it's bizarre?

[Tradition Rules]

This is bizarre. Truly, truly, bizarre. Bizarrely bizarre even.

Metallica and AJPW go together like steak and ice cream.

Did I mention it's bizarre?

As I've posted elseware,I'm a pretty big Metallica fan, but I'm not pleased with the thoght of this. WHY? Well, if they just write some original music for All Japan or give the rights for some of thier music to be used, thats not so bad. But if they do have a concert on an All Japan show, this will just over- shadow the WRESTLING part of the show (much like the crappy annual half-time show at the Super Bowl). I know that Metallica is HUGE in Japan,but how many fans in Japan over the age of 25-30 years of age will this attract or seem like a positive thing to? I'm sure that every 40 year old traditional AJ fans will probably avoid this event. This will probably end up chasing/scaring away even more of All Japan's traditonal fan base.


I LIKE METALLCA AND I LIKE ALL JAPAN,...BUT I DON'T WATCH AJ TO SEE A HEAVY METAL BAND AND I DON'T WATCH METALLICA TO SEE A WRESTLING MATCH.


T.R!

[Luds]

I wonder how much money Motoh burned on that one...

[Pheonix_Chi25]

[source: Nikkan Sports]

All Japan announced that its Nippon Budokan card on 10/26 will have a guest appearance by the legendary rock band Metallica in cooperation with Sony Music.

Stay tuned on more WWE imitation by Keiji Mutoh...

I think Charlie Brown put it best:
"Good Grief"

But the question that got me is this, what in the deep blue something does Metallica have to do with All Japan? (Sighs) Baba is spinning like a rotisserie chicken in his grave I bet.

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

2003/10/26 Nippon Budokan "Re-Birth x Re-Verse" (12,800)

[source: Nikkan Sports]

Shigeo Okumura (6'58" ground cobra) Nobukazu Hirai

Masanobu Fuchi, Ryuji Hijikata, & Taichi Ishikari (12'47" pin) Kazushi Miyamoto, Hi69, Jeremy Lopez

Low-ki (13'33" pin) Silver King

Handicap Tag Team Match: TAKA Michinoku & Gigantes (9'28" pin) Kaz Hayashi, Tomoaki Honma, & Masayuki Kouno

The Mask of Tiger [Satoru Sayama] (11'28" pin) Gran Hamada

World Jr. Heavyweight Title Match: Kendo Kashin [champion] (16'32" pin) Dr. Wagner Jr. [challenger]

Satoshi Kojima (16'38" pin) Nobutaka Araya

World Tag Team Title Match: Keiji Mutoh & Arashi [champions] (24'26" pin) Buchanan & D-Lo Brown [challengers]

Triple Crown Heavyweight Title Match: Toshiaki Kawada [champion] (17'05" stretch plum) Don Frye [challenger]

[Luds]

I hear that Frye put a great effort in the TC match, and that Araya vs. Kojima was a great undercard match. This might be a hot tape to get.

[Peru-Yakuza]

I'm eagerly awaiting for Kojima & Araya to take the World's Strongest Tag League and then the Double Cup!

[edgehead1984]

I'm eagerly awaiting for Kojima & Araya to take the World's Strongest Tag League and then the Double Cup!

Agreed, but even more so for Kojima to win the Triple Crown.

Also Kawada ripped off his gloves during the match.