IWGP junior tag team title vacant, tournament to decision match.

[Peru-Yakuza]

For the first time ever, the IWGP junior tag team title has been vacated due to Koji Kanemoto being injured in his cheekbone by a punch from Kazunari Murakami yesterday in Yokohama. As Hirooki Goto & Ryusuke Taguchi had earlier won a tournament to become No. 1 contenders, they will automatically go into the decision match; however, there will be another tournament to determine who they face. The teams in this new tournament will be: Jushin Liger & El Samurai, Gedo & Jado, Tiger Mask IV & Heat, and Katsushi Takemura & American Dragon.

11/24/03 at Tokyo Korakuen Hall:

Semi Final: Tiger Mask IV & Heat vs. Gedo & Jado
Semi Final: Jushin Liger & El Samurai vs. Katsushi Takemura & American Dragon

11/29/03 at Miyagi Sports Center, Sendai, Miyagi:

Final: Winner of Team Tiger/Team Jado vs. Winner of Team Liger/Team Takemura
IWGP Junior Tag Team Title Decision Match: Hirooki Goto & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. tournament winners

(Source: Stu)

[edgehead1984]

Takemura & American Dragon, who made this team up???

[Pheonix_Chi25]

Well apparently (according to puroresufan.com) The artist currently known as Bryan Danielson has joined the Rudo Clique as it's 4th member or so Takemura says.

[edgehead1984]

That was a rhetorical question, I like the team.

[Luds]

Well I'm hoping for Jado & Gedo, they're really fresh with their new gimmick and would make great champions for a long run like last year!

[Pheonix_Chi25]

That was a rhetorical question, I like the team.

Oh, IDKT.

It would surprise me if GotoGuchi (Hirooki Goto and Ryusuke Taguchi) won, If Tiger Mask IV and Heat don't win it, Liger and Samurai should hold them.

But as a counter point, it would be wise if they did let GotoGuchi win the belts, start pushing the young lions of NJPW.

[edgehead1984]

Courtesy of SSS:

Toru Yano beat Akiya Anzawa (5:11) with a crab hold.
Ryusuke Taguchi & Hirooki Goto beat Wataru Inoue & Naofumi Yamamoto (11:38) when Taguchi used a dropkick on Yamamoto.
Blue Wolf beat Shinya Makabe (8:23) with the Mongol Hammer.
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match Entrance Tournament - Semi Final: Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai beat Katsushi Takemura & American Dragon (13:31) when Samurai used a chickenwing armlock on Takemura.
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match Entrance Tournament - Semi Final: Jado & Gedo beat Tiger Mask & Heat (15:24) when Gedo used the Gedo clutch on Heat.
Osamu Nishimura beat Ryushi Yanagisawa (0:40) with a backslide.
Tadao Yasuda & Mitsuya Nagai beat Takashi Iizuka & Masayuki Naruse (9:56) when Nagai used the Hyper Knee Tiger on Iizuka.
Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi beat Yutaka Yoshie & Hiroshi Tanahashi (21:31) when Nagata pinned Tanahashi.
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Josh Barnett beat Scott Norton & The Shadow (13:21) when Tenzan used the Anaconda Vice on Shadow.

And Pheonix, I would like to see GotoGuchi win the belts, beating Jado & Gedo in the finals.
Nishimura continued his purification of Makai, destroying Yanagisawa in less than a minute.

[Pheonix_Chi25]

So would I edge,
And I also noticed that Takemura and "The Artist Formerly/Currently Known as Bryan Danielson" has began a feud with Takemura.

[edgehead1984]

1. Yutaka Yoshie beat Toru Yano (9:01) with a back blow.
2. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match Entrance Tournament - Final: Jado & Gedo beat Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai (16:52) when Gedo used a figure-four leglock on Liger.
3. Tiger Mask & Heat beat Wataru Inoue & American Dragon (9:09) when Heat used a cross armbreaker on Dragon.
4. Manabu Nakanishi & Osamu Nishimura beat The Shadow & Shinya Makabe (9:33) when Nishimura used a backslide on Makabe.
5. Yuji Nagata & Masayuki Naruse beat Mitsuya Nagai & Ryushi Yanagisawa (10:34) when Nagata used the Nagata Lock III on Yanagisawa.
6. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Jado & Gedo beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Hirooki Goto (12:23) when Jado used the Crossface of JADO on Goto to become the 11th champions (decision match).
7. U-30 Openweight Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) beat Blue Wolf (15:45) with a Dragon sleeper (4th defense).
8. Scott Norton beat Josh Barnett (8:08) with a powerbomb.
9. ¥5,000,000 Prize Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Tadao Yasuda (14:44) with the TTD.

Well, Pheonix, the reverse of what we wanted happened, so congratulations to Jado & Gedo for winning the belts. Also, congratulations to Tanahishi for another successful defense of the U-30 belt. And Yasuda loses again, LOL...

[Pheonix_Chi25]

Yeah I noticed.
Cheers to Jado and Gedo, Tanahashi (props to Blue Wolf for a hell of a match) and Yasuda just sucks LOL.

I really wished GotoGuchi had won the belts.

[Luds]

Well I'm happy for Jado & Gedo. They were doing jobs left and right for a good part of the year without complaining, and now they're back on top.

Tanahashi is now a major player in New Japan. I could see him have a shot at the IWGP title very soon.

[Pheonix_Chi25]

If no one has known by now, of it has been posted allready....
NagaRoshi (Yuji Nagata and Hiroshi Tanahashi) have won the NOAH GHC Tag Team Titles

[edgehead1984]

If no one has known by now, of it has been posted allready....
NagaRoshi (Yuji Nagata and Hiroshi Tanahashi) have won the NOAH GHC Tag Team Titles

It's on the NOAH forums, since it is a NOAH title.

[Luds]

I'd sure like to see the new NOAH champs in NJ and see how their fans react to their big win...

[Pheonix_Chi25]

I'd sure like to see the new NOAH champs in NJ and see how their fans react to their big win...

3 Words Luds.....
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