BOSJ Info

[edgehead1984]

Wrestlers have been announced for the BOSJ courtesy of SSS:

Block A
1. Jushin Thunder Liger (GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion; 1992, 1994 & 2001 winner)
2. Koji Kanemoto (1998 & 2002 winner)
3. American Dragon (L.A. Dojo) (IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champion / 2004 American Best of the Super Jr. winner)
4. El Samurai (1997 winner)
5. Masahito Kakihara (2003 winner)
6. Wataru Inoue
7. Ryusuke Taguchi
8. Big Boss MA-G-MA (Osaka Pro)

Block B
1. Heat (IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion)
2. Tiger Mask
3. Curry Man (IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champion)
4. Ultimo Dragon (Toryumon Japan)
5. Masayuki Naruse
6. Rocky Romero (L.A. Dojo)
7. Katsuhiko Nakajima (Kensuke Office)
8. Garuda (WMF)

The finals are different this year and the format is as follows.

NJPW, 6/13/04
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Best of the Super Jr. - Round 2: Block B 2nd place vs. Block A 3rd place
2. Best of the Super Jr. - Round 2: Block B 3rd place vs. Block A 2nd place
3. Best of the Super Jr. - Semi Final: Block A 1st place vs. Winner of #1
4. Best of the Super Jr. - Semi Final: Block B 1st place vs. Winner of #2
5. Best of the Super Jr. - Final:

This looks awesome, please post BOSJ news and results here, please.

[thatdude21601]

Look's like an awesome lineup. It'll be awesome to see Dragon here too.

Isn't Nakajima a bit young for the BOSJ though.....

[edgehead1984]

NJ was impressed with his Tokyo Dome match.

[Pheonix_Chi25]

It didn't surprise me that Nakajima would be in. Everyone are pegging him (and not Taguchi) as the Jr. Version of Nakamura. The kid is good.

[Luds]

Well here are my predictions:

Block A Liger, American Dragon & Kakihara
Block B Heat, Ultimo Dragon, Tiger Mask

AD > Tiger Mask, Ultimo > Kakihara
AD > Liger, Ultimo > Heat
AD > Ultimo.

This isn't what I want to happen, just get feeling.

[edgehead1984]

Block A finalists will be Taguchi, AmDragon, & Liger
Block B finalists will be Nakajima, Ultimo & Heat

AmDragon over Taguchi and Ultimo over Nakajima
AmDragon over Liger and Heat over Ultimo
AmDragon over Heat.

AmDragon is gonna get the Jr. push of the year, and he deserves it.

[stunning_grover]

I really like the old tournaments where Owen Hart ('88 + '91) and Chris Benoit ('91-'96) would participate. What's everybody's favorite Super Juniors tournament? My favorite is the one from '95 when Benoit was at his very best. I really like Benoit's semi-final match against Black Tiger II (Eddie Guerrero). I also really like the Owen vs. Jushin Liger match from '91.

I know this doesn't have anything to do with this year's tournament though.

[edgehead1984]

I like Kanemoto-Wagner from 98, Liger-Tanaka from 01 and any match involving Benoit

[Luds]

Those matches we all great, Last year's tournament was a bit of a dissapointment.

[edgehead1984]

Well Kakihara's win has been a disappoinment. I thought that they should of given it to AKIRA, setting off a big return.

[masterblaster-rob]

I for one am glad American Dragon is in it this year. I have been a fan of his since his TWA days

[edgehead1984]

1. Ryusuke Taguchi beat Akiya Anzawa (9:37) with a crab hold.
2. Garuda beat Hirooki Goto (10:14) with an armlock.
3. Mitsuya Nagai & Ryushi Yanagisawa beat Yutaka Yoshie & Shinya Makabe (10:56) when Yanagisawa used a knee kick on Makabe.
4. Ultimo Dragon , American Dragon & Curry Man beat Jado, Gedo & Katsushi Takemura (17:32) when Ultimo used an Asai DDT on Takemura.
5. Minoru Suzuki & Masahito Kakihara beat Osamu Nishimura & El Samurai (13:33) when Suzuki used an Octopus hold on Samurai.
6. Best of the Super Jr. - Block B: Tiger Mask [2] beat Heat [0] (14:08) with a Tiger suplex hold.
7. Best of the Super Jr. - Block A: Koji Kanemoto [2] beat Jushin Thunder Liger [0] (16:33) with an ankle hold.
8. Masahiro Chono & Kazunari Murakami beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Hiroshi Tanahashi (17:37) when Murakami used a straight left punch on Tanahashi.
9. Lion Maru beat Manabu Nakanishi (6:08) by DQ.

Both the Ghc & the IWGP Jr. Champions lose, is this a omen of things to come???

1. Makai #1 beat Toru Yano (6:36) by DQ.
2. American Dragon beat Katsushi Takemura (12:22) with a wakigatame.
3. Jado & Gedo beat Curry Man & Rocky Romero (11:12) when Gedo used a Superfly splash on Romero.
4. Best of the Super Jr. - Block A: Ryusuke Taguchi [2] beat Jushin Thunder Liger [0] (0:45) with a dropkick.
5. Best of the Super Jr. - Block B: Heat [2] beat Katsuhiko Nakajima [0] (11:26) with a cross armbreaker.
6. Kazunari Murakami & Mitsuya Nagai beat Minoru Suzuki & Masayuki Naruse (10:01) when Nagai used a Makai Driver on Naruse.
7. Best of the Super Jr. - Block B: Ultimo Dragon [2] beat Tiger Mask [2] (12:01) with an Asai DDT.
8. Best of the Super Jr. - Block A: Masahito Kakihara [2] beat Koji Kanemoto [2] (10:55) with a grounded headlock.
9. Osamu Nishimura beat Tadao Yasuda (7:30) with a ground Cobra Twist.
10. Yuji Nagata, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Genichiro Tenryu, Manabu Nakanishi & Kensuke Sasaki (19:23) when Tanahashi used an inside cradle on Nakanishi.

Liger goes down in 45 seconds, what is going on???

I'm also surprised that Kakihara won.

[Pheonix_Chi25]

BOSJ shockers:
Liger losing in 45 seconds
Kakihara's win
Yasuda becoming an honorable man and turning face in the process (WOW!)

[Luds]

Well, only the BOSJ results as that's what we care about:

1) Big Boss MA-G-MA (2) > Ryusuke Taguchi (2) in 8:48 by lariat
2) Ultimo Dragon (4) > Garuda (0) in 8:46 by Asai DDT
3) Masayuki Naruse (2) > Rocky Romero (0) in 8:41 with his Crazy Cyclone

No real upset today...

[edgehead1984]

Well, there's been too many shock during the first two days, so a shockless day is needed.