Nexess II results

[edgehead1984]

1. El Samurai beat Takashi Iizuka (10:33) with a Kido clutch.
2. Osamu Nishimura vs. Yutaka Yoshie went to a draw (15:00) when the time limit expired.
3. Tiger Mask & Masayuki Naruse beat Heat & Masahito Kakihara (11:33) when Tiger used a crucifix hold on Kakihara.
4. Jushin Thunder Liger, Jado, Gedo & Katsushi Takemura beat Wataru Inoue, Ryusuke Taguchi, Hirooki Goto & Katsuhiko Nakajima (9:08) when Gedo used a Superfly splash on Taguchi.
5. Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Toru Yano (9:31) by DQ.
6. Katsuyori Shibata beat Manabu Nakanishi (6:42) with a right kick.
7. Blue Wolf beat Minoru Suzuki (9:33) with a grounded headlock pinfall.
8. Yuji Nagata & Shinya Makabe beat Kazunari Murakami & Mitsuya Nagai (15:29) when Makabe used a lariat on Nagai.
9. Shinsuke Nakamura beat Koji Kanemoto (12:02) with a reverse cross armbreaker.
10. Kensuke Sasaki beat Hiroshi Tanahashi (16:16) with the Volcano Eruption.

BLue Wolf going over Suzuki??? that's an upset...

[Pheonix_Chi25]

New Japan better look over their shoulder the Wolf is coming. Blue Wolf is gonna have a breakout year.

[edgehead1984]

How about Shibata over Nakanishi, that's an upset...

[Luds]

Wolf is the best young lion since Tanahashi. These 2 will be the stars of New Japan in 5 years.

Shibata as well, I'm not shocked to see him over Nakanishi. I really can't see why New Japan would keep pushing him when Sasaki and Tenryu are back, and that Wolf, Shibata, Nakamura, and Tanahashi are all ready. Yano isn't too far either.

[Pheonix_Chi25]

You might want to add Hiroshi Nagao and GotoGuchi (Hirooki Goto and Rysuke Taguchi) to that list too

[Luds]

Yeah, but these 3 are still a good year away from winning a significant match.

[edgehead1984]

Just remeber that Taguchi is a junior, and he already has the Young Lions cup under his waist.

[Luds]

He does, which is nice, but still hasn't defeated many of the veteran Juniors. His win over Liger in the BOSJ is meaningless as it was in under a minute in what was basically catching Liger before the match even started kinda thing.

Give him another year, and he'll start picking up wins over Samurai, Gedo, Takemura, Inoue and companie. Eventually he'll start giving guys like Kanemoto, Tiger Mask & Heat some good fights and then I'll call him ready. Right now he's still basically being sqashed by the top Juniors.