2005/05/14 Tokyo Egg Dome "NECESS"

[edgehead1984]

1. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Koji Kanemoto & Wataru Inoue (c) vs. Minoru & Hirooki Goto
2. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Tiger Mask (c) vs. Black Tiger
3. Tatsumi Fujinami & Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Masahiro Chono & Jushin Thunder Liger
4. Yuji Nagata vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
5. IWGP Tag Team Title: Shinsuke Nakamura & Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Kendo Kashin
6. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Satoshi Kojima (c) vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan

This is the card so far, and it looks pretty darn good to me...

[stunning_grover]

This looks great...! Misawa and Liger work in the same match. Has this ever happened before?

[raggin kilbasa]

who is the black tiger if anybody knows

[stunning_grover]

Black Tiger IV is Rocky Romero. The Black Tigers just keep getting worse. I really miss Marc Rocco as the original Black Tiger and especially Eddy Guerrero as Black Tiger II.

[Luds]

Ya this card is not very impressive...

I wonder who was the X that failed to sign. Liger is X now. Still nice to see him vs. Misawa, but I was hoping for Hash...

[Haiku Warrior]

I wonder if Hashimoto isn't fully healed yet. Another X they threw around at the zero hour was Hogan.

[Black_Flag_Of_Ulster]

Who was Black Tiger III? I seem to have missed that one.

[naterob2003]

I do believe it was silver king believe it or not. They should stop throwing gimmicks on to people for no reason.

[Haiku Warrior]

It was Silver King. He was in WCW for a short period of time.

[Luds]

Silver King is an excellent wrestler. It's sad if people only saw him job on WCW Saturday Night to everybody in WCW. He had a stint as Black Tiger around 2002 with Eddie Guerrero in Team 2000.

[Haiku Warrior]

Stunning Grover, why are you ragging on Romero? I saw him wrestle for ROH and he didn't stand out in my mind as stinkin it up. His team with Ricky Reyes as the Havana Pit Bulls/Rotteweilers is pretty cool too.

[stunning_grover]

I just don't like Rocky Romero. Or maybe it's that I'm a really big fan of the original Black Tiger (Marc Rocco) and especially Black Tiger II (Eddy Guerrero).

As far as Silver King goes... Silver King is a very good worker and I would've really liked it if he worked as Silver King in NJPW in 2002. I just didn't think he really fit the Black Tiger role all that well.

[Haiku Warrior]

I'm going to give it a chance. Rocky has wrestled in NJ before and I like the idea of assuming a different persona to further your career. I'm going to wait & see if this match is a stinker before I dislike BT4.

[Pheonix_Chi25]

Well this has been added to the card (Credit Strong Style Spirit)

Ron Waterman (BNJ) Vs. Keiji Mutoh (AJPW)
Toru Yano/Shinya Makabe VS. Osamu Nishimura/Yutaka Yoshie

And Shinya Hashimoto will be back in New Japan to update fans on his health and when he will return to wrestiling (if it's in new Japan or somewhere else).

Yano makes his NJ ring return, the 3 Musketeers in the house. I'd like to see the Waterman/Mutoh match.

[Luds]

I like NJ much better than NOAH, but if I lived in Tokyo and had only money for 1 dome show, I certainly wouldn't go to NJ's show.

The card does nothing for me... compared to Misawa vs. Kawada!