Shinjiro Otani announced today at Korakuen Hall that Shinya Hashimoto has retired (been forced out) of ZERO-ONE due to his right shoulder injury. Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa went on to say that Hashimoto turned his back on the Z1 fans & workers by showing up at the 11/3 show at Sumo Hall. Z1 Director Yoshiyuki Nakamura buried Hashimoto very nastily backstage saying by that showing up at the New Japan 11/3 show at Sumo Hall he showed that he doesn’t want to be part of Z1 anymore. Nakamura said that New Japan & Z1 are not working together and that Hashimoto is done with the company. The Z1 split has begun and let’s see who will follow Hash out of the company.