March 18, 1995 in Tokyo, Japan
Ariake Coliseum drawing 7,680
WE RETURN TO JAPAN, OUR DUTCH MIXED-FIGHT MIXED-RESULTS EXCURSION NOW BEHIND US as we begin this series of RISING here in Ariake Coliseum (有明コロシアム, Ariake Koroshiamu) less than two months after what I believe we must consider the finest RINGS show so far. On commentary our usual friends are joined by a fellow from Tokyo Sports (a familiar face, he has been here before as well) as the RINGS Official Ranking is revealed and it stands thus: 1) Volk Han, 2) Akira Maeda, 3) Hans Nijman (R.I.P.), 4) Yoshihisa Yamamoto, 5) Chris Dolman, 6) Dick Vrij, 7) Willie Williams, 8) Tony Halme (this is an outrage), 9) Bitsadze Tariel, 10) I listened several times and couldn't make it out, forgive me OH WAIT I CAUGHT IT THIS TIME and it is Nikolai Zouev who in fact faces Volk Han this very night (nearly twenty-two years ago in truth). My initial thought on these ranking is that it is awfully tough on both Mitsuya Nagai and Masayuki Naruse and really to all humans to have Tony Halme in there at all instead of say Mitsuya Nagai or Masayuki Naruse or really any other human. And what of Grom Zaza? What of him? As I ask this of you it seems I have accidentally altered the playback speed and the result is a (temporarily [though aren't we all]) screwed/chopped RISING SERIES: YAYOI that is messing me up.
Our opening bout sees Valentin Davidov square off against oh no it's "Dirty" Bob Schrijber, everybody hold onto your groin and eyes. To Bob's credit, they have been underway for several seconds now and he has committed no offense; perhaps he has reformed? Let he who is without dirt, etc. etc. The first round is in fact quite uneventful! Schrijber sits atop his stool between rounds devising, though, I just know it. Davidov really takes it to him to open round two so it's probably just a matter of time before lolololol yep, vicious shoot headbutt, red card, that's it, Davidov your winner by DQ at 1:00 of the second round. Oh, Dirty Bob . . .
I expect much better behaviour of both Masayuki Naruse and Wataru Sakata; I don't think it is presumptuous of me to say that we all do. TK is in Sakata's corner and that could possibly grant him great strength (see his cornering of Yoshida, Hidehiko vs. lots of guys) or really it might not (see his cornering of Fujita, Kazuyuki vs. Baruto, a lot of guy). Sure there are kicks to open this bout, just as there are palm strikes, but the action is truly joined once Naruse has attempted the day's first juji-gatame and nearly finishes it to because it is a good one! That's what rope breaks are there for though, use them without shame or hesitation. Sakata attempted a double-overhook bridging ura nage or perhaps yoko-otoshi but it's hard to say exactly which as he totally just fell on his back and nearly spiked Naruse's face into the mat in so doing (I am a waza purist and that is not pure waza). Naruse has been knocked down but I do not take it seriously (you I suppose are free to if you so choose). Sakata, too, is knocked down by way of palm strike; maybe that is the way this one is going? But I maintain hope that we will instead see bold kansetsu (bone-locking) or shime (strangulation) waza (technique). Another knockdown, though! This is unsettling! I must say, as Sakata is knocked down yet again, I am not nuts about the way he is pretty much taking a "flat-back bump" after eating, like, knees to the body; give your head a shake, Wataru Sakata, as you are counted out for the KO at 6:21, it doesn't really make sense to do that. I remember hearing Nigel McGuinness (a wrestler I don't know that I have ever seen but I am told he was good?) on WOL talking about how the flat-back bump is the most common thing in professional wrestling and also in its way the fakest and needs to go, in that if ever in a "shoot" event you take a flat-back bump it is because something super serious has happened, but in wrestling it is just like touch a guy BUMP touch him again BUMP and I think you will agree that this is a good point he made in conversation with Bryan (a fine interviewer, I think).
BITSADZE TARIEL damn girl I forgot about you; how have you been; you look good, though, Bitsadze; you look good. The slightly absurd (who among us) Bart Vale, newly shorn, will be his foe and rival and I am expecting at least as much kicking as in our previous bout, maybe even more (prove me wrong, fellows!). Well it only lasted 2:28 and it was pretty much all kicking actually, yeah, except for when Vale very briefly attempted a back-græpple only for Tariel to knock him out with a kick while Vale was kind of fleeing. Weird fight!
Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Mitsuya Nagai, there is nothing wrong with that as an idea for a RINGS match. Oh man the crowd goes nuts when it is announced that Yamamoto will represent RINGS in Satoru Sayama's upcoming Vale Tudo Japan to face Rickson Gracie, who is named here to another great cheer. SPOILER: Yamamoto, whose MMA(ish) record in the fullness of time will be 14W-25L-1D, lasts I guess 18:19 with apparently the greatest legend of Brazilian newaza? What an oddity! No time for that now though as Yamamoto is harassing Mitsuya Nagai with fairly relentless juji-gatame attacks, and in fact the only relent they know is when they are declined in pursuit of the leg-locks of ashi-kansetsu. Nagai's role in the early going is to be a kind of wing chun ((traditional Chinese: 詠春, simplified Chinese: 咏春) dummy but of holds and it will not surprise you to learn that he performs this task expertly (rather than "woodenly" haha). I am very pleased to say that Yamamoto attacks not only with the scarf-hold of kesa gatame but also with the arm-triangling shoulder-hold of kata-gatame, both of which are favoured gatame among my people. Nagai attempts what is I believe only the second mae-sankaku-jime (front-triangle-choke, the one you're probably thinking of already) yet seen in RINGS though surely that number is set to explode soon. Did I ever tell you the weird story about the triangle choke's late entry into BJJ? It's a good story! I excerpt now The MMA Encylopedia, the full text of which is totally available everywhere on the internet for free in several formats (you can't stop the internet nor, in this instance, at any rate, should you [information wants to be free]):
Brazilian Jiu-jitsu great Jean Jacques Machado once strangely claimed that
the triangle choke was "invented" in the 1970s by Sergio Dorileo, who "had
been studying a Japanese book of positions and invented the Triangle."
Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti clarified this somewhat when he told Martial
Arts Illustrated that Dorileo, training at Rolls Gracie's academy, "showed
everyone what he had learned from some old judo book and since then every-
one has known the triangle. I mean, all the jiu-jitsu guys." It's remarkable
that one of mma's most successful submission holds entered the diverse
Brazilian Jiu-jitsu syllabus so late. But the triangle choke is a relatively mod-
ern innovation.
Sankaku jime (sometimes transliterated as sangaku jime) was not a part of
the early judo that Mitsuyo Maeda brought with him to Brazil in 1914 which
formed the basis of the Gracie family's art. Nor was it part of the traditional
koryu ("old school") battlefield Japanese jujutsu teachings out of which judo
emerged. The reason for this is obvious enough: as judo world champion
Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki writes, "In a combat with no rules, it is inadvisable
— to say the least — for a man to wrap his legs around an opponent's neck,
putting his groin area within biting reach. " Sport, however, is another mat-
ter entirely, and it was in the era of intercollegiate kosen judo competition
that ground fighting legend Tsunetane Oda is credited with developing the
versatile technique, which can be applied from the front or side against a tur-
tled (on all fours) opponent, or from the back, in addition to the familiar
attack from guard. In the decades since, the triangle has become an integral
component of judo ground fighting or ne waza.
I have neglected to tell you how good Yamamot vs. Nagai has been in these last few minutes but really it has been very good. Nagai is down to his last knockdown, and Yamamoto is probably doing a little better but not much. Yamamoto shoots in for a low morote-gari (two-hand reap/double-leg) and sets to his ashi-kansetsu (leg-bone-locking) in all earnestness, although Nagai too knows the ways of that branch of katame-waza (græppling technique). They are up, they are down, Yamamoto sinks deeply and seriously what I am certain will be a match-ending hadaka-jime (naked strangle) only for Mitsuya Nagai to take his legs in hiza-tori-garami and that's just shocking! Or maybe it isn't? If you're about to send Yamamoto into an uncontrollable shoot situation, a loss on the way there probably makes sense as a face-saving measure. Interesting! Yamamoto, although the loser of this bout, takes the microphone and says things briefly and he is cheered wildly. "GANBATTE GANBATTE YAMAMO-tooo, GANBATTE GANBATTE YAMAMO-TOOOO!" in the mode of the college/company team cheering sections at the IJF Tokyo Grand Slam is how I would organize the cheer for him; but it is not my place.
There is a new feature! It is a Q & A!
Dick Vrij offers an answer so inscrutable that I cannot decode the question in retrospect; Akira Maeda answers in a language I in my ignorance do not speak. This could very well have been an excellent segment but I am unfit to judge it.
VOLK HAN fresh off a tournament win I feel like describing as majestic will try his hand against Nikloai Zouev who I believe has bested him in their earlier encounter(s). Zouev wants the takedown early and secures it soon thereafter; his butt is currently in Volk Han's face. Never one to stay sat on by a foe's very butt for very long, Han escapes and transitions to juji-gatame as smoothly as one can from beneath a foeman's butt. A rope break follows, as does Zouev's pursuit of another takedown. When they slap, these two RINGS Russians, they slap super hard and, in my view, well. This is a good little match so far, as Han grabs a rope to ask his release from yet more juji-gatame (it is granted); once standing, Han attacks with a gyaku-ude-garami/reverse-arm-entanglement/double-wrist-lock/Kimura that is ultimately in pursuit of, you guessed it, another juji-gatame (obviously I am not complaining). Ashi-kansetsu! Leg-bone-locking abounds! Han's setups are of course very compelling, and this Nikolai Zouev is a roller, a real roller, so there is much to admire as knees are twisted and calves half-sliced. Volk Han grabs another gyaku-ude-garami but really it is to sweep with rather than work towards a finish; this is often how you see gyaku-ude-garami when employed between people who both know what is up with regards to this game we call græppz. Zouev with the flying crab-scissors of kani-basami! That is usually Volk Han's thing to do! But once they are all tied up down there Han somehow grabs gyaku-ude-garami yet again like he was Masahiko Kimura just getting after it except one way he is different is that he just let Zouev get away from that grip whereas there is no record of that ever having happened in the case of Kimura (I ordered a shirt that has both Masahiko Kimura and Helio Gracie on it [in commemoration of judo's victory over all things, even little fellows about whom dubious claims are made] but don't worry it wasn't the expensive one it was the knockoff; I remain solvent). Han has triangled Zouev's head grotesquely with no arm trapped in there to keep it from becoming a hideous neck crank and yep that is a hideous neck crank. It is not only the referee but the commentator who says GIVE UP some times in the mode of the Fire Pro referees we have known, we have loved (Fire Pro World everybody let's get it for computers and play!). Aaaaaaand Volk Han wins with juji-gatame at 13:37; the ring announcer says only juji-gatame but the commentator rightly notes that this is juji-gatame (cross-mark hold) from ashi-garami (leg-entanglement) and he could have gone deeper and explained that the reason for the ashi-garami was Zouev's attempt at the knee-crush/calf-slicer of hiza-hishigi but that might be pedantry:
To the strains of "Sweet Child o' Mine" (which I heard on the radio earlier today and thought about how fine a bass player Benny "The Jet" Urquidez-student Duff McKagan is) strides forth Dick Vrij to face once more Akira Maeda in a restaging of RINGS' inaugural main event. I am in for any Maeda vs. Vrij bout not only because both guys are good at this but additionally because the crowd receives both men with reverence and echoing shouts of their surnames; it's very exciting. Vrij is wearing pants. Maybe that's what the Q&A question was about earlier? It's so hard to say. There is very little to this bout won by a Maeda heel-hook at 5:38 but the pace was good and the work was credible and the crowd was engaged and I am not here to speak ill of matches where all three of those things happen but rather to welcome them. Once Maeda has made his way to the back, the commentators speak not of his deeds but of what lies ahead for young Yamamoto.
WHAT DID DAVE MELTZER SAY I WONDER IF IT IS A TONNE OF STUFF ACTUALLY:
The thirteen-promotion Bridge Of Dreams ~ Dome Spring Full Bloom Tokyo Dome show -- arguably the single most deeply Fire Pro thing ever attempted and certainly ever executed -- is taking shape, and who else would you turn to at such at time than Big Dave:
March 13, 1995: "The same day will be a show even bigger on some levels, the 13-promotion card at the Tokyo Dome. As of press time, approximately 30,000 tickets have been sold for the card and most of the card is either known or some facets of it known. The card is being advertised as a seven-hour long card starting at 2 p.m.
By promotion, here is how things stand:
RINGS - Akira Maeda vs. Chris Dolman. This is a main event calibre match by name value, although it shouldn't be much of a match. Dolman, 50, is a legendary former world champion in sambo who turned to pro wrestling UWF style and in 1989 put over Maeda before 23,000 fans at the Osaka Baseball Stadium. He also beat Maeda in the semifinals and wound up winning the first Battle Dimension tournament in January 1993. A few weeks back in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dolman beat Maeda on the Rings show so it sets this up as Maeda's natural rematch. It is also Dolman's retirement match so the sentiment aspect puts a question mark in the eventual finish. Dolman was probably a real killer in his youth, but he moves slow and looks his age and then some, almost like a Harley Race.
MICHINOKU PRO - Great Sasuke & Sato & Shiryu vs. Super Delfin & Taka Michinoku & Gran Naniwa. This is the typical best house show main event for the promotion, which is a Japanese/Lucha Libre style promotion emphasizing smaller wrestlers. Five of these six wrestlers were at the womens' Tokyo Dome show in November, with this match actually being slightly better with Taka Michinoku taking the place of Ginsei Shinzaki (now WWF's Hakushi), and with Sasuke not being injured (he broke his foot in two places three days before the womens Dome). This should be at least four stars.
IWA - A match was announced with Terry Funk & Shoji Nakamaki & Nobutaka Araya vs. Head Hunters & Leatherface (Rick Patterson of Winnipeg). This will have to be changed since Araya quit IWA this past week, most likely will be replaced by Hiroshi Ono, which hurts it as a match. Funk & Araya vs. Head Hunters was a ****1/4 match in November at Korakuen Hall, but Nakamaki is nothing but more than a terrible worker with one of wrestling's biggest psychotic streaks and Ono is green but a willing bleeder. Head Hunters are one of the best and definitely the most underrated tag team in the world, while Leatherface is nothing special as a worker with a chain saw gimmick. Nevertheless, Terry Funk at the Tokyo Dome almost guarantees a great match.
ALL JAPAN WOMEN - Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue vs. Manami Toyota & Sakie Hasegawa. This should be an excellent match. This match goes on third and will make it difficult for whomever has to directly follow.
JWP - Dynamite Kansai & Hikari Fukuoka & Candy Okutsu & Fusayo Nouchi vs. Devil Masami & Cutie Suzuki & Mayumi Ozaki & Hiroumi Yagi. It's the best eight women in the promotion. This match goes on second. It should be okay for a second match.
UWFI - Gary Albright vs. Masahito Kakihara. Albright is one of the promotion's monsters and top stars while Kakihara is in that position of being one of the young guys groomed for the future. Albright should win easily.
PWFG - Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Yuki Ishikawa vs. Don Arakawa & Carl Greco. Best bet for intermission.
FMW - Atsushi Onita vs. Mr. Pogo in an electrified explosive land mine barbed wire death match. Gimmicks and blood galore.
Five matches are yet to be announced, most of which probably will be within the next week. The final two matches on the show will come from All Japan and New Japan. New Japan, which goes on last, will have Shinya Hashimoto in a singles match against either Hiroshi Hase or Hiroyoshi Tenzan. All Japan will have a six-man tag team match billed as a fans voting dream match which I'm assuming means the regular top four of Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada will be joined by Stan Hansen and Steve Williams in a unique pairing. LLPW, which will open the show, is going to have a match under UFC rules, which basically mean no rules at all. Pancrase will have the return of Minoru Suzuki, who has been out of action since December with an injury, but no opponent has been either named or even hinted at. The other slot is Ryuma Go's Go Gundan, of which nothing has been hinted."
We've got Masaake Satake news:
"Eric Bischoff was in Japan this past weekend at Seido Kaikan K-1 Promotion martial arts show on 3/3 at Budokan Hall which drew 13,500 fans and $1.2 million. Bischoff attended the show with New Japan's Masa Saito and met with K-1 owner Yoshi Ishii about a proposed June PPV tournament which would be UFC style but with more rules thrown in that would be held at Budokan Hall. This show is still in the discussion stages so it isn't a done deal. As expected in the main event, Masaake Satake, who held at least one or two versions of the world heavyweight title in kick boxing and used to be the No. 2 wrestler behind Maeda in Rings, destroyed Kimo by a second round knockout in a one-sided kick boxing match. Kimo was totally out of his element facing a legit good martial arts fighter having never done a kick boxing style fight, but his name value from his UFC match with Gracie was enough to draw the monster house and for marks, his getting destroyed puts Satake over as a great fighter having destroyed the guy who have Gracie trouble. Patrick Smith, also formerly of UFC was also destroyed via a quick knockout by an Australian heavyweight kick boxer called Stan the Man who has held versions of the world heavyweight title in one of the numerous kick boxing organizations. German Hubert Numrach, who was one of the favorites in the Charlotte UFC before pulling out and going into this tournament, was also knocked out by Ernest Horst of Netherlands. The whole thing was the first round of a tournament with $200,000 going to the winner which ends up on 5/4."
March 20, 1995: More on Bridge of Dreams:
"Even though Wrestlemania will be the biggest money U.S. show of the year, from both a significance and financial standpoint, it will be challenged on the same day by the Weekly Pro Wrestling show at the Tokyo Dome.
The biggest news of the past week is that both All Japan and New Japan announced their matches which will be the final two matches of the show. The finale of a show which starts at 2 p.m. and is being advertised to run a minimum of seven hours will be Shinya Hashimoto defending the IWGP title against Masa Chono. While Hiroshi Hase as a challenger would have provided for a more exciting match, from a storyline standpoint, like with Akira Maeda vs. Chris Dolman which probably won't be a great match, this is a strong match since Chono is the most heavily pushed rival for Hashimoto. All Japan announced a first-time ever dream match with Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Stan Hansen vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Steve Williams.
As of press time, all the cheap (about 20,000 seats priced at $33 and $55) seats, which is the entire upper deck, and all the good floor seats (6,000 seats priced at $330 apiece) are sold out. Seats remaining are a few of the 1,000 seats priced at $220 on the stadium floor and some of the lower deck seats at $77 and $110. A sellout would break the all-time world gate record set by New Japan on 1/4 in the same building.
Most of the show has been announced as we go to press. Of the eight matches listed in last week's Observer, six (Akira Maeda vs. Chris Dolman in Dolman's retirement match, Great Sasuke & Sato & Shiryu vs. Super Delfin & Taka Michinoku & Gran Naniwa, Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue vs. Sakie Hasegawa & Manami Toyota, Dynamite Kansai & Hikari Fukuoka & Candy Okutsu & Fusayo Nouchi vs. Devil Masami & Cutie Suzuki & Mayumi Ozaki & Hiroumi Yagi, Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Yuki Ishikawa vs. Don Arakawa & Carl Greco and Atsushi Onita vs. Mr. Pogo in an electrified explosive land mine barbed wire death match) remain the same. Two others have slight changes. The IWA match will now be Terry Funk & Shoji Nakamaki & Leatherface (Rick Patterson, who turned babyface starting a feud with Cactus Jack on 3/7) vs. Head Hunters & Cactus Jack. This match will probably involve a major angle with Funk and Jack since it'll be the biggest stage they'll perform on leading to their own planned hair vs. hair match at the Kawasaki Baseball Stadium on 8/20. The UWFI match has been changed to a tag (called doubles in UWFI) match with Yoji Anjyo & Masahito Kakihara vs. Gary Albright & Jean Lydick.
Go Gundan announced a singles match with Ryuma Go vs. Uchu Power X, which should be a wrestling intermission coming after the All Japan women's match. The other two matches will be a women's match billed as a UFC rules match which I guess is supposed to mean a no rules shoot from LLPW with Shinobu Kandori against a very poor unfortunate woman and a Pancrase match with Minoru Suzuki against a foreign opponent yet to be determined.
From a line-up standpoint, the show turned out far better than initially expected going on. The psychology of what went down caused every promotion to kick in its best version of either a great match or a great money match. When the smaller promotions such as All Japan women and Michinoku were known to be sending matches that everyone knew would be great, and Rings and FMW sent matches that were known to be money matches with mainstream celebrities like Akira Maeda and Atsushi Onita performing which were originally thought to be the matches to draw the crowd, it put pressure on other groups of either the same or greater visibility to provide the same so as to maintain their position at the end of the night and not be "shown up" in terms of both ringwork and/or match heat and interest by the lesser names from the smaller groups. It will also put some serious pressure on the wrestlers working later in the show, and in particular Chono and Hashimoto representing New Japan to have to follow an All Japan match that barring a surprise will be a killer in both ringwork and heat."
March 27, 1995: "3/18 Tokyo Ariake Coliseum (RINGS - 7,680): Davidov b Bob Schreiber-DQ, Masayoshi Naruse b Wataru Sakata, Bitarze Tariel b Bart Vail, Mitsuya Nagai b Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Volk Han b Nikolai Zouev, Akira Maeda b Dick Leon-Vrij"
More on the big show . . . and other things:
"The 4/2 Tokyo Dome show has been finalized. The only holes in the show not mentioned last week were that in the LLPW match billed as under UFC rules, Shinobu Kandori's poor unfortunate opponent will be Harley Saito, which is probably the best woman for the job, and in the Pancrase match, Minoru Suzuki faces Christopher DeWeaver. Two other changes are that the IWA match with Terry Funk & Leatherface & Shoji Nakamaki vs. Cactus Jack & Head Hunters will be a barbed wire board match, and that the FMW match with Atsushi Onita vs. Mr. Pogo in the electrified explosive barbed wire match will be for Pogo's World Brass Knux title. The order of the matches will be JWP, LLPW, All Japan women, Go Gundan, IWA, Fujiwara Gumi, Pancrase, Michinoku Pro Rings, UWFI, FMW, All Japan and New Japan.
Gong Magazine's show going head-to-head at Korakuen Hall, which is about 100 yards from the Tokyo Dome, has Choshu & Genichiro Tenryu & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Tatsutoshi Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara of Heisei Ishingun who hold the WAR six-man titles and are also feuding with Choshu, Hiromichi Fuyuki vs. Koki Kitahara, Koji Kanemoto (NJ) & Nobukazu Hirai vs. Gedo & Jado, Kim Duk vs. Osamu Tachihikari, Ultimo Dragon & Lion Heart & Yuji Yasuroka vs. Negro Casas & Ultimate Dragon & Masao Orihara, Wellington Wilkens Jr. & Naohiro Hoshikawa vs. Missing Link & Yone Genjin (Michinoku Pro wrestler who does a Missing Link gimmick) in a Michinoku match, Rumi Kazama & Mikiko Futagami & Michiko Omukai vs. Noriyo Tateno & Carol Midori & Jen Yukari in an LLPW match and Fray Tormenta & Fray Tormenta Jr. vs. two other luchadores in the opener.
FMW ran another Onita vs. Pogo match, this time with Onita doing the Great Nita gimmick, on 3/15 in Sapporo drawing a sellout 6,800 which is really amazing for them to be able to draw like that after doing this match for so many years and coming just two weeks before a Dome show with the same match. Pogo used the axe but Nita got it away and used it as well. They also used the barbed wire baseball bat, then got a second bat lit on fire by Yukihiro Kanemura. Pogo was ready to blow fire at Nita and had the kerosene in his mouth when Nita blew the green Kabuki mist causing him to "swallow" the kerosene and then hit him with the fire bat and got the pin. After the match Onita said that when he retires on 5/5, that Nita also will retire. Pogo will come back as The Great King Pogo and challenged Onita for a lumberjack match. FMW has been the hottest promotion in the country as far as drawing spot show crowds because it's Onita's final appearance in each of these cities and they are selling out just about every night. On 3/19 at Korakuen Hall, the headliner was a match where Pogo put up $33,000 (his share of winning "the gate" at a recent FMW Korakuen show when his team won the main event) in an eight man tag on an 18-foot high pole attached to one ringpost and a second similar pole had a foreign object. Pogo used the barbed wire baseball bat on Onita's team and blew a fireball at them but while this was going on, Masato Tanaka climbed up Onita's shoulders and got the money for the win.
To the other extreme, Rings ran 3/18 at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo drawing 7,680 fans as Akira Maeda beat Dick Leon-Vrij with an achilles heel submission in 5:38.
Rings wrestler Yoshihisa Yamamoto and WCW wrestler Craig Pittman will both be entering Vale-Tudo, which is the Rickson Gracie UFC-style show inside a ring with gloves and rope breaks on 4/20 at Budokan Hall which is being promoted by Satoru Sayama."
That was a lot! But pretty interesting I think! See you next time, thank you!
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