SJPW Wrestlefest
02/21/99
Venue: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
- In an All-Asian Tag-Team Championship Match, The Yakuza defeated The
Bonecrushers by countout but they did not win the titles as a result.
- In a Welterweight Championship Match with no time limit, "The
Warbird" Yukio Murakami defeated Tasogare no Prince by pinfall with the
Divine Wind spinning DDT to become the new champion.
- After the match, Acting CEO Shinsaku Yamashita and the rest of Chiimu
Corporate came out from the back and welcomed Murakami as the new leader of
the corporate team. Tasogare no Prince objected but was attacked by
Kenichi Kubota and thrown out of the ring.
- In a six-man tag team match, the team of "Jigoku" Tiger
Extreme, Toshiaki "The Pyro" Takada and their mystery partner,
"Demon Boy" Ishrinku, defeated the team of Kenichi
"Kurasshaa" Kubota and The Maulers by pinfall after nailing all
three opponents with top-rope maneuvers through burning tables.
- In an NCWF Cruiserweight Championship Match, Masashi
"Lightning" Lanther defeated Hori Yatoro by pinfall with a
Shooting Star Press.
- In a Koubousen Geijutsu Tag Team match, the team of "Seven Second
Killer" Oleg Vladikoff and "Vicious" Vladimr Vorsdhenko
defeated the team of The Mandarin and Steel Serpent by pinfall when
Vorshenko pinned The Steel Serpent following a Flapjack. During the
match, Mandarin abandoned his partner after the two came to blows.
- Jonnie Adonis interviewed MLWO Japan Senshuken, Jensei Tenru, who
complained that he wasn't included on the Wrestlefest card. He blamed
backstage politics for his exclusion and claimed that Chiimu Corporate
feared him. At the end of his interview, Tsunami came out to challenge
him and Tenru accepted.
- Tsunami defeated Jensei Tenru by pinfall with a Tsunami Driver III
inverted DDT.
- After the match, Tsunami verbally berated and insulted Tenru.
Once Tsunami left, Tenru was cheered by the crowd as he left the ring.
- The team of "Iron Man" Tetsuo Matsumoto and his mystery
partner, Shinji Hamada, defeated The Corporate Dragons (Kenji Ishida
& Shinji Usami) by pinfall when Matsumoto pinned Ishida with a sit
out powerbomb.
- It was announced that a scheduled tag match between Chiimu Tora
(Shishi "Lion" Fujiwara and The Banshee) against
"Ghost" Chandrasekhar Yoshida and Kagemusha was being revised
following a backstage altercation between The Banshee and Fujiwara which led
to Fujiwara being barred from the arena. Kagemusha withdrew from the
match leaving it as a singles bout between The Banshee and Yoshida.
- Jonnie Adonis held an impromptu interview with The Banshee and Jessica
Starbird backstage in which The Banshee promised to defeat Yoshida once
again. He also expressed his disgust at Ed Dean for deliberately
injuring Tiger Kikuchi and promised to uphold the highest ideals of Chiimu
Tora.
- Before the match could begin, Yoshida came out without his usual katana
and wakizashi, announcing that he had been living a lie in that his family
origins were not samurai but rather simple peasants, rice farmers.
Yoshida's so-called samurai heritage had been a forgery and deception all
along and Yoshida announced that from this point forward, he would be
referred to as Shiryo no Yoshida.
- In a non-title match, Shiryo no Yoshida defeated PJW Grand Prix
Senshuken The Banshee by pinfall with a superkick. During the match,
Hadi Moditian came out and tried to interfere but was knocked down by an
angry Banshee. Two masked men then attacked The Banshee at the behest
of Moditian, knocking him senseless. Kagemusha came charging from the
back to lend a hand but was double-teamed by the masked men while Jessica
Starbird prevented Moditian from doing more damage to The Banshee.
- After the match, Moditian delivered a speech in which he threatened The
Banshee, Chiimu Tora and SJPW in general with revenge to be exacted by his
masked cohorts.
- Before the main event, Mitsunori Takizawa delivered a backstage
interview where he promised to take Dean's title away from him.
- In an All-Asian Juuryou Championship Match, Mitsunori Takizawa defeated
Ed Dean by pinfall with a Cradle DDT to become the new All-Asian Juuryou
Shimeijiai.
- After the match, the members of Chiimu Tora (notably without
Fujiwara) came out along with the members of The Daimyo and many other
wrestlers from the SJPW roster to help Takizawa celebrate his hard-fought
victory and new title.
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