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October Tour Wrap-up -- Recap of September Tour

Japan Bound! October Improvement 2 Tour 

UPW's Predator, Snuka, Spanky, Sakoda, Heidenreich and Jones to Zero-One .

Match and results here, as they're announced.  UPW wrestlers appear in bold red type.

ZERO-ONE, 10/26/02 (Samurai! TV)
Osaka Rinkai Sports Center

1. Fuyuki Takahashi beat Shinsuke Z Yamagasa (8:30) with a German suplex hold.
2. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Don Arakawa beat Kuroge Wagyuta & Fugofugo Yumeji (11:24) when Fujiwara used a wakigatame on Yumeji.
3. Kohei Sato beat C.W. Anderson NWA (9:02) with a cross armbreaker.
4. Steve Corino NWA & Leonardo Spanky beat Keiji Sakoda & Yoshito Sasaki (12:54) when Spanky pinned Sasaki.
5. The Predator UPW & Jimmy Snuka Jr. beat Wataru Sakata & Hirotaka Yokoi (12:11) when Predator pinned Yokoi.
6. NWA/UPW/ZERO-ONE International Jr. Heavyweight Title: Low Ki (c) beat Naohiro Hoshikawa (14:51) by pinfall.
7. Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka beat Kazuhiko Ogasawara & Akio Kobayashi (9:33) when Otani used a crab hold on Kobayashi.
8. NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Title: Shinya Hashimoto & Naoya Ogawa beat Nathan Jones & John Heidenreich (c) (10:32) when Ogawa pinned Heidenreich to become the 4th champions.

ZERO-ONE "FIGHTING MASTER", 10/25/02
Nagoya International Conference Hall

1. Keiji Sakoda beat Fuyuki Takahashi (3:42) by pinfall.
2. Don Arakawa & Kamikaze beat Kuroge Wagyuta & Fugofugo Yumeji (9:34) when Arakawa pinned Yumeji.
3. Naohiro Hoshikawa beat Leonardo Spanky (14:05) by pinfall.
4. Steve Corino NWA & Low Ki beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Yoshito Sasaki (14:02) when Corino pinned Sasaki.
5. Kazuhiko Ogasawara & Akio Kobayashi beat Kohei Sato & Hirotaka Yokoi (7:36) when Ogasawara KO'd Sato.
6. Wataru Sakata beat C.W. Anderson NWA (10:33) by KO.
7. NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Title: Nathan Jones & John Heidenreich (c) beat The Predator UPW & Jimmy Snuka Jr. (9:46) when Jones used a neck-hanging bomb on Snuka (1st defense).
8. Shinya Hashimoto & Naoya Ogawa beat Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka (18:43) when Ogawa pinned Otani after the Oregotokarire.

ZERO-ONE, 10/22/02
Yokkaichi Australia Commemoration Hall

1. Fuyuki Takahashi beat Shinsuke Z Yamagasa (8:24) with a German suplex hold.
2. Kintaro Kanemura World Entertainment Wrestling beat Kuroge Wagyuta (9:09) by pinfall.
3. Low Ki & Leonardo Spanky beat Kamikaze & Yoshito Sasaki (14:53) when Ki used the Dragon clutch on Sasaki.
4. C.W. Anderson NWA beat Naohiro Hoshikawa (12:28) by pinfall.
5. Nathan Jones, John Heidenreich & Steve Corino NWA beat Shinjiro Otani, Masato Tanaka & Keiji Sakoda (15:31) when Jones pinned Sakoda.
6. Shinya Hashimoto & Kohei Sato beat The Predator UPW & Jimmy Snuka Jr. (21:53) when Hashimoto pinned Snuka.

Keiji gets the better of Hashimoto Hashimoto takes over...  ...and finishes Sakoda w/the DDT

It's Predator's & Snuka's first outing as a tag team, reprising the legendary duo of Bruiser Brody & Superfly Snuka in Japan.  Predator --voted the "#1 Foreigner in all of Japan" for the first half of 2002, continues his winning ways.

ZERO-ONE, 10/20/02 (Samurai! TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,800 Fans (Sell Out)

NATHAN JONES & JON HEIDENREICH NEW INTL' CHAMPS!

1. Shinya Hashimoto beat Keiji Sakoda (8:40) with a DDT.
2. Kuroge Wagyuta & Fugofugo Yumeji beat Shinsuke Z Yamagasa & Fuyuki Takahashi (8:55) when Wagyuta used the Japanese Beef buster on Yamagasa.
3. The Predator UPW & Jimmy Snuka Jr. beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kohei Sato (9:40) when Snuka used a Superfly splash on Sato.
4. Naohiro Hoshikawa beat Yoshito Sasaki (11:31) with the Comet Lock II.
5. Steve Corino NWA & C.W. Anderson NWA beat Low Ki & Leonardo Spanky (10:36) when Anderson used a spinebuster on Ki.
6. Wataru Sakata beat Akio Kobayashi (4:08) with an armlock.
7. Kazuhiko Ogasawara beat Hirotaka Yokoi (6:18) by KO.
8. Intercontinental Tag Team Title: Nathan Jones & John Heidenreich beat Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka (c) (11:19) when Heidenreich used the Power Dunk on Tanaka to become the 3rd champions.

 

UPW's NATHAN JONES & Jon HEIDENREICH face SHINJIRO OTANI & MASATO TANAKA 

in a titanic battle for the International Tag Team Championships

JON & NATHAN WIN THE GOLD!!

Next show --UPW Wrestlers appear in bold red type

10/26(Sat) 6:30---Osaka Rinkai Sports Center, Osaka
(8) Hashimoto & Ogawa VS Jones & Hendenreich
(7) Otani & Tanaka VS Ogasawara & Kobayashi
(6) International JR HWT: Low Ki VS Hoshikawa
(5) Sakata & Yokoi VS Predator & Snuka,Jr.
(4) Sakoda & Sasaki VS Corino & Spanky
(3) Sato VS Anderson
(2) Fugofugo & Kuroge VS Fujiwara & Arakawa
(1) Takahashi VS Yamazaki

From September 9 to September 23, UPW was represented by its strongest contingent yet at Zero-One in Japan.UPW Booker and Head referee Marty Rubalcaba was on the Genesis Tour.  Here is his diary:

Stay tuned for future installments!

Japan Diary - Part # 1

By Marty Rubalcaba

Greetings,

Sorry it’s taken so long to finally put his down.  Returning back to “normal” takes time.  Please note  “ states a Japanese person was speaking tome. On with the diary:

09/09/02: Keiji and I arrived at LAX at 9:20 AM way ahead of schedule just to make sure we made our flight on time we also wanted to beat any delays.  As we waited for the rest of the guys to arrive we had some coffee from the local Mc Donald’s (it was the worst!)  As I threw away the coffee Skulu showed up and asked if we had seen Tom Howard yet?  Apparently Tom had Keiji and Sculu’s airline tickets.  Predator then showed up, said hello, but moved through the check in counter, he wanted to check in early to try and get a last row seat so he could sleep on the plane ride over to Japan.  We waited for Tom to arrive with Keiji and Sculu’s tickets, it was getting later, Tom was due to arrive at the airport at 10: 45 AM, it was 10:45 AM and no Tom to be seen or found?  As we sat and waited and waited Skulu called Rick Bassman to ask if he had heard from Tom, Rick stated Tom would be at the airport within five minutes, five minutes turned into 11:50 AM.  Tom arrived at the ticket counter and gave Keiji and Skulu their tickets.  As we waited (see a trend here?) to check our luggage Tom recommended we fill out a frequent miles club card, as we all stumbled to write legibly as we stood we were called up to check our luggage.  As I checked in I showed my identification and passport, but was told to hold a moment?  Apparently the counter person had to call over her supervisor to clear me through to board the plane?  My airline ticket said MARTY, but my identification and passport said MARTIN…the supervisor stated “ name, not same on passport and ticket” Great, I can’t go to Japan because of my name?  I told the supervisor it was my first time to Japan I didn’t know my name was different please let me go this time?  She agreed and handed me my passport and boarding pass off I was to land of the Rising Sun…so I thought?  We had to pass yet another security check and then wait another 20-minutes to board the plane, Tom offered to get some peanuts and water to kill some time.  We were finally able to board the plane, but come to find out we were all scattered through the plane.  Tom was in the front. Predator and I were in middle, Keiji and Sculu in the back somewhere?  As I found my seat (a middle seat) to my left was a man and his child and to my right was a lady (all ready sleeping, and leaning on ME!!) the child was crying and running through the aisles, and we hadn’t even taken off yet!!  I asked myself, self?  Are you going to tolerate this on your first trip to Japan, HELL NO!!  Keiji saved me.  He came to get me as we were in the air, Keiji had lucked out and got a row all to himself.  He asked if I wanted to move?   Keiji didn’t have to ask me twice.  As we took off, I noticed that the plane was equipped with video cameras that allowed you to see the take off and landing, great if we went down we had the pleasure of seeing what we would be smashing into.  You have to love modern technology.  The plane was also equipt with video monitors that informed you of how long the flight would be, which was AWESOME!  Here I was amazed by the fact I was actually going to Japan to do what I love to do, wrestling!  After two hours in the air, we were given a little something to snack on, as we all know airline food is what it is.  Tom and Predator recommended I get some sleep on the flight.  I would need it.  As I tried sleeping (which I couldn’t) due to the excitement of going to Japan.  Here it was 9:00 PM (west coast time) and I couldn’t sleep.  I had been up since 5:00 AM and would be up the whole flight, our flight left LAX at 1:17 PM 09/09/02 and wouldn’t get into Tokyo, Japan until 4:30 PM 09/10/02 the next day!  Talk about traveling forward in time, it’s done everyday but it isn’t big news?  Trying to make the best of this 16-hour flight, I enjoyed the free movies and video games available to me.  I had eight channels to choose from, Japanese music, News, Television.  It also featured television shows such as “Friends” in Japanese four movie channels that featured a small selection of movies: CLOCKSTOPPERS / LORD OF THE RINGS / ICE AGE / WASABI / CINDERELLA 2 / LIFE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT / SPIDER-MAN.  Spider-Man kicks ass, I’m sorry I didn’t see it in the movie theater.  I also watched CLOCKSTOPPERS, with French Stewart of 3rd Rock from The Sun fame.  (French by the way is AWESOME!! At Wrestlemania 2000 he gave my daughter Shandi his Wrestlemania souvenir chair) One thing I learned as we were in flight is that Japan is 16-hours ahead of us (California) I also learned that our flight headed north towards Alaska, that blew me away.  Japan is north of California.  We passed just off the coast of Anchorage; Alaska and we could see it from the plane.  As I wrote this we were 1,171 miles outside of Tokyo, Japan at 9:33 PM.  I can’t wait to get to Japan and see it for the first time.  Who would of thought that a referee would be going to Japan to do what he loves (NOT ME!!)  It proves that DREAMS DO COME TRUE!!  We finally arrived in Japan!!!  It was 2:30 AM California time.  We landed and the plane taxied to an area and we were shuttled of onto buses that were parked outside of the plane.  We boarded the buses and were driven to the terminal, which seemed like a 20-minute ride.  As we arrived at the terminal it was another wait for us (see a trend?)  As we waited another 45-minutes inside the terminal at Japan Customs.  It was finally my turn to reach the customs desk and as I finally reached the desk, the customs officer asked “what your business in Japan?”  I stated wrestling and then he asked “where you stay, and who you stay?”  The customs officer stated he “need name and number for wrestling?” Lucky me, I didn’t have a number or knew where I was staying, and the worst part was that Tom, Predator and Skulu had already passed though customs and had all the information!!  I smiled and stated “first time in Japan and happy to be here” The officer looked at me as if I crazy, then smiled stamped my passport and said “OK, you go” Here I was in a country far from home and was sweating bullets, my first experience of being unable to communicate, BUT not my last…Keiji was right behind me and was called to the booth next to me, but he wasn’t so lucky.  Keiji apparently got an agent who wanted information.  He asked Keiji the same questions his partner asked me.  Keiji had nothing.  The officer asked Keiji “step out of line, and come” As Keiji was asked to step into the customs office I ran downstairs to get Tom.  I asked Tom what did we have to do to get Keiji out of the customs office.  Tom laughed and stated Keiji had gotten a (by the book officer) not to worry.  Tom gave me a ZERO-ONE business card with all the information they needed.  The officer called the ZERO-ONE office to see if Keiji was in fact there to see them.  After the officer hung up the phone he told Keiji “ you no wrestle, only train” With that chaos behind us we were then allowed to head to baggage claim.

 

 

Here are the results of how UPW fared at Zero-One's Genesis 2 Tour!

UPW Wrestlers' results in red

 

ZERO-ONE, 9/22/02
Kawane Town Townsman Center
2,000 Fans (Sell Out)

1. Yoshito Sasaki beat Shinsuke Z Yamagasa (9:16) with a crab hold.
2. Kuroge Wagyuta & Fugofugo Yumeji beat Kohei Sato & Fuyuki Takahashi (14:46) when Wagyuta pinned Takahashi.
3. Steve Corino NWA & Leonardo Spanky UPW beat Masato Tanaka & Naohiro Hoshikawa (11:14) when Corino used a neckbreaker drop on Hoshikawa.
4. The Predator UPW & Tom Howard UPW beat Shinjiro Otani & Keiji Sakoda UPW (12:23) when Predator pinned Sakoda.
5. Wataru Sakata & Hirotaka Yokoi beat Kazuhiko Ogasawara & Akio Kobayashi (6:53) by referee stop (Yokoi beat Kobayashi).
6. Shinya Hashimoto & Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Nathan Jones UPW & Samoan Savage UPW (13:39) when Hashimoto used a DDT on Savage.

ZERO-ONE, 9/18/02
Fukushima Big Palette
3,580 Fans

1. Naohiro Hoshikawa beat Shinsuke Z Yamagasa (9:33) with a crab hold.
2. Yoshito Sasaki & Fuyuki Takahashi beat Kuroge Wagyuta & Fugofugo Yumeji (13:51) when Sasaki used a German suplex hold on Yumeji.
3. Low Ki NWA & Leonardo Spanky UPW beat Dick Togo & Ikuto Hidaka (12:44) when Spanky used an inside cradle on Togo.
4. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kohei Sato beat Hirotaka Yokoi & Kamikaze (15:49) when Fujiwara used a wakigatame on Kamikaze.
5. UPW Heavyweight Title: Tom Howard UPW (c) beat Keiji Sakoda UPW (6:07) with the No. 55.
6. Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka beat Nathan Jones UPW & Samoan Savage UPW (13:46) when Otani used a cobra hold on Savage.
7. Shinya Hashimoto & Naoya Ogawa beat  Predator UPW & Steve Corino NWA (17:29) when Ogawa pinned Corino after the Oregotokarire.

 

ZERO-ONE, 9/16/02
Tokyo Differ Ariake

1,500 fans

1. Fuyuki Takahashi beat Shinsuke Z Yamagasa (8:58) with a German suplex hold.
2. Kamikaze & Yoshito Sasaki beat Kuroge Wagyuta & Fugofugo Yumeji (12:23) when Sasaki used a German suplex hold on Wagyuta.
3. Kintaro Kanemura World Entertainment Wrestling beat Hirotaka Yokoi (8:16) by pinfall.
4. Steve Corino NWA beat Samoan Savage UPW (8:38) by pinfall.
5. Naohiro Hoshikawa, Wataru Sakata & Tetsuhiro Kuroda World Entertainment Wrestling beat Kohei Sato, Dick Togo & Ikuto Hidaka (16:20) by referee stop (Sakata beat Hidaka).
6. ZERO-ONE/NWA/UPW International Jr. Heavyweight Title: Low Ki NWA beat Leonardo Spanky UPW (c) (16:50) by pinfall to become the 2nd champion.
7. The Predator UPW & Tom Howard UPW vs. Nathan Jones UPW & Keiji Sakoda UPW went to a double countout (17:48).
8. Shinya Hashimoto & Kazuhiko Ogasawara beat Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka (14:08) when Hashimoto pinned Otani.

 

ZERO-ONE, 9/15/02
Komagane Citizen Gymnasium

1,800 fans

1. Fuyuki Takahashi beat Shinsuke Z Yamagasa (7:56) with a crab hold.
2. Kohei Sato & Low Ki NWA beat Naohiro Hoshikawa & Kamikaze (20:41) when Sato used an armlock on Kamikaze.
3. Kintaro Kanemura World Entertainment Wrestling & Tetsuhiro Kuroda World Entertainment Wrestling beat Kuroge Wagyuta & Fugofugo Yumeji (12:37) when Kuroda pinned Yumeji.
4. Leonardo Spanky UPW beat Yoshito Sasaki (7:59) with an inside cradle.
5. Nathan Jones UPW & Steve Corino NWA beat Shinjiro Otani & Keiji Sakoda UPW (11:55) when Jones pinned Sakoda.
6. Shinya Hashimoto, Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Masato Tanaka beat The Predator UPW, Tom Howard UPW & Samoan Savage UPW (13:39) when Hashimoto pinned Savage.

 

ZERO-ONE, 9/13/02
Ishinomaki City Gymnasium

3,800 fans

1. Shinsuke Z Yamagasa beat Fuyuki Takahashi (9:34) with a crab hold.
2. Kuroge Wagyuta beat Don Arakawa (7:14) by pinfall.
3. Dick Togo & Ikuto Hidaka beat Leonardo Spanky UPW & Naohiro Hoshikawa (13:42) when Togo pinned Hoshikawa.
4. Kintaro Kanemura World Entertainment Wrestling & Tetsuhiro Kuroda World Entertainment Wrestling beat Low Ki NWA & Yoshito Sasaki (12:35) when Kuroda pinned Sasaki.
5. Shinjiro Otani beat Keiji Sakoda UPW (10:51) with a cobra hold.
6. The Predator UPW & Tom Howard UPW beat Masato Tanaka & Kohei Sato (12:35) when Howard used the No. 55 on Sato.
7. Shinya Hashimoto, Naoya Ogawa & Yoshiaki Fujiwara beat Nathan Jones UPW, Steve Corino NWA & Samoan Savage UPW when Hashimoto pinned Savage.

ZERO-ONE, 9/12/02
Iwate Prefectural Gymnasium
2,800 Fans

1. Fuyuki Takahashi beat Shinsuke Z Yamagasa (10:35) with a crab hold.
2. Kintaro Kanemura World Entertainment Wrestling & Tetsuhiro Kuroda World Entertainment Wrestling beat Dick Togo & Ikuto Hidaka (11:56) when Kanemura pinned Hidaka.
3. Don Arakawa beat Fugofugo Yumeji (8:14) with a backslide.
4. Kazuhiko Ogasawara beat Kuroge Wagyuta (5:25) by referee stop.
5. Leonardo Spanky UPW & Naohiro Hoshikawa beat Low Ki NWA & Yoshito Sasaki (17:58) when Spanky used a horizontal cradle on Sasaki.
6. The Predator UPW beat Kohei Sato (5:08) with a King Kong buster.
7. Tom Howard UPW, Keiji Sakoda UPW & Samoan Savage UPW beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka (11:59) when Sakoda pinned Tanaka.
8. Shinya Hashimoto & Naoya Ogawa beat Nathan Jones UPW & Steve Corino NWA (9:47) when Ogawa pinned Corino after the Oregotokarire.

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