ZIP JAPAN Interpromotional Showcase!

I am very pleased to announce today that the next ZIP JAPAN show will feature wrestlers from all across the world from several different federations taking on ZIP's top stars. A date has not yet been confirmed for the show, but I will keep you posted as soon as I have further event details. For now, here is the card to whet your appetite!

Main Event - Representing gurf's UMWL (United Masked Wrestling League and the Shadow House
"El Vicious" Jay Ramirez vs Gorobei

Representing CominAttraction's LPW (Legendary Pro Wrestling)
Xaero vs Justin Starr

Representing Carlzilla's Royal Ring
"The Blood Pirates" Jun Tanashi, Ryusuke Nakagawa and Tsuyoshi Uchida vs Crusher Kodo, Wataru Nakajima and Kazuhiro Tanabe

Representing orochigeese's UBL (Universal Battle League) and motosada's NDP (New Damage ProWrestling)
Count Jakob Furis vs Tora Katsu

Representing unimportantguy's SWA (Sierra Wrestling All-Stars)
N-Trio vs Taiji Kuroda

Representing CyberTranz's Fusion-Dojo
"Explosive" Danny Dynamite vs White Trash

Representing FirePro Club's FPC Person Pack
Ultimate K, Hiphop King, Amazon Kid and Bai HU vs Kintaro, Donnie Doogan, Jumbo Jinzei and Shoji Tatami

Representing sonny615's FPW
D-Mask II vs Fujita Yakimoto

I hope everyone is excited by the prospects of these great match ups as I am. Even though I'm not booked, I wouldn't miss this show!

Event card - ZIP JAPAN House show #03

The next ZIP JAPAN event has been booked for Friday, March 28 at the Namihaya Dome in Kadoma, in the Osaka Prefecture. Here is the scheduled line up:

Main Event - Gorobei/Akira Shinjo vs Jumbo Jinzei/Kintaro

Kenzo Kobayashi vs Crusher Kodo

Genki Raiga/Mr. Suplex vs Shoji Tatami/Nobu Kakihara

NO DQ - White Trash vs Asano Kaneshiro

Kazuhiro Tanabe vs Taro Yamamoto

TheDenizen/Minoru Hoshino vs Satoshi Iguchi/Tetsuo Kinoshita

Daisuke Shimura vs Mad Bomber

Great HAGE vs Fujita Yakimoto

Card subject to change


Looks like it should be another great night!

I'd also like to announce that ZIP JAPAN has added a new correspondent to its ranks! Everyone please join me in welcoming BobStar to the ZIP JAPAN team, he will be helping me out with some of the show write ups.

Thanks, BobStar!

Event card - ZIP JAPAN House show #02

The next ZIP JAPAN event will be held Friday, March 14, at the Kobe Green Arena in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. It should be an exciting show, it's a superb little indoor arena, and King ZIP is confident that he can fill it to capacity with rabid fans.

Here is the card:

ZIP JAPAN World Championship match
Gorobei vs Nobu Kakihara

TheDenizen/Justin Starr vs Satoshi Iguchi/Yoji Shinichi

Jumbo Jinzei vs Akira Shinjo

Genki Raiga/Mr. Suplex vs Asano Kaneshiro/Takeshi Kiriyama

Kenji Sawada vs Wataru Nakajima

Daisuke Shimura/Kazuhiro Tanabe vs Taro Yamamoto/Mad Bomber

Great HAGE vs ECKO

White Trash vs Riot Gear

Card subject to change


This is pretty awesome. I've moved up the card AND I get to team with the ZIP Junior Champ. Looking forward to it!

King ZIP tells me that the main event was originally a non-title match. He also noted that Nobu Kakihara is defying doctor's orders to return a week early for this match against Gorobei, and that as a result, Gorobei has insisted on putting the title on the line.

Check back next weekend for the results...

Event card - ZIP JAPAN House show #01

I just received word on the card for the next event at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. Since it's the first live show I'll be doing a write up for, I'll call it #01, even though King ZIP has been running these shows around Japan for over 15 years.

Anyways, here is the card, the event is scheduled for this weekend!

Main Event - ZIP JAPAN Junior Championship Rematch
Justin Starr (c) vs Tetsuo Kinoshita

Mr Suplex vs Riot Gear

Grudge match
Daisuke Shimura vs Taro Yamamoto

Jumbo Jinzei vs White Trash

Asano Kaneshiro/Takeshi Kiriyama vs Crusher Kodo/Wataru Nakajima

Kenzo Kobayashi vs Mickey Grinds

Genki Raiga vs Johnny Jobber

TheDenizen/Minoru Hoshino vs Yoji Shinichi/Satoshi Iguchi

Card subject to change

Alright! My first match in ZIP JAPAN! I can't wait. The rest of the card looks great, too. I wouldn't want to be in White Trash's shoes right now, though. Should be an exciting night. After the event is over, and I have time to travel back to Canada, I'll get the blog updated with descriptions of all the matches.