The final day of the Power Source Group Stages was headlined by the first defense of Hayato Saigo’s C-1 Junior-Heavyweight Championship against his mentor, Keoni Murata! The two, from years of teaming and friendship were able to spend most of the early going easily dodging the other’s attacks, but near the end both men exploded with their most impressive and effective moves on the other. Murata nearly won the match with both the Great Wave Bodypress and a Backdrop Suplex, but Saigo showed his reserves by refusing to give up! After both men had exhausted their entire arsenals, it was Saigo who had one ace left up his sleeve as he debuted a PHOENIX SPLASH! It was an impressive feat, which landed beautifully and gave Saigo the hard fought victory! During Saigo’s title presentation, Saigo’s arch rival Millennium S.K. suddenly appeared and demanded to be the next challenger! Saigo and S.K. engaged in a heated argument before Saigo accepted, and the two former best friends will clash next month!
In the final tournament match of the night, Kenjiro Amagawa’s dreams were crushed by Komatsu’s vicious attacks. Amagawa, who has always shown abilities beyond his age fought bravely against Komatsu, but the differences in experience, skill, and style proved to be too much for Amagawa to overcome, and he was finally bested by a Komatsu sliding knee kick! Rouzeki-GUN clashed in the third tournament match of the night. Makoto Saito and Goro Iijima who both have similar styles went right at each other like bulls, but it was Goro Iijima’s burning desire to finally have the big win of his career that proved to be the deciding factor, as he blasted his stablemate with the Kinan High Kick for the victory.
Keiji Hirano finally received points in the tournament, albeit when he had nothing to fight for. Hirano, who is always undersized against heavyweights, was in his element against the massive Yujiro Higuchi as he exposed Higuchi’s weaknesses to lighter fighters before using a picture perfect moonsault for the win and the two points! In the first tournament match of the night, Toshiro Noguchi’s hopes of tying Nobuyori Shimizu’s five points went up in smoke when Eiichi Aihara refused to be beaten. Aihara had resigned himself to playing the spoiler roll, and executed it perfectly. Noguchi was frustrated the entire thirty minutes, and could do nothing to end the match before the time limit was up!
Izumo Yoritomo won the final heat up for his match against Yuki Nomura, albeit in indirect fashion. Yoritomo and Toyota formed an amazing team of power against Yuki Nomura and the returning Ryosei Royama. Nomura attempted to guide the young Royama to victory, but the young Royama proved to be way over his head against the awesome power of Rouzeki-GUN, and was crushed with Toyota’s “Sky High Suplex” for the Rouzeki-GUN victory!
The El Gran Tomizaki character for Akira Tomizaki can now be called a complete bust. Tomizaki took S.K.’s call for him to wrestle a more “aggressive style” to heart, and used many rulebreaking maneuvers during the six man tag in match two. S.K.’s “advice” proved to be a trick as the fans viciously booed Tomizaki after just a few nights before they cheered him like a hero. Tomizaki seemed distracted by the change of the crowd, and was easily beaten by Naoki Daishi’s Jujigatame! After the match, S.K. definitively called the El Gran Tomizaki character a “failure”, saying that the fans were booing him like a complete failure! S.K. told Tomizaki that on the 30th he was being given one final chance to find a character or he’d be expelled from the group!
For the first time in ages two young wrestlers clashed in the opening match. Takayuki Ariwa was completely frustrated by Takagi’s power, before being almost speared out of his ring boots, and then powerbombed for the victory for Takagi!
Pro-Wrestling CRIMSON
Power Source Tournament Day 5
05/20/07
Miyako 1000 Tokuji Gymnasium
695 fans
1. Kazuki Takagi defeated Takayuki Ariwa at 6:54 with a Powerbomb
2. Naoki Daishi, Akahito Yamada & Sojiro Sayuki defeated Millennium S.K., SLAYER & El Gran Tomizaki at 13:42 when Daishi submitted Tomizaki with a Jujigatame
3. Izumo Yoritomo & Aku Toyota defeated Yuki Nomura & Ryosei Royama at 12:41 when Toyota pinned Royama with the Sky High Suplex
4. Power Source Block A: Toshiro Noguchi [4] drew Eiichi Aihara[3] at 30:00
5. Power Source Block B: Keiji Hirano[2] defeated Yujiro Higuchi[2] at 14:47 with a Moonsault Press
6. Power Source Block A: Goro Iijima[6] defeated Makoto Saito[2] at 10:23 with the Kinan High Kick
7. Power Source Block B: Tenshin Komatsu[6] defeated Kenjiro Amagawa[4] at 14:24 with a sliding knee kick
8. C-1 Junior-Heavyweight Championship: Hayato Saigo (c) defeated Keoni Murata at 20:14 with a Phoenix Splash [V.1 defense]
---
The group stages of the Power Source Tournament are over, and Rouzeki-GUN has dominated the tournament. Out of the four finalists, three are from the faction. In Block A, Goro Iijima has won the block after beating Makoto Saito on the final night. The other finalist is the injured Nobuyori Shimizu who finished with five points. Noguchi’s hopes were crushed when he was taken to a draw by Aihara, and has to settle for four points.
Block A:
Goro Iijima [6]
Nobuyori Shimizu [5]
Toshiro Noguchi [4]
Eiichi Aihara [3]
Makoto Saito [2]
Block B saw Aku Toyota shock the world by winning the block with wins over Tenshin Komatsu, Kenjiro Amagawa and Keiji Hirano. The other finalist is fellow Rouzeki-GUN member Tenshin Komatsu who for the second incarnation in a row has made the semi-finals!
Block B:
Aku Toyota [6]
Tenshin Komatsu [6]
Kenjiro Amagawa [4]
Keiji Hirano [2]
Yujiro Higuchi [2]
---
The finals are set, in ten days the third Power Source champion will be crowned, and it will be one of four men!
The emerging Aku Toyota and his “Power Revival”…
Goro Iijima, who has never been able to win the “big match”…
The badly injured Nobuyori Shimizu…
and the man who was in the last finals, Tenshin Komatsu…
On top of that, Yuki Nomura defends the C-1 Heavyweight Championship against his deadliest challenger yet, the impossibly strong Izumo Yoritomo!
Pro-Wrestling CRIMSON
Power Source Finals
05/30/07
Hanamaki Citizen Gymnasium
1. Keiji Hirano & Yujiro Higuchi vs. Eiichi Aihara & Takayuki Ariwa
2. Natsuo Sakoda & Sojiro Sayuki vs. Ryoma Inoue & Ryosei Royama
3. Hayato Saigo & Keoni Murata vs. HANZO & Akira Tomizaki
4. Power Source Semi Final: Goro Iijima vs. Tenshin Komatsu
5. Power Source Semi Final: Nobuyori Shimizu vs. Aku Toyota
6. Naoki Daishi & Akahito Yamada vs. Millennium S.K., & SLAYER
7. Toshiro Noguchi & Kenjiro Amagawa vs. Makoto Saito & Kazuki Takagi
8. C-1 Heavyweight Championship: Yuki Nomura (c) vs. Izumo Yoritomo
9. Power Source Finals: Iijima/Komatsu vs. Shimizu/Toyota
0 comments:
Post a Comment