Toryumon Japan/Toryumon 2000 Project Est. 1997

Toryumon El Numero Uno PPV 2004 April 28th 2003 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
This card includes the semis and finals of this year's Toryumon singles tournament. They are, inevitably, rather good. Ultimo Dragon, Super Shisa, Ken Arai & Second Doi vs Genki Horiguchi, Milano Collection AT, Susumu Yokosuka & Yossino… Michael Iwasa & Daniel Mishima vs Takashi Okamura & Yoshikazu Taru… Dragon Kid vs Masaaki Mochizuki… Shuji Kondo vs CIMA Nobunaga (both El Numero Uno 2004 Semi-finals)… Don Fuji vs Toru Owashi… Anthony W. Mori & Naoki Tanisaki vs Yasshi & Takuya Sugawara… Dragon Kid vs Shuji Kondo (El Numero Uno 2004 Final)

Toryumon La Ultima Caida PPV 2003 December 16th 2003 £9 vhs / £10 dvd
Another tremendous Toryumon card, and the last pay-per-view of 2003 (the Spanish title - very authentic - means 'The Final Fall'). The main event was lavished with industrial quantities of praise, and rightly so. Judo Suwa, Yoshikazu Taru & Don Fuji vs Genki Horiguchi, Susumu Yokosuka & Ryo Saito… Daniel Mishima & Michael Iwasa vs Dragon Kid & Super Shisa… Kenichiro Arai vs Masaaki Mochizuki… Anthony W. Mori & Yossino vs Condotti Shuji & Brother Yassini vs Jun & Second Doi (three-way dance)… Toru Owashi vs CIMA Nobunaga… Magnum Tokyo vs Milano Collection AT

Toryumon Fifth Anniversary Show June 29th 2003 £9 vhs / £10 dvd
Integrating the Toryumon and T2P rosters over the summer of 2003 was an inspired move. While Toryumon has always produced fine undercards, it's now equipped to produce them without any outside assistance (the Great Sasuke is the only guest on this four-hour card). Capping it all off, the main event here could be Toryumon's Match of the Year for 2003. Milano Collection AT, Yassini & Pescatore Yagi vs Judo Suwa, Yoshikazu Taru, & Don Fuji… Takamichi Iwasa & Anthony W Mori vs Raimu Mishima & Second Doi… Condotti Shuji vs Jun vs Toru Owashi… The Great Sasuke vs Stalker Ichikawa… Highlights of Magnum Tokyo/CIMA Nobunaga feud… Yossino vs K-Ness (NWA Welterweight Title Match)… Genki Horiguchi, Ryo Saito & Susumu Yokosuka vs Masaaki Mochizuki, Araken & Dragon Kid (UWA Trios Title Change)… CIMA Nobunaga vs Magnum Tokyo (UDG Title Change)

Toryumon El Numero Uno PPV 2003 April 22nd 2003 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
For the last few years, Toryumon has consistently produced the best pay-per-views in the world. This tremendous card features the group's annual El Numero Uno tournament, with the 2003 winner taking home the sparkling new UDG (Ultimo Dragon Gym) title. Dragon Scramble Battle Royal… Yossino vs Judo Suwa… CIMA Nobunaga vs Susumu Yokosuka… Masaaki Mochizuki vs Milano Collection AT… Genki Horiguchi vs Magnum Tokyo (all El Numero Uno 2003 Quarter-finals)… Yoshihiro Takayama vs Stalker Ishikawa… CIMA Nobunaga vs Yossino… Genki Horiguchi vs Masaaki Mochizuki (both El Numero Uno 2003 Semi-finals)… Ultimo Dragon, Anthony W Mori, Second Doi, Kenichiro Arai & Dragon Kid vs Yoshikazu Taru, Don Fuji, Yassini, Condotti Shuji & Ryo Saito… CIMA Nobunaga vs Genki Horiguchi (El Numero Uno 2003 Final)

Toryumon Ultimo Dragon Comeback World Tour November 12th - December 26th 2002 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
TV special celebrating the Toryumon founder's return to action. If these matches are anything to go by, four years as a pencil-pusher worked wonders for that dodgy elbow. The tape begins with four classic Dragon matches. Yoshinari Asai, Kendo & Super Astro vs Negro Casas, Shu El Guerrero & Espanto Jr. (Universal, March 1st 1990)… Yoshihiro Asai vs Bestia Salvaje (Universal, June 7th 1991)… Ultimo Dragon & The Great Sasuke vs Jinsei Shinzaki & Gedo (MPW, July 30th 1994)… Ultimo Dragon vs Negro Casas (May 11th 1997)… Ultimo Dragon, Mr. Mexico, Solar & Tony Boy vs Nitro, Mano Negra & Big Titan… Ultimo Dragon, Atlantis & Mr. Niebla vs Ultimo Guerrero, Rey Bucanero & Mascara Ano… Ultimo Dragon, Masaaki Mochizuki & Dragon Kid vs Bestia Salvaje, Scorpio Jr. & Henio… Ultimo Dragon & Dragon Kid vs Rey Bucanero & Ultimo Guerrero… Ultimo Dragon vs Genki Horiguchi… Ultimo Dragon, Perry Saturn & Norman Smiley vs Ken Arai, Masaaki Mochizuki & Toru Owashi (T2P)

Toryumon Fourth Anniversary Show July 7th 2002 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
From top to bottom, one of my favourite cards of the year. No other promotion gives as much creative freedom to its wrestlers (let alone visitors from other promotions), and the results are a joy to watch. Shuji Kondo, Takayuki Yagi & Berlinetta Boxer vs Ken Arai, Super Shisa & Raimu Mishima… Tarucito vs Stoker Ichikawa… Ricky Marvin vs Super Nova (NWA Welterweight Title Match)… The Great Sasuke & Atlantis vs Negro Casas & Sasuke the Great… Judo Suwa vs Susumu Yokosuka (British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Title Match)… CIMA Nobunaga, Don Fuji & Yoshikazu Taru vs Magnum Tokyo, Darkness Dragon & Genki Horiguchi vs Masaaki Mochizuki, Dragon Kid & Ryo Saito (UWA Six Man Tag Team Title Three-Way Match)

T2P Desembarcamiento II January 23rd 2002 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
The 'Lucha Libre Classica' main event of this Korakuen Hall show fulfilled its billing in every sense, confirming T2P as Japan's must-see promotion. Shuji Kondo vs Jun Ogawauchi… Noriaki Kawabata vs Raimu Mishima… Yoshikazu Taru vs Kinya Oyanagi… Jorge Rivera vs Tarucito… Toru Owashi vs Syachihoko Machines… Milano Collection AT, Masato Yoshino & Stevie 'Brother' Tsujimoto vs Ryo Saito, Anthony W. Mori & Takayuki Yagi (best of three falls)

T2P Desembarcamiento November 13th 2001 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
Opening event of the latest branch of Ultimo Dragon's wrestling empire. Introducing a spellbinding, submission-based lucha style, and the hexagonal ring that would become T2P's trademark, Desembarcamiento received the sort of unreserved praise that normally suggests money changing hands. Thankfully, there's no question of that happening here. Best debut of 2001. Takayuki Yagi vs Shuji Kondo… Tarucito vs Raimu Mishima… Jun Ogawauchi vs Toru Owashi… Kinya Oyanagi vs Yoshikazu Taru… Masato Yoshino & Stevie 'Brother' Tsujimoto vs Kentaro Mori & Takamichi Iwasa… Milano Collection AT vs Ryo Saito (best of three falls)

Toryumon November Fiesta 2001 October 28th - November 8th 2001 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
Includes the first singles match of the Dragon Kid-Darkness Dragon feud, the debut of CIMA's 'Shubain' finisher, and SAITO's last Toryumon match. CIMA Nobunaga vs Chocoflake K-Ichi… Big Fuji vs Ryo Saito vs Genki Horiguchi… Shuji Kondo vs SAITO… Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Darkness Dragon vs Magnum Tokyo, Dragon Kid & Ryo Saito (UWA Six Man Tag Team Title Match)… Darkness Dragon vs Dragon Kid… Ricky Marvin & Kenichiro Arai vs Genki Horiguchi & Apache… Masaaki Mochizuki & Susumu Mochizuki vs Magnum Tokyo & Ryo Saito

Toryumon Absolutamente 2001 September 30th 2001 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
Three-hour Gaora TV special, headlined by the first ever five-way escape cage match. The undercard highlights are moments rather than matches, most of which are provided by the mercurial Apache. Picture quality is average. Judo Suwa vs SAITO… Apache vs Genki Horiguchi… Yasushi Kanda & Chocoflake K-Ichi vs Yoshikazu Taru & Big Fuji… Susumu Mochizuki vs Ryo Saito (NWA World Welterweight Title Match)… Magnum Tokyo vs Dragon Kid vs CIMA Nobunaga vs Masaaki Mochizuki vs Darkness Dragon (five-way escape cage match)

Toryumon Verano Peligraso II July 29th - August 18th 2001 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
This tape has a chaotic early prototype of the three-way trios match that headlined the Fourth Anniversary Show, and a Crazy Max vs M2K main event. Susumu Mochizuki vs Ricky Marvin (NWA World Welterweight Title Match)… Ken Arai & Stoker Ichikawa vs Genki Horiguchi & SAITO… CIMA Nobunaga & Big Fuji vs Genki Horiguchi & Ryo Saito… Magnum Tokyo, Dragon Kid & Stoker Ichikawa vs Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Darkness Dragon… Shiima Nobunaga, Judo Suwa & Big Fuji vs Magnum Tokyo, Dragon Kid & Ryo Saito vs Masaaki Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Darkness Dragon (UWA Six Man Tag Team Title Three-Way)… CIMA Nobunaga, Judo Suwa & Big Fuji vs Masaaki Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Susumu Mochizuki

Toryumon Third Anniversary Show July 1st 2001 £9 vhs / £10 dvd
Toryumon's first pay-per-view. Quite amazing that a promotion whose veterans have less than four years' experience can put on a four-hour card with nary a disappointing match. Even the obligatory Taru-Stoker comedy stuff translates well. Ken Arai & Apache vs Genki Horiguchi & SAITO… Stoker Ichikawa vs Yoshikazu Taru… Dragon Kid, Ricky Marvin & Ryo Saito vs Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Darkness Dragon… Dick Togo vs Chocoflake K-Ichi… CIMA Nobunaga, Judo Suwa & Big Fuji vs The Great Sasuke, Gran Hamada & Tiger Mask IV (UWA Six Man Tag Team Title Match)… Magnum Tokyo vs Masaaki Mochizuki

Toryumon Crazy Max vs M2K June 3rd - September 3rd 2000 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
Nearly all of Toryumon's best bits have been the result of the never-ending feud between the group's assorted factions. This is where it all began - with Masaaki Mochizuki's M2K usurping Crazy Max as Toryumon's top heel stable. This commercial tape has all the of the feud's top matches and, as a special bonus, a video recap of the greatest comedy feud of our times: Stalker Ishikawa vs Taru! Yasushi Kanda vs Masaaki Mochizuki (April 25th 1999 - formation of M2K)… CIMA Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji & Makoto vs Masaaki Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Susumu Mochizuki (M2K)… SAITO, Genki Horiguchi & Takashi Okamura vs M2K… CIMA Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji & Stalker Ishikawa vs M2K… Tiger Mask IV, The Great Sasuke & Jodie Fleisch vs M2K… Masaaki Mochizuki vs Ken Arai… Tiger Mask IV & The Great Sasuke vs Sumo Fuji & CIMA Nobunaga… CIMA Nobunaga vs Sumo Fuji (hair vs hair match)… Dragon Kid vs Judo Suwa… Judo Suwa vs Ken Arai (x2)… Dragon Kid vs Judo Suwa (hair vs mask - Darkness Dragon debuts)… CIMA Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji & Judo Suwa vs M2K... Video history of Stalker Ishikawa vs Taru

Toryumon Crazy Max Films April 22nd - September 4th 1999 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
Commercial tape profiling Toryumon's in-house troublemakers. In addition to the matches listed below, this includes a history of Crazy Max (footage from Mexico and Michinoku Pro), and profiles of each member. Sumo Fuji shows off his 'loose muscle', CIMA watches an unpleasant mongoose/snake fight, Taru does 'Biker from the Village People', and Judo Suwa destroys things, for no apparent reason. Shiima Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji & Judo Suwa vs Magnum Tokyo, Dragon Kid & Kenichiro Arai… Shiima Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji & Yoshikazu Taru vs Magnum Tokyo, Taka Michinoku & Kenichiro Arai… Yoshikazu Taru vs Stoker Ichikawa (highlights)… CIMA Nobunaga, Yoshikazu Taru, Sumo Fuji & Sasuke the Great vs The Great Sasuke, Magnum Tokyo, Tiger Mask IV & Kenichiro Arai (highlights)… Yoshikazu Taru vs Magnum Tokyo… CIMA Nobunaga out and about… Taka Michinoku, Shoichi Funaki & Tiger Mask IV vs CIMA Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji & Yoshikazu Taru (from MPW)

Toryumon Dragon Caravan July 16th - August 8th 1999 £9 vhs / £10 dvd
Four hours of TV matches, including the first meeting between Taka Michinoku and his heir apparent (Shiima/CIMA) in the six-man main event. Also: a tour of Dragon Gym, with Dragon Kid reading dirty magazines, Ultimo Dragon doing the books and all kinds of interesting things. Genki Horiguchi vs Yasushi Kanda… Yoshikazu Taru vs Stoker Ichikawa… Magnum Tokyo, Ken Arai & Ryo Saito vs Shiima Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji & Yoshikazu Taru… Taka Michinoku vs Chocoball Kobe… The Great Sasuke, Magnum Tokyo, Ken Arai & Tiger Mask IV vs Shiima Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji, Yoshikazu Taru & Sasuke the Great… Gran Hamada & Yasushi Kanda vs Gran Naniwa & Masaaki Mochizuchi… Yasushi Kanda vs Genki Horiguchi… Ryo Saito vs Chocoball Kobe… Makoto vs Susumi Mochizuchi… Shiima Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji & Yoshikazu Taru vs Taka Michinoku, Magnum Tokyo & Ken Arai

Toryumon King of Dragon January 31st - February 6th 1999 £9 vhs / £10 dvd
Full TV versions of Toryumon's first two Japanese cards. Picture quality is by no means as great as the commercial version (Toryumon Comes to Japan), but King of Dragon includes all of the matches from each of the cards.

Toryumon Comes to Japan January 31st - February 6th 1999 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
In which Ultimo Dragon finally presents his students to his countrymen. All the big matches from Toryumon's first two Japanese cards, including the staggering 45-minute elimination match from January 31st, and the NWA Middleweight Title war between Magnum Tokyo and the Great Sasuke. Hiroyoshi Kanda vs Genki Horiguchi… Ken Arai vs Susumi Mochizuki… Yoshikazu Taru vs Stoker Ishikawa… Magnum Tokyo, Ryo Saito & Dragon Kid vs Shiima Nobunaga, Judo Suwa & Sumo Fuji (elimination match)… Shiima Nobunaga vs Magnum Tokyo (for the vacant IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Title)… Dragon Kid vs Dr. Cerebro (for vacant UWA Welterweight Title)… Dragon Kid vs Judo Suwa… Magnum Tokyo vs The Great Sasuke (NWA Middleweight Title Tournament Final)

Open Toryumon May 11th 1997 - December 12th 1998 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
First commercial tape from Ultimo Dragon's promotion, recorded when it was still a work in progress in Mexico City. For inexperienced wrestlers working a hazardous style, this is surprisingly good stuff. Includes highlights of 1st & 2nd Torneo Copa Dragon Juvenil (the Young Dragon Tournaments held on December 6th 1997 & December 12th 1998) and the following full matches… Magnum Tokyo, Ryo Saito & Dragon Kid vs Shiima Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji & Judo Suwa (elimination match, August 29th 1998)… Magnum Tokyo, Dragon Kid, El Hijo del Santo & Vampiro vs Shiima Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji, Judo Suwa & Yoshikazu Taru (best of three falls match, December 12th 1998). Also includes bonus matches: The Great Sasuke, Masaaki Mochizuki & Takeshi Ono vs Gran Naniwa, El Pantera & Naohiro Hoshikawa (MPW TV, January 14th 1999)… Magnum Tokyo, Ryo Saito & Dragon Kid vs Shiima Nobunaga, Sumo Fuji & Judo Suwa (Toryumon TV, February 15th 1999)

Toryumon Champ Forum June 14th 1997 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
The second half of the May 11th debut event, featuring the local luchadores and a big Dragon-Casas main event. Tsubasa & Shinobi vs Tony Rivera & Quello… Fericiano, El Brazo & Brazo de Oro vs Kendo, Pantera & Solar… Ultimo Dragon vs Negro Casas

Toryumon Champ Forum June 7th 1997 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
Taped on May 11th 1997 in Naucalpan Arena, Mexico, this was the world's first glimpse of Ultimo Dragon's Gym. The debut event was broadcast in two halves. This half includes the opening ceremony, and two undercard matches from the skinny young trainees who would later become the backbone of the hottest independent promotion in Japan. Shiima Nobunaga vs Magnum Tokyo… Judo Suwa vs Sumo Fuji