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Pete already made a few comments, but I'll add my own.

KK writes:

> I just got an international phone call from my best friend. Here is the 
> complete results of the 1/4 New Japan Egg Dome show. 
> The tickets are said to be sold out (63,500!!).

Wow!  Sure beats the Whiff saying they sold out WS in England while 
they continue to attempt to sell the remaining tickets locally.  :-)

> New Japan vs. WAR Opening Battle:
> Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka & El Samulai beat Kouki Kitahara & 
> Masao Orihara & Nobukazu Hirai when Iizuka KO'ed Orihara by a power-
> bomb.

Yup.  I figured the guys whose names ended in vowels would win.  :-)

> Power Struggle of Eight Men:
> Shiro Koshinaka & The Great Kabuki & Masashi Aoyagi & Akitoshi Saito 
> defeated S.S Machine & Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga & Tatsutoshi Goto 
> when Kabuki pinned Honaga with a berry-to-back suplex.

That's how I would have picked this one also.  Only because I never would
use a GOTO statement, though.  ;-)

> IWGP Jr. heavy title:
> J. T. Liger pinned U. Doragon to capture the title with the Liger-
> Shutainer(sp?) (FS off the top rope.) Doragon missed the high-spots twice. 

I think EVERYone picked this one correctly.

> ????? match:
> R. Simmons defeated T. Holem with a spine-buster(? Nobody cares, 
> thoguh). No wonder the bathrooms were crowded.

yeah... not surprised.

> Battle of Burning Stars:
> Sting pinned Hase with a top rope splash.

I thought this was "too close to call".  Since Stink will actually WORK 
in Japan (and since North Americans generally don't hear about the 
results) he has been known to do jobs overseas.  I was picking Hase.

> Succeed to Fighting Spirit:

Just a general question:  Does every match have to have a "name" in Japan?
Either we're losing something in the translation, or they're grasping for
straws coming up with names after all these years.  :-/

> Masa Saito(replacing A. Inoki) & S. Hashimoto beat S. Norton & D. Rhodes 
> jr when Hashimoto DDT'ed Rhodes.

That was my guess here as well.

> IWGP tag title match:
> The Hell Lasers drew the Steiner brothers by a double counted out. 

I love their new name TONs better than "The New Road Warriors".  First
of all because no one else should be able to use the RW name (even if
half the team was half of the Roadies), but most of all because it can
be called either "The Hell Lasers" *or* "The Hell Raisers".  My guess
is that they intended it to be the latter, but I'll keep using "Lasers":

1. because you used it and you're probably more fluent in Japanese than I

2. because Herb calls Jushin Liger "Riger", even though you (above) and
   others of Asian ancestry use "Liger" and it is supposed to be a
   concatenation of "Lion" and "Tiger".  :-)  (Sorry Herb)  ;-)

> NWA & IWGP title match:
> Muta beat Chono to unify the world titles with the two consecutive 
> moonsault.

YES!!  I was hoping for this for several reasons:

1. I've loved Mut[ao]'s wrestling since his days as the Super black Ninja
   and when he was managed by Gary Hart.

2. Chono has been disappointing every trips he made to the U.S.  (I don't
   really care whether this is booking or if he doesn't WANT to work--
   either way, I'll take Muta as the Top Dog).

> Super Explosion:
> T. Fujinami defeated T. Ishikawa with the Doragon sleeper-hold.

No surprise, even with Tasumi (sp?) getting on in years...

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