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Tour of the USSR


joeg

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It is the spring of 1989. The Cold War has signifigantly thawed. Two years earlier Billy Joel had done a series of mega concerts exposing the Soviet people to Western music. Inoki had already ran a small show with a skelton crew in the USSR. This show featured NJPW mid carders against members of the Red Bull Army which was composed of Soviet amateur wrestlers and judokas who had been trained in pro wrestling by Inoki himself. But Inoki realizes its time for something bigger- a mega tour, stadium shows in several cities, with major stars, and world titles on the line. Each show will feature a major title defended in the main event. Inoki will also fight a series of Mixed Styles fights against some pretty bad ass guys. The goal of this tour is to open up the USSR as a viable territory for wrestern style professional wrestling.

 

Champions featured on the shows -

 

NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair

IWGP Heavyweight Champion Tatsumi Fujinami

Triple Crown Champion Genichiro Tenryu

IWGP Tag Champions Riki Choshu and Masa Saito

 

 

Prominent General Badasses Inoki will face in a Mixed Styles fight-

 

Kickboxing/ Karate World Champion Andy Hug

Former Soviet Bronze Medalist Olympic Super Heavyweight Boxer Aleksandr Miroshnichenko

Former Dutch Silver Medalist Judoka Willie Wilhelm, who a year earlier lost a mixed styles match to Meada

Two Time Sambo Russian Champion Volk Han

3 time World Bronze Medalist in Greco Roman Wrestling Evgeny Artyukhin

 

 

A Soviet IWGP Title will also be established on the tour.

 

Each show will basically follow the same format

 

Main Event- Title Match

Semi Main- Mixed Styles Match

Semi Main- Tag Match which sets up the next night's title match

Mid Card match building setting up the next nights semi main event

Mid Card Match featuring Russians trained by Inoki vs American wrestlers

Mid Card Match featuring Russians trained by Inoki vs Japanese wrestlers

Prelim Junior match

Prelim Match featuring Russians trained by Inoki

 

 

 

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Japanese Heavyweight


Tatsumi Fujinami - IWGP Champ


Antonio Inoki


Kengo Kimura



Revolution


Genichiro Tenryu - Triple Crown Champ


Samson Fuyuki



Ishin Gundan Reunion


Riki Choshu - IWGP Tag Champ


Masa Saito - IWGP Tag Champ


Yoshiaki Yatsu


Kuniaki Kobayashi



American Heavyweights


Ric Flair- NWA World Heavyweight Champ


Scott Norton


Brad Rhenigans


Big Titan


The Gladiator




European Heavyweights


Tony Halme


Otto Wanz



The Red Bull Army


Salman Hashimikov


Victor Zangiev


Timur Zalasov


Andrei Sulsaev


Evgeny Artyukhin

Habieli Victachev

Wakha Eveleov


Special Attraction Russian Shooters

Volk Han

Gregory Verichev

Aleksandr Miroshnichenko


Special Attraction Shooters

Andy Hug

Willie Wilhelm


Junior Heavyweights

Super Tiger

Chris Benoit

Ninja Sasuke

Eiji Ezaki

Blue Demon Jr

Jerry Lynn

Super Delphin
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Hell of a bold project here. The Inoki mixed styles matches should be different than anything else in the project. Hell of a juniors division. Tenryu, Fujinami, Choshu and Flair all in the mix for main events should be all kinds of fun. Oh and Volk Freaking Han!! Love that guy.

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I hope to get the first two shows booked on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week... and sorry Gordi there will not be a behind the scenes tell all. Simply because no work of fiction could out do the Sports Illustrated article on the New Japan trip to North Korea.... and Lee, Han was A1 from day 1

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