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Blue Wolf returned to action today, so his feared head injury was not as bad as expected it seems.

NJPW, 2/3/02 (NJTV Internet)
Sapporo Teisen Hall
1,350 Fans (Sell Out)


1. Hiro Saito beat Blue Wolf (7:54) with a senton bomb.
2. GOKU-DO beat Chris Candido (9:36) with the Complete Shot.
3. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Wataru Inoue beat Masahito Kakihara & Katsushi Takemura (10:02) when Tanahashi used a half-hatch suplex hold on Takemura.
4. Teisen Hall Cup 6 Man Tag Team Tournament - Semi Final: Masahiro Chono, Giant Silva & Giant Singh beat Tatsumi Fujinami, Osamu Nishimura & Jushin Thunder Liger (16:15) when Silva used a Giant press on Nishimura.
5. Teisen Hall Cup 6 Man Tag Team Tournament - Semi Final: Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi & Rick Steiner beat Kensuke Sasaki, Yutaka Yoshie & Dan Devine (9:38) when Steiner used a Death Valley Bomb on Yoshie.
6. Koji Kanemoto, Jado & Gedo beat El Samurai, Minoru Tanaka & Masayuki Naruse (21:00) when Jado used a crossface hold on Samurai.
7. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Tatsutoshi Goto beat Shiro Koshinaka & Kenzo Suzuki (13:32) when Tenzan used a moonsault press on Koshinaka.
8. Teisen Hall Cup 6 Man Tag Team Tournament - Final: Masahiro Chono, Giant Silva & Giant Singh beat Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi & Rick Steiner (14:35) when Singh used a Giant bomb on Nakanishi to win the tournament.

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NJPW, 2/8/02 (TV)
Gifu Industrial Hall


1. Kensuke Sasaki & Dan Devine vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Rick Steiner
2. Shiro Koshinaka & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Masahiro Chono & Koji Kanemoto
3. Yuji Nagata, Kenzo Suzuki & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Hiro Saito & Tatsutoshi Goto
4. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Jado & Gedo (c) vs. Minoru Tanaka & Masayuki Naruse

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NOAH, 2/3/02
Akishima Messe
2,300 Fans


1. KENTA beat Ray Gordy (8:13) with a Texas Cloverleaf.
2. Haruka Eigen, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Kishin Kawabata beat Rusher Kimura, Mitsuo Momota & Yasuhiro Suzuki (11:21) when Kikuchi used the Fireball bomb on Suzuki.
3. Scorpio & Richard Slinger beat Juventud Guerrera & Superstar Steve (14:06) when Slinger used the Chattanooga Choo Choo on Steve.
4. Akira Taue & Jun Izumida beat Daisuke Ikeda & Mohammed Yone (11:16) when Izumida used a lariat on Yone.
5. Yoshinari Ogawa & Takuma Sano beat Tamon Honda & Masao Inoue (17:49) when Ogawa used a backdrop suplex hold on Inoue.
6. Takeshi Morishima & Takeshi Rikio beat Michael Modest & Donovan Morgan (13:02) when Rikio used a powerbomb on Morgan.
7. Takao Omori beat Makoto Hashi (10:05) with an Axe Bomber.
8. Yoshihiro Takayama beat Naomichi Marufuji (4:54) with a head clip.
9. Mitsuharu Misawa beat Takashi Sugiura (8:10) with a running elbow smash.
10. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito beat Kentaro Shiga & Yoshinobu Kanemaru (18:57) when Saito used the Death Sickle on Kanemaru.
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