- All Japan's documentary show on Fuji TV debuted on Tuesday from 1:40 AM - 2:25 AM JST and it did a 1.7 rating for it's debut show. The show consisted of Kazuyoshi Ishii & Keiji Muto chatting about their future project "Wrestle-1" which will run on 11/17 at the Yokohama Arena.
- Masahiro Chono dropped a bomb today in a interview, saying that he is very positive to the idea of working with Shinya Hashimoto, Mitsuharu Misawa, & Keiji Muto. He said that he wants to talk to Muto, but only if Muto comes to New Japan's 10/14 Tokyo Dome show and wrestles him, saying that he will arrange the card so he could face Joanie Laurer & Keiji Muto in a double header. All Japan is running a show on 10/14 in Nagoya and it would be hard for him to be at both places, but with the way that puroresu is going these days, you never know what is going to happen.
- Chono also said today that New Japan will eliminate the Foreign Enemy on 10/14 and when they do, Chono said that he will run New Japan as he likes to and will exclude Antonio Inoki from overriding him on decisions. Chono said that the Foreign Enemy is like robots controlled by Antonio Inoki to overthrow Chono from power and take back control of New Japan, and Chono had a answer for that saying that he won't lose this battle.
- NWA President Jim Miller has stepped up his demand to Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka for ZERO-ONE's next tour which starts on 10/20. Miller is saying now that Otani & Tanaka have to defend their NWA Intercontinental Tag Titles not once but twice on the tour and if they don't, he will strip them of their belts.
Some of my own notes...
- Kenta Kobashi may be a bigger ratings draw right now than ever before. The 50 minute Captain's Fall Elimination Match was aired (heavily clipped) on NOAH's 9/15 NTV show, and drew a tremendous rating of 4.4. It's thought the rating for the 9/29 broadcast of Misawa vs. Takayama will be even higher, as NOAH is undergoing something of a small boom right now.
- I updated September and October All Japan Samurai! TV markings as I did with the GAORA TV ones yesterday. From what I have gathered, the 9/22 show isn't airing, meaning the Real World Jr. Tag League final(s) will not be shown, unless they are added to the 9/23 broadcast.
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