- Riki Choshu's World Japan announced the long awaited lineup for it's debut show on 3/1 at the 16,000 seat Yokohama Arena. The old team of Kensuke Sasaki and Hiroshi Hase reunites, facing Don Frye (who has aligned with WJ Pro) and a mystery opponent (rumoured to be Enson Inoue or Scott Norton). All Japan's Tomoaki Honma will work the opening match, facing one of the SPWF recruits, Masahiko Kochi. The Road Warriors, who Riki Choshu was always a big fan of, will face U.S. indy wrestlers, The Crushers (AKA Todd & Mike Shane, with stereotypical gaijin tough man personas). Koshinaka vs. Onita in an explosion match will go ahead, possibly in the opening match (as it takes so long to set the ring up during the show). And as expected, the main event will be between Tenryu and Choshu, who age well over 100 together (over half of the participants on the show are over 35 in fact). Kenzo Suzuki's match will be announced soon, after he officially signs, while Choshu's young prodigy, Katsuhiko Nakajima, will have a sparring match.


World Japan "MAGMA01", 3/1/03
Yokohama Arena

1. Masahiko Kochi vs. Tomoaki Honma
2. Tomohiro Ishii vs. Takashi Uwano
3. Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Yoji Anjo
4. Animal Warrior & Hawk Warrior vs. Todd Crusher & Mike Crusher
5. Shiro Koshinaka vs. Atsushi Onita in a No Rope Barbed Wire Explosive Death Match
6. Kensuke Sasaki & Hiroshi Hase vs. Don Frye & X
7. Riki Choshu vs. Genichiro Tenryu

- All Japan modified it's 2/9 lineup for Shizuoka to reflect ZERO-ONE participation. Kohei Sato (ZERO-ONE) and Hirotaka Yokoi (Alliance/ZERO-ONE) will face Shigeo Okumura & Hideki Hosaka in tag action.

AJPW, 2/9/02 (Samurai! TV)
Gran Ship Shizuoka

1. Taichi Ishikawa vs. Super Dragon
2. Tomoaki Honma, Kazushi Miyamoto & Sanshiro Takagi vs. Nobutaka Araya, Nobukazu Hirai & Ryuji Hijikata
3. Kendo Kashin & Sprigun vs. Gran Hamada & Jimmy Yang
4. Shigeo Okumura & Hideki Hosaka vs. Kohei Sato & Hirotaka Yokoi
5. Keiji Muto, Yuto Aijima & Extreme Blade vs. Arashi, The Gladiator & Gigantes
6. Genichiro Tenryu & Big John Tenta vs. Satoshi Kojima & Kaz Hayashi

- Former K-1 producer, Kazuyoshi Ishii, was formally arrested today on tax evasion charges. He will stand trial in the near future, and could face jail time.