The major promotions of Japanese professional wrestling along with special guests from elsewhere united today for a special charity event for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami earlier this year. The historic Tokyo Nippon Budokan was overfull as extra seats were sold to meet demand, 17,000 fans watching New Japan, All Japan, Professional Wrestling NOAH, and other stars meet in ten unique matches, each with a different theme and feel. Exciting junior action, stars of the future, nostalgic reunions, legend dream teams, and the stars of today. IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Hiroshi Tanahashi, closed the show in vintage style in a six man tag match featuring some of the names who have become top stars in their promotions in recent years. Tanahashi dropped his High Fly Flow on former young lion rival and tag partner KENSO (Kenzo Suzuki) to win the match. After the roaring success of this emotional event, it was announced there will be another “ALL TOGETHER” on 2/19/12 at Sendai Sun Plaza, Sendai of course being the city hit by that awful tsunami.

NJPW/AJPW/NOAH “ALL TOGETHER”, 8/27/11 (PPV)
Tokyo Nippon Budokan
17,000 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. ALL TOGETHER Opening Match ~ SUNRISE OF J: Kota Ibushi , Taiji Ishimori , Hiroshi Yamato & BUSHI beat Tiger Mask , Kaz Hayashi , Shuji Kondo & Ricky Marvin (10:05) when Ishimori used a 450 splash on Marvin.
2. FIGHTING FOR FUTURE: Tetsuya Naito , Shuhei Taniguchi & Seiya Sanada beat Mohammed Yone , Yujiro Takahashi & Manabu Soya (11:10) when Sanada used a moonsault press on Takahashi.
3. OVER THE BORDER: Togi Makabe & Akitoshi Saito beat Hirooki Goto & Taiyo Kea (9:55) when Makabe used a King Kong kneedrop on Kea.
4. JUNIOR ONE NIGHT CARNIVAL: Prince Devitt , Ryusuke Taguchi , Kotaro Suzuki , Katsuhiko Nakajima & KAI beat Koji Kanemoto , KENTA , Yoshinobu Kanemaru , Minoru & Genba Hirayanagi (15:07) when KAI used plancha splash on Hirayanagi.
5. ONE NIGHT REUNION: Masakatsu Funaki , Takuma Sano & Jushin Thunder Liger beat Minoru Suzuki, Atsushi Aoki & Taichi (12:47) when Funaki used a standing chickenwing hold on Aoki.
6. Destroyer Cup – ALL TOGETHER Special Battle Royal: Kentaro Shiga won the Battle Royal by eliminating Gedo (11:54). Participants: Hideo Saito , Tomohiro Ishii , Gedo , Takaaki Watanabe , Hiromu Takahashi , King Fale , KUSHIDA , Wataru Inoue , Tomoaki Honma , Super Strong Machine , Jun Nishikawa , Satoshi Kajiwara , Kento Miyahara , Che-Gyong Lee , Takumi Soya , Soshun , Yasufumi Nakanoue , Masanobu Fuchi , Rene Dupree , Joe Doering , BLACK BUSHI , Masao Inoue , Yoshinari Ogawa , Akira Taue , Kentaro Shiga, MAZADA, Zack Sabre Jr.
7. MIDSUMMER ENCOUNTER IN BUDOKAN: Takeshi Morishima , Akebono, Yutaka Yoshie & Ryota Hama beat Yuji Nagata , Hiroyoshi Tenzan , Osamu Nishimura & Wataru Inoue (11:20) when Morishima used a backdrop suplex on Nishimura.
8. NO FEAR! GO AHEAD!: Kensuke Sasaki & Jun Akiyama beat Yoshihiro Takayama & Takao Omori (15:44) when Sasaki used a Northern Light bomb on Omori.
9. BELIEVE THE POWER OF “Prowrestling!”: Kenta Kobashi & Keiji Muto beat Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka (14:58) when Kobashi used a moonsault press on Iizuka.
10. ALL TOGETHER NOW!: Hiroshi Tanahashi , Go Shiozaki & Suwama beat Shinsuke Nakamura , Takashi Sugiura & KENSO (22:50) when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on KENSO.

Togi Makabe will challenge Takashi Sugiura for the GHC Heavyweight Title on February 28th at Tokyo Nippon Budokan. Makabe is currently in NOAH with Honma as part of the Global Tag League ‘10, where they have one win (over Bison Smith & Keith Walker) and one loss (to Sugiura & Shuhei Taniguchi). Oddly though, it is their only non-tournament match that has caught most of the attention so far, when they defeated Sugiura & Atsushi Aoki, with Makabe pinning the GHC Heavyweight Champion.

Sugiura has lots of recent history with the “4 Heroes”, having dominated Hirooki Goto in their singles match series but having unavenged losses to Nakamura, Tanahashi, and Makabe. At Budokan, he’ll have his chance to avenge those two pinfall losses to Makabe and perhaps afterwards will turn his eyes to the top two of New Japan, Nakamura and Tanahashi.

NOAH, 2/28/10
Tokyo Nippon Budokan

- GHC Heavyweight Title: Takashi Sugiura (c) vs. Togi Makabe