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News Central; 13-08-06
Topic Started: Aug 14 2006, 03:08 AM (131 Views)
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News Central
Sunday August 13, 2006
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# Dream Fujin commissioner Kazushima Yakamotu called a press conference today at the Hotel Okura in Sapporo, to announce details of the next tour.

Probably the most unexpected announcement from Yakamotu was that on the next tour, titled "Legendary of Future", joshi (women's wrestling) matches would be held in Dream Fujin for the first time. He said for now a full joshi division was not planned, but a series of matches featuring a handful of female stars would be held, called "DreamGirls Showcase".

Yakamotu said the first athlete signed to appear in this series was Miori Shonjo, the younger sister of Dream Fujin's Kyuki Shonjo. Miori is a rookie who was recently signed to the GirlsDREAM promotion but who never got a chance to wrestle a match before that company closed.

He went on to say that he was currently looking at several more joshi wrestlers, and hoped in the next few days to have more signed up to appear on the tour.

Yakamotu also announced the dates and venues for the upcoming tour, which are as follows:

Wednesday August 16 @ Sapporo Teisen Hall
Friday August 18 @ KBS Hall, Kyoto
Saturday August 19 @ Osaka Prefectural Gym II
Monday August 21 @ Chitose Sports Center
Wednesday August 23 @ S-TV Media Park Spica, Sapporo
Friday August 25 @ Noheji Town Gym, Aomori
Saturday August 26 @ Tomakomai City Gym
Tuesday August 29 @ Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Thursday August 31 @ Akita Municipal Gym


# Special X met with the press recently, all three members wildly celebrating and generally having a great time following Usagi Yoshida and Ryoji Mifune's Dream World Tag League victory. Kamen Kanoji was moping slightly after his loss earlier in the night to Tommy Kamoura, but seemed quite happy for his teammates.

QUESTION: "Obviously the three of you are in high spirits, but how can you, Yoshida, be so happy knowing that Tate Monroe denied your challenge?"

- Ryoji Mifune: "We don't give a shit what he denies anymore. He can run away and cry about himself all he wants, we'll just keep racking up wins."

- Usagi Yoshida: "Exactly. We all know what a fuckin' coward he is anyway. I knew he was going to deny my challenge all along."

QUESTION: "So you basically played mind games with him?"

- Yoshida: "You know it! I led him exactly to the edge of the cliff, and he jumped right off. I know he's all smug and happy... telling random strangers on the street that he sure did tell _me_ off. Now the whole world knows exactly what a coward he is by ducking the most legitimate contender for the title. He continues to spout off supposed 'achievements' he's accomplished, and everyone knows it's lies. Who exactly have you 'dominated', as you put it, Tate? Last time we counted, it was no-fuckin'-body. You say you won't 'stoop' to my level, huh? No shit, you won't 'stoop' to my level at all because it's impossible for you to _reach_ my level. The whole world knows it, Tate... I AM BETTER THAN YOU."

QUESTION: "How exactly do you plan on receiving a title shot if Monroe refuses to fight you?"

- Yoshida: "Last time I checked, he's not in charge of title shots... Yakamotu is. Yakamotu has seen up close just what I, along with my teammates, have done in Dream Fujin since we formed our little tandem. Crowds are up, the wrestling action is more exciting, the chicks have been coming in droves because of Kanoji... fans know whenever they see a member of Special X on the card, they know they will get our best effort no matter who's across the ring from us. We don't deny challenges or hide from top contenders unlike some other champions in this promotion. Yakamotu knows what's right and one way or another, I'll get a chance to get _my_ title back."

QUESTION: "What is next for Special X?"

[Yoshida produces a stapled document.]

- Yoshida: "This."

- Mifune: "This is an open challenge for any team to get a shot at the Trinity-X titles. All three of us have signed it, it's just up to whoever wants to challenge to sign the other side, then for Yakamotu to notarize it."

- Kamen Kanoji: "And I have a date tonight, but that's no special occurance."

- Yoshida: "And this challenge applies to anyone. Whoever signs it is fine by us, but it's Yakamotu's decision as to whether or not it's approved. It can be anyone, from MEGA Gurentai, to 666, to Fujingun, to Tate Monroe and whoever he can bribe into teaming with him. It could even be someone from another promotion."

- Mifune: "Yeah, that's fine by us. We don't duck anyone."

- Yoshida: "So we're going to Yakamotu's office and dropping this off. Hopefully some lucky trio will step up."


# Immediately following his team's defeat in the final of the Dream World Tag League, the Independent Champion, Tate Monroe, made this rather unexpected and shocking statement when questioned by reporters on what this loss meant:

"What does it mean? What does it MEAN? I'll tell you what it means... it means nothing. Do you hear me? NOTHING. Oh, no doubt Yoshida will take this as some ridiculous vindication of his absurd claim to my title. No doubt he'll take great satisfaction in the fact that for the very first time in my career, I failed to acheive something I set my sights on.

Well let me repeat it one more time... it means NOTHING. He didn't pin me. He didn't prove anything to _me_. And if he thinks for a moment that he's going to throw this fluke of a defeat in my face for the next six months or six years, as he's so fond of doing, simply because it's the last worthwhile thing he ever does in his pathetic career, then he is absolutely, categorically, _WRONG_.

Yoshida... you have the nerve to challenge _me_? You have the nerve to belittle _my_ achievements and ability? Well listen closely, my friend, because I'm about to do you the biggest favor of your life, right here, right now. I will not let you hold this over me. I will not let you think for a fraction of a second longer that you are in any remote way _my_ superior. So, you want your chance? You want your shot?

Well, you've got it. Yes, I said it. One time, and one time only, I accept your undeserving challenge.

But let me make one thing clear. When I beat you, Yoshida, and rest assured, I _will_ beat you, understand that it won't be a fluke. Understand that there'll be no excuse in the world that will disguise the defeat that I inflict upon you. Understand that I will break you down in a every way imaginable, make you wish you'd never heard the name Tate Monroe. And then? Then I'm going to take you to the center of the ring, and with the world watching, I'm going to make you _TAP OUT_."

- A clearly irate Monroe then immedately left the arena, refusing all other questions.


# "Honestly, Tate Monroe can kiss my ass."

The above statement was made to the Japanese press as an exhausted Griffin James spoke to the press for the first time in weeks. Accompanied by Miss Cherry and Ryoga Miike, James sat with the press for about 30 minutes, explaining... well, pretty much _everything_.

"I didn't have anything to say this tour because... well, I'm a grown ass man and I'm through trading words with a bunch of kids. Usagi Yoshida and I have our differences, but hell- at least I can _respect_ him. What he's doing now- in the grand scheme of things, I really don't give a shit. He can kill the hack champ, for all I care. Tate Monroe, on the other hand... no. I don't have any respect for him- and it's not an in-ring thing. Me and the dude are never gonna get along. It's obvious he doesn't "remember" the actual _history_ we have in this place- the fact that there was a time that we could have co-existed in Dream Fujin without stepping on each other's toes. But, now... I don't think there's a chance for me to even consider taking him seriously. He's cheap heat personified, and nothing else. Like I said, it's not an in-ring thing. I have nothing to prove to "our" champion- Monroe _can't_ beat me cleanly, and he's been coasting off of a cheap win ever since Mexico. I never got my actual rematch. The three way doesn't count between us. It's that simple."

When asked to elaborate:

"What don't I like about Tate Monroe? The fact that he's in this industry and breathing.

Listen- it's obvious I'm not going to get a title shot any time soon- Monroe's got the spotlight on him, Yoshida's gunning for another run... and what I have to do now is _prepare_.

I'm _owed_ an actual _rematch_ for the Independent Light Heavyweight Championship. _One on one_, no bullshit involved, on Dream Fujin's turf. Will we get that vaunted Monroe/James rematch? Probably not, and if we do during this tour... it'll be bullshit, because it's obvious that I "don't care", isn't it?

I'm just "phoning it in", right?

...I'm going to give you something to "phone" folks about, Dream Fujin. Blame it on the new promoter.

Give it a tour. Give it two tours. Give it six tours.

I'm going to earn my shot."

James went on to say that he wants to "do things right", and he was officially requesting to rework his way up the ranks throughout the next tour, stating that he would purposely earn his shot the "hard way", capping things off with "I don't need a belt to be this organization's champion, and I'm going to prove that fact once and for all."

Interestingly enough, Miike and James seemed to be in good spirits about their loss in the tag league, with James stating that there would be other tag matches in the future, so he wasn't worried about this loss.

"Or the next one, or the next one, or the next one..." Cherry joked to the press, prompting Miike to jokingly scream "You don't know what it's like losing for a living!" in shockingly good English.

All in all, the Fujingun duo seems to be content with their position in the organization... except the fact that James is eerily hellbent about rising through the Dream Fujin ranks once again.


# The other big announcement from Yakamotu was that American superstar Michelle Bailey had been signed on to compete in the upcoming tour. Bailey, wrestling's most popular crossdressing junior-heavyweight (who thinks he's a woman), has competed for many of the US's biggest companies, including EMWC, RCW and GLCW, and has had at least one other stint wrestling in Japan (for the short-lived NOP).

Another American newcomer set to join Dream Fujin for the next tour is the HiLite Kid, who will represent Internacional Lucha Libre (ILL). Formerly one half of the second version of the HiLite Express tagteam in the US, he lost the El Fuego Mascara mask to his tagteam partner Corazon Moreno and, unmasked, adopted the HiLite Kid moniker in Mexico, where he has wrestled for the past two years.

Yakamotu revealed the full list of gaijin (foreigners) competing on the "Legendary of Future" tour as: Tate Monroe, Griffin James, Michelle Bailey and HiLite Kid. Absent from that list, after several tours with Dream Fujin, are Elvis Sunday and Tyrone Walker.


# In other Dream Fujin news, company owner Billy Thomas is reported to be throwing his finances behind another project. Called Jisatsu Nihon (Suicide Japan), it is said to be a "garbage" wrestling promotion based out of Tokyo.

Interestingly, the term "Jisatsu" for hardcore wrestling has become quite widespread both in Japan and the US, but it was first used by the now-defunct G-Pro group, a company which Thomas once worked for. The old G-Pro Jisatsu title belt, worn by the likes of Demon Boy Ishrinku and Simon Ezra in their prime, is actually owned by Thomas, who renamed it the Universal Jisatsu belt and allowed it to be used in both South Pacific Wrestling and River City Wrestling, where the likes of Rum Barton and Raidon Kentaro wore it.

The rumour is that Thomas will make that storied belt the centrepiece of his new promotion, and will be looking to recapture the atmosphere of G-Pro's Jisatsu division and make Jisatsu Nihon the premier garbage wrestling organisation in Japan.

© Dream Fujin, 2006.
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