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Japanese Legend Jun Akiyama To Debut In United States For Pro Wrestling Revolution
Japan’s Jun Akiyama will make his USA debut next March!
Today, Pro Wrestling Revolution announced details on an All Japan Pro Wrestling tryout to take place next March in San Jose, California.
The tryouts will also be having a special guest as Japanese wrestling legend Jun Akiyama will be in attendance, but will also have his first-ever match in his 26-year career in the United States on March 9th, 2019:
San Jose, Ca – Pro Wrestling Revolution presents the United States Debut of Jun Akiyama. Akiyama will be taking part of the All Japan Pro Wrestling Try Outs alongside Ultimo Dragon and Tajiri at the Pro Wrestling Revolution Training Academy on March 7, 2019. Akiyama will also be wrestling for the first time in the United States for Pro Wrestling Revolution on March 9, 2019 in San Francisco, CA and featuring Ultimo Dragon, Tajiri, Super Crazy and many more!
Pro Wrestling Revolution is proud to bring the United States Debut of Jun Akiyama to the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time in his 26-year career.
For more information regarding the try outs; email [email protected]. For more information on the March 9, 2018 event; visit www.prowrestling-revolution.com
More about Pro Wrestling Revolution:
Realizing the success of Pro Wrestling Revolution, the top independent lucha libre brand in the United States; drawing large crowds, numerous TV news stories and specials including the Travel Channel, The New York Times, Discovery Channel and much more. Pro Wrestling Revolution has established relationships beyond the lucha world including working with Major League Baseballs’; San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics; and Major League Soccers’ San Jose Earthquakes.
For more information on Pro Wrestling Revolution go to www.prowrestling-revolution.com.
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More about Jun Akiyama
Jun Akiyama (?? ? Akiyama Jun, is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working for All Japan Pro Wrestling(AJPW), where he is the president, representative director, co-head booker, and former two-time Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion. Akiyama is known for his serious style and outstanding, time-tested work as a tag team wrestler.
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Did your picks win points?
The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!
Here are your Gold League standings!
- Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
- Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
- Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
- Rush: 0-1, 0 points
- Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
- Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points
Here are your Blue League standings!
- Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
- Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
- Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
- Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
- Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
- Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete
My Thoughts:
Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.
Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.
In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.
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Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”
Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:
Blue League
- Bryan Danielson
- Andrade El Idolo
- Brody King
- Claudio Castagnoli
- Daniel Garcia
- Eddie Kingston
Gold League
- Jon Moxley
- Swerve Strickland
- Rush
- Mark Briscoe
- Jay Lethal
- Jay White
Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:
- Every match has a 20 minute time limit
- The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
- EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action
Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!
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