House show announced for 04/10/08

The next Royal Ring house show will take place on April 10th 2008. So far only 2 matches have been confirmed for the card, the Blood Pirates are set to take on Yujiro Hashin and a partner of his choice as he has vowed revenge for the injury his friend, Taru Kyomatsu, sustained at the hands of the Blood Pirates. Also scheduled is a 4 man battle royal to determine the number one contender for Ichiro Kanemura's Jr. Heavyweight Title, since the tag team match at the last show ended with Arson being pinned.

04/10/08
Yujiro Hashin & ??? vs. Blood Pirates

Jr. Heavyweight Battle Royal: Junsuke Iwada vs. El Patron vs. Carlzilla vs. Kazu Narita

I'm sure more matches will be announced in the next few days so keep an eye right here for that information.

Inujury Update on Kyomatsu and Eric Cordova.

It seems that Taru Kyomatsu has suffered a seperated shoulder. He will be out of action for around 2 weeks. He should be cleared to wrestle before the next Royal Ring TV event, but may miss a house show or two. Jun Tanashi and Ryusuke Nakagawa have both made statements saying they will continue to hunt Kyomatsu until he "puts up a worthy fight", which we can only assume means that they will persue him until he breaks his no-weapon vow.

Eric Cordova suffered a broken orbital bone and nose as a result of an extremely stiff Go To Sleep delivered by Ryo Taguchi. Since the Cordova Bros. lost the match, they will be out of Royal Ring indefinitely anyway, but Cordova is looking at at least 2 months of recovery time before getting back in the ring. In a post match interview Marc Cordova said that even though the team will not wrestle in Japan again, that they would never forget the hospitality of the Japanese fans.

There once again seems to be trouble in the WTC camp as Yoshi Hiromata was seen arguing with Kotaro Shinaga after the event about the outcome of Kazu Narita's RRC Heavyweight Title shot. The rest of the group got the situation under control before it got out of hand, but both parties were said to be "heated".

Tokyo Ringside talks to Satake and Masuno about Royal Ring apperances.

Japanese fighting sports publication, Tokyo Ringside, caught up with both Takafumi Satake and Kensuke Masuno about their upcoming Royal Ring appearances.

The article first talked to Takafumi Satake following the recent UnGravity show. When asked about how he felt about being finally given a shot to show off in a major promotion, he answered;
"Well of course I'm very grateful to Royal Ring for the opportunity to perform for more fans, but I never really looked at it like UnGravity wasn't a major promotion. I'm at home in UnGravity, and it's the only place I've ever worked. To me, UnGravity is a major promotion, both in my life and in my heart, and I wouldn't ever trade that for all the packed houses and bright lights of the big promotions." He was then questioned about his opponent, El Patron; "To be honest, I don't know a whole lot about him, I've been watching some footage of his matches from his time in the MexiPro Lucha Libre organization, and I'm definitely impressed with what I saw. I definitely think if he fights with that kind of flair and agility in Royal Ring that this will be an amazing showcase of everything that's special about jr. heavyweight wrestling."

Kensuke Masuno was caught at the T2 training facility, and only had time for one question before he had to get back to training. Tokyo Ringside asked him if he 'felt slighted by Royal Ring to only be offered a spot on a house show, reasoning that he is the champion of either the biggest or second biggest, depending on who you ask, promotion in Japan'. "Slighted? Of course not! Royal Ring is giving me a chance to team with a man that grew up idolizing (Taka Ichigawa), to face a man that I grew up simultaneously loving and fearing (Yoshi Hiromata), and my old arch rival (Kotaro Shinaga). I think this is a perfect way for myself, and T2 to break into Royal Ring, and I'm pushing for more co-operation between the two companies in the future." With that he had to get back to training.

It sounds like both Satake and Masuno are looking to impress the Royal Ring fans on Saturday night, and make this house show one of our biggest non-televised events of the year.

Match listing for 03/22/08 house show.

It was announced today that Royal Ring will be holding a small 5 match house show one week before the big 03/29/08 event. The main event will be a RRC Tag Team Title match between Shibata / Fujinami and Miyakama / Inoue. The full line-up can be found below.


Young Princes Cup: Warm Up 6 Man Tag Match:
Taku Yamata, Daiki Satou, and Daijiro Sasaki
vs.
Akira Hiroyama, Shunsuke Hiratsuka, and Satoshi Ishibashi


El Patron
vs.
Takafumi Satake (UnGravity)


Massive Scale Tag Attack:
Heavy Takada & Panzer Mask
vs.
Sam Hamlin & Abrams


Alexi Vorstok, Yoshi Hiromata & Kotaro Shinaga
vs.
Yujiro Sekimoto, Taka Ichigawa & Kensuke Masuno (T2)


RRC Tag Team Title Match:
Jun Miyakama & Masayuki Inoue
vs.
Masa Fujinami & Hido Shibata(c)


With appearances by Kensuke Masuno, who is T2's current heavyweight champion, and who has had some excellent matches with Kotaro Shinaga when they both made T2 their home, and Takafumi Satake, the veteran of the UnGravity promotion, and their current singles champion, this should be an excellent show.

Hayoto Kosokai's translated profile.

Hayoto Kosokai, the first challenger in the Royal Ring vs. The World series, has had his profile posted on the official Royal Ring website. As promised, we've translated it and are posting it here to help you get more familiar with him.

Name: Hayoto Kosokai
Height: 6'1" (186cm) Weight: 236lbs (107kg)
Age: 29 Finisher: Burning Hammer

Hayoto Kosokai is a shoot fighter turned pro wrestler. Kosoaki is a student of Kazahiro Sasaki. He began his career wrestling in the IGA (International Grappling Association) and made the jump to BPW to follow his mentor. Recently Kosoaki has had a change in attitude, interrupting a post match press conference held by Kazahiro Sasaki. Kosoaki demanded Sasaki give him a title shot. Kosoaki has said it is his time to shine and loyalty will no longer get in the way of him fulfilling his destiny of becoming World Champion. Kosoaki is now leading a group of BPW wrestlers including Shinjo Takagi and Juji Aoki. He has named his group SHINE.

Kosokai has said he's coming to fight in Royal Ring to show everyone that he has what it takes to be a World Champion.

Eiji Ogoya's opponent revealed.

In a press conference today, Ishibashi Matsuhiro, Yoshi Hiromata, and Eiji Ogoya spoke to the press about the start of the Royal Ring vs. The World series. The concept is a series of singles matches featuring top talent from Royal Ring against the top talent of other wrestling promotions. Matsuhiro stated again, as he previously had, that he promises that Royal Ring will go undefeated in the series, and prove that Royal Ring is the dominant wrestling promotion in all the world. He then turned the floor over to Yoshi Hiromata.

Hiromata said that finding worthy opponents has been tough, since very few wrestlers have the talent and training to stand up to Royal Ring standards, but that they have found 5 opponents and that one will be unveiled tonight, while the others will be announced as their matches draw closer. Hiromata said that Ogoya's opponent may not be a familar face to everyone, but that he is undoubtedly one of the best wrestlers in Japan. Eiji Ogoya was noted to be visibly smirking at this statement, and he outright laughed when Hiromata said that he poses a legitimate threat to Eiji Ogoya and to Royal Ring's promise of total dominance. Ogoya said that he will easily defeat his opponent, and that it didn't matter who it was. He gave Hiromata a dirty look for insinuating that he may loose and then let Hiromata go on. Hiromata said a few more things about Ogoya being overconfident before finally announcing that Ogoya would be facing Blizzard Pro Wrestling's Hayoto Kosokai. Eiji Ogoya had a puzzled look on his face and could be heard asking Royal Ring staff "who?" before shrugging and returning to his usually cocky stance.

Eiji Ogoya took the podium last, and said that he wasn't sure who this Kosokai guy was, but that he may want to spend some time in a "real" wrestling promotion before trying to step into the Royal Ring. He made several other over-confident statements assuring victory without knowing anything about his opponent and then left the room. Hiromata answered the remaining questions about the relatively unknown wrestler as best he could before saying that a profile would be posted on the Royal Ring site soon that would detail Hayoto Kosokai better.

We'll have that profile translated and posted as soon as we see it go up on the Royal Ring site, so check back here soon for an update on this mysterious guest to Royal Ring.

Full 03/29/08 card announced

Just a few days out from the first live event to air on American TV, Royal Ring has announced it's plans to follow up the successful show by broadcasting it's 03/29/08 event on Royal Ring TV as well. We already know that Koji Tanaka is facing Kazu Narita, who scored an upset over him in a tag match, for the RRC Heavyweight Title. Not only is Narita the first wrestler to beat Tanaka in nearly a year, but he's the first jr. heavyweight to challenge for the RRC Heavyweight Title as well. Tanaka has assured victory, and may have angered some of the other jr. heavyweights on the roster with this comment. "I don't think jr. heavyweights have any place challenging for this title, I don't interject myself into their division and demand title shots! They should follow that lead, and stay out of our way!" He insists that it wasn't intended to offend, only to point out that there are two divisions for a reason.

Also already announced is the JRC Title match between Ayame Yamoto and Marja Marz. Marja, who is also competing in the FPCPP Tag Team Title tournament said she will become a two crown champion by the time both events end. Yamoto said she thinks Marz is a tough opponent and is looking forward to a tough V1 defense of the belt. Yuka Nishiyama, who Marz defeated to earn the title shot, has vowed to get revenge on Marz for injuring her, and has stated that she's no longer interested in the title, only in stopping Marz from earning it.

We'll also be seeing a Akira Hiroyama / Ryo Taguchi, Codova Bros. rematch, only this time, there will be no ring outs. Both teams have expressed an interest in finishing what was started several nights ago, and both teams are promising a victory. Marc and Eric Cordova have stated that if they don't win this match they will return to the US indefinitely. Taguchi says he has already planned them a going away party and that they are stupid for putting their careers in Japan on the line for no real gain. Hiroyama just laughed and added that they put their own careers on the line and asked for nothing in return, noting the lunacy of such an action.

Royal Ring has announced all out war on other wrestling promotions around the world, and has chosen 5 of it's best wrestlers to take on 5 wrestlers of other promotions in a series of match to show it's dominance in the wrestling world. Ishibashi Matsuhiro has promised a complete shut out of Royal Ring's competition. The first match will pit Royal Ring wrestler, Eiji Ogoya, against an as of yet unnamed fighter.

Jr. heavyweight champion Ichiro Kanemura is teaming up with Arson to face Jinsuke Iwada and Takeshi Ito in a jr. heavyweight tag match. Iwada and Ito both want to take out the champion to have a claim to face him in a title match, and have both said they will fight each other if need be to make sure they score the pin. This should be an interesting match to say the least.

In more jr. heavyweight tag team action, the sadistic Blood Pirates will square off against Yujiro Hashin and Taru Kyomatsu. This should be an interesting match because if Kyomatsu returns to his death match roots, the Blood Pirates may actually be out bloodlusted by the former death match king, however if he sticks to his vow, his team will be serious underdogs and will have to overcome a lot of brutal underhanded tactics to pick up a win. Tanashi and Nakagawa have promised a blood bath, will this tempt Kyomatsu to return to his roots. He says he's going to stick to his vow, but Tanashi and Nakagawa have said that if he stays clean they will set out to embarass and injure him during the course of the match.

Also announced was the start of the Young Princes Cup tournament, a single elimination tournament that will see all 6 young princes battle for the cup. The first round will consist of 3 singles matches, while the finals will be a 3 man elimination match for the cup. The singles matches will take place over the next 2 cards with two matches happening on the 03/29/08 show.

Young Princes Cup 1st Round Match: Shunsuke Hiratsuka vs. Satoshi Ishibashi
Young Princes Cup 1st Round Match: Daijiro Sasaki vs. Taku Yamata
Jinsuke Iwada & Takeshi Ito vs. Ichiro Kanemura & Arson
Blood Pirates vs. Yujiro Hashin & Taru Kyomatsu
Royal Ring vs. The World Series: Match 1: Eiji Ogoya vs. ???
Cordova Exile Match: Akira Hiroyama & Ryo Taguchi vs. Cordova Bros.
JRC Title Match: Marja Marz vs. Ayame Yamoto(c)
RRC Heavyweight Title Match: Kazu Narita vs. Koji Tanaka(c)