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[Big Battle Wrestling] - Info and Bios

CarlzillaPosted on 02/06/09 at 09:13:06

Big Battle Wrestling is a new promotion running out of Japan, and featuring two opposing teams that will be drafted by team captains over the course of the first few shows.

The roster will eventually mostly be fictional, but an occasional real world wrestler will pop-up especially in the beginning, where about half the roster will be real wrestlers.

Big Battle doesn't follow the traditional Japanese touring format, instead opting for a weekly live TV show.

It will be a mixture of booked and unbooked matches.


A few things you should know about the fictional universe:

1. Nippon Pro Fighting Sports is the premiere wrestling magazine in Japan.
2. JNWP stands for Japanese National Wrestling Promotion, which folded in 2003. Quite a few of Big Battle's stars are from there.
3. MWWF stands for MidWest Wrestling Federation, the Stateside home of Tim Sampson. KWA stands for Kansas Wrestling Association, which went out of business in 1999.
4. Pro Wrestling Highlights is a respected US wrestling magazine.
5. FWT stands for Fight! Wrestling Troupe, a company that was getting very popular in Japan in the late 70's and most of the 80's, but suddenly and surprisingly called it quits in 1988.
CarlzillaPosted on 02/06/09 at 09:28:36

Danger Kanayama
Dynamite Danger
Tokyo, Japan
5'10"
246lbs.
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Danger Kanayama is a Japanese legend. Having won numerous world championships throughout his storied career, Kanayama is now just slightly past his peak. Despite his age, he is still an incredibly solid wrestler who definitely has one last run as a champion in him.

With his Dynamite Danger finisher (a fireman's carry into a sheer drop michinoku driver), he has left many opponents defeated, and shows no sign of slowing down.
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JNWP World Heavyweight Champion (x3)
JNWP Grand Prix Winner (x2)
JNWP Tag Champion ( w/ Masaaki Eda)

Nippon Pro Fighting Sports Rookie Of The Year (1987)
Nippon Pro Fighting Sports Wrestler Of The Year (1990, 1993-1995, 1999-2002)


Hiroji Narahashi
Atomic Lights Bomb
Tokyo, Japan
5'10"
215lbs.
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Hiroji Narahashi is a young jr. heavyweight wrestler. In only his 3rd year, he has impressed a lot of fans with his fighting spirit and impressive Atomic Lights Bomb (an avalanche Northern Lights Bomb) finisher.

He's looking to make a big impact here in Big Battle Wrestling, where he claims that he is the top jr. in the promotion.
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Nippon Fighting Sports Rookie Of The Year (2005)


Hitomaro Tanizaki
Grapevine Anklelock
Nagoya, Japan
5'7"
210lbs.
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Hitomaro Tanizaki may just be the hottest jr. prospect in the Japanese pro wrestling world right now. The 24 year old has been putting on amazing matches with a technical skill seldom seen, even in wrestlers far surpassing his experience level.

All the praise and success has made him a bit on the cocky side however, and he won't shy away from a chance to talk himself up.
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Nippon Fighting Sports Rookie Of The Year (2004)


Masaaki Eda
Eda Elbow
Osaka, Japan
5'9"
247lbs.
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Masaaki Eda is a very popular Japanese wrestler. Once locked in a very physical feud with Danger Kanayama, which many fans and historians said made him the star he is today, the two now have mutual respect for one another and have even been known to team on occassion.

He is in the prime of his career and is a top contender in any federation he appears in. With 4 major world title reigns to his name, he is more like a threat to the champ than a contender.
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JNWP World Heavyweight Champion (x2)
JNWP Tag Champion (/w Danger Kanayama)
JNWP Grand Prix winner (x3)
JNWP Rookies Cup winner (1993)

Nippon Pro Fighting Sports Rookie Of The Year (1993)
Nippon Pro Fighting Sports Wrestler Of The Year (1996-1998, 2003-2005)


Shoraku Shiba
Shiba Lariat
Saitama, Japan
6'0"
256lbs.
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Veteran wrestler Shoraku Shiba is no stranger to hard fought battles. He is the co-holder of the Japanese national record for longest recorded wrestling match in history, with an impressive 2hr and 45min. match with the now retired Hideo Okazaki.

Shiba has one of the most devastating lariats in the business and throws it often. This fact alone has scored him many wins, but on top of that he has a very solid technical background.
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JNWP World Heavyweight Champion (x3)
JNWP Grand Prix winner (x2)
FWT Heavyweight Champion
FWT Tag Team Champion (w/ Koetsu Takabe)(x3)

Nippon Pro Sports Wrestler of the Year (1987-1989, 1992)


Tim Sampson
Towerfalls
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
6'10"
332lbs.
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"The Tower" Tim Sampson is an enourmous westerner making a name for himself in Japan. While he isn't the biggest name in the sport yet, he's certainly one of the biggest wrestlers on whchever roster he appears. With an amazing amount of power and toughness, many fans are predicting big things from him.

His Towerfalls finisher (a slingshot Jackhammer) is impressive to watch, as the fluidity in the motion is uncharacteristic for such a big wrestler.
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MWWF Heavyweight Champion
MWWF International Champion(x2)
MWWF TV Champion
KWA Kansas State Champion
KWA Kansas State Tag Team Champions (as Mountain Man 1 w/Mountain Man 2)

Pro Wrestling Highlights Big Man of the Year (1999)
Pro Wrestling Highlights Rookie of the Year (1997)


Tokyo DT
DT Driver
Tokyo, Japan
5'9"
237lbs.
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Daisuke Tomozawa , better known as Tokyo DT, has been the focus of a lot of wrestling news in Japan. With his super brash and rude demenor offending lots of fans, reporters, and peers, and his over the top out-of-the-ring lifestyle, he certianly has attracted all sorts of public attention.

Inside the ring, he is sound however, although he has been called a bit lazy at times. With his DT Driver (a reverse suplex into a vertical fall cutter) has finished many opponents, and even claimed him a few titles in the process. Currently he's wrestling in Big Battle Wrestling, where he's at the top of the contender pile and looking to put their world title around his waist.
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JNWP World Heavyweight Champion
JNWP World Tag Team Champion (w/ Tomoaki Shirasu)

Nippon Pro Fighting Sports Rookie of the Year (1996)
Nippon Pro Fighting Sports Wrestler of the Year (2006-2007)
CarlzillaPosted on 02/08/09 at 03:06:12

Joji Mazuka
Sitout Tombstone
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
6'1"
230lbs.
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Joji Mazuka made a name for himself as a never say die deathmatch wrestler. As his career went on, he grew bored with the lack of skill he could showcase in such an enviroment. He then turned to his successful background in amatuer wrestling and judo to put on some of the most technically sound deathmatches in recent history.

Mazuka still wrestlers the occassional deathmatch, but is more than content to just brawl in normal matches these days, and although his matches are considered hardcore by Big Battle standards, they are nothing compared to what he used to do.
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TCB Brass Knuckles Champion (x3)
TCB World of Death winner (x5)

Nippon Pro Fighting Sports Deathmatch Wrestler of the Year (2000-2001, 2003, 2005-2006)
Nippon Pro Fighting Sports Most Improved Wrestler (2007)


Michihiro Nakanishi
Double Underhook Piledriver
Tottori, Japan
5'9"
195lbs.
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Michihiro Nakanishi is the first trainee of the Big Battle School of Professional Wrestling. He has a background in jiu-jitsu and hopes to incorporate some unique submission moves into his wrestling matches.

Currently he is using his trainers finisher, the Double Underhook Piledrive, but has vowed to quickly change to a move of his own.
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No career accomplishments, as he has yet to debut.


Masutaro Koruba
Ultimate Prawn
Yokohama, Japan
5'11"
232lbs.
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Masutaro Koruba was the last graduate of the JNWP training program, but he never got to debut in the promotion before it closed it's doors. Instead he has spent the last few years working as a journeyman in the Japanese indy scene. He was said to be the protoge of Masaaki Eda.

When Eda joined Big Battle, it didn't take long for talks between the promtion and Koruba to start. He is expected to make his debut for the promotion soon.

His Ultimate Prawn is a Fisherman's Buster -> Sit-out Powerbomb.
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JPO World Heavyweight Champion
JPO Tag Team Champion (w/ Hiroya Tatsuko)
WSJ World Heavyweight Champion
WSJ National Champion (x2)
DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship
DDT KO-D Openweight Championship (x2)
Snabbit888Posted on 02/09/09 at 07:25:51

I really like this.  I like the format of how it comes out.  Looking forward to this plug-in a lot.

I've also enjoyed the circuit so far.  It's going to take a bit to really get to know the wrestlers based on me being a dumb American and it being hard to keep names sorted. :)
CarlzillaPosted on 02/09/09 at 22:25:27

Thanks Ryan.

If you're not familiar with Japanese wrestling even the real guys can get confusing to keep track of. When you mix them with fantasy guys it's a whole lot more confusing as you don't know which guys are real and which are made up.

I'm hoping that it really won't make a difference in this fed, the wrestlers should all "feel" real and not half fantasy half real.
Snabbit888Posted on 02/09/09 at 23:12:09

I think more it's just the style that trips me up.  The characters I can learn through repetition.  It's more I just don't even get the way that Japanese promotions promote, book, the tour system, etc.