Big Wrestle 1 News

The full event card was announced for the July 16 show, as three title matches were announced to be taking place, and then the W-1 Championship was formally announced to be in defense on September 1 in Yokohama.

Following his win in the “WRESTLE-1 GRAND PRIX 2017”, Jiro “Ikemen” Kuroshio has earned the right to challenge for the W-1 Championship belt. Which he called out to take place against Shotaro Ashino at the big Yokohama show that will be taking place with the start of September. The W-1 committee has formally agreed for the match to take place at the show. Kuroshio declared that he wants to finally take hold of the top spot in W-1 and give something back to the fans that have continued to support him. He even also mentioned that if he wins the belt that he wants a match against his former teacher Masakatsu Funaki, in which he used the Hybrid Blaster in the final match of the GRAND PRIX against Masayuki Kono.

Though with the title match now set there will be plenty of prelude matches throughout the next month and a half starting on the July 16 show. Joining their prelude match will be three other title matches taking place. As MAZADA will be defending the Crusierweight belt against the former champion Andy Wu, in a rematch from when MAZADA won the belt in May. Then Koji Doi will be putting the Result belt on the line against the up-and-comer Takanori Ito in w rematch from the semi-finals of the tournament to crown the first ever champion. Then lastly the UWA World 6 Tag belts will be in defense as Manabu Soya, NOSAWA Rongai and Ganseki Tanaka taking on the trio of Kaz Hayashi, Kotaro Suzuki and Jun Tonsho.

Below are the updated event cards at this time…

WRESTLE TOUR 2017 SYMBOL, 7/16/2017 [Sun] 13:00 @ Hirano Kumin Hall in Osaka

() Exhibition Match: Soma Sumeragi vs. Tsukuga Sato
() Kamui (FREEDOMS) vs. Hajime
() Masayuki Kono, Shuji Kondo & Dyna Mido (B-168) vs. Kumagoro, Masayuki Mitomi (Ehime Pro) & Daisuke Masaoka (FREEDOMS)
() Shotaro Ashino, Yusuke Kodama & Seigo Tachibana vs. Jiro “Ikemen“ Kuroshio, Daiki Inaba & Seiki Yoshioka

() UWA World 6 Tag Championship Match: [58th Champions] Manabu Soya, NOSAWA Rongai & Ganseki Tanaka vs. [Challengers] Kaz Hayashi, Kotaro Suzuki & Jun Tonsho
~ 1st title defense.

() WRESTLE-1 Result Championship Match: [1st Champion] Koji Doi vs. [Challenger] Takanori Ito
~ 4th title defense.

() WRESTLE-1 Cruiserweight Championship Match: [9th Champion] MAZADA vs. [Challenger] Andy Wu
~ 2nd title defense.

WRESTLE-1 “2017 Pro-Wrestling LOVE in YOKOHAMA"“, 9/2/2017 [Sat] 15:00 @ Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Kanagawa

(-) WRESTLE-1 Championship Match: [11th Champion] Shotaro Ashino vs. [Challenger] Jiro “Ikemen“ Kuroshio
~ 4th title defense.

~ Also announced to be competing : Naomichi Marufuji (NOAH) and Shingo Takagi (DG)