NWA ZERO1 Wrestlers to appear for INOKI GENOME FEDERATION

Since the inception of IGF, the NWA has played a pivotal role with the wrestling promotion, although not officially a member IGF has used many notable names in the NWA and for GENOME 15 at the JCB Hall in Tokyo on April 28th, will be no different.

NWA Heritage Heavyweight Champion, Sawada will be taking on NWA ZERO1 Heavyweight Champion Ryouji Sai. Neither title is on the line, but this match will certainly have World Championship Ranking implications as a loss for Sai should result in Sawada replacing him in the Top Ten. A victory for Sai could catapult him even higher to the NWA Top Ten.

Former ZERO1 Heavyweight Champion Shinjiro Othani will team with the red hot Daichi Hashimoto (son of NWA Hall of Famer Shinya Hashimoto) to take on Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Minoru.

Also on the card is the NWA Korean Heavyweight Champion "The Beast" Bob Sapp taking on Masayoshi Kakuntani in a IGF Kickboxing Rules Match. Plus Tatsumi Fujinami will take on Big Van Vader and so much more.

Complete card below with credit to Puroresu Spirit.


IGF "GENOME15", 4/2...8/2011 (Thur) @ Tokyo Dome City Hall (JCB Hall in Tokyo)

(8) IGF Championship ~ First Round Match: Shinichi Suzukawa vs. Jerome Le Banner
(7) IGF Championship ~ First Round Match: Bobby Lashyey vs. Keith Hansen
(6) IGF x ZERO1: Atsushi Sawada vs. Ryouji Sai
(5) Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Minoru vs. Shinjiro Ohtani & Daichi Hashimoto
(4) IGF Kickboxing Rules Match (3 Mins. x 3 Rounds): "The Beast" Bob Sapp vs. Masayoshi Kakutani
(3) Fujinami 40th Anniversary Special Match ~ DRAGON vs BIGBANG: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Big Van Vader
(2) Earthquake Disaster Recovery Special Match ~ Mask of Super Stars: The Great Sasuke & Masked Genome Jr vs. The First Tiger Mask & Ultimo Dragon
(1) Taka Kunou & Munenori Sawa vs. Hideki Suzuki & Akira Jo

NWA Korea: New WWA World Heavyweight Champion

Nearly a year has passed since Bob "the Beast" Sapp was defeated by "Super Dragon" Lee Wang Pyo in what was billed as a MMA style fight for the WWA Heavyweight Title. Pyo, defeated Sapp with an armbar submission. However at "Forever Hero 4" Sapp righted this wrong. Sapp defeated Pyo at the Olympic Stadium. Interestingly, Bobb Sapp wasn't the only non-Korean at the event. Nelson Creed and Kenny Lush (ECCW Wrestlers) battled for the WWA Korean Tag Team Titles.

Here are some notes, taken from the ECCW Message Board:

Kenny Lush and Nelson Creed are both currently tearing up a storm in the WWA in Korea.

On Sunday, Oct 25 both wrestled great tag team matches at the Forever Hero 4 wrestling spectacular.

In the Semi-Main Event, Leatherface and Kenny Lush stormed the ring and dominated their opponents, both former professional sumo wrestlers, but were outdone when Leatherface blasted Lush with a closeline felt into the 100th row; fans were in awe of the two, but they ended up losing the WWA tag team titles in a major upset.

Nelson Creed Teamed with Bad Boy Hido (from Big Japan and W*ING Japan) to defeat Korean Olympic Legend No Gi Shin and his young tag team partner when Creed landed his final curtain frog splash. Leatherface, Creed, and Lush were all thoroughly booed by those in attendance. However, their in ring efforts and hard style left many spectators in awe and begging for more. All three have matches tommorow night. Kenny Lush and Nelson Creed will be teaming up to challenge again for the WWA Tag Team Titles. In the main event of the evening, Leatherface is wrestling Bob Sapp for the WWA heavyweight title. Carnage is expected.

South Korea - 2009

The National Wrestling Alliance is said to be the largest governing body in profesional wrestling. The NWA's offices are represented in North America with promotions in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. There is also NWA Representation in Europe with NWA UK, NWA Ireland, and NWA France. The NWA's reach stretches as far east as New Japan Pro Wrestling and the World Wrestling Alliance, the NWA's Japanese and Korean memebers.

Although the connection between WWA and their American affiliate, Championship Wrestling from Florida seems a little suspect, it does look like the South Korean based profesional wrestling orginization is still promoting.

One of the last events of 2008 for WWA Korea was the battle between former IWGP Heavyweight Champion, and Kickboxer Bob Sapp. Sapp battled against WWA ace and reigning WWA Heavyweight Champion, Super Dragon. The results aren't readily available, so if anyone speaks Korean or know where to find the results, I'd greatly appreciate it. The match was contested under MMA Rules.

::: Update :::
The Fans of Sherdog released the results of this match, with Super Dragon retaining his title.