Last month, Bobby Quance announced to the LA Inoki Dojo that he was leaving the pro wrestling business to begin a new career with the United States Navy.

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Jushin Liger will be taking part in a three day seminar at the Dojo November 1st thru 3rd :

The Inoki Dojo announced today that prior to his November appearances on the East Coast for Ring of Honor, Jushin Liger will be taking part in a three day seminar at the Dojo in Santa Monica, California. The complete press release reads as follows:

The [O]RIGIN Pro Wrestling Gym in association with New Japan Pro Wrestling are proud to be hosting a Pro Wrestling Seminar with Jushin "Thunder" Liger at the Inoki Dojo in Located in Santa Monica California.

The Seminar/Clinic will last from November 1st thru 3rd and will be open to Potential Pro Wrestlers, Active Pro Wrestlers and Pro Wrestling Fans alike.

Festivities will include Q & A sessions with Liger (with Translator), as well as technique training in the Dojo ( Participation Optional )

Other Pro Wrestlers in attendance will include: Former IWGP Jr. Tag Team Champion American Dragon, Former CMLL Super Ligero Champion and Current ROH Tag Team Co-Champion Rocky Romero, & ROH World Champion Samoa Joe.

For more information or to secure a spot in the seminar please send all inquiries to origin@njpw.com or call (310) 264-9966. The cost for the Seminar will be $350.00 (Hotel, Food, and Travel Not included).

Travel Packages and Special room rates are available to those participating in the seminar.

Also the [O]RIGIN staff will be evaluating potential entrants for its second dojo class and your $350 seminar fee can be applied towards tuition with the [O]RIGIN gym.

NJPW-USA is proud to announce an alliance with Ultimo Dragon and his Toryumon Mexico promotion. The pact is to allow the best fighters of the NJPW LA Inoki Dojo the opportunity to be seen in another country.

Seeing that NJPW-USA has hosted Ultimo Dragon, Ishimori and Minamino Takeshi we felt that it was only fair to send one of our own to compete at their event, so Simon Inoki, Tiger Hattori and the American Dragon participated on the August 29th Toryumon card in Mexico City. The American Dragon was in a 6-man tag against Ultimo Dragon. The Areno Coloseo was full of excited pro wrestling fans and they enjoyed The American Dragon’s pro wrestling technique and skills.

The main event was a match for the UWA Welterweight Championship that saw Ishimori loosing the match to Takeshi (because of outside interference from the corner man) and Tiger Hattori served as a special referee and Simon Inoki served as commissioner. Because of the illegal “groin shot.” the UWA title is now held up and the title will be decided in an upcoming match in Japan.

New Japan Pro Wrestling President Kusama visit to the Inoki Dojo in Los Angeles.

Earlier this week, New Japan Pro Wrestling President Kusama made his first visit to the Inoki Dojo in Los Angeles. President Kusama was at the Dojo to meet the fighters and staff of the USA operation. President Kusama told the staff that he was impressed with what they built and conducted an interview
for the Toukon television program. That interview will air next week during the news segment.

:: NEW PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED ::


NEW PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED

On June 26, 2004 New Japan Pro Wrestling Co. Ltd. held its 33rd annual stockholders meeting and conference. During the meeting Antonio Inoki and others announced that Mr. Seiichi Kusama would be the new president of NJPW.

Mr. Kusama began his career with the Inoki Office as a personal consultant to Mr. Inoki. Mr. Kusama has a degree in Finance and Accounting. He has held several executive level jobs with several American companies. Mr. Kusama was Chief Financial Officer for Adaptec, Inc., 3 Com and Versace Japan.

Mr. Inoki hopes that Mr. KuakaÕs track record for creating new revenue for companies will help NJPWÕs cash flow and finance.

Also at the meeting, seven executive officers were announced.

1) Mr. Uwai (NJPW)
2) Mr. Yamanaka (NJPW)
3) Mr. Fujinami (Former President, NJPW)
4) Mr. Kusama (President, NJPW)
5) Simon Inoki (NJPW-USA)
6) TV Asahi
7) Mr. Kawamura (Talent Production Agency Owner)

:: NJPW AND INOKI OFFICE VICTORIOUS ::



Congratulations to all NJPW and Inoki Office on their victory veruses K1.

:: NJPW SUPER JR. TOURNAMENT ::

Block A:
1. Jushin Thunder Liger (GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion; 1992, 1994 & 2001 winner)
2. Koji Kanemoto (1998 & 2002 winner)
3. American Dragon (L.A. Dojo) (IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champion / 2004 American Best of the Super Jr. winner) 4. El Samurai (1997 winner)
5. Masahito Kakihara (2003 winner)
6. Wataru Inoue
7. Ryusuke Taguchi
8. Big Boss MA-G-MA (Osaka Pro)

Block B:
1. Heat (IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion)
2. Tiger Mask
3. Curry Man (IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champion)
4. Ultimo Dragon (Toryumon Japan)
5. Masayuki Naruse
6. Rocky Romero (L.A. Dojo 2nd place in the American Best of Super Jr.)
7. Katsuhiko Nakajima (Kensuke Office)
8. Garuda (WMF)

:: 04.26.04 NEXESS TOKYO DOME RESULTS ::

50,000 Attendance May 3rd, 2004 at Tokyo Dome

1. Koji Kanemoto, Ultimo Dragon & American Dragon beat Heat, Tiger Mask & Naomichi Marufuji (18:40) when American used a leglock suplex hold on Heat.

2. Giant Machine, Super Strong Machine & New Strong Machine beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Osamu Nishimura & Shinya Makabe (7:07) when New Strong Machine used an elbow drop on Makabe.

3. Jushin Thunder Liger beat Katsuhiko Nakajima (7:27) with a crab hold.

4. Josh Barnett beat Ken Shamrock (13:13) by Disqualification.

5. Dolgorsuren Sumiyabazar & Dolgorsuren Serjbudee (Blue Wolf) beat Genichiro Tenryu & Meng (8:32) when Serjbudee used the Mongol Hammer on Meng.

6. Yuji Nagata & Kendo Kashin beat Kensuke Sasaki & Manabu Nakanishi (14:58) when Nagata used a backdrop hold on Nakanishi.

7. IWGP Tag Team Title: Yoshihiro Takayama & Minoru Suzuki beat Masahiro Chono & Kazunari Murakami (15:50) when Suzuki used a Gotch-style piledriver on Murakami

8. New Japan vs. K-1 - Different Style Fight: Yutaka Yoshie beat The Convict Nortje (Jan Nortje of K-1) (3:31) with a camel clutch.

9. New Japan vs. K-1: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Sean O'Haire (K-1) (7:39) with a Dragon sleeper.

10. New Japan vs. K-1 - Different Style Fight: Musashi (K-1) beat Katsuyori Shibata (R2 2:00) by KO.

11. New Japan vs. K-1 - IWGP Heavyweight Title: Bob Sapp of K-1 (champion) beat Shinsuke Nakamura (12:31) with a Beast bomb

:: 04.03.04 CARD FOR BEST OF AMERICAN SUPER JUNIOR TOURNAMENT AT THE INOKI DOJO ANNOUNCED ::

FRIDAY, APRIL 16th at 8PM
at the Inoki Dojo
3200 Olympic Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Block A:
American Dragon vs. X-Pac
Chad Collyer vs. Bobby Quance

Block B:
Iceman vs. Rocky Romero
Ricky Reyes vs. Teddy Hart

Winners of Block A & B, advance to the Best Of The Super Junior 2004 in Japan

Also:
Special Match 1:
Aaron Aguilera vs. Samoa Joe

Special Match 2:
Tommy Williams & Jose Moreno vs. Eric Matlock & Joey Ryan

Tickets only $10 and available at the door.