ZERO1 Fire Festival Finals

Pro-Wrestling ZERO1
Fire Festival Day 8
3rd August 2014, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo

Despite not being completely knocked out by the Zero1 event that I reviewed early in July, there were sufficient positives to offer the impression that a good day for Zero1 might be a good day for wrestling. I was also giddily high on the thrills and spills of tournament wrestling offered by New Japan's wildly successful G1 Climax, so reaching down the ladder to a smaller promotion offering the same experience seemed like both a nice thing to do in terms of exposure and personally beneficial to me w/r/t entertainment.

fujiwara armbar investigates: Wrestle-1 (W-1)

An occasional series in which, in a bid to further my spotty knowledge of Japanese wrestling promotions, I watch a recent event and assess whether or not I'd watch regularly given the time, money and ability to access.

Promotion: Wrestle-1 (W-1)
Event watched: Wrestle-1 Tour "Cherry Blossom", Tokyo Dome City Hall, 4th April 2014.

What did I know about the promotion going in?: Not a significant amount. Head honcho of the promotion is the great Keiji Mutoh aka The Great Muta and many of the workers are taken from the AJPW exodus v2.0, with a sprinkling of talent from W-1's recent annexation of TAJIRI's WNC promotion and a variety of foreigners on excursion from other feds, most notably TNA.