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BAKA GAIJIN + FRIENDS “VOL. 19: INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION”, 21/01/2025
Tokyo ARENA Shimokitazawa
??? Fans – Unannounced

1. Special Tag Team Match: Masahiro Takanashi & Chie Brookes Vs Mr. Malo & Munetatsu Nakamura
2. 5-Match Series: Takayuki Ueki Vs Hideki Suzuki
3. Antonio Honda 20th Anniversary! Special Single Match: Antonio Honda XL (MAO) Vs Hagane Shinno
4. BK-G Openweight Title Decision Match: Chris Brookes Vs Ram Kaichow

BAKA GAIJIN + FRIENDS “VOL. 19: INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION” Results

BAKA GAIJIN + FRIENDS “VOL. 19: INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION”, 21/01/2025
Tokyo ARENA Shimokitazawa
??? Fans – Unannounced

1. Special Tag Team Match: Mr. Malo & Munetatsu Nakamura defeated Masahiro Takanashi & Chie Brookes when Malo pinned Brookes with a School Boy (10:04).
2. 5-Match Series: Hideki Suzuki (5) defeated Takayuki Ueki (0).
2a. Hideki Suzuki (1) defeated Takayuki Ueki (0) with a Sleeper Hold (0:06).
2b. Hideki Suzuki (2) defeated Takayuki Ueki (0) with a Sleeper Hold (0:06).
2c. Hand Push Sumo Match: Hideki Suzuki (3) defeated Takayuki Ueki (0) by Knock Down (0:07).
2d. Jenga Match: Hideki Suzuki (4) defeated Takayuki Ueki (0) when Ueki knocked over the Jenga Tower (1:10).
2e. Hideki Suzuki (5) defeated Takayuki Ueki (0) when Ueki gave up (6:22).
3. Antonio Honda 20th Anniversary! Special Single Match: Antonio Honda XL (MAO) Vs Hagane Shinno ended in a Time Limit Draw (15:00).
4. BK-G Openweight Title Decision Match: Chris Brookes defeated Ram Kaichow with the Praying Mantis Bomb (12:51).
*Chris Brookes becomes the 1st BK-G Openweight Champion!

Back in December Chris Brookes made a promise. If he was to successfully defend the KO-D Openweight Title at DDT’s end of the year Sumo Hall show then he will start defending the belt inside ARENA Shimokitazawa. He won that match and wanted to live up to his word at today’s first Baka Gaijin + Friends show of the year. He wanted to do it, Ram Kaichow wanted to have the title match and Daisuke Kiso was ready to let it happen. However a drunk Yukinori Matsui stepped in and stopped it from taking place. He expected something like this was going to happen and he could not let a championship as important as the KO-D Title be defended here. But since Brookes and Kaichow wanted to have a title match so badly, Matsui and Mic Inoue brought along something for them to fight over. It is a homemade title belt called the BK-G Openweight Championship!

Now that a championship match was taking place after all, Matsui and Inoue instantly sobered up to officiate and announce a match that would determine the first ever BK-G Champion. Kaichow blocked the Praying Mantis Bomb and got a nearfall with a Choke Slam. Masahiro Takanashi tried to interfere but it backfired, causing him and Brookes to argue with each other. Kaichow threw Ectoplasm at them but they ducked and Matsui got blinded instead. Kaichow fought off CDK with more Ectoplasm and hit Brookes with the Rainmaker. However Matsui was too blind to see Kaichow pinning Brookes with the Onryo Clutch. Kaichow slapped the sight back into him but left herself vulnerable to a High Kick from Brookes. She kicked out of the Somato but Brookes finally put her away with the Praying Mantis Bomb to win the new title!

How do you do a match to celebrate Antonio Honda’s 20th Anniversary without having Honda there to take part? You send MAO out there dressed in Honda’s gear and have him wrestle as Antonio Honda XL! MAO used many of Honda’s tricks against Hagane Shinno from calling time outs to injuring his knee and telling Gongitsune jokes. When all of that stuff was out of the way, the two traded cradles and nearfalls until the time limit expired. MAO and Shinno raised each other’s hands after the match and left the room together shoulder to shoulder.

Takayuki Ueki was given a surprise opponent in the form of Hideki Suzuki! Ueki requested the match be Best 3 Out Of 5 Falls but immediately lost the first to falls to a Sleeper Hold. Knowing that he can’t beat him in a wrestling match, Ueki then challenged Suzuki to a Push Sumo fight for the 3rd fall. Suzuki easily beat him again. However he didn’t want to let Ueki leave like this so he agreed to fight him for the remaining two falls and if Ueki won the remaining falls he would be declared the winner outright. They decided the 4th Fall would be a game of Jenga but Ueki even lost at that. Fed up with losing, Ueki declared the 5th fall would be a proper wrestling match worth 100 points! Then as soon as the bell rang Ueki pulled out his gun and threatened Suzuki with it. Suzuki went along with Ueki’s demands until he got close enough to disarm him. But Ueki pulled out another gun and we suddenly got a standoff! Ueki shot Suzuki’s gun out of his hand and got cocky, allowing Suzuki to get his gun back and suddenly hold Ueki at gunpoint! Ueki lost his nerve and gave up. When he tried to give a speech after the match, Suzuki shot him in his limbs and walked off.

The opening match saw the return of ChieDK. Takanashi was teaming with Chie Koishikawa which meant Koishikawa got to be Chie Brookes again! Mr. Malo brought a glass bottle to the fight late in the match but Munetatsu Nakamura stopped him from using it as a weapon. Takanashi grabbed the bottle off him but Chie too didn’t want him to swing it at the opponents. Malo and Chie fought over the bottle and Malo ended up physically forcing Chie to smash it over Takanashi’s head. He then rolled up Chie with a School Boy to get the three count.

At the end of the show everyone sang Happy Birthday to Takanashi, MAO and Kiso because they all have birthdays coming soon. Ueki then told them his birthday had already happened (3rd January) so Brookes let him close out the show.

The next Baka Gaijin show will be on 4th March.

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BAKA GAIJIN + FRIENDS “VOL. 17: HALLOWEEN II”, 29/10/2024
Tokyo ARENA Shimokitazawa
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1. 4 Way Match: Sayaka Vs MAO Vs Keiko Nakamura Vs Hondako Antonio
2. HARASHIMA Vs Munetatsu Nakamura
3. Ms. Kaichow, Mr. Bueno & Mr. Malo Vs Chris Brookes, Masahiro Takanashi & Chie Koishikawa

BAKA GAIJIN + FRIENDS “VOL. 17: HALLOWEEN II” Results

BAKA GAIJIN + FRIENDS “VOL. 17: HALLOWEEN II”, 29/10/2024
Tokyo ARENA Shimokitazawa
??? Fans

1. 4 Way Match: MAO defeated Sayaka, Keiko Nakamura and Hondako Antonio when MAO pinned Nakamura with a Rainmaker (?:??).
2. HARASHIMA defeated Munetatsu Nakamura with the Somato (?:??).
3. Chris Brookes, Masahiro Takanashi & Chie Koishikawa defeated Ms. Kaichow, Mr. Bueno & Mr. Malo when Brookes & Takanashi pinned Bueno with the HOD (?:??).

Halloween needed a sequel before it even happens so Baka Gaijin + Friends went to work. ChieDK all showed up to the main event in monstrous forms. Chie Koishikawa was now walking the earth as a zombie, Masahiro Takanashi entered the room as a vampire and Chris Brookes was reduced to being a sad clown. Things were a little different for their opponents. Mr. Bueno & Mr. Malo were their usual selves while Ram Kaichow was now wrestling in her own lucha mask under the name Ms. Kaichow (although Brookes quickly unmasked her). At a time when the masked wrestlers needed to be a united team against the forces of darkness, Bueno & Malo soon started to argue because Bueno wanted to fight fair while Malo wasn’t afraid to fight dirty. Things went south when Bueno stopped Malo from using a beer bottle as a weapon. Malo then decided to break the bottle over Bueno’s head! He walked off to let CDK beat Bueno and then returned to drop a pumpkin on top of Bueno’s prone body.

The rest of the card was not announced before the show so fans were surprised to see HARASHIMA show up wearing a pumpkin costume. He also wore plain wrestling trunks he had to borrow from someone else because he forgot to bring his regular wrestling gear. But when it came to his match against Munetatsu Nakamura, HARASHIMA kept it simple and outgrappled his opponent to win.

The opening bout was a 4 Way Match with every wrestler involved competing in a school girl sailor outfit. MAO and Sayaka were in the match as themselves in the costume but Keigo Nakamura and Antonio Honda went full on roleplaying as school girls. MAO ended up taking off his costume to reveal he was wearing a tight gym top and speedo underneath before pinning Nakamura with the Rainmaker.

A costume contest was hosted by Takayuki Ueki during the show. Ueki recently dislocated his shoulder so his costume was Zangief from Street Fighter II after he loses a fight. The winner came dressed a Chris Brookes and was even brought back for the main event to briefly swap places with the real Chris Brookes.

Baka Gaijin will be holding their 2nd Anniversary show on 10th December.

BAKA GAIJIN + FRIENDS “FUCKED UP FEST” Results

BAKA GAIJIN + FRIENDS “FUCKED UP FEST”, 24/08/2024
Tokyo Nakano Moonstep
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1. Special Single Match: Mr. Bueno defeated To-y with a Glove Assisted Cobra Twist (10:00).
2. Special Tag Team Match: Keigo Nakamura & Kazuma Sumi defeated Munetatsu Nakamura & Kota Ibushikoshi when Nakamura pinned Ibushikoshi with the Diving Headbutt (8:30).
3. Special Single Match: Tyrannosaurus Inoue defeated Tyrannosaurus Morozumi with the Meteora (8:14).
4. Special Tag Team Match: Masahiro Takanashi & Chie Brookes defeated Thanomsak Toba & Sayaka when Brookes pinned Sayaka after the HOD (7:??).
5. International 4 Way Dance: Dr. Gore defeated Mecha Mummy, Shivam and Jake De Leon when Gore pinned Mummy with a Cradle (10:18).
6. Triple Threat Match: Antonio Honda defeated Judomaster and Yasu Urano when Honda submitted Judomaster with the Octopus Hold (8:04).
7. Special Single Match: Ram Kaichow defeated Maya Yukihi with a School Boy (7:03).
8. Hardcore 4 Way Match: Shunma Katsumata Vs MAO Vs Chris Brookes Vs Mad Dr. Ueki ended in a Time Limit Draw (?:??).

This is a struggle to write a show report for because the only results online come from the Baka Gaijin + Friends Twitter account and they don’t give much detail. There isn’t even a result for the Maya Yukihi Vs Ram Kaichow that I could find anywhere (edit from the future: I got the DVD and now have the result). It was an all day concert and wrestling event though so I can’t blame them. Everyone involved in organizing it must have had so much other stuff on their plate to worry about.

Ilusion confronted Chris Brookes about wanting to join SCHADENFREUDE International. Brookes said no but will give him one last shot at earning a place in the group. They will have a singles match against each other in DDT on 30th August.

Dr. Cube from Kaiju Big Battel crashed the show after the 4 Way Dance. He poured a bottle of water over Mecha Mummy to make it short circuit and then removed its memory card. Cube snapped the card in half and placed a new memory card into Mummy, one that made the robot follow Cube’s every demand!

Chie Koishikawa showed up in Chris Brookes cosplay again so that meant her team with Masahiro Takanashi was called ChieDK.