For the first time, Ultimo Dragon's Toryumon is promoting a mixed tag team tournament with four wrestlers (3 men, 1 woman) on each side. This will be on June 23 at Korakuen Hall and will be part of Fiesta events in Tokyo.
Though I'm not a big fan of mixed tag matches, they're very popular with some fans and of course they do them better in Japan anyway. In recent years they haven't been a big part of the wrestling business in Japan since ARSION did the P-MIX tournament several years ago. El Gran Hamada & daughter Ayako Hamada were mixed tag champs back then. You see them occasionally but not that often. ARSION did them regularly and then just stopped doing them. K-Dojo is the only fed that has regular mixed matches.
At least it's something different and it will be on TV in Japan so you will be able to get it from your favourite video dealer. One interesting thing is that Fuuka will be teaming with her brother Daichi Kakimoto for the very first time. The main event mixed tag match appears to be seperate from the tournament and looks like a masked vs non masked match. AKINO is wearing her noki-A mask. I assume that tournament semi finals and finals are on the show too. Here's the announced card.
UD '06:ULTIMO FIESTA - 6/23/06 - Korakuen Hall
Mecha mummy vs TBA
DRAGON MIXTURE TAG TOURNAMENT ROUND ONE
Shu Sato, Kei Sato, Maguro Ooma & Nozomi Takesako vs TAKA Michinoku & K-Dojo wrestlers TBA
Poison Sawada, Isami, Shuji Ishikawa & Cherry vs Jinsei Shinzaki, Shinjitsu Nohashi, Yoshitsune & Shanaou (?)
Onryo, GOEMON, Ricky Fuji & Kyoko Kimura vs Dick Togo, Mori Bernardo, Antonio Honda & Francesca Applenya (Apple Miyuki)
Hiromi Horiguchi, Guillermo Chango Akiba, Amigo Suzuki & TBA vs Iifushi Kota, Seiya Morohashi, Daichi Kakinoto & Fuuka
Ultimo Dragon, Mil Mascaras & noki-A vs TAJIRI, El Gran Hamada & Ayako Hamada
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