～RYOGOKUTAN～



The ～RYOGOKUTAN～ is a major professional wrestling event, held by Japanese professional wrestling promotion Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) and it is an annual pay-per-view event. It occurs every July at Kouraken Hall in Tokyo, Japan. It is the biggest, and arguably the most important, event of the year, equivalent to the WWE's WrestleMania, the NJPW's January 4 Dome Show and Dragon Gate's Kobe World Pro Wrestling Festival

2015
The first match was between Toshiyuki Sakuda and Yoshihisa Uto against Kazumi Kikuta and Yuichi Taniguchi. The first title match saw Kankuro Hoshino, Masato Inaba and The Great Kojika defeating Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu and Takayuki Ueki for the Yokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

Also Twin Towers (Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa) sucessfuly defended the BJW Tag Team Championships against Yankii Nichokenju (Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto).

In the semi final Ryuji Ito defeated Abdullah Kobayashi for the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship in 20th Anniversary 20 Items Death Match that featured cement blocks and 100 kilos of salt. The 18 other weapons were decided at short notice. There was a so-called "foul count" for the use of non-certified weapons.

In the main event Yuji Okabayashi defeated his Strong BJ tag team partner Daisuke Sekimoto for the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship.
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2016
The first match was between Atsushi Maruyama and Daichi Hashimoto against Kazumi Kikuta and Tatsuhiko Yoshino. The first title match saw Abdullah Kobayashi, Masaya Takahashi and Takayuki Ueki defeating Masashi Takeda, Jaki Numazawa and Takumi Tsukamoto for the Yokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

Also AJPW's Atsushi Aoki and Hikaru Sato defeated Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto for the All Asia Tag Team Championship. Later on Twin Towers (Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa) sucessfuly defended the BJW Tag Team Championships against S.M.O.P. (Akebono and Ryota Hama).

In the semi final Hideyoshi Kamitani defeated Yuji Okabayashi for the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship.

In the main event Kankuro Hoshino defeated Ryuji Ito for the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship in a Scaffold & G Shock Death Match.
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2017
On May 10, 2007 Genki Horiguchi pinned Yasushi Kanda in a predule match afterwards Kanda challenge Horiguchi in a rematch for the Open The Brave Gate Championship later that night Shingo Takagi, Cyber Kong and BxB Hulk won the Open The Triangle Gate Championship it was later announced that Takagi, Kong and Hulk would defend the Open the Triangle Gate Champions against Magnitude Kishiwada, Masato Yoshino, and Naruki Doi. It was announced that Jushin Thunder Liger would defend the Open The Dream Gate Championship against CIMA and also it was announced an appearance of two NJPW's representatives Yuji Nagata and Koji Kanemoto and they also announced a special single match between Don Fujii and Tetsuhiro Kuroda and it was announced that Gedo and Jado would defend the I-J Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Susumu Yokosuka and Ryo Saito.


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