
Muga is Tatsumi Fujinami's organization, which stresses old style traditional professional wrestling. Shows aren't as frequent as they used to be, but Osamu Nishimura carries the spirit in New Japan with his technical brilliance. Due to their close association with MUGA, I haven't listed New Japan wrestlers as outsiders. All results from the promotion's history can be found on this page.

NJPW/Muga "MUGA IN SAPPORO", 1/29/05 (Samurai! TV) (Look!)
Sapporo Teisen Hall
1,300 Fans - Super No Vacancy
1. European Catch Rules: Shinsuke Nakamura beat Osamu Matsuda (R4 1:06) with a cross armbreaker.
2. European Catch Rules: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Katsushi Takemura (R3 1:57) with a Dragon sleeper.
3. European Catch Rules: Yutaka Yoshie beat Takashi Iizuka (R6 2:59) with a cradle cutback.
4. European Catch Rules: Yuji Nagata beat Jushin Thunder Liger (R4 2:10) by DQ (red card).
5. European Catch Rules: Hiro Saito beat Gedo (R3 2:03) with a diving senton.
6. European Catch Rules: Osamu Nishimura vs. Minoru Suzuki
went to a draw (R6 3:00) when the time limit expired.

NJPW/Muga "2002 MUGA IN OSAKA", 10/9/02
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2
850 Fans - No Vacancy
1. Masayuki Naruse beat Nobuyuki Kurashima (8:05) with a triangle choke hold.
2. Tiger Mask beat Pinoi Boy (7:29) with a German suplex hold.
3. Kenzo Suzuki beat Toru Yano (4:03) with a backdrop suplex.
4. Rocky Romero & Ricky Reyes beat Masahito Kakihara & Wataru Inoue (12:21) when Reyes pinned Inoue after a double plaston kneedrop.
5. American Dragon beat El Samurai (9:42) with a Dragon suplex hold.
6. Minoru Tanaka beat Tatsuo Nakano (8:35) with a backslide.
7. Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Blue Wolf (11:18) with a heel hold cutback cradle.
8. European Catch Rules: Tatsumi Fujinami beat Osamu Nishimura (R4 1:00) with a spinning toehold cutback cradle.


NJPW/Muga "2002 MUGA IN TOKYO", 10/6/02 (SXW/WPW)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,611 Fans - Super No Vacancy
1. Masahito Kakihara beat Toru Yano (4:33) with the Kaki Cutter.
2. Tatsuo Nakano beat Nobuyuki Kurashima (8:19) by KO.
3. Rocky Romero & Ricky Reyes beat Pinoi Boy & Jack The Bull (11:00) when Romero pinned Pinoi after a double plaston kneedrop.
4. American Dragon beat Wataru Inoue (8:19) with a cobra clutch crossface hold.
5. Kenzo Suzuki beat Blue Wolf (11:42) with a jumping knee attack.
6. Manabu Nakanishi & Masayuki Naruse beat Yuji Nagata & Minoru Tanaka (15:10) when Nakanishi used an Argentine backbreaker on Tanaka.
7. Tatsumi Fujinami beat Hiroshi Tanahashi (7:30) with a cross armbreaker cutback cradle.
8. Takashi Iizuka Return Match: Osamu Nishimura beat Takashi Iizuka (24:14) with a ground Cobra Twist.



NJPW/Muga "TOKYO DOME EVE", 10/7/01
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,906 Fans - Super No Vacancy Full House
1. Katsushi Takemura beat Kazuhiko Shoda (10:54) with a crab hold.
2. Shinichi Nakano "Muga" Retirement Match: Shinichi Nakano beat Nobuyuki Kurashima (9:57) with a cross armbreaker.
3. Tony St. Clair beat Hiroshi Tanahashi (9:45) with an inside cradle.
4. Steve Keirn & Brian Blair beat Kengo Kimura & Wataru Inoue (12:13) when Blair used a reverse DDT on Inoue.
5. Exhibition Match: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Bob Backlund went to a draw (7:00) when the time limit expired.
6. Dory Funk Jr. beat Osamu Nishimura (22:30) with a backslide.

Muga "DREAM-2", 4/6/99
ACROS Fukuoka
0. Exhibition Match: Tatsumi Fujinami beat Shinichi Nakano (12:16) with a Dragon sleeper.
1. Nobuyuki Kurashima beat Katsushi Takemura (10:51) by pinfall.
2. Meiko Satomura
beat Sonoko Kato
(10:34) with an STF.
3. Ikuto Hidaka
beat Mach Junji
(13:33) with a cross kneelock.
4. Azteca
beat Hiroyoshi Kotsubo (13:05) by pinfall.
5. Masashi Aoyagi vs. Shigeo Okumura went to a draw (R3) when the time limit expired.
6. Kazuhiko Shoda beat Tadahiro Fujisaki (11:16) with a modified la magistral.

Muga "DREAM-1", 12/8/98
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
0. Exhibition Match: Tatsumi Fujinami beat Shinichi Nakano (11:50) with a Dragon sleeper.
1. Meiko Satomura
vs. Chikayo Nagashima
went to a draw (10:00) when the time limit expired.
2. Ikuto Hidaka
beat Mach Junji
(10:43) with a cross kneelock.
3. Hiroyoshi Kotsubo beat Katsushi Takemura (11:35) with a reverse achilles tendon hold.
4. Nobuyuki Kurashima beat Tadahiro Fujisaki (10:39) with a cross armbreaker.
5. Masakazu Fukuda beat Kazuhiko Shoda (14:20) with a Tiger suplex hold.

Muga "STARTING POINT DRAGON RETURN", 5/15/98
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2
1. Hiroyoshi Kotsubo beat Katsushi Takemura (9:35) with a single-leg crab hold.
2. Alexander Otsuka
beat Nobuyuki Kurashima (12:58) with a triangle choke hold.
3. Tatsuhito Takaiwa beat Kazuhiko Shoda (7:09) by pinfall.
4. Osamu Nishimura beat Masakazu Fukuda (18:14) with an arm knot hold.
5. Tatsumi Fujinami & Yuki Ishikawa
beat Shinichi Nakano & Hisakatsu Oya
(15:57) when Fujinami used a cross armbreaker on Oya.

Muga "DRAGON SOUL INITIATION", 3/3/98
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1. Darren Malonis beat Lewis Perena (8:18) with a leg split.
2. Shane Rigby beat Katsushi Takemura (9:46) with an achilles tendon hold.
3. Kazuhiko Shoda beat Hiroyoshi Kotsubo (9:18) by pinfall.
4. Masakazu Fukuda beat Nobuyuki Kurashima (12:50) with a cross armbreaker.
5. Osamu Nishimura & Yuki Ishikawa
beat Tatsumi Fujinami & Shinichi Nakano (18:23) when Nishimura used a Northern Light suplex hold on Nakano.

Muga "MUGA WRESTLING TOURNAMENT III PART II", 7/23/97
Beppu B-Con Plaza
1. Finlay Buchanan beat Kazuhiko Shoda (10:53) with a cross armbreaker.
2. John Patrick beat Katsushi Takemura (11:00) with a leg split.
3. Yuki Ishikawa
beat Nobuyuki Kurashima (6:23) with a chickenwing armlock.
4. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament III - Semi Final: Shane Rigby beat Alexander Otsuka
(9:15) with a leg split.
5. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament III - Semi Final: Darren Malonis beat Masakazu Fukuda (10:30) with a headscissors hold.
6. Tatsumi Fujinami beat Shinichi Nakano (8:37) with a cross armbreaker.
7. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament III - Final: Darren Malonis beat Shane Rigby (8:59) with a cross armbreaker.
Muga "MUGA WRESTLING TOURNAMENT III PART I", 7/22/97
Hakata Star Lane
1. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament III - Round 1: Shane Rigby beat John Patrick (11:57) with a Captured suplex hold.
2. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament III - Round 1: Alexander Otsuka
beat Katsushi Takemura (debut) (9:05) with a triangle choke hold.
3. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament III - Round 1: Darren Malonis beat Finlay Buchanan (9:10) with an STF.
4. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament III - Round 1: Masakazu Fukuda beat Kazuhiko Shoda (8:03) with a leg split.
5. Shinichi Nakano beat Nobuyuki Kurashima (6:25) with a cross armbreaker.
6. Tatsumi Fujinami beat Yuki Ishikawa
(6:11) with a cross armbreaker.

Muga "TAKING A LESSON FROM THE PAST", 3/30/97
Osaka ATC Hall
1. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament II - Round 1: Shane Rigby beat Joseph Guila (15:58) with a heel hold.
2. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament II - Round 1: Nobuyuki Kurashima beat Kazuhiko Shoda (10:15) with a cross armbreaker.
3. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament II - Round 1: Darren Malonis beat Paul Wood (6:48) with a backslide.
4. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament II - Round 1: Osamu Nishimura beat Chris Bacon (10:57) with a chickenwing facelock.
5. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament II - Semi Final: Shane Rigby beat Nobuyuki Kurashima (8:35) with a leg split.
6. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament II - Semi Final: Osamu Nishimura beat Darren Malonis (11:57) with a Japanese leg roll clutch hold.
7. Tatsumi Fujinami beat Shinichi Nakano (8:57) with a kneelock.
8. Lancashire Wrestling Tournament II - Final: Shane Rigby beat Osamu Nishimura (27:59) with a leg split.

Muga "CATCH AS CATCH CAN", 12/15/96
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1. Black Cat beat Kazuhiko Shoda (6:12) with a chickenwing armlock.
2. Joseph Guila beat Nobuyuki Kurashima (11:25) with a chickenwing facelock.
3. Chris Bacon beat John Patrick (11:25) by pinfall.
4. Osamu Nishimura & Shane Rigby beat Tatsumi Fujinami & Darren Malonis (12:56) when Rigby used a heel hold on Malonis.

Muga "THE CATCH OF LANCASHIRE PART II", 10/7/96
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1. Nobuyuki Kurashima beat Kazuhiko Shoda (8:44) with a cross armbreaker.
2. John Patrick beat Joseph Guila (6:45) with a facelock hold.
3. The Catch of Lancashire - Final: Osamu Nishimura beat Shane Rigby (19:45) with a Northern Light suplex hold.
4. The Catch of Lancashire - 3rd Place Match: Darren Malonis beat Darren Fletcher (6:25) by pinfall.
5. Shane Rigby beat Joe Malenko (6:43) with a leg split.
6. Tatsumi Fujinami beat Osamu Nishimura (14:43) with a triangle choke hold.
Muga "THE CATCH OF LANCASHIRE PART I", 10/5/96
Omiya Skate Center
1. The Catch of Lancashire - Round 1: Shane Rigby beat Nobuyuki Kurashima (debut) (7:06) with a chickenwing facelock.
2. The Catch of Lancashire - Round 1: Darren Malonis beat Kazuhiko Shoda (debut) (6:29) by pinfall.
3. The Catch of Lancashire - Round 1: Darren Fletcher beat Joseph Guila (5:52) with a leg split.
4. The Catch of Lancashire - Round 1: Osamu Nishimura beat John Patrick (9:41) with a Northern Light suplex hold.
5. The Catch of Lancashire - Semi Final: Shane Rigby beat Darren Malonis (9:28) with a cross kneelock.
6. The Catch of Lancashire - Semi Final: Osamu Nishimura beat Darren Fletcher (9:25) with a ground Cobra Twist.
7. Tatsumi Fujinami beat Joe Malenko (9:51) by head height pinfall.

Muga "ONCE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE", 4/7/96
Osaka ATC Hall
1. Shane Rigby beat Chris Bacon (12:02) with a Captured suplex hold.
2. Joe Malenko beat Tokimitsu Ishizawa (11:57) with a Butterfly Lock.
3. Akira Nogami beat Chavo Guerrero Sr. (7:21) with a crucifix cradle.
4. Osamu Nishimura beat Darren Malonis (12:57) with a Cobra Twist.
5. Tatsumi Fujinami & Shiro Koshinaka beat Koki Kitahara
& Nobutaka Araya
(10:53) when Koshinaka pinned Araya.

Muga "ONCE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE", 4/6/96
Kurashiki City Park Fukuda Gymnasium
1. Tokimitsu Ishizawa beat Shane Rigby (10:05) with a cross armbreaker.
2. Osamu Nishimura beat Chris Bacon (12:23) with a Cobra Twist.
3. Akira Nogami beat Joe Malenko (11:57) by pinfall.
4. Tatsumi Fujinami beat Chavo Guerrero Sr. (10:49) with a Dragon sleeper.

Muga, 12/13/95
Hakata Star Lane
1. Black Cat beat Allen Sullivan (13:24) with a Scorpion Deathlock.
2. Shane Rigby beat Charlton Jenkins (12:50) with a kneelock.
3. Osamu Nishimura beat Darren Malonis (15:19) with a wakigatame.
4. Tatsumi Fujinami beat Joe Malenko (11:55) with a Dragon sleeper.

Muga "DEBUT SHOW", 10/29/95
Osaka ATC Hall
1. Darren Malonis beat Charlton Jenkins (10:00) with a chickenwing facelock.
2. Osamu Nishimura beat Shane Rigby (19:05) with a Northern Light suplex hold.
3. Tatsumi Fujinami beat Tully Blanchard (13:05) with a Dragon sleeper.