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ECW/IWA Japan
ECW/IWA Japan
	Korakuen Hall.
Promotion	Extreme Championship Wrestling; International Wrestling Association of Japan
Date	August 10, 1996; August 11, 1996
City	Yokohama, Japan; (August 10, 1996); Tokyo, Japan; (August 10, 1996)
Venue	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium; (August 10, 1996); Korakuen Hall; (August 11, 1996)
Attendance	1,700 (August 10, 1996); 2,000 (August 11, 1996)
Event chronology
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In professional wrestling, ECW/IWA Japan was a tour of Japan staged by the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States-based professional wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling in August 1996 conjunction with the International Wrestling Association of Japan. The tour featured two events: the first in the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium, Yokohama on August 10 and the second in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo on August 11.^[1]^[2]^[3] Highlights from the tour aired on the August 13, 1996 episode of ECW Hardcore TV.

Background

The tour marked ECW's first tour of Japan. It was the culmination of a working agreement between ECW and IWA Japan that saw IWA Japan mainstay Tarzan Goto travel to the United States in July 1996 to wrestle at the ECW supercard Heat Wave.

ECW staged a second tour of Japan in December 1998, this time in conjunction with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling.

Results

August 10, 1996

The first show of the tour was held on August 10, 1996 in the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama, Japan. It was attended by approximately 1,700 people.

No.	Results	Stipulations
1	Orito defeated Felinito	Singles match
2	Kiyoko Ichiki defeated Emi Motokawa	Singles match
3	Keizo Matsuda and Tudor the Turtle defeated Jun Nagaoka and Takeshi Sato	Tag team match
4	Keisuke Yamada and Takashi Okano defeated Flying Kid Ichihara and Ryo Miyake	Tag team match
5	Buh Buh Ray Dudley defeated Katsumi Hirano	Singles match
6	The Blackhearts (Blackheart Agony and Blackheart Destruction) defeated Hiroshi Itakura and Leatherface	Tag team match
7	The Eliminators (John Kronus and Perry Saturn) defeated Tarzan Goto	Handicap match
8	Terry Gordy and Tommy Dreamer defeated Raven and Stevie Richards	Tag team match

August 11, 1996

The second and final show of the tour was held on August 11, 1996 in Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. It was attended by a sell-out crowd of 2,000 people.

No.

Results

Stipulations

1

Orito defeated Felinito

Singles match

2

Emi Motokawa defeated Kiyoko Ichiki

Singles match

3

Hiroshi Itakura, Katsumi Hirano and Tudor the Turtle defeated Akinori Tsukioka, Flying Kid Ichihara and Ryo Miyake

Six man tag team match

4

Stevie Richards defeated Keizo Matsuda

Singles match

5

Leatherface and Terry Gordy defeated The Blackhearts (Blackheart Agony and Blackheart Destruction)

Tag team match

6

The Eliminators (John Kronus and Perry Saturn) (c) defeated Keisuke Yamada and Takashi Okano

Tag team match for the ECW World Tag Team Championship

7

Raven (c) defeated Tommy Dreamer (with Beulah McGillicutty)

Singles match for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship

8

Tarzan Goto (c) defeated Buh Buh Ray Dudley

Singles match for the IWA World Heavyweight Championship

(c)	– the champion(s) heading into the match

References

^ Meltzer, Dave (August 1996). "Wrestling Observer". Dave Meltzer. Retrieved January 31, 2015. ECW in conjunction with IWA runs two shows in Japan.
^ "Raven results match archive: August 1996". TheRavenEffect.com.
^ Johannes Meyer (25 January 2013). Join the Revolution: Der inoffizielle ECW Almanach. Books on Demand. pp. 143–. ISBN 978-3-8482-3782-1.

[Meltzer-1] Meltzer, Dave (August 1996). "Wrestling Observer". Dave Meltzer. Retrieved January 31, 2015. ECW in conjunction with IWA runs two shows in Japan.

[Raven-2] "Raven results match archive: August 1996". TheRavenEffect.com.

[Meyer2013-3] Johannes Meyer (25 January 2013). Join the Revolution: Der inoffizielle ECW Almanach. Books on Demand. pp. 143–. ISBN 978-3-8482-3782-1.

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