The is a professional wrestling tag team tournament held by Pro Wrestling Zero1. It was created in 2009.
It was preceded by the Passion Cup Tag Tournament in 2008, which was won by Kohei Sato and Ryouji Sai.
The Furinkazan was originally held in a round-robin format, with two points for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss. The teams finishing atop the two blocks advanced to the finals to determine the winner. However, since 2012 the tournament has been held in a single-elimination format under the name .
Results
List of winners Year Winners Total wonas a team2009 Shinjiro Otani and Akebono 12010 Kohei Sato and Kamikaze 12011 Masato Tanaka and Fujita "Jr." Hayato 12012 James Raideen and Zeus 12013 and Yusaku Obata 12014 Masato Tanaka and Takashi Sugiura 12016 Yusaku Obata and Kai 12017 Shogun Okamoto and Yutaka Yoshie 12018 Kohei Sato and Sugi 12019 Yuji Hino and Yuji Okabayashi 12020 Shinjiro Otani and Yumehito Imanari 12021 Tomohiko Hashimoto and Gajo 12022 and 12023 Masato Tanaka and Yoshikazu Yokoyama 12025 Junya Matsunaga and Tsugutaka Sato 1
2009 The 2009 Furinkazan featured two blocks of five and ran from December 9 through December 19. Winner, Akebono & Shinjiro Otani, went on to challenge and defeat Munenori Sawa & Ikuto Hidaka for NWA Intercontinental Tag Team titles.
+Final standings Block A Block B Akebono & Shinjiro Otani 6 Masato Tanaka & Masaaki Mochizuki 6 Ikuto Hidaka & Munenori Sawa 5 Kohei Sato & Kamikaze 5 "Mr. X" Minoru Fujita & "Mr. XX" Takuya Sugawara 4 Shiro Koshinaka & Hajime Ohara 5 Steve Corino & Kintaro Kanemura 3 Rikiya Fudo & Shito Ueda 2 Ryouji Sai & Kenta Kakinuma 2 Tsutomu Oosugi & Hercules Senga 2
Block A AkebonoOtani CorinoKanemura FujitaSugawara HidakaSawa SaiKakinuma Block B FudoUeda KoshinakaOhara OosugiSenga SatoKamikaze TanakaMochizuki AkebonoOtani X AkebonoOtani(13:31) AkebonoOtani(14:59) HidakaSawa(18:26) AkebonoOtani(16:45) FudoUeda X KoshinakaOhara(16:29) FudoUeda(11:38) SatoKAMIKAZE(17:29) TanakaMochizuki(12:51) CorinoKanemura AkebonoOtani(13:31) X CorinoKanemura(13:51) Draw(17:52) SaiKakinuma(19:31) KoshinakaOhara KoshinakaOhara(16:29) X OosugiSenga(11:58) Draw(30:00) KoshinakiOhara(14:44) FujitaSugawara AkebonoOtani(14:59) CorinoKanemura(13:51) X FujitaSugawara(13:18) FujitaSugawara(14:43) OosugiSenga FudoUeda(11:38) OosugiSenga(11:58) X SatoKAMIKAZE(13:48) TanakaMochizuki(13:26) HidakaSawa HidakaSawa(18:26) Draw(17:52) FujitaSugawara(14:26) X HidakaSawa(15:07) SatoKamikaze SatoKAMIKAZE(17:29) Draw(30:00) SatoKAMIKAZE(13:48) X TanakaMochizuki(12:44) SaiKakinuma AkebonoOtani(16:45) SaiKakinuma(19:31) FujitaSugawara(14:43) HidakaSawa(15:07) X TanakaMochizuki TanakaMochizuki(12:51) KoshinakiOhara(14:44) TanakaMochizuki(13:26) TanakaMochizuki(12:44) X
2010 The 2010 Furinkazan featured two blocks of five and ran from December 11 through December 21. The tournament was contested for the vacant NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship.
+Final standings Block A Block B Kamikaze & Kohei Sato 8 Daisuke Sekimoto & Masato Tanaka 7 Akebono & Shinjiro Otani 6 Funaki & Yutaka Yoshie 6 Phil Davis & Sean Davis 2 Fujita Hayato & Ikuto Hidaka 5 Hikaru Sato and Munenori Sawa 2 Ryouji Sai & Shinsuke Watataka 2 Kintaro Kanemura and Takuya Sugawara 2 Dan Gorham aka Danny Miles & Yuzuru Saito 0
Block A AkebonoOtani P.DavisS.Davis KamikazeK.Sato KanemuraSugawara SawaH.Sato Block B HayatoHidaka FunakiYoshie GorhamSaito SaiWakataka SekimotoTanaka AkebonoOtani X AkebonoOtani(14:47) KamikazeK.Sato(16:00) AkebonoOtani(16:10) AkebonoOtani(18:32) HayatoHidaka X FunakiYoshie(16:29) HayatoHidaka(16:20) HayatoHidaka(17:10) Draw(30:00) P.DavisS.Davis AkebonoOtani(14:47) X KamikazeK. Sato(15:49) KanemuraSugawara(9:58) P.DavisS.Davis(12:11) FunakiYoshie FunakiYoshie(16:29) X FunakiYoshie(13:11) FunakiYoshie(13:59) SekimotoTanaka(9:42) KamikazeK.Sato KamikazeK.Sato(16:00) KamikazeK. Sato(15:49) X KamikazeK. Sato(15:42) KamikazeK.Sato(20:59) GorhamSaito HayatoHidaka(16:20) FunakiYoshie(13:11) X SaiWakataka(9:41) SekimotoTanaka(15:28) KanemuraSugawara AkebonoOtani(16:10) KanemuraSugawara(9:58) KamikazeK. Sato(15:42) X SawaH.Sato(14:12) SaiWakataka HayatoHidaka(17:10) FunakiYoshie(13:59) SaiWakataka(9:41) X SekimotoTanaka(14:35) SawaH.Sato AkebonoOtani(18:32) P.DavisS.Davis(12:11) KamikazeK.Sato(20:59) SawaH.Sato(14:12) X SekimotoTanaka Draw(30:00) SekimotoTanaka(9:42) SekimotoTanaka(15:28) SekimotoTanaka(14:35) X
2011 The 2011 Furinkazan featured two blocks of five and ran from December 8 through December 18.
+Final standings Block A Block B Shinjiro Otani & Yoshikazu Yokoyama 6 Fujita Hayato & Masato Tanaka 7 Raideen & Ryouji Sai 5 Kamikaze & Kohei Sato 5 Ikuto Hidaka & Takafumi Ito 4 Akebono & Daichi Hashimoto 4 Takuya Sugawara & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 3 Schwarz & Weiss 2 Brother & Buffa 2 Mineo Fujita and Shito Ueda 2
Block A BrotherBuffa HidakaIto RaideenSai OtaniYokoyama SugawaraKikuchi Block B AkebonoHashimoto HayatoTanaka KamikazeSato FujitaUeda SchwarzWeiss BrotherBuffa X HidakaIto(13:41) RaideenSai(13:38) OtaniYokoyama(12:13) BrotherBuffa(8:16) AkebonoHashimoto X HayatoTanaka(8:03) AkebonoHashimoto(18:41) FujitaUeda(11:12) AkebonoHashimoto(15:15) HidakaIto HidakaIto(13:41) X RaideenSai(15:42) HidakaIto(26:10) SugawaraKikuchi(16:49) HayatoTanaka HayatoTanaka(8:03) X Draw(30:00) HayatoTanaka(14:25) HayatoTanaka(16:48) RaideenSai RaideenSai(13:38) RaideenSai(15:42) X OtaniYokoyama(16:29) Draw(30:00) KamikazeSato AkebonoHashimoto(18:41) Draw(30:00) X KamikazeSato(17:10) KamikazeSato(13:21) OtaniYokoyama OtaniYokoyama(12:13) HidakaIto(26:10) OtaniYokoyama(16:29) X OtaniYokoyama(16:18) FujitaUeda FujitaUeda(11:12) HayatoTanaka(14:25) KamikazeSato(17:10) X SchwarzWeiss(13:30) SugawaraKikuchi BrotherBuffa(8:16) SugawaraKikuchi(16:49) Draw(30:00) OtaniYokoyama(16:18) X SchwarzWeiss AkebonoHashimoto(15:15) HayatoTanaka(16:48) KamikazeSato(13:21) SchwarzWeiss(13:30) X
2012 The 2012 Furinkazan was held from December 13 to December 15. For the first time, the tournament was held in a single-elimination format.
2013 The 2013 Furinkazan was held from December 1 through December 17.
2014 The 2014 Furinkazan was held from December 14 to December 24.
2016 The 2016 Furinkazan was held from December 10 to December 18.
2017 The 2017 Furinkazan was held from November 3 to November 23.
2018 The 2018 Furinkazan was held from December 9 to December 22.
2019 The 2019 Furinkazan was held from October 30 to November 17.
2020 The 2020 Furinkazan was held from December 6 to December 25.
2021 The 2021 Furinkazan will run from October 1 to November 12.
2022 The 2022 Furinkazan was held from November 11 to December 16.
First rounds (November 11) Junya Matsunaga and Takafumi defeated Noriyuki Yoshida and Tsugutaka Sato (18:03) Aja Kong and Satsuki Nagao defeated Voodoo Murders (Chris Vice and Yoshikazu Yokoyama) (10:52) Masato Tanaka and Ryo Hoshino defeated Fuminori Abe and Takuya Sugawara (13:24) Kubota Brothers (Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota) defeated Leo Isaka and Shoki Kitamura (13:39)
Second rounds (November 20) Takumi Sakurai and Tomohiko Hashimoto defeated Aja Kong and Satsuki Nagao (16:24)
Semifinals (November 26 and December 11) Masato Tanaka and Ryo Hoshino defeated Takumi Sakurai and Tomohiko Hashimoto (11:46) Kubota Brothers (Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota) defeated Junya Matsunaga and Takafumi (13:59)
Final (December 16) Kubota Brothers (Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota) defeated Masato Tanaka and Ryo Hoshino (15:45)
2023 The 2023 Furinkazan was held from November 3 to November 25.
2025 The 2025 Furinkazan was held from December 5 to December 27. It was contested for the vacant Intercontinental Tag Team Championship.
See also World's Strongest Tag Determination League G1 Tag League Professional wrestling in Japan Global Tag League Saikyo Tag League
References
External links
http://www.cagematch.net/?id=26&nr=2488 http://www.cagematch.net/?id=26&nr=2816 http://www.cagematch.net/?id=26&nr=3142