Furinkazan (professional wrestling)
The Furinkazan 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 Furinkazan Tag Tournament.
Results
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.| Block A | Akebono Otani | Corino Kanemura | Fujita Sugawara | Hidaka Sawa | Sai Kakinuma | Block B | Fudo Ueda | Koshinaka Ohara | Oosugi Senga | Sato Kamikaze | Tanaka Mochizuki |
| Akebono Otani | X | Akebono Otani | Akebono Otani | Hidaka Sawa | Akebono Otani | Fudo Ueda | X | Koshinaka Ohara | Fudo Ueda | Sato KAMIKAZE | Tanaka Mochizuki |
| Corino Kanemura | Akebono Otani | X | Corino Kanemura | Draw | Sai Kakinuma | Koshinaka Ohara | Koshinaka Ohara | X | Oosugi Senga | Draw | Koshinaki Ohara |
| Fujita Sugawara | Akebono Otani | Corino Kanemura | X | Fujita Sugawara | Fujita Sugawara | Oosugi Senga | Fudo Ueda | Oosugi Senga | X | Sato KAMIKAZE | Tanaka Mochizuki |
| Hidaka Sawa | Hidaka Sawa | Draw | Fujita Sugawara | X | Hidaka Sawa | Sato Kamikaze | Sato KAMIKAZE | Draw | Sato KAMIKAZE | X | Tanaka Mochizuki |
| Sai Kakinuma | Akebono Otani | Sai Kakinuma | Fujita Sugawara | Hidaka Sawa | X | Tanaka Mochizuki | Tanaka Mochizuki | Koshinaki Ohara | Tanaka Mochizuki | Tanaka Mochizuki | 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.| Block A | Akebono Otani | P.Davis S.Davis | Kamikaze K.Sato | Kanemura Sugawara | Sawa H.Sato | Block B | Hayato Hidaka | Funaki Yoshie | Gorham Saito | Sai Wakataka | Sekimoto Tanaka |
| Akebono Otani | X | Akebono Otani | Kamikaze K.Sato | Akebono Otani | Akebono Otani | Hayato Hidaka | X | Funaki Yoshie | Hayato Hidaka | Hayato Hidaka | Draw |
| P.Davis S.Davis | Akebono Otani | X | Kamikaze K. Sato | Kanemura Sugawara | P.Davis S.Davis | Funaki Yoshie | Funaki Yoshie | X | Funaki Yoshie | Funaki Yoshie | Sekimoto Tanaka |
| Kamikaze K.Sato | Kamikaze K.Sato | Kamikaze K. Sato | X | Kamikaze K. Sato | Kamikaze K.Sato | Gorham Saito | Hayato Hidaka | Funaki Yoshie | X | Sai Wakataka | Sekimoto Tanaka |
| Kanemura Sugawara | Akebono Otani | Kanemura Sugawara | Kamikaze K. Sato | X | Sawa H.Sato | Sai Wakataka | Hayato Hidaka | Funaki Yoshie | Sai Wakataka | X | Sekimoto Tanaka |
| Sawa H.Sato | Akebono Otani | P.Davis S.Davis | Kamikaze K.Sato | Sawa H.Sato | X | Sekimoto Tanaka | Draw | Sekimoto Tanaka | Sekimoto Tanaka | Sekimoto Tanaka | X |
2011
The 2011 Furinkazan featured two blocks of five and ran from December 8 through December 18.| Block A | Brother Buffa | Hidaka Ito | Raideen Sai | Otani Yokoyama | Sugawara Kikuchi | Block B | Akebono Hashimoto | Hayato Tanaka | Kamikaze Sato | Fujita Ueda | Schwarz Weiss |
| Brother Buffa | X | Hidaka Ito | Raideen Sai | Otani Yokoyama | Brother Buffa | Akebono Hashimoto | X | Hayato Tanaka | Akebono Hashimoto | Fujita Ueda | Akebono Hashimoto |
| Hidaka Ito | Hidaka Ito | X | Raideen Sai | Hidaka Ito | Sugawara Kikuchi | Hayato Tanaka | Hayato Tanaka | X | Draw | Hayato Tanaka | Hayato Tanaka |
| Raideen Sai | Raideen Sai | Raideen Sai | X | Otani Yokoyama | Draw | Kamikaze Sato | Akebono Hashimoto | Draw | X | Kamikaze Sato | Kamikaze Sato |
| Otani Yokoyama | Otani Yokoyama | Hidaka Ito | Otani Yokoyama | X | Otani Yokoyama | Fujita Ueda | Fujita Ueda | Hayato Tanaka | Kamikaze Sato | X | Schwarz Weiss |
| Sugawara Kikuchi | Brother Buffa | Sugawara Kikuchi | Draw | Otani Yokoyama | X | Schwarz Weiss | Akebono Hashimoto | Hayato Tanaka | Kamikaze Sato | Schwarz Weiss | 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
- *Junya Matsunaga and Takafumi defeated Noriyuki Yoshida and Tsugutaka Sato
- *Aja Kong and Satsuki Nagao defeated Voodoo Murders
- *Masato Tanaka and Ryo Hoshino defeated Fuminori Abe and Takuya Sugawara
- *Kubota Brothers defeated Leo Isaka and Shoki Kitamura
- Second rounds
- *Takumi Sakurai and Tomohiko Hashimoto defeated Aja Kong and Satsuki Nagao
- Semifinals
- *Masato Tanaka and Ryo Hoshino defeated Takumi Sakurai and Tomohiko Hashimoto
- *Kubota Brothers defeated Junya Matsunaga and Takafumi
- Final
- *Kubota Brothers defeated Masato Tanaka and Ryo Hoshino