Sakura Tag Festival

Held in the Cherry Blossom bloom season, the Sakura Tag Festival was created in 2004 to decipher the strongest duo in FURY. Due to unfortunate circomstances, there wouldn't be a sequel to the initial tournament until 2008. Coincidentally, the tournament was won by the same team that captured the initial trophy in 2004, the STRONG RIDERS: Otsuo Kayusa and Kyoshima Yosuken.

2004 (4/01/2004 to 4/29/2004)

1. Otsuo Kayusa & Kyoshima Yosuken [10]
2. Tetsuhiro Kaneda & Takayuki Morita [10]
3. ZERO Kubota & TSUKYO [8]
4. Tetsuhisa NAKAI & Daichi Matsumoto [6]
5. Daisuke Iwata & Shigeru Iwasaki [6]
6. Kenji Tanamura & Yoshihiro Shimoda [6]
7. Masafuji Yoshida & Chikao Kessin [4]
8. Etsuya Kawachi & Kazumitsu Takemura [4]

Final: Otsuo Kayusa & Kyoshima Yosuken beat Tetsuhiro Kaneda & Takayuki Morita (21:18) when Kayusa used the Olympic-Asp on Morita.

2008 (3/19/2008 to 4/01/2008)

1. Masafuji Yoshida & Chikao Kessin [8]
2. Otsuo Kayusa & Kyoshima Yosuken [8]
3. TAKU & Mastodon Fukuda [6]
4. Hiroaki Nakata & Tetsuhisa NAKAI [4]
5. Akira Takayoshi & Yoshihiro Shimoda [2]
6. Kotaro Ota & Fumihiko Shirai [0]

Final: Otsuo Kayusa & Kyoshima Yosuken beat Masafuji Yoshida & Chikao Kessin (21:11) when Yosuken used a Sleeper hold on Yoshida.

2009 (4/16/2009 to 4/25/2009)

A Block:
1. Akira Takayoshi & Naoyuki Watanabe [10]
2. Otsuo Kayusa & Kyoshima Yosuken [8]
3. RYUJI & Manabe Tsuji [6]
4. Kotaro Ota & Fumihiko Shirai [4]
5. Tetsuhisa NAKAI & Ryuugo Nagashima [2]
6. Masafuji Yoshida & Tetsujin [0]

B Block:
1. TAKU & Mastodon Fukuda [9]
2. Jet Jaguar & GALLEON [8]
3. Hiroaki Nakata & Yoshihiro Shimoda [7]
4. ATSUKA & YAKUTA [4]
5. Etsuya Kawachi & Hidaka Kamon [2]
6. Go Taniguchi & Kinniku Kamen Nisei [0]

Final: Akira Takayoshi & Naoyuki Watanabe beat TAKU & Mastodon Fukuda (34:03) when Takayoshi used an avalanche style Brainbuster on Fukuda.

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