OZ Academy

Originally started as a stable in JWP & GAEA in 1997 led by Mayumi Ozaki, they started running their own shows (1 or 2 a year) in late 1998 until 2005. After GAEA closed down in 05 they picked up the slack and in December of that year began running more regularly at the rate of around 1 show a month which is almost always shown on TV.

Many of their shows consist of almost nothing but the OZ Academy members themselves but a large number of EX GAEA & AJW wrestlers also appear on a semi regular basis.

OZ ACADEMY 12/11/2005 (Aired 1/22/06)

1. Azumi Hyuga vs Carlos Amano 8:30 of 12:30 Shown
2. Mayumi Ozaki vs Tojuki Leon 9:00 of 13:00 Shown
3. Chikayo Nagashima vs Akino 13:30 of ??? DRAW
4. Aja Kong & Mariko Yoshida vs Ayako Hamada & Hikaru 16:00
5. Meiko Satomura, Amazing Kong & Dynamite Kansai vs Mayumi Ozaki, Chikayo Nagashima & Carlos Amano 21:00

OZ ACADEMY 1/22/2006 (Aired 2/15/06)

1. Kumiko Maekawa vs Chikayo Nagashima 12:30
2. Carlos Amano vs Kaoru Ito 10:00 of 16:00 Shown
3. Mayumi Ozaki vs Tomoko Watanabe 11:30 of 13:30 Shown
4. Jaguar Yokota & Dynamite Kansai vs Aja Kong & Genki Misae 13:00
5. Mayumi Ozaki, Chikayo Nagashima & Carlos Amano vs Manami Toyota, Meiko Satomura & Nanae Takahashi 23:30

OZ ACADEMY 2/19/2006 (Aired 3/18/06)

1. Carlos Amano vs Kyoko Kimura 13:00 of 17:30 Shown
2. (Handicap Match) Dynamite Kansai Chikayo Nagashima & Police vs Nanae Takahashi 15:30 of 16:00 Shown
3. Mayumi Ozaki vs Mika Nishio 12:00 of 16:00 Shown
4. (Elimination Match) Aja Kong, Kumiko Maekawa, Kaoru Ito & Tomoko Watanabe vs Mayumi Ozaki, Chikayo Nagashima, Dynamite Kansai & Carlos Amano 24:00

OZ ACADEMY 3/26/2006

1. Chikayo Nagashima vs Nanae Takahashi 10:00
2. Jaguar Yokota vs Shark Tsuchiya 8:00 of 16:00 Shown
3. Aja Kong & Amazing Kong vs Mayumi Ozaki & Dynamite Kansai 12:00 of 14:30 Shown
4. Mayumi Ozaki, Dynamite Kansai & Chikayo Nagashima vs Kaori Yoneyama, Ayumi Kurihara & Apple Miyuki 11:30
5. Carlos Amano vs Mika Nishio 23:30

(Main event is highly recomended. One of the best matches of the year and quite possibly the best singles match Nishio ever had)

OZ Academy 4/30/2006 (aired 5/25/2006)

1. (Handicap Match) Chikayo Nagashima vs Nanae Takahashi, Sakie Maemura & Hikaru 12:00 of 13:00 Shown
2. Dynamite Kansai vs Gami 11:30
3. Manami Toyota vs Mika Nishio 11:00
4. Dynamite Kansai & Chikayo Nagashima vs Aja Kong & Amazing Kong 13:00
5. Mayumi Ozaki vs Carlos Amano 16:00

(undercard is a little weak compared to their previous shows but the main event is def worth checking out. Show also contains Nishio's last match as she gets badly injured when Toyota lands wrong doing a dive to the outside)

OZ Academy 6/18/2006 (aired 7/22/2006)

1. Chikayo Nagashima & Tojuki Leon vs Carlos Amano & Bull Fight Sora 12:00
2. Amazing Kong vs Gami 8:00
3. Nanae Takahashi, Hikaru & Natsuki Head vs Manami Toyota, Aja Kong & Ayumi Kurihara 19:00
4. Michiko Ohmukai & Dynamite Kansai vs Akino & Mayumi Ozaki 11:30
5. (Secret Captains Match) Michiko Ohmukai, AKINO, Tojuki Leon, Ayumi Kurihara & Bull Fight Sora vs Maymi Ozaki, Dynamite Kansai, Carlos Amano, Chikayo Nagashima & Police 6:00

(1 match show mostly)

OZ Academy 7/29/2006 & 7/30/2006 (aired 8/19/2006)

7/29

1. Ran YuYu vs Ayumi Kurihara 5:30
2. Amazing Kong vs Bullfight Sora 7:30
3. Aja Kong, Akino & Tojuki Leon vs Manami Toyota, Toshie Uematsu & Hiroyo Muto 12:00
4. Dynamite Kansai & Carlos Amano vs Mayumi Ozaki & Chikayo Nagashima 11:30

7/30

5. Manami Toyota vs Bullfight Sora 8:00
6. Toshie Uematsu vs Hiroyo Muto 9:30
7. Mayumi Ozaki, Dynamite Kansai, Chikayo Nagashima & Carlos Amano vs Aja Kong, Amazing Kong, Akino & Ran Yu Yu 17:00

(Minus the Bullfight Sora matches, real good show from top to bottom highlighed by the tag matches. Main event is the best match they've had in several months)


OZ Academy 8/12/2006 (aired 9/8/2006)

1. Carlos Amano vs Mayumi Ozaki 4:30
2. Chikayo Nagashima vs Dynamite Kansai 0:30
3. Chikyao Nagashima vs Mayumi Ozaki 8:00
4. Dynamite Kansai vs Carlos Amano 6:30
5. Chikayo Nagashima vs Carlos Amano 8:30
6. Mayumi Ozaki vs Dynamite Kansai 14:30 of 15:00 DRAW
7. (Dress Up Wild Fight) Mayumi Ozaki & Carlos Amano vs Dynamite Kansai & Chikayo Nagashima 16:30

(1 night round robin tournament between all the OZ wrestlers. Very reminicent to the old High Spurt tournaments GAEA used to run with some nice examples of how good that style can be when done right. OZ & Kansai also have a really good, slower paced, old school style match and a fun brawl between everyone caps things off).

OZ Academy 11/17/2006

(Match from Chigusa Nagayo Marvels Night 10/1/2006)

1. Sonoko Kato & Aja Kong vs KAORU & Meiko Satomura 8:00

OZ Academy 11/17/2006

2. (Wizard of OZ Tournament) Aja Kong vs Chikayo Nagashima 7:30
3. (Wizard of OZ Tournament) Mayumi Ozaki vs Dynamite Kansai 6:00
4. Azumi Hyuga & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Ran YuYu & Carlos Amano 15:00
5. Meiko Satomura & Sonoko Kato vs Chikayo Nagashima & Toshie Uematsu 13:30

(2 tags are the best matches the promotion's had in months, also a very significant show from a historical perspective. Sonoko Kato makes her long awaited return after being out for years due to bad knees, the start of the tournament to crown OZ Academy's 1st signels champion & reunion matches for JWP's class of 94 & GAEA's class of 95)

OZ Academy 12/30/2006

1. Dynamite Kansai & Carlos Amano vs Ran YuYu & Yuki Miyazaki 19:00
2. Mayumi Ozaki & Aja Kong vs Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato 11:00
3. (Wizard of OZ Tournament) Aja Kong vs Dynamite Kansai 8:00
4. (Wizard of OZ Tournament) Mayumi Ozaki vs Carlos Amano 10:00

(Wrestling is solid enough but nothing spectacular. Real reason to get this is the awesome angle involving Sonoko Kato and the developing feud between Aja/OZ & Amano/Kansai)

OZ Academy 1/28/2007

1. Mayumi Ozaki & Chikayo Nagashima vs Sonoko Kato & AKINO 19:00
2. Dynamite Kansai & Carlos Amano vs Eagle Sawai & Takako Inoue 16:00
3. (Wizard of OZ Tournament) Chikayo Nagashima vs Carlos Amano 10:00
4. (Wizard of OZ Tournament) Mayumi Ozaki vs Aja Kong 9:00

(Great hate filled opening match, set up by Nagashima turning on Kato last show, one of my fav matches of 07. 2 Wizard of OZ matches were both enjoyable too)

OZ Academy 2/10/2007

45 Mins of highlights of the previous 3 shows
1. Shark Tsuchiya vs Chikayo Nagashima 0:30 of highlights
2. Dynamite Kansai vs Sonoko Kato 4:30
3. Mayumi Ozaki & Aja Kong vs Dynamite Kansai & Sonoko Kato 16:30
4. (Wizard of OZ Tournament) Carlos Amano vs Aja Kong 10:00

(Kato's return continues to bring the awesome. Aja vs Amano is pretty good too)

OZ Academy "QUEEN BIRTH" 3/10/2007

1. (Wizard of OZ Tournament) Carlos Amano vs Dynamite Kansai 7:00
2. (Wizard of OZ Tournament) Chikayo Nagashima vs Dynamite Kansai 4:30
3. (Wizard of OZ Tournament) Mayumi Ozaki vs Chikayo Nagashima 8:30
4. Sonoko Kato & Ayako Hamada vs Aja Kong & Ran YuYu 22:00
5. (Wizard of OZ Tournament FINAL) Chikayo Nagashima vs Aja Kong 8:00

(As a whole the tournament matches told a really nice story from match to match, especially OZ vs Nagashima)

OZ Academy 4/01/2007

1. (Special Ref Aja Kong) Lee Nikan vs Ref Ito? 1:30 of 4:00 Shown
2. Mayumi Ozaki vs Ayumi Kurihara 8:00
3. Dynamite Kansai vs El Blazer vs Kikutaro 10:00
4. Dynamite Kansai & Chikayo Nagashima vs Misae Genki & Yuki Miyazaki 14:00 of 18:30 Shown
5. Carlos Amano & Sonoko Kato vs Aja Kong & Mayumi Ozaki 20:00

(Not as good as their previous tv but still a solid show with a nice main thanks once again to Kato)

OZ Academy 5/04/2007

1. Ran YuYu vs Chikayo Nagashima 14:00 of 14:30 Shown
2. Tigers Mask & Kuishinbo Kamen vs Daisuke Harada & Miracle Man 7:00 of 10:30 Shown
3. (2 out of 3 Falls) Carlos Amano vs GAMI 13:30
4. Aja Kong & Mayumi Ozaki vs Sonoko Kato & Dynamite Kansai 17:30
5. Mayumi Ozaki, Aja Kong, GAMI & Ran YuYu vs Dynamite Kansai, Chikayo Nagashima, Carlos Amano & Sonoko Kato 15:00

(Rare OZ show outside of their usual building as they go on tour to Osaka Pro's home)

OZ Academy 5/20/2007

1. Mayumi Ozaki vs Dynamite Kansai 13:30
2. Carlos Amano vs Ran YuYu 10:00
3. El Blazer & Iifushi Kota vs Takeshi Minamino & Guillermo Chango Akiba 11:00
4. Aja Kong vs AKINO 10:00 of 13:30 Shown
5. Carlos Amano & Sonoko Kato vs Chikayo Nagashima & Toshie Uematsu 16:00

(Nothing too stand out but a decent show from top to bottom)

OZ Academy 6/10/2007

1. Ran YuYu vs Mayumi Ozaki 13:00
2. Daisuke Ikeda vs El Blazer 4:30 of 6:00 Shown
3. AKINO vs Carlos Amano 11:00 of 16:00 Shown
4. Dynamite Kansai & Mizuki Endo vs Aja Kong & KAORU 11:30 of 12:30 Shown
5. Sonoko Kato vs Chikayo Nagashima 18:00

(Main event is one of the best matches of the year, def must see. Solid undercard to go along with it)

OZ Academy 7/14/2007 & 8/2/2007 (Aired 8/11)

7/14/2007

1. Meiko Satomura & Chikayo Nagashima vs Aja Kong & KAORU 9:30 of 21:30 Shown
2. El Blazer vs Yusaku Obata 3:00 of 9:00 Shown
3. Mayumi Ozaki & Ran YuYu vs Carlos Amano & AKINO 7:30 of 22:00 Shown
4. Mayumi Ozaki & Sonoko Kato vs Dynamite Kansai & Chikayo Nagashima 13:30

8/2/2007

1. Sonoko Kato vs Carlos Amano 5:30 of 11:00 Shown
2. Dynamite Kansai vs AKINO 5:30 of 16:30 Shown
3. Mayumi Ozaki & Chikayo Nagashima vs Aja Kong & Sonoko Kato 7:00 of 19:00 Shown
4. Mayumi Ozaki Aja Kong & KAORU vs Dynamite Kansai Chikayo Nagashima & Carlos Amano 9:30 of 13:30 Shown

OZ Academy 8/16/2007 - Plum Mariko Memorial Commercial Tape

1. (Round Robin Rules - 2 Count, Submission, 3 Count) Carlos Amano vs Commando Bolshoi 15:00
2. Daisuke Sekimoto vs Ryuma 11:00
3. AKINO & Minoru Suzuki vs Dynamite Kansai & El Blazer 18:00
4. Mayumi Ozaki & KAORU vs Ran YuYu & Toshie Uematsu 21:00
5. Chikayo Nagashima & Sugar Sato vs Meiko Satomura & Sonoko Kato 17:00
6. (Wizard of OZ) Aja Kong vs Akari Okuda 15:00

(One of the best OZ shows of the year. Wacky stip matches have always been a staple of JWP so Amano & Bolshoi were able to pull off the opener really well in a match whear the rules of the match change every 3 minutes. The submission segments were especially awesome. D-Fix reunites for the 1st time in a while and Sugar Sato makes a 1 time return to wrestling as part of on going Nagashima/Kato feud in a really great match. The Comm version of this show also contains 5/20 Amano/Kato vs Nagashima/Toshie & 6/10 Kato vs Nagashima uncut with no commentary)

OZ Academy 10/8/2007 & 10/21/2007 (Aired 11/24)

10/8/2007

1. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R1) Ran YuYu vs Chikayo Nagashima of 8:00
2. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R1) Sonoko Kato vs Manami Toyota 8:30
3. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R1) Takako Inoue vs Dynamite Kansai of 3:00
4. Devil Masami & Dynamite Kansai vs Mayumi Ozaki & Carlos Amano 13:00

10/21/20007

5. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R1) Kyoko Kimura vs AKINO 3:00 of 7:00 Shown
6. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R1) El Blazer vs Ryuma 6:30 of 10:00 DRAW Shown
7. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R1) Yumiko Hotta vs Hiroyo Muto 3:00 of 7:00 Shown
8. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R1) Carlos Amano vs Kaori Yoneyama 9:30
9. Toshie Uematsu & Ran YuYu vs Mayumi Ozaki & Aja Kong 16:00

(Another show that may not have anyhing super stand out but is really good from top to bottom)

OZ Academy 10/21/2007 & 11/23/2007 (Aired 12/15)

10/21/2007

1. Harley Saito & Sonoko Kato vs Dynamite Kansai & Chikayo Nagashima 14:00 of 17:30 Shown

11/23/2007

2. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R2) Carlos Amano vs Yumiko Hotta 3:00 of 4:30 Shown
3. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R2) Sayuri Okino vs AKINO 8:30
4. Misae Genki & Yuki Miyazaki vs Mayumi Ozaki & Aja Kong 18:00 of 20:00 Shown
5. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R2) Manami Toyota vs Dynamite Kansai 10:00 (9:54)
6. Toshie Uematsu & Sonoko Kato vs Chikayo Nagashima & Ran YuYu 13:30 of 16:00 Shown

(Kansai proves she still has something in the tank having a really good preformance vs Toyota & the Kato/Nagashima feud continues)

OZ Academy 12/16/2007

1. (Handicap Match) Mayumi Ozaki, KAORU & Police vs Aja Kong 9:00 of 10:30 Shown
2. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R3) AKINO vs Carlos Amano 12:00
3. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament R3) Ran YuYu vs Dynamite Kansai 8:30 of 14:00 Shown
4. Yumiko Hotta & Sonoko Kato vs Manami Toyota & Chikayo Nagashima 12:30 of 20:30 Shown
5. Sonoko Kato vs Chikayo Nagashima 9:00
6. (Wizard of OZ #1 Contenders Tournament FINAL) Carlos Amano vs Dynamite Kansai 11:00

(Kansai & Amano have a really good match in the final of the #1 contender's tournament, D-Fix reaks havoc on everyone and after a year + of feuding off and on, the Nagashima vs Kato feud finally comes to an end as they have 1 last singles match then agree to team up)

OZ Academy 1/13/2008

1. Ran YuYu vs Devil Masami 12:00 of 14:00 Shown
2. AKINO vs GAMI 5:00 of 14:30 Shown
3. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata vs Dynamite Kansai & Manami Toyota 15:30 of 17:30 Shown
4. Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato vs Mayumi Ozaki & KAORU 21:00
5. (Wizard of OZ) Aja Kong (c) vs Carlos Amano 13:00 of 13:30 Shown

(The newly formed Kato/Nagashima team take on D-Fix in an early MOTYC)

OZ Academy 2/10/2008

1. AKINO vs Devil Masami 16:00
2. Ran YuYu vs KAORU 10:00
3. Kayoko Haruyama & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato 18:00
4. (Winner Controls OZ Academy) Carlos Amano vs Mayumi Ozaki 10:00
5. Aja Kong, Dynamite Kansai & Carlos Amano vs Mayumi Ozaki, KAORU & Police 12:30

(Real good wrestling and an important angle in the main event as Amano gains contoll of the company)

OZ Academy "CARLOS WORLD", 03/09/2008

1. Toshie Uematsu vs Devil Masami 5:00 of 11:30 Shown
2. Ran YuYu & AKINO vs Manami Toyota & Tomoka Nakagawa 10:30 of 21:00 Shown
3. Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Aja Kong 10:00 of 12:30 Shown
4. Sonoko Kato vs KAORU 13:00 of 17:00 Shown
5. Chikayo Nagashima & Hiren vs Carlos Amano & Dynamite Kansai 16:00 of 17:00 Shown

(Important show in terms of setting up the major alliances & feuds that are going to carry the company for the next couple of months)