(NOAH) SCRAMBLE HISTORY: SHUHEI TANIGUCHI VS BISON SMITH


Welcome to "Scramble History" whereby I randomly list the current Noah roster and a past Noah roster and look into the history of any matches.
Results may vary.

Shuhei Taniguchi and Bison Smith had a total of twenty-nine matches, and as they were rivals, they rarely tagged together (they did only once), they had only three singles matches. Ninety-nine percent of their matches took place in Japan and in Noah (with the exception of one match which took place in SEM). Their first match was on 28th February 2006 on the "Haruka Eigen Goodbye Tour (Noah Navigation for Evolution)", when Bison teamed with fellow "Golden Era" Noah gaijin wrestlers, Doug Williams and Nigel McGuinness vs Akira Taue, Takuma Sano and Shuhei Taniguchi. Taniguchi had debuted in Noah in December 2005, and so was still in his rookie phase. Bison had been appearing for the promotion since 2001. Bison's team won the match. 

Their three singles matches are an evolution. 
The first one took place on the 22nd June 2009, at the "Shuhei Taniguchi Rush 10 Match Series", when Bison defeated him in 15 minutes, 35 seconds. The second was on 27th September 2009 (Mitsuharu Misawa Memorial tour), in which Bison beat Taniguchi in seven minutes and 32 seconds. The third and final singles match took place on the 13th November 2011 at Global League 2011 (both in Block B) at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium, when Taniguchi finally defeated Bison in 11 minutes and 58 seconds. 

Their only titles match was on 6th June 2010, at "Navigation with Breeze" at Korakuen Hall, whe Bison Smith and Keith Walker, defeated Taniguchi and Takashi Sugiura for the GHC Tag Team Titles.

Their final match came on 20th November 2011 at "Global League 2011" in Sapporo, it was the only and only time in their long history of matches that they had ever teamed together, despite the fact they lost to Jun Akiyama and Yoshihiro Takayama. Tragically, Bison Smith passed away two days later in Puerto Rico of heart complications.  

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