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Giant Baba Memorial Six Man Tag Team Tournament

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Date
  
April 13-May 12, 2002

Giant Baba Memorial Six Man Tag Team Tournament
  
Last

City
  
Tokyo, Japan

Promotion
  
All-Japan Pro Wrestling

Attendance
  
16,000 (April 13) 2,100 (April 27) 2,700 (April 30) 3,150 (May 1)

Venue
  
Nippon Budokan Iwate Prefectural Gym Niigata City Gym Korakuen Hall

The Giant Baba (Hai Sodatsu) Memorial Six Man Tag Team Tournament, or simply the Giant Baba Six Man Cup, was a professional wrestling memorial event produced by the All-Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) promotion, which took place from April 13 to May 12, 2002 at the Nippon Budokan, Iwate Prefectural Gym, Niigata City Gym and Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. It was the third and final event honoring AJPW founder Shohei "Giant" Baba, the previous shows being the Giant Baba Memorial Spectacular and Giant Baba Memorial Cup in January 2001 and 2002 respectively. Seven professional wrestling matches were held over a three-week period, with both the tournament semi-finals and final match held at Korakuen Hall.

Keiji Mutoh, Kaz Hayashi and George Hines won the tournament by winning three matches all aired on pay-per-view. Over the course of the tournament, they defeated Satoshi Kojima, Tomoaki Honma and Jimmy Yang in the quarter-finals, Taiyō Kea, Mitsuya Nagai and Shigeo Okumura in the semi-finals and Genichiro Tenryu, Arashi and Nobutaka Araya in the final match. Earlier in the semi-finals, between Genichiro Tenryu's team and "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, Mike Rotunda and Yoji Anjo, Anjo accidentally hit Rotunda in the face with a back-fist punch which eventually lead to their defeat. Blaming Anjo for the loss, Williams turned his back on Anjoh causing a split between the two former teammates.

Tournament brackets

The tournament took place between April 13 and May 12, 2002. The tournament brackets were:

References

Giant Baba Memorial Six Man Tag Team Tournament Wikipedia