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New Hazard
Members	BxB Hulk Cyber Kong Shingo Takagi YAMATO Jack Evans El Generico Austin Aries
Debut	April 17, 2007 named May 7, 2007
Disbanded	May 14, 2008
Promotions	Dragon Gate

New Hazard is a professional wrestling stable in the Japanese promotion Dragon Gate, formed in April 2007. It was founded by former Typhoon and Muscle Outlaw'z members BxB Hulk and Cyber Kong, intending to compete with the two opposing factions. Shingo Takagi and YAMATO, who were on tours of the United States at the time, were also announced as members. Jack Evans, a member of Muscle Outlawz, joined in May 2007, teaming with YAMATO as a mystery partner to defeat the MO'z team of Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino. Hulk, Kong and Takagi are former holders of the Open the Triangle Gate title, having defeated the Typhoon team of CIMA, Ryo Saito & Susumu Yokosuka on May 10.

1 History
2 Championships and accomplishments
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

On April 17, 2007, a 7-on-7 elimination match was scheduled between the Typhoon and Muscle Outlawz factions; in the weeks leading up to this match, CIMA and Naruki Doi (from Typhoon and MO'z respectively) proclaimed that someone on the opposing team would betray their partners.^[1] Typhoon won the match, after which BxB Hulk, a Typhoon member, attacked CIMA, presumably to join Muscle Outlawz. However, Cyber Kong of MO'z also attacked his faction partner, Gamma, and Hulk and Kong shook hands, announcing the formation of a new stable. They said they would be joined by Shingo Takagi and Yamato Onodera, both wrestling in the US at the time.^[1]

Takagi returned on May 6, teaming with Hulk to defeat the Tozawa-juku team of Akira Tozawa & Keni'chiro Arai; Onodera, using his former ring name YAMATO, returned the following night, teaming with Hulk, Kong and Takagi to defeat Muscle Outlawz.^[2] After the match, the four unveiled their name and logo, proclaiming themselves New Hazard.^[3] On May 10, Jack Evans, at the time a member of MO'z, revealed himself as the mystery partner of YAMATO for a tag team match against Muscle's Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino, in which NH emerged victorious. On that same night, Takagi, Hulk and Kong defeated Typhoon's CIMA, Ryo Saito & Susumu Yokosuka to claim the Open the Triangle Gate title, winning their first title since New Hazard's formation just 23 days prior.^[2] Their first and only defense came on July 1, defeating the Muscle Outlawz team of Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino & Magnitude Kishiwada at Dragon Gate's annual Kobe World Hall event under controversial circumstances, as the referee counted Yoshino's shoulders down for a pinfall despite Yoshino having kicked out after a two count.^[4]

On July 10, BxB Hulk suffered a broken jaw in a match against Ryo Saito in a tournament to decide the #1 contender to the Open the Dream Gate title; this forced New Hazard to vacate the Triangle Gate title on July 13.^[5] As a result, a scheduled title rematch against Doi, Yoshino and Kishiwada was changed to a decision match featuring the same Muscle Outlawz team facing Kong, Takagi and Jack Evans, with MO'z coming out on top.^[4] In August 2007, Dragon Gate held the Summer Adventure Tag League, a 10-team round-robin tournament; Cyber Kong and Shingo Takagi represented New Hazard in the tournament, finishing in a four-way tie for first place with fourteen points. A one-night single-elimination decision tournament was scheduled between the four teams to decide the winners, Kong and Takagi defeating Ryo Saito and Susumu Yokosuka in the first round before falling to Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino in the final.