1. Forever Hooligans(Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov) d. Sho Tanaka & Yohei Komatsu via pin at 8:55 when Romero pinned Komatsu after he & Koslov hit him with the Contract Killer.
2. Non-Title Match: Time Splitters(KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley) d. BUSHI & Mascara Dorada via pin at 8:26 when KUSHIDA pinned Dorada after he & Shelley hit him with the OUTATIME.
3. Suzukigun(Taichi & El Desperado) d. Ryusuke Taguchi & Fuego via pin at 11:41 when Taichi used the Taichi-Style Gedo Clutch on Fuego.
4. Suzukigun(Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka) d. CHAOS(Toru Yano & Gedo) via pin at 10:09 when Suzuki used the Gotch-Style Piledriver on Gedo.
5. 10 Man Tag Team Match: Bullet Club(Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows, Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Tama Tonga) d. Tetsuya Naito, Tomoaki Honma, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask & Captain New Japan via pin at 13:48 when Anderson pinned Captain after he & Gallows hit him with the Magic Killer.
6. Super Jr. Tag Tournament 2014 - Final: reDRagon(Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish) d. The Young Bucks(Matt & Nick Jackson) via pin at 15:04 when O'Reilly pinned Nick after he & Fish hit him with Chasing The Dragon.
7. 8 Man Tag Team Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe & Meiyu Tag(Katsuyori Shibata & Hirooki Goto) d. CHAOS(Shinsuke Nakamura, Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI) via pin at 18:52 when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on YOSHI-HASHI.
* ROH tag team reDRagon continued their impressive start in New Japan today by defeating The Young Bucks to win this year's Super Jr. Tag Tournament. That propels the ROH World Tag Team Champions into contention to challenge KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley for a shot at the IWGP Jr. Tag Team Titles in the near future.
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1. Dark Match: BUSHI & Mascara Dorada vs. Tiger Mask & Fuego
2. 3 Way Tag Team Match: The Young Bucks(Matt & Nick Jackson) vs. Suzukigun(TAKA Michinoku & El Desperado) vs. Forever Hooligans(Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov)
3. Tag Team Match: Suzukigun(Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka) vs. Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano
4. NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Title Match: Chase Owens(c) vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
5. 8 Man Tag Team Match: Bullet Club(Bad Luck Fale, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows & Yujiro Takahashi) vs. Tetsuya Naito, Great Bash Heel(Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) & Captain New Japan
6. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Titles Match: Time Splitters(c)(KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley) vs. reDRagon(Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish)
7. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title Match: Ryusuke Taguchi(c) vs. Taichi
8. Singles Match: AJ Styles vs. Yoshitatsu
9. NEVER Openweight Title Match: Tomohiro Ishii(c) vs. Hirooki Goto
10. Tag Team Match: CHAOS(Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kota Ibushi
11. IWGP Intercontinental Title Match: Shinsuke Nakamura(c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata
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Jeff Jarrett's GFW presenting NJPW's WrestleKingdom was made official this morning.
IT'S OFFICIAL: NEW JAPAN WRESTLEKINGDOM TO AIR LIVE ON PPV IN UNITED STATES by Mike Johnson @ 11:03 AM on 11/4/2014
Global Force Wrestling issued the following: GLOBAL FORCE WRESTLING TO PRESENT NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING’S “WRESTLE KINGDOM 9” ON PPV IN NORTH AMERICA
NASHVILLE — Global Force Wrestling is proud to announce that the first event under its banner will be in conjunction with New Japan Pro Wrestling and its Jan. 4 show from the Tokyo Dome.
“GFW Presents New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 9” will air live in North America at 2 a.m. ET on Jan. 4, which is 4 p.m. in Tokyo.
The four-hour telecast also will air in primetime in North America at 7 p.m. ET on your pay-per-view provider, including DirecTV, Dish, AT&T U-verse, Comcast, Verizon Fios and all cable systems in the United States, and in Canada on Bell ExpressVu TV, Rogers, Shaw, Sasktel and Telus. Check your local listings for availability. The show also will be available on the “Flipps” app on iTunes or Android.
“Wrestle Kingdom 9” will be the 24th consecutive year for the Jan. 4 dome event, which kicks off the year in Japan and annually is the largest wrestling show in the world outside of the United States, drawing in excess of 40,000 fans.
“This is one of the great events on the wrestling . every year, and for GFW to have the opportunity to bring it to the American audience is an honor and a privilege,” GFW founder and CEO Jeff Jarrett said. “This event has a history that involves not only the greatest names in Japanese wrestling history but some of the greatest names in U.S. wrestling history.”
NJPW founder and wrestling icon Antonio Inoki has appeared on the Jan. 4 dome show five times. Other legends to appear include Hulk Hogan, Dusty Rhodes, Sting, the Steiner Brothers, Big Van Vader, Randy Savage, Brock Lesnar, the Great Muta, the Great Kabuki, Masahiro Chono and Riki Choshu.
This year’s card is headlined by an IGWP heavyweight title match between Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada. The Bullet Club, of which Jarrett is a member along with A.J. Styles and IWGP tag team champions Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows, is expected to appear on the show as well.
The show will be available in English and in Japanese via the second audio program (SAP) button on your TV. GFW will reveal the North American announcers for the event in the near future.
Based on Power Stuggle, this is how the Tokyo Dome show is shaping up.
Tanahashi vs Okada Nakamura vs Ibushi Ishii vs Makabe Styles vs Naito (or maybe Styles/Jarrett vs Naito/Yoshitatsu) Taguchi vs Omega ReDRagon vs Time Splitters vs Young Bucks vs Forever Hooligans Anderson & Gallows vs Tag League winners (Goto/Shibata maybe?) Suzuki vs Sakuraba
Post by ________ has left the building on Nov 8, 2014 16:43:54 GMT -5
Called it on Kenny Omega joining the Bullet Club. I'm just waiting on Alex Shelley turning on Kushida and join the Club since that's where all the cool gaijins in New Japan hang at. And AJ might want consider retiring the Styles Clash or practice with his opponents beforehand.
So NJPW announced they'll be doing a show in the 16,000 seat Osaka-jo Hall next year. Hopefully it goes better than that Yokohama Arena show earlier this year.
Post by Fundertaker on Nov 8, 2014 18:49:38 GMT -5
Yokohama was a hot spot for wrestling up until the late 90's. Nowadays it's hard to draw a good house there. In Osaka, however, New Japan always has good houses and they don't have to flex their muscles much to get a full house at the BODYMAKER COLISEUM (this year alone they claimed 6700, 7000, 7300 and 7500). I bet they can get 10000~ figure at the Osaka Castle Hall (I believe it has 13000-ish seats for wrestling).
0. Dark Match: BUSHI & Mascara Dorada d. Tiger Mask & Fuego via pin at 6:42 when Dorada used a jumping cradle on Fuego.
1. 3 Way Tag Team Match: The Young Bucks(Matt & Nick Jackson) d. Suzukigun(TAKA Michinoku & El Desperado) & Forever Hooligans(Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov) via pin at 7:33 when Matt pinned TAKA after he & Nick hit him with More Bang For Your Buck.
2. Tag Team Match: Kazushi Sakuraba & Tory Yano d. Suzukigun(Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka) via pin at 4:25 when Sakuraba used a Kido Clutch on Suzuki.
3. NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Title Match: Jushin Thunder Liger d. Chase Owens via pin at 9:27 with the Brainbuster to become the new champion.
4. 8 Man Tag Team Match: Bullet Club(Bad Luck Fale, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows & Yujiro Takahashi) d. Tetsuya Naito, Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Captain New Japan via pin at 9:47 when Fale used the Bad Luck Fall on Captain.
5. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Titles Match: reDRagon(Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish) d. Time Splitters(KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley) via pin at 17:29 when O'Reilly pinned KUSHIDA after he & Fish hit him with Chasing The Dragon to become the new champions.
6. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title Match: Ryusuke Taguchi d. Taichi via pin at 15:18 with Dodon-The-End to retain the title.
7. Singles Match: AJ Styles d. Yoshitatsu via pin at 12:58 with the Styles Clash.
8. NEVER Openweight Title Match: Tomohiro Ishii d. Hirooki Goto via pin at 17:15 with the Brainbuster to retain the title.
9. Tag Team Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kota Ibushi d. CHAOS(Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI) via pin at 15:56 when Ibushi used the Phoenix Splash on YOSHI-HASHI.
10. IWGP Intercontinental Title Match: Shinsuke Nakamura d. Katsuyori Shibata via pin at 17:05 with the Boma Ye to retain the title.
* Shinsuke Nakamura successfully defended his IWGP Intercontinental Title against old rival Katsuyori Shibata at today's sold out show but barely had time to recover before Kota Ibushi issued a challenge for the belt.
* Yoshitatsu made his long awaited in-ring return to New Japan but it ended in misery as he fell to Bullet Club boss AJ Styles & had Jeff Jarrett smash a guitar over his head post-match.
* On a day when Taguchi successfully defended his IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title & Ishii claimed the scalp of Goto in a successful NEVER Openweight Title defense, one IWGP belt did change hands. Super Jr. Tag Tournament winners reDRagon became the new IWGP Jr. Tag Team Champions when they beat the Time Splitters to continue their great start in New Japan.
* The legendary Jushin Thunder Liger's bulging cabinet of trophies, titles & hounors has yet another after he defeated Chase Owens to lift the NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Title.
* The Bullet Club has announced that recent New Japan signing Kenny Omega has joined them, despite the Canadian saying that he wouldn't be a part of the gaijin group upon pledging his future to the company not too long ago. Omega sported a new look as his new affiliation was revealed.
* New Japan announced a major show at the historical Osaka Castle Hall for July 5, 2015.
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