New Japan Pro Wrestling Discussion

[Dead2009]

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom Results

Night 1

Spoiler

Pre-Show New Japan Rambo Match
Chase Owens and CIMA and Minoru Suzuki and Toru Yano defeat Aaron Henare and Bad Luck Fale and DOUKI and Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Kosei Fujita and Master Wato and Ryohei Oiwa and Satoshi Kojima and TAKA Michinoku and Tatsumi Fujinami and Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma and Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Yuji Nagata and Yuto Nakashima (27:14)

Singles Match
YOH defeats SHO (12:32)

Six Man Tag Team Match
BULLET CLUB (El Phantasmo, KENTA & Taiji Ishimori) defeat Hiroshi Tanahashi & Mega Coaches (Rocky Romero & Ryusuke Taguchi) by DQ (8:40)

Six Man Tag Team Match
United Empire (Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay) (w/Aaron Henare) defeat Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito) (9:27)

Singles Match
Katsuyori Shibata defeats Ren Narita (11:46)

NEVER Openweight Title Match
EVIL (w/Dick Togo) defeats Tomohiro Ishii (c) (12:10) - TITLE CHANGE !!!

IWGP Tag Team Title Match
CHAOS (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) defeat Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr.) (w/Miho Abe) (c) (15:27) - TITLE CHANGE !!!

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match
El Desperado (c) defeats Hiromu Takahashi (16:18)

IWGP World Heavyweight Title Match
Kazuchika Okada defeats Shingo Takagi (c) (35:44) - TITLE CHANGE !!!

Night 2

Spoiler

Pre-Show Six Man Tag Team Match
Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) & Yuji Nagata defeat BULLET CLUB (Bad Luck Fale, Gedo & Jado) (6:40)

Pre-Show Six Man Tag Team Match
Master Wato & TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) defeat Suzuki-gun (El Desperado, TAKA Michinoku & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) (9:23)

Pre-Show Six Man Tag Team Match
Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi) defeat Suzuki-gun (DOUKI, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr.) (10:28)

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Three Way Match
Flying Tiger (Robbie Eagles & Tiger Mask) (c) defeat BULLET CLUB's Cutest Tag Team (El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori) and Mega Coaches (Rocky Romero & Ryusuke Taguchi) (12:07)

Tag Team Match
Saya Kamitani & Tam Nakano defeat Mayu Iwatani & Starlight Kid (9:14)

NJPW King Of Pro-Wrestling Title Four Way Match (vakant)
Minoru Suzuki defeats Chase Owens and CIMA and Toru Yano (6:08) - TITLE CHANGE !!!

NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Title Match
House Of Torture (EVIL, SHO & Yujiro Takahashi) (c) defeat CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, YOH & YOSHI-HASHI) (9:37)

Singles Match
SANADA defeats Great-O-Khan (13:21)

Singles Match
Tetsuya Naito defeats Jeff Cobb (15:34)

IWGP United States Heavyweight Title No Disqualification Match
Hiroshi Tanahashi defeats KENTA (c) (22:40) - TITLE CHANGE !!!

IWGP World Heavyweight Title Match
Kazuchika Okada (c) defeats Will Ospreay (32:52)

[dubcity]

Watched most of Night 1. Will have to check out a few of those Night 2 matches. It's still the strangest thing to have 12k people in the Tokyo Dome and have it be quiet enough to hear a pin drop for long stretches. Night 2 was 6k apparently. Smh. Still the best wrestling in the world, but things are gonna have to change.

[jasontoddwhitt]

I still don't understand why they feel the need to do two nights (technically three nights this year) for the sake of it. It would make sense if it's the weekend, but NJPW has historically run a show at the Tokyo Dome on January 4th since 1992, no matter what day of the week it is.

As for quiet enough to hear a pin drop...that's just the Japanese culture. They sit on their hands and just enjoy the spectacle like it's a theater show.

[dubcity]

Quote: Originally Posted by jasontoddwhitt

As for quiet enough to hear a pin drop...that's just the Japanese culture. They sit on their hands and just enjoy the spectacle like it's a theater show.

They do normally, but throughout the pandemic they haven't even been allowed to cheer or boo or chant or anything except clap. Those are actual rules. There's hope that that will change at some point this year.

And the sound of these dome shows was strange because normally there would be people from the top down outside of just the bottom bowl. Having all those empty seats created an echo, as if they were fighting in front of literally no one. The loudest reaction was when Tanahashi jumped off a huge ladder and the crowd couldn't help but gasp.

[Dead2009]

NJPW Legend Strong Kobayashi Passes Away
https://411mania.com/wrestling/njpw-...i-passes-away/

[dubcity]

So, Jay White and Gallows/Anderson showed up at the Dontaku show in Japan last night, and Wheeler Yuta is in the Best of the Super Juniors tournament coming up.

All good stuff, expect the crowds are still dead silent aside from some clapping. Those crowds may never come back. The culture over there is such that even if/when they change the rules and let the audience yell they still might not. The wrestling is still high level, but the energy isn't there.

[DJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by dubcity

So, Jay White and Gallows/Anderson showed up at the Dontaku show in Japan last night, and Wheeler Yuta is in the Best of the Super Juniors tournament coming up. All good stuff, expect the crowds are still dead silent aside from some clapping. Those crowds may never come back. The culture over there is such that even if/when they change the rules and let the audience yell they still might not. The wrestling is still high level, but the energy isn't there.

Juice Robinson joining Bullet Club was pretty unexpected. Nice job by him using the dirt sheets to help make his surprise more impactful.

[jvalverde88]

Juice