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Upcoming NJPW Events - 9/3/2019

This is the most up to date list of upcoming New Japan Pro Wrestling events I can provide, with full cards announced where possible.(NJPWWorld) means the event will be shown live on NJPWWorld. All cards subject to change.

Road to Destruction - 9/4/2019, Tokyo Korakuen Hall (NJPWWorld)

12th Young Lions Cup: Yota Tsuji v. Alex Coughlin

12th Young Lions Cup: Shota Umino v. Clark Connors

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Ren Narita & Yuya Uemura v. Satoshi Kojima, Karl Fredericks & Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

Will Ospreay [CHAOS], Robbie Eagles [CHAOS], Tomoaki Honma & Toa Henare v. Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo, Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Jado [Bullet Club]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Ryusuke Taguchi, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Tetsuya Naito, EVIL & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White, Bad Luck Fale & Gedo [Bullet Club]

Kazuchika Okada & Hirooki Goto [CHAOS] v. SANADA & Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernables]

- 9/5/2019, Tokyo Korakuen Hall (NJPWWorld)

12th Young Lions Cup: Yuya Uemura v. Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

12th Young Lions Cup: Ren Narita v. Karl Fredericks

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Shota Umino & Yota Tsuji v. Satoshi Kojima, Alex Coughlin & Clark Connors

Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] & Toa Henare v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

Will Ospreay [CHAOS], Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] & Tomoaki Honma v. Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo & Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Ryusuke Taguchi, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]

Tetsuya Naito & EVIL [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White & Bad Luck Fale [Bullet Club]

- 9/6/2019, Tokyo Korakuen Hall (NJPWWorld)

12th Young Lions Cup: Alex Coughlin v. Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

12th Young Lions Cup: Clark Connors v. Karl Fredericks

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura v. Satoshi Kojima, Ren Narita & Yota Tsuji

Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] & Tomoaki Honma v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club]

Will Ospreay [CHAOS], Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] & Toa Henare v. Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo & Bad Luck Fale [Bullet Club]

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]

Tetsuya Naito & EVIL [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

Hiroshi Tanahashi & Ryusuke Taguchi v. Zack Sabre Jr. & Minoru Suzuki [SZKG]

- 9/8/2019, Chiba Togane Arena (NJPWWorld) - Blue Justice IX

12th Young Lions Cup: Yota Tsuji v. Yuya Uemura

12th Young Lions Cup: Shota Umino v. Ren Narita

Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS]. YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS], Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma v. Clark Connors, Karl Fredericks, Alex Coughlin & Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

Will Ospreay [CHAOS], Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] & Toa Henare v. Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Ryusuke Taguchi, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]

Tetsuya Naito & EVIL [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White & Gedo [Bullet Club]

Yuji Nagata 35th Wrestling Anniversary: Yuji Nagata, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Manabu Nakanishi & Jushin Thunder Liger v. Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Yujiro Takahashi & Jado [Bullet Club]

- 9/10/2019, Shizuoka Fujisan Messe

12th Young Lions Cup: Yuya Uemura v. Karl Fredericks

12th Young Lions Cup: Shota Umino v. Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Ren Narita & Yota Tsuji v. Satoshi Kojima, Clark Connors & Alex Coughlin

Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS], Togi Makabe, Toa Henare & Ryusuke Taguchi v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Jado [Bullet Club]

Will Ospreay [CHAOS], Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] & Tomoaki Honma v. Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & EVIL [Los Ingobernables] 

Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White & Gedo [Bullet Club]   

- 9/11/2019, Aichi Nagoya Congress Center Event Hall

12th Young Lions Cup: Yota Tsuji v. Clark Connors

12th Young Lions Cup: Ren Narita v. Alex Coughlin

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura v. Satoshi Kojima, Karl Fredericks & Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS], Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Ryusuke Taguchi v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Jado [Bullet Club]

Will Ospreay [CHAOS], Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] & Toa Henare v. Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]

Tetsuya Naito & EVIL [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White & Gedo [Bullet Club]

- 9/12/2019, Osaka EDION Arena Sub-Arena

12th Young Lions Cup: Ren Narita v. Yota Tsuji

12th Young Lions Cup: Karl Fredericks v. Alex Coughlin

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura v. Satoshi Kojima, Clark Connors & Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS], Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Toa Henare v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Jado [Bullet Club]

Will Ospreay [CHAOS], Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] & Ryusuke Taguchi v. Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo & Chase Owens [Bullet Club] 

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG] 

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & EVIL [Los Ingobernables] 

Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White & Gedo [Bullet Club]      

- 9/14/2019, Yamaguchi Refresh Park

12th Young Lions Cup: Shota Umino v. Yuya Uemura

12th Young Lions Cup: Clark Connors v. Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

Yuji Nagata, Ren Narita & Yota Tsuji v. Manabu Nakanishi, Karl Fredericks & Alex Coughlin

Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS], Togi Makabe, Toa Henare & Ryusuke Taguchi v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Jado [Bullet Club]

Will Ospreay [CHAOS], Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] & Tomoaki Honma v. Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables] 

Tetsuya Naito & EVIL [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White & Gedo [Bullet Club] 

- 9/18/2019, Shimane Matsue City Public Gymnasium

12th Young Lions Cup: Ren Narita v. Yuya Uemura

12th Young Lions Cup: Clark Connors v. Alex Coughlin

Yuji Nagata, Ren Narita & Yota Tsuji v. Manabu Nakanishi, Karl Fredericks & Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS], Tiger Mask IV & Toa Henare v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club]

Kota Ibushi, Togi Makabe, Will Ospreay [CHAOS] & Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] v. KENTA, Chase Owens, Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tomoaki Honma, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & EVIL [Los Ingobernables] 

Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White & Gedo [Bullet Club]     

- 9/19/2019, Tottori Prefectural Industrial Gym

12th Young Lions Cup: Shota Umino v. Yota Tsuji

12th Young Lions Cup: Karl Fredericks v. Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

Yuji Nagata, Ren Narita & Yuya Uemura v. Manabu Nakanishi, Clark Connors & Alex Coughlin

Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS], Tiger Mask IV & Toa Henare v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

Kota Ibushi, Tomoaki Honma, Will Ospreay [CHAOS] & Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] v. KENTA, Yujiro Takahashi, Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]

Tetsuya Naito & EVIL [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White & Gedo [Bullet Club]

- 9/20/2019, Kyoto City Gymnasium

12th Young Lions Cup: Yuya Uemura v. Alex Coughlin

12th Young Lions Cup: Yota Tsuji v. Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

Yuji Nagata, Shota Umino & Ren Narita v. Manabu Nakanishi, Clark Connors & Karl Fredericks

Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Toa Henare v. Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tiger Mask IV, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS], Kota Ibushi, Will Ospreay [CHAOS] & Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] v. KENTA, Chase Owens, Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]

Elimination Match: Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club]

Destruction in Beppu - 9/15/2019, Oita Beppu B-Con Plaza (NJPWWorld)

12th Young Lions Cup: Yota Tsuji v. Karl Fredericks

12th Young Lions Cup: Shota Umino v. Alex Coughlin

Yuji Nagata, Ryusuke Taguchi, Ren Narita & Yuya Uemura v. Manabu Nakanishi, Toa Henare, Clark Connors & Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

Jushin Thunder Liger, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Kota Ibushi, Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma, Will Ospreay [CHAOS] & Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] v. KENTA, Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi, Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]

Tetsuya Naito & EVIL [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] v. Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa [Bullet Club]

RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship: Hiroshi Tanahashi © v. Zack Sabre Jr. [SZKG]

Destruction in Kagoshima - 9/16/2019, Kagoshima Arena (NJPWWorld)

12th Young Lions Cup: Yuya Uemura v. Clark Connors

12th Young Lions Cup: Ren Narita v. Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

Yuji Nagata, Ryusuke Taguchi, Shota Umino & Yota Tsuji v. Manabu Nakanishi, Toa Henare, Karl Fredericks & Alex Coughlin

Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, SHO & YOH [CHAOS] v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Jushin Thunder Liger v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]

Tetsuya Naito & EVIL [Los Ingobernables] v. Jay White & Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club]

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club] © v. Will Ospreay & Robbie Eagles [CHAOS]

Tokyo Dome IWGP Heavyweight Championship Challenge Rights: Kota Ibushi v. KENTA [Bullet Club]

Destruction in Kobe - 9/22/2019, Hyogo Kobe World Hall (NJPWWorld)

Yuji Nagata, Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura v. Manabu Nakanishi, Alex Coughlin & Michael Richards [Fale Dojo]

12th Young Lions Cup: Shota Umino v. Karl Fredericks

12th Young Lions Cup: Ren Narita v. Clark Connors

Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Toa Henare v. Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask IV & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]

Kota Ibushi, Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS], Will Ospreay [CHAOS] & Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] v. KENTA, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]

Kazuchika Okada, SHO & YOH [CHAOS] v. SANADA, EVIL & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]

Hirooki Goto [CHAOS] v. Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernables]

IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Tetsuya Naito [Los Ingobernables] © v. Jay White [Bullet Club]

Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2019 - 9/27/2019, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Lowell, MA - 9/28/2019, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, NY - 9/29/2019, 2300 Arena, Philadelphia, PA

New Japan Road - 10/4/2019, Toyama Takaoka Techno Dome - 10/7/2019, Tokyo Korakuen Hall

New Japan Road: Ganbarou! Uonuma 2019 - 10/5/2019, Niigata Uonuma Horinouchi Gymnasium

King Of Pro Wrestling - 10/14/2019, Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan (NJPWWorld)

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Will Ospreay [CHAOS] © v. El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]

IWGP US Heavyweight Championship: Jon Moxley [FREE] © v. Juice Robinson

IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS] © v. SANADA [Los Ingobernables]

More TBA

New Japan Showdown in San Jose - 11/9/2019, San Jose Civic Center, San Jose

Wrestle Kingdom 14 - January 4, 2020, Tokyo Dome - January 5, 2020, Tokyo Dome

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Issa Mood

NJPW’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed

09/30/18

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HANDSOME!!

NJPW’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed

09/30/18

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Fighting Spirit Unleashed - 9/30/2018

Last night was Fighting Spirit Unleashed, the third official NJPW show on US soil this year (4th if you count the CEO show), and the second to happen at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, CA. The show did not sell out, and there were very visible empty seats during the event. You can see it now, in both Japanese and English, on NJPWWorld, or wait until Friday and catch it on AXS. It certainly was a pro wrestling show. 

Fighting Spirit Unleashed - 9/30/2018, Walter Pyramid, Long Beach, CA (NJPWWorld)

Clark Connors d. Alex Coughlin (Referee Stop, 7:33) 

Jushin Thunder Liger, Ryusuke Taguchi & ACH [FREE] d. Rocky Romero, SHO & YOH [CHAOS] (Taguchi > Romero, Dodon, 8:55)

Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian [ROH] d. Adam Page & Chase Owens [Bullet Club Elite] (Daniels > Owens, Best Meltzer Ever, 8:14)

Jeff Cobb [FREE], Chris Sabin [ROH] & Flip Gordon [ROH] d. Hirooki Goto, Trent Beretta & Chuck Taylor [CHAOS] (Cobb > Taylor, Tour Of The Islands, 12:04)

Zack Sabre Jr., Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. [SZKG] d. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL & SANADA [Los Ingobernables] (Sabre > EVIL, Rolling Back Clutch, 9:27)

Jay White & Gedo [CHAOS] d. Hiroshi Tanahashi & KUSHIDA (White > Tanahashi, Blade Runner, 8:52) 

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Tournament: Marty Scurll [Bullet Club Elite] d. Will Ospreay [CHAOS] (Graduation, 16:08)

IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa [BCOGs] d. Matt & Nick Jackson [Bullet Club Elite] ©  (Tonga > Matt, Killshot, 19:21) - Young Bucks fail their 2nd defense - GOD are the 81st champions

IWGP US Heavyweight Championship: Cody Rhodes [Bullet Club Elite] d. Juice Robinson © (Pinfall, 16:45) - Robinson fails his 1st defense - Cody is the 4th champion

Kenny Omega [Bullet Club Elite] & Kota Ibushi [FREE] d. Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS] (Ibushi > Ishii, Golden Trigger, 23:06)

The best matches by far were the opener and the main event. (THe opener being the Liger/Taguchi/ACH v. RPG3K 6-man. The dark match was a dark match featuring LA Dojo Young Lions and was not shown anywhere.) The rest of the show was one disappointment after another, frankly. Like, yay, Jeff Cobb was back, boo, he’s teaming with Herb Flip Gordon. At least another singles match between Cobb v. Goto was teased (which I am all for), but if so it’ll probably be for Cobb’s newly-won ROH World Television title.

 Marty Scurll beats Will Ospreay, meaning this tournament has gone exactly the opposite of how I would have liked. So now we have KUSHIDA v. Scurll for the title at King Of Pro Wrestling. And the two of them, both, are rumored to be going Heavyweight soon. So is Will Ospreay. BUSHI is not, and will be remaining a junior heavyweight for the forseeable future, so of course he got jobbed at Destruction in Kobe. BUSHI becoming champion again would at least give him a direction while his Los Dos Peligrosos partner Hiromu Takahashi heals up. Once again, lack of direction killing NJPW. 

Nowhere is this more evident than with Tetsuya Naito, whereby it is pretty clear the feud with Zack Sabre Jr. is going to EVIL, at least for the now. And Chris Jericho nowhere in sight. Most over guy in the company, and probably in all of  wrestling, (got one of the biggest pops of the night, and indeed had two admirers ON CAMERA in Kairi Sane and Io Shirai, both ex-STARDOM, now both current-WWE) but somehow in the Harold Meij era thus far they can’t figure out something for him to do. 

Two months and change ago, in San Francisco, Juice Robinson was made to look like a star, and although he had a real rough G1 Climax, you’d figure they’d let him get at least one defense in, but, no, here’s Cody Rhodes with not one but two titles. And THEN he inserts himself into the main event at King Of Pro Wrestling, turning a match pretty much everyone wanted (Kenny Omega v. Kota Ibushi for the IWGP title) into one absolutely nobody asked for. Who is this supposed to be appealing to? Because I don’t think it’s NJPW fans at this point.

The Young Bucks dropped the tag titles to Guerrillas of Destiny. Not entirely a surprise, as there have been rumors of the Jacksons taking the rest of the year off  going around. Jay White gets a direct win on Hiroshi Tanahashi via fuckery, and challenges for the briefcase at KOPW. I don’t hate this, at least, again, there’s direction here. I’m not sure about this “New Era,” as it feels very nWo ish in name, but we will see. Hey, what are the chances of two unit-breakaways in the “New Era” and the BCOGs becoming a unit?

The main, as I said, was a legit great match, but it existed in a vacuum to pop the crowd. Sure, there’s lingering issues between Okada, Ishii and the Golden Lovers, but to what end was this match? We didn’t even get the rumored Ishii heel turn at the end, but got Cody Rhodes instead. And Omega talking about the empty seats... good lord. He needs to not cut promos, basically, but he’s the champion, so there’s that idea. I don’t know anymore. This company is going down a road I don’t much want it to go down, and there may not be anything we can do about it. Maybe we need a few more departures, again, to shake things up and make Gedo et al get creative again, because we are beginning to hit the valley after the peaks of the last few years.

They still have not announced the KOPW lineups yet, although we know two matches now, nor do we know about the New Japan Road show on Saturday 10/6/2018 as yet. There  is  supposed to be a stream on NJPW’s official YouTube at 12pm 10/2/2018 JST / 11pm 10/1/2018 EDT, featuring LIJ, but no idea what it entails.

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Switchblade Jay White

NJPW’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed

09/30/18

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Jay White

NJPW’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed

09/30/18

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A beginning to an end

NJPW’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed

09/30/18

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R A I N M A K E R

NJPW’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed

09/30/18