Keeping the Spirit Alive

5 days ago

[New Japan Official Video]
Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Minoru (Tanaka), BOSJ XV Official A Block Match, from June 8, 2008 at the Akashi Municipal Industrial Exchange Center.

Notes: 5 / 1 week ago

[Puroresu Spirit Extra] Toru Yano and Takashi Iizuka “ALL” meme’s, enjoy.

The Yano one came to mind after me and a couple friends were joking with him always hijacking everyone’s titles over the last couple of years. Hopefully you guys get a good laugh out of it.
Then the Iizuka one involves him always attacking NJPW’s commentator, Shinpei Nogami, and taking his shirt from him.

Notes: 1 / 2 weeks ago

[NJPW News] New Japan announced matches for the next big iPPV on June 22nd and Shinsuke Nakamura heads to CMLL.

First up, Nakamura will be heading to compete in CMLL while the BOSJ XX is taking prominence during this next tour. He will be heading to Mexico next week on May 11th and will remain there for the next month until June 12th.

Then New Japan officially announced 4 matches for the upcoming DOMINION iPPV on June 22nd.

Okada pulled out his first successful defense against Minoru Suzuki this past weekend and already has his next challenger to be against Togi Makabe. Okada previously faced Makabe in last years G1 Climax, which saw Okada victorious, and this match is poised to be a revenge match for Makabe.

Following the 4WAY IWGP Tag Championship match on 5.3, TenKoji have once again emerged as the champions. This definitely was not the way that the former champions in “K.E.S.” (Archer & Smith) wanted to have it settled as they were not even involved in the finish in anyway. You have to know that K.E.S. will be looking to reclaim their lost belts, but with yet another multi-team match that leaves a whole other dynamic to the match.

Due to the double knochout finish from the 5.3 show, New Japan has once again placed Goto and Shibata in a single confrontation at DOMINION 6.22. Nothing was settled between the two in the last match and could this next showdown be yet a replay of this last bout, or will someone finally be standing in the end?

Lastly, Tetsuya Naito announced his return to the ring on 5.3 to be on June 22nd. Naito has spent the last 7-8 months sidelined due to a knee injury and will be going against his former tag team partner and current rival in Yujiro Takahashi. Their last meeting saw Yujiro blatantly attack Naito’s knee and that lead to Naito being forced out to undergo surgery on his knee. Will Naito be able to exact some much needed revenge or will his time away from the ring prove to be too much against “Mr. R Rated”?

~ Be sure to check out the link below for the information regarding the BOSJ XX which begins later this month.
http://wp.me/p1NzQs-3NM

Below is the announced card at this time for the DOMINION 6.22 show.

New Japan Pro Wrestling “DOMINION 6.22”, 6/22/2013 [Sat] 17:00 Osaka BODY MAKER COLOSSEUM (Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium)
(-) Tetsuya Naito’s Return Match: Tetsuya Naito vs. Yujiro Takahashi
(-) Special Single Match: Hirooki Goto vs. Katsuyori Shibata

(-) IWGP Tag Championship 3WAY Match: [62nd Champions] Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. [Challengers] Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka vs. [Challengers] Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.
~ 1st title defense.

(-) IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: [59th Champion] Kazuchika Okada vs. [Challenger] Togi Makabe
~ 2nd title defense.

Notes: 8 / 2 weeks ago

[NJPW News] Tetsuya Naito announced that he will be returning to the ring on June 22nd at the DOMINION iPPV in Osaka, Japan.

Naito underwent knee surgery last October for an injury he sustained to his front cruciate ligament in his right knee.

Naito’s appearance at today’s show in Fukuoaka came with a big applause and that should be a good thing as he aims to re-climb the ranks to his earn his first singles title.

Notes: 19 / 2 weeks ago

[NJPW News] New Japan announced the competitors that will be in this years BEST OF SUPER Jr. XX tournament.
Below you will see the official video that NJPW has released, as well as the wrestlers listed, and lastly the tournament dates that have been scheduled.
No matches have been announced as of yet, but that will come as soon as the the official split blocks (A Block and B Block) are announced in the near future.

NJPW Wrestlers
■ “Beast God of the World” Jushin Thunder Liger [1994/2001 Winner]
■ “Golden Tiger” Tiger Mask IV [2004/2005 Winner]
■ “Immortal Funky Weapon” Ryusuke Taguchi [2012 Winner]
■ “New Japan Junior Supernova” KUSHIDA
■ “Made in Detroit” Alex Shelley (BOSJ Debut)
■ “Flying Bushido” BUSHI
■ “Dreamcatcher” Hiromu Takahashi
■ “Trickster of Darkness” Rocky Romero
■ “Russian Hooligan” Alex Koslov
■ “Wrestling Master” Jado
■ “Dandy of CHAOS” Brian Kendrick
■ “Small Sly Man the Best in the World Character” Taichi
■ “Microphone No.1 of Suzuki-gun” TAKA Michinoku
■ “Real Rock ‘N’ Roller” Prince Devitt [2010 Winner]

Outsiders
★ “Canadian Road King” Kenny Omega
★ “The Ancient God” Titan (BOSJ Debut)
★ “The One and Only High Flyer” Barreta (WWE’s Trent Barreta) (BOSJ Debut)
★ “The Future of Flight” Ricochet (BOSJ Debut)

BEST OF SUPER Jr.XX Tournament Pre-Tournament Show
5/22/2013 [Wed] 18:00 @ Nagoya Congress Center Event Hall in Aichi

BEST OF SUPER Jr.XX Tournament Dates
~ 5/24/2013 [Fri] 18:30 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo
~ 5/26/2013 [Sun] 15:00 @ Numazu Wholesale Trading Center in Shizuoka
~ 5/28/2013 [Tue] 18:00 @ Toyohashi General Gymnasium, 2nd Stadium in Aichi
~ 5/30/2013 [Thu] 18:30 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo
~ 6/1/2013 [Sat] 18:00 @ KBS Hall in Kyoto
~ 6/2/2013 [Sun] 17:00 @ Akashi Municipal Industrial Exchange Center in Hyogo
~ 6/3/2013 [Mon] 19:00 @ Yawatahama Citizen Sports Center in Ehime
~ 6/6/2013 [Thu] 18:30 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo
~ 6/9/2013 [Sun] 18:30 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo

Notes: 7 / 2 weeks ago

[NJPW News] New Japan held the official signing ceremony for their upcoming iPPV that is scheduled for tomorrow, May 3rd.

The event will be offered on USTREAM for $25. That should be 4am eastern and 3am central time respectively for those of you in the USA. Also keep in mind that the event will be available for replay for a few days following the initial live stream of the show.
http://www.ustream.tv/njpw

The event has 9 matches scheduled, with 1 dark show pre-match also scheduled. Four out of the nine matches will also be with the IWGP titles on the line.

The show will be showcased by a double main event that will pit CHAOS vs. Suzuki-gun (Suzuki Army).
“Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada will be looking to kick off his second IWGP Heavyweight reign by claiming his first successful defense against “The Ultimate Invader” Minoru Suzuki. Suzuki has had issues against Okada for the last several months, specifically, and he aims to continue showing he has the edge over the younger Okada.

Shinsuke Nakamura will be defending the IWGP IC belt, in the semi-final match of the night, against Shelton Benjamin. Benjamin appeared last month as the new mystery member of Suzuki-gun.
Benjamin is a former multi-time IC champion in the WWE and could be Nakamura’s toughest challenge yet for the belt. Nakamura’s main goal has been to make the IC meaningful and a potentially successful defense against a world class wrestler could indeed boost his reign.

Masato Tanaka will be defending the NEVER Openweight Championship against the returning Tomoaki Honma, in what is posed to be a rematch from the December 23, 2011 for the IWGP IC belt. Honma has came back to NJPW with a new sense of purpose and looks to reclaim his past lose.

KES will be defending the IWGP Tag belts in a 4 way match against several top teams. KES recently added the NWA World Tag belts to around their waist at the April 20th NWA show in Houston and are looking to continue their winning streak.

Prince Devitt recently debuted his new demeanor at last months iPPV show and formed the beginnings of his new team with Bad Luck Fale, formerly King Fale. With the formation of this new group came the dissolution of Apollo55. There has been plenty emphasized of a new “unit/group” and it seems there could potentially be more people to join and make it a real group.

The opening bout will see the IWGP Jr. Tag belts on the line as KUSHIDA and Alex Shelley will once again be putting the belts on the line against Rocky Romero and Alex Shelley. These two teams have faced off numerous times in the past and this should definitely be an exciting match to kick off what is sure to be a solid event.

Below is the scheduled matches for the iPPV.

NJPW “WRESTLING DONTAKU 2013”, 5/3/2013 [Fri] 17:00 @ Fukuoka Kokusai Center

(0) Yuji Nagata, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask IV & Maximo [CMLL] vs. Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Jado & Gedo

(1) IWGP Junior Tag Championship Match: [34th Champions] “TIME SPLITTERS” KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley vs. [Challengers] “Forever Hooligans” Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov

(2) Fale’s Return Match: Ryusuke Taguchi & Captain New Japan vs. Prince Devitt & Bad Luck Fale

(3) IWGP Tag Championship 4WAY Match: [Champions] “KES” Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. [Challengers] “TenCozy” Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. “Muscle Orchestra” Manabu Nakanishi & Strongman vs. “CHAOS” Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka

(4) NEVER Openweight Championship Match: [1st Champion] Masato Tanaka vs. [Challenger] Tomoaki Honma
~ 3rd defense

(5) Togi Makabe vs. Yujiro Takahashi
(6) Hirooki Goto vs. Katsuyori Shibata
(7) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. “The Machine Gun” Karl Anderson

(8) Double Main Event I ~ IWGP Intercontinental Championship Match: [4th Champion] Shinsuke Nakamura vs. [Challenger] Shelton Benjamin
~ 8th defense.

(9) Double Main Event II ~ IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: [59th Champion] Kazuchika Okada vs. [Challenger] Minoru Suzuki
~ 1st title defense.

http://www.puroresuspirit.com/2013/05/02/new-japan-event-cards-for-may-june-2013/

1 month ago

NJPW GREATEST MOMENTS for April 19, 2013

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Yuji Nagata, Osamu Nishimura, Shinya Makabe & Yutaka Yoshie vs. Masahiro Chono, Kazunari Murakami, Makai No. 1, Mitsuya Nagai & Katsuyori Shibata
天山広吉&永田裕志&西村修&真壁伸也&吉江豊vs
蝶野正洋&村上和成&魔界１号&長井満也&柴田勝頼
7/9/2004 @ Mie Prefectural Yume Dome Ueno
7月9日三重県立ゆめドームうえの

Notes: 3 / 1 month ago

[NJPW Greatest Moments for April 14, 2013]
IWGP Intercontinental Championship Match: [Champion] Masato Tanaka vs. [Challenger] Tomoaki Honma, from December 23, 2011 at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

Notes: 4 / 1 month ago

[NJPW News] Following the iPPV on April 7th, New Japan is moving forward into the next iPPV on May 3rd with WRESTLING DONTAKU.
A new champion was crowned in “Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada and a challenger has already been set in stone with “The Ultimate Invader” Minoru Suzuki.
Okada aims to change the history of New Japan with his now 2nd reign of the IWGP Heavyweight belt, but first he must manage to beat Suzuki whom he already suffered defeat against back on February 10th. Will Okada revenge his loss or will Suzuki prove that he has more skill as a veteran over the younger Okada?

Shinsuke Nakamura successfully defended the IWGP Intercontinental belt against Davey Boy Smith Jr. over this weekend and will be set to defend the belt against a mystery (X) opponent from Suzuki-gun. TAKA Michinoku is calling this mystery guy an assassin and it will be interesting to see who emerges as this mystery competitor.

Hiroshi Tanahashi is without the IWGP belt once again and will be down the ranks looking to re-build his position as New Japan’s “ace”. Tanahashi’s first singles match without the belt will be against “The Machine Gun” Karl Anderson on May 3rd in what is sure to be a solid contest. Will Anderson finally claim a much needed win over Tanahahashi or will the ace begin his climb to the top once more?

Hirooki Goto finally gets his singles match, he has been asking for quite some time, against Katsuyori Shibata on May 3rd. Goto and Shibata have known one another since High School and if their tag match on April 7th was any indication, we might have a physical match on the horizon.

Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma, G.B.H. (Great Bash Heel) have reformed with the return of Honma and they will be in singles action against the “Complete Players” in Masato Tanaka and Yujiro Takahashi. Makabe and Yujiro will once again face off in singles action at the Dontaku show in what seems to be a never-ending feud between the two this year. Tomoaki Honma will be getting a shot against Masato Tanaka and the NEVER Championship. These two last faced off in the NJPW ring last year when Tanaka was the IWGP IC champion. Will Honma get revenge from their last meeting and claim a belt for his own, or will Tanaka take him out with another Sliding D.

The IWGP Tag belts will be defended in the USA this month at a NWA show in Houston, Texas. “KES” Archer and Smith will be defending the belts against the current reigning NWA World Tag Champions in the “Kings Of The Underground” Scot Summers & Ryan Genesis. It seems that both belts will be on the line in the match with the winner coming back to defend the IWGP Tag belts on May 3rd in a special 4WAY tag title match.

Prince Devitt finally showed his true colors and turned on his long time friend and partner in Ryusuke Taguchi at the April 7th show. With that also came the NJPW return of “King” Fale now known as Bad Luck Fale. Apollo55 is officially no more and Devitt looks to be on the verge of forming a new group with Fale as his “bouncer”, as he so fittingly puts it.

The opening match of the next iPPV will see the IWGP Junior Tag belts being defended as “TIME SPLITTERS” will be challenged once again by the “Forever Hooligans” in Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov.

The full tour before the upcoming PPV “Road to WRESTLING DONTAKU” has been updated in full with all the lead in matches.
http://www.puroresuspirit.com/2013/03/03/new-japan-event-cards-for-march-april-2013/

Below is the announced card for the PPV show.

NJPW “WRESTLING DONTAKU 2013”, 5/3/2013 [Fri] 17:00 @ Fukuoka Kokusai Center

(0) Yuji Nagata, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask IV & Maximo [CMLL] vs. Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Jado & Gedo

(1) IWGP Junior Tag Championship Match: [34th Champions] “TIME SPLITTERS” KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley vs. [Challengers] “Forever Hooligans” Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov

(2) Fale’s Return Match: Ryusuke Taguchi & Captain New Japan vs. Prince Devitt & Bad Luck Fale

(3) IWGP Tag Championship 4WAY Match: [Champions] Winner of April 20th Match in Houston, Texas vs. [Challengers] “TenCozy” Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. “Muscle Orchestra” Manabu Nakanishi & Strongman vs. “CHAOS” Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka

(4) NEVER Openweight Championship Match: [1st Champion] Masato Tanaka vs. [Challenger] Tomoaki Honma
~ 3rd defense

(5) Togi Makabe vs. Yujiro Takahashi
(6) Hirooki Goto vs. Katsuyori Shibata
(7) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. “The Machine Gun” Karl Anderson

(8) Double Main Event I ~ IWGP Intercontinental Championship Match: [4th Champion] Shinsuke Nakamura vs. [Challenger] X
~ 8th defense.

(9) Double Main Event II ~ IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: [59th Champion] Kazuchika Okada vs. [Challenger] Minoru Suzuki
~ 1st defense.

Notes: 4 / 1 month ago

[NJPW News Update] The NWA has invaded NJPW. The current reigning NWA Heavyweight Champion “Iron Man” Rob Conway, the current President of the NWA Bruce Tharpe, and a surprise third wrestler in Jax Dane appeared at today’s show to make their presence known.

The group was immediately met with boo’s from the NJPW fans. Tharpe introduced himself for the firs time publicly in the NJPW ring and stated that he brought two wrestlers, and that they are the world’s best wrestlers. He even went as far as to ask the fans to rise to their feet to honor these two.

Rob Conway has come to put his belt on the line against the best that New Japan has to offer and he seems very confident that he will indeed walk away as the champion after the “INVASION ATTACK” event on April 7th.

Kojima will be challenging Conway at the show and made his way out to confront the champion from the USA. Kojima understands that these “invaders” do not speak Japanese, so he put his words in English that Conway’s championship will be around his waist, and that they all will have to go home crying.

Conway appears to have nothing but confidence on his side, while Kojima aims to not let this invader just come in and run things.

*Kojima was met with the press backstage.
Kojima stated that he is not afraid of anything. He is not afraid of Conway, and that he will break Conway. That he will get championship belt and it will fit good around his waist.

Full results from the April 5th show.
http://www.puroresuspirit.com/2013/04/05/results-for-april-5-2013/

NJPW will be providing the upcoming INVASION ATTACK event on April 7th on Ustream iPPV for $25.
http://www.ustream.tv/njpw

The event will feature 9 matches with a headlining triple main event with a total of 5 title matches scheduled throughout the show.

1 month ago

[NOAH Upcoming Events Update] NOAH’s next tour begins on April 13th with the GLOBAL TAG LEAGUE, and with that NOAH has announced the outsider talent that will be involved throughout this coming month. As well as some updates to matches that are scheduled.

2 wrestlers will be coming into NOAH following the WLW & NOAH training camp that was held in the USA this last November.

Jake Dirden, born 4/6/1983 and hails from Illinois, he stands a towering 200cm (6’7”) and weighs in at 110kg (240lbs). Dirden has only been a pro wrestlers for little less than a year in writing this, but his size and demeanor have made stand out here in the midwest. This will mark his first time being in Japan.

Kyle Sebastian, born 5/18/1989 and hails from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, he stands 190cm (6’3”) and weighs in at 95kg (210lbs). Sebastian has been a pro wrestler since October of 2005 and made his first appearance in Japan by competing in SMASH in April of 2010. Sebastian won his first championship in the BWW-TV belt back on February 24th of this year.

Outsider competing in the GTL…
Yoshihiro Takayama [Free], Kensuke Sasaki [DR], Katsuhiko Nakajima [DR], Toru Yano [CHAOS/NJPW], Takashi Iizuka [CHAOS/NJPW], Yujiro Takahashi [CHAOS/NJPW], Tomoaki Honma [Free], Yoshihiko Sasaki [BJW], Shinya Ishikawa [BJW], Eddie Edwards [ROH], Bobby Fish [ROH], Mikey Nicholls [TMDK], and Shane Haste [TMDK].

Other outsiders that will be competing throughout the month…
Satoshi Kojima (4/14 against Eddie Edwards) [NJPW], SUWA (all shows) [Free], Masao Inoue (4/28) [Free], Ryuji Hijikata (2/21+22) [Free], Masashi Aoyagi (4/19) [Seishin Hall], El Samurai (4/19) [Sportiva], Taro Nohashi (4/16+17) [Michinoku], Rui Hiugaji (4/16+17) [Michinoku], Kazuaki Mihara (4/20) [Osaka], and Jonah Rock (all shows) [TMDK]

Check out the link below to see what has been scheduled so far.
http://www.puroresuspirit.com/2013/02/25/noah-event-cards-for-march-april-2013/

1 month ago

[NJPW GREATEST MOMENTS for March 29, 2013]
Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata vs. Riki Choshu & Kazuchika Okada
中西学＆永田裕志vs長州力＆岡田かずちか
March 29, 2009 at the Okinawa Prefectural Budokan.
2009年3月29日沖縄・沖縄県立武道館

Notes: 3 / 1 month ago

[NJPW News] New Japan announced the full card for the upcoming INVASION ATTACK iPPV for April 7th as well as the lead-in show that will be held on April 5th.

Following his win on March 24th, Kazuchika Okada has once again laid down a claim to another tournament win with the NEW JAPAN CUP, and also the right as the youngest to ever do so (an honor he already held with his victory in the 2012 G1 Climax). Okada has earned himself another title opportunity against the reigning IWGP Heavy Champion in Hiroshi Tanahashi. Of course, Okada already headlined the Tokyo Dome on 1.4 in a losing effort to Tanahashi, though following his win the NJC he appears to have a new found sense of purpose.

The event will be headlined with 2 other title matches with Shinsuke Nakamura looking to defend the IWGP IC against the other half of K.E.S. in Davey Boy Smith Jr. This will mark Nakamura’s 7th defense with the belt as he aims to continue on with his breakthrough reign. First though Nakamura will be going after K.E.S. and their tag team titles as he teams with Tomohiro Ishii on April 5th. Of course this match will be a continuing of the CHAOS vs. Suzuki-gun war.

Following the news of Bruce Tharpe, President of the NWA, stating that he is bringing over a wrestler to compete in NJPW. Satoshi Kojima was the first to challenge the incoming wrestler which has been determined to be the newly crowned NWA Heavyweight Champion, “Iron Man” Rob Conway. Conway has been competing for over 15 years now and is looking to leave his mark in Japan and gain a strong defense as champion in the process.

Yuji Nagata & Hirooki Goto will be joining forces to take on the Laughter7 duo in Kazushi Sakuraba & Katsuyori Shibata. This could potentially be the toughest challenge for Laughter7 yet as there is a lot of history between each man involved. Will Nagata finally be able to pull out a win, with Goto, against the invader team or will Laughter7 once again prove to have fate on their side?

Minoru Suzuki will be looking for revenge against Toru Yano following the 2nd round match of the NEW JAPAN CUP in which Yano walked away with the controversial victory. CHAOS and Suzuki-gun have had nothing but animosity towards each other all throughout this year and “the ultimate invader” Minoru Suzuki will not sit back and let a loss, let alone a “cheap” loss, loom over him. The two will meet in a tag match before the ppv on April 5th, as Suzuki will be teaming with close friend Yoshihiro Takayama as they face the current (NOAH) GHC Tag Champions, Yano and Takashi Iizuka. Takayama of course will be teaming with KENTA in NOAH’s upcoming GLOBAL TAG LEAGUE tournament and will this could become an early look at a possible outcome if KENTA & Takayama managed to win the tag league.

Tomoaki Honma made his surprise return to New Japan in the form of support for Togi Makabe following another attack from Yujiro. The duo use to form G.B.H. (Great Bash Heel) in years prior, but after Honma left NJPW last year Makabe has found himself primarily on his own. No word yet if G.B.H. has truly reformed, but Makabe could really use the aid as they are set to take on Masato Tanaka & Yujiro Takahashi.

Tama Tonga will be defending the CMLL World Tag belts, along with Terrible, against La Mascara & Valiente. NJPW has built a strong relationship with CMLL in the last several years and New Japan is yet again giving a platform for the “lucha libre” style to showcase itself.

Prince Devitt will have a heavy few days in front of him as he will be defending his IWGP Jr. belt against Alex Shelley on 4/5 and then on 4/7 the two will be involved in the IWGP Jr. Tag match. As the reigning champions “TIME SPLITTERS” KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley will defend against “Apollo55” Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi. Devitt has been on edge over the last month and has been showing plenty of “heel attitude” like tendencies against his opponents. With a huge challenge set before him, will Devitt’s new persona manifest itself over these two shows, or will it prove to have been nothing more than Devitt just looking to blow off some steam.

Below are the event cards for the upcoming shows in April.

New Japan Event Cards for March & April 2013
http://www.puroresuspirit.com/2013/03/03/new-japan-event-cards-for-march-april-2012/
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New Japan Pro Wrestling “Road to INVASION ATTACK”, 4/5/2013 [Fri] 18:30 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo

(1) Road to INVASION ATTACK I: Ryusuke Taguchi vs. KUSHIDA
(2) Road to INVASION ATTACK II: Yuji Nagata & Hirooki Goto vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Captain New Japan
(3) Road to INVASION ATTACK III: Togi Makabe, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Yujiro Takahashi, YOSHI-HASHI & Jado
(4) Road to INVASION ATTACK IV: Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka
(5) Road to INVASION ATTACK V: Hiroshi Tanahashi & BUSHI vs. Kazuchika Okada & Gedo

(6) IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship Match: [66th Champion] Prince Devitt vs. [Challenger] Alex Shelley
~ 3rd Defense.

(7) IWGP Tag Championship Match: [61st Champions] “K.E.S.” Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. [Challengers] Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii
~ 4th Defense.
———————————————————-

New Japan Pro Wrestling “INVASION ATTACK”, 4/7/2013 [Sun] 16:00 @ Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo

(1) IWGP Junior Tag Championship Match: [34th Champions] “TIME SPLITTERS” KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley vs. [Challengers] Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi
~ 3rd Defense.

(2) Special 8 Man Tag Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Manabu Nakanishi, Super Strong Machine & Akebono [Free] vs. Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI & Bob Sapp

(3) CMLL World Tag Championship Match: [Champions] El Terrible & Tama Tonga vs. [Challengers] La Mascara & Valiente

(4) Special Tag Match: Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma [Free] vs. Masato Tanaka [ZERO1] & Yujiro Takahashi
(5) Special Single Match: Toru Yano [CHAOS] vs. Minoru Suzuki [Suzuki-gun]
(6) Special Tag Match: Yuji Nagata & Hirooki Goto vs. Kazushi Sakuraba & Katsuyori Shibata

(7) Triple Main Event I ~ NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match: [Champion] Rob Conway vs. [Challenger] Satoshi Kojima

(8) Triple Main Event II ~ IWGP Intercontinental Championship Match: [4th Champion] Shinsuke Nakamura vs. [Challenger] Davey Boy Smith Jr.
~ 7th Defense.

(9) Triple Main Event III ~ IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: [58th Champion] Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. [Challenger] Kazuchika Okada
~ 8th Defense.

2 months ago

[NJPW GREATEST MOMENTS for March 22, 2013]
Hirooki Goto vs. La Sombra, from the NEW JAPAN CUP 2012, April 5, 2012 at the Korakuen Hall into Tokyo

2 months ago

NJPW GREATEST MOMENTS for March 15, 2013
Hirooki Goto vs. Yujiro Takahashi, NEW JAPAN CUP 2012 1st Round Match, from April 1, 2012 @ Amagasaki Memorial Park Gymnasium

NJPW “WRESTLING DONTAKU 2013”, 5/3/2013 [Fri] 17:00 @ Fukuoka Kokusai Center

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