Category: New Japan Pro Wrestling

2016 ROH/NJPW Global Wars Results

#1 Contender To The ROH TV Title – Four Corner Survival: Dalton Castle (w/ The Boys) vs. Roderick Strong vs. ACH vs. Adam Page – Winner: Dalton Castle via pinfall (Bangarang)

The Addiction vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Cheeseburger – Winners: Jushin Thunder Liger & Cheeseburger via pinfall

ROH WORLD ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS: War Machine (c) vs. The Briscoes – Winners: War Machine via pinfall (Fallout) to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championships

Tetsuya Naito vs. Kyle O’Reilly – Winner: Tetsuya Naito via pinfall (Destino)

Moose & Okada (w/ Stokely Hathaway & Gedo) vs. Michael Elgin & Hiroshi Tanahashi – Winners: Moose & Okada via pinfall (Rainmaker)

ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP: Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs. Bobby Fish – Winner: Bobby Fish via technical submission (rear-naked choke) to become ROH World TV Champion

Bullet Club (Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) vs. Kushida, Matt Sydal and The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) – Winners: Bullet Club via pinfall (Meltzer Driver)

ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: Jay Lethal (c) w/Taeler Hendrix vs. Colt Cabana – Official Result: No Contest – Adam Cole is new member of Bullet Club – They have a huge Superkick Party (46 Superkicks)- Young Bucks & Cole even Superkicked Young Bucks Dad

 

ROH/NJPW Global Wars PPV Card 5/8/16

DATE: May 8, 2016
LOCATION: Frontier Fieldhouse, Chicago, Illinois

CARD

ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Jay Lethal (c) w/Taeler Hendrix vs. Colt Cabana

ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
War Machine (c) vs. The Briscoes

ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP
Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs. Bobby Fish

Moose & Okada (w/ Stokely Hathaway & Gedo) vs. Michael Elgin & Hiroshi Tanahashi

Tetsuya Naito vs. Kyle O’Reilly

Bullet Club (Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) vs. Kushida, Matt Sydal and The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin)

The Addiction vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Cheeseburger

PRE-SHOW MATCH – WOMEN OF HONOR

Kelly Klein vs. Crazy Mary Dobson

Jeff Hardy Booked Against Jushin Thunder Liger

Jeff Hardy VS Jushin Thunder Liger has been booked for NEW Wrestling on August 27 in New York. It’s the first time the two have ever competed against each other.

Kenny Omega Takes A Shot At WWE (video)

Source: WrestlingNews.Co

IWGP Intercontinental Champion Kenny Omega took a jab at WWE during his entrance at Saturday’s NJPW Invasion Attack 2016 event. Omega said that a lot of people wasted their money and time on a show (WrestleMania 32) last week, and he was going to show them what they should have been watching all along.

 

NJPW Invasion Attack 2016 Results

Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi) VS Juice Robinson & Ryusuke Taguchi) – Winners: Bullet Club

CHAOS (Kazushi Sakuraba, Toru Yano, & YOSHI-HASHI) VS Jushin Thunder Liger, Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata) – Winners: Jushin Thunder Liger, Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata

CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto) VS Los Ingobernables de Japan (Bushi & Evil) – Winners: CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto)

IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP: (C) Ricochet & Matt Sydal VS Roppongi Vice – Winners and new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Roppongi Vice

IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: (C) KUSHIDA VS Will Ospreay – Winner: KUSHIDA

NEVER OPENWEIGHT 6-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS: (C’s) Bullet Club Elite (Young Bucks & Kenny Omega) w/ Cody Hall & Chase Owens VS Hiroshi Tanahashi, Michael Elgin & Yoshi Tatsu – Winners  and new NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champions Hiroshi Tanahashi, Michael Elgin & Yoshi Tatsu

NEVER OPENWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: (C) Katsuyori Shibata VS Hiroyoshi Tenzan – Winner: Katsuyori Shibata

IWGP TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP:  (C’s) GBH (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) VS Guerrilas Of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa) – Winners and new IWGP Tag Team Champions Guerrilas Of Destiny

IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: (C) Okada  W/Gedo VS Tetsuya Naito w/Bushi & Evil – Winner and new IWGP Heavyweight Champion Tetsuya Naito

NJPW Invasion Attack (2016) Card 4/10/16

DATE: April 10, 2016 LOCATION: Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, Japan

 

IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: (C) Okada ) VS Tetsuya Naito

IWGP TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP:  (C’s) GBH (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) VS Guerrilas Of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa)

NEVER OPENWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: (C) Katsuyori Shibata VS Hiroyoshi Tenzan

NEVER OPENWEIGHT 6-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS: (C’s) Bullet Club Elite (Young Bucks & Kenny Omega) VS Hiroshi Tanahashi, Michael Elgin & Yoshi Tatsu

IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: (C) KUSHIDA VS Will Ospreay

IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP: (C) Ricochet & Matt Sydal VS Roppongi Vice

CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto) VS Los Ingobernables de Japan (Bushi & Evil)

CHAOS (Kazushi Sakuraba, Toru Yano, & YOSHI-HASHI) VS Jushin Thunder Liger, Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata)

Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi) VS Juice Robinson & Ryusuke Taguchi)

NJPW PPV Invasion Attack Getting English Commentary

Source: WrestlingINC

New Japan Pro Wresling’s Invasion Attack, which airs on April 10, will have English language commentary. ROH’s Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino will be calling the action. Typically Matt Striker does the English-language commentary, but has Lucha Underground commitments.

WWE Interested In NJPW Star Okada, Other Major International Signings Expected This Year

Source: WrestlingINC

Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that WWE officials are interested in New Japan Pro Wrestling star Kazuchika Okada. The current IWGP Heavyweight Champion worked for TNA in 2010 and 2011.

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that WWE officials are interested in Okada because he’s tall. Okada is billed at 6-foot-3. NJPW has offered a five-year deal to Okada and he’s said he will remain loyal to the company but it’s not known yet if he accepted the deal. It’s believed NJPW would offer more money than WWE just to keep him there.

WWE is expected to make several aggressive talent signings from Mexico, Japan and the UK over the next few months. There are reportedly looking at other Japanese organizations and are said to be interested in one top name from Lucha Underground and AAA. No word yet on who that wrestler is but he has never worked for a mainstream US organization and is unhappy with the creative in Lucha Underground.

ROH 14th Anniversary ‘Winner Takes All’ Results

ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP – Triple Threat Match
 (C) Tomohiro Ishii VS Roderick Strong VS Bobby Fish:

Winner: Tomohiro Ishii via pinfall (vertical brainbuster) to retain the ROH World Television Championship

 

Adam Page VS BJ Whitmer

Winner: BJ Whitmer via inside cradle (low blow)

 

Dalton Castle w/The Boys VS Hirooki Goto

Winner: Hirooki Goto via pinfall (Shouten Kai)

 

Alex Shelley VS Christopher Daniels w/Kazarian

Kazarian tries to get involved, but Chris Sabin shows up and helps Shelley win! The Motor City Machine Guns clear the ring as the crowd chants for them!

Winner: Alex Shelley via pinfall

 

Michael Elgin & Hiroshi Tanahashi VS The Briscoes

Winners: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Michael Elgin via pinfall (High Fly Flow)

 

Okada w/Jado VS Moose (w/ Stokely Hathaway)

Winner: Okada via pinfall (Rainmaker)

 

NJPW NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship
(C’s) Bullet Club (Kenny Omega & Young Bucks) VS ACH, Matt Sydal & Kushida

Winners: Bullet Club Elite via pinfall (Bullet Club Special #2)

 

ROH TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP – NO DQ
(C’s) War Machine VS All Night Xpress

Winners: War Machine via pinfall (Fallout) to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championships

 

ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
(C) Jay Lethal (w/Truth Martini & Taeler Hendrix) VS Kyle O’Reilly VS Adam Cole

Winner: Jay Lethal via pinfall (Lethal Injection) to retain the ROH World Championship

 

Jim Ross Lands New Gig Calling Boxing

Source: Bleacher Report

Former WWE announcer Jim Ross has signed with CBS to broadcast boxing matches, according to a Tuesday report by Cliff Brunt of the Associated Press (via the Republic).

His debut broadcast will be on March 12 at the Downtown Las Vegas Event Center in the first of eight “Knockout Night at the D” events to be held monthly.

Ross, 64, was both excited for the opportunity and aware he would require something of an adjustment period, as he told Brunt:

“I can’t overnight become a boxing expert. There will be learned boxing fans, longtime fans, that are going know infinitely more about boxing than I do, and I have no problem with that. My strengths are storytelling and getting you to know the fighter, and then bringing that spontaneity, that voice that cuts through the clutter.”

Ross served as a WWE announcer for 20 years, from 1993-2013. He also served as a WWE senior vice president for talent relations and notably signed “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, The Rock, John Cena, Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle, among other professional wrestlers, per Brunt.

While Ross will have to bring a different approach to announcing boxing matches as opposed to the WWE matches of his past, he doesn’t plan on totally changing his style.

“I’m excited because I’ll know about the fighters, I’ll know why you should like this guy, why he’s here, what it means to them—the story behind the fight,” Ross told Brunt. “And when the bell rings, I’ll call what I see, describe what I feel, and defer to my expert color analyst for the intricacies.”

That color commentator will be Al Bernstein, a veteran announcer who noted that Ross “brings to boxing the same wit and larger-than-life personality that has endeared him to wrestling viewers.”

In addition to his new gig in boxing, Ross is also working with FITE TV as an adviser and a spokesman and will be doing voice-overs for Mark Cuban’s New Japan Pro Wrestling show on AXS TV.