Category: New Japan Pro Wrestling

The Warmaster returns 

  Josh Barnett successfully defended his Metamoris Heavyweight title this past Saturday against Ryron Gracie at Metamoris 6 by submitting him via toehold. 

 Barnett who does English commentary for “New Japan Pro Wrestling which airs every Friday on AXS TV, has been pretty busy as of late. 

With The Warmaster conquring the world like it’s nobody’s business many wondered when we would see him in the cage again. After all the last time we saw him compete in the UFC was in December of 2013 at UFC168. Now fans of The baby face asscian can rejoice because they won’t have to wait much longer to see the catch wrestler back in the octagon again.

It was announced Wednesday evening by Vice President and general manager of UFC Asia Ken Berger during media day for Faber vs Edgar that Josh Barnett will be squaring off against Roy Nelson live from Japan in the headlining bout of UFC Fight Night 78 on September 27th

In addition to the fight announcement it was also announced that both Barnett and Nelson will be coaches on a Japan reality tv show called Road to the UFC. The show will feature 8 prospects  with little to no experience gunning to achieve the ultimate dream  of fighting in the UFC.

Filming for the series is set to begin later this month and is expected to take place both in Las Vegas and Japan. Unlike “The Ultimate Fighter,” the athletes are not expected to live together during the duration of filming.

Due to time differences UFC Fight Night 78 will air in North American  September 26th. Broadcast plans have yet to be announced 

Josh Barnett has a professional  fight record of(33-7) with a record of (5-2) in the UFC. Opposite of Barnett, Nelson has a professional fight record of (20-11) with a record of (7-7) in the UFC so there is no doubt this bout is going to be one you don’t want to miss.

Are you like myself; super excited for this fight? Let us know in the comments.

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

ROH/NJPW War Of The Worlds Night 1 Results

Gedo def. Delirious

Roderick Strong def. KUSHIDA

Jay Lethal def. Takaaki Watanabe

Young Bucks def. The Addiction and The Kingdom

Tetsuya Naito def. Michael Elgin

reDRagon def. Jushin Thunder Liger & Hiroshi Tanahashi

AJ Styles def. Adam Cole

Kazuchika Okada & Shinsuke Nakamura def. The Briscoes

Matches Announced For ROH & NJPW ‘Global Wars’ May 15 & 16

Ring of Honor announced the matches for ROH and New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s ‘Global Wars’ that will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on May 15 & 16. Night 1 on May 15 will be iPPV and Night 2 will be a ROH TV taping.

Global Wars Night 1 on May 15:

ACH VS Shinsuke Nakamura

Moose & Gedo VS Silas Young & Takaaki Watanabe

Chris Sabin VS KUSHIDA

The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) w/ Maria Kanellis VS Jushin Thunder Liger & Matt Sydal

4 Corners Survival Tag Team Match: RPG Vice (Rocky Romero & Trent Baretta) VS The Addiction (Daniels & Kazarian) VS The Decade (Jimmy Jacobs & BJ Whitmer) VS reDRagon (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish)

Cedric Alexander VS Kazuchika Okada

Michael Elgin VS Hiroshi Tanahashi

ROH World TV Title: (C) Jay Lethal w/Truth Martini VS Tetsuya Naito

ROH All Stars (The Briscoes, Roderick Strong, Hanson & Raymond Rowe) VS The Bullet Club (AJ Styles, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows & The Young Bucks)

 

Global Wars Night 2 on May 16

KUSHIDA VS Will Ferrara

Michael Elgin VS Gedo

Jushin Thunder Liger VS Dalton Castle

The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) w/Maria Kanellis VS The Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows)

Tetsuya Naito & Hiroshi Tanahashi VS ACH & Matt Sydal

Shinsuke Nakamura VS Roderick Strong

The Bullet Club (AJ Styles & The Young Bucks) VS RPG Vive (Rocky Romero & Trent Baretta) & Kazuchika Okada

Matches Announced For ROH & NJPW ‘War Of The Worlds’ May 12 &13

Ring of Honor announced the matches for ROH and New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s ‘War of the Worlds’ event that will take place in the old ECW Arena in Philadelphia on May 12 and 13.

War of the Worlds Night 1 on May 12:

Delirious VS Gedo

Roderick Strong VS KUSHIDA

Jay Lethal w/Truth Martini VS Takaaki Watanabe

Michael Elgin VS Tetsuya Naito

reDRagon (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish) VS Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jushin Thunder Liger

The Addiction (Daniels & Kazarian) VS The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) w/Maria Kanellis

AJ Styles VS ????????

The Briscoes VS Kazuchika Okada & Shinsuke Nakamura

 

War of the Worlds Night 2 on May 13:

Adam Page VS Takaaki Watanabe

Michael Elgin VS KUSHIDA

Kyle O’Reilly VS Tetsuya Naito

Roderick Strong VS Hiroshi Tanahashi

The Addiction VS Kazuchika Okada & Gedo

4 Corner Survival Match: Jay Lethal VS Shinsuke Nakamura VS Mark Briscoe VS Jushin Thunder Liger

ROH World Title: (C) Jay Briscoe VS Bobby Fish

The Kingdom (Adam Cole, Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) w/Maria Kanellis VS The Bullet Club (AJ Styles & The Young Bucks)

 

NJPW Invasion Attack Results

The Bullet Club lost 2 championships, The Young Bucks loss the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship to Roppongi Vice (Trent Baretta & Rocky Romero and Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson loss the IWGP Tag Team Championship to The Kingdom ( Matt Taven & Michael Bennett).

Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA), Captain New Japan, Yohei Komatsu & Yuji Nagata def. Manabu Nakanishi, Jushin Thunder Liger, Ryusuke Taguchi, Sho Tanaka & Tiger Mask

TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) & Tomoaki Honma def. The Bullet Club ( Tama Tonga, Yujiro Takahashi & Cody Hall)

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship Tag Team Championship: Roppongi Vice (Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero) def. (C) The Young Bucks to become the new IWGP Jr Tag Team Champions

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship: (C) Kenny Omega def. Mascarta Dorada

IWGP Tag Team Championship: The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Michael Bennett) def. (C) The Bullet Club (Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson) to become the new IWGP Tag Team Champions

Hirooki Goto, Tetsuya Naito & Togi Makabe def. CHAOS (Shinsuke Nakamura, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI)

Kazushi Sakuraba & Yoru Yano def. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuyori Shibata

Kazuchika Okada def. Bad Luck Fale w/Tama Tonga

IWGP Heavyweight Championship : (C) AJ Styles w/ Kenny Omega de. Kota Ibushi

NJPW Invasion Attack – Full Card

Manabu Nakanishi, Jushin Thunder Liger, Ryusuke Taguchi, Sho Tanaka & Tiger Mask VS Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA) Captain New Japan, Yohei Komatsu & Yuji Nagata

The Bullet Club (Tama Tonga, Yujiro Takahashi & Cody Hall) VS TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) & Tomoaki Honma

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: (C) The Young Bucks/The Bullet Club (Matt & Nick Jackson) VS Roppongi Vice (Beretta & Rocky Romero)

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship: (C) Kenny Omega VS Mascara Dorada

IWGP Tag Team Championship: (C) The Bullet Club (Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson) VS The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Michael Bennett)

CHAOS (Shinsuke Nakamura, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI) VS Hirooki Goto, Tetsuya Naito & Togi Makabe

Hroshi Tanahashi & Katsuyori Shibata VS Kazishi Sakuraba & Yoru Yano

Bad Luck Fale VS Kazuchika Okada

IWGP Heavyweight Championship: (C) AJ Styles VS Kota Ibushi

Major NJPW Stars Announced For ROH/NJPW May Shows

Ring of Honor announced that booth Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada of New Japan Pro-Wrestling will appearing at the ROH/NJPW shows in May.

 

Wrestler’s Comment on the Tragic Passing of Perro Aguayo Jr.

Several wrestlers took to Twitter and Instagram to comment on the horrible tragic passing of El Hijo del Perro Aguayo in Mexico on Friday night. Below are some of the tweets:

 

Japanese Wrestling Legend Tatsumi Fujinami Announced For WWE HOF 2015

Japanese wrestling legend Tatsumi Fujinami will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2015. Fujinami became the first person to hold the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Heavyweight Champion simultaneously when he defeated NWA Champion Ric Flair for the title on March 21, 1991 in front of over 50,000 fans at the Tokyo Dome.

The Young Bucks On WWE Trademarking ‘Too Sweet’ Hand Gesture

It was reported this week that WWE registered to trademark the NWO/Kliq ‘Too Sweet’ Hand gesture. New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s popular stable The Bullet Club uses the gesture.

The Bullet Club’s, The Young Bucks responded this week on Twitter and again on the microphone after their match at the FWE iPPV in Brooklyn on Wednesday. They cut a promo and said WWE will have to cut their hands off.

Here is some tweets of theirs and one Nick Jackson retweeted:

 

Many fans last night on Twitter during SmackDown believed that WWE took a shot at The Young Bucks during the Roman Reigns and Mark Henry segment. Henry told Reigns that young bucks like him think they know it all and done it all but haven’t been nowhere.

 

Sean “X-Pac” Waltman weighed in on WWE trying to trademark the symbol. Here is a exchange he had with Nick of The Young Bucks on Twitter: