PWInsider reports that WWE is apparently taking aim at New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s The Bullet Club stable. WWE recently registered to trademark the old NWO/Kliq hand gesture for merchandise purposes. NJPW’s The Bullet Club uses the same hand gesture and it’s featured on some of their t-shirts. Below is the version that WWE is trying to trademark:
YOSHI-HASHI def. Jay White
Manabu Nakanishi, Mascara Doraga, Ryusuke Taguchi, Satoshi Kojima & Tiger Mask IV def. Captain New Japan, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Jushin Thunder Liger, KUSHIDA & Tomoaki Homma
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tohei Komatsu def, Sho Tanaka & Yuji Nagata
Kazuchika Okada, Kazushi Sakuraba, Tomohiro Ishii & Shinsuke Nakamura def. The Bullet Club (Cody Hall, Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga)
New Japan Cup Quarterfinal Match: Togi Makabe def. Yujiro Takahashi
New Japan Cup Quarterfinal Match: Kota Ibushi def. Toru Yano
New Japan Cup Quarterfinal Match:Tetsuya Naito def. Bud Luck Fale
New Japan Cup Quarterfinal Match:Hirooki Goto def. Katsuyori Shibata
Below is a video in which AJ Styles talks to Fight Network’s John Pollock and The LAW (Live Audio Wrestling) about his match against Hiroshi Tanahashi at NJPW Ne Beginning, The Bullet Club’s popularity and Sunday’s Ring of Honor 13th Anniversary “Winner Takes All” pay-per-view match against ACH and more.
The Bullet Club is coming to Ring of Honor’s 13 Anniversary show in Las Vegas live on pay-per-view Sunday, March 1, 2015, 7:30pm EST at the Orleans Hotel & Casino.
The Bullet Club (Anderson & Gallows) VS The Addiction (Kazarian & Daniels) VS The Kingdom (Bennett & Taven)
ROH World Tag Team Championship: Young Bucks VS (C) reDRagon (O’Reilly & Fish)
AJ Styles VS ACH
Source: WrestlingINC.com
According to PWInsider Jeff Jarrett is reportedly preparing to make Global Force Wrestling announcements next month during WrestleMania week, that’s the same time he made GFW announcement last year. Word is that the announcement will have to do with GFW talents and live events.
PWInsider also reports that there has been discussions of doing another live pay-per-view with New Japan Pro-Wrestling this spring and bringing a AAA live pay-per-view to the United States.
Sho Tanaka def. Yohei Komatsu
Tiger Mask & Mascara Dorada def. Manabu Nakanishi & Captain New Japan
Rob Conway & Chase Owens def. Jushin Liger & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Kota Ibushi def. Tomoaki Honma
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Young Bucks def. (c) ReDRagon (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish) and The Timespitters (Alex Shelley & Kushida) – Young Bucks are new Champs.
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship: (C) Kenny Omega def. Ryuske Taguchi
Kazuchika Okada, Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano def. The Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Tama Tonga)
Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima & Tetsuya Naito def. Shinsuke Nakamura, Tomohiro Ishii & Yoshi-Hashi
IWGP Tag Team Championship: The Bullet Club (Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson) def. (C) Meiyu Tag (Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata) – The Bullet Club are the new Champs
IWGP Heavyweight Championship: AJ Styles def. (C) Hiroshi Tanahashi – Styles is the new Champ
Scott Hall talks about his children, being a dad and his struggles with alcohol. Hall mentions that his son Cody is in Japan wrestling for New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Cody being a member of The Bullet Club.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling debuts tonight on AXS TV at 9/8c.
In the opener of this series highlighting action from the Japanese wrestling promotion NJPW will feature Hiroshi Tanahashi battling his rival “Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada in the Tokyo Dome in 2013.
Commentary will be by Mauro Ranallo and former UFC Heavweight Champion Josh Barnett.
Our friend Ed Boston will once again be talking to Jeff Jarrett on The Ed Boston Podcast this Friday, January 9, 2015 at 2:30pm Est/1:30pm C. Ed will talk with Jarrett about what happened at the Wrestle Kingdom 9 pay-per-view & what’s next for him, Global Force Wrestling & etc.
IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship – 4-Way Match: (C) reDRagon (Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly) def. Forever Holligans (Alex Koslov & Rocky Romero), Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & Kushida) & The Young Bucks
6-Man Tag: Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojimo & Tomoaki Honma def. The Bullet Club (Jeff Jarrett, Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi
8-Man Tag: Mikey Nicholls, Naomichi Murufuji, Shane Haste & Toru Yano def. Suzukigun (Shelton X Benjamin, Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Takashi Iizuka
Match Can Only End By KO or Submission: Minoru Suzuki def. Kazushi Sakuraba by technical submission ( rear naked choke)
NEVER Openweight Championship: Togi Makabe def. (C) Tomohiro Ishii: Makabe is new NEVER Openweight Champion
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship: Kenny Omega def. (C) Ryusuke Taguchi: Omega is new IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion
IWGP Tag Team Championship: Meiyu Tag (Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata) def. (C) The Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows): Meiyu Tag are the new IWGP Tag Team Champions
AJ Styles def. Tetsuya Naito
IWGP Intercontinental Championship: (C) Shinsuke Nakamura def. Kota Ibushi
IWGP Heavyweight Championship: (C) Hiroshi Tanahashi def. Kazuchika Okada
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