Tag: NJPW Strong

NJPW Strong: Resurgence 2024 5/11/2024 (Results)

* Kickoff: STRONG Survivor – Matt Vandagriff def. Adrian Quest

* Kickoff: Lio Rush vs Mustafa Ali def. Lio Rush

– Ali put his feet on the ropes for the Backslide pin. They brawled momentarily. The lights went out and Lio emerged behind Ali, spewing mist as his Blackheart persona shined through.

* House Of Torture (EVIL, Jack Perry & Ren Narita) def. CHAOS (Rocky Romero & Tomohiro Ishii) & The DKC

*The West Coast Wrecking Crew (Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs) def. Fred Rosser & Tom Lawlor

* NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team Championship: Guerrillas Of Destiny (El Phantasmo & Hikuleo) def. TMDK (Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste) (c)

* NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship: Stephanie Vaquer (c) def. Alex Windsor

* Los Ingobernables de Japon (Yota Tsuji & Tetsuya Naito) def. BULLET CLUB (David Finlay & KENTA)

– A vignette announced that an American version of FantasticaMania, the joint show between New Japan Pro-Wrestling and CMLL Lucha Libre would be coming to the San Jose Civic Auditorium on July 13.

* Zack Sabre Jr. def. Hiroshi Tanahashi

* NJPW World TV Championship: Jeff Cobb (c) def. Lance Archer

– Tomohiro Ishii came out to declare that he wanted the next shot at Jeff Cobb’s title.

– HENARE appeared in a vignette to declare his desire to face the winner of the NEVER Openweight Championship match.

* NEVER Openweight Championship: Shingo Takagi (c) def. Yuya Uemura

* NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship No-Rope Last Man Standing Match: Gabe Kidd def. Eddie Kingston (c)

– After the match, Jack Perry came down to attack Eddie Kingston but it was Matthew and Nicholas Jackson, The Young Bucks, who would blindside and attack him in their first appearance in New Japan in 5 years. The attack continued. The Young Bucks made jokes about no longer living in the area because they were no longer poor. They challenged Kingston to a match at Forbidden Door but the challenge itself wasn’t actually clear. They hit Kingston with an EVP Trigger and left the ring.

* IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Jon Moxley (c) def. Shota Umino

– The show goes off the air with EVIL attacking Jon Moxley and declaring himself to be the next challenger for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. EVIL and Ren Narita attacked Moxley and Umino and EVIL spray painted the championship.

Source: Fightful

NJPW Strong: Resurgence 2024 5/11/2024 (Card)

The full card for tonight’s NJPW Resurgence 2024 at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, California, has been unveiled.

Fans can catch all the action live on NJPW World as a pay-per-view starting at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time. Here is the lineup for the matches:

  • IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Jon Moxley (c) vs. Shota Umino
  • NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship — No Rope Last Man Standing Match: Eddie Kingston (c) vs. Gabe Kidd
  • NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship: Stephanie Vaquer (c) vs. Alex Windsor
  • Tetsuya Naito & Yota Tsuji vs. David Finlay & KENTA
  • Tom Lawlor & Fred Rosser vs. West Coast Wrecking Crew (Royce Isaacs & Jorel Nelson)
  • NJPW World Television Championship: Jeff Cobb (c) vs. Lance Archer
  • NEVER Openweight Championship: Shingo Takagi (c) vs. Yuya Uemura
    Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
  • NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team Championships: T.M.D.K. (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls) (c) vs. El Phantasmo & Hikuleo
  • The D.K.C., Rocky Romero & Tomohiro Ishii vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Jack Perry, Ren Narita & EVIL)
  • Kickoff Show: Mustafa Ali vs. Lio Rush
  • Kickoff Show: Matt Vandagriff vs. Adrian Quest

NJPW Strong Independence Day Final Cards 7/4 & 7/5 2023

NJPW will hold its Strong Independence Day event over the course of two nights on July 4th and July 5th in Japan, with both shows airing on NJPW World at 5:10 a.m. Eastern time.

The event will feature two AEW stars in action as Jon Moxley, who will be teaming with Homicide on the first night against El Desperado & Jun Kasai in an “Exciting Encounter Doomsday No DQ” match, while he’ll wrestle Desperado on the second night in a “Final Death” match.

Eddie Kingston will also be in action. Here are the final cards:

Night 1

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match:
TJP & Francesco Akira (champions) vs. Drilla Moloney & Clark Connors

Exciting Encounter Doomsday No DQ Match:
Jon Moxley & Homicide vs. El Desperado & Jun Kasai

NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship Match:
Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI (champions) vs. Alex Coughlin & Gabe Kidd

Eddie Kingston & Rocky Romero vs. KENTA & Gedo

Tom Lawlor vs. Kosei Fujita

Lance Archer, Alex Zayne & Ryohei Oiwa vs. JR Kratos, Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs

Bad Dude Tito vs. The DKC

Willow Nightingale & Momo Kohgo vs. Giulia & Thekla

Kickoff Match:
Syusuke Taguchi, YOH & Oskar Leube vs. Kengo, Dragon Libre & Takahiro Katori

Night 2

NJPW Strong Openweight Championship Match:
KENTA (champion) vs. Eddie Kingston

Final Death Match:
Jon Moxley vs. El Desperado

IWGP Tag Team Championship Match:
Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI (champions) vs. Alex Coughlin & Gabe Kidd

NJPW Strong Women’s Championship Match:
Willow Nightingale (champion) vs. Giulia

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tomohiro Ishii & The DKC vs. Tom Lawlor, Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs

Lance Archer & Alex Zayne vs. Bad Dude Tito & Kosei Fujita

Drilla Moloney & Clark Connors vs. YOH & Rocky Romero

Homicide & Ryohei Oiwa vs. TJP & Francesco Akira

JR Kratos vs. OSkar Leube

Kickoff Match:
Ryusuke Taguchi, Master Wato & Boltin Oleg vs. Dragon Libre, Takahiro Katori & Rekka

Backstage Update On Mercedes Mone’s NJPW Contract

As previously reported, Mercedes Mone suffered an injury, believed to be a broken ankle, in the main event of NJPW Resurgence while she was wrestling Willow Nightingale on Sunday night. 

Mone was supposed to become the first-ever NJPW Strong Women’s Champion, but when she went for a code red off the top rope and slipped, resulting in the injury, plans had to be changed with Willow going over. 

Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the former IWGP Women’s Champion agreed to a long-term deal on April 27th.

“Mone had agreed to a longer-term deal with New Japan when her original deal expired on 4/27. We were told that the New Japan Strong championship and belt were created when she agreed to the longer term deal and both were created for her, after she showed strong drawing power for the San Jose show which sold out the Civic Auditorium,” Meltzer wrote.

Source: eWn

NJPW Resurgence 5/21/2023 (Card)

NJPW Resurgence – May 21 at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California. It will air on NJPW World and FITE TV as a pay-per-view event.

CARD

  • NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship Final
  • IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship Number One Contender’s Tournament: Will Ospreay vs Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • CHAOS (Rocky Romero, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada) vs Wheeler Yuta, Shota Umino & Jon Moxley
  • NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship: Hikuleo (c) vs KENTA
  • Street Fight: Juice Robinson vs Fred Rosser
  • TMDK (Bad Dude Tito & Zack Sabre Jr.) vs Barbaro Cavernario & Virus
  • NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship Tournament: Momo Kohgo vs Willow Nightingale
  • NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship Tournament: Mercedes Moné vs Stephanie Vaquer
  • Alex Coughlin vs Christopher Daniels
  • The DKC vs Bateman

NJPW Announces STRONG ON DEMAND, Rebranding For All American NJPW Live Events

New Japan Pro Wrestling has overhauled its STRONG brand in order to consist of all the American shows under one banner.

NJPW announced on Sunday that all NJPW events in the United States will henceforth take place under the STRONG brand, and the weekly taping of NJPW Strong will switch to a “duel model” of STRONG LIVE and STRONG ON DEMAND.

The inaugural show under the new STRONG LIVE branding will be February 18th’s Battle in the Valley in San Jose, California event. The upcoming pay-per-view event will make up four episodes of their weekly TV series that is set to air on their new STRONG ON DEMAND service starting on March 4th.

The four-part model will continue with other United States live events that include March’s Strong Style Evolved at WrestleCon and April’s Capital Collision in Washington, DC, and Collision in Philadelphia shows.

You can check out the full announcement below:

“NJPW of America, STRONG transform in 2023 【NJoA】
STRONG LIVE, STRONG On Demand to see the best in the US
Since its inception during the COVID pandemic in 2020, NJPW STRONG has seen the best rising stars in the US compete with familiar names from the Japanese stage and beyond. Monthly tapings have seen passionate fans witness great action live, with matches from those tapings being distributed every week on NJPW World and FITE.

Additionally, Pay Per View events from the US have seen still more memorable moments, from Jon Moxley and El Desperado’s wild deathmatch at “Music City Mayhem” to Eddie Kingston and Kazuchika Okada teaming for the first time, and STARDOM’s Mayu Iwatani defending SWA gold at “Rumble on 44th Street”.

In the past, these PPV offerings were presented under the NJPW rather than NJPW STRONG branding in order to make them more distinct from the weekly TV style presentations on NJPW World and FITE. As NJPW moves into a new era in 2023 however, so too does action in the US, and the time has come to further fortify the NJPW STRONG brand, as well as to ensure even more people sample the incredible action that NJPW presents in the US.

Moving forward, all events from New Japan Pro-Wrestling in the US will carry the branding of NJPW STRONG. In addition, the weekly ‘TV taping’ format of STRONG will shift to a dual model: STRONG LIVE and STRONG On Demand.

The first STRONG LIVE event will be Battle in the Valley on February 18 from the sold out San Jose Civic. With Mercedes Moné versus KAIRI for the IWGP Women’s Championship, Fred Rosser defending the STRONG Openweight Championship against KENTA, Jay White and Eddie Kingston in a grudge match, and the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship also on the line, this immense card is a must watch event for fans live in English on FITE, or in Japanese on NJPW World PPV.

All this action will also be made available in March with NJPW STRONG On Demand. STRONG On Demand will see matches from STRONG Live cards delivered in a four part weekly basis through the month, much as NJPW STRONG has been to date.

NJPW STRONG on Demand March schedule

March 4 Battle in the Valley week 1: 2 matches

March 11 Battle in the Valley week 2: 3 matches

March 18 Battle in the Valley week 3: 2 matches

March 25 Battle in the Valley week 4: 3 matches

This model will continue with our return to WrestleCon this March with Strong Style Evolved, before NJPW Capital Collision in Washington DC and Collision in Philadelphia from the world famous 2300 Arena!

This dual model will give fans on a budget the chance to stay up to date with the hottest action in the US through their regular NJPW World subscription, while the very best live experience on the planet awaits on pay per view as it happens.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling thanks fans for their dedicated support of NJPW STRONG to date- we can’t wait to have you join us for Battle in the Valley and what lies beyond in a thrilling new chapter for all of NJPW.”

Source: eWrestlingNews