Tag: NJPW

More Info On AJ Styles & Other Big Names Signing With WWE

Source: F4WOnline

As noted, F4WOnline reported that WWE has signed New Japan Pro Wrestling stars AJ Styles, Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson of the Bullet Club and current IWGP Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura.

Dave Meltzer noted on the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio that some of these names could appear in the Royal Rumble match.

It was also noted that Styles and Nakamura were apparently Not signed to be on the NXT roster and have a high price tag. Word is they were not signed for that brand, indicating main roster plans, but they still could be sent down to NXT to work a few shows.

Nakamura is not coming in right away and is expected to drop his title and work a notice, unlike Alberto Del Rio with AAA.

As noted earlier, Styles is likely done with ROH going forward and could come in soon, possibly in the Royal Rumble Match.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10 Results

New Japan Rumble: Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Fujiwara, Tiger Mask, Cheeseburger, Hiro Saito, YOSHI-HASHI, Mascara Dorado, Captain New Japan, Manuba Nakanishi, Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Ryusuke Taguchi, Shiro Koshinaka, King Haku, The Great Kabuki, The Gracie Hunter, Kazushi Sakuraba, Jado – Winner: Jado: What really stands out about this match was that Haku appeared in the match representing the Bullet Club and the legendary Great Kabuki was in the match.

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: (C) reDRagon VS Matt Sydal & Ricochet VS Roppongi Vice VS Bullet Club/The Young Bucks w/Cody Hall – Winners and new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team champions The Young Bucks

NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship: Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Toma Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi) VS Toru Yano & The Briscoes – Winners and new NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team champions Toru Yano & The Briscoes

ROH World Championship: (C) Jay Lethal w/Truth Martini VS Michael Elgin – Winner: Jay Lethal

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: (C) Kenny Omega w/The Young Bucks VS KUSHIDA – Winner and new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion KUSHIDA

IWGP Tag Team Championship: (C) Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) w/”Bullet Babe” Amber Gallows VS GBH (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) – Winners and new IWGP Tag Team Champions GBH

Hirooki Goto w/Captain New Japan VS Tetsuyta Naito w/Los Ingobernables – Winner: Hirooki Goto

NEVER Openweight Championship: Tomohiro Ishii VS Katsuyori Shibata – Winner and new NEVER Openweight Champion Katsuyori Shibata

IWGP Intercontinental Championship: (C) Shinsuke Nakamura VS AJ Styles – Winner: Shinsuke Nakamura

IWGP Heavyweight Championship: (C) “Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada VS Hiroshi Tanahashi – Winner: Kazuchika Okada

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10 Card 1/4/16

New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 10 live from the Tokyo Dome on January 4, 2016 at 3am ET on NJPWWorld.com. 

IWGP Heavyweight Championship: (C) “Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada VS Hiroshi Tanahashi

IWGP Intercontinental Championship: (C) Shinsuke Nakamura VS AJ Styles

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: (C) Kenny Omega VS KUSHIDA

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: (C) reDRagon VS Matt Sydal & Ricochet (aka Prince Puma in Lucha Underground) VS RPG Vice VS The Young Bucks

ROH World Championship: (C) Jay Lethal VS Michael Elgin

IWGP Tag Team Championship: (C) Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) VS GBH (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma)

NEVER Openweight Championship: (C) Tomohiro Ishii VS Katsuyorin Shibata

(Newly created Title) NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship: Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi) VS Toru Yano & The Briscoes

Hirooki Goto VS Tetsuyta Naito

New Japan Rumble: Jushin “Thunder” Liger VS  Hiroyoshi Tenzan VS Jado VS Manabu Nakanishi VS Ryusuke Taguchi VS Satoshi Kojima VS Tiger Mask VS Yuji Nagata

NJPWWorld.com

 

WWE Looking To Sign Top NJPW Star?

WrestlingINC.com reports that WWE is apparently interested in signing IWGP intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura when his contract with New Japan Pro Wrestling is up in January.

Nakamura is 35 years old and is 6’2″ tall with great charisma and speaks English. A source close to Nakamura noted that it’s one of his dreams to do something big over in the U.S.

Currently Nakamura is scheduled to defend his IWGP Intercontinental Championship against AJ Styles at Wrestle Kingdom 10 on January 4, 2016 in the Tokyo Dome, however that match is in limbo because of Styles recent back issues.

 

NJPW King Of Pro Wrestling PPV Results 10/12/15

Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi, KUSHIDA & Mascara Dorada VS Juice Robinson, Yohei Komatsu, Sho Tanaka, Dave Finlay & Jay White – Winners: Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi, KUSHIDA & Mascara Dorada

Tomoaki Honma VS YOSHI-HASHI – Winner: Tomoaki Honma

Kota Ibushi, Hirooki Goto, Katsuyori Shibata & Captain New Japan VS Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan – Winners: Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: (C) reDRagon VS RPG Vice – Winners: reDRagon

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship: (C) Kenny Omeda w/ Cody Hall VS Matt Sydal – Winner: Kenny Omega

CHAOS ( Shinsuke Nakamura, Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano) VS Bullet Club (Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows & Bad Luck Fale) – Winners: CHAOS

NEVER Openweight Championship: (C) Togi Makabe VS Tomohiro Ishii – Winner and new NEVER Openweight Champion Tomohiro Ishii

#1 Contender’s Match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Hiroshi Tanahashi VS Tetsuya Naito – Winner: Hiroshi Tanahashi

IWGP Heavyweight Championship: (C) Kazuchika Okada w/Gedo VS AJ Styles w/Bullet Club – Winner: Kazuchika Okada

Kevin Nash Passes Torch From nWo To The Bullet Club

Over the weekend Kevin Nash appeared at a Global Force Wrestling event and passed the torch from the nWo to The Bullet Club’s Doc Gallow’s.

Below is video of Gallow talking about Nash passing the torch from the nWo to The Bullet Club:

 

ROH Field Of Honor Card 8/22/15

The Stars of ROH and NJPW invade MCU Park in Brooklyn, NY this Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 – 7:30PM ET.

Gauntlet For A World TV Title Match In San Antonio: Frankie Kazarian, Moose w/Stokely Hathaway, Donovan Dijak w/Truth Martini, Cedric Alexander w/Veda Scott, Adam Page w/BJ Whitmer VS Dalton Castle w/The Boys, Silas Young

8-Man Tag Match: The Young Bucks, ACH & Matt Sydal VS The Kingdom w/Maria Kanellis & RPG Vice

Adam Cole VS Christopher Daniels

Hirooki Goto VS Michael Elgin

Killer Elite Squad (Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Lance Archer/Hoyt) War Machine

Kazuchika Okada VS Roderick Strong

reDRagon VS Shinsuke Nakamura & Jay Lethal w/Truth Martini

The Briscoes VS Time Spitters (Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA

You can get tickets at this link: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=CYC_WRESTLING&pid=7999268

Triple H Reveals Video From Jushin “Thunder” Liger To Hype NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn

Triple H posted the following video on Twitter from wrestling legend Jushin “thunder” Liger who will be facing Tyler Breeze at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn on August 22nd. Liger said:

“My name is Jushin “Thunder” Liger from New Japan Pro Wrestling. I will be taking part in WWE NXT Takeover on August 22nd and I will be facing Tyler Breeze. I am excited to enter the WWE ring as this is the first time for me. I would like to ask and thank the WWE Universe for their support.”

For those who are not familiar with Jushin “Thunder” Liger, below is a couple of video’s of him in action. One is Liger VS Rey Mysterio at WCW Starrcade in 1996 and the other is Liger VS Bryan Danielson (Daniel Bryan) in ROH

GFW Released Bullet Club Hype Videos

Global Force Wrestling released some videos featuring Bullet Club members Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows talking about the popularity of the Bullet Club and thoughts on GFW.

WWE Reportedly Interested In Some TNA Stars For NXT, More On AJ Styles -WWE & GFW

Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that WWE officials are reportedly trying to find out when the contracts of a few top TNA stars expire. They are interested in a few TNA stars but only for the NXT brand, at least for now.

AJ Styles

It was noted before that WWE changed their mind and now are interested in AJ Styles. Nothing is expected to happen any time soon because Styles is under contract to New Japan Pro Wrestling until the end of the year. Styles said on Inside The Ropes radio show yesterday that it’s only a matter of time before he shows up in Global Force Wrestling. Style said right now his schedule is so full that’s it’s hard to find time to fit GFW in.

Source: WrestlingINC.com