Tag: NJPW

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:

 

 

 

WWE Trying To Trademark The Bullet Club Hand Gesture

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:

NWO Kliq hand gesture

NJPW- New Japan Cup Results: 3/8/15

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

Possible GFW Announcements Coming Soon From Jeff Jarrett

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.

 

NJPW New Beginning Results

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

 

 

NJPW Debuts Tonight On AXS TV

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.

GFW Presents NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 9 PPV Full Card

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9 - GFW

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

IWGP Intercontinental Championship: (C) Shinsuke Nakamura VS Kota Ibushi

AJ Styles VS Tetsuya Naito

IWGP Tag Team Championship: (C) The Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) VS Meiyu Tag ( Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata)

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship: (C) Ryusuke Taguchi VS Kenny Omega

NEVER Openweight Championship: (C) Tomohiro Ishii VS Togi Makabe

Minoru Suzuki VS Kazushi Sakuraba (Match can only end by submission, KO or referee stoppage)

8-Man Tag: Mikey Nicholls, Maomichi Marufuji, Shane Haste & Toru Yanu VS Lance Archer, Shelton X Benjamin, Takashi Iizuka & Davey Boy Smith Jr.

6-Man Tag: The Bullet Club ( Jeff Jarrett, Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi) VS Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma

IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship: (C) reDRagon (Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly) VS The Time Splitters ( Alex Shelley & Kushida) VS The Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov & Rocky Romero) VS The Young Bucks

(Pre-show Match) 15-Man New Japan Rumble: Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask, Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata are confirmed participants.

Jim Ross & Matt Striker on commentary

 

AJ Styles Says He Wouldn’t Work For Struggling WWE

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AJ Styles appeared on MLW’s Talking Shop with Rocky Romero to promote New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 9 pay-per-view and new streaming service. Styles mentioned in the interview not wanting to work for a struggling WWE. Styles said:

“Why would I want to go to WWE? I mean honestly… They’re struggling right now with the network… I’m in the hottest wrestling company in the world – New Japan – and I’m with the hottest wrestling group. We can say it over and over again. It’s absolutely true.”

Style’s comments might just be a work designed to hype NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 9 pay-per-view.

Source: cagesideseats.com

NJPW Launches New Japan World, Their Own Version Of WWE Network

Following big announcements that New Japan Pro Wrestling would be on American television (AXS TV) and pay-per-view, NJPW has now announced their own over-the-top distribution network similar to WWE Network. The service is called New Japan World and will cost $8.50 USD and will feature all the promotions live events beginning this month. Events featured will include Wrestle Kingdom 9 and the G1 Climax Tourney.

Wrestling Observer believes NJPW is getting closer to ending it’s relationship with their current television distributor Samurai! TV. At a press conference early Monday, NJPW announced that the Korakuen Hall shows, which previously aired Samurai! will now air on their own service (New Japan World).

NJPW owner Takaaki Kidani has expressed his desire to compete with WWE and said that currently NJPW is the number 2 company as it pertains to business, but number 1 in the ring. They plan to pass WWE and are making moves into American homes, NJPW hopes to earn 100,ooo subscribers for the first year for their service New Japan World. As of now the entire site is in Japanese with apparently no option for a translation. However, some American fans have already ordered the service.

Source: WrestlingINC.com

Yoshi Tatsu Suffered Neck Injury

AJ Styles vs. Yoshitatsu 11-8-14(NJPW) – Video Dailymotion.

Check out the Styles Clash at 20:17 in the video at the link provided above.

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced on their official web page that former WWE Superstar Yoshi Tatsu will not compete in the rest of the NJPW World Tag League Tournament. Tatsu stated on Twitter that test revealed that he has broken 2 bones in his neck and he believes the injury was sustained during a amcth with AJ Styles fro NJPW’s November 8 Power Struggle show. Tatsu indicated that he is in lots of pain and cannot sleep.

NJPW has indicated that changes to the tournament card are forthcoming.

Tatsu thanked his friends and the YoshiArmy for all their prayers;