NJPW Kizuna Road two iPPVs

[Defrost]

NJPW "KIZUNA ROAD 2013", 05.07.2013 (Samurai! TV/USTREAM)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Super Strong Machine vs. Toaru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Jado
2. Togi Makabe, Manabu Nakanishi, Tiger Mask & KUSHIDA vs. Yuji Nagata, Hirooki Goto, Captain New Japan & Takaaki Watanabe
3. Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov vs. Minoru Suzuki, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi
4. Tetsuya Naito, Tomoaki Honma & La Sombra vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka & Yujiro Takahashi
- Bekanntgabe der Teilnehmer am G1 CLIMAX 23
5. Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Karl Anderson & Bad Luke Fale
6. CMLL World Tag Team Title: Tama Tonga & El Terrible (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jushin Thunder Liger
7. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Prince Devitt (c) vs. Gedo


NJPW "KIZUNA ROAD 2013", 20.07.2013 (WPW)
Akita Municipal Gymnasium

0. Manabu Nakanishi, Tomoaki Honma, Tiger Mask & KUSHIDA vs. Yujiro Takahashi, YOSHI-HASHI, Gedo & Jado
1. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov (c) vs. TAKA Michinoku & Taichi
2. Tomohiro Ishii vs. Minoru Suzuki
3. IWGP Tag Team Title: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (c) vs. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka
4. NEVER Openweight Title: Masato Tanaka (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito
5. Special Singles Match: La Sombra vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
6. Special 8 Man Tag Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe, Jushin Thunder Liger & Captain New Japan vs. Karl Anderson, El Terrible , Tama Tonga & Bad Luck Fale
7. Hirooki Goto vs. Katsuyori Shibata
8. Kazushi Sakuraba Return Match: Yuji Nagata vs. Kazushi Sakuraba
9. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Prince Devitt

[Hero!]

Devitt in both main events...yesssss

[Panther52]

the return of the Pro Wrestling Messiah makes me happy. Also really curious what they're gonna do with Devitt in the first main event.

[thesamuelcooke]

Both these shows look amazing!

Would love to see Devitt win but have a feeling they will have Nakamura win G1 and have the two CHAOS major players go at it at WK8.

[Cewsh]

I really do wonder how far they intend to go with this Devitt thing. Its hard not to assume that there's some sort of glass ceiling for him in New Japan, but if there isn't, he could win the damn G1.

[thesamuelcooke]

A Devitt reign could be pretty damn orgasmic! Him and pretty much everyone on the roster could have impressive matches.

Okada, Devitt and Naito passing the title around for the majority of the next decade sounds fine to me also!

[Defrost]

http://www.puroresufan.com/njpw/




NJPW, 7/5/13 (Samurai! TV/iPPV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
2,015 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Super Strong Machine beat Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Jado (9:08) when Iizuka was DQ’d.
2. Togi Makabe, Manabu Nakanishi, Tiger Mask & KUSHIDA beat Yuji Nagata, Hirooki Goto, Captain New Japan & Takaaki Watanabe (11:02) when KUSHIDA used a reverse cross armbreaker on Watanabe.
3. Minoru Suzuki, TAKA Michinoku Kaientai Dojo & Taichi beat Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov (11:38) when Taichi used the Low Fly Flow on Koslov.
4. Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka ZERO1 & Yujiro Takahashi beat Tetsuya Naito, Tomoaki Honma & La Sombra (12:52) when Takahashi used the Tokyo Pimps on Honma.
5. Karl Anderson & Bad Luck Fale beat Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI (9:22) when Fale used the Grenade on YOSHI-HASHI.
6. CMLL World Tag Team Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jushin Thunder Liger beat El Terrible & Tama Tonga (c) (12:12) when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on Terrible to become the 34th champions.
7. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Prince Devitt (c) beat Gedo (18:11) with the Bloody Sunday (4th defense).

* Prince Devitt had a peculiar task tonight of defending his IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title just 2 weeks before he challenges for the IWGP Heavyweight Title. As stipulated when Okada accepted his challenge, Devitt first had to make his V4 defense of the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title against Okada’s sidekick Gedo. Gedo was hugely popular at Korakuen against Devitt, who has gone from heroic junior ace to one of the most despised wrestlers in the company since his betray of Taguchi and formation of the BULLET CLUB. But great fan support couldn’t carry him to the title as Devitt dropped him with the Bloody Sunday to complete another successful defense. Next target: Okada.

* You can’t keep Hiroshi Tanahashi away from gold for too long! Tanahashi and the legendary Jushin Thunder Liger today ended the 8 month reign of El Terrible & Tama Tonga to become the new CMLL World Tag Team Champions. Tanahashi pinned Terrible with the High Fly Flow to add yet another trophy to his bulging cabinet. They rarely team up but if they head to CMLL to defend these belts, Tanahashi & Liger will make an instantly recognizable team of New Japan stars. This is the third CMLL title Liger, now 48, has held in his career and yet another accolade for this living legend.

[Hero!]

Glad Devitt kept his belt and good on Liger & Tanahashi for winning the CMLL tag belts. That's gotta be a good team. Stoked for the second show...LETS GO DEVITT!!

[Defrost]

here's the match if you're looking for it


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11o4eg_prince-devitt-vs-gedo-njpw_sport#.UeSuIqwiySo

[Cewsh]

http://i.minus.com/i20boCBOx9P5k.gif

:hyper:

[Hero!]

I really hope that he becomes "King Devitt" when he wins the heavyweight title.

[thesamuelcooke]

If rumours are true, he's off to the WWE isn't he? Shame, NJPW would be losing a great future/present superstar.

[Cewsh]

Nope, there's no definite rumor along those lines at all. At least not that I'm aware of. Just an out of context deleted tweet.

[Defrost]

There is nothing to worry about right now in regard to Devitt and WWE. For one he's under contract to NJPW and they wouldn't let him out of it, and two he has a very good contract with NJPW so no real financial motivation unless they promise him he's going to get a Cena/Punk/Orton type deal which they won't.

[Tainted Eclipse]

i think im probably going to give the 7/20 show a chance

[Cewsh]

We've gotta get a viewing part going for this one. Just so we can be there if Devitt wins and watch Hero lose his mind.

[thesamuelcooke]

Devitt wont beat the mighty Okada.

I hope...

If he does I imagine he'll have a short reign before dropping it either back to Okada or to Nakamura

[Cewsh]

I'm still flat out certain that we're getting Nakamura/Okada at Wrestle Kingdom.

[Hero!]

There is no way Devitt loses, he's on way too much of a hotstreak right now. Won his second BOSJ undefeated, while IWGP jr champion, and he's the hottest gaijin in Japanese wrestling. I'm willing to do avatar bets with anyone who doubts.

be ready for sexy Devitt avatars when you fucks lose!

[Cewsh]

You're on, fool. You will be wearing the glorious visage of Tanahashi in 5 days. :D

[thesamuelcooke]

I can't even have a picture it seems, but no way am I having Devitt!

[Hero!]

TanaWHOshi?

[Hero!]

I can't even have a picture it seems, but no way am I having Devitt!

Post more so you can accept your punishment for doubting the REAL ROCK N ROLLA

[Cewsh]

I can't even have a picture it seems, but no way am I having Devitt!

You can't?


TanaWHOshi?

Don't you start with me!

[Hero!]

He may be confused on how to do it. What's the prob, amigo?

[Defrost]

I'm leaning Okada, but it does seem early to beat Devitt.

[Hero!]

Hey, I remember who Tanahashi is! He's that guy who Devitt beat last month, right?

[thesamuelcooke]

Tanahashi - the second or third most important Japanese wrestler of today. After Okada and obviously Gedo.

And I try put a prof pic up and it says an administrator may not have allowed me to do so yet? Do I need to get up to midcarder before I can have a pic?

[Hero!]

TanaYoshi Tatsu?

[thesamuelcooke]

Tanahashit...

[takerson]

Just watch Kizuna Road I, and the main event left me SALIVATING over KRII and the Okada/Devitt Title Match. It's going to be EPIC.

[Hero!]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPmVLvnCYAAb-TC.jpg

Are you ready?

[Ringo]

RESULTS. SPOILERED in case.


NJPW, 7/20/13 (WPW/PPV/iPPV)
Akita Municipal Gymnasium
4,075 Fans – Super No Vacancy

0. Manabu Nakanishi, Tomoaki Honma, Tiger Mask & KUSHIDA beat Yujiro Takahashi, YOSHI-HASHI, Jado & Gedo (8:53) when Nakanishi used the Ue kara Don on Jado.
1. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov (c) beat TAKA Michinoku Kaientai Dojo & Taichi (17:27) when Koslov pinned Taichi after the Contract Killer (2nd defense).
2. Special Singles Match: Minoru Suzuki beat Tomohiro Ishii (11:51) with a Gotch-style piledriver.
3. IWGP Tag Team Title: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (c) beat Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka (10:19) when Tenzan used a moonsault press on Iizuka (2nd defense).
4. NEVER Openweight Title: Masato Tanaka ZERO1 (c) beat Tetsuya Naito (11:50) with the Sliding D (4th defense).
5. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Shinsuke Nakamura beat La Sombra (c) (13:59) with the Boma Ye to become the 6th champion.
6. Special 8 Man Tag Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe, Jushin Thunder Liger & Captain New Japan beat Karl Anderson, El Terrible, Tama Tonga & Bad Luck Fale (12:07) when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on Terrible.
7. Special Singles Match: Hirooki Goto vs. Katsuyori Shibata went to a double KO (14:52).
8. Kazushi Sakuraba Return Match: Kazushi Sakuraba beat Yuji Nagata (10:12) with a cross armbreaker.
9. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Kazuchika Okada (c) beat Prince Devitt (19:14) with the Rainmaker (3rd defense).

* “Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada stalled the runaway momentum of the Bullet Club on today’s big pre-G1 show in Akita, making a successful V3 defense of his IWGP Heavyweight Title against IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion, Prince Devitt. As is becoming a standard thing, Okada (with Gedo in his corner) wasn’t really facing only Devitt but the entire Bullet Club who made their presence felt in an exciting match. Okada kicked out of Devitt’s Bloody Sunday finisher and also a double footstomp on to a chair over Okada’s chest. The champion then hit his Rainmaker finisher to make sure his second reign as IWGP Heavyweight Champion is more successful than his first, where he only managed two defenses before dropping the belt back to Tanahashi (he now has three in this reign). With the G1 Climax around the corner, Okada didn’t face any new challenges after the match and whoever wins the tournament will challenge him next – unless Okada repeats last year’s success and wins the G1 again.

* Kazushi Sakuraba returned from a nasty injury against the man he was in the ring with when suffering said injury, Yuji Nagata. These two have long wanted a singles match and it happened today with Nagata ruthlessly targeting the barely healed elbow of Saku. Saku countered an attempt by Nagata to hit his backdrop hold, though, and locked in a cross armbreaker for the submission win in a strong shoot style match.

* Former university classmates Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata continued their series with a third singles match that like the first ended in a stalemate. The two again put on a brutally stiff match with hard kicks and headbutts, until eventually an exchanged of headbutts sent them to the mat and they couldn’t answer the 10 count. They now have two draws and one Shibata victory in their three matches, with a fourth match coming up in the G1 where Goto will finally hope to secure a win.

* Shinsuke Nakamura won back “his” IWGP Intercontinental Title from the man who took it from him at the end of May, CMLL’s La Sombra. Sombra quite surprisingly ended Shinsuke’s first reign which had seen him make eight successful defenses. Sombra snuck in one successful defense at Arena Mexico in June before handing back the title to Nakamura after a Boma Ye on today’s show.

* Tetsuya Naito’s exciting comeback from a long-term injury hit its first hurdle today when he failed to win the NEVER Openweight Title from veteran Masato Tanaka. Naito was the original “poster boy” of the NEVER Openweight Title Tournament before his injury forced him to withdraw and there was a strong feeling he could finally win the belt tonight. But Tanaka is a warrior and after Naito kicked out of one Sliding D, Tanaka simply hit another to cement a successful V4 defense.

* Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima continued to succeed in a series of tough IWGP Tag Team Title defenses, this time against recently dethroned GHC Tag Team Champions, Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka. The match had barely started before it went to a double countout but President Sugabayashi ordered it to continue, refusing to accept a non-finish in such an important match. After a Kojima lariat, Tenzan dropped a moonsault press on Iizuka and New Japan’s most famous tag team of the modern age continued their renaissance.

* Forever Hooligans opened the main show (after a dark match) with a successful V2 defense of the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title against Suzuki-gun’s TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. This was the fourth time TAKA & Taichi have challenged for these belts in the past two years and like the other three it ended in failure as Romero & Koslov hit Taichi with their Contract Killer finisher and Koslov pinned him.

SHINSKAY. Understand why they had La Sombra win it and drop it straight back to him but it does kind of interrupt what had been turning into quite the reign.

Thought Naito would win. Not like Tanaka has too many challengers so they'll probably have another match at DESTRUCTION which Naito will win.

Really looking forward to the top two matches.

[Hero!]

;___; my heart

Really surprised that Sombra lost the IC title already. I wish he'd had a few more defenses first. Oh well.


and fucking OKADA KISAMA I HATE YOU.

[Hero!]

Where can i find pictures from this?

[Ringo]

http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/photo/fight/all/dtl/304/

Okada/Devitt pics.

http://i.imgur.com/hcIliV8.jpg

I like this one.

[Panther52]

nice. a belated bday win for the IQ Wrestler. Can't wait to actually see these matches now :)

[Defrost]

Really surprised that Sombra lost the IC title already. I wish he'd had a few more defenses first. Oh well.


La Sombra is great and only 23 so he's going to get better. Plus the dude is really big to do the things he can do. I know WWE fucked up with Mistico, which still amazes me and I have no faith in them to begin with, but he seems perfect to be their new masked hero for kids.

[Tainted Eclipse]

Sakuraba/Nagata was disappointing and not at all good. Finishing sequence was pretty cool though.

[Ringo]

Yep, hearing it was really bad. :(

Optimistic about some of the others though.

[thesamuelcooke]

Is the Goto/Shibata match as good as some are saying? It can't be better than their Dominion match can it? Only seen the Nakamura/Sombra match (****1/2) and Okada/Devitt match (****1/4)

[Cewsh]

Looks like Hero's getting a new avatar. :D

[Hero!]

Looks like SHUT UP

[Cewsh]

Here you go, buddy. Enjoy!

http://img.njpw.jp/mobile/show_match_icon.php?nosize=1&di=1&f=result/result_5052_9.jpg

[takerson]

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH FLYYYYYYYYYY FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!

[Glen]

I've had some minor dealings with Devitt and the WWE thing is rubbish. Trying to get him out of Japan is hard enough.

[Cewsh]

I bet. He's got a crazy good thing going there.

[Glen]

He will rarely work British shows unless he has a title to defend, as it's basically his "holiday" time and time for him to rest up. Rightly so, after having seen him work recently. OOFT.

[Hero!]

Yeah, he doesn't seem too keen on working in Britain from the way he talked about it with Cabana. I know he loves Ireland and England (where he got his start), but he makes all his money and created a real career for himself in Japan. Why work extra if you don't really need to?

[Defrost]

He works for Revolution Pro now and again doesn't he? I know he just wrestled Liger for them and he's wrestling Ricochet on the show they're bringing Tanahashi in for. Though that may just mean they have a relationship with New Japan and that is why Devitt is doing it. They did send Takahashi there to work full time.