NJPW Power Struggle 2013

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NJPW “POWER STRUGGLE”, 11/9/13 (WPW/iPPV)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

1. NEVER Openweight Title (& IWGP Heavyweight Title shot): Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Masato Tanaka ZERO1
2. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki
3. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Karl Anderson

It sorta feels like playing out the string until 1/4. That said the Osaka crowd should be molten for the IC Title match. Hopefully Ibushi vs Ishii happens on this show.

[Tainted Eclipse]

i have guardedly high hopes for that nakamura/suzuki match

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Love the poster

http://i.imgur.com/3OJ9ejm.jpg

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Fun looking card


NJPW “POWER STRUGGLE”, 11/9/13 (WPW/iPPV)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

1. Special Tag Match: Togi Makabe & Kota Ibushi vs. Prince Devitt & Bad Luck Fale
2. Special Tag Match: Yuji Nagata & Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka
3. Special Singles Match: Tomoaki Honma vs. Katsuyori Shibata
4. Special Singles Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tomohiro Ishii
5. IWGP Tag Team Title & NWA World Tag Team Title – 3WAY Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (c) vs. Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. (c) vs. Rob Conway NWA & Jax Dane NWA
6. NEVER Openweight Title (& IWGP Heavyweight Title shot): Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Masato Tanaka ZERO1
7. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki
8. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Karl Anderson

[Tainted Eclipse]

I like the look of Nakamura/Suzuki and Tanahashi/Ishii a whole lot. And this is on a Saturday morning too yes? I'll watch it.

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Yeah Saturday Morning

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So that tag title match is a two fall match

Fall 1 is for the NWA Titles
Fall 2 is for the IWGP Titles

[thesamuelcooke]

Conway/Dane - 1st fall (I hope not, just got a hunch)
KES - 2nd fall (please!)

[Cewsh]

Man, that main event is garbage.

[DDT]

Meh, their G-1 match was good. Of course everything that made it good (underdog, over-his-head gaijin babyface over-achieves) is no longer applicable.

BTW, if you are still willing to wait, I'll have the King of Pro Wrestling to you by the end of the day, Cewsh. :yes:

[Cewsh]

Works for me. There are still 2 reviews (at least) before it in line..

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Taka and Taichi vs Young Bucks has been added to this show

[Hero!]

@fergaldevitt: New member is 6ft 8in. 138kg. Bald head. Tattoos. Bad Ass. #BulletClub. 新しいメンバー。ハゲ頭。多くのタトゥー。ヘビー級！coming soon!!!


:D

[Tainted Eclipse]

You know I've been watching too much wrestling lately when a friend calls me and says he wants to go out tonight and I'm sort of down because I'll be missing a non-major show from a wrestling promotion I don't even have that much love for overall. Hope Suzuki/Nakamura ends up good.

[Defrost]

You know I've been watching too much wrestling lately when a friend calls me and says he wants to go out tonight and I'm sort of down because I'll be missing a non-major show from a wrestling promotion I don't even have that much love for overall. Hope Suzuki/Nakamura ends up good.

I've been there. I once blew something off with my friends because Kobashi's return match from cancer popped up on the internet and I had to watch it

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Yujiro helping Kozlov with the ladies

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Taka and Taichi carried the Bucks there. New Champs.

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Looking like a 4 way for the Jr Tag Belts

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So gonna be Shibata and Goto at the Dome

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Iizuka painted Nogami into a cat

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Holy shit Sakuraba spitting mist

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Ibushi pins Devitt in obvious result

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Holy shit Tana vs Ishii was great

[OD50]

Holy shit Sakuraba spitting mist

:lol:

Awesome.

[Psycho666Soldier]

What matches are still left?

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IC Title and Heavyweight Title

[Psycho666Soldier]

Glad I got here in time for the IC TItle match at least. What's worth going back and watching? I plan on watching the whole thing, I'm just curious what to look forward to.

[Defrost]

I've liked everything but the NWA/IWGP Tag Title match. You can skip that.

[Defrost]

That was incredibly disappointing

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Tanahashi vs Nakamura next

[Psycho666Soldier]

I was expecting more out of it, too. I dug the story leading up to the finish, and it started strong as hell, but it seemed to kind of fizzle out somewhere in the middle. Still a really good match, though.

Nakamura/Tanahashi should be a blast, though.

[Defrost]

Well they've wrestled each other for the U-30 title at the Dome. They've wrestled for the Heavyweight Title at the Dome. Guess they gotta wrestle for the IC Title at the Dome.

[Psycho666Soldier]

Really good and balance intensity in this match.

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Booing Naito

[Psycho666Soldier]

According to some people translating the promo in the chat, Naito got absolutely wrecked by Okada there. But yeah, his reaction wasn't helping much. Boos as soon as he walked out. They seemed pretty mild for his victory over Tanaka from what I saw catching the end.

[Panther52]

Holy shit Sakuraba spitting mist

did he dawn the Muta mask for his entrance? he's done that before during an MMA entrance. or was the mist during his match?

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The mist was at the finish

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NJPW “POWER STRUGGLE”, 11/9/13 (WPW/iPPV)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium
6,400 Fans – Super No Vacancy

0. Yujiro Takahashi, YOSHI-HASHI, Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov beat Manabu Nakanishi, Captain New Japan, KUSHIDA & BUSHI (9:50) when Koslov pinned BUSHI after the Contract Killer.
1. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson beat TAKA Michinoku Kaientai Dojo & Taichi (c) (9:22) when Matt pinned TAKA after the More Bang For Your Buck to become the 37th champions.
2. Special Singles Match: Katsuyori Shibata beat Tomoaki Honma (9:43) with a Shouten.
3. Special Tag Match: Yuji Nagata & Kazushi Sakuraba beat Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka (8:08) when Sakuraba used the Sakuraba Lock on Iizuka.
4. IWGP Tag Team Title & NWA World Tag Team Title – 3WAY Irregular Rules Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (c) vs. Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. (c) vs. Rob Conway NWA & Jax Dane NWA
- NWA World Tag Team Title: Rob Conway NWA & Jax Dane NWA beat Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. (c) and Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan (5:41) when Conway used the Ego Trip on Kojima to become the 74th champions.
- IWGP Tag Team Title: Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (c) and Rob Conway NWA & Jax Dane NWA (3:00) when Archer used the Killer bomb on Tenzan to become the 63rd champions.
5. Special Tag Match: Togi Makabe & Kota Ibushi beat Prince Devitt & Bad Luck Fale (11:15) when Ibushi used a Phoenix splash on Devitt.
6. Special Singles Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Tomohiro Ishii (17:38) with the High Fly Flow.
7. NEVER Openweight Title (& IWGP Heavyweight Title shot): Tetsuya Naito (c) beat Masato Tanaka ZERO1 (15:46) with a Stardust press (2nd defense).
8. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) beat Minoru Suzuki (19:04) with the Boma Ye (3rd defense).
9. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Kazuchika Okada (c) beat Karl Anderson (22:49) with the Rainmaker (6th defense).

[Tainted Eclipse]

Ishii/Tanahashi was disappointing in a way but I guess I should have expected how good the G1 match was to be a right place right time sort of thing. Still it was fun midcard puro stuff overall, Tanahashi countering Ishii's back headbutt with an uppercut was cool.