NJPW - 11 & 12 декември 2010

[Remus]

NJPW, 12/11/10 (WPW/PPV)

Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

1. TENZAN come back to Osaka: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Gedo

2. Manabu Nakanishi, Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Super Strong Machine, Tama Tonga & King Fale

3. Special Singles Match: Tiger Mask vs. Tomohiro Ishii

4. Special Tag Match: Yujiro Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin

5. IWGP Tag Team Title: Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson © vs. Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue

6. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Prince Devitt © vs. Davey Richards

7. Special Tag Match: Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka

8. Special Singles Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hirooki Goto

9. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Satoshi Kojima © vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

NJPW, 12/12/10 (Samurai! TV)

Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium

1. TENZAN come back to Nagoya: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Jado

2. Manabu Nakanishi & Koji Kanemoto vs. Tama Tonga & King Fale

3. Giant Bernard, Karl Anderson & Tiger Mask vs. Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii & Davey Richards

4. Special Tag Match: Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin

5. Special Singles Match: Yuji Nagata vs. Yujiro Takahashi

6. Special Singles Match: Wataru Inoue vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

7. Special Tag Match: Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs. Toru Yano & Masato Tanaka

8. Special Singles Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito

9. Special Singles Match: Hirooki Goto vs. Satoshi Kojima

[nWoHulkster]

NJPW, 12/11/10 (WPW/PPV)

Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

6,115 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

0. King Fale beat Hiromu Takahashi (8:04) with a crab hold.

1. TENZAN come back to Osaka: Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Gedo (8:43) with the Anaconda Vice.

2. Manabu Nakanishi & Koji Kanemoto beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Tama Tonga (9:25) when Nakanishi used an Argentine backbreaker on Tonga.

3. Special Singles Match: Tomohiro Ishii beat Tiger Mask (8:27) with a lariat.

4. Special Tag Match: Yujiro Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin (12:39) when Takahashi used the Tokyo Pimps on Shelley.

5. IWGP Tag Team Title: Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson © beat Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue (17:23) when Bernard used the Bernard Driver on Inoue (3rd defense).

6. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Prince Devitt © beat Davey Richards (13:04) with the Bloody Sunday (3rd defense).

7. Special Tag Match: Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka beat Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma (10:46) when Yano used the Oni Koroshi on Honma.

8. Special Singles Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Hirooki Goto (16:55) with the High Fly Flow.

9. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Satoshi Kojima © beat Shinsuke Nakamura (19:17) with a lariat (1st defense).

* Said to be a very good show and New Japan was rewarded for a strong card by completely packing Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium with a full house for the first time in a while.

* Satoshi Kojima (seconded by Taichi, returning again from Mexico) bypasses his first challenger, Nakamura, who had beaten him in the G1, to make their all-time singles match record 1-1-1. Kojima called Nakamura the strongest wrestler in New Japan after the match.

* Tanahashi defeats Goto, defying the expectations of many who believed Goto would grab the big win here and go on to headline the Tokyo Dome against the main event winner. Massively disappointing for Goto who finally looked to be coming back after a hit-and-miss year, results-wise. Tanahashi challenging Kojima for the IWGP Heavyweight Title appears to be the main event for 1/4/11, but there is a Goto vs. Kojima non-title match tomorrow in Aichi that has the potential to complicate that idea…

* Devitt continues his amazing year by making a successful V3 defense of the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title in a strong match over Davey Richards, despite his ribs still being injured. Devitt’s BOSJ win (vs. Ibushi), title win (vs. Marufuji), and defenses (vs. Aoki, Omega, Richards) have all been over outsiders so there is lots of life left in his reign against New Japan juniors if he holds on to the belt.

* Bad Intentions make a successful V3 defense of the IWGP Tag Team Title over G1 Tag League winners, Nagata & Wataru, to just about confirm that they have won the year-long three way tag feud between those teams and NO LIMIT. Next challengers appear to be Tokyo Sports’ Best Tag Award winners, Nakanishi & Strong Man, most likely at the Tokyo Dome.

* But NO LIMIT have yet to challenge Bad Intentions for the belts in a regular match and a huge victory over TNA World Tag Team Champions, the Motor City Machine Guns, means they have to be in contention. It was the MCMG who took the IWGP Jr. Tag Team Title from NO LIMIT that caused NO LIMIT to head abroad in 2009 to try and recapture them. They failed but became heavyweights en route and today’s victory over another team who have taken big steps since then showed how much they have progressed.

* The feud between Tiger Mask and Tomohiro Ishii did not result in a win like so many of Tiger’s battles with villains have done. Ishii flattened him with a lariat and tore his mask off after the match, humilitating the popular junior. This issue doesn’t appear to be over yet…

* Tenzan made his full return to New Japan (following a low key match at a NEVER brand show recently), beating Gedo in the opener. But his old blood rival Iizuka make an appearance after the match and choked him out with a sleeper, possibly reviving one of the most intense feuds of 2009, which stemmed from Iizuka betraying Tenzan to join CHAOS. Tenzan will hope to make a gradual return to the front line where his eternal friend and rival Kojima is.

Edited December 12, 2010 by nWoHulkster™

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NJPW, 12/12/10 (Samurai! TV)

Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium

8,000 Fans – No Vacancy

1. TENZAN come back to Nagoya: Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Jado (10:40) with the Anaconda Vice.

2. Manabu Nakanishi & Koji Kanemoto beat Tama Tonga & King Fale (10:51) when Nakanishi used an Argentine backbreaker on Fale.

3. Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii & Davey Richards beat Giant Bernard, Karl Anderson & Tiger Mask (10:35) when Ishii pinned Tiger.

4. Special Tag Match: Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin beat Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi (13:52) when Shelley pinned Devitt after the Made in Detroit.

5. Special Singles Match: Yuji Nagata beat Yujiro Takahashi (10:41) with a backdrop hold.

6. Special Singles Match: Shinsuke Nakamura beat Wataru Inoue (9:44) with the Boma Ye.

7. Special Tag Match: Toru Yano & Masato Tanaka beat Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma (13:54) when Tanaka used the Sliding D on Makabe.

8. Special Singles Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Tetsuya Naito (17:37) with the High Fly Flow.

9. Special Singles Match: Satoshi Kojima beat Hirooki Goto (18:57) with a lariat.

* A miserable two days for Hirooki Goto ended in defeat to Kojima in a non-title bout, one day after losing to Tanahashi. Goto still has to find consistency to reach the very top, despite winning the New Japan Cup twice in a row.

* Tanahashi’s two wins in two days seem to confirm the he, the ace of New Japan, will challenge Kojima for the IWGP Heavyweight Title at the Tokyo Dome. Tanahashi defeated Naito for the second time in two months today.

* After threatening it for a while, New Japan trueborn Minoru Suzuki finally returned to the company to pick a quarrel with old rival Yuji Nagata. These two met on the first ever “WRESTLE KINGDOM” titled show show on 1/4/07 at the Tokyo Dome when Suzuki successfully defended All Japan’s Triple Crown. Today they brawled and another January 4th match, four years later, could be on the cards.

* Apollo 55 revived their feud with the Motor City Machine Guns from last year, which saw the New Japan team defeat the current TNA World Tag Team Champions to bring home the IWGP Jr. Tag Team Title, then defeat them in a defense. But today the result was opposite, as Devitt, a day after a grueling defense of his IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title, was pinned.

* Tiger Mask was pinned for the second successive day by Ishii, this time in a six man tag. Tiger has demanded a rematch against Ishii at the Tokyo Dome.

* Tenzan’s comeback continued and one day after beating Gedo, he defeated the other brother Jado in today’s opener.

* This was the last tour show of 2010 for New Japan but there are four standalones to go before the year is over.