Thursday, January 5, 2023

NJPW New Year's Dash

-NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Co-Champions Takaaki "Evil" Watanabe & "The Tokyo Pimp" Yujiro Takahashi & Dick Togo d. Ren Narita, Tiger Mask IV, & Tomoaki Honma; Evil pinned Honma after he and Togo hit the Magic Killer(double-team elevated neckbreaker). House Of Torture attacked Narita afterwards, leading to unlikely help arriving in the form of "The King" Minoru Suzuki and then El Desperado.
-Taichi Ishikari, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, & Douki d. Will Ospreay & IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions T.J. Perkins & Francesco Akira when Douki pinned Akira with a grounded crucifix.
-IWGP T.V. Champion Zack Sabre Jr. & The Mighty Don't Kneel(Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls) d. "The Stone Pitbull" Tomohiro Ishii & IWGP Tag Team Champions Bishamon(Hirooki Goto & Yoshi-Hashi); Nicholls pinned Hashi after he and Haste hit the Tankbuster(Big Ending/second-rope flying DDT combo).
-Togi Makabe, Ryusuke Taguchi, Shota Umino, & Yohei Komatsu d. Tetsuya Naito, IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi, "Cold Skull" Seiya Sanada, & Bushi when Yohei pinned Hiromu after the Direct Drive(double-underhook brainbuster).
-Hiroshi Tanahashi, NEVER Openweight Champion Tama Tonga, Hikuleo, & "Master Wato" Hirai Kawato d. "Switchblade" Jay White, KENTA Kobayashi, "Bone Soldier" Taiji Ishimori, & El Phantasmo by DQ when Phantasmo was caught using Tonga's title belt as a weapon.
-Shingo Takagi won a four-corner match with "The Great O-Khan" Tomoyuki Oka, NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Co-Champion Sho Tanaka, and Toru Yano when he pinned Yano after the Last Of The Dragon(wrist-clutch pumphandle Michinoku Driver) to become the new King Of Pro Wrestling Champion for 2023.
-IWGP Heavyweight Champion "The Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada & IWGP U.S. Champion "The Cleaner" Kenny Omega d. Jeff Cobb & Aaron Henare; Okada pinned Henare when he and Omega hit a Rainmaker(windup short-arm lariat)/V-Trigger(pump knee) combo.

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