New Japan celebrated its 37th anniversary today with a pretty straightforward show at Korakuen Hall. The main event saw today’s champions, Tanahashi & Tiger Mask, show that they are the generation(s) in charge these days as they beat legends Chono & Liger, Tanahashi pinning Liger. Appearances from alumni like Yoshie, Hiro, Koshinaka (no longer a regular), and Aoyagi highlighted the undercard. Before the show, New Japan helds its first ever “NJPW Greatest Wrestlers” ceremony with Akira Maeda, Shoji Kai, and Kuniaki Kobayashi, and the late Black Cat commended. Many optimists were expecting some sort of event from Maeda’s first appearance in years in his old haunt but times change and Maeda merely gave his thanks.

NJPW “STRONG STYLE 37TH ANNIVERSARY”, 3/6/09 (Samurai! TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,800 Fans

0. Milano Collection AT & Taichi Ishikari beat Kazuchika Okada & Nobuo Yoshihashi (7:37) when Milano used a thrust kick on Yoshihashi.
1. Super Strong Machine 25th Anniversary Match: Riki Choshu, Super Strong Machine & Hiro Saito beat Shiro Koshinaka, Akira Nogami & Masashi Aoyagi (7:27) when Machine used a Devil Windmill suplex hold on Nogami.
2. Takashi Iizuka, Jado & Gedo beat Yuji Nagata, Ryusuke Taguchi & Prince Devitt (11:03) when Iizuka used a Jigoku Tsuki on Devitt.
3. Manabu Nakanishi, Yutaka Yoshie , Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto beat Togi Makabe, Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma (14:46) when Nakanishi used an Argentine backbreaker on Honma.
4. Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto beat Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson (12:29) when Nakamura used a flying cross armbreaker on Anderson.
5. 37th Anniversary Special Tag Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tiger Mask beat Masahiro Chono & Jushin Thunder Liger (17:22) when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on Liger.