“POWER STRUGGLE” will live up to its name as today’s full card announcement for the 11/12 Osaka super-show confirmed that all five IWGP titles will be on the line and each one will have a New Japan vs. enemy faction theme. G1 Tag League 2011 winners Minoru Suzuki & Lance Archer are granted their IWGP Tag Team Title match quickly as they face the most successful champions in the title’s 26 year history, Bad Intentions. This will be Bernard & Anderson’s V10 defense of the belts and although they already hold the defense record, reaching double figures would be a massive achievement for the two and is something they will want to do. 11 matches make up the show with two special tag matches also added today, including one-time tag partners from long ago Makabe and Takayama renewing their feud. The full card for 11/13 Kyoto was also announced.
* Correction from yesterday – the NJPW/CMLL shows will be on the 21st and 22nd of January, not the 23rd and 24th. Thanks to Walt for emailing me that correction.
NJPW “POWER STRUGGLE”, 11/12/11 (WPW/PPV)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium
1. Tama Tonga & Killer Rabbit vs. Jado & Gedo
2. Wataru Inoue & Tomoaki Honma vs. Takashi Iizuka & Hideo Saito
3. Yuji Nagata vs. Tomohiro Ishii
4. Special Tag Match: Togi Makabe & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Taichi
5. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Davey Richards & Rocky Romero (c) vs. Tiger Mask & KUSHIDA
6. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Prince Devitt vs. TAKA Michinoku 
7. Special Tag Match: MVP & Tetsuya Naito vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Yujiro Takahashi
8. Special Singles Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Satoshi Kojima
9. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Masato Tanaka 
(c) vs. Hirooki Goto
10. IWGP Tag Team Title: Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki & Lance Archer
11. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Toru Yano
NJPW “NEW JAPAN LIVE IN KYOTO”, 11/13/11 (Samurai! TV)
Kyoto KBS Hall
1. Hiromu Takahashi vs. Takaaki Watanabe
2. Tama Tonga vs. Kyosuke Mikami
3. Special 8 Man Tag Match I: Prince Devitt, Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask & KUSHIDA vs. Davey Richards, Rocky Romero, Jado & Gedo
4. Satoshi Kojima vs. King Fale
5. Special 8 Man Tag Match II: Togi Makabe, Giant Bernard, Karl Anderson & Tomoaki Honma vs. Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi
6. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue vs. Takashi Iizuka, Hideo Saito & Tomohiro Ishii
7. Special 8 Man Tag Match III: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, MVP & Tetsuya Naito vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, Toru Yano, Masato Tanaka & Yujiro Takahashi