–> WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2014 (11/22/14 to 12/7/14) <--

NJPW, 12/7/14 (WPW)
Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium

1. Sho Tanaka beat Yohei Komatsu (6:20) with a modified high-angle crab hold.
2. Taichi & El Desperado beat Tiger Mask & BUSHI (6:30) when Desperado used the Guitarra de Angel on BUSHI.
3. Special Tag Match: Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi (7:47) when Archer used the Killer bomb on Nakanishi.
4. Special Tag Match: Matt Taven & Michael Bennett beat Jushin Thunder Liger & Captain New Japan (8:57) when Bennett pinned Captain after the Hail Mary.
5. Special Tag Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima beat Rob Conway & Jax Dane (9:10) when Tenzan used the Anaconda Max on Conway.
6. Special 6 Man Tag Match: Kazushi Sakuraba, Toru Yano & Gedo beat Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka & TAKA Michinoku (9:10) when Yano used the Uragasumi on TAKA.
7. Special 6 Man Tag Match: AJ Styles, Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi beat Tetsuya Naito, Tomoaki Honma & Ryusuke Taguchi (14:20) when Takahashi used the Miami Shine on Honma.
8. Special 8 Man Tag Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe, Kota Ibushi & La Sombra beat Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI (17:10) when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on YOSHI-HASHI.
9. World Tag League – Final: Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata beat Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows (20:58) when Goto used the Shouten Kai on Anderson.

* Sworn friends Goto & Shibata completed a momentous comeback to win the 2014 World Tag League today, beating the IWGP Tag Team Champions, Anderson & Gallows, to lift the trophy. After their win they re-challenged the Bullet Club pair for a title match at the Tokyo Dome on 1/4.

–> G1 CLIMAX 24 (7/21/14 to 8/10/14) <--

NJPW, 8/4/14 (Samurai! TV/iPPV)
Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
7,000 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. G1 Climax – Block A: Davey Boy Smith Jr. [8] beat Tomoaki Honma [0] (8:53) with the Bulldog bomb.
2. G1 Climax – Block B: Yujiro Takahashi [6] beat Lance Archer [6] (9:00) with a small package hold.
3. G1 Climax – Block A: Doc Gallows [6] beat Yuji Nagata [8] (7:53) with the Gallows Pole.
4. G1 Climax – Block B: Togi Makabe [8] beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan [8] (8:22) with a King Kong kneedrop.
5. G1 Climax – Block B: Minoru Suzuki [10] beat Tetsuya Naito [8] (12:16) with a sleeper hold.
6. G1 Climax – Block A: Bad Luck Fale [10] beat Katsuyori Shibata [10] (7:14) by countout.
7. G1 Climax – Block A: Shinsuke Nakamura [12] beat Satoshi Kojima [8] (12:51) with the Boma Ye.
8. G1 Climax – Block B: AJ Styles [12] beat Karl Anderson [6] (14:33) with the Styles Clash.
9. G1 Climax – Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi [12] beat Shelton Benjamin [8] (12:32) with the High Fly Flow.
10. G1 Climax – Block B: Kazuchika Okada [12] beat Hirooki Goto [8] (15:34) with the Rainmaker.

Block A:
1. Hiroshi Tanahashi [12]
2. Shinsuke Nakamura [12]
3. Bad Luck Fale [10]
4. Katsuyori Shibata [10]
5. Yuji Nagata [8]
- Satoshi Kojima [8]
- Tomohiro Ishii [8]
- Shelton Benjamin [8]
- Davey Boy Smith Jr. [8]
10. Doc Gallows [6]
11. Tomoaki Honma [0]

Block B:
1. Kazuchika Okada [12]
2. AJ Styles [12]
3. Minoru Suzuki [10]
4. Togi Makabe [8]
- Hiroyoshi Tenzan [8]
- Hirooki Goto [8]
- Tetsuya Naito [8]
8. Toru Yano [6]
- Yujiro Takahashi [6]
- Karl Anderson [6]
- Lance Archer [6]

–> “WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2013” <--

NJPW, 12/8/13 (TV Asahi ch5/iPPV)
Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
7,500 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. Katsuyori Shibata beat Yohei Komatsu (3:28) with a crab hold.
2. TAKA Michinoku & Taichi beat KUSHIDA & BUSHI (5:52) when TAKA pinned BUSHI after the Michinoku Mephisto.
3. Rob Conway & Jax Dane beat Manabu Nakanishi & Strong Man (7:06) when Conway used the Ego Trip on Nakanishi.
4. World Tag League – Semi Final: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma (8:38) when Gallows pinned Honma after the Magic Killer.
5. World Tag League – Semi Final: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima beat Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. (12:54) when Tenzan used a moonsault press on Smith.
6. Prince Devitt & Bad Luck Fale beat Kota Ibushi & Captain New Japan (10:12) by referee stop (Fale beat Captain).
7. Special Tag Match: Yuji Nagata & Kazushi Sakuraba beat Takashi Iizuka & YOSHI-HASHI (8:28) when Sakuraba used the Sakuraba Lock on YOSHI-HASHI.
8. Special Tag Match: Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Minoru Suzuki & Shelton Benjamin (13:02) when Suzuki was DQ’d.
9. Special 10 Man Tag Match: Tetsuya Naito, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask & La Sombra beat Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka , Yujiro Takahashi & Gedo (13:07) when Sombra used the Shadow Driver on Gedo.
10. World Tag League – Final: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (18:57) when Anderson pinned Tenzan after the Magic Killer.

* On their first tour as a tandem, Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows have won the 2013 World Tag League! The American duo won the first semi final today over Makabe & Honma, while Tenzan & Kojima earned some revenge over the IWGP Tag Team Champions, Killer Elite Squad, in the other, setting up a rematch from 12/3 in Hakata where Anderson & Gallows beat TenKoji. And they did again! Anderson, for the third time in his career with his third different partner, won the tag league by pinning Tenzan following the Magic Killer. The new team then demanded an IWGP Tag Team Title shot so could face Archer & Smith at the Tokyo Dome on 1/4!

* Hirooki Goto appeared during the show and announced he will be returning to action very soon. Goto was injured during the G1 Climax, where he was impressing, and nominated Katsuyori Shibata, his former university classmate, as his return match opponent. The two were embroiled in an intense series of matches before Goto’s injury.

–> “NEW JAPAN ALIVE 2011” <--

NJPW, 12/4/11 (WPW/PPV)
Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
8,000 Fans – No Vacancy

1. Karl Anderson & Killer Rabbit beat Jado & Gedo (4:47) when Rabbit used the Mochitsuki Drop on Gedo.
2. Toru Yano, Yujiro Takahashi, Tomohiro Ishii & Rocky Romero beat Tomoaki Honma, Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi & Tama Tonga (9:33) when Romero used a backslide on Taguchi.
3. Special Tag Match: Takashi Sugiura & Atsushi Aoki beat Hirooki Goto & KUSHIDA (11:13) when Sugiura used an Olympic slam on KUSHIDA.
4. Special Tag Match: Yoshihiro Takayama & Lance Archer beat Togi Makabe & Wataru Inoue (10:28) when Takayama used a running kneelift on Inoue.
5. Special Tag Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima beat Takashi Iizuka & Hideo Saito (10:25) when Tenzan used the Anaconda Vice on Iizuka.
6. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Prince Devitt (c) beat Davey Richards (12:16) with the Bloody Sunday (2nd defense).
7. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Masato Tanaka (c) beat MVP (10:09) with the Sliding D (2nd defense).
8. Special Singles Match: Minoru Suzuki beat Giant Bernard (11:53) with a Gotch-style piledriver.
9. Special Singles Match: Shinsuke Nakamura beat Tetsuya Naito (13:15) with the Boma Ye.
10. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) beat Yuji Nagata (30:16) with the High Fly Flow (10th defense).

* Hiroshi Tanahashi tied Yuji Nagata’s V10 defense record of the IWGP Heavyweight Title by beating the man himself in a half hour epic today in Aichi. Beating Nagata means that if Tanahashi wins his next defense he will smash Nagata’s defense record and enhance his growing legacy. Tanahashi was confronted after the match by Minoru Suzuki, who had beaten Giant Bernard earlier, and who demanded to be Tanahashi’s Tokyo Dome opponent in January, which will mark the one-year anniversary of Tana’s title win, so this looks to be the main event of WKVI.

* The much awaited G1 Climax 2011 final rematch went the same way with CHAOS leader Nakamura pinning Naito in a fiery match following his Boma Ye, Nakamura showing he is still a leading man in New Japan despite Tanahashi’s near monopoly of the title.

* Masato Tanaka continues to impress as IWGP Intercontinental Title by withstanding the challenge of the man he took it off, MVP. Tanaka pinned the former WWE superstar after smashing him with the Sliding D.

* Devitt’s second reign as IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion also continued as he beat rival Davey Richards in his V2 defense. Devitt has already repeated his successful defenses against Richards and TAKA from his first reign now in his current reign.

* TenKoji’s reunion went without a hitch as they bested CHAOS’ crazy duo of Iizuka & Saito, Tenzan forcing Iizuka to tap out. The big talking point after the match came when CHAOS appeared to kick the mentally unstable Saito out of their faction!

* The two other special tag matches both seemed to suggest singles matches at the Tokyo Dome: Makabe vs. Takayama and Goto vs. Sugiura, both of which would continue old rivalries.

–> “G1 CLIMAX XXI ~THE INVINCIBLE FIGHTER~” <--

NJPW, 8/6/11 (J SPORTS)
Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
8,000 Fans

1. G1 Climax – Block B: Hirooki Goto [6] beat La Sombra [4] (9:06) with the Shouten Kai.
2. G1 Climax – Block B: Karl Anderson [4] beat Strong Man [0] (7:55) with the Gun Stun.
3. G1 Climax – Block A: Yuji Nagata [6] beat Yujiro Takahashi [4] (9:49) with a backdrop hold.
4. G1 Climax – Block B: Shinsuke Nakamura [6] beat Wataru Inoue [2] (12:29) with the Boma Ye.
5. Satoshi Kojima & MVP beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi (8:49) when Kojima used a lariat on TAKA.
6. G1 Climax – Block A: Togi Makabe [6] beat Hideo Saito [0] (5:23) with a King Kong kneedrop.
7. G1 Climax – Block B: Minoru Suzuki [6] beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan [0] (14:26) with a Gotch-style piledriver.
8. G1 Climax – Block A: Tetsuya Naito [2] beat Toru Yano [2] (14:05) with a Stardust press.
9. G1 Climax – Block A: Yoshihiro Takayama [4] beat Giant Bernard [6] (9:36) with an Everest German suplex hold.
10. G1 Climax – Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi [4] beat Lance Archer [4] (11:33) with the High Fly Flow.

-

Block A:
1. Togi Makabe [6]
- Yuji Nagata [6]
- Giant Bernard [6]
4. Hiroshi Tanahashi [4]
- Yujiro Takahashi [4]
- Lance Archer [4]
- Yoshihiro Takayama [4]
8. Tetsuya Naito [2]
9. Toru Yano [2]
- Hideo Saito [0]

Block B:
1. Hirooki Goto [6]
- Shinsuke Nakamura [6]
- Minoru Suzuki [6]
4. MVP [4]
- Karl Anderson [4]
- La Sombra [4]
7. Wataru Inoue [2]
- Satoshi Kojima [2]
9. Hiroyoshi Tenzan [0]
- Strong Man [0]

–> “G1 CLIMAX XX ~20TH YEARS ANNIVERSARY~” <--

NJPW, 8/8/10 (WPW)
Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
8,500 Fans - Super No Vacancy

1. Special Tag Match: Yujiro Takahashi & Takashi Iizuka beat Yuji Nagata & TAJIRI (8:06) when Nagata was DQ’d.
2. G1 Climax - Block A: Manabu Nakanishi [4] beat Karl Anderson [2] (7:29) with the Dai*Nakanishi German.
3. G1 Climax - Block A: Toru Yano [4] beat Strong Man [0] (5:16) with a horizontal cradle.
4. G1 Climax - Block B: Hirooki Goto [4] beat Wataru Inoue [0] (10:14) with a foot-arrangement cradle.
5. G1 Climax - Block B: Satoshi Kojima [4] beat Go Shiozaki [4] (15:13) with a lariat.
6. G1 Climax - Block B: Shinsuke Nakamura [2] beat Giant Bernard [4] (10:39) with the Boma Ye.
7. G1 Climax - Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi [3] vs. Tetsuya Naito [3] went to a draw (30:00) when the time limit expired.
8. G1 Climax - Block A: Togi Makabe [2] beat Prince Devitt [4] (13:36) with a King Kong kneedrop.

* Makabe finally gets off the mark in the IWGP Heavyweight vs. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight main event, pinning Devitt. This moves him to a 1-2 record but Devitt is still 2-1.
* Tanahashi continues to struggle a little, only managing to draw with NO LIMIT’s Naito today. Naito beat Tanahashi in the New Japan Cup this year in what was a major upset, so continues to impress in big singles matches.
* Nakamura also got off the mark following a poor start, beating Bernard in the first ever singles match between the two.
* In the battle of “outsiders”, freelance Kojima lariated Shiozaki in somewhat of a surprise outcome, as these sort of matches often go to 30 minute draws in the G1.

-

Block A:
1. Manabu Nakanishi [4]
- Prince Devitt [4]
- Toru Yano [4]
4. Hiroshi Tanahashi [3]
- Tetsuya Naito [3]
6. Togi Makabe [2]
- Karl Anderson [2]
8. Strong Man [0]

Block B:
1. Hirooki Goto [4]
- Giant Bernard [4]
- Satoshi Kojima [4]
- Go Shiozaki [4]
5. Yuji Nagata [2]
6. Shinsuke Nakamura [2]
7. Wataru Inoue [0]
- Yujiro Takahashi [0]

–> “CIRCUIT 2009 NEW JAPAN CUP ~SOUL ON THE RING~” <--
The fifth annual New Japan Cup began today in Nagoya with 12 of the 14 participants in round one action - 2007 and 2008 winners, Giant Bernard and Yuji Nagata, getting passes to the second round with 2009 winner, Tanahashi, not in it as the idea of the tournament is to find a challenger for the winner of his match with Kurt Angle. It began with a battle of GBH as Tomoaki Honma got to face Takashi Iizuka after winning a participation match over young lion Hirasawa. Unfortunately for Honma there was to be no nice, clean fight today, as Iizuka ripped his head open and beat him to a bloody pulp before pinning him. The main midcard feud of the moment, Wataru Inoue vs. Tomohiro Ishii, saw little settled today as they first battled to a double countout, then in the restarted match, Ishii won by countout but this seemed to do little to settle their grudge.

After a career-boosting performance as part of one of the hottest matches of the year so far when he and Nakamura invaded NOAH recently, Milano Collection AT showed more signs of life after a long hibernation. He upset GBH's Toru Yano with his craftiness, beating the strong man with a cradle. Hirooki Goto, as expected, got the better of Karl Anderson with a modified armlock, leaving the two big matches of the first round left. On-again, off-again tag partners Nakanishi and Yoshie went to war in a hard-hitting 20 minute slugfest in which the returning Yoshie scored a big win over the ever underachieving Nakanishi, pinning him with a diving body press. Nakanishi took a nasty bump to the head in the match and there are fears of a concussion, so he may miss some upcoming dates. And finally RISE leader Shinsuke Nakamura revived his grudge series with GBH leader Togi Makabe and again got the better of Makabe, who himself has been somewhat underachieving lately. Nakamura pinned Makabe following his Landslide to set up a big round two match against RISE second-in-command Goto.

The only other match on the main card today saw the intergenerational ace team of Tanahashi & Nagata face Bernard and the debuting Val Venis. Bernard sent a severe warning to Tanahashi by pinning the IWGP Heavyweight Champion, a signal of his intent as he heads into his New Japan Cup campaign.

NJPW, 3/8/09 (WPW)
Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
8,500 Fans - No Vacancy

0. Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi, Prince Devitt & Kazuchika Okada beat Jushin Thunder Liger, Koji Kanemoto, Taichi Ishikari & Nobuo Yoshihashi (6:44) when Devitt used a diving footstomp on Yoshihashi.
1. New Japan Cup - Round 1: Takashi Iizuka beat Tomoaki Honma (10:53) with a Jigoku Tsuki.
2. New Japan Cup - Round 1: Wataru Inoue vs. Tomohiro Ishii went to a double countout (3:18).
2b. New Japan Cup - Round 1: Tomohiro Ishii beat Wataru Inoue (9:15) by countout.
3. New Japan Cup - Round 1: Milano Collection AT beat Toru Yano (9:50) with a jackknife hold.
4. Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono beat Jado & Gedo (7:46) when Chono used a Shining Yakuza kick on Jado.
5. New Japan Cup - Round 1: Hirooki Goto beat Karl Anderson (11:10) with a modified armlock.
6. New Japan Cup - Round 1: Yutaka Yoshie beat Manabu Nakanishi (20:29) with a diving body press.
7. New Japan Cup - Round 1: Shinsuke Nakamura beat Togi Makabe (15:32) with the Landslide.
8. New Japan Cup Special Tag Match ~ Soul of AICHI: Giant Bernard & Val Venis beat Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yuji Nagata (14:41) when Bernard used the Bernard Driver on Tanahashi.

-

The tour breaks now until the 14th, which is a non-tournament show, then round two takes place at Korakuen Hall with four intriguing matches. The technician Milano vs. powerhouse Bernard and a battle of fiery hard-hitters as Ishii battles Yoshie. Then a revival of one of the best technical series of earlier in the 2000s, Nagata vs. Iizuka, as the former tag partners go to war for the first time since Iizuka’s turn to the darkside. Unlikely this will be a highly technical match this time. And then the big one as RISE collides - Nakamura vs. Goto!

NJPW, 3/15/09 (SXW)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. New Japan Cup - Round 2: Milano Collection AT vs. Giant Bernard
2. New Japan Cup - Round 2: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Yutaka Yoshie
3. New Japan Cup - Round 2: Yuji Nagata vs. Takashi Iizuka
4. New Japan Cup - Round 2: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hirooki Goto

–> “CIRCUIT 2008 NEW JAPAN ALIVE” <--
Hiroshi Tanahashi's ninth win in a row ensured he is in great form still ahead of his Tokyo Dome match with Keiji Muto. Today's opponent was a man he fought in the same building a year ago, Giant Bernard, and despite GBH's best effort, the result was the same, two High Fly Flows making the difference. MVP will still be tag kings going into the 1/4 show, after Makabe & Yano made a successful V4 defense of their IWGP Tag Team Title over Nakanishi & Yoshie, revenge from the G1 Tag League. Makabe landed his top rope King Kong kneedrop on old rival Yoshie, and the GBH team now look on a collision course with either or both of Team 3D or TenKoji on 1/4, the latter team having reached the final of All Japan's tag league today, in which they will face Suwama & Shuji Kondo on Monday. Masato Tanaka scored tag revenge for his singles loss to Nagata in October, that deprived him of ZERO1-MAX's World Heavyweight Title as Emblem bested Nagata & Kanemoto today. Tanaka's big win came following a Sliding D and he made demands for a rematch against Nagata to try and take the belt back to 01, with a 1/4 match seeming possible, moreso if Nagata defeats Takaiwa in his next defense of the title.

RISE's Nakamura & Goto, continuing to bounce back from their G1 Tag League disappointment, won big today by beating Legend's Choshu & Chono, Nakamura forcing Power Hall to submit to a cross armbreaker. Nakamura then made the challenge that the magazines suggested was coming, calling out NOAH boss Mitsuharu Misawa for a fight at the Tokyo Dome. Although a singles match seems unlikely at the present stage, what is likely is a Nakamura & Goto vs. Misawa & X (Jun Akiyama being the leading candidate) super tag match on January 4th.

NJPW, 12/6/08 (WPW)
Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
8,500 Fans - No Vacancy

0. Mitsuhide Hirasawa beat Nobuo Yoshihashi (6:41) with the Hira Bottom.
1. Tomohiro Ishii, Tomoaki Honma & Karl Anderson beat Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask & AKIRA (10:10) when Ishii used a brainbuster on AKIRA.
2. Milano Collection AT & Taichi Ishikari beat Minoru & Kazuchika Okada (12:13) when Milano used a super scrap kick on Okada.
3. Low Ki, Jado & Gedo beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito (14:43) when Jado pinned Naito.
4. Takashi Iizuka beat Wataru Inoue (11:39) with a Jigoku Tsuki.
5. Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto beat Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono (9:34) when Nakamura used a cross armbreaker on Choshu.
6. New Japan vs. ZERO1-MAX: Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka beat Yuji Nagata & Koji Kanemoto (14:50) when Tanaka used the Sliding D on Nagata.
7. IWGP Tag Team Title: Togi Makabe & Toru Yano (c) beat Manabu Nakanishi & Yutaka Yoshie (21:11) when Makabe used a top rope King Kong kneedrop on Yoshie (4th defense).
8. HIGH FLYING STAR going to TOKYO DOME ~prominence~: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Giant Bernard (17:43) with the High Fly Flow.