The IWGP Tag Team Title 3WAY Match has had the stakes pushed up with the addition of a stipulation - Hardcore Rules. That will make it a direct sequel to the 1/4/08 match between Makabe & Yano and Team 3D, which the TNA team won in their natural environment. This stip seems to put TenKoji at a disadvantage, but they are known for fighting against the odds with success.

Sorry for the site’s downtime, there was a DNS issue. Forum regulars may already have noticed that a few days worth of data have disappeared, hence while I’m also posting the 12/20 and 12/22 results below.

NJPW “THEORY ~CHAOS OF CHRISTMAS~”, 12/23/08 (SXW)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,900 Fans

0. Tomoaki Honma beat Mitsuhide Hirasawa (8:24) with a diving headbutt.
1. Minoru beat Nobuo Yoshihashi (7:50) with a single-leg crab hold.
2. Milano Collection AT & Taichi Ishikari beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Kazuchika Okada (11:40) when Milano used a super scrap kick on Okada.
3. Tiger Mask beat AKIRA (13:32) with a Tiger suplex hold.
4. Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto beat Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii (11:23) when Iizuka was DQ’d.
5. Special Tag Match ~ Wrestle Kingdom Tag Scramble: Togi Makabe & Toru Yano beat Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito (15:01) when Makabe pinned Yujiro after a union King Kong kneedrop.
6. Special Tag Match ~ Wrestle Kingdom Tag Scramble: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima beat Jado & Gedo (15:46) when Tenzan used the Anaconda Vice on Gedo.
7. Special 6 Man Tag Match ~ Wrestle Kingdom Chaos of Trinity: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto beat Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi & Jushin Thunder Liger (20:34) when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on Liger.

NJPW “NEXT ~CATCH THE VICTORY III~”, 12/22/08 (Samurai! TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,800 Fans

0. AKIRA beat Tomoaki Honma (8:10) with a backslide.
1. Wataru Inoue, Jushin Thunder Liger & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Milano Collection AT, Minoru & Taichi Ishikari (10:56) when Inoue used the Oracion Flame on Minoru.
2. Bullet Sanction: Masato Tanaka beat Mitsuhide Hirasawa (8:42) with an elbow smash.
3. NEW JAPAN NEXT: Tiger Mask beat Nobuo Yoshihashi (5:56) with a chickenwing facelock.
4. NEW JAPAN NEXT: Hirooki Goto beat Yujiro (10:24) with the Shouten.
5. NEW JAPAN NEXT: Shinsuke Nakamura beat Kazuchika Okada (6:00) with a sleeper hold.
6. NEW JAPAN NEXT: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Tetsuya Naito (13:13) with a Texas Cloverleaf hold.
7. Street Fight Anywhere Fall Match: Kantaro Hoshino beat Gedo (12:38) by pinfall.
8. Third Generation vs. GBH Elimination Match ~ Proceed to Next: Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima , Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi & Koji Kanemoto beat Togi Makabe, Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii & Jado (28:07) when Nakanishi used an Argentine backbreaker on Ishii.

NJPW “ONLY ONE NIGHT ~AREA K~”, 12/20/08 (Samurai! TV)
Koshigaya Katsura Studio
1,100 Fans - No Vacancy

1. Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito vs. Milano Collection AT & Taichi Ishikari went to a draw (20:00) when the time limit expired.
2. Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Minoru & Nobuo Yoshihashi (13:36) when Taguchi used a cross armbreaker on Yoshihashi.
3. Manabu Nakanishi, Tiger Mask & Kazuchika Okada beat Jado, Gedo & Tomohiro Ishii (11:09) when Tiger used a moonsault kneedrop on Gedo.
4. Manabu Nakanishi won the 15 Man Battle Royal Koshigaya (8:34) with an Argentine backbreaker on Jado. Participants: Yujiro, Tetsuya Naito, Milano Collection AT, Taichi Ishikari, Koji Kanemoto, Ryusuke Taguchi, Minoru, Nobuo Yoshihashi, Manabu Nakanishi, Tiger Mask, Kazuchika Okada, Jado, Gedo, Tomohiro Ishii & Kuniyoshi Wada.
5. JUSTICE SANCTION: Yuji Nagata beat Mitsuhide Hirasawa (9:21) with the Nagata Lock II.
6. Masahiro Chono, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Jushin Thunder Liger & AKIRA beat Togi Makabe, Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Tomoaki Honma (14:27) when Tenzan used the TTD on Honma.
7. Special Tag Match ~ Wrestle Kingdom Signal Red: Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto beat Hiroshi Tanahashi & Wataru Inoue (16:42) when Goto used the Shouten on Inoue.